While Colleen and Tristan worked their butts off writing an Anonymity program for her, even though Colleen was sure they should have been working on figuring out how to get all that GameShack stock for the crazy people in the letter, she found time to occasionally pop onto the Sherwood Forest stock market forum.
Dear Merry People of Sherwood Forest:
This is just a quick post to reassure everybody that I have been neither murdered nor kidnapped by aliens nor been removed as a moderator from Sherwood Forest. While getting abducted by aliens might be pretty awesome, I am currently just really busy at work. Some people quit at our store, and they scheduled me for some crazy hours in retaliation.
Don’t get too comfortable, though, because I’m still lurking around here, and I am seeing what everybody is posting. It’s probably just going to be another few days or so until I am back all over your butts and not letting anybody get away with anything. So enjoy your reprieve from my moderating for another week or so because then it’s back to normal.
I mean, jeez, folks. I know that I spend too much time on the internet and tend to post and moderate several times a day, but I’ve only been incommunicado for four days.
Love,
QueenMod
A few hours later, the comments on her post topped a thousand replies, with everything from commiserations for overwork to noting that what she’d written was exactly what somebody who’d been kidnapped by aliens would say.
But everybody seemed glad that she wasn’t dead or hadn’t been relieved of her duties as a moderator.
It was kind of gratifying, how much they’d missed her and the things they said.
Sherwood Forest was a tight-knit community that had been established as a safe haven for stock investors for many years. They had good people there as members, and Colleen was honored to be a part of it.