Weeks passed and the rumors kept growing. People kept saying my game was giving powers and perfecting them and yet, no one in my town had those miraculous benefit to show even though I know some of them played.

Sure some of them were healthier but anyone could be and josh, my neighbor, had little proof to show concerning these. He looked better sure but nothing life changing like they shared in the different forums.

More than that, if my game could give power, I'm sure governments would have already abducted me to make a video game with more benefits for their secret armies. I mean, a country with an army full of people able to shoot target were they will be or spy on their enemies without losing their spies? A wet dream come true.

Back to my game, I was inspired by my last update, I also had to make my cosmetic a bit costlier because, and it was true, someone wrote it was killing a whole economy of graphic designer. I even had contract with small time designers for the games.

At the time I did not know but since I created the game, a lot of people had tried to contact me. Mostly brands for gaming but still… Even big games companies wanted to inquire about me. When I published my offer for a graphic designer, most though it was a joke. The only one that answered, a woman called Valerie cooper, was a bit septic but when I offered her a contract she jumped on the opportunity. Since then my work mail was flooded by offers and invitation. I refused all of them. I even programmed an automatic answer that would politely refuse and delete the mails.

I also adopted a cat. The little thing just showed up in my house. It was barely a kitten so I took it to the vet and had it registered under my name while making sure it was healthy. Poor thing was a bit underweight but nothing a good diet could not fix. She was incredibly smart as I found out. Some time I even wondered if it was not a mutant but it would be silly, it acted looked like a cat, acted like a cat so it must be a cat. Even if some time it managed to do some impressive things, like open my door and get in my bed even when I was sure it was locked before I went to sleep.

Aside from the baseless rumors around my game, nothing changed around. I went about my days as usual, developing, patching the games, playing with daisy, the kitten, and doing research on Lovecraft works.

Recently a new name kept appearing in the books: Hastur, The king in yellow, the feaster from afar. A malevolent outer god that would grant power to his follower in exchange from injuring others, be it monsters or humans.

I felt like It would be a good thing to add on the game, it would make the future PVP update I kept on pushing for later more entertaining. I could maybe add a level to the blessing depending on the offering they would make. It would make thing even more interesting. An idea for later, for now, I needed to play with daisy, she was up to something and god help me if she destroyed another cup because she was bored!

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"Keep it contained!"

Furry rubbed his nose in annoyance. His agents were currently fighting beast coming from a fucking video game! The creatures were like those badly made sea monsters in the old movies but those one were as strong as ten men and sturdier than an enraged bull. It took twenty men to kill two of them and catch the third. Of the twenty, twelves were injured while the rest were covered in cuts from the strange water attacks.

"Keep it sedated!"

How could a video game give him so much headaches.

"Sir, the creature is contained and the report of the banishing ability on the beast has been compiled and sent on your computer!"

Furry looked at the agent and sighted, at least they had this going for them. The different abilities bestowed by the game worked well enough. The banishing one worked well even if it took a while to prepare and use. It took the agent ten minutes to ready it and during this time said agent could not move or do anything else. Yet, the skill proved effective, the beast was violently knocked back and its right arm broken.

"Good. Prepare the anomaly for transport and keep it sedated. I want this thing alive for study. Make sure the Chilean people present do not have anything on them from tonight and go back to HQ."

The agent obeyed and went to his work. Fury was starting to think that maybe, just maybe, this Eric Wagner would be a bigger problem than Stark.