The game was still new and things were getting discovered to this day. Besides the game, the players have split into teams. Three teams and the boundaries were set. Players never crossed the lines unless they wanted their heads severed from their bodies. Wake recently turned all the log out buttons into a "suicide" button, but unlike the log out button the suicide button worked which was a cruel joke. Right now those who had chosen the beginner set are the strongest. The beginner set was equipment that leveled as the player leveled up to level fifteen, but just because players have the beginning set it didn't mean they were invincible. The game had no weapon assistance, so if a player sucked with a sword in the real world they sucked with a sword here. So most players didn't know how to fight including me. But just because a player didn't know how to fight didn't mean they couldn't learn. Players could practice on mobs and on other players. In the game our consciousness was separated from our body. On the guide it says that our bodies will be nourished in the re world by machine, but because of the separated consciousness not knowing that it was separated it will feel hunger in the game. It doesn't matter that the food in the game wasn't real, because it was to our consciousness. Everyone felt hunger and needed to satisfy it.
The game was our life for the time being and with the boundaries set there was a kind of truss between the colors. I didn't like this truss because it just kept the blood shed to a minimal and it prolonged how long the winning team would have to stay in this game
Chapter 1
I was in a cafe in the green territory. The cafe a set had round tables that was placed unorganized. A couple of tables had slash marks showing signs of struggles and some were kicked down. In the corners were shattered glass which was most likely swept to the side. The cafe was ran by NPCs(non player characters) which all NPCs had the title NPC above there head when a player analyzes them. Like I said the cafe was ran by NPCs, but it was overrun by players. NPCs were found to have actual emotions and personalities. They were people just with no rights or that's what players treat them like. NPCs were treated lower then actual people. Players would make slaves and abuse them. NPCs could do nothing but take it because they can not hurt players. When NPCs stab at players nothing would happen. The system would stop the NPCs before the weapon hits. Hurting players went against there being. They couldn't do anything to a player that meant harming them. They were a sad race. Before the boundaries were set kingdoms were ruled by kings, but most Kings were dethroned in a day. The rest went into hiding. One example of the NPCs being a lower class was right in front of me. A male cafe worker was dancing on top of a table ten feet in front of me. Around to table sat players decked out with beginner set armor laughing.
"Dance!" One of them laughed. The NPC was shaking because like us they feared for there life because in this game even NPCs didn't respawn. They only lived once and because of there situation with players they were terrified of them. They group of players around the NPC were most likely a gang which were formed commonly when players find friends. Other NPCs stood around doing nothing, but shaking. This NPC was alone and had no one to help him. The NPC slipped and fell on to the floor.
The players laughs got louder.
"Awe and I thought we was actually going to make the hour of straight dancing" One stood up and walked to the NPC. This one was the biggest and looked the oldest. He had short brown hair and a short but visible beard. He seemed to be the leader.
"Please no" streams of tears fell from the NPC's eyes, but was abruptly stopped as a sword made its way threw his heart. The dead can't cry
The NPCs around were all in tears. The NPC that died was most likely someone they knew well.
"Who's next!" The player shouted looking around to all the NPCs. I wanted to help, but I was only one person. I wouldn't be able to take one of them let alone the whole group which was a total of 8 men with the beginner set no less. I was subjected to watch this go down and try to choke down the drink that I ordered. I was too caught up in the moment to even remember what I ordered.
"I said!~" the player was interrupted as the doors to the cafe burst open and an NPC with short brown hair walked in with a fearless look on her face. She walked up to the leader.
"Where is my sister." She said choking on fear. The courage that she came in with was gone. What she said sounded like not was rehearsed.
The leader laughed and slapped her sending her to the floor.
"You want you sister. Ha! She's here you know. I have her chained to a pole in the back." He crouched down and lifted her head up by the roots of her hair.
"Free her please!" The girl cried her voice in pain.
The player rotated her face around with the roots of her hair. He checked how she looked. "I don't want to"
The girls voice got more desperate "please free her. Take me instead. please!" She begged with tears streaming down her face.
The player stopped rotating her head "Or I could take you and keep her" he was contemplating the thought. He then lifted her head to the point were he can see her body so that he could check her measurements "Your a lot smaller then her. We wouldn't use you as much with the abundance of girls we already have. Let's be honest, your body in comparison to theirs is no contest" he snapped and two men walked to his side "I'll take the deal because we have women to spare and for that other reason... You know what I'm talking about. Go get the girl" after the two men exited the leader brought out a pair of shackles and bucked them around both arms and legs.
"What reason?" The girl questioned but she was soon answered when the door opened and two men walk into the room with something on their back. They tossed it on the ground it it was a bare naked girl covered in "fluid"(...). The girl had long brown hair and the color in her eyes was completely gone. She was breathing heavily and her body was twitching.
The shackled sister screamed and tried to run to her sister's aid, but she was pulled back
"Ella!" She struggled against the player pulling, but it was no use. She was not able to run to her broken sister's aid.
"We can give back the sister because the gang doesn't need any broken toys"
Within a few minutes it was finally quite again. The girl was too far from us now to hear the screams. Which was better for me because the guilt of not being able to do anything, but watch was turning my insides. I couldn't even leave the cafe because it would have shown signs of weakness. Once the coast was clear I rand outside the cafe and lost everything I had eaten since I woke up. I didn't even make it far either. It was right in front of the cafe. I saw NPCs take the poor broken girl out of the cafe probably putting her somewhere safe. But as they carried her off I got a good glance at her and I saw no life in her eyes. All the fluid was wiped clean from her, but I still lost it again now losing the water in my stomach.
I started wiping myself off. It was just NPCs it doesn't matter what happens to them because once I leave this game they will never be a thought in my head again. They aren't real people. They were part of a game that trapped us. My stomach was normalizing. I went back into the cafe walking directly to my table, I got my sword, and left. I walked through the street. The town was decorated in green. The decorations were put up when green players invaded the area. In blue towns there are decorations of blue and in the red, red.
I walked along the street until I saw a familiar face. It was one of the players back out the cafe. It was someone apart of the gang. He was left alone and in his hand were the shackles of the NPC who was knocked out and gagged. He was alone waiting for the others to come back most likely. I could have kept walking, but I froze. I thought to myself that if there was anytime to save her it was now. But she is just an NPCs I was trying to convince myself not to try, but my body thought other things my body brought out my sword and charged. The man saw me from five feet away. He brought out his sword and parried mine.
"You've got balls kid." The player made a stab towards me. I didn't talk I dodged the stab, but was slow. He tripped me and put a sword in to my leg deep enough that it was in all the way to the hilt and the blade was in the ground. I screamed in pain. The sword drew blood.
"You don't have much experience with a sword." The man walked around me. He didn't care for me for long. He grabbed a chain that was holding the NPC girl and waited. I couldn't move with the blade in my leg. It was jammed deep into the ground. I couldn't leave and after awhile the other players of the gang was back
"Well well well what is this." The leader said from in front. The othes circled around me and the leader kneeled in front of my laying body.
"He attacked me." The man came forward dragging the NPC who was now awake. She looked at me with a scared expression.
"So you attacked one of us.
What for?" The leader twisted the blade in my leg. Blood started to spit out of the wound. He was able to move the blade that was lodged in the ground.
I looked at the NPC. "I did it for her"
Whispers went from member to member. They all looked at me like I was weird. Except for the leader. The leader laughed putting his palm to is forehead "I see! You want some of the pleasure as well!" He laughed conpletely misunderstanding what I said. The others followed with laughter.
"And I thought he was trying to save to NPC for the sake of saving it." One shouted
"I don't know why someone would want to do that" another replied.
The leader stood up "I like you kid. I am going to let you join my gang." He invited me, but I didn't want to join, but I wasn't going to say that in front of him. He would kill me for it.
He brought his sword up towards the sky I'll let you be our hemchman once we've got you trained." He paused for a second
"First lesson. Respect."
He brought down his sword onto my leg that was stuck...
Taking my leg off.
