Episode 3
Will opted to play video games. He’d been running a successful business as a mercenary in the Tactical Adventure Online game. Known as a MERC, Gollum the Goblin collected rare items and artifacts to sell through black market online auctions. To acquire them, Gollum used an illegal dagger Will had written into the game. That level of Terms of Service violation gave the Mods carte blanche to attack on sight. However, this did not stop violators from paying membership fees and starting a new PC right away.
Will had did this before lunch when a
White Knight named Duke killed Gollum. She was a half-elf ranger named
Sita Moon, and started the game with three elfin abilities without the
low endurance that made full-blooded-elves so unpopular. Will chose HOP,
FIRST STRIKE, and MARKSMAN EYE. Sita Moon nimbly fought Dragons and
Barrow Wights in a fitted dress slit all the way up her leg.
The
upside of a major catastrophe is very few people have time for video
games. Will went turn after turn seeing only NPC’s, giving him hope that
Gollum the Goblin’s equipment would be undiscovered. All new PC’s start
in the White Hall of the Emperor, roughly an hour's travel from
Corinth, where Gollum had been killed. Sita Moon ran that direction and
killed everything that didn’t step out of the path.
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