It's kind of like WoW, but completely different. It's more magical and glittery. And violent. Actually I've never played WoW, so I have no idea what I'm talking about. xD It ended weird, but I needed to make it end instead of making this drivel longer than it should be.
Adventures In Online Gaming
By D. Ant
"Planet of Phayt?" Jigen looked with uncertainty at the web page.Lupin was signing in, ready to play more of the popular online game.
"You actually play this?" Fujiko asked in disbelief.
"And 'Fate' is spelled wrong why?" Goemon asked.
"You guys just don't get it." Lupin was now playing the game, fully concentrating on it as he ran around looking for battles.
His character was an elf that he had named, in all originality, Lupin. The elf wore a fantasy elfish type outfit of blue, white and gray. He also had long brown hair, which swayed back and forth as he ran. His weapon of choice were two short swords.
"So, what's the point of this?" Jigen asked as he watched, getting slightly interested as Lupin battled a large sand worm, blood spewing from it each time it was stabbed.
"You have to stop the evil wizard troll who has stolen all of the Phayts, which are kind of like fairies or something."
"Why are you an elf?" Fujiko asked with a grin. "Fantasy of yours or something?"
"Of course," he answered with a grin of his own. "Everyone knows elves are hot."
"Are all the battles like that?" Jigen was now watching as Lupin ripped an arm off a peasant and started beating him to death with it.
"Nice, isn't it?"
"Don't tell me you're interested in this?" Fujiko glanced over at Jigen.
"You can kill people with their own limbs. Of course I'm interested."
"It is kind of intriguing," Goemon said, unable to look away from the game.
Fujiko scoffed and shook her head. "Men," she muttered as she walked away.
That night both Jigen and Goemon were signed up for the game.
Goemon sat on the floor staring down at the laptop as he created his character.
Jigen layed on the couch, his laptop resting on his chest as he finished his character, which he named iw1llkeelj00.
He had selected his character to be an escaped convict, one which wore old ripped clothes, had long black hair, and whose weapon was an old rusty saw.
"Your name makes me cry," Lupin remarked, glancing over at him from the kitchen table.
"You ready, yet?" Jigen asked Goemon. "Need help?"
Goemon didn't answer as he was still picking out his character. "Okay, I'm ready," he finally said.
"We're in the Mystical Bog," Lupin said, telling him where to meet.
Goemon directed his character to the area, meeting with the others.
Jigen and Lupin immediately started to laugh.
Goemon had picked the Pigmy Fruit Dwarf as his character, the smallest and least used character in the game. Compared to the other characters, the Pigmy Fruit Dwarf was about one fourth their size. The males had short hair and wore poofy pants and a small vest. The females, of which Goemon had picked, had wings, long braided hair and wore a simple dress of bright colors. Their default weapon was usually a porcupine quill or a sling shot or a sharpened twig. Goemon had started off with the porcupine quill.
"What the hell?" Jigen asked through laughter. "You're joking, right? This is your character?"
To make matters worse, he had named his character Tina Liahnor.
Lupin was too busy laughing to say anything, although there was so much he wanted to say.
"Can we just play the game?" Goemon glanced over at them and then back to the game.
"Okay, yeah, let's play this." Jigen moved his character around, the others following as they searched the bog for monsters.
It was no time at all when they ran into a monster, a giant salamander.
Lupin ran around, stabbing the salamander three times before he was hit and backed away.
Jigen grabbed the salamanders head and sawed off it's nose.
In it's anger, the salamander ate Goemon.
Lupin and Jigen began to laugh once again.
Goemon closed the laptop and left the room, Jigen and Lupin not noticing until about thirty minutes later, when they both stopped laughing.
Goemon was on a mission and headed for the local internet cafe. He signed on to the game, picking another server and wandering around fighting random monsters. With the coffee continually coming he was able to play for hours on end.
By the time the sun had come up he had gained 17 levels. Satisfied for the day, he logged out and left.
Lupin and Jigen continued playing during the next week. Although after a short time of playing their main purpose was to become trolls, putting money on how long it would take them to be banned. They would flame random players, pick fights with others just to waste their time, and hack into others accounts just to make their characters "pretty", dressing them in random colorful items and accessories.
Goemon would always opt out when he was asked to play, saying he had to meditate. His meditating was more like sleeping, as he was awake almost every day playing the online game.
Tina Liahnor became legend. Even the creators of the game took notice of the Pygmy Fruit Dwarf who would stand down to no enemy, no matter how big it was.
And by the end of the week Goemon was the only player in the games short history to reach level 99. And his character was the only one who could fight a Towering Dark Demi-God, the hardest monster, aside from the last boss, and defeat it.
"Hey, you want to play, Tina?" Lupin asked with a laugh.
Goemon stared at him, smiled and nodded.
"Now make sure you don't step on her, Lupin," Jigen joked. "She is a fragile character."
They both laughed. Goemon glared. "Where are you and I will meet you there."
"We're near that big stupid tree," Jigen said, his voice telling Goemon he had already lost interest in the game.
"Fine." Goemon logged on. His final moment, the event he had been working up to, was about to come. And although it was overkill, he didn't care.
Lupin and Jigen laughed as Goemon's character appeared. Their laughs faded as Goemon chose to fight them.
"What are you doing?" Jigen asked.
"Yeah, Goemon, what is this?"
"Hey..." Jigen watched as Tina grabbed his character, throwing it to the ground.
Lupin cast a quick heal spell, just getting it off as his character's leg was ripped off. "What the...? You can't do that. He can't do that, can he?" He looked up at Jigen.
"He just did," he said as he watched helplessly his character get stabbed in the eye with a porcupine quill. He threw his arms up in defeat as the small fruit pygmy ran through him with Lupin's leg.
"Okay, fine," Lupin said in anger, getting serious about the fight. He walked his character towards Goemon's, forgetting about the lack of a leg and falling on his face.
Tina struck the defenseless Lupin, grabbing his head with both hands and pulling it right off, holding it up in victory as the battle ended.
Lupin stared blankly at the screen, not saying anything.
Goemon closed the laptop, tossing it on the couch next to Lupin, and left the room. His personal quest fulfilled, he never played Planet of Phayt again.
