My eyes slowly adjusted to the flickering light of the blue screens that appeared before me. What in god's name? Trying to look over the campfire for further inspection, I realized this screen wasn't going away. It followed my head, obscured the entirety of my vision, and was a solid color. Most of these windows, even the ones of "Inner Status Inspection" were slightly transparent. With no other option but to click one of these, I gave in and inspected them carefully.

  "Well fuck me" I blurted out. Almost forgeting I could speak as I got lost in the blue screen.

  Really thinking it over, reading every line of text multiple times, I was at a loss. The idea of never feeling pain again felt good to me personally, I've experienced enough of that already, but at the same time.. I don't want pretty much chronic depression either! I'm already pretty depressed, and feel I would lose hope far too fast.

  The sound of never dying was pretty good too, sadly, It still means death. There's no way I could maintain Hope, I fucking struggle as it. The flashes of my first time that was brutally taken from me entered my mind. Sitting there, trying to imagine those thing times 10, I nearly puked.

  Well I guess the choice is clear then, a bit boring, but hey, I'd rather live an okay life, than one that's out to get me, one that haunts me to make me lose hope in the world. With no other choice, and the buzz of the bright blue screen bothering me, I answered in my head. "Simple Fool"

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  Fuck me I’m a guinea pig aren’t I? Thinking it over this could be a mental trap too, if time stops then i’m more likely to make a choice I wouldn’t have before.. Though that also means it could save me. For fucks sake. I started scratching into my hair, and only realizing I was spreading blood deeper into my lovely golden hair.

  The blue screen slowly faded away from my eyes as I finally picked my passive. Behind the fading screen was a girl covered in blood, roughly to be about 12 years old maybe? Crying and holding a teddy bear tightly.

  “Tha..tha.. Thank you, Angel.. ” thank me? For what? It slowly dawned on me as I looked around the camp I found myself woken up at. The goblins captured her, and I stopped it. The devil’s in my dreams, were the goblins that now lay dead on the ground. I remember saving a girl too, but I didn’t think all that was sleep walking/dreaming! What the fuck man.

  “I’m no aNgel. I don’t eVeN REemember!..WHAT happened.” My voice was fluctuating between a scream and speaking, I could see slight terror in her eyes as I spoke. Thinking It was the blood that was causing it, I used Noble Upkeep for the first time.

  I could feel the cells in my body being cleaned way, I could feel my hair automatically straighten and unclump from all the blood, I could see the pale shiny skin of my arms as the blood seemed to have seeped directly into my skin, I felt a healthy glow about me.

  The girl stood in front of me, amidst the blood soaked battlefield, her eyes wide. Her terror replaced with admiration, she hopped into my arms.

  “You are an angel! I just saw yellow lights around you! Thank you thank you..”

  her little eyes wept down her cute chubby cheeks as she spoke.

  “The. the goblins.. Took my dad a few days ago, I just.. I wanted to save him.. I wanted..”

  She was stuttering as sobs of pure sorrow were wept from the tiny girls mouth. She was pointing at a half stripped man, lying amidst the chaos. Clearing seeing signs of struggle with cuts and bruises all over him.

  Goblins aren’t the smartest, why would they have taken him? Looking over the scene carefully the answerer slowly popped in my head. Loot, clothes, fabric, and.. For some of these goblins. It looked like a meal, as chunks of this young girl's dad were missing.

  This world truly had no limits to its horror, did it? I don’t remember quest’s like this, no quests had cannibalism, no quests or storylines had rape in them, nothing of the sort.. It was always a simple question, go collect 10 bear asses or some shit. There were some good story quests with every few expansions, but never anything so brutal.

  I need to accept the fact this is no game anymore. I decided to try to brush the girl’s hair with my hand, seeing if I could use Noble Upkeep on her somehow. To my surprise, it worked flawlessly, the color slowly returning to her face, her clothes slowly becoming straightened and the blood simply vanishing.