The Orb

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17.04.2025
Some time ago I noticed an orb hovering in the parking lot of a supermarket, exactly 150 cm from the ground, according to my tape measure at least.
Its diameter was about 30 cm, according to local news. Its material was similar to plastic painted to look like metal, but to the touch it was more like metal painted to look like plastic.
Although it would be a mistake for me to call this orb hovering. After all, it just was at a distance of 150 cm from the ground. You can’t move it, you can’t shake it, you can’t hit it. In general, it just was there. I even saw a stray cat sleeping peacefully on this orb.
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30.08.2025
I was wrong about static nature of this orb… As it turned out, it was moving slowly approximately to the west. So slowly in fact that in the 4 months that I’ve known about it, it has moved for 4 centimeters.
For the expiriment sake I tried to hit this thing with a shovel, but it hadn’t given any interesting results. My shovel broken on hit. Now I have a broken stick and a bent metal sheet of a shovel.
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25.11.2025
With first snow we got a new fun fact. This goddamn ball has friends all over the world. As it turned out, there are absolutely identical orbs in Kyoto, Riga, Omsk and even in Johannesburg of all places. This interesting revelation got us to get the exact point B for the orbs. And guess there this orbs are going?
That’s right, to the one place that hadn’t had eldritch orbs yet… Belgum! Bruges to be specific…
And more specifically, to the local beer museum. I and my orb-intrigued mates don’t know why the Bruges’ Beer Museum was so liked by 5 orbs. Of which even snow is afraid of.
Oh yea! I forgot to say: snow avoids this things! Literally!! Above this orbs, even the clouds don’t converge. But the cat, whom I called Barsik, doesn’t really care. He even likes sleeping on this space thing.
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04.02.2026
Just for fun I made a little subreddit, where I with anons found few new orbs: in St. Petersburg, Tegucigalpe and Tallahassee(to this orb some Florida men tried to connect an internet cable and camera for the live feed). Orbs are still going to Bruges’ Beer Museum… Maybe aliens want to go to pubs? Then why they start with Bruges? Then why St. Petersburg’s orb doesn’t like her city?
Barsik lives with me now, by the way.
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17.04.2026
The year had passed from the moment I met the orb. During this year it moved for 15 cm, which means that it accelerated by about 25% from last mesurement. Which in return means that I may even live to see moment then the orbs arrive in Bruges.
Now I with r/þe_orb’s community started setting bets on the result of orb’s arrival to Bruges. I betted 50 rubles for them just fuzing into each other and then just staying in a middle of Belgum. u/OhNo prefers another theory: he thinks that the collision moment will cause the world’s end. And somebody named u/allhailtheorb thinks that “The Conjunction of the Orbs” will start new era for humanity. Well good luck to him.
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30.13.2029
The orb had already gone out of my town and got to penetrate a Kremlin. Which I watched, trying not to laugh, because it’d been penetrating it for about a year.
The most damage orb-N(named after city of origin) had done was definetly a part of the Mausoleum, after breaking it off it had pressed comrade Lenin into a pancake. That is literally all the interesting things that orb had done on it’s way to Belgum.
But the record of “most damage done by the orb” will most likely be holded by orb-Kyoto. It had broken half of Tokyo. Which is not big news for avarage Japanese citizen. Although it was especially embarrassing for u/tohito_yam, who watched as this orb just floated through his pretty small apartment for 4 long years.
During this time, he used it as: a chair, a clothes rack, and a bed for the cat. He found out about this specific application of the orb after I sent him a photo of the now deceased Barsik quietly purring on orb-N.
After Tokyo our spherical kaiju got to make a presice 30 cm in diametre tunnel through mount Fuji(few other tunnels like this were found on Ural mountains). Her next distanation was to make a hole in Lincoln statue in Washington, break off Lady Libery her leg and demolish few Scotish castles.
Orb-Johannesburg prefered to go more by quality than by quantity. It had destabilized the Leaning tower of Pisa.
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19.10.2032
Florida man’s camera expiriment with orb-Tallahassee had failed right at the moment of going into international waters. Cable, that was holded by duct tape… had fallen off… and now somethere at the ocean there are a 50 kilos of copper wire and a GoPro camera.
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17.04.2035
Here it comes. The moment of truth. The Orbs are flying now with speed of kilometers a day. 10 years of waiting and the orbs will finally reunite.
Also, now there are some suspicious people in white shirts with hidious ties asking me if “I would like to talk about the Orbs”
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02.10.2036
Soo, that happened!..
I hadn’t seen the conjunction itself… AND HAIL TO GOD!!! Best 50 rubles I lost in a bet! In a matter of fact mister U/OhNo was more right than me.
Because literally everybody and everything in a 100 m radius from collision had just diappeared. Including a bunch of cultists who were in the area. This “Orb’s Witnesses” unknowingly saved a bunch of people from disintegration… It’s impressive how much of them were there realy…
And it wasn’t even a beautiful disintegration, they just were and then they were not… There had been made a perfect 200 meter diametre spherical hole in a middle of Bruges. About 800 people and a few kilotonns of dirt had fully disappeared from the face of Earth. This felt like God just pressed Ctrl+X on this piece of land. And the perfection of this cut was so percise that people on it’s edges were not as lucky as people in the centre.
Had you seen how a cross-section of a person looks like? Because I’ve seen. I’ve seen his robe, his brain, his skull, his organs, and his very percisely cutted off bag with his passport fallen off. His name was Johan…
As a result of this little adventure, I would like to say: this event was just a footnote of this year. With modern trend of 1 historic once in a lifetime event per week, disappearing of a part of a city hadn’t became a big news somehow. Like many other stories of this one ended in nothing… More literall definition of nothing, but still nothing…