Take stock of the situation.

You feel Erin go limp, ****. It seems the combination of stress and your Haunting Aura ability have finally gotten to her.

You sit down in the grass, relishing the moment. You can go wherever you want, do whatever you want. You're finally free.

Lost in your thoughts, it takes you a moment to remember the small, blinking alert in the menu. That's right, you'd leveled up, and absorbed that player's armor, hadn't you? Opening the menu, you catch yourself. You'd been about to check Erin's armor stats, rather than your creature stats. But you were no item. Never again.

Possessed Plate - lv. 3
HP: 55
MP: 12
ATK: 38
DEF: 45
MDEF: 30

Abilities:
Haunting Aura
Shifting Plate

Attributes:
AGI: -6
HP regen: +1/sec
MP regen: +2/sec
Spell Absorption: +3%

Hmmm. Interesting. You're fairly certain that your creature type before was "Decrepit Armor"; perhaps this signifies that you've evolved beyond your original form? Also, besides a decent stat increase, it looks like you've unlocked a new ability; "Shifting Plate". According to the description, it grants you the power to shift the appearance and structure of yourself.

The sudden sound of Erin snoring snaps you from your thoughts. You need to go; this is still a zone with heavy player-traffic. You stand, ready to leave, before your eye catches on Sunny's corpse. Dead players' inventories could be looted, right?

As it turned out, Sunny had quite the collection of items going. Rations, a set of potions, some trinkets and low-level loot, and even a dildo are pocketed. How naughty. What catches your eye the most, however, is a menacing, flat-topped helm; Its description reveals it to be a DLC cosmetic item, offering no statistical benefits. You don't care. It's perfect.

Pocketing the items, you make your way towards the woods. As you step inside, you don the helm, causing the last trace of Erin to disappear. As far as the world was concerned, the shy, mousey girl known as Erin Laufey had simply vanished.