Mei-Li might have been surprised by her outfit, but such things were the norm for blacksite games. In order to award the kinds of prizes that they do, and make a profit on top of it, they needed to be able to charge a considerable price to a fairly wide audience. Even the more respectable parts of the virtual network regularly used sexuality to pander to lecherous customers, and the blacksites did not even attempt to hold to any sense of decency; lechery and sexual violence were written into the coding of the NPCs of blacksite games more often than not. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, female characters would be on the receiving end of such programming far more often than not.<br/><br/>Saeko's swaying gait carried her down from the rocky outcrop and out into the barren wastes before her at a surprising pace. But even after more than a half hour of traveling, her destination did not appear to be significantly closer; this was not a game that was intended to end quickly. The desert surrounding Saeko was mostly empty, save for the occasional boulder, desiccated shrub, or bleached bones half-buried in the sand. The moon, half-hidden in the clouds, was just beginning to descend from the sky, heralding that the night was more than halfway over. There was a cold, dry wind blowing from the direction of the Tower, smelling faintly of smoke and death.<br/><br/>As Saeko was about to make her way past a particularly large monolith of stone, jutting out of the coarse sand like a great pillar, she suddenly heard a coarse snarling. Something shambled out from behind the rock, the source of the feral sound that she was hearing. It was a corpse, its skin a discoloured purplish hue, with tattered and rotting rags hanging from its partly-decayed body. Its nails had grown into awful claws, which were held as if the creature was ready to pounce. The monster's eyes were empty, but locked on Saeko; it stared at her for a moment before charging, slashing at her madly with its<br/>vicious-looking talons. However, in its mindless fury, the undead creature fails to strike Saeko and take advantage of its initiative.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Desert Ghoul</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://img03.deviantart.net/0a54/i/2011/355/d/b/zombie_by_targete-d4ju18m.jpg)<br/><br/>HP: 18<br/><br/>STR: 18<br/>AGI: 14<br/>INT: 4<br/>SPI: 7<br/></div></div><br/><br/>*Desert Ghoul Attacks*<br/>Roll = 31; Miss<br/>