The Bathrobe Knight: Volume 2 Read Free Page A

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                  “The code . . ."  Robert trailed off, trying to figure out how to put things in laymen's terms so everyone would understand. "The code used for every occurrence of the Unity Arc is roughly the same. Variables are different. They naturally point to or indicate different NPCs, rulers and councils throughout the game, but everything else is the same. There's no reason why, as far as I can tell, it would be different in this one instance within the Human lands than it would be anywhere else. 
                  “I can also tell you we've tried to track down this mysterious bathrobe-wearing figure that Nelson reported seeing, and it's impossible. There's no indication anywhere in the user logs, registrations or character files that match anything even remotely similar in name or description. I even had Gary cross reference the item database for instances of bathrobes existing within the game world. They're not there. The object simply doesn't exist." Robert finished and took another sip of his coffee.
                  "Oh, but he does," someone else finally spoke up. Stephen, who was in charge of monitoring and maintaining the website and forums, had finally called up enough courage to lift his head and add to the conversation. "There are dozens, hundreds, if not thousands of threads open on the forums right now talking about that massive fight that broke out on the beach. Don't get me wrong, everyone seemed pretty stoked about the whole thing, but it's impossible to cover up the facts any more. 
                  “We did a pretty decent job of dispelling any rumors that popped up before now. There were always random guys complaining about being killed by some freak in a bathrobe or getting slain by a spoon-wielding demon, but they were easy enough to dismiss as trolls and blatant attempts at getting attention from other users on the boards. Let's be honest. It was too weird to believe anyway. As for the King and what he was doing with the other races, there's enough mythology to support the idea that White-Horns and Black-Wings are created to be subservient races. We never even had to touch that one. Users jumped up pretty quickly to defend the idea and explain that it was just naturally part of the game progression. Heck, they were even pretty quick to jump on the idea of the White-Wings invading another race's island without provocation or warning. Turns out most of the players had a blast doing it and even managed to keep it off the forums until right before it happened. They all just assumed that it was a server-wide event being controlled by the GMs. 
                  “Now, however, there's no chance of explaining what went down during that huge battle.  The King of the Human race showing up and indiscriminately killing everyone, normal mobs converted to have glowing red eyes and attacking . . ." Stephen was really on a roll now ". . . including the giant Hydra appearing out of the water, this mysterious bathrobe figure showing up and taking on the leader of the White-Wing invasion and killing him! There were even claims that a girl was even riding on the giant Hydra, using it as a mount and casting spells from on top of it! I couldn't even believe the lunacy myself until I saw clips from the in-game footage starting to show up. Oh, and don't even get me started on that stone magic that was cast towards the end of that fight."
                  Gary groaned, remembering the work that incident had caused. "Yeah. That. It took us hours of manually going in and unfreezing each individual character on each individual account to get them back to a playable status. Most of them actually unlocked themselves after the timer wore off in-game before we could even get to them. I know we've tried to maintain a hands-off policy when it comes to the game world, but that was unavoidable."
                  "Where did the