125 Finding Moirai 1 (1/2)

Although an entire town full of Moirai was a sight to behold, in a world big and vast it was nothing more than a shiny speck of dust.

This remote village was abandoned after each NPC, which had lived in it, had been enslaved by the player base. In the following times, there were no players left, that came into this town since everything precious in it was gone by then. This ghost town turned into the base of Moirai.

That is why such an attention raising event, the arrival of so many strong NPCs did go unnoticed. Everyone else had just been busy scouting the entire map for suitable candidates and no one bothered to search in a place, which was devoid of NPCs in their eyes.

Without a doubt would the status quo not last, should the players be aware of the current occurrence taking place at this spot. The resulting craze from the players would surely not pale in comparison to the chaos already present.

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Though the recruitment process would be vastly different because their behaviour and attitude were based on the original. It would take a lot of convincing to reel in just one of them and that is if you are lucky enough to talk to a version, which is calm and collected.

Judging by the many brawls and battles it was more than a rarity to find something like that amidst this still growing group of NPCs. Some even had brought in monsters carcasses and then taunted others to hunt bigger prey.

Which prompted a chain reaction, that caused more and more monster carcasses to cramp up the already stuffed town even more. Like an angry swarm of locusts, they ran over the lands trying to search for prey and if they lacked in quality they started to aim for quantity.

Not only did these copies boast about their ability and taunt others to surpass them, but they also used several objects near them to prove their strength. Whether they destroyed houses, trees or bones was of no concern to them, as long as they others could witness their raw and brute power.

Everything in their close vicinity was bound to suffer as more and more Moirai came together. The ever-expanding red circle had yet to be noticed by anyone involved. Still, life had returned into the otherwise silent and calm town and brought with it many strange things.

Although it was up to debate, whether that sort of ”life” could be considered a wonder or the byproduct of sheer chaos. Between the two it was hard to tell, which option was the correct label. Because in the end, no description was enough to detail all of the current madness.

The players who could follow this spectacle directly in its heart were helplessly overwhelmed by the multitude of different actions, all of which seemed crazy to them. They kept wondering where the purpose was in their presence.

There was no suitable answer to be found and this could be said about many of the questions that popped up in their minds. The behaviour of the first Moirai that came into their lives had already been mysterious and thought-provoking. Being confronted with an army of clones certainly did not make it any easier for them.

But while the tracks of one Moirai were hard to find especially if he tried his best to avoid leaving any, then the exact opposite applied to the horde of Moirai running in the wild. Something of this magnitude was bound to attract attention from just any player who lays his eyes on just one Moirai he sees.

The likelihood of encountering a player is especially high considering the current behaviour of those NPCs. Not only were they covering a wide area in search for their prey but also due to their appearance differing from the average NPC drawing even more attention towards them.

While flaming hair certainly was not a necessity to attract players like a fly it certainly did not hurt. If that was not enough, having such a huge frame would do the trick. While not every Moirai looked the same. they shared enough similarities which allowed others to draw the parallels to the original.

And with the current craze and the high demand for special NPCs, this was nothing more than a ticking time bomb, which would blow up sooner or later. It was only a matter of time before this already messy situation would escalate to a whole new level.

So it was no surprise when the first players caught sight of strange occurrences which took place in some distance to the city. The sorrowful cry of monsters caught their interest and they followed the noise until the stumbled upon the strange sight of seeing an NPC killing a monster gruesomely.

As logic dictates they did the only thing any sane normal person would do, they ran towards it and tried to hire it. The clone was rather unimpressed by this sheer display of courage and deemed it as an act of provocation much to the dismay of those players, which cost them their lives.

Since not bowing down in the face of the adversary was a trademark for the player base they began to try anew. They came to the conclusion, that the must prove themselves to the NPC, otherwise it would not have ended their lives in cold blood.

While they had never encountered Moirai personally, they had learned enough about him from second-hand information. When an NPC even refuses the noblest and strong players, then they must do something to convince him.

Since laying their lives down was not considered enough in the eye of the NPC, then they simply have to prove their mettle to the NPC. In a move, which was devoid of any reasonable decision making, they continued to spend their time with sacrificing themselves to Moirai, in the delusion, that they might obtain his approval.

Not only they were wrong in their thinking in the first place, but also they did not even meet the same Moirai again. In the time it took them to respawn and come back to the place, where they had met the object of their desires, it had already moved to another place and their search had to start again.

This development did not raise any suspicion in either party involved as both seemed to not mind it. The Moirais deemed this interference as a simple waste of time, which stood between them and showing off their prey to the rest. While the players saw in it the oppurturnity of a lifetime, which could not be obtained without investing a lot of time and effort into the matter.

Strangely enough, this was not limited to a select group of players, it happened quite a handful of players who tried to uphold the utmost secrecy about this, to not get any competition. They seemed to think that they had struck gold, though none of them seemed aware how much this was happening simultaneously.

Due to the absurd amount of Moirais running through the land finding one did not take a lot of time once the initial location had been found. Because of a lone wolf mentality players were only able to locate one Moirai at a time.

It came to no surprise, that they found themselves unable to recruit anyone of them, no matter what they did but that did not stop them from trying. Not at all, it rather fueled their determination. The pay-off must be worth it if its requirements are that high.