Alex stood in front of the door, its wooden frame and iron hinges creaking slightly.

"Alright, I can't keep losing any more hairs, people! Looks like Alex is going alone!" John exclaimed.

They were just done drawing hairs, in his desperation to take a piss, Alex plucked out John's eyebrow hair to ensure he had the shortest hair of the bunch.

Alex stood in front of the door, before it a dresser.

He held onto Thal as lighting battered the waters around them.

The fierce rocking of the ship a reminder of why they can't simply leave this horrible situation, because of the monsters resting beneath the cradle their little ship lay in, the gigantic, stormy sea.

"Alright!" Alex said trying to psyche himself up, he was jumping from foot to foot.

"I need to go take a piss... real bad!" Alex was clutching onto Thal.

"Just piss out the window or something!" Thal said irritated.

"AND HAVE MY DICK EATEN BY SOME SEA MONSTER!?" Alex demanded internally.

"The fallen is dealing alright with being dickless," Thal replied.

"That's because John was gender-bent, not undicked!" Alex argued.

Swiftly, Grim slid the dresser out of the way, smashing it against a nearby wall in the process.

"GO!" he exclaimed stepping away from the door.

Alex flung the door open and began running.

He ran into the long wooden corridor of the ship, lamps lay broken by the unlit along the sides of the walls.

"Gotta pee, gotta pee, gotta pee-..." he kept repeating it like a mantra.

Alex ran past the various rooms, most were living quarters, in the distance, he was able to make out the shape of the stairs.

He jumped down the stairs and kicked down the door to the crew quarters.

Inside were dozens of beds and dressers, as well as a massive pile of boxes and sack of something.

The occasional barrel serving as a makeshift table for some sort of card game.

Alex looked around and decided that he would just go piss in some random corner.

He marched up to one corner and saw that it was still near a bed.

"If I take a piss here... they'll know who pissed in their rooms..." thought Alex.

"So?! Just take a piss already!"

Alex looked around and saw a dozen bodies lying around the ground.

He walked up to one body, picked it up and dragged it next to the bed.

Alex placed the man onto the bed, put a blanket over him and began to piss on said man.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?" Thal demanded.

"Shhh! I'm making it look like he pissed himself before dying in his sleep!" Alex explained.

"Why?" asked the man currently under the piss stream.

He had a patchy beard and a hairline that looked like it was winning a game of hide-and-seek with him.

He had a massive hairy gut and a white tank top.

Alex didn't notice it until now, but the man wasn't wearing anything else.

Alex went silent as he looked at the man.

Their eyes locked as Alex's stream slowly stopped.

The man frowned.

"Who told you to stop?" asked the man prompting Alex to resume his full-speed urination.

"I'M SCARED!" Alex exclaimed internally.

"ME TOO! LET'S GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" Thal replied.

As soon as Alex ran dry the man stood up and patted Alex on the shoulder.

A look of pity appeared on the man's face.

"Be free my boy, you should get goin'..."

Alex zipped up his trousers and with an expression of petrified shock, he picked up one bag and walked back upstairs, no longer displaying the speed and vigour he did on his way down.

He walked into the room with everyone inside once more and dropped the bag on the ground.

Seeing his expression, JohnWillStab asked him: "Hey, are you alright, man?"

Alex reached into the bag and pulled out a bottle of clear alcohol before starting to drink from it.

"NO! I FEEL VIOLATED!" he cried before rolling into a ball on the ground and silently crying to himself.

"H-he tried to pee on a corpse... but the corpse talked!" exclaimed Thal.

"Oh good, Paul the pervert is still alive!" exclaimed the captain with a sigh of relief.

JohnWillStab moved over to the sack and opened it up revealing that it was filled to the brim with alcohol.

"Uhm, Alex... where's the food?" asked John.

Everyone looked over to the booze-filled sack.

Their expressions darkening as they realise they have nothing but alcohol.

"Alex! What the hell, man?!" demanded Jordan.

Alex turned to everyone, confused and angry.

"All I need right now is alcohol to cope..." he sighed.

"ALRIGHT! I'll go get the food and water!" John exclaimed, without any other words he stood up and marched right out of the room and down to the crew quarters.

He saw the bodies littering the floor as well as the nude man standing next to the piss-stained bed.

"Good evening..." said the man not even looking over to John.

"H-hi!" John exclaimed, the shock evident in his tone.

From the top down to his belt, the man was now dressed in a proper suit and fedora.

"I'm guessing you're JohnWillStab, correct?" asked Paul.

"Yeah..."

The man turned around making no attempt to disguise his nakedness.

"Age, twenties."

"Place of birth, 123-Genericnicehouse."

"Worked as a game tester for two months, aside from that you led an online career."

The man sat down on the bed.

"You moved out into 321-Basicallyforida street a few weeks later at the age of eighteen."

JohnWillStab drew his blades.

"I'll have you know I was never a fan of detective movies..." John threatened.

"Relax, I'm not actually here to fight." assured the pantless man.

"My name is Elix, I know it's hard to tell, I'm actually a naga from beneath the sea, an NPC if you will," he explained.

"Is that why you're not wearing trousers?" asked John.

"Well, the explanation I heard is that back when this was a game, snake-legged creatures essentially wore snake-leg-trousers instead of having their model actually have snake-legs," Elix explained.

"Thanks to a bug in the game I was stuck with invisible snake-legs... meaning I have non-removable anti-trousers..." sighed the man.

"Wait, if you're an NPC, how do you know so much about me?!" demanded John.

"That's because I'm not fully an NPC," explained the man.

John didn't say anything, he "enabled" his Tenecirus skill and saw that he did, in fact, have two souls.

"Have I captured your interest?" asked the man.

"Wait... are you or are you not an NPC?" asked John.

"I am both an NPC and not, my name is Elix, but I share this body with Thomas B. Surnames,"

"Back when he was a regular gaming journalist, he wrote an article about this MMO, the devs gave him a test character, that character ID would later be used to store MY data, we are one and we are separate," explained the man.

He walked up to the edge of the ship, his legs played an awkward "slithering" animation as if his legs were broken.

"Why are you telling me this? Why do you know so-" John was cut off once more.

"I know so much about you because I did my research on you back when you were famous." clarified the man.

"It started when the game became famous for a bit after Alexander T. Genericsurname took over your game, I noticed the ones who defeated him had very similar names to you..."

Elix lit a cigarette.

"The joys of being on the surface," he laughed taking a long drag of the cigarette.

"To be perfectly honest, I wasn't the one who wanted to see you, Thomas seemingly wanted to give you some sort of apology about one thing or another," shrugged the creature.

"You can shove your apology up your naked ass, I'm grabbing the food and I'm leaving!" John exclaimed stomping over to the stack, he opened one and saw it was filled with canned beans.

"I do have more to say if you're interested,"

"I'm not!" John exclaimed.

"As you wish, I just thought you'd like to know Jordan is the same." he shrugged.

JohnWillStab was already on his way out of the room and towards the stairs when he spun around.

"What did you say?"

The man smirked.

"Jordan -" JohnWillStab cut him off.

"The surname joke is getting old, just say what you came to say!" John exclaimed.

"Joke?" thought Elix.

"Erm... yes... well, Jordan has the soul of his brother a lot closer than he thinks, that being in him," explained Elix.

"Unlike our souls which are basically polar opposites, their souls are basically the same, and soon one will swallow the other."