Over the course of four nights, my Khajiit skulked at the edge of the bridge. The second night, with the sky dark outside my own window and over the city of Alinor in-game, I found Sleeps-On-Bridges exactly where he was promised to be. Disappointed, but not discouraged, I vowed to come back the following day. Hours later, Sleeps-On-Bridges still hadn't showed. I was self-consciously toeing the line between journalism and stalking. I felt vulnerable, getting so excited about a character that could amount to nothing more than a fleeting joke. In game, my Khajiit thief leaned against the bridge flipping a coin with a levity that I didn’t feel. I cross-referenced several Reddit posts about Sleeps-On-Bridges, netting me the exact location of his bridge. I had pulled out and dusted off nostalgia that only his existence could validate, so I went looking for him. When I heard about the Argonian player who spends hours facedown in the middle of the city, it was my proof that the whimsical attitudes of MMO players were still alive and well. They would scrutinize one another’s outfits, start dance battles, and develop reputations that other players knew them by. I fell in love with Guild Wars as a teenager,enamored with the camaraderie between players goofing around in the starter zone. But her description of the Argonian’s routine reminded me of the shenanigans that first endeared me to online RPGs over a decade ago. I’d formed an unproductive Facebook-like habit of logging in daily to frown at my full inventory or list of incomplete achievements and then logging out disappointed and unmotivated. When a friend told me about Sleeps-On-Bridges I had been absent from ESO, and all other MMOs, for a few years. I watched other players sleep beside Sleeps-On-Bridges. His name is Sleeps-On-Bridges, and he logs on every night to do exactly that. One particular player, a splotchy black and white Argonian, does the most useless thing a person could be doing at the heart of a lively MMO hub. Others pause for a moment to rummage through their inventory bags.

Some thunder over riding horses or bears.

On a busy bridge in Alinor, sandwiched between the fast-travel wayshrine and the crowded crafting stations, hundreds of Elder Scrolls Online players will cross from one part of the busy city to another.

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