And one last time you will have. The corp can wait.

You turn on your headset, wear the emulator on your chest, and lie down. A sense of sleepiness washed over you, and you soon find yourself drifting between the folds.

When your eye open, you are greeted with the login screen, surrounded by the familiar waiting screen. As you wait, the bodies of your previous character are being pulled out of the ground, lifeless and ready to be... you.
You look through them with a sense of nostalgia. There is your first character, a Gembound male Kineticist, who you only leveled to 97, the max level possible of the first patch. Then there is your best pvp character, a level 256 Doll-borne female Gunshifter. But how can you forget your best raider, the famous level 345 Tenguile female lantern lord?

But then, you notice the lowest level one, a level 0 Madness male Elchymist. You remember him. It was the last race to be added before the studio that made this game goes bankrupt and have to sell them to the corps. It was a trend back then to protest with a level 0 character, to show the corps that the player base don't wanna play this this game if it just going to be just another cash cow for the big corps. You were young then, and didn't know or didn't care if the protest even gonna work. You just want to say something. How ironic then, that you are in this position now.

Perhaps this is atonement. You look at the Madness. Update 13 was to add some horror element to the game. All the Lovecraft shit that the contemporary pop culture love so much. The Madness was meant to be a hardcore race. When every races started out at level 10, Madness started at 1. When every races started with their class equipment, the Madness only has a broken set of weapon. When every race level up freely, Madness lose level if they die, and their equipment too. But the upside is, they get to revive freely and it doesnt cost any soul-heart. They can never be one shot by any means, and they always deal a minimum of 0.03% of their enemies max health with any attacks, regardless of defense of level. This in theory let them explore area that before no other classes can visit, and explore what hidden there. "Horror and insanity abound", you remember the tag line for that update like it was just yesterday, even though its been 7 years since. You can still remember why you eventually abandon him: you dont want to touch the game since the corp acquisition, and when the lead modder, and once your friend ReialtRigidty brought the old version back on a hidden corner of the net that you touched the game again, but still you refuse to use him, in a sense as a remembrance for what that was lost.

Edit: Translation of my work in my own language to English, since i doubt it will ever be read by people that speak my native language. But the idea is still there, i think you can kinda understand the general structure. Well, you can help me fix it for sure, i am grateful if that ever happen.