Rafflesiac

It was supposed to be a simple sendoff by the admins.

One last quest for the MMO before they signed off for good. They reskinned the world to an urban complex and hurriedly coded in every language they knew to get the update out on time.

They made a horrible mistake.

Maybe it was the PERL. Maybe it was the HTML. Maybe it was the FORTRAN, or perhaps the COBOL. At any rate, a virulent glitch invaded the system.

A player was corrupted.
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