(The only people who will understand this post are people who had played in DARPG and who play WoW… so, um, Sky and Hunter. Hi.)
“xxPunishrxx has challenged you to a duel.”
Kevin’s eyes snapped open at the sound effect coming from his speakers, squinting at his brightly-lit screen in his darkened room. He was wondering when the Night Elf Warrior was going to get sick of his antics; after all, he’d been kill-stealing his mobs for the last hour and a half.
Nezumimon glanced at the screen and smirked as only a mechanical mouse Digimon could. “You’re still at it, Kev?” He watched the screen for a moment before continuing. “I still liked better it when you played Everquest, y’know.”
“Meh.” Kevin smirked as he purposefully took his time to accept the duel. “Everquest got boring. It was too easy, even without the hacking.”
“/pizza?”
“If I want pizza, I have faster ways to get it.”
Kevin leaned back and took a drink from his soda as the Night Elf hurled epithets at him. World of Warcraft wasn’t the most intellectual of games — he had managed to get his Blood Elf Rogue to 70 in a couple of weeks, even without Nezumimon’s help — but it was a nice distraction, especially when he took the time to piss people off like he had tonight.
The duel began in earnest. The fight wasn’t quite fair, what with his Rogue in leather armour and his opponent in plate. While he was dealing a considerable amount of damage, even with the subtle hacks he’s set in, there was no way he’d beat this guy.
Kevin glanced at Nezumimon, who nodded and shimmered out of existence.
A few seconds later, the player latency monitors in Kevin’s UI flickered. His Night Elf opponent suddenly had a high ping — 15,128 ms — which was enough to briefly knock the Night Elf offline… not enough for it to actually register as a disconnect, but long enough for it to hiccup and let Kevin’s hits get through.
The defeated Warrior grumbled and began to Hearthstone out as Nezumimon reappeared on Kevin’s desk amidst the cans of Pepsi. Kevin smirked quietly and /spat on the Elf as he went off to find another player to grief…
Comments