First Quest (Video, username 'westandreamcatcher')

[lightnovelexperiences]

[So.

The camera picks up an idyllic looking sandy Mediterranean beach, near a patch of grass and forest. It shakes a fair bit, like a cell phone cam in an unsteady - or nervous - hand.]

This is... this is uh. Deedee. ...'s player. Don't... if you know my real name from before the Badgernet crash don't throw it around.

I uh.

I'm on the fucking Shores of Awakening. I'm on fucking Mundus.

And taller and y'all hear how high my voice is. I can feel my tails.

I woke up alone face-down on the sand here. Felt it burn. I uh.

Please advise.

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[turingcompletionist]

Oh Jesus fucking Christ, why would they-- we had sensitivity readers go through the update! From Taiwan and mainland China! We always have fucking sensitivity readers!

[She groans.]

Are we sure it's not, fuck, corporate espionage? I mean, if it's equipment failure, it could just as easily having been fucking Miles Sterling baking some goddamn fucking planned obsolescence into the parts the manufacturers got from him, that would be just like that piece of shit. Wouldn't even necessarily be a cyberattack in that case, just a stupid greedy pendejo who doesn't care who he endangers as long as he gets paid for the replacement parts.

Except, fuck, that would be happening for other games too, wouldn't it? [She turns her head to the side and pitches her voice towards someone not in the camera's viewpoint.] Nate, can you call the neurohelm people and see if anyone else's games are having this problem?

Fuck. We need to get Io on this, see if they can break everyone's connections on the rest of the server before more machines crap out.

[lightnovelexperiences]

I'm talking about the ones upset that China's intruding on their castles and dragons at... never mind.

Look, uh, I'm not... I can't help with inside baseball so I'm just gonna... help whoever screamed, and find my guild. Good luck.

[turingcompletionist]

Oh, right, fuck. Those shitheads. Yeah, I could see that. Well, fuck them. The world's bigger than just Europe and so's Mundus. If they're pissed off now, they're not going to be in much better shape after the next couple planned updates--once we get to opening up the New World they can kiss my brown ass.

But yeah, shit. Go do that. I might PM you in a minute, but.

[Screaming person more important than being someone for her to bounce theories off of.]