Beep... Beep... Beep...
Swoosh, click
Beep... Beep... Beep...
Swoosh, click
”HOLLY SHIT THIS HURTS!!” Screamed the man in his thoughts as his mind emerged from hazy nothingness. He tried to scream aloud but he couldn’t, tubes filled his mouth. He tried to pull them out, but he couldn’t feel his arms or anything below his neck, nothing but agony. He started to choke and gag on the tubing in his throat, he opened his eyes and saw nothing but darkness.
Beep.Beep.Beep.Beep.Beep.Beep.
He heard in his panic the thundering of his heartbeat and the rapid patter of many sets of feet racing towards him along with distorted yells before he once again faded back to nothing.
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Siren’s eyes bugged open and she lurched up into a sitting position in a panic, eyes darting about. She released a pent up breath seeing where she was, before muttering to herself. “I seriously hate that dream...” She glanced out over the water of the subterranean lake before noticing something strange. The hud was gone and her body was soaked in sweat, something that shouldn’t have been possible as that wasn’t part of the game.
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She started listing every voice command she knew looking for any response. “Um, Command Menu? no? ok, how about Chat? Admin? Help???” After exhausting every command phrase she knew, she started brainstorming for what could be happening to her. After what seemed like an age, she was left with three possibilities. “The the servers have hit a snag, and only partially shut down..” “Some god thought it would be funny to pull me into a real version of my favorite game for laughs...” “Or I’m dying and all this is just my brain hallucinating in its final moments...”
With a sigh Siren brings her knees up to her chest, then grimaces. She glances down at herself, then back out towards the clear waters of the lake. She says quietly to herself, “Well, I can kill two birds with one stone if I bathe and change my clothes... I’ll at least know if I’m still in the game, it had no nudity in it after all...”
She rolls off the stone and onto her feet, then looking down at her spacial ring she began to recall how the lore explained its use. She focused on the ring with her thoughts and suddenly she could see everything stored within. She withdrew a pair of leather trousers, a dark green tunic, and some loose cloth to use as a towel. She set her new clothes aside and began to disrobe; first with her belt with attached pouch, her dark mage-like cloak, soft leather boots, and then her soiled clothing. Standing nude along the manastone lit shore, she admired her own reflection in the water. Smooth pale unblemished skin that seemed to glow in the low light, curves in the right places, full breasts, a body some may say is built for sin. She strode into the calm cool water and dove forward into the to swim, something she missed greatly.