Starstrike was also happy to share her experiences since the Change - the first day had been precarious, lurking in the ruins of the city trying to avoid being detected by monsters or rapist players. She saw others being captured and dragged off, and eventually she herself was captured by a well-endowed beast that violated her so roughly she respawned in the shrine within the fort afterwards. There she had met the other survivors who made it to the fort and rallied under Zombs's leadership. From what she could figure out, if you died you respawned, but if you were "merely" incapacitated and captured it was a worse fate because there was no easy way out now that the safewords were no longer functioning. Fortunately, under the competent leadership of Zombs they hadn't lost anyone else since that first day.<br/><br/>Zombs had a theory of why the city was still mostly overrun by monsters and not being fixed up - they had heard from other cities that once the monsters had been driven out, things had mostly returned to normal and some NPCs even respawned. His small group had taken out a few monsters before through attrition and playing it safe, but the enemy's numbers refused to drop. He suspected that something was spawning monsters within the perimeter of the city to replace any that were killed, and preventing the city from being repaired at the same time.<br/><br/>As for equipment, the shops were all destroyed and the shopkeepers gone, forcing them to rely on crafting - but the fort only had the basics, like an anvil, which limited them to only the most basic gear. Among Zombs's plans for retaking the city was to retrieve the item crafting stations themselves from the shops and move them into the fort, which would allow the players to start creating magical equipment for themselves. That was where Lizzy would come in - she had the feats and the skills to mass produce magic items once she got a proper workstation.<br/><br/>"Yeah, I can fix these up for you. They'll be ready by tomorrow," Lizzy said, inspecting Rayne's mithril shirt and Sabrith's transformed armour. The young human wizard fished around in her inventory and retrieved a pair of pajamas, one with a carrot motif and the other with a bunny motif. "In the meantime, you can wear these, aren't they cute!? I made these for my brother originally, but his char outgrew them... he dragged me into this game, told me to start item whoring for all his alts, and to use the safeword immediately whenever anything happened. Apparently the system can detect it and sic a GM on you if you use your own alt to craft items for your own account, but gifting between accounts is fine for some reason... I guess that won't be a problem now that there isn't a GM to be seen anywhere. I hope he's alright... the last time I saw him, he told me to stay here in the fort, then headed back out to try to help the others... that was the first day of the Change..." Lizzy sniffed and wiped a tear away. "Sorry, I didn't mean to make you listen through all that."