Sorcerer Ascendant: Singularity Online: Book 2 by Kyle Johnson

Sorcerer Ascendant: Singularity Online: Book 2 by Kyle Johnson

Author:Kyle Johnson [Johnson, Kyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-31T16:00:00+00:00


Chapter 11

He opened his eyes and found himself sitting in the round, spartan room where he had first created his character. This time, the room was significantly larger, with a soft-looking couch and a holographic TV screen mounted to one wall, in addition to the wooden table and padded chairs. As he glanced around, the door to the room opened, and Veronica entered.

The woman’s dark blonde hair hung down in glossy waves to her shoulders, and her face was perfectly regular, with a narrow jaw, full lips, and a faintly Roman nose. She was dressed impeccably in a light gray pantsuit with a pale orange blouse. She smiled as she entered the room. “Well, well, Jeff,” she told him with a grin. “Congratulations on your first totally avoidable death, and welcome to your respawn room.”

“Hold on,” Aranos replied, holding up a hand. “I have to wait here for three hours? Why can’t I just respawn like I did in the Traveler’s Trials?”

“We felt that an enforced waiting period was a good deterrent to dying,” she informed him. “It seems that humans have a lot of difficulty with just sitting around doing nothing, so it appeared to be an appropriate consequence.”

Aranos sighed. “Does the TV work, at least?” he asked plaintively. “Can I surf the ‘net in here?”

“You can, in fact,” she told him. “Although you can’t send or receive emails from other players, just so you know; not that you need that anymore, though, right?”

“Yeah, the Dreamwalking thing is cool,” he agreed. “At least, once I figure out how to use it without having a god try to kill me…wait, what happened to Geltheriel and Rhys? Are they okay?”

“You can check on them with the TV,” Veronica told him. “You can monitor any Followers, Familiars, or party members while you’re in here, although you can’t communicate with them in any way.”

“Wow, so if I die, I can watch them adventuring and having fun without me?” he asked her archly. “That seems cruel even for you guys!”

“It isn’t really meant to be a cruelty,” she corrected him. “We’ve learned that when people die in the middle of combat, they get very, very anxious about how their party is doing without them…to the point where we’ve seen some fairly violent reactions. We decided it’s best to let you players keep track of those who are close to you in the game without having any way to affect them. If you think it’s cruel, of course, you don’t have to use it.”

“True,” he acknowledged. “How will I know when my time here is up?”

“Once I leave,” she explained, “the door will disappear. When it reappears, then your waiting period is over.”

“Okay, that’s simple enough. Hey, wait…can you guys get me access to my workstation in here? Then I can at least get some work done while I’m waiting.”

Veronica smiled and shook her head. “You know that we can’t,” she rebuked him gently. “First, you certainly shut down your station, and we don’t have the biometric signals to unlock it.



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