"Why did you decide to be a half-demon?" Trevor asked, his character running ahead of his friend to clear out the remaining enemies.

Vald shrugged and said, "Just thought it would be cool."

"Still…" Trevor said hesitantly, glancing sideways at his friend. "That form is a little weird."

Vald glanced at him and chuckled. They had woken up early in the morning and decided to create new characters on their favorite online game. Trevor had chosen to be an elven archer that looked very similar to himself, saying that he could pick up the girls in the game that way. Vald had chosen to be a half-demon, but had made his skin tan and made his hair longer. The demon appearance came with tattoos all over his body, fangs and pointed ears. Despite that, his slim form made him less than intimidating.

Trevor laughed as well, his character killing off the last of their attackers. They were in one of the beginner areas, but were grinding* enough to level up fast enough to make these characters equal to their other characters. There were already both level 15 and had decided that after they healed in a nearby village they would move on to do more leveling.

"Let's head in," Vald suggested, using his last medkit to give his character enough strength to stand.

Trevor agreed. On their way they had to defeat more monsters, but never strong enough to weaken them significantly. Stepping inside the town, Vald felt himself start to heal. The game had the wonderful design of having each town heal any character inside it. This helped beginners who were too poor to afford medkits.

"Anything interesting happen?" Trevor asked a character who was lounging around outside the blacksmith's.

"Hroptr is on a rampage," the man replied.

Vald went inside and got his weapons fixed by an NPC*. There weren't any new upgrades, and neither of them could afford the next level of weapons, so he left and went to the next shop to buy medkits and powerups.

"Who's he again?" Trevor typed.

The character laughed. "Stay away from the Northern Mountains. He's a wizard who rarely leaves them except to get rare items for the day's special. Today he's running around the east looking for an idiot who stole and fried his stuff."

Trevor laughed out loud. Turning to Vald he said, "Isn't that the guy we ran into a few days ago?"

Vald turned to him, his character talking with an NPC to get a quest. "I don't think we've ever met Hroptr. I've heard about him though. He's super high level but hangs out in the north because of the rare item output."

Trevor laughed, turned back to his screen and said, "Oh right, I met him on a day you weren't with me. He's an asshole, and won't help others out unless they promise him an insane reward. He's also ridiculously rich so the only rewards he accepts are rare items."

Vald laughed. "A little selfish much?"

NPC = Non-Player Character

grinding = (my definition) killing a massive amount of relatively weak enemies to gain levels quickly and easily

If there are other gaming terms that aren't easy to understand ask and I'll define it here at the bottom. Thanks!