This is just a small nothing I came up with for the hell of it. Mostly to try and get back into the writing groove. I own no characters. This is just a little joke on the wonders of the internet played out through .hack.

"Welcome to The World." chirped a bright female voice. "Please log in."

Username: Tsukasa

Password:

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Five minutes later.

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You are now logged in.

"You have 19,442 new messages. Do you wish to read any?"

Yes

Now opening file

Page 1, 1-50 messages

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"Need a online loan to buy that Broadaxe?

Delete

Displaying message 2

"Pimp Warrior78 wants you for quest for hotties."

Delete

Displaying message 3

"Want to change that one thing about your character? Size? Length?"

Delete.

Displaying message 4

"End of The World. Get your commemorative Grunty Plushie!"

Delete

Displaying message 5

"Play Everquest Online."

Delete All

"All 19,437 messages deleted."

"You now have 0..."

"1 message.."

"17 messages..."

"342 messages..."

"1470 messages..."

Delete all

"We're sorry to inform you that The World is shutting down temporally due to maintenance. We will be up and running as soon as the next working version of Windows is available."

Log off.

There you go. Since I don't really know much about .hack, I hope that any and all ignorance on the World setup is forgiven and that I won't be burned in effigy. Otherwise let me have with both barrels.