He checked his friend list. Online count: 0. Status: "Kael is in a place you cannot reach."
He force-quit and reloaded. Login successful. But his avatar was invisible. Not invisible as in a glitched mesh—his profile picture was a blank gray silhouette. His username had changed to a string of numbers. And in his "My Looks" folder, there was only one saved outfit:
It was called
A new IM popped up. From Lilith_Veil. Last login: Now.
There is no support for ghosts.
His avatar shimmered. The cloak wrapped around him, but the effect wasn't visual—it was behavioral . The moment he returned to a busy public room, he noticed something wrong. People's avatars walked through him. No collision. No "Excuse me." Their chat logs scrolled by, but when he typed "Hello?" the text appeared only to him. No one replied.
Panic set in. He tried to teleport to a friend's apartment. Denied. Tried to remove the outfit. The inventory screen glitched, showing the cloak's name over and over, scrolling faster until it crashed the client. emporium imvu hidden outfit
He clicked.