Alex Coal - Baldur-s Gate Iii- Shadowh... - Vrconk -

She was kneeling in the damp moss of the Forest of Wyrms. The air smelled of rain, rust, and distant sulfur. Her hand ached—the pulsed warmly against her hip. In front of her, a dying goblin gurgled its last.

The world exploded into light. The shadow curse lifted. And inside her skull, the VRConk's safety protocols screamed: VRConk - Alex Coal - Baldur-s Gate III- Shadowh...

She threw the spear into the abyss.

"I am no one's instrument," Alex said, speaking as herself for the first time in seventeen hours. She was kneeling in the damp moss of the Forest of Wyrms

Alex woke gasping on her floor, the headset cracked beside her. She was herself again. Small. Human. Barely five credits to her name. In front of her, a dying goblin gurgled its last

Alex scrolled past Karlach, past Lae'zel, and landed on the half-elf cleric of Shar. The pale hair, the silver armor, the guarded eyes that held a universe of repressed pain.