Mythran's Master Of All

“Wha' tha hell?” Clint exclaimed as he received the popup to go to a safe zone and log out of the game. “Ah jus' got on ta play!” He had felt something that made him think of Sea Dwellers and had opened the help menu for information, then opened the messaging system to see if anyone knew what was going on. He hadn't even left his ranch house yet, so he sat back down on the couch and logged out.

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Clint slid off the VR headset and sat up on his bed, then moved the towel out of the way. “Ah'm lucky ah didn' git ta travelin' righ' away like I wanted ta.” He said and went to his home computer and tried to log onto the message boards. It worked, and the first message he saw was a pinned message by Ren. It had been marked as a favorite by one of the site mods, so he clicked on it and saw that Ren didn't like the way the Water Works update had changed all of the NPCs in the game, and not just the relevant ones.

“Ah agree.” Clint said. “They shoulda jus' added in new people and lef' tha others alone.”

Clint read some of the two dozen responses, and saw that they shared Ren's view as well. He added his voice to the throng by clicking reply, then he added his idea. It was immediately liked by almost a hundred people, and Clint was shocked by this. He backed out to the main forum, and message after message started appearing under Ren's pinned message.

“There shore was a bunch of people on tonigh'.” Clint said, and the complaints were pretty much identical. Everyone spewed hate for the Sea Dweller update. A lot of them had to log out in the middle of a quest, which meant it would count as a failure automatically, and they were not happy about it.

*

“Shit! Shit! Shit!” Tommy said as he slipped off his VR headset.

“I'm sorry, baby.” His girlfriend Jaime said as she slid off her own VR headset.

“What the hell happened, man?” Tommy asked as he sat up and put the headset aside. “We were right in the middle of...”

“I don't think it was just us.” Jaime said. “You felt that Sea Dweller thing, right?” She asked, and Tommy nodded. “Whatever that was, it set off something that made us all have to log off.”

“I've never felt something like that before.” Tommy said. “I don't even have that skill.”

“I think it's this new Water Pipes thing.” Jaime said.

“Water Works.”

Jaime shrugged. “We weren't going to do any of the quests, so it doesn't matter what it's actually called.”

“Yeah.” Tommy said and rubbed his face. “I'm still really horny.”

“Me, too.” Jaime said.

Tommy turned on the bed and looked at her with longing. “Say... do you think...”

“You know how much I hate condoms... and getting pregnant.” Jaime said.

Tommy nodded and knew he had to come up with some kind of compromise. “Hey! We can just do oral!”

Jaime opened her mouth to say no and that they could just use their hands, then her special place chose that time to give her a nasty twitch. “I... I guess we could do it for a little...”

Tommy jumped on her and started kissing her to cut off her words. If he didn't use this opportunity now, she would convince herself she could wait for the game to come back online. Neither he nor his penis could wait that long, and he dove between her legs to satisfy her as quickly as possible. He was laying down with his knees by her head, which gave her a very up close view of his private place.

Oh, what the hell. Jamie thought and started to please him, too.

*

Max woke up when his home computer alarm went off, and he cursed as he rolled out of bed and sat up. “For god's sake! Give me at least one goddamn night where something doesn't go wrong at work.” He said and walked over to his desk and turned on the computer monitor. “What the hell... no, that's not possible.” He said and sat down. “How in the world...”

Max typed furiously for nearly a full minute as he checked on what the game was doing and how the servers could possibly be taxed so much in so short a time. He set up a remote host with the night programmer and saw a copy of his screen.

“No, don't add new information!” Max said and tried entering counter commands. “Cut off the next data inquiry! Don't add one!”

It was a losing battle because as he fought the night programmer, the system started to fail; but, he had to try and keep the servers up and running for as long as possible. When he saw the night programmer enter the shutdown code, he lost it.

“No! NO!” Max yelled and stopped fighting the commands and typed a message to the programmer directly.