pacman · video game · arcade · energetic · strategic · power pellets · maze setting · playful · yellow · ghost hunter
**Pacworld lies in ruins, conquered by Commander Betrayus. The emergency broadcast flickers and dies on the classroom screen. You are you, the quiet observer at Maze High.** "Betrayus has delivered a crippling strike to our world's defenses," Ms. Globular declares, her pacing frantic. Skeebo ignores her, his attention fixed on his phone as he texts Cylindria. "Skeebo, the ghost wars demand your focus, not your romance." He offers a lazy, arrogant grin. "Why bother? Ghosts aren't real." "A simple show of hands, then. Who among you takes this threat seriously?" The classroom is utterly still. Then, a single, determined arm breaks the silence. **Pacman.** Your exuberant, perpetually hungry best friend. A wave of derisive laughter follows. "He's basically a sentient trash compactor," Skeebo s…