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effort of keeping up the fast
pace that is causing Harry’s legs to burn in pain.
    They come around the front of the house and
she ducks inside to grab her bow and quiver. She straps them on her
back as she runs and increases her pace as they finally head for
the forest.
    Harry chases after her as fast as he can.
There are bears, pigs and other nasty creatures out here and he’s
not keen on facing them alone.
    "Is he still coming?" Harry asks, not daring
to look back.
    The woman glances over her shoulder and then
slows to a walk. Harry turns around and doesn't see the NPC chasing
them.
    "That's quite a view you're offering there. I
should take a video."
    Harry looks down and realizes that his green
dress has disappeared somehow during his run. He closes his legs
and blushes bright red at the attention. The woman looks amused and
goes to sit down against a tree, pulling out a long pipe, which
automatically begin smoking as she puts it to her lips.
    "You want a puff?" she asks.
    Harry takes the slim brown piece of wood and
takes a few pulls. It tastes pretty much like normal tobacco and
he’s quite surprised at how similar it is to the real
thing.
    "I take it this is your first time playing a
game like this," she says.
    "How can you tell?"
    "You’re naked in the middle of the forest
after doing a trash quest, which is worth virtually
nothing.”
    She opens her quest book and flicks through
the pages until she reaches a section marked completed. Axel points
to the bottom of the quest entry for Saving Sally and Harry
groans. He should really have checked the quest description
carefully before he bothered to kill all those pigs. The reward is
only one copper and a ‘beef’ sandwich, which the woman has already
stolen a few times over.
    “ That sucks.”
    “ Doesn’t it? The Sally sandwich
isn’t really that good either. No toppings and all.”
    Harry sighs.
    "I guess it hasn’t really been a good day for
me. It looks like I’ve got a lot to learn."
    The woman gives him an amused look and makes a
few little gestures in the air.
    "Harry O'Neil, unemployed, credit rating
-200,522, apartment rent unpaid for three weeks now. Oh, and deep
in debt to the government in the worst of ways. Basically, a normal
guy and perfect fodder for the game.”
    She yanks a piece of paper from the air and
lets it fall in front of Harry. It's a list of his gambling debts
and exactly who he owes money to. The number at the bottom is
exactly the amount that he can get if he fulfills his testing
contract with a hefty gold bonus. It’s not a low number and it
makes Harry a little ill at what they are going to do with him if
he doesn’t pay up in three days time.
    "How did you do that? This is all of my
personal information."
    The woman grins at him and then taps the side
of her head.
    "You can still use search in-game. You just
need to concentrate on which search engine you want to use and it
will appear in your vision,” she says. "Everything I just told you
is available on the internet if you know where to look and know the
right passwords.
    Harry concentrates and the oldest search
engine of them all, Google, appears in the middle of his vision. He
looks at that search bar for a second and then shakes his head so
it disappears. There is obviously a lot about the game that he
needs to learn.
    "So you know who I am and why I’m here, but
who are you? Just some thief looking for a free meal?"
    She laughs and takes a puff of her
pipe.
    "Most of the people who don’t know me call me
Killer Extreme, which is a name I took on a long time ago in my bad
old days. You can call me Axel."
    "And why are you here, Axel? You don't seem
like the type that has gambling debts and nutcases knocking on your
door."
    She passes Harry the pipe and he takes a puff
as he waits for her answer.
    "I’m probably what you would describe as a
‘nutcase’ too. I represent a small population of around 1% who play
these sorts of games in their testing stage for the kick