As she took in the sights - it all felt so real that if she didn't know better, if it weren't for the display and the private messages, Mei-Li might have thought she was just walking through the world's most elaborate Renaissance Faire in cosplay. It was all there - not just sights and sounds, and obviously touch, but even the mouth-watering smells that sometimes wafted from NPCs carrying a meat pie or some other morsel fresh from a shop, or the scent of fresh bread as they passed a bakery.<br/><br/>If there was one thing that might niggle at the suspension of disbelief aside from Mei-Li's display, it was that the playerbase was, naturally, disproportionately attractive (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/d/d9/V3_0600025.png), at least by conventional standards (http://i.imgur.com/lYJCTAO.jpg). Everyone seemed to be a square-jawed leading man, a wispy beauty, a bishonen, or a curvaceous temptress. Already, there was flirting going on, but, almost without fail, whenever Mei-Li walked by, she didn't just grab the attention of men, she<em>commanded</em>it, their gazes following her regardless of whether they'd already been in the middle of a conversation with a vision of loveliness or not. Consequently, Mei-Li drew more than a few stink-eyes, too, from the women she passed.<br/><br/>As it turned out, Mei-Li's popularity garnered them a lead far more quickly than her boyfriend's sleuthing skills, one of her admirers tipping her off to where she might find a helpful NPC.<br/><br/>As they walked into a tavern under the sign proclaiming it "The Wild Goose", it was incredibly easy to spy the NPC they were looking for, because he could never be mistaken for a part of the playerbase. He was paunchy and jowly, and when he laid eyes on Mei-Li, he broke out into a lascivious smile. Mei-Li's display confirmed he was the NPC they were looking for: Mirt (http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/forgottenrealms/images/d/d7/Mirt_character.jpg).<br/><br/>"I'm not sure about this, Mei-Li... Sure, some players are genuinely helpful, but others can sabotage you - especially with that much money on the line."