After Returning to the Game, a Casual Player Is Hunted by the Entire Server

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You're a despairing office drone. On your first day at home, lying flat after being fired, you decide to relax and open your computer. The first thing that catches your eye is a pop-up game ad.

[The world's first highly customizable, hyper-realistic multiplayer VR game, "Above Yokohama," is launching soon... Click below to enter a raffle for a chance to win the only beta access!]

The game is incredibly popular. You've seen news about it on all sorts of platforms.

But you don't believe in the fake raffles games advertise, and go to close the window. Then you notice that the X has inexplicably turned into an Enter Raffle button.

You: ...

You silently watch the wheel spin rapidly.

[Congratulations! You've won the only beta access!]

Wait, seriously? This is for real!

Stunned, you put on the VR headset with a healthy dose of skepticism and enter the virtual world. In this thrilling battle game, you start... farming and building infrastructure.

You're a life-sim player, after all! (An explosive electric guitar riff)

Day one in the game: Clear some land.

Day two: After your sheep take over the place, you discover a free supply of native laborers and decide to build a huge farm so they can all grow cotton for you.

By day n, after constantly picking up NPCs, enslaving NPCs, and playing them like puppets, you've successfully transformed the Slab into a Dream O Town and become Yokohama's biggest farmer.

Your mind and body are healed by your relaxing (scratch that) pastoral life. You find the motivation to live well again, happily log out, and return to your life in the real world. You even carefully write up a game guide and post it on the forums, hoping to help other life-sim players.

[How I turned my Yokohama into a Dream O Town: A few things to keep in mind]

1. Harass every useful NPC without holding back. They'll be so impressed by your persistence that they'll work for you for free.

2. Exploit and enslave every NPC who works for you without mercy. There's no such thing as a slave who can't pick cotton, only a farm owner who can't swing the whip. Swing that whip hard, and even the villains will turn the mill!

3. Put on your capitalist landowner face and keep every NPC who dares to defy you under control.

After passionately writing down these three tips, you log out in style.

Much later, out of nostalgia, you open the game again, now long since launched, and discover that the NPCs you once picked up, helped, raised, comforted, enslaved, and guided... have used their money to put you at the top of the wanted list. Players across the whole server are going wild for you.

You, almost mobbed by the players: ?

So much for repaying kindness with betrayal.

Entire story is in second person. A fan favorite, pairing undecided. A healing, lighthearted story.

Theme: Stumbling forward while gathering your strength again