No. If System tells me to drink water, I won't do it.
I back away and pull the cubs with me. Lightning does too. Despite their yowls and flailing limbs, we wrangle them.
[No.] I resist System, my hackles raised and my whiskers periscoping to sense danger. [No. You told us to collect it. The Eldritch Doe didn't give us permission.]
Lightning piles on. [We can't. The doe told us about the flower, but we need to respect it.]
System is cold. Brutal. [The doe is in MY world. I CREATED IT.]
The sensation in my stomach tells me that System is lying. It didn't create the doe. Someone else did. Maybe whoever created Mushroom Man and the Amulet of Beast Power.
[If you created it, then you should know that it has rules.] I challenge System like Captain Kirk going toe to toe with an alien computer. [It forbade us from hunting in the forest. It has rules.]
[I MAKE THE RULES.]
Oh, System hates being challenged.
