The Teleporting Cow pt.1

With Her Master busy for the foreseeable future Annie lit up her eyes, and sent a message to Winnie, due to the distance it took Annie a few minutes to get the connection stable enough for Winnie to notice she was trying to call.

"Does Mistress Bree wish to return early?" Winnie asked immediately, having already been informed that Bree had chosen to stay the extra day in the hopes of actually doing something without being interrupted by someone or something else.

"No, she is currently away preparing for her lecture," Annie thought back to the precious night, "I simply had an odd exchange with Mistress Bree, and since you're not expected to let anyone touch her autobiography until you finished making copies of it all, I fear I must ask if you could help me understand why something as simple as Orion and Sheepy's origins would make Mistress Bree look…sad?"

"Odd," Winnie muttered at the notion, "Come to think of it, I'm not sure either Mistress Bree's estate is every mentioned in the books, I hadn't much thought about it since I just figured It hadn't come up, but Bella and Zoey both asked me about a particular look She had when she made you her first maid, and I've yet to see it in any of her stories,"

Winnie looked at the book she was currently reading, having needed to slow down her progression of them to begin making the copies so the others on staff might get to read them, having no hands it was a fairly slow process.

"I shall inspect her stories, and see if I can't find out why Orion and Sheepy's origins might make her sad," Annie thanked her and Winnie felt the connection drop.

"Very well then," Winnie picked up Volume ten of her Mistresses stories, and jumped back into where she had last left off, hoping to find the point where her Master had first acquired her home.

***

Bree yawned as she logged in, being her one day off for the week she fully planned to enjoy herself, after a short loading screen she found herself in her small room, the last inn she had checked into to move her respawn location.

Without much fanfare Bree exited the room, and then made her way past a few other players preparing for the games first big event, the six month anniversary was fast approaching, and with it a personal housing update had been leaked, Bree didn't feel to hyped as she wasn't sure if she'd even bother buying any personal property, she had a sneaking suspicion it was just going to be the guild housing network, but reworked for loners or people who didn't play enough to maintain guild membership.

"Just another way to squeeze pennies out of unsuspecting saps," Bree decided indignantly as she opened the game menu while walking, she had a large amount of in-game currency and was claiming the small bits of it she received daily with her monthly membership, able to use it to buy customization items, she could also use it to buy new items at bulk.

After making sure she had ten open inventory slots she went to the Wishing Star and spent roughly all her saved up currency on a Ten Item pull, after a moment it was declared that they were all common ranked items, and without hesitation she swiftly disposed of them.

"Can't start the day on a bad pull," She rationalized as she dipped into her ever in-consistently sized Game budget and just bought enough currency to do a second pull, once again receiving nothing but common items, but with a guaranteed S item only twelve pulls away she tried her luck on one more purchase, sighing in defeat upon seeing nine commons and one uncommon.

"I'll get enough from my dailies for two more pulls later," She decided in defeat as she checked up on what they were, she had five to do, with four extra rewards awaiting if she did at least four of them.

"Catch a Rare Fish, Kill twenty Frog-fiends, Emote after killing an enemy three times, Protect the Merchant's cart, Help old Greg," Bree looked at the five missions available and immediately threw one out of the pool, "Never doing that stupid Escort mission again,"

Bree started her morning with a nice round of fishing, catching a Super-Rare Tuna on her seventh try, easily killing the low level Frog-fiends and doing a staff swirl after the first three kills, with three out of four done, Bree just had to do Old Gergs quest and that guaranteed Legendary item was hers.

Old Greg was a Hobbit living in the bad part of the Kingdom, full of thieves and bandit enemies in many parts, lucky Old Greg was in a town section of the rundown city so no enemies would spawn and bug her from afar.

"Hello there Kid," Old Greg said as Bree interacted with him, "Lucky you can when you did, My Prized Cow, Cowie's, gone and gotten herself kidnaped, think you could bring her home,"

"Dammit this is an escort mission too," Bree swore angrily, accepting it angrily since she already started talking to the NPC and didn't wanna deal with going across to the countryside just to do the same kind of quest. "And why do you even have a cow in this part of town, of all places, and Cowie what kind of name is that, it's like naming a Pig Piggy or a Sheep Sheepy," Bree huffed as she headed towards the part of the ruined section of city that bandits spawned in, "Just lazy if you ask me,"

Bree followed the quest guide to Cowie's location, the Cow was surrounded by twelve Bandits, who called out for her to back off as they all started rushing her.

Bree used Lightning Bolt to hit the first guy, having it travel through all the opponents before swimming her weapon, a magic staff with a floating disconnected ring and ball floating over the end. 

"Anti-life," She called out, the skill caused fatal damage to any non-boss enemy with less than twenty five percent health, and caused the Rot satis effect on any Bosses or enemies above the required health threshold.

A Few bandits died and the rest were taken out with a combination of a second Lightning bolt and the Rot effect.

With all enemies dead the frustration began as the Cow began following her, she made it all of five feet before it walked into a slightly crumbled wall and it's walk cycle continued trying to follow her, after a moment the game registered the cow was stuck and it faded out of existence, re-appearing in its original spot.

Bree took a deep breath, as with all escort missions in the game, during the start of the game's run they had been bugged and a lot of them had to be forcefully failed due to the target they were supposed to be escorting getting perma-stuck on the most minute of things.

The Dev team had added a patch that made it so escortale characters would despawn and respawn if they got stuck on anything for to long, but since they hadn't fixed the issues themselves, it just resulted in players having to constantly restart the mission as their escort target wouldn't move if the player was to far away, and would always respawn at their last saved point, usually between every battle phase.

But daily missions only had one battle phase, so if the target got stuck and respawned, the player would have to walk all the way back and restart without any save spots.

The Last time Bree had done an Escort Daily it had been the Merchant's carriage, it had gotten stuck a few feet from it's final spot no less than four times, following the fourth she had quit the mission and refused any further escort dailies.

"Oh should we fix the broken system since our last patch just turned the previous problem into a different problem?" Bree asked in a mocking tone directed toward the Dev team, "No, let's just add more Escort quests, the players just love playing them,"