The air was clean in this neck of the woods. Doce was sure to take deep breaths of the stuff, admiring its purity. True, the air here was only a product of the game's environment, but it was still impressive to her that they could make it taste so good. She'd almost forgotten that she was hunting by the time she finally spotted her prey.<br/><br/>It was an odd little creature: about three feet tall, four-and-a-half feet long. It appeared to be some kind of cross between a lion and a boar. It had the body of a boar, but the mane of a lion, and front paws to match. Although it was fairly small, Doce could see the muscles bulging under its skin from where she stood.<br/><br/>The creature didn't seem to have noticed her yet, so she crouched down and leapt into the air. Lucy's body carried her into an impressive jump, naturally flipping itself when she reached the zenith. The Lion-Boar noticed her shadow over it, and turned to face her, squealing angrily and readying its tusks to catch her in a painful embrace. It was now or never. Doce pulled her new body into a horizontal spin as she descended, she called on one of her vectors to follow with her momentum, and it sliced the creature as she came around. She landed in a crouch, struggling to focus with how dizzy she'd made herself.<span style="font-style: italic">Damn motion sickness,</span>she thought, bringing a hand to her mouth while her stomach churned unpleasantly.<span style="font-style: italic">I suppose because it's my mind processing these motions, there will be certain physical flaws that carry over in addition to the psychological ones.</span><br/><br/>Since she was distracted, she didn't notice that she'd failed to kill the hostile mob. She'd been aiming to decapitate it, but, well, her aim was off. She'd dealt it a fatal wound, but not outright killed the creature. It got one last hurrah before kicking the bucket, lumbering over to her and dragging a tusk along her arm. She cried out and clutched the bleeding appendage and the mob collapsed, its form disintegrating into millions of digital pixels. There was a green light shooting up from where the mob had been. Doce staggered to her feet and stood on top of it, figuring this was how the game handled item drops. Sure enough, a window came up with two items listed: A "small bandage" and seven Gold. She pressed a button that said "loot all," and opened her inventory. She selected the bandage and hit equip. It automatically wrapped itself around the wound she'd sustained, and sparkled briefly. It looked just like simple white gauze, but it eased her pain. According to the description, the bandage would steadily heal her for a set amount of time, as opposed to health potions, she read in the notification box, which restored a set amount of HP.<br/><br/>She also got notifications about Gold and Experience. Gold was a resource in the game which you could use to buy items. It could be obtained by killing mobs, completing quests, or selling items, etc. Experience, of course, would level you up if you accumulated enough of it. You could get it by killing mobs, completing quests, and etc. Doce saw that the Lion-Boar gave her twenty-five experience points. That meant she could hit level two with just three more of them. "I've got to find more of these mobs," she said, closing her inventory and dashing off.