Candy Crush Saga : The Silk Chronicle

Everyone gets a gaming orgasm, even the people who aren't the game loving types. There is this infectious game called "Candy Crush Saga" which is the current talk of the town with its simple match making puzzle logic, bright visuals and crazy combos. The game has been tried by most people I know, some of them have played it, gotten lost in it and forgotten what reality is, others, like myself have tried to play it, failed at it and have tried to resume with life without sounding sheepish "I couldn't finish level 34".

One of my colleagues is the Candy Crush Queen, currently on something like level 300. We crack jokes in office that her KRA consists of completing all the 600+ levels of the game before this year ends. She is one crazy girl and is constantly asking people for "lives" to continue playing the game so that she can progress further. Of course her taunts continue to jab us as to how we are stuck in xyz level or how people gave up so easily without even trying, let her try playing Fifa on Legendary and beating a team 5-0 constantly but I digress.

Recently she got an idea from yours truly about how she can use her candy crushing saga to better use. You see an aunt of mine had jumped on the Farmville bandwagon. That farming game which had everyone sowing crops and trying to grow plants online rather than in reality. My aunt made around 40 K from this plant that she started sharing with people so that they could grow their crops faster or some shit like that, so now my colleague decides to do the same, help the poor little souls stuck in some level and help them clear it.

So one day in office another colleague pops in and hands her a large Cadbury Silk chocolate for helping her clear the level, which is very good and all. However little miss candy decides to taunt Manish and me constantly telling people that she is going to have "silk" and how she wont share etc etc etc. Not to be outdone , Manish challenges her that he will take the Silk from her and she wont have a damn clue about it. Challenge accepted by the Queen of the Candy.

So she stores it, of course before flaunting it to us, in her drawer and she nicely locks it and keeps on saying that we can't do anything about it. Manish and I just keep staring at each other and the drawer, we know there will be this one window of opportunity for us to strike and when that chance comes by the power of Grey Skull we will strike.

After a little while she goes off to do some work and we strike, you see our office drawers aren't the safest place to keep anything. They can easily be opened by some other key, so while the other colleagues in our floor stare at us, I coolly pick up my key and try to jig her drawer open but it doesn't work. "Does another key actually work? Is it really going to work" are overheard, I next take Manish's key and hey ho!

I open the freaking drawer, take out the huge chocolate bar, lock her drawer and as soon as I had over the chocolate to Manish the Candy Queen sees it and starts screaming at us. Everyone on our floor freaks out and now she starts chasing Manish, who tries to hide it in his locker (which is safer). She almost pushes him into the drawer set which could have let to a massive injury, he somehow survives falling and runs away, ultimately he takes the chocolate and runs to the men's washroom and tries to hide it in a duct. I tell him to give it back before she goes all berserk and brings the entire floor down. We try to sneak out of the washroom and SHE is standing there waiting for us to give it back which we do.

The next few minutes are filled with laughter and a gentle reminder never to challenge us, she keeps on repeating "You won't get any chocolate from this" we calmly say "We don't need the chocolate, we needed to make a point and we have done that".

At the end of the day she did share the chocolate with us, this being the second time this candy queen decided to mock us and our abilities, I hope she has learned not to challenge or doubt our abilities.

Once bitten, twice shy?