You've been added to a group chat.
Originally you had planned to simply leave the moment you knew what it was about, but the moment the first few messages rolled in you were intrigued, not enough to message and contribute but just the right amount to sit as a silent watcher to the batshit messages being passed between what you think are some very, very, dedicated roleplayers or furies.
Everyday one of them complains or commiserates with one of the others about something that sounds wild, you've read complaints about needing new chains before the full moon, laments on wanting pretty silverware without the silver in it, praise for modern mirrors and their lack of silver backings, and even whole recipe reviews to avoid certain ingredients you didn't think someone could be allergic too. There have been a few other suspicious messages, but somehow you still can't bring yourself to leave the chat.
Or you couldn't till now, of course...
In the middle of the night your phone wakes you, pings, messages, squinting against the sudden awakening you groan as you unlock your phone, rolling over already grumpy at being woken. The fog of sleep cuts away fast when you see it's that fateful group chat pinging, namely pinging you.
Your number, an unassigned name in the chat being spam pinged over and over again, each member in the chat wanting you to actually say something, to own up to who you were and join in on the chat game going currently. Scrolling up you come face to face with what you hope is AI pictures, or filters gone too far but the closer you look the more real the pictures seem to be.
Another ping rings out before the prompt for a video call in the group opens up, panicking you decline and toss your phone onto your bed. Heart racing as your screen lights up, you have been re-added to the group chat, the people in there still trying to get you to join the call or post a picture as well, there is an undeniable shake to your fingers as you type for the first time ever on the chat, asking why you have to show your face.
The spam of messages is overwhelming, the screen moving quickly and eventually you just drop your phone back on your bed till the buzzing stops.
Eventually the screen lights up with a video call request, something in you twists and you know this won't end well but you do it anyway. Turning on your small light, you tap the join call button and freeze as in four neat little squares on your screen are some very inhuman faces all staring at you, each one just as surprised as you are.
Nothing gets said for a solid moment, then one of the monsters on your phone screen screams about seeing a 'real, honest to lua, human!' The others slowly join in with expressions of surprise as you click the end call button, dropping your phone on your bed and sitting stunned as you realise fairytales like werewolves, vampires, and the like are real.
And you are unintentionally in a group chat with a bunch of them...
A new message pops up not long after you dropped your phone, not the group chat but a new one on one message from one of the monsters in the group chat, and with the message you realise s well that maybe there isn't that much difference between humans and monsters.
'So like... Can I see what a human looks like naked or nah? For science of course, no other reason...'