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What is this place?
Uh. Eris noob, you don't get out much do you?
I've been coming in since I was 2, I'm not a noob.
You've been coming in since you were 2 and yet you haven't figured out the most basic things about the system, like time is meaningless here. I bet your grandmother lived to be 109 and never left the township she was born in. Both Noobs. Ho lee shit. No way. Okay Noob, you want to know what it's like, today is your lucky day.
Kane stood up fast, her chair went flying across the room behind her and in a single swift motion she shot forward and arced out a band of light that preceeded her by a meter and wrapped itself around a figure cloaked in darkness who had been slinking along the wall. It happened so fast Claire could barely tell what had happened. It wasn't until later, when she was watching the replay that she understood what had happened. In real time it just looked like a flash of light exploded out of Kane and encirled the figure.
Claire stood up and slowly walked over to the figure. It barely registered that every other char in the room had vanished.
Come here Noob. I want you to see something.
Claire came closer and saw that the man was covered, head to toe in some kind of patterned heirogylphs. She thought she recognized an angular shape, but couldn't recall what it meant or what era it belonged to.
This is weev. One of the most notorious trolls in here. And I am going to slay him. Kane pulled out a large elongated metal tube with a handle hanging off the back of it.
Claire saw the man's eyes widen in what she instictively knew was horror, though she did not immediately know why. He started to protest, she heard him say something about fundamental rights and he couldn't be stopped and then there was a tremdously loud noice and the man had no head anymore. A fine red mist began to float through the air. She looked over and saw Kane smiling. Kane stuck out her tongue and let the red droplets fall on it. She looked over at Claire's wide eyes. Relax noob, there's not really a program that let's you taste human blood. Unless I write one for myself. She snaped her teeth and arched an eye brow at Claire. What?
You killed him? Just like that? No trial? No, no, I don't know...
No nothing. Kane nodded. Don't you know your mythology Noob, trolls get slayed. That's just how it is. They invented the term for themselves, they get to live by it. Or in this case, die by it.
So you just completely ruined his char? He can never come back?
Pretty nice piece of JavaScript huh? Kane patted the gun. And technically he can come back. Or at least most can, but he can't.
Why?
Well, to get past the bio sensors you need to either, get a new pair of eyes, which neonazis living in dumpsters behind deserted strip malls in some fuckall flyover police state can not afford to do, or have no eyes at all, which our friend Weev there already did not poccess. He was already on he second life you could say.
He got through with a handcap license?
Exactly.
So, he was blind?
Technically no. Someone gouged his eyes out.
I thought I saw eyes.
Not in here. Out there. For real.
Claire gasped. Eris. Why would they...
Kane shrugged. He was a troll. Actions have consequesnece you know?
Still. I can't believe you did that. That's that's so wrong.
He was a piece of shit. If it were legal I'd do it out there too.
What gives you the right to... because you're the one in power now, you're Illum...
Ugh. Please, enough with the patriarchial bullshit noob. We're just thirteen people. We change all the time. We're not illuminati, we don't run anything, we serve.
You serve?
I don't have time for this bullshit.Claire watched as a hole in the wall opened up and Kane stepped through it. She started to follow, but the hole, and kane were gone.
Shit. She went back to tk and started searching. She found Kane quickly, she obviously wasn't trying to hide from Claire, so Claire put in the coorridnates, checked her coinage balance and set off for the new space.
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