completely out of the game and
then sits beside it, trying to catch his breath as his chest burns
with the effort of engaging in combat.
A small message appears in front of him. It
tells him that he has gained the pig meat needed for the quest as
well as various other things that he honestly can’t see any use
for. There’s a little bit of coin included and a tiny amount of
experience points, which is what allows him to gain levels in the
game. He smiles happily, until he realizes that to reach the next
level, he only needs another 400 experience points, the equivalent
of killing thirty or forty of these pigs at this rate.
He checks his inventory and counts the pig
flesh. There is just enough to complete the quest that the farmer
has sent him on.
“ Thank goodness,” he mumbles,
collapsing to his hands and knees in thanks to whoever is watching
over him from the great game world in the sky.
Clapping his hands together in excitement at
the thought of completing his first real quest and maybe getting
some real money, he gets up and slowly walks back towards the farm.
If he can get enough of a gold bonus from the company when he
leaves this testing nightmare then he might just make it when he
has to face up to what is waiting outside in 3 real world days
time.
When he gets to the farm, he finds the farmer
standing outside of his house, looking inward with a rather angry
expression on his face.
This can’t be good, he thinks to
himself approaching the NPC and the house with care.
He stops beside the NPC and follows his gaze
into the small house. Inside is a player sitting at the farmer’s
kitchen table eating a large ham sandwich. She is tall, slim and
wearing some form of greenish camo top with a rag of the same color
that seems to be a makeshift short skirt that comes down to just
above her knees. The whole green color scheme even reaches her
boots, which are made of a strange cloth like material that
probably doesn’t exist in the real world or is based on something
very old and long out of production. Next to her is a long wooden
bow with a black cord grip and a fancy looking quiver full to the
brim with feathered arrows. What strikes Harry most though is the
fact that her hair is a flaming red, which almost looks odd on her
tanned complexion.
She is more than a little bit attractive and
Harry realizes with discomfort that if she looks up right now she
is going to see him completely butt naked (having been unable to
locate anything to wear after losing his clothing to GM Goldie
Locks – or at least nothing that didn’t immediately fade away once
he tried tearing it off whatever it was connected to).
He immediately decides he would prefer to keep
his dignity intact and drags the NPC around the corner of the
house.
"I see you have the meat, kind sir!" the NPC
virtually shouts in his most cheerful voice.
“ Be quiet…”
“ Oh, I didn’t realize that there
was…”
The woman gapes at Harry as he covers
himself.
“ Oh man. Hold on. I got to take a
screen shot of this.”
The woman lines up her hands and there is a
faint clicking sound from her direction.
“ Hey!” Harry says putting up a
hand, which just happens to be the one covering his
groin.
“ Oh man... seriously, stop you’re
killing me…”
The red head puts her hand on the wall and
breaks into laughter.
10 minutes later, she stops and manages to
contain herself enough to trade Harry a greenish skirt the same
size and length as hers, which she says is for her own sanity (of
course, taking several screen shots of Harry in a dress in the
process).
When the humiliation is finely over, she
manages to compose herself enough to introduce herself.
“ I’m Killer Extreme, but you can
call me Axel. What’s your name?”
“ Gold Hunter, but my real name is
Harry.”
“ Descriptive name.”
“ I could say the same for
you.”
Axel smiles.
“ True. Are you on the Saving Sally
quest?"
The farmer, who has been staring at Axel all
this