Living Outside the Database

SAO is cleared. The game has been beaten. Thousands of survivors swear off VRMMOs forever, opting for 'safer' monitor-and-mouse games that can't possibly trap you in a deathgame no matter how hard it tries. Many opt to start fresh in the venerable old game 'Elder Tale'. Oh look, the 'Homesteading the Noosphere' update is about to come out… (Hollow Fragment Continuity)