Taikoho.
My avatar name. Taikoho.
Torin Haikotso. Taikoho.
I chose this name for myself seven years ago.
Seven years. I was 14 back then.
Today I'm twenty-one.
How do I keep track of time in a game?
I make a cut on my arm for each day that goes by, so I can never forget.
Or so I used to, but eventually, one runs out of the willpower to do this to oneself any longer.
I have a tree.
A special tree.
Marked six years and three hundred twenty-four days on it.
The rest of the marks are on my left arm.
I'm trapped in a stupid VR game alongside thousands of dying players, surrounded by monsters in a harmful environment made to convince you that you can die in virtual reality.
Except this was supposed to be AR.
To this day I still don't understand the point of saying this device is AR when it had more potential as a VR device. It still had the ability to render things in AR, but that part of the OverDrive was poorly designed compared to the work they put into the VR aspect of it.
It uses the nerves in your brain to control your in-game avatar, while the device controls your body in your absence? Smart.
What kinda genius figured out how to do that?
Probably the same one that designed and programmed the "broken" AIs and "overpowered" monsters that litter the place.
Thousands of people lay dying because of them. They wanted no exceptions, so they buffed every monster to levels they thought were too high for us low life players to handle.
Too bad, though. There's an exception.
The only thing broken about the game is the fact that they let me play it.
And the bones of the monsters I pound into dust.
People say monsters go to hell when they die. They must be fortunate. They don't want to know the kind of hell I send mine to.
But then again, once I'm done with a monster, there's nothing left to send to hell.
I am the strongest. In this world, strength is everything.
Except for the way out.
There is none.
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OverDrive #1 - Updated (OC)
БоевикSeveral years ago, a device called the Overdrive was released - an augmented reality device that allowed you to change the way you see the world... except that it was a VR device. Thousands of people bought the device, including a young teen named T...
