Covered in gore, Joseph continued slashing at the pack of snakes, almost dead. He jumped back, whipping out a health potion, restoring himself to a decent amount. [i]One left...[/i] he thought, wincing in pain. Realism was fun. Until you got severe cuts. At that point, it was just an adrenaline activator. No time to think, he threw his dagger at the snake, slicing its digital brain cleanly across the center, not a pixel off. How the hell did he do that? Staring at his own hands, he knew that he couldn't just throw a knife randomly and hit his target [i]absolutely perfectly.[/i] Who cared, truthfully? What mattered was that he [i]did[/i] do it. "VC: Screenshot image, time: negative ten seconds. VC: Abort command: previous. VC: Record kill, last." However he did it, it was getting saved in all its 4320p glory.

He walked over, retrieving his humming dagger. Checking his HUD, he looked at his kill statistics. [Pheasant: 14, Tunnel Snake: 19] Oh, come on. One short? That was going to be fixed soon. Telltale rumble beginning almost immediately, just as he was closing the screen. A toothy maw drilled out of the ground less than an inch from his toes, uprooting bits of ground under his foot, and his cloak, heavy as it was, literally going straight out the opposite of what gravity said it should. This wasn't a normal tunnel snake... This was thrice his size, towering above his head. [Tunnel Snake {L10}] Holy snap! Level [i]ten?[/i] But there was a crucial weakness that he could see: It couldn't move fast except for coming out of the ground. That could be seen by anyone. He ran up yelling, "Poison Edge!" in a cliched anime manner. Did saying it even matter? This game relied mostly on thought based interaction, so he didn't think so. Nonetheless, it still looked pretty cool. Slashing at the beast's hide several times, it reared back, and slammed down like an enormous, scaly whip. With the cloak on, he couldn't dodge the thick body, not to mention the still dangerous shock wave, and was left at the least HP he'd ever seen besides zero. Still, he [i]should[/i] have his sneak ability. He crept into the tall grass and drank a health potion. Then another. This thing was more than he could handle. Running away, he spotted some other players killing snakes. "Hey!," he yelled, "Could I join you guys?"