"So you think you're a hero," a man with a heavy accent says as he crouches to look into the face of the broken and beaten paladin. He blows smoke from his cigar down on the paladin, making him cough violently. "You're no hero. You're just some lucky, no good, degenerate gamer. Well, you're in luck. We've got a LIMP here all set up. True, it was set up for the girl you prevented us from taking. Since she's not here to be put in it, we'll be putting you into it in her place."
"N...no... Please, don't! These things aren't meant for people of different genders once initialized with someone's data..." Jonas begged.
"Of course we know that, you fool. Hope you enjoy your new life in the body of a woman! If the cops do ever find you, I doubt you'll be recognizable. This is the last time anyone is going to be entering this place, and we're welding the door shut behind us," the crime lord stated as he kicked him again. "Put him in the pod. I'll see you in game, Pet."
The technicians dragged Jonas to the pod, and rolled him into it, laughing as the gel quickly sucked him into place and started the sealing process.
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Initializing... Guardians of Delmare VRMMO Initialized.
Processing... Special Character Settings Processed.
Accessing Data...
Data Accessed.
Well, a Slave with 50,000,000 Credits of debt to buy a special race and interesting bonus stats. Seems that this girl will make a fantastic caster, if he can get rid of the Slave class. Otherwise, a Ranger or Thief may be the way to go, depending upon what other 'goodies' his character's owners had in store. He scrolled to the Skills section and took a look.
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Well, shit... There goes any chance of being a Mage for a long time... he thought. Hmmm... Dance, Flexibility, and Knife... Sounds like a combination for an Assassin... but then again, I can't attack first or kill. The bastards. I'm a god damned paladin, how can I play this character?
He sighed sadly as he looked at the Passives menu.
Well, nothing to do now, other than accept and begin my new life... Hopefully with this amount of Charisma and Luck I can find a way to get out of this. Well, I always did say I wanted a challenge, but I never would have tried something like this...
He closed his eyes as he willed the machine to life, since it was either that, or die a final death here and now.
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She opens her eyes, and finds herself in a cage on a wagon. "Oy, they said I was to expect another one. What's your name, you beautiful thing?"
She opens her mouth to respond to the grotesque orc that was standing menacingly in front of her cage, but nothing came out of her mouth. Oh, right, Slave Brand of Silence, duh. Well, is there any way I can answer, so that I don't get hurt by this monstrous beast right now? What about trying to write it in the air with mana?
She channels her mana into her hand and slowly writes in the air 'Lisandra'. Her mana is a graceful golden color, quite pretty to look at.
I watched as my magicka quickly plummeted by nearly ten points a second and let it go while I still had about half my maximum. The orc barked in laughter as the name faded. "Well, Lisandra, you are going to be an obedient girl. You should have been here last month for sale, but you weren't, so you aren't being sold in the city you were supposed to be sold in. You can only blame yourself for that, since you didn't show up for the proper meeting."
I blinked up at him, and he could clearly see the confusion in my eyes. He handed me a wrapped bundle. "As much as I enjoy staring at your default panties and bra, you better get dressed. Here are the agreed upon items. And yes, that's the true reason you're so far 'in debt' despite having given us a hundred million for arranging this."
She stared at the gear before quickly equipping it, blushing heavily. What, no whip? And am I to understand she had agreed to this deal, and I just stumbled in on it?
"Ah, now there Miss Lisandra, if I let you out, you won't cause any trouble, right? That's an order by the way. Don't cause trouble," he said, blushing as he unlocked the cage and let her out. "We'll be in the city of Katzor in an hour, and you'll be going up on the market block then. All good and legal. You are extremely beautiful, by the way."
