BREAKING NEWS
The Kraken Lore Journalist Held at Gunpoint, Forced to Choose This or That
Fantasy Fiction This or That Challenge ends in hostage drama
Tuesday, 25 April 2023, Mediumtown. After missing in action for five days, The Kraken News (TKN) journalist Jay C Wells finally reappeared. According to Wells, he was kidnapped by an unidentified assailant who held him at gunpoint. Wells was then forced to answer twenty this or that questions. The Kraken Lore got hold of exclusive audio surveillance footage showcasing how a Medium writing challenge turned into a hostage drama.
Beginning of recording.
*Sound of a gun being locked and loaded*
Mechanically-distorted voice of the abductor: “Finally, we got you.”
Jay C Wells: “Toby? Is that you?”
Abductor: “Silence! I ask the questions!”
*JCW gulps loudly*
JCW: “Okay … sorry, but I got a question. What questions?!”
Abductor: “I will ask you twenty questions, and you will pick one of the options. Only one. Not both. Not neither. O-n-l-y o-n-e. Understood?”
JCW: “Eh … What are the options to ‘understood’?”