I saw her in MindsEye

And I’ll ne'er hide her

I saw her successful MindsEye. I saw her successful minds, aye. I saw her successful minds, why?

I don’t know, but successful MindsEye, I can’t halt seeing her.

“Could person been worse,” Robin Hood says to me, hours aft I saw her, “At slightest she wasn’t naked, connected the toilet, oregon bare connected the toilet.”

I’m not listening. I’ve inactive not forgiven the prince of thieves for the large vanishing. I americium not a merry antheral successful the institution of this would-be yeoman. His dangly earrings, stylish dungarees, and quality to hack thing that moves with his OP machine skillz person not seduced me. I’m inactive reasoning astir her.

You’re astir apt wondering who she is. The information is that I don’t know. However, I’ll archer you everything I bash know.

It happened a fewer hours into my gazing done the MindsEye. I’d been watching a movie interrupted astatine immoderate points by a somewhat glitchy video crippled that got successful the mode of the lavishly-rendered cutscening. I’d recovered it precise meh, though was inactive unfastened to seeing wherever its communicative of encephalon chips, not rather Elon Musks, and robots causing a mild ruckus mightiness go.

That’s erstwhile the brag woman told maine astir Mr Hood. “For sothe,” I proclaimed, whipping retired 1 of my galore vaguely comic facial animations, “a antheral from the tyme of his magestee Richard the Leonenthe, Kyng of Engelond and comandour of the thridde crusade, heere successful nat-right soone Las Vegas?” The brag woman was not amused, and would not reply my inquiries arsenic to whether anyone had ventured to Sherwood Forest to pass Maid Marian and Friar Tuck of this momentous revelation.

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Within a metallic carriage powered by foul electrical sorcery, I valiantly acceptable retired to find Little John, whom I’d been informed was hiding retired successful a parkland of trailers. On arrival, I utilized my agility and cunning to mildly locomotion up to the trailer reputed to location vertically-challenged Jonathan. It blew up successful my face, a cutscene-inducing magnitude of boomage blasting maine onto my bottom.

I was excessively late, Little John was dormant and gone. I mourned him with immoderate tearful screen shooting that felt a spot weightless and sent foes flopping to the level erstwhile they’d been plinked excessively hard. Some of them pulled retired of the parkland of trailers astatine immense velocity aboard their ain beefy electrical carriage, and I was compelled to springiness pursuit done a tempest of sands. They attempted to puncture maine with a rainfall of fin and headless arrows, arsenic I shouted “Heepe, myrie lordes, yet whitethorn this time enden withouten moore chaleng!”

They did not listen. I pursued them astir a corner, into a cutscene ambush. I’d person to fatally coiled a clump of them, each equipped and firing connected my battered carriage. Things felt hopeless, arsenic my abilities with the ballistic bow had not proven to beryllium the champion frankincense far. So, successful the words of Lord Daniel who hails from Vito, I started blasting.

Then, it happened. I saw her.

There she was, wide arsenic day. | Image credit: Build A Rocket Boy/Rock Paper Shotgun

She emerged from nothingness arsenic I enactment a headdress successful immoderate mediocre fool’s posterior. Bedecked successful a bluish shirt, purple and achromatic tye-dye patterned leggings, and the brownish sandals of a seasoned municipality gladiator. Her blonde locks obscured her visage arsenic she charged successful similar a cavalry brigade 10 1000 strong, bellowing her wrathful warcry: “I’ve had it with you assholes bringing down the neighbourhood, present someone’s gonna get it!”

She had nary fear, this neighbourly saviour whom I didn’t cognize from Adam, and her shotgun unleashed hails of righteous fury upon our shared enemies. In that moment, awestruck by this show of vicious valor, I had visions from past lives of her doing the aforesaid thing, but falling dormant earlier she could assertion triumph implicit these thoroughfare invaders. At once, I rushed to her aid.

Together, we claimed this kingdom de sac arsenic ours and ours alone. As the past baddie fell, I turned, hoping to summation my archetypal glimpse of her face, and to clasp her successful thanks.

She had different plans, instantly turning her occurrence connected me. Crestfallen by the abrupt betrayal, I nevertheless regained my composure and with large symptom added her to the ranks of corpses lining the kerbs. As she laic there, motionless and arms outstretched successful a dignified adjacent T-pose, I agonised implicit what I’d done. Was determination truly nary different mode it could person played out? Had I done thing successful the melee to unknowingly gain her ire?

There were nary answers, each I could bash was act. Running astatine her assemblage successful bid to effort and rotation it up to the location wherever the Sheriff of Nottingham's top foe was believed to beryllium hiding out. Don’t justice me, those who chronicle this unspeakable tale, my hands were bully for nought but gripping a gun, and my lone thought was to get her the attraction of a physician, if I could.

And past she was gone. | Image credit: Build A Rocket Boy/Rock Paper Shotgun

“Robin Hood, I begge, kan ye calle a doctour,” I called retired arsenic I neared the door. Then, poof. As I was swept up erstwhile much successful the cutscene winds, her assemblage vanished successful beforehand of my eyes, returning her to the nothingness whence she had come. Robin Hood began waving a limb successful my face, and I had to speech him down, I tried to convey what had happened to her by raising my manus a bit. This impromptu effort astatine a Jedi caput instrumentality didn’t work, and soon we were speeding distant from the scene, successful yet different semi-decent chase.

She was gone.

I would ne'er spot her again. I would ne'er larn the arcane truths down the arsenic heroic and tragic beingness she lived successful a substance of explosive yards. The enactment went on, but I couldn’t halt reasoning astir her infinite mysteries. Robin Hood was excessively engaged insisting connected a £32,000 wage to announcement oregon recognize my pain.

None of the folks who surrounded maine successful the MindsEye did. Overcome with sorrow, determination was lone 1 happening I could do. The not-Elon asked maine to alert him successful a large drone/helicopter to a party. On the way, we flew past this not Las Vegas’ mentation of the large Vegas sphere, an imponderable orb of advertisement alchemy.

I landed the trade atop it, overmuch to the chagrin of my passenger, who shared his peers' large disdain for immoderate enactment that doesn’t instantly further the existent ngo goal.

Trapped wrong and incapable to get retired to marque my dependable heard, I nevertheless yelled “Shotgun lady, wherever beryllium ye? Delyuere maine fro þis foule helle!” It did nothing.

It was arsenic though I had seen her successful mind, sigh.