When Nadine, Malcolm, and Rassie arrived at the first village they found it almost like the universe had decided to start over. It was noticed that the specific arrangement of the dark age village was different, yet everything else was as if level one had started all over again. "Nadine, what did you do when you first downloaded the game?" said Rassie.
"When I was downloading the game, I noticed it was a different sort of video game than what I would have normally played." Nadine picked up a random stick on the ground, made out of dead wood. "For one, normally while there would still be surround vision, the normal sensory perception that go along with the real world would not ordinarily exist." Rassie looked as if all the pieces were starting to fit back together again.
"But where did you go first, was it here? I don't remember this particular spot, when I was last scanning the area for your meta-data." Rena said, hoping they realized that she was not the type to continue that line of work.
"I was here, the game must automatically restart every time you reload the bio-computer." Nadine felt her face, and also rubbed her booty on a tree. "As you can see, in this specific game, we have a new set of sensory perceptions. So at first I thought that perhaps the programmers, you guys, were becoming more savvy." Nadine looked at the people in town, walking in there full piece wooden shoes, wondering how in the hell they would be comfortable
"First we should probably go back to the house you first visited." said Rassie.
"I'm hoping that that one sister is not still pursuing me." said Nadine.
"I am Malcolm, and what is this?" said Malcolm to Nadine.
"I allowed a fairy girl to get her head chopped off." said Nadine to Malcolm.
"So what Nadine! It's just a game!" said Malcolm to Nadine.
"And what if it is not?" said Nadine to Malcolm.
When Nadine, Malcolm, and Rassie retraced there steps, they warped into the poisonous lake that she had warped in before. All three of them were graced by the nude body of Millie cleaning her dress in the lake. "Red haired lady, you looked familiar. Yet I am unsure how." Millie took all three of them to the dark age town, and allowed them to rest for the evening. But over the night, Rassie began to overhear the conversation that led up to Nadine particular choice to break the game, if where they were was in fact a video game at all, and not a new universe. "Don't you think it might be them Elena?" said Millie to Elena, trying to make sure that she spoke in such as way that the "new heroes" would not hear her speak.
"I don't know, I told Aldiel about the visitors. But something seems different. The red haired lady, it seems almost like I have met her before." Elena walked over to her, and moved the soft long red hair from her eyes, and carefully helped her take off her goggles. "Yet the others, I don't have quite the same deja vu feeling." This seemed to be bugging Elena more than Millie, who simply thought they were regular travelers at this point.
"But you know Elena, I get a sore throat just my looking at her. Though she is quite pretty." Millie said to Elena.
"Hey! What do you mean by a sore throat!?" said Elena.
"Don't worry, not that kind. More like, I was decapitated before." said Millie.
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"Then don't do anything to get you decapitated." said Elena.
While Elena, Rassie, and Malcolm had a laugh Nadine found herself in a daze. It was then she remember the session misadventure before.
She remembered seeing Elena hustling back to her cottage, at the direction of her brother Al-diel, who by now must have been dead. She noticed Millie was walking to the store. Panicking, she felt like her life was over, princess and peasant. A part of her, in that specific generation of the fantasy world, died that day. Yet Elena still clang on to a hope against all hope. Going out, against her wishes she tried to fly to get Millie, but a guard pushed her out of the way in the crowd in the village where there was a scaffold placed. Millie was already rolling in a cart to the scaffold, as she had already been found by the knight's guards.
Elena tried to catch up with Millie, however she was left behind in the dust.
When the village guards took Millie away, they saw marks on her body, indicating the location of the disease. The disease that has killed plenty of villagers in the past. They grabbed Millie knowing that there was no longer any real hope of her recovery. Elena needed to find a point to try to take her back. Before the soldier's got there, to retrieve her to execute her only family left.
She walked back to the cottage. Nadine had exited, in order to go on her marry way to exit the village. Maybe go explore some ruins. But Elena had another plan in store for Nadine, one she at the moment wanted no part of. Nadine preferred the bandit life, the life of the skank. The life of the criminal sharpening a shank. And had no attention of being distracted by some petty escort mission. Why was it that every game that was generated, had some sort of stupid escort mission? Elena walked up behind Nadine, then punched in her the back.
"Hey hero, wasn't it your duty to rescue my sister?"
"Who is that voice," Nadine said. Then turned around to Ellen, her face hidden by the dark of her brown hood. "and are you talking to me?"
"Who else would I be." Elena said.
Elena grabbed Nadine by the wrist, and tried to get her to come along, find a place to hide with her in order to retrieve her sister. But it was useless. "Are you going to help me!"
"Why is it my problem?"
"Now listen," Ellen said. Resisting to the temptation to punch Nadine in the back again. "I need you to distract one of the guards," Then huddled closer, so she won't be seen. "I'll go and try to retrieve my sister."
Nadine walked over to one of the guards, who was guarding the the entrance into the scaffold. The villagers were not sure what to think, as it had been a while since there would be a public execution. Nadine started cracking some jokes, and the guards were mostly chuckling because they did not understand the waking world references.
But it was working. Elena made her move to try to grab Millie. However things became worse. Nadine had turned, so started making jokes about death and dying, with her loving sister as an expense for the joke. Elena wanted to punch Nadine, but didn't have time.
"Out of the way." Elena said. The other guard guarding the entrance pushed her out of the way, and two other's were holding her back.
Millie was placing her neck upon the block.
She saw the basket in front of the block shake, because of Elena fearful stomping. She wondered how they did not make the scaffold more sturdy. Then Millie felt a very sharp tingling edge on her neck.
And then it went away. Then came down again. Brief sharp pain. Sinking feeling, vision fading ... Darkness.
Ellen screamed at the lump that used to be Millie's head fall into the basket, and beginning to feel all her blood being removed from her head. A sensation not to dissimilar from wanting to faint, from the red covered paint that covered the straw on the scaffold. Then Ellen screamed more when the blood poured into the basket. Bucket by the bucket loads poured into the wicker basket. The knight's guard dragged Elena away, then pushed her outside of the crowd.
Although in real time, barely any time had passed. In the world of the game, a month has passed. Nadine collected various tacts from ruins, then placed them to unlock further ruins in the game. It was after she had began to try to fix the game, that she found she could not change the past. And everything was done. The girl she let die, was dead and gone. Nadine was on the run, running. Nadine on the snow, blitzing. It was all a rush in order to find some place. For she assumed that the sister must be out to get her.
She did not know, it was just a feeling. Nadine ran to the nearest ruins, and continued the game hoping that the others would not persue her.
Now Nadine was just glad she didn't save her game.
A new start.