Chapter 304: 4: Clothes Make the Villain

Chapter 4: Clothes Make the Villain

First things first, Dylan wanted to look the part. Right now he was dressed in a bland grey hoodie, which clashed with his evil villain mustache and angular face. He needed a suit, one that said, "I'm here to conquer the world!" A hoodie couldn't say that. At most it said, "I'm stealing your purse and getting caught by the cops later."

Dylan pulled up his map and turned on the GPS function. He entered "clothing store" into the search box and watched as multiple points appeared on the map. The closest was a thrift store a few blocks away but there was no way he could find the right suit in there. Though it would be a good spot for materials.

He finally found a suit store he could reach in the financial district. He selected the marker and watched as an arrow appeared at the top of his vision. It showed a direction and a number of meters. Dylan started walked along, following the arrow. Once the number counted to zero the arrow changed direction.

He found himself in front of a large fence. It was a lot like the metal fences he saw on baseball fields as a child. Except these were much thicker than the thin chains that prevented stray balls from hitting the audience. Behind the fence stood policemen in riot gear. The road ahead passed through an opening in the fence and NPCs walked through it with no trouble.

Dylan followed along with the others but before he passed through the fence a voice called out.

"Don' cross here."

Dylan turned to the voice to see a homeless man laying on the sidewalk.

"Sorry?" Dylan said.

"You don' wanna cross here. Them guards 'ill catch ya." The hobo elaborated.

"Why's that? I haven't done anything."Thê source of this content n/o/v/(el)bi((n))

"You's one of them villains. I ken tell. They ken tell too. Snatch ya right off the ground and put ya in chains."

Another message appeared in front of Dylan.

All players are marked as either hero or villain. Normal citizens around the world do not react to this marker. However, each side has various non-player characters that can tell if one is a hero or villain. Those not on the NPC's side will be treated as hostile. It is possible to mask this marker with a secret identity. These identities can be forged by certain NPCs around the world.

When defeating someone from the opposing side (NPC or Player) the Player gains reputation. You can find your reputation in your character tab.

The icon of a person flashed when Dylan closed the message. He pulled up the image of his character and saw that under his name flashed the words "reputation," followed by a letter. Another message appeared.

Reputation is how famous (or infamous) a player is and is also a measure of strength in the game. All players start at reputation grade F (threat to a neighborhood) and can work their way up by performing acts according to their morality. Dying or failing to complete the performed acts causes a loss of reputation.

Dylan dismissed the message and pressed "reputation" on his character sheet. A list appeared before him.

Reputation ranks:

F - a threat to a neighborhood

E - a threat to a city

D - a threat to a large city

C - a threat to a small nation

B - a threat to a large nation

A - a threat to nations around the world

S - a true threat to all around the world

He closed all the messages and looked back at the homeless man. "Where can I cross then? I need to find a suit."

"The Khaum ken get ya 'cross. Or ya can find one o' tha holes in tha fences."

Dylan thanked the man and walked off. It looked like finding a suit would be harder than he thought. Or would it? He had a superpower for this, didn't he?

Dylan opened his mad science page and typed in "suit".

Suit

Shirt (1)

Pants (1)

Jacket (1)

Needle (1)

Dye (Black, Blue, or Brown)

"John's gonna hate that I can do this," Dylan said.

DemarX:

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I'm in Haven City

DemarX:

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There's this shapeshifter guy up here too

Turned into a giant dinosaur while fighting

Oh Haven City isn't bad

Easy to get a good foothold I've heard

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How big do they think this game's gonna be?

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Look at how much power we have.

Can code an entire planet in.

DemarX:

Ya maybe

Anyways I gotta go

Bossman wants to send me on a mission

Superfan39526:

Aight see ya

Dylan closed the friends tab and went back to thinking about his scheme.

"Shapeshifting huh? Now that gives me an idea."

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