As Lorb played the /sigh emote he saw a message from JohnWillStab.

"{JonathanW...: What the hell was that!?}"

"{Lorb: Beep boop, *NPC noises*}"

"{Foxly: Nevermind... I guess he really is just an NPC...}"

"{JonathanW...: huh... well damn... I guess we took care of Alex...}"

Suddenly Lorb fell down to the anti-cheat knights.

"{Lorb: What the hell?!}"

"{Alexander: I knew having a backup account was a good idea!}" he laughed.

"{Foxly: You bastard!}" he exclaimed before charging at Alexander, he cast a basic chain-lighting spell to no avail.

"{Lorb: The weapons! Use the weapons to get him banned!}" Lorb exclaimed before disappearing.

"{Bonenificus: LORB!}"

"{Kilin: ALLEGEDLY LORB!}"

"{Alexander: Now that he's gone... I think it's time we get to fixing this place up, right?}" he played the /laugh emote.

"{JonathanW...: Screw you!}" John exclaimed as he charged at him with his daggers.

Alexander swiped at him as a loud crack could be heard.

Instead of John, Bonifacius, still wearing his armour was the one hit.

"{JonathanW...: Bonifacius!}"

"{Alexander: God I love this ability, so cinematic!}"

JohnWillStab slashed at Alex once more.

"{Alexander: What are you trying to achieve?}"

"{JonathanW...: Give us the old game back!}"

Alex pinched the bridge of his nose.

"{Alexander: Hold on... how will punching a god-mode admin... well, moderator help you with that?}" he asked.

"{JonathanW...: I can tell you one thing for damn sure, I won't play your stupid game if it's the last "game" on earth!}"

"{Alexander: Ok, that's just mean...}"

"{Alexander: I mean, you guys like the game, right?}" Alex turned to the others.

"{Foxly: God no!}"

"{Foxly: The fps is shit, the spells are all the same and there are no quests!}"

"{Bonenificus: Indeed, I wish thou created thy game less destructively...}"

"{Foxly: If Bonifacius tells you that you messed up, you really messed up!}"

"{Kilin: All the art is just lazy recolours...}"

"{Alexander: Then... how can I improve the game?}"

"{JonathanW...: What's your game's plot?}"

"{Alexander: I don't really... have that...}"

"{JonathanW...: So you have no plot, you're using a generic fantasy setting and you literally stole all the art from a different game!?}"

"{Alexander: Alright! Tell me how to make the game better!}"

"{Foxly: Your game will always be shit! You're not inspired to make a game, you just want to feel good about people playing your game!}"

"{Alexander: Come on, guys...}"

"{JonathanW: You clearly didn't have a vision you wanted to realise!}"

"{Alexander: But I spent all this time working on it! That's got to be worth something!}"

"{Kilin: It's just not a good game...}"

"{Alexander: ...}"

Alex teleported away without another word.

He was sitting in a dimly lit area, many stools lined up next to a table.

"They're just being assholes..." he thought.

Regardless, he felt tears begin to well up in his eyes.

"Fuck..."

He sat down on the ground, not risking to sit on the stools.

The room looked cosy, it was a small restaurant.

A messy painting hung from the wall.

"{Revenberry: So this is your beloved restaurant?}"

Alex's camera darted over to the silhouette of a woman standing in the corner of the room.

"{Alexander: It's you again...}"

"{Revenberry: Yeah, I came here to hide from the fucking nuke that went off in the sky and recognised it as the restaurant you wouldn't shut the fuck up about...}" she replied.

"{Revenberry: Then I committed my greatest mistake, I sat down on the stool and now...}"

Alex noticed her character was t-posing on one of the stools.

"{Alexander: Good thing I didn't sit down I guess...}"

They sat there awkwardly.

"{Revenberry: You think you could help me off the stool?}" she asked.

"{Alexander: Oh, right...}" he walked over and used the /pickup command on her before placing her back down.

"{Revenberry: Thanks...}"

"{Revenberry: So... how'd whatever the hell you people were doing out there turn out?}" she asked.

"{Alexander: Oh well, I won, of course!}"

"{Revenberry: Damn...}"

"{Alexander: And everyone took a collective shit on everything I love, so I guess we can call it even...}" he replied.

"{Alexander: I never should have hijacked the game...}"

"{Revenberry: Who would have thought...}"

They sat there for another awkward while as Revenberry let out a sigh.

"{Revenberry: It is a nice restaurant, though!}"

"{Alexander: You don't have to pity me...}"

"{Revenberry: My pity is unrelated to my restaurant-design comment!}"

"{Alexander: I can't bring you game back even if I wanted...}"

"{Revenberry: I mean, that sucks... but it's not like you were going to anyway!}"

"{Alexander: ...}"

"{Alexander: Do you think my game is terrible?}"

"{Revenberry: I wouldn't say terrible... maybe just... in very early development...}"

"{Revenberry: Honestly if you made this an actual game, nobody would give you this much shit for it...}"

"{Alexander: What?}"

"{Revenberry: I mean, if you coded the game yourself... and not hijacked our game, you'd have been an alright game dev...}"

"{Alexander: so that's the problem...}"

"What the fuck do you mean of course that's the problem!" Revenberry thought.

"{Alexander: Well... they made themselves pretty clear on their stance towards my game...}"

Alexander stood up and walked up to at stood before sitting down, his character assumed the t-pose.

"{Alexander: I'll unban the game dev... you guys can figure this out... if there even is a way back...}"

"{Revenberry: What are you doing?}"

Lorb spontaneously reappeared in the location where he got banned, all the anti-cheat knights disappeared.

"{Revenberry: Hold on!}"

Alexander breathed a long sigh in real life before hitting enter on his last command.

A bolt of lightning smashed through the roof of the inn and hit Alex.

"Alexander was banned for: completely by chance" the message appeared in chat.

Alex stepped away from his computer and took a second to mourn his game.

Lorb let out a sigh.

"{Foxly: Woah, Crown must have unbanned him!}"

"{Lorb: No, it looks like the game hijacker had a change of heart... or a mid-life crisis...}" he replied.

"{JonathanW...: Are you saying he unbanned you?}"

"{Lorb: Before banning himself from the looks of it!}"

"{Bonenificus: Thou are alright!}"

"{Lorb: Yeah, I'm good - though since Alex is gone I guess I can't give you your XP!}" he played the /shrug emote.

"{Curstl: Well... I guess we're stuck with an even less functional game...}"

"{Bonenificus: Indeed... well, we must make the most of it!}"

"{Foxly: Damn... oh well, I guess it's better than no game at all...}"

"{Lorb: That's real nice, guys, really...}"

"{Lorb: But I'm afraid that's not going work for me...}"

"This is exactly why I make backups of the game every day..." he thought feeling more self-satisfied than ever.

Lorb suddenly disconnected as the game shut down.

When JohnWillStab opened the game again he found the menus looking like they did before.

JohnWillStab logged in and saw his character, JohnWillStab, the dagger-class undead.

Without a moment of hesitation, he selected his character and clicked play.