End Online: Volume 2 by D. Wolfin Page A

inventory where the revealed name provided decent
idea as to what their effects were, but there was a 'Black N' herb that I could
not discern the effect of.
    I left the city shortly after that, there was nothing left for
me to do other than gather unnecessary infamy points.
    Fen was back in the game and waiting outside the town. She
seemed to be ignoring me but she quietly followed behind me as I headed off
towards the 'Unknown Goblin Lair' for more training.
    I was completely broke again, spending my last thirty gold coins
on two scrolls of shrinking.
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    -Fen-
    It was the first time Lost logged off in front of me that it
happened. When I saw him disappear I desperately tried to find out where he
went. From the point where he vanished I remember feeling some kind of distortion,
making all the hairs on my body stand up.
    Pushing myself into the distortion I felt like I was a trying to
push myself into a tiny rabbit's hole. After pushing on it for long enough
however, it began to slowly be forced open by my body. Sliding deeper and
deeper into the distortion I eventually seemed to fall in.
    I fell for a long time, until I came out the other end of
whatever kind of tunnel it was.
    I was in a small room, and it was decorated extremely strangely.
There were odd seats and furniture, not to mention all the mysterious
machines around. Lost appeared to have left from here already, but unlike the
earlier distortion, I could not tell where exactly where from or to.
    I notice I was also a lot smaller than usual, the same as when he
cast that spell to shrink me. I transform into my human form with a motion of
standing up, getting a better view of the room. The alien view outside of the window
was especially terrifying, I knew I had somehow left my world and entered
another one, but it was such a shocking sight.
    I haven't revealed my human form to Lost yet, he is possibly the
only one I can't show it to. After all, not only am I terrified I might
frighten him away with it, but it would also be far too embarrassing for
him to see me without clothes on!
    I had quite a lot of time to myself exploring this strange room
before he got back. I spent most of it sitting on a couch playing with a
strange machine on the table. After poking it a few times all of a sudden a
black liquid came pouring out, spilling all over the table and even onto the
floor.
    Panicking, I found some kind of fabric cloth in the strange
kitchen to wipe up the mess, which soaked it all up and surprisingly was still
dry afterwards. There are a few cups on the table so clearly this stuff must be
for drinking.
    Placing the cloth down on the table, and one of the cups on top
of it. I press the same button on the strange drink machine, picking it up
and holding it over the cup so the strange liquid filled it. The cloth
soaking up the rest that overflowed.
    'Bitter!'
    The drink was horrible, how could someone drink this? I spent an
hour taking little sips from the cup. Half way down the drink had gone
completely cold. I couldn't drink anymore even if I tried, so I poured the
rest of it into the magic cloth.
    I was lying down on the couch, completely exposed in my human
form, when Lost appeared again. Fortunately the couch was facing the other way,
so he could not see me, but it did not help my anxiety.
    In my panic to get out of there I somehow recalled the feeling
of the distortion, easily reopening it and entering back into my world,
transforming into the wolf as soon as I got there. I was not a moment too soon,
Lost appearing only seconds after me.
    After that incident it was almost as if I was connected
to the other side of the distortion, easily able to move in between. There
was also the feeling that rather than entering into that other world, I was
returning to it.
    I started entering Lost’s room time he disappeared back to the
other world. Only, I got a