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rights!"
    "He’s an ass! The tombstones were piled up with stones. The graveyard’s never been so crowded! Three-friggin’-thousand people waited for three hours! You could come up with a cure for cancer in all the time he stole!"
    "Yeah, and you’d be the one to do it... Be grateful that they got piled up. Or he might have returned and gone through our bags. There’s a shitload of gold in there, plus items. What’s your PK-counter looking like?"
    "Wouldn’t you like to know!"
    ...
    "Hey plz share the link to the vid where The Fallen One’s First Priest kicks the Sun God’s ass!"
    "Don’t fall for it, it’s a cop auto-bot! They’ll run you in! The motherfuckers from Enjoy Movies bought up the rights to all video content on the temple battle..."
    Warning! Player Eugene has been Silenced for 72 hours. Charges: violation of the EULA section 7.2. Report number KA783641У, Violation Of Law And Order, has been generated and sent to the criminal court.
    "You’ve done it now..."
    "Can’t be his first time; they give a warning to first-timers!"
    "No, the virtual cops issue warnings. These are copyright agents. They have more rights..."
    ...
    "The Light Allegiance is looking to buy the assembly instructions of the bomb that brought the temple down. Similar or alternative models also accepted. PM. Prank inquiries will get you on the KOS list!"
    ...
    "Calling volunteer guards for Light temples! All levels welcome!"
    ...
    "Did you catch the Russian sign on the Sun God’s temple ruins? ‘Nice pile!’ it said. The nerve!"
    ...
    "Sign our digital petition! We demand that the admins punish those who summoned the mega-boss within the city limits! Restore XP for the thousands killed! Ban the pilgrim murderer! Restore the city to yesterday’s date or give forty-one million gold for speed-repairs!"
    ...
    "The Crafters Guild is buying adamant in bulk!"
    "The Chinese have an adamant bell for Yu-Huang summoning at the Jade Palace. A piece can be cut off!"
    "Thnx for the tip!"
     
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                  The monotonous PM ping woke me. I had good filters that blocked over three thousand messages in half an hour. But the high-priority A-list was still full; many were eager to get in touch with the First Priest who was suddenly so active at the auctions.
                  Badaboom’s chat must have been a mess! One kill alone could get you a load of threatening PMs. And that guy’s banked two thousand stars! I had to cut him extra bonuses for all the trouble he was dealing with. Perhaps a "Hero of Darkness" gold star, inscribed with "0001"? In just a hundred years, any collector would give his right arm for something like that.
                  But then, he was already getting tons of freebies. And he should be watched closely, lest he go off the deep end and becomes a suicide bomber, the Fallen One forbid. He had gotten the Holy Unmercenary upgrade, and the next public bombing would get him scores of fallen players’ items. Bam, a millionaire... Even my fat inner greedy pig could not ignore such a temptation...
                  Well, this party couldn’t last long. His PK-counter had already gone through the roof. Loot could not have meant much to him anymore. Something to think about...
                  Perhaps I should go myself? I thought.
                  As I pondered the question, the message filter kept up its efforts. My PM pinged twice; Fuckyall broke through all the filters, along with a very helpful fat hack writer from the top twenty.
                  It can’t go on like this! I need a long-legged secretary with an IQ of 130 plus! Seriously, it was about time to get an intelligent assistant and set up a bureaucratic barrier to ward off the people. I just couldn't handle all this red tape on my own any more.
                  I glanced over the first fifty messages just in case. They were mostly