The server crashes.
In a crumbling digital afterlife known as the Fading Ether (FE), a user’s avatar script malfunctions, stretching their perception into a mile-high giant, forcing them to reconcile the loneliness of immense scale with the fragility of the world below. SCENE START
He types slowly into the global chat. Each keystroke is a thunderclap. - FE - Giant Tall Avatar Script
(Echoing, distorted) WARNING: Z-AXIS SCALE OVERFLOW. Your avatar script has exceeded permitted bounds. You are now a GIANT TALL.
Kai looks down. His hands are the size of dump trucks. His shadow blots out a small village of idle NPCs. The server crashes
The sky is a grid of static and lavender. The ground is tessellated polygons, cracked like a dried riverbed.
“Fear not. I am the new horizon.”
(Text-to-speech, robotic) /kick Giant_Tall_Avatar. Reason: Intimidation via altitude.
Kai tries to speak. His voice comes out as a subsonic rumble that cracks the audio channel of everyone nearby. Each keystroke is a thunderclap