29 – Rise of Vigilantism

29 – Rise of Vigilantism

[A/N: If you are interested, I do have other fanfics on this account that are still being updated, a Fallout Fic and a Dungeon Fic]

After throwing out my customers and closing down the store, I glanced at the Servants and sent them back to the Void with a wave of my hand.

Humming to myself, I had the other parts of my mind already at work fixing and patching any bugs or errors I found while watching the players.

For example, Harley's game was going crazy regarding the zombie spawn rate.

With the incredible amount of zombies she killed, and corpses littered throughout the whole city, if she continued, she would have wiped out more Zombies than the city should have reasonably had.

So, I set a hard limit to the spawn rate to prevent Zombies from constantly spawning in the city and around the player, so, I changed it to make the spawn rate much lower when it comes to the Zombies around the player, but higher past a certain distance from the player.Fôll0w current novÊls on n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(co/m)

Of course that meant if a player worked hard enough, they'd be able to completely clear out a city of Zeds until more Zombies migrate to the location, which was more realistic.

I had no doubt that future players would clear out entire cities and towns and build walls around their settlements, so making this change now would prevent player outrage if Zombies could appear in your town or city after you cleared and walled it.

Of course, I added an option for the players to toggle Zombie respawns and even added a modifier to how many Zombies there would be in the world which would add a bonus to the Credits at the end.

Other than that, I also had to do some fixes for Infamous, specifically, I didn't account for the disorientating experience the players would get when they become Cole.

From what I saw with Selina, the disorientation was even worse for women.

So, I did some tweaking and fixed it to where the disorientation wasn't so bad, of course, I could have had the Players stick with their own bodies, but I didn't want that.

Cole, and the other protagonists of the series all had their own backgrounds and stories, and even their own thoughts and feelings.

To help the players adjust to their powers, I installed a sort of personality into the avatar that would help the players in dialogue and more.

That personality was Cole.

Other than that, I expanded on the city, adding more details and people to make it not seem so...empty.

Each and every individual in the city were unique in some way shape or form, they resembled actual people, I even went as far as to include wild animals and pets to make the city more lively.

With that done, I let out a sigh and relaxed.

With a thought, I increased the price of the hourly sessions since it's now May.

His hands and body were soaked in blood, but he remained calm and still, and eventually, the struggling man in his arms lost his strength and died.

Sheathing his blade, he drew his pistol and slowly crept forward.

Taking a deep breath, he took aim and fired.

Bang, Bang!

The sound rang out in the area, and the collective fire stopped everywhere, with the other two gangs seemingly stopping as well.

Kyle crept forward, out of the alley, and got a good look at what stopped the other two gangs.

One was a man with a skull crest on the vest he wore and what looked to be a robot with two swords for arms stood by his side, blood dripping from its blades.

On the other side of the street, was nothing but ash and flames, and what appeared to be a skeleton on fire.

"First Lieutenant, two unknowns, orders?" The robot asked, loud enough for Kyle and the skeleton to hear.

"Guns down...for now, shoot if things get hot," the man next to the robot ordered.

In the distance we could suddenly hear sirens, the corruption at its finest, it took more than half an hour for the police to arrive, and by the time they arrived on the scene, they came across the carnage.

At first, the police after some investigations figured it was simply a simply gang fight that had some Supers, but after one cop looked into it, he found that it must have been the work of three separate parties that attacked the gangs from behind, eliminating every gang banger involved with ruthless efficiency.

What made the cop think it was done by three separate parties, was the difference in methods the parties used to kill the gang bangers.

One seemed to prefer burning their victims alive, leaving nothing but ash, another preferred to brutally attack the vital organs with a bladed weapon of some kind, and the last seemed to be more like an assassin than anything, taking out all the gang members with stealth and a blade, with only the last two that were killed being shot in the heads.

The news quickly picked up on this and the rise of vigilantism was becoming an increasingly larger concern for the citizens of New York City, with Spiderman, Firestorm, one of the Green Lanterns, Daredevil, the Punisher, and now two more unknown vigilantes calling the city home.

What did this mean for the common citizen of the city? What did it mean for the criminals who struggled to earn a living both night and day?

And, what did it mean when the Police couldn't do anything about it?

The answer? The government's eyes focus on the city.

Which would lead to more consequences and people gaining power, power that the government and people higher up in the chain of command would want controlled.

Sadly for these men and women, they'd find out, there are just some things you cannot control.