“We’ve made pretty good time” I chat to Baila as I watch her cook food for everyone.

“Mhm, almost out the mountains too” She points at a large mist covered swamp that is just in view.

We still need to go down quite a distance to reach it but we should be there before we have to log off.

“We should rest”

…And then again we may not.

Avani sits down on the ground, followed by her lot and most of ours swiftly.

Seems we’re going to her pace now, grr.

Already it seems she’s converted quite a few people, since they already sit mingled with her minions gladly.

I’m going to lose them all before we even reach our destination.

Well there’s nothing I can do about it at the moment, so let’s rest up.

“So Joat, since we’re resting here are we waiting for Braxel’s lot here and then logging off?” At least Baila still looks towards me for orders.

“Seems like it” I lie down on the rocky ground since there is nothing to do and there’s no way I’ll convince anyone to do work without Avani’s permission…

“RIGHT EVERYONE, GET TO WORKING ON YOUR SKILLS!” I jump up suddenly, clapping my hands and shouting energetically. I’m going to make them do work and gather me some skills before they’re fully converted!

The response however is poor with around half actually bothering. That is until their squad leaders finally do their job and get everyone up to do things.

Phew so I still have some control at least.

I get my squad to continue with speed and whatever else they can come up with, while I...follow Avani because she’s suspiciously disappearing down the path.

Hmm, where is she off to?

As unsuspiciously as I can, I talk to randomers along the way, grabbing something to eat as I chillingly walk towards where she disappeared to.

Passing her followers, who are luckily busy practicing fighting, I leave everyone behind and end up alone in the cool mountain pass.

And there’s the unmissable squeak of tight leather coming from slightly above.

Oh looks like she’s climbing the side to get out of the path…suspicious.

Following behind her, climbing is surprisingly not that bad, especially as it’s quite gradual.

Sneaking behind her for a short while, we end up on a small crater-like plateu.

Suddenly turning round she gives me her most innocent smile.

“Why one would think you are following me”

How long had she known?

“I am and will continue to do so”

“Until the ends of the earth?”

“Until I find evidence of your rotten insides”

“Rotten?” She acts shocked while taking a few confident steps towards me “well Joat can’t you see that I’m anything but that?” She breaks open the front of her top

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Do your eyes still decieve you?” She grabs my hand, laying it softly on her “What do your other senses tell you?” Her smile still remains arousingly innocent.

That I´m going to be in a lot of danger soon.

“That you have amazing breasts” Dammit blood, really need you to come back to my mind now. Now!

“Hahaha…they may be amazing, but compared to this?” She travels my hand downwards.

Leaning in towards her ear as she jails my hand between her thighs “What is your game?”

She nibbles on my ear lightly at first “I want to fuck you"

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“He-” *sniff* “ripped off my top and-”

“Shh say no more” Kale wraps a fur over her, probably from one of the carts

“Kill the fucker”

“Burn him”

“Rip him to pieces!”

Many similarly horrible comments fly out of Avani’s lot and they’re already grabbing up their weapons.

Whoops...this was the wrong time to enter the camp.

Ravenna jumps onto a cart whistling loud enough to drown out the angry speeches.

“NOBODY DO ANYTHING. JOAT EXPLAIN YOURSELF, DID YOU RIP HER TOP OFF?” she roars at me. I swear she sounded kind of happy…

“well...not exactly but-” I mean they ripped in the process and Ravenna hide that smile please.

“RAPIST”

“KILL HIM”

More than a few people, quite a few from our squads too, rush towards me looking to kill.

Well shit.

Running for my life, I get grabbed by the waist almost immediately.

I don’t want to die already!

“Don’t worry girl, you’re safe” Thrash?

He puts me on his back, getting down to all fours and bounding away from everyone, quickly outpacing all.

After a short while he stops and lets me slide off.

“Why didn’t you kill me?” kind of ignoring that he’s busy trying his best not to attack his tail…

“Because girl doesn’t like girls”

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Saved by the twisted logic of Thrash...You know what I’m alright with that at this very moment.

“Thanks but you are wrong about that”

“I am not” You are impossible you know that.

“Right so I need to convince them all that I didn’t rape her because I don’t like getting baseless reputations”

But how do I fight against a rape accusation? God no one’s going to believe me, especially with her being the ‘victim’. I seriously pissed her off somehow. Maybe saying the sex wasn’t amazing ticked her off somewhat?

Or she’s just plain crazy.

“Go and tell them all”

“You seriously think that is a good idea?”

“No” At least he’s just special “But what else can you do?” He growls displeased at the ground.

*Ding*

Oh, someone’s sent a message. Zzoid!

After this message is a video proving the falseness of the rape accusations against Joat and evidence of the evilness of the woman Avani. Please watch it.

There’s a little video play button next to it?

Pressing play

[“Aaahn Joat”]

Pressing Pause

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I have many worrying questions to ask him…the first being how many people did he send this too.

“Thrash”

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He looks up at me wide eyed. “Girl likes girls”

*facepalm*

“Please delete the video” turning away from his wide, mind blown eyes, I start walking back up the mountain pass.

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“So am I now considered innocent” I walk into a camp of very very silent people…

*Clap clap clap* Ravenna is literally the only person to have a reaction other than blankly staring at me.

Oh god, how many people have seen it? And where are all of Avani’s lot…oh there they are…swords sticking out their backs…ok?

“You have been a bad boy” Oh no now she’s quoting “but don’t worry, only everyone here who wanted to got to see it” She responds with a wide smile

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Peering towards Baila…she just looks unamused…that’s a sign she hasn’t seen it?

“So as you all have been erm notified, Avani’s trying to convert you all”

“And that you are into some freaky things” PJ gives me a thumbs up...

*Sigh*

“So do you all believe me now that she’s not to be trusted”

Silent nods circle around.

“By the way, what happened with Avani and her lot?”

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-Before the Accusations-

(Zzoid’s POV)

And that should put the nail in the coffin.

This video can surely be used to help us get rid of Avani, oh I´m excited to share this. but hmm a little more editing to clean up a couple of scenes would help.

Women are scary. seriously the way she jumped him I´m amazed he got out of there alive.

Arriving back at the camp, I’m narrowly missed by a bounding Thrash with Joat holding on for dear life, slowly followed by an angry mob.

Oh no, I have a feeling Avani said something bad.

Walking into camp, sure enough she’s crying with furs wrapped round.

Guess I’m sending the video a lot earlier than planned.

Sending it out to most of my surprisingly extensive list of 58 people, the shock on their faces is interesting to watch.

Ravenna bursts out laughing, joined in by PJ…they’re enjoying the video way too much.

“Everyone, EVERYONE. Friend me please” Ravenna jumps up, asking everyone to friend her.

A lot of them do, mostly out of curiousity at what she’s laughing at it seems.

That was probably a very bad idea for them.

“This…THIS IS FAKE” The big guy Axet screams out in frustration along with many others from his group, but none from ours join in.

“Well actually it isn’t and it was taken quite literally not very long ago so I haven’t had time to edit it” Much...

“WHO SAID THAT” Many jump at me, oh yeah I’m inivisible.

I used the invisibility candy I gained from Hallowed’s end but I didn’t think I was going to use it in such a manner.

Ah well it’s let me learn quite a few things and also settle this situation cleanly.

“I did” Some look my general direction “Ok you can’t see me since I’m currently invisible but I personally video’d it so for those that know me, you’ll understand it’s 100% valid” I spot a few people I know nod their heads, good that they trust me.

Fools. Huahuahua.

“My Zzoid don’t you know it’s rude to film people without their permission” PJ tuts me half seriously.

“Seriously did not expect that to happen so my bad” I shrug my shoulders but since no one can see I didn’t really have to.

“This video isn’t true, is it Avani!?” Axet turns to Avani who’s no longer crying.

“True?” She stands up a wild look blazing in her eyes “TRUE? Axet, do you really believe them? They’re just biting back at us because some of them didn’t want us here in the first place”

Her finger pushes him to kneeling and he’s already crying while hugging her waist…

Why is he crying?

“I’m sorry M’lady...but I have doubt in my mind” He stands up, tears streaming freely from his eyes “I must have some time alone” He drops his shield and falls down, shortsword spurting through his back suddenly.

“Aahhhhhh”

And that sounds like one slowly dying Axet.

Hmm falling on one’s sword doesn’t seem to be working well for a suicide tactic...

*Grunt*

Another falls onto his sword closeby this time through his throat. He’s still alive though and the spurting waterfall of blood isn’t exactly pretty.

Almost smart of him.

“Ahh” *Crasthudcrthucrash”

In a lemming wave, they all fall on their shortswords; some went through chests, other through throat, blood spurting everywhere as they wriggle and wail in pain before dying about a minute later…

I take back what I said about settling this cleanly.

“Why are you killing yourselves?” Kale grabs hold of one of them as he slowly bleeds from a hole in his chest.

“We are doubting her, we are not supposed to have doubt. So we’re returning to where we came from to remove such doubt” Well that’s a pretty extreme reaction, but then again I’d imagine Ravenna’s minions would probably do the same if she had sex with Joat and showed them all that she thought of them as less than human…

But then again, how can they only doubt her? What kind of brain-washing did she do to them?

Avani just sits in the furs.

“You little shit wherever you are, I’ll sue your ass for videoing me for spreading such lies about me” She barks angrily, trying to retain something.

“Sadly we were asked by the company to video anything that could possibly be reported as a bug or simply as an interesting concept, such as the possibility of having sex in game or you know. So you can’t legally sue me” I did read the terms and conditions as well as the rules which I do suspect many did not.

“…Shit”

She grabs a nearby shortsword and kills herself too.

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“BWAHAHAH OH MY GOD ZZOID” Ravenna bends double, wheezing with laughter. “You are fantastic and that video isn´t even real?! You are amazing!" She falls off the cart in laughter, safely caught by her trio of men.

“Well we were trying to find evidence of her being evil right?”

“Yes but I was trying to be subtle, letting my minions join her and give me details of her working. Never did I think of making a sex tape with her” She continues laughing along with PJ while everyone else is busy watching the video or just looking shocked at the general situation.

"Well the situation just came to me" Quite literally.

I did have to edit out a lot of it, but overriding the general sounds with one of my favourites worked out well enough it seems.

But no one needs to know any of that.

“So am I now considered innocent?” Joat walks into the camp

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(Joat’s POV)

“So you’re telling me they all committed suicide because they doubted her? Wow I’d have thought they would ignore it or deny it was real or actually accept it and then commit suicide because of that” I mean that’s how people usually deal with proof, they just deny it or accept it…not just doubt the victim of that proof.

“Well when Axet killed himself it must’ve triggered the others” Zzoid answers from somewhere, seems he’s gone invisible somehow (I suspect it’s a reward from Hallowed’s end).

For all we know, they are actually all pretty smart and were just blinded by her.

I guess we’ll never know.

“Right, well let’s forget this whole thing and continue on no?”

“It’ll be hard to forget but we’ll try” Seriously PJ and Thrash don’t nod with her!

“Then let us move out towards the bottom of this pass and stop at the foot” Everyone slowly gets moving, many still processing the whole business.

So two important questions Zzoid

Fire away

Who didn’t see it?

Princess, PinkySeniour and Baila and of course my little bro’s….I also didn’t put Charmine in it but quite a few people did get added into it, sorry…

Phew thank Aiag, it would’ve been bad on many levels for some of those to see it…

Well guess I’ve ruined my relationship with Baila by doing this but at least she only knows about it…

And the second question? Zzoid asks as I breathe some relief

Why´d you edit out the part where she tries to strangle/beat me to death?

Well I mean you´d rather have a reputation as sexually active then everyone seeing that not so pretty scuffle.

'Not so pretty' is a massive understatement as to what went on in that crater.

Yeah, try to purge all memories of what happened there

I´m trying my best to, and this is coming from someone who´s been active in the darkweb.

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Well anywho, that´s some form of reputation glue I guess…at least nobody else saw me naked crawling away from the vicious woman as she tried to kill me any way possible with only 1 damage but I didn´t exactly notice that with all the rolling around and trying not to get her nails ripping through me...

It was probably on par with Tarakiel´s encounter, scratch that it was just as bad.

Hmm, why do I keep getting in these situations?

Continuing along the pass, I seem to be catching the eye of literally everyone at least once.

Many of the guys give me congratulatory nods and quite a few of the women too. I mean no one’s going to deny I accidentally did really well? Though I guess every sort of innocent image has been ruined and of course they have literally no idea what truly happened...

Oh if they ever learned they´d probably be truly scarred for life...

I catch Grawla giving me a wink…hmm well if there was a skill

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Would it count as a skill?! Guess I’m going to have to put some time to the side in seeing whether it’ll count as a skill…

Anyways I do notice some people giving me weird looks. Guess I don’t blame them…since it wasn’t exactly vanilla rated (Really need to ask Zzoid how he edited that video so well in less than an hour...that´s literally insane! and where he got all that audio from)...

I note Baila trading places with Thrash and pushing the cart with me, giving me a disappointed look

"Couldn´t resist a bit of a tumble through the rocks" Yea with blood and biting all the way...eugh.

She just shakes her head.

“Just be a good boy and lick my feet”

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Wait does this mean she saw the video? Dammit Zzoid, aah she’s the one person I don’t want my reputation ruined with.

Aaaah what do I do?!

“Alright then” I drop to the floor and make a sloppy sound by her feet.

“Aaah didn’t mean it literally” She jumps back half in shock.

“Oh my I’m confused, what do you mean then?”

“Ah I don’t know, it was a joke”

“Gosh how would I have known?” I give her the most sarcasticly surprised look I could muster

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“You are such an idiot you know”

“A compliment to some I’m sure”

“Especially to you”

“Eh, I’d prefer amazing or fantastic but I guess if I had to settle for less…”

She just shakes her head, at least with a small smile this time.

Ok, we’re still doing good.

Alright, let’s put this business with Avani behind us and let us continue forward!

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“Alright everyone!! We’ve made it to the swamp”

Many unenthusiastic clangs resound from the ‘donated’ weaponry.

“So now we’re going to wait here for the other lot and we’re then the next lot are going around the swamp”

“But we’ve only got most of 4 days to get there, won’t it take longer to go around” the Robin-beastlady has got a good point but…

I simply point to the carts and she just nods in realisation.

Everyone settles down and takes a long rest; mostly because we’ve powered through the mountains, somehow doing it within just around a day and a half in total.

“How long will it take the other halves to get here?” Someone asks.

“Well seeing as though we were on for a few more hours than usual and if they were to go at a running pace, I’d imagine they’d be here in maybe a few more hours?” Ravenna answers and everyone just groans at the answer.

“I do believe it’s fine if everyone who needs to log off does since Ravenna’s squad should be remaining here for a little longer” I call out to everyone and many take that as a sign to log off.

I get all my squad to log off too, since they’re going to have to be in good shape for tommorrow.

Walking up to the village Elder, who is once again busy keeping the NPC’s alive, I ask him how long it should take ot get around the swamp.

“It should only be 2 days at most. The longest part would be the unkept road to there. After that it will be faster”

That is good. We’ll get there with plenty of time to spare.

Right time to log off myself.

Oh Joat

Peering aroud as unsuspiciously as I could…Ravenna, I’ve already had my head on the chopping block once today and your lot won’t care if you consented.

It could count as an active skill

Hah, yeah it probably could…possibly.

I’m sure execution would count as an active skill too

You have a terribly good point, shall we try both

As much as I’d love to become a satisfied bog body…I’ll have to concern myself with this event first and find a respawn point that isn’t literal days away

Guess I’ll have to take a minion to explore the swamp with then.

Once again you’d probably have to take them all or some inter-minion executions would be a happening.

Hehe, sounds like I could definitely have some fun with that

Ok I’m going to leave you and whatever strange plans you are concoting alone…

I see her chuckle out the corner of my eye…I really fear what she’s going to do to her minions.

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