Tonight's assignment almost felt like a quest, like one from the Third Level Society in the Arturian Realm.
And that's not right, because the dymensional plane I went into tonight is most definitely not the Arturian Realm. It's an exact replica of the Circlarian Realm, our real world...or as exact of a replica as we are trying to make it. Regardless, for it to be like the Arturian Realm means something is very wrong.
And why am I saying this?
Well...it's all about that assignment I was given to go check the Benjamin Arnold Syndrome outbreak in the Chokian Mountains in the year 1281. Thankfully, that plague is eradicated in the real world. But in the Circlarian Realm dymensional plane, there appears to be an issue with that, where the plague overcomes and destroys the Realm by the late 1280s. Obviously, that is a major discrepancy.
My avatar, an exact replica of myself, was placed in the Southern portion of Rellihan, within the Chokian Mountain Range. My assignment was to venture to the village where the outbreak originated. Though my avatar was just an observer, I had them armed with a talisman equipped with a decent level of shield and stun spell capabilities. I had a feeling that I would need that despite insistence from Jax that I was good enough with concealment as an observer. After my persistent and increasingly urgent requests, however, they finally gave me what I felt I needed.
When I, as my avatar, ventured into the plagued village, I immediately noticed that the dead were moving about. They spotted me and began running in my direction. So I put on Concealment. Despite this, one of the deceased sprung out of the bushes to my side, clearly aware that I was there.
I ran the other way. But they chased me; and their pace was wildly faster than mine. I shot a flurry of discharges, which struck them in ways that should have incapacitated them. But they were creatures of a different sort. Nothing appeared to phase them. I put up a Shield Spell as long as I could, but they broke through and tore my avatar apart.
It is not impossible to respawn your avatar in the Library of Circlaria dymensional plane. But it is certainly more difficult than in the Third Level Society. I told Jax what happened, to which they told me that the Bookkeeper would have to make a copy of my avatar with the latest algorithmic records removed. The process will not be finished till tomorrow morning.
For the record, I immersed as my avatar starting around 5:30 PM. The whole ordeal lasted thirty-seven minutes. I was hoping to go till 9:00 PM.