[ti]scenario[/ti]One Bad Apple

"Hey, kid!"

Despite UNOVR being a very clearly multiplayer game, Nero often did his best to try and stay away from the other players buzzing around. So many of them were all friendly and chatty, and a lot of the time when he logged in here, he just wanted to be alone. Sure, there were other, single player games that he could have been playing if that was so important to him, but none of them managed to hit this perfect balance between beautiful aesthetics and powerful nostalgia, so he'd decided to just put up with the others instead. Besides, most players congregated around the arena and the quest sites and the event Pokemon anyway. Nero spent most of his time just enjoying the feeling of walking around places, so he simply went to unoccupied corners with nothing of interest to escape the buzzing crowds.

Most of the time it was a fairly successful strategy, and today things had been going quite well too... Until a weird cacophony of noise seemed to start approaching him. He ignored it at first, but when a voice seemed to call out in his direction, he looked up at last, just in time to see an object flying towards him.

Instinct more than logic had him throwing his arms out to catch it, the game registering this the same way as it might any other object he picked up, despite the bizarre size and shape of whatever this one was. Of course, while the mechanics found this ordinary, Nero certainly did not, and despite his fast reflexes he was still knocked off his feet by the bulk of the... the...

Wait, shit, was this a body?!

Immediately, Nero tried to drop the damn thing, attempting to crawl away from it and get back to his feet to get away from it, but for some reason his inventory wasn't responding. No amount of clicking 'remove item' on the UI was doing anything either, and when he gave up and eventually turned to just leave it where it was, a pop-up alerted him to the 'crime' he had just committed. What, littering? Surely not murder?

Oh, no, theft apparently. Theft? Someone had stolen a dead body?

A laugh and the same voice again that he'd just heard a moment ago had Nero's attention snapping up to another player nearby. Kazuki. Did he know that name? Probably someone from the weird fossil event - seemingly everyone had been there - but it wasn't important right now. "What the fuck am I supposed to do with this?" he yelled back just as the presumably law enforcement that had just threatened to track him down finally appeared on the horizon.

Kazuki | A million years late, I'm so sorry, but March is over so I'm back in the game ^^ <3