Backstage: Phantomness's Phantom Visitor

Unending BE - episode 484449

In addition to the various Author Avatars, Characters, Staffers, and Service Creatures forming the bulk of Backstage denizens, there were more than a few unclassifiables. The Phantom Knocker was one of these. In form a ghostly woman with one breast who haunted the corridors of the Upper Levels, it was her self-perceived duty to rap at the door of any Avatars newly discovering their suites to provide a generic story hook for an ensuing episode option which could then be filled in according to the Author's wish.

Secretly, she hoped that some day, some Author would option her, so that she could voice (and possibly have fulfilled) the secret wish that had first set her to wandering about these benighted corridors, so many moons agone: Could you please grant me another tit, kind sir/mistress/slimy tentacled thing? I have only one, you see... Of course, that would kind of spoil the aptness of her name, which would be a bummer, so she had little hope...

Phantomness was proving another dead end. Perhaps in other options she was opening her door to beings of more interest than the poor Phantom Knocker, but here, in the the one that had given birth to those other possibilities, the Avatar had obviously concluded that the cause of the knock on her door was ... nothing.

And I am nothing, the Phantom Knocker concluded sadly. After all, what else could anyone consider a ghost with no corporeal existence, and with only half the qualifications necessary to land a female entity a role in this story-based universe? She sighed airily, the only way a ghost can sigh, and moved on to another Author's Suite, unaware for the nonce that she improbably had been options, if not by Phantomness, and that we, the readers, were moving on with her to follow the course of her strange and touching saga, long or brief as it might be, depending upon how the scenario picques the interest of other Authors...

  1. ...or not, because, improbably, Phantomness ended up opening her door after all, and the Phantom Knocker's story continued as part of that from which it had arisen.

  2. Accordinly, we proceed with her to the suite of another Author, newly discovering his/her/its digs when he/she/it is surprised by a knock at his/her/its door.

  3. Just then, the Phantom Knocker realized she was being shadowed by Readers, stopped, and turned toward the fourth wall to interact with them.

  4. Alas, the scenario didn't, so the poor Phantom Knocker faded away, while an entirely different scenario was started.

  5. *Then she encountered someone unusual in the corridor.

  6. As frequently occurs in the follow-up to episodes with lots of options, Something Else happened.
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