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She certainly hadn't meant to dismiss the woman's way of life, that much was sure. She'd only meant that playing make-believe was childish, but it seemed that she hadn't gotten that message across very well. To be fair, this whole meeting was something of a mess. Of course, then the woman went...

Was that the truth, that the players had basically explored none of this game's world and that most of it was a mystery? How strange. She'd been led to believe that many gamers were the kinds of people to immediately leap to the challenge of mapping out an entirely new reality and seeing...

Fair enough, better an overcooked endangered animal than an undercooked endangered animal. Though, realistically speaking, she'd rather not see an endangered animal being cooked at all, let alone be complicit in such a thing, but here she was, on her quest to make good with the population of...

Well at least Mizuki was just strange and not a bitch. Agreeing to be careful with Quincy if she ever found the girl was at least a kinder gesture than she'd expected from the wild woman, though to be honest that wasn't saying too much. Was it a good or a bad thing if somebody was surprised that...

It wasn't much of a surprise that her word wasn't taken at face value, even if she'd have rather been believed from the get go, it was probably unreasonable to actually request such a thing. It was a pretty tall tale and even she wouldn't have been so likely to believe it if she hadn't met the...

I can say with relative certainty that it was neither recklessness nor another player that extinguished this player's actual life. Instead, it seems to be the game itself. Bad spawns, powerful mobs that were either smart enough to wait for her to log back in, or lucky enough to catch her whilst...

Preoccupied was what she was hoping to be the case, she was pretty sure one or two more experienced players had been counted amongst the ranks of people that were agreeable to helping spread the warning about overhunting, though she really couldn't be certain since she hadn't really done much to...

What the hell was to the west? Cleo had never been further than Honeyhome, now that she thought about it. Had none of the other experienced players moved around and gotten warnings up at places other than Honeyhome? What the hell were they all doing? Surely it wasn't just the new, inexperienced...

Of all the things that Cleo had expected, the last thing had been for the wolf to not only dodge her attack and then finish off the bear, but to also then begin to change. The form rippled as fur was replaced by clothes and bones seemed to snap and pop as thye creature went from four legs to...

Her time spent traipsing through the woods taking apart hunting traps and making her presence known enough that the animals would avoid her, maybe even scatter to different regions entirely. Certainly, the main priority was to make sure that the prey animal population recovered enough that it...

Pendragon? Cleo bit back a snort at the name. A bit pretentious to name himself after the mythical king of England and wielder of Excalibur, wasn't it? Well, it did seem like just the kind of geeky, overblown name that a gamer would come up with, so she supposed that this had to be a player...

Ah, well, Cleo supposed that it was too much to hope for that the girl would take her hand, as good of a sign of trust as it would have been. Still, yet again, it was going to fall to her to bring bad news to a person, as she had many times before during investigations, informing loved ones of...

The girl seemed to be a bit awkward with praise, which was something that Cleo noted away for later. It was probably going to be possible to build something of a good rapport with this girl by utilizing praise, so long as she didn't lay things on too thickly. Either way, it was always good to...

Well at the very least she hadn't been keeping the other girl there for long, which meant that she didn't have much to feel bad when it came to being the second person to arrive. It was going to be quite an awkward day, probably, considering that the person they had in common, Vina, was absent...

Well, exciting if you consider life or death struggles to be exciting, though I suppose scientifically it does release the same kinds of chemicals as something exciting would. Still, I definitely think that the players who just set up businesses and homes here are, at least, doing the right...

Better to try? Well, Cleo supposed that could be the case for some people, though she did often feel like she was doing little more than waste her time on people that didn't deserve even a moment of it, but now that she was working with the VRSA that had basically stopped. It was pretty rare for...

Well you might be right, though whether or not they actually take my advice or not, I do still get paid for consultations and things like that, so I suppose I don't have too much to complain about considering the fact that I can eat, live and sleep thanks to the money the job gets me. It's...

Cleo groaned and sighed, nodding. Well, now she had to play the part of a legal advisor, but that wasn't so bad and she was pretty sure she could nail the thought processes that came along with the everyday life somebody with that kind of occupation would live. Considering it wasn't too far from...

Something like that, yes. I don't actually make any arrests or represent anybody in court, but you could call me something of a specialist that people call in for advice when it comes to the legal system. That sounded vague enough to be anything, like a legal aid. In truth, she wasn't sure...

Good, they were in agreement that people who wished to hurt others shouldn't just be allowed to live that way just because people deserved the right to freedom. Safety would always rank before freedom in terms of importance, at least in Cleo's mind. It seemed to her that Vina was of the same...