SpookySquid
knighthawk
"Is there any other last minute questions before we begin? If not, we can all go ahead and hook ourselves up to the machine and select our backpacks. I'm sure poor Chuck is getting awfully bored."
Raising her hand excitedly CC hopped from one foot to the other as she tried to draw Eleanor's attention while standing in the middle of the other contenders. "I'm sorry, I have a question... do you have a bathroom?"
CC always got like this before a big adventure. A couple of weeks before she'd led her guild of Avenging Angels to hunt down a group of players on her Galaxy of Fantasy server who had been bullying noobs and stealing their resource points on a regular basis. In the lead up to the final battle CC had drunk enough water to fill her belly and she swore she could hear herself sloshing as she'd run to the toilet.
The flight to the complex hadn't been any better. The excitement and anticipation building inside her as the contenders had been treated like celebrities with first-class accommodations all the way. Her first sighting of the Echo Park, the world famous centre of the Echo Games community, had been a disappointment. From the outside the place look like just another office building surrounded by workshops and server nests.
It wasn't until she'd actually walked into the 'Inner Sanctum' and caught sight of the colossal bank of monitors that her heart had finally begun to race, and with it her other bodily functions. "I really gotta pee."
