Book One - (Part I of III)

When luring hippies, influencers, alt-right MAGA guys, social justice warriors and all kinds of other people into some sort of fake DonMu enlightenment-payback ruse goes horribly, horribly wrong.

It started out as just a dumb little idea (or “ruse”) of getting payback on a single American social media influencer who was ripping off a bunch of Balinese locals with her “followers” scam – and have her “walk a mile in their shoes” by luring her up to their rice fields to pick their rice for free – actually pay them to pick their rice for free. Which surprisingly worked. But then this ruse went viral and a bunch of other influencers started getting lured into it too. Like all these #MeToo, BLM, LGBTQ, Q’Anon, Trump, Alt-Right, Antifa, and Woke influencers. Then a bunch of hippies got lured into it. Then some Russian Instagram hookers. Then some South Korean K-Pop groups. Then some Klan guys. I mean everybody started getting lured into this ridiculous ruse that my dumbass came up with to the point where I was just hoping to get the hell out of it without getting caught. Or possibly arrested.

Book One – (Part II of III)

All hell breaks loose.

Well, we got the influencers up to the rice fields to pick rice for free. Which was great and all. The Balinese were really happy about that. But now the influencers were all fighting with each other and causing all kinds of other problems. And not even really working, or picking their rice. And Mama’san (who was an angry North Korean erotic-massage parlor owner and put in charge of the police force there) was ruling over the plantation with an Iron Claw and the influencers didn’t really like that because she set up a system with ‘5 Levels of Workers’ with the Balinese on top and them on the bottom (and the hippies somewhere in the middle). And since we’d somewhat misleadingly told them the work levels were all based on a popularity contest the influencers thought they should be on top since they had over 10,000 followers – and were Micro-Influencers – but Mama’san had no idea what that even meant. Or what an influencer even was.

Book One – (Part III of III)

Chickens come home to roost.

Well … we had a good run. But even I knew we were going to get caught for this ridiculous ruse sooner or later. I just didn’t think it was gonna happen the way it did. Oh man. Cause I was in big trouble now, and now the cops were showing up and it was going to be really hard to try and explain this all to them. Especially what just happened on the backside of the hotel. Because that was really crazy. I mean really crazy. And I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to weasel my way out of this thing.