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Then it disappeared.
A horrifying, blood chilling cry of pain, accompanied by what sounded to be a terrifying blast of electricity screamed through the dying players microphone and made it's way out of the remaining three players headsets.
Their screams intensified and there was a crash, him falling from his seat most likely. Suddenly the screaming dulled to a tired panting.
Then silence.
Silence, broken by Adrian's laughter.
The other two players roared in fear and tried to remove their headsets as Adrian cast another spell.
Too late.
The level seventy two was killed.
He had been holding the microphone as it happened which in turn shot the deadly bolt of electricity up his arm. He slammed into the ground screaming in pain, his headset cluttering onto the floor beside him.
It took him much longer to die than the first victim and his terrified yells could still be heard from the microphone.
The third player had his headset off and foolishly attempted to flee ingame. He ran past Adrian and found out quite happily that he could run. It did not look like Adrian would be casting another spell either.
The third player was running outside of the bank, frantically hitting the logout button, Adrian in close pursuit.
Suddenly there were two flashes of red. The desperately fleeing player looked to his hitpoints.
Zero.
His character dropped.
He jumped up, trying to escape.
Thousands of volts exploded from his computer and struck him in the face before he was out of his seat.
He died instantly, landing on the ground with a sickening thud, headset smashing in the process.
Adrian listened to the sweet sounds of silence as he picked up the three players items. Nothing too expensive, but would make him a little bit of cash.
Adrian smiled to himself as he looked at the items in his inventory.
Remnants of his first victims.

15-Jun-2008 09:48:55 - Last edited on 26-Jun-2008 05:25:50 by Infinity A8

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~Chapter V*
Siegfried returned from his mailbox quite hurriedly, rushing up the stairs and bursting into his apartment. His computer was turned on and his account logged in before he'd had time to wolf down the slice of toast he still held in his hand.
Immediately upon logging in he initiated a voice conversation with A.
"Are you there?!" Siegfried roared.
Silence. That meant A had left his account logged in by some means and was away.
"ARE YOU THERE!?" Siegfried exploded, almost dropping his toast in the process.
This time a tired, weary voice replied.
"What is it...?" A mumbled, clearly having just woken up.
Siegfried quickly devoured his breakfast and spoke hurriedly into the microphone.
"There's been another murder."
A seemed to instantly wake up, voice becoming alert and firm.
"Can you send me the details or will I have to wait for it?"
"I could just tell you..."
There was a sort of startled silence as A realised what he had just said. He cleared his throat, slightly embarrassed.
"Of course, continue."
"First off, what time is it on your end?" Siegfried inquired, curious as to A'* rather ridiculous behaviour.
"Two fourteen in the morning. I'll be fine..."
"I'm not telling you unless you're actually going to be able to understand what I'm saying!"
A mumbled something unintelligible and the sound of him standing up filled Siegfried's ears.
"Tell me what happened while I get some breakfast." A said, evidently having a wireless headset equipped. Siegfried could hear what sounded like a fridge being opened.
"A few hours ago, three people all across the globe died within two minutes of each other, all from electric shocks," Siegfried explained. "There was one person in the area beforehand..."
There was a sound of a cutlery draw being opened and several items being taken out. Then the heating of a fry pan before A answered
"Mm, what next?"
Siegfried inhaled deeply to get his next part out.

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"Apparently the player had been in Varrock, in an unspecified world and an unspecified place where he was being harassed by the three victims. Another player then entered and requested that he leave. He did so, the end."
The sizzling of what sounded to be bacon. The sound then dulled and sounded distant as A sat down. Then there was the sound of A putting something in his mouth and swallowing it.
"That's better..." He muttered as he took another spoonful of breakfast; strawberry yogurt, with bacon yet to come. "Now we have sufficient evidence, it was the glitch."
"So what do we do now?"
A gulped down another helping of yogurt. "Give me some time and I'll have our next move, but for now I need you to go ingame and try to find the player that saw what was most likely our killer."
"How am I supposed to do that?"
"Several hours ago you and I were asleep. The world the players were in only have five players in the Varrock East Bank at the time, meaning that the world must have been rather empty...Does it say anything about the three players killed. The characters in particular?"
"Not much, they were all friends and around the same combat level. Though 'largely higher leveled than the harassed player' as it says in the paper."
"Good, that means that the player must be a low level. Low levels have a tendency to stay in areas they are familiar with, I.E., Varrock. That must also mean that our killer must be a rather high level."
A took a pause to swallow some more yogurt. "Siegfried, start with the Australian and British worlds as they will have been the emptiest at the time and condense your search to the Varrock area. Look for anyone below the levels of fifty."
"Got it. What will you be doing?"
"I'll also be able to find the player, only my search will take longer but will be far more accurate."
"How will you do that?"
There was the ringing of a bell in the background.
"Oh, my bacon's ready. Be back soon."
A left his headset on the desk.

15-Jun-2008 09:50:31 - Last edited on 25-Jun-2008 06:46:31 by Infinity A8

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Katrina made her way through Varrock, world ninety two. This was where the killer had most recently struck.
Behind was a mass of followers, all demanding that she answer their questions. Most of the questions were ludicrous; orders for updates to be returned or removed, how much she smelt and what kind of clothes she liked.
Katrina was getting rather frustrated, for two reasons.
First off, she was rather impatient and didn't wish to answer each ridiculous question tossed at her.
The second was the fact that these idiots still continued to play, despite the warning quite clearly detailed on the homepage. Each player following her was not only risking their lives by playing, but also hindering Katrina's ability to investiage.
"Listen up!" She roared into the microphone as well as typing it out. "Every single person here is required to leave immediately!"
Roughly three quarters of the people wisely decided to leave. The rest remained and continued to bombard Katrina with rather rude insults.
She right clicked the crowd, looking at the variety of levels there. To her disgust, all were rather high levels, the fact that their maturity was this low appalled her.
He mouse pointer wavered over the attack option for the briefest of moments.
"I'm only going to say it once more," Katrina said. "If all of you do not scram I will personally ban the lot of you."
They all scurried off, leaving Katrina for the most part alone. At the very edge of her screen, for just a moment there seemed to be one last person left. They turned and ran, almost as if fearing detection.
Katrina chose to think nothing of it and proceed in her investigation. She was to find the player known as 'Swish321', the player who was in the presence of the killer. She was told that he would be waiting at the east bank.
Instead, she found only one player at the east bank. Before Katrina could look at their name and equipment they had teleported off.

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Katrina stood at the steps of the bank in waiting, no white dots on her minimap. She waited for a minute, standing in silence staring at her minimap waiting for some company.
At the exact same time, two dots appeared on her screen, one moving at a fast pace towards the bank and another stationary dot behind her inside the bank. At first she thought the player who had recently teleported had dropped something and that the player running towards her was the player she had set to meet.
But she was wrong twice.
The player running towards her was a far higher level than the player expected. Not only that, but this particular player happened to be Siegfried conducting his search of Varrock.
Not caring for the player approaching her, she decided to look at the item behind her.
And froze.
They were bones and a pile of cheap adamant armour and weapons. Along with a grave marker.
The deceased players name? Swish321.

15-Jun-2008 09:50:34 - Last edited on 25-Jun-2008 06:43:29 by Infinity A8

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~Chapter VI~
Katrina couldn't understand. She looked to her friends list and scrolled through it. Swish's name was at the bottom and the words 'offline' adjacent to it.
Jagex mods could tell if someone was online even if their chat was turned off. If Swish had just died ingame that would mean he'd have to had been online.
Died...
Unbeknownst to Katrina, Siegfried had entered the bank and stood in front of the booth, making it out that he was just doing something with his bank. In truth, Siegfried had started a voice conference with Katrina and moved his microphone so that he wasn't heard.
Katrina had left her 'chat' setting to on when she had been talking to the crowd.
Siegfried typed a message to A.
"I've located a Jmod in this world, Varrock. She's acting rather suspicious..."
"In what way?" A typed back.
"She's acting paranoid, not wanting anyone else around her. But now I'm standing right next to her and-"
"Paul!" Siegfried heard on his radio from Katrina.
"Hold on." Siegfried typed to A and continued listening.
"Do we have any contact with Swish321? He appeared offline to me but I've found his gravestone ingame..."
"Siegfried, what's going on?" A asked through text.
"I'm in her voice chat, she left it on and is talking to Mod Paul."
"Hold up..." A said. He said nothing for a brief moment and then "Did you install that software I asked you too?"
"Yes."
"Open it and select 'enable listen'."
Siegfried proceeded to open the application and followed A'* instructions.
"Ok, I can hear now." A said finally after a couple of seconds. The software Siegfried had installed now allowed A to hear everything said over his headset when he wasn't involved.
"Paul!?" Katrina roared, only this time Paul responded, his voice soft due to his distance from Katrina's microphone.
"It...He..." Paul stammered. "We had his phone number and apparently he was online...But..."
He gulped, so did Katrina. Siegfried and A listened intently.
"He's dead."

15-Jun-2008 09:52:48 - Last edited on 26-Mar-2009 08:44:06 by Infinity A8

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Katrina's eyes widened in fear. Siegfried gasped in shock as to what he was hearing. A remained silent.
"B-but...How...?" Katrina struggled to get the words out. "H-how did he...Avoid being seen by me...?"
"Siegfried," A messaged. "There's no more need to search, just continue to listen."
Siegfried nodded to no one in particular and listened as Paul and Katrina continued to speak.
"What happened?" Paul asked Katrina.
"I was at the bank waiting for him, only he wasn't there. Instead there was a grave and a pile of loot..."
With that, A immediately teleported to Lumbridge.
"Was there anyone else there?"
"Come to think of it, yes. Before I got into the bank someone was there and teleported..."
"Did you see them?"
"No."
"Is there anyone around now?"
"One person. Hold on, I'll just see if they know anything..."
Siegfried froze. If Katrina noticed that he was listening in on her conversation he would be instantly suspected. He had no runes on him so he couldn't teleport. Even if he did, he'd only look more suspicious.
Logging out with severe the connection between him and Katrina and he wouldn't be able to listen. An idea sparked as he thought of that.
He disconnected between himself and Katrina, then connected with A.
"Count to five, then enter Mod Katrina's voice chat." He spoke urgently.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
A joined the chat.
Only to find it set to friends only.
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"So...Little Johnny WAS the one there...How delightfully convenient for me..." Adrian muttered to himself. John Swishez, classmate of Adrian and big time bully to him had died no more than twelve minutes ago while standing in the Varrock East Bank waiting for a moderator to come and talk to him about yesterday's events.
John had of course been a blabbermouth about it and told everyone at school. He even invited some people to come and watch him talk to a Jmod.
Adrian had overheard.

15-Jun-2008 09:52:49 - Last edited on 25-Jun-2008 07:20:53 by Infinity A8

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Now John was dead.
Adrian laughed to himself, as he had found himself doing quite a lot recently. Nobody got home until late at his house, so he had the whole afternoon free. Adrian was also rather imfamous for skipping school and had access to Runescape through internet cafes.
Adrian had a list of people names under his computer. In total, there were fourty eight names.
All of them bullies at Adrian's school.
Adrian took out a red pen and crossed off John's name.
"One down..." Adrian chuckled. "...Fourty seven to go..."
There was a sinister chuckling from behind Adrian. Alarmed, Adrian spun around in his seat and looked behind him.
There was nothing there.
The voice laughed again.
"Who's there?!" Adrian yelled, evidently unnerved by the mysterious laughter.
"Revenge..." The voice croaked. It sounded like something out of a nightmare. The voice was rough and scratchy, hideously deep and flat. A horrifying monster and yet Adrian could see nothing.
"Revenge...Is so...Satisfying..." It groaned, sounding as if it was in terrible pain.
"W-where are y-you....!?" Adrian gasped, now absolutely terrified.
"I grant one wish..." It responded, ignoring Adrian's questions completely. "...As the most frequent user...I will give you anything...You want...So long as it...Enhances the glitch in...Some way..."
It paused repeatedly during it's sentences, it's awful groans seeming strained to get out.
"W-what do you mean...?" Adrian asked, not as fear filled as before.
"You may...Change the glitch...To your liking..."
Adrian composed himself, now calm. He thought for a moment, wondering what he could do with the glitch. At the moment he couldn't see any flaws with it.
"Can I change, say...The WAY people die?" Adrian decided at last, an evil smile working it's way up his face.
The voice chuckled. "Of course..."
"Then I'd like to be able to kill people in any way I wish. I want to think of how they die and once they die on Runescape they'll die how I imagined."

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"Wish granted..." The awful voice groaned.
Suddenly Adrian's room grew dark, yet the sky outside remained bright. A fierce wind whipped up and began to desicrate Adrian's room, sending all his possessions flying. The voice moaned horribly and Adrian's window flew open.
Then it stopped and all was quiet.
Adrian looked back to the computer screen and his character standing in Lumbridge. Draped in his meele attire, Adrian looked much different to the day before. However, he decided to kill John in order to erase any chance that he may be caught.
And to settle the score, of course.
Adrian let fly a laugh of pure evil, staring at all the people in Lumbridge.
Soon, all who opposed him would die.
Adrian filed out of Lumbridge and checked the next name on his list; another school bully, account name: Blorfer421. He added them to his friends list and noticed that they were in another world; a free to play server.
They wouldn't be too hard to find.
As Adrian went to click the logout button, he noticed that there seemed to be a certain person in the crowd at Lumbridge who sort of stuck out. Adrian didn't know how, but it seemed like they were watching him.
Adrian clicked logout and left the person in white behind without a second thought.

15-Jun-2008 09:52:51 - Last edited on 25-Jun-2008 07:41:31 by Infinity A8

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~Chapter VII~
"Another murder." Wide Eyes, the insomnia afflicted man mumbled, taking a sip from a cup of coffee.
"Already?" Muscles responded, taking a seat beside Wide Eyes. "Then shall we make our move...?"
"First we find out where it happened...Then we strike."
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"You there!" Katrina called to the relieved yet edgy Siegfried.
"Can I help you?" Siegfried responded as callously as he could through text. He had his headset tuned so that he may hear A.
"I was wondering if you'd seen anyone around here a while ago..."
"No, sorry. I just got here."
"Play it safe Siegfried..." A mumbled. "If either of us are seen attacking another player or slip that we know anything we're immediately suspicious."
"You don't have to tell me..." Siegfried said aloud into the mic.
"Are you looking for someone?" Siegfried questioned as innocently as possible.
"Yes."
"Who? I might be able to help."
"I doubt it, I'm...Uh..." Katrina started to wonder whether or not she should make it known that she was investigating the glitch. If she did, news would no doubt spread that Jagex was involved and even worse; they could even be behind it.
"...I'm looking for a player but I've forgotten his name."
"Why are you looking for him?" Siegfried's curiosity getting the better of him.
"That's none of your buisness..."
"It could be. I won't know unless you tell me."
"Trust me," Katrina typed, having already retrieved teleport runes from her bank. "It doesn't concern you."
She teleported off.
"Is she in Lumbridge?" Siegfried said into his microphone.
"Mod Katrina is it? Yeah, she's here."
"Then you were right. Jagex knows."
"And yet we still have nothing..."
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"You're such a noob Adrian!" Blorf roared into his microphone. "I could so own you at Bounty Hunter!"
"Would you mind proving it?" Adrian responded cooly.

15-Jun-2008 09:52:52 - Last edited on 26-Jun-2008 05:43:52 by Infinity A8

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