SEVER ZERO
"The Admin's purge protocols haven't reached this far out from the Bastion, but the code is decaying. And... the targets are here."
"The NPCs?" Ren asked.
"Yeah," Marcus said, a deeply unsettled look in his eyes. "It's... wrong, Wraith. I've played this game for three thousand hours. I know their dialogue trees by heart. But they aren't following the script."
"Show me," Ren said.
Marcus led the way through the corrupted forest. They moved silently, avoiding the glowing red fissures in the ground where the server physics had completely broken down.
In a clearing ahead, bathed in the sickly red light of the sky, stood a small encampment.