[VRMMO] Dead One

"Sins and virtues possess a hidden effect that many people don't know about." – said Yosuke.

"From this point, let look at things from the in-game perspective… Since this may give us some leads that may not be just tied to the game."

"Remember when I've told you about it?"

"The ability to disturb the 'vision' of the special beings?"

"!"

"Wait! Right! That thing!" – said Luis.

"You… Or more exactly, Sloth said to you that by powering up sin you can make yourself invisible to higher beings."

"Yeah… That is what she said to me." – said ClownFrog.

"She said that she is the only allowed to have private view on us."

"That all other beings like her are not allowed to see me, without my permission."

"I did received other sins invites several times, I've was even invited by true virtues to a meeting."

"I've rejected them…. Since Sloth told me the downsides of being the herald as well as regarding the 'permission'."

"…"

"But…. Did nobody else received invites? This is question that was bothering me the most."

"I mean, they could contact me, but they should have SOME trouble."

"True… This part always bothered me…. Then again, the one who contacted us most of the time was sloth as well." – said Luis.

"Yeah. I can clearly remember that." – said Victoria.

"I was bit startled back then when the messaged popped up with sloth suddenly saying 'congratulation'."

"I've gotten the same thing as well when I've obtained envy." - said Miteki.

"Same here when I've gotten wrath." – said Luis.

"She was the one who messaged me."

"…"

"Solid question."

"Anybody?"

"…"

"…"

Nobody answered.

"So, the Sloth was the only communicating with us all…. But… This guy said that other sins and virtues contacted him." – said Luis.

"Why is that?"

"Do you know something about this?"

"…"

"No." – replied Yosuke.

"I was never informed about anything like this."

"….This isn't about those restriction that she mentioned before."

"She said that the other beings like her are fine…"

"…"

"No… Something maybe wrong."

"What if she said that it is fine, but in reality she is doing something?"

"I mean, not with us, but with them?"

"What if she is restricting their movement somewhat?"

"…"

"Maybe it is other way around?" – said Victoria.

"Maybe…. They want you?"

"I mean, by just having you, wouldn't they gain a perfect access to the whole empire?"

"As a vision?"

"!"

"Yeah! Smart thinking mate!" – said Luis as he smacked Victoria's back.

"…"

"Our empire is blessed by the True Sloth."

"We know that the sins and true virtues can block off the sight of the gods… But we are not really using power of a sin or virtue to block off their gaze."

"But what about the blessing?"

"What if the whole 'Blessing the empire' is her means of blocking them off?"

"…"

"True… It maybe it." – said Kamil.

"Maybe sloth blocked off their vision?"

"…"

"If that is the case… Then does that mean she wants to help us?" – said Yosuke.

"Eh? The fuck are you on about?" – said Mika.

"Do you remember when I've talked about that second thing?" – replied Yosuke.

"That THING which would I think would fuck me up if it were to catch me?

"What if the whole 'distribution' thing also affects it?"

"…"

"But we still don't know-"

"Yes! We still don't know if the person who was really Sloth was NPC or a real person!" – said Yosuke before Mika could finish.

"But think about it, don't the whole deal sounds way too off?"

"I mean… Think logically."

"Sloth didn't really said what sin or virtue to use."

"She said that those stuff can be used against respective True Sin or True Virtue."

"They need permission or form of agreement."

"For example, the mark of herald which I have."

"But why the hell do they need 'agreement' in the first place?"

"If they are really people in charge, they could just….. Is there some sort of factions within company or some shit?"

"Like internal struggle?" – asked Chiyo.

"Yeah… That…. What if the whole sin and virtue deal is some sort of special access code or some shit?" – said Yosuke.

"…"

"…"

"This is confusing…. But…. I have another question." – said Chiyo.

"Why didn't they just sent letter to you?"

"I mean, if they were spying on you in the first place, why go round bound way of just having the capsule be activated for you alone?"

"I mean, if somebody WAS really working as in factions, then why don't just take a safe way of delivering the letter to your house? Like somebody could slip it on or stuff?"

"…"

"Maybe they didn't wanted to leave any traces?" – said Mika.

"I mean, who would believe his story?"

"So maybe by using the game system they wouldn't be to erase any traces and stuff?"

"…"

"The faction thing may not be really correct… But at the same time, it may, correct?" – said Miteki as she took one of the papers and began writing something down on it.

[Sins, Virtues and blessing of the True Sin/Virtue can hinder vision of special beings.]

[The game was somehow able to influence people in the real world by giving them special senses or feelings – Maybe manipulation or some shit.]

[The game admins or the company itself have means of tracking players in real life without their knowledge – Including where they live – Possible hacking devices to track the person whereabouts.]

"Okay… I've written down some important stuff…. Now we also need some answers to these things." – said Miteki as she continues writing down things.

[Are there factions within the game?]

[Does stuff in game, like sins or virtues posses' special meanings we don't know about? Can they affect not only game world, but also block off some special admit abilities?]

[What was the thing that made Sloth try and save him from it?]

"This question here is what bothers me the most." – said Yosuke as he pointed at the third sentence.

"That thing never appeared before…. And Sloth talked about restriction and what not."

"Maybe that thing was something like a guard? A thing that would go after them if they broke some sort of rules?"

"Hm…. Honestly, I don't know if we are still thinking realistic or not right now, thinking about some sort of unnatural stuff and shit…. But maybe you are right on this one no matter what?" – said Shota Ito.

"I mean, this all circles around to her third request." – said Yosuke.

"Maybe she could had that meeting before hand, but really couldn't do that, since I would get caught?"

"She wanted me to develop my sin in order to avoid THAT thing attention for few minutes?"

"if that is the case… Then Sins and Virtues really do posses some maybe hidden form of influencing the system?"

"But why would the develops implement something like this in the first place?"

"Why would they add something that would mess with their own game?"

"…"

"No."

"Why would they add THAT thing to the game?"

"I don't fucking know who or what that thing was back then, but those were fucking my own senses screaming to me."

"That it was dangerous."

"Not the second presence, but my own BODY was straight up screaming."

"We are keep asking questions about how the capsule itself may posses special ability to influence us in the real world… But if that is the case, then why my own senses were screaming about danger?"

"Can the capsule give me the sense of FEAR? DREAD?!"

"…"

"Or by any chance, it wasn't it?"

"Maybe it was really my own sense that screamed those warnings?"

"Honestly speaking, this is the thing that was bothering me the most."

"Was my life really in danger back then?"

"Would I really DIE back then if that thing caught me?" – said Yosuke as the whole group went silent, pondering about what to say.

"…"

"No." – said Kamil.

"Game can replicate sense like pain or hunger."

"So wouldn't be able to replicate fear?"

"…"

"No." – said Jarzyna.

"He said it."

"The capsule back then was turned off… And he said that he even plugged it off as well."

"Yet…. You said you still felt it?"

"…"

"Yes… The fear didn't went even after I made sure that thing was completely off." – said Yosuke.

"It did disappeared in the end of the day…. But the fact that it LINGERED!"

"This isn't something the game can do."

"This part alone is most confusing out of everything."

"…"

"Yeah… Then this is really creepy." – said Kamil.

"…"

"Honestly, we can all just really say that it is 'capsule fault'?…. But does any of us KNOW how exactly that thing works?" – said Luis, raising an important question that caught everybody attention.

"I mean, this is all high tech and shit… We are already doing impossible with that game by straight up diving into the different reality."

"Some stuff from novels and shit."

"Honestly speaking…. We don't know really how that thing works, from our point of view."

'We know how to operate it…. But what exactly it does?"

"What if the official explanation is fake?"

"What if there are other stuff going on?"

"…"

"Look… I can see on your faces, that all of you think this is supernatural and shit…. And I won't disagree with you."

"Things are just not making any freaking sense."

"And there is also no freaking benefit." – said Victoria.

"If we are still going with the path that Sloth is really person from the real world, then what would they gain from us developing our sins or virtues?"

"Or what about the 'benefactor'?"

"Why they want them out of the picture?"

"…"

"There is also the Forgotten World."

"Why do they want us pay attention to it?"