Respawn 404

Stress

Stress wasn't that worried when she noticed False had been killed, Xisuma mentioned that they were testing one of his PvP based mini games, but what surprised her was that False had lost. She was one of the best PvPers on the entire server, and Xisuma wasn't especially known for that.

She checked the main chat when she noticed a multitude of buzzing, most questioning why False wasn't respawning.

Xisuma: dangit- I think part of the code glitched or something, lemme check
Xisuma: yup, definitely something wrong. For some reason the respawn timer has been multiplied. She'll respawn, it'll just take a while

Something seemed off about the timer being multiplied, it seemed very deliberate to Stress. It could just be a glitch, but it could also have been tampered with by a hacker. Hermitcraft was a fairly well-known server, so it could have just been someone messing about and annoying them.

Stress grabbed her elytra, flying over to the shopping district for no particular reason, just as a distraction really. She was gonna miss False until she respawned, and it seemed to add more weight to dying. More risk. It was only a week, which wasn't a long time in the entire scheme of things, but a lot of things could happen in a week.

She smiled at Xisuma nearby; he was avoiding her eyes but smiled back, fiddling with a rose in his gloved hands.

"Who's the lucky fella?" Stress teased, only earning an eye roll.

"Nobody Stress, I just picked it to plant in my office in the town hall," he responded, elbowing her. "It's a pretty unique type, I think it's a result of second layer cross-breeding," he told Stress, narrowing his eyes at it. It was a uniquely bright shade of red, unnaturally so, captivating him as False's blood had only a couple of hours ago during the fight.

"I'm no expert on flowers, but that looks really brightly coloured. Aren't brightly coloured natural things venomous or poisonous?"

"Venomous, Stress and you're thinking of snakes. Venomous is where you get poisoned if they bite you, poisonous is when you get poisoned if you bite them. That only applies to snakes though, this is a breed of rose, perfectly safe. Here, you can have a look at it if you want," he offered, holding it forward to Stress to look at. Hesitantly, Stress took it out of his hands, clutching it with her right hand as it started to sting.

She turned it over, shrugging before she handed it over to Xisuma, rubbing her hand against her trousers in an effort to stop the slight sting. She smiled, moving on throughout the shopping district for about an hour before flying back to her base. Her hand was turning a shade of purple and was constantly throbbing, moving up her arm in a way that looked almost withered. She could barely move the black parts without them starting to throb like mad, and she found it hard to do anything after about another half hour.

She wanted to text Xisuma, tell him something was wrong with the flower, that it was dangerous, but one of her arms was rendered useless and she wasn't confident enough with her left arm to type well. At this point, she was just huddled on a chair, trying to make her arm comfortable, the blackness almost at her shoulder. Her head was throbbing, fighting the urge to sleep yet at the same time finding it impossible to because of the pain.

She desperately lunged for her communicator with her left hand, clumsily managing to call Xisuma, only for there to be no response. Her neck was starting to shrivel up like her arm was, reaching towards her brain as her neck lulled to the side. She closed her eyes, the pain not going as she fell asleep, hoping that she would wake up soon enough, yet deep inside she knew she wouldn't.