Havi was running around as his character on Crimson Spell to get out the anger of being unable to remove the damn creature from his head. Instead of ripping his hair out, he focused his rage into finding the thief who had stolen his stuff and was cornering the idiot just as he ran into a village where PvP* was not allowed.
"Stop running and fight like a man!" Havi yelled after the retreating figure.
"That wouldn't be very smart," he replied, slowing down as he realized that there was nothing the wizard could do to him.
"I wonder how you will pay for the debt…" Havi trailed off, lighting a ball of fire in his character's hand as a threat. It didn't mean anything that moment, but they both knew the thief couldn't stay inside the town forever.
"Brutal wizard," the thief, Bolman, huffed.
"Can you help us?" a player asked, hurrying up to Bolman suddenly. He glanced at Havi and repeated his question.
"Even if it's a little, I'll definitely be of use," Bolman replied seriously.
"My policy is to charge a gift equal to the level of the request," Havi answered honestly.
"Oh…" the person responded, allowing his two friends to join them. "Oh you're Hroptr! That unsociable wizard!"
Havi rolled his eyes in real life but stepped out of the way for the players to talk more directly to Bolman. While following their conversation he took notes of their character information. The one who had spoken was a white mage, and was probably either a girl in real life or had been hacked by a girl judging by his appearance, and his level was rather low compared to the level of the mission he was asking about.
His companions were a normal run-of-the-mill elven archer and a half-demon. Havi was struck dumb by the appearance of the latter. He looked so familiar, but Havi had never seen the character before. Havi's head hurt thinking about it and he refocused on the conversation, filing away the thought for later.
The three players were attempting a mission far above their levels and needed help taking down the final enemy. Bolman, who was equal to their level, stupidly agreed to help them. However, he proved himself not a total idiot when he glanced at Havi nervously.
"Feel like giving me the books back?" Havi asked.
"Selfish wizard," another player added, walking up to join their conversation.
"He's the one who stole your books," Havi informed him.
Hallyne looked the others over and replied, "But if you hadn't stolen them in the first place then he couldn't have stolen them from you."
Havi summoned a ball of flame again, this time directed at Hallyne as well as at Bolman.
"If you want those books back you can help us," the elf suggested. "Bolman, you'd do that right?"
"Um…" he began.
"The books have been destroyed," Havi informed them. "This idiot torched them for their value." The game gave the value of any destroyed items to the possessor, encouraging players to just torch their stuff instead of jamming up the town shops by selling junk.
The others all looked at Bolman blankly who appeared to blush from embarrassment. "It was for food," he told them. "I was hungry!"
"Can't you buy them back?" the white mage asked, clearly irritated and eager to leave.
Havi smirked evilly. "Besides the gigantic cost of even one of those books, I want revenge from the idiot who decided to steal from me."
"Damn it!" the mage growled. "My mom's kicking me off. We'll have to do this tomorrow."
Havi folded his arms over his chest. He didn't like being reminded that playing games like this was something kids did, and this guy was beginning to irritate him.
The kid logged off, quickly followed by the cowardly Bolman. The archer said his farewells and logged off as well. Hallyne disappeared as well, yelling at Havi as he did. Left with the demon, Havi asked, "You won't be able to kill that dragon, you know. It's way too high for you."
He didn't reply and Havi continued, "I could help you guys you know, for a price."
Still no reply. Deciding he must be away from his computer, Havi left and decided to go searching for a rare item that he had heard about.