I'm back in town now. Didn't find any wolves to fight. It's starting to get dark. Most of the townsfolks are headed home. There are plenty of adventurers out still. I still don't really feel like repetitively grinding skills right now. Even though I'm not tired I think I'm going to try sleeping.

I'm under my covers, on my bed, with my eyes closed. I'm going to sleep.

"Hey system, I'd like to sleep now."

Nope. Not happening. Maybe if I just lie here a while longer...

I think about:

• Fighting wolves

• Finding my corpse.

• Respawning

• Grinding

• My creepy away character

• Doktor Urmind

• Kithera

• Grass

I wish I could log into RWO. I'm not having much fun in my world right now. I wonder if players have a sleep skill that they level up in. Maybe I could find a trainer for that. Ok, the dying and respawning thing was a little fun.

I open my eyes and see a [ceiling fan] again. [System: logged in to RWO]

Huh, did I fall asleep? Yep, I can feel my body again. Actually, it's my player's body. I can feel something next to me. I roll over and see Kithera. Somehow I don't think he's playing at the moment. Should I wake her up? I wonder if that would make her mad. I bet taking my player's body out on an adventure while he's supposed to be sleeping next to his wife is probably a little rude.

"Hey, Kithera."

"What?"

"It's Hashi again."

Kithera sits up abruptly and pulls the covers around her. She looks a little different. Her hair is messy and she isn't wearing her glasses.

"Hashi, why are you here? Is he playing in his sleep?"

"Not sure and don't know. I went to the inn and tried sleeping and woke up here. Your husband didn't leave me a real list of things to do and repeating the same stuff over and over was starting to get to me. And my away character is creeping me out."

Kithera said, "Hashi, slow down. Do you know how to get back to your own world?"

I tell her, "Sure, all I have to do is say 'Log off'" [System: H Grindswell has logged of RWO]

When I wake up at the inn, I have to wonder if she tricked me into logging off, or did I just do it to myself. I hope she'll tell my player that I want a new to-do list. Since I'm thinking about to-do lists, what to do with my away character. The thought of him just sitting there a couple rooms away. Yuck. I need to find something for him to keep him busy. It's time to make a list.

• Have him practice running. To the next town. Maybe. Then I'd end up in the next town.

• Have him cycle endlessly through the list of skills like I was starting to do. I'm not liking this one since I'd be running into him all the time.

• I could get him a room at a different inn.

• I could get a room at a different inn.

• I could send him off to fight the wolves. With armor, or without armor. I’d probably have him skip armor as he'd probably lose it.

I'm not sure if this is helping. I want to get him out of the way where I don't have to deal with him. I prefer it not involve leaving him in too strange a location that would be hard to get back from. I wish I could just turn him off and skip the away character thing.

[System: H. Grindswell away character function disabled. Use the system menu to re-enable away characters]

Uh, that is both great and scary. So my player can just turn me off. I really don't like that. I need some way to keep that from happening. I better not get him mad at me in the meantime. I'm going to go clean up all those wrappers and then find something interesting to do.