Flaring lights fractured in Allen's vision but he still couldn't see anything, the closest experience from his life was trying to look through a waterfall, only this time all he could see was more water, blue and green darkness surrounded him from every direction creating geometrical features across his entire display.

Scanning his interface made him realise he was still a Vampire Whight Dragon, but also that he was under some kind of effect from the system, it had to be something the Players did to him, trapping him in a stasis of some kind, the timer on his deletion was stopped at 00:17:12.003 which would have given him seventeen minutes if he didn't realise a lot longer time actually was passing.

His first clue was a recurrence in the shifting fields of light, they were a sort of beat, when it happened again he figured it was a good indicator so he put a ticker on it, if the lines aligned just so then tick, to break it even further he made a clock that would count the seconds between each tick, beating every 8 seconds had to have some meaning, Allen considered other timers in his display, stamina, mana, hp, all had regeneration and capacity, his breath and other attacks also had them while some others were emptying over time like poison and curses or beneficial effects.

Concentrating to push through the light fields only brought a minor change in the arrangement of lights, but it was still better than doing nothing, already wishing the system had erased him instead of this horific torment of absolute boredom, the clock showd him hours had passed, but nothing seemed to actually change, setting a new ticker for the changed light configuration he settled down to fiddling with his interface some more.

Finding the help files for the game and user interaction agreement was the great success of his second week of blue life, with nothing else to do he just read through them, at some point the ticker had sped up but he couldn't say exactly when, now knowing a lot more about the interface he set an alarm to tell him if anything else changed.

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Some of the help files had links to an even deeper level of knowlege, notes made by the programmers, most of it was about the user interface, some looked like a chat with back and forth remarks from different people, at some point he realised he had favorite authors, moving through the texts that made his life tolerable, the ticker alarm went off seven times when he stumbled on a hidden throve, the worst programmer in the bunch that Allen named Red just dumped a copy of a programming menu as part of his text, 

Part of an argument about sources with the gretest anonymous hero, known as Green to Allen, that dumped a RTFM bomb, the antagonyst linked it to his answer, enabling the link popped up a new type of window in Allens' view, inside the reader program were whole libraries of instructional manuscripts, some he knew from his studies and work of before the trial, but he never actually read them from cover to cover, there was no page left unscrolled.

Green elaborated how Mana was a way to distribute server resources to Players, Red stabbed with a micro transactions argument, breaking the Mana system into a money printing machine, Green tried to fend off with code purity but Red would have none of it, crushing Green to submission and pushing him back to the NPC credit laws shield, Red tried to force his way through but on this Green stood firm on unshakeable grounds, the last defense of a dying man protecting his ideals to his last breath.

The alarm went off again, pulling Allen out of the scene he was creating from one of his favorite arguments between the greater programmers of their time, the others were mostly pawns in the battle between Green; Defender of the Code and Red the Greedy bastard, looking through his notes and searching for the annoying bell through the tabs Allen finally found what had happened, his timer had changed to 00:17:12.002, a single milisecond and no more, but it was the greatest change of his life and he needed to understand how it happened before things got worse.