Dave was quickly processed into the hospital system and assigned to the nano-d ward. And yes, he had to fill out another small mountain of hospital forms and releases. Including forms for the fees and charges, much higher than the first ones since his surgery was going to cost so much more than Ms. Clentine’s treatnt and hospital stay.
Unknown to him the facilities for the hospital’s cutting edge nano-d technology that would be used to heal his hands were actually under-used. The hospital administrators were concerned they may have made a poor investnt and would not make a profit from the investnt.
The new technology itself was superlative and very effective. But, it was prohibitively expensive and most of the cases it was used for could be treated with older less expensive thods and procedures.
For those reasons the hospital administration was exceptionally happy and eager to get any patient that truly needed the new facilities into the system and started on treatnt and therapy right away.
The mbers of the nano-d surgery team were paged and contacted to give them notice about a new stat surgery on the schedule; giving them a few hours notice to be ready for a long procedure.
So it was in the very early morning hours, only a few hours after being admitted to the hospital, that Dave was wheeled into the nano-d surgery suites and sedated.
While Dave was unconscious for the 12 hour long procedure to fix his old injuries, the world, or at least the gaming-world outside the hospital was in an uproar.
That morning the network entertainnt company, CCN, had announced it would be streaming completely new Conquest video content. The announcent stated the subject of the video was the battle for the second raid zone and it would showcase two never-before-seen monsters that lived in the underworld.
The announcent of the upcoming video didn’t truly create a stir until the company released another announcent a few hours later that the two new creatures had the highest levels ever seen in the ga. That little bit of information generated a buzz on gar sites, social dia and the news boards.
Then CCN announced they would release a teaser at noon. The teaser showed only a few monts of the Underworld from Mr. Skeletal’s point of view, but the dia and the public reacted wildly. It seed like the short clips of the Underworld were all anyone anywhere was talking about for the rest of the day. At work, on the news, at ho, or on social dia the topic of conversation was the new Conquest video. Within hours the in-ga footage from the teaser was dissected and analyzed by every dia pundit and Conquest ’expert’ and by hundreds more who could not claim even those questionable titles.
The first scene of the teaser was of Dave facing the Sworn Stalwart, where it shot an intense laser beam at his face. The teaser cut away from the scene before the attack reached Dave.
Then Dave was facing off against the imnse Earth Titan.
The teaser cut away again, this ti showing the Abyssal Knight Dagla using his Song of Death. summoning waves of dark matter to buff his undead-allies and help them against the tide of incoming Demon-Knights
After that the viewers got to see a few monts of Dave riding on the back of a dunlord, charging like heavy cavalry at the Demonic soldiers.
The Dunlords’ sacrifice to let Dave move forward, and him turning and cursing back at the demons who killed his underlings made the viewers’ blood boil.
The final video clip showed Dave at the top of a volcano clearly about to do sothing montous, but the scene cut away, leaving what he was about to do to the viewers imaginations. A true ’tease’.
The screen then simply displayed a large CCN logo while a smooth-voiced announcer spoke: "Tune in to see the latest adventures of Mr. Skeletal." A caption appeared ’Watch it Today on CCN! Airs at 8:00 P.M. EST. Only on CCN!’
The CCN logo was replaced by the smirking face of Dave’s draugr character, Mr. Skeletal, with the sa caption.
The final image was strangely disturbing, so disturbing it beca a ’thing.’ Surveys and opinion polls showed nearly every viewer thought it was a particularly creepy image. But at the sa ti, for so inexplicable reason, the ’creepy factor’ only made viewers want to see the video even more.
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