This Text Adventure Game Is Seriously Cursed
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[Veda struggled free of the Headless Horseman's bone spear and fell to the ground, blood pouring from his body, gravely wounded.] [Veda looked at you resentfully, but did not dare linger in battle at all. He hurriedly dragged his crippled body away, fleeing the scene in panic.] [Unfortunately, the Headless Horseman had already locked onto him. It turned its horse around and charged at its prey again. The white bone spear whistled past with tremendous force, about to crush the gravely wounded Veda to death on the spot...] [You threw your Retractable Chain Claw just in time, saving Veda from the Headless Horseman's spear on the brink of death.] [The chain carried the assassin's body flying toward you. Veda looked at you in disbelief, but before he could express any gratitude, you drove a claw through his chest.] [You killed the level 17 player "Veda." Lifespan +1, experience +17. You obtained Assassin Skin Fragment ×1.] [Where Veda died, you discovered Fluorescent Lens ×1 and Suspicious Fluorescent Badge Fragment ×2.] [Because you initiated an attack on another Fool and caused his death, you gained one Red Name stack. Current Red Name stacks: 36.]
Killing this ill-intentioned player cost him another Red Name stack.
But that was fine. During his earlier struggle with Crimson Dawn for Eternal Night City, the powerful mass-killing capability of Black Hole had earned him forty Red Name stacks in total. That was with him taking care to let others strike first whenever possible during battle; otherwise, the number would have been even more outrageous.
He had cleared a few stacks over the past two days, but returning to normal was still a distant prospect. One more or less hardly mattered now.
Aside from letting time remove them, Red Name stacks could also be cleared in
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