Guess who finally managed to get his hands on a laptop? hint its not Rick James. sooo yes it has been a while. I never planned on it being this long. but stuff happens. well I still don't own HP.
The update took effect faster than expected. One second harry is walking to his dorm, the next the entire castle reshapes around him. The suits of armor becoming more detailed, showing actual damage and differences, as if once worn by real people and not just decoration. The stone walls covered in intricate and numerous symbols in a almost maddening pattern, with small almost unnoticeable sparks flickering from symbol to symbol.
But for Harry one thing stood out above all others.
"I don't have to hear about that damned needle any more!"
This cheerful mood lasted up until he actually entered the common room.
"Oi how come potters name plate is Orange?!"
At least thirty freaking out students greeted him each of them with their own menu screen (in a rather dull shade of grey) and a title over their heads proclaiming them to be a "magical NPC".
"oh lovely. where's Ed? I'm not dealing with this crap alone"
Edward was in fact facing a similar situation over by the third floor bathroom. All he wanted was to check on Hisster, make sure she got enough food, plenty of warmth, maybe a belly rub or two, but noooo suddenly he had to deal with a bunch of ravenclaws having a breakdown. At least the Malfoy brat was ok. Come to think of it he was taking this really well.
"I hope Potter is suffering just as much as I am."
Before Edward had a chance to try and settle the bookworm mob young Malfoy decided to speak.
"Out of curiosity sake are you freaking out for the fun of it or were you all just to stupid to read the guides floating in front of your faces?"
With that Malfoy managed to shut up the entire mob. some out of embarrassment, most out of indignation.
"since you cant be trusted to read I'm going to hit this button right here. This big one that's flashing red and says press for audio. This big flashing button we ALL have.'
With extremely over exaggerated motions Draco pushed the button and let the message play.
"Greetings and Salutations New players! you have been awoken to new powers by the gods. Those of you with grey names are known as NPC. NPC is short for Non-Powered-Characters. you can grow and progress in any way that you want but you'll never reach the heights of a PC. But fear not! Statuses can be changed at any moment. Now if you have a colored name Congratulations you are a Powered-Character! That means a god has decided to support you in this game. Constantly throwing new monsters and quests at you to force you to grow ever stronger. You'll either reach the heights of the heavens or fall into Null. Or if you're lucky the god'll grow bored and turn you back into a NPC. well that's it for basic info. Have fun!"
Everyone froze. They looked at Edwards nameplate. Then the info screen. Nameplate. Screen. Rinse. Repeat.
Finally someone snapped out of their stupor.
"SHIT." 'Edward couldn't have said it better himself.