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Chapter Two:
Side A:
It's been a whole two weeks and I've been at a loss of things to do, I can't level efficiently since the first floor sword fodder don't give out much experience points, even so I made it to level 13. " Uh, Zach?" I grunt, "what are you doing?" Wildstar was now right in front of my face blocking my view. " Well Bucky I've heard of a girl that tamed a NPC enemy," the look he gives is at least thirty percent more confused now. " So the best way to do that, tame a wild animal, is to hold a fishing rod and hope a wolf bites the meat on the hook, then pray it doesn't attempt to kill you when you pull the rod?" I suppose this did look mildly ridiculous, " The rumors didn't say how she tamed it." There's a bit of silence, before he attempts to formulate a sentence before huffing and walking away, leaving me by myself."
Side B:
Three weeks later, no sign of Zach, Ben continues to ask stupid questions, and my level progression has all but stopped, my priorities are clear, find and kill the boss, find Zach and make our way to the second floor. We had made it to the second town, Tolbana with relative ease and collectively we have one hundred gold, I would cry but Ben had spent sixty of our gold on food, my anger has kept any semblance of self pity far from my mind. I decided to go back out into the fields and Ben said he would look around town asking if residents had seen Zach. Slowly making my way to the gates I saw a member of the information guild, I walked up to him. " Ah you seek info, I may know a thing or two, should you have the right amount of gold," I know I'll regret asking this, " yeah, yeah how much?" He eyes my armor and opens his mouth, "listen buddy I get it, you're looking for a friend, but I'm looking for a living, and with that armor I doubt you'll be able to get me what I want."
I grabbed him by his hood and lifted him up, "listen bucko, I am looking for a friend," he lifts his hand to point to some members of the army ready to push me out into the near by fields. " Wouldn't do anything reckless with them around," he starts to nervously laughs, I put him down. I walk away defeated, he calls " who're you looking for?" I describe Zach, and he nods "you owe me," and then he walks off. I walk out of the town and attempt to farm the small number of wolves left, the sun sets.
After night fall I return to the hotel that Ben and I reside in for the time being, "anything?" I ask him, "no," he looks down, "he could be any of those blacked out names on the player board." I shake my head "no he's still alive, we are," Ben gives a weak smile and turns on his bed as I get on mine,
"g' night."
Side A:
The sun set quicker than I'm used to, "guess there's winter here too," I get ready to pack up my rod and meat, "that was a huge waste of time." Now I'm talking to myself that's just great, I start on my way back to Tolbana noticing the relative emptiness of the fields. Out the corner of my ear I hear a slightly aggressive voice " hey what're you doing here?" I turn to see Tetsuo, a member of a newly formed guild, "just leaving." He doesn't seemed pleased with the answer "no I meant with the fishing rod, not much water around here," he tone brightens. " Heard about the girl who got a pet, thought I'd try," I motion to the empty space around me "as you can see very successful," he laughs, "yeah, well listen Takuto, I've heard about this mid level dungeon, a couple of guilds are gonna scout it out in two days, you and your buddy should come." I look back to my rod and nod, " Well it'd be better than wasting my time with this." I get to the inn about sun rise, I'm tired and hit the bed with a loud thump, the last thing I hear is Wildstar yelling at me to be more considerate, I'm paying for the room jerk.
Side B:
Ben shakes me awake, "there's a update on Zach," I get up and throw my armor back on, "which would be," he's was spotted in the town of beginnings a week ago." Oh great, a week ago lots of good that's gonna do, "anything else?" He nods "he wasn't alone had a partner," a sigh of relief escapes my mouth "good we don't have to worry as much now." We finish getting geared up, "who told you about him?" Ben tells me that the information broker came the night before to tells us that a fellow guild member had told him, he also said he's done all he's willing to do for a favor, and we'd need to pay for anything more. " Well more than I expected from a member of the information guild that was willing to rat me out to some guards," we walk out of the inn and head to the market to find some fetch quests to do. "this one seems easy," Ben calls me over, "find three black wolf pelts." I sold my lot of them for the room fee and Ben only had two left. "alright lets go out." as we walk to the gates I see the broker smirk, " I'll be collecting that favor soon, Akira," waving him off, I run into the field. Ben and I make one heck of a team when we're actually doing something worthwhile, we defeat enough wolves to complete the quest three times over and Ben levels up. " Alright, alright, alright I could get used to this," that's good, it doesn't seem like this'll end anytime soon.
We hand in the quests and gain another one hundred gold, that makes two hundred, along with the money I have set aside for the inn and food. Ben buys a new pair of knuckles deciding he'd rather go unarmed, I grab my self some healing crystals and new chest piece. Ben tells me he wants to spend the rest of the day resting, we deserve it. " Haha three skips in a row, beat that Ben!" we skip some stones and never get past a high of 4, set by Ben. After skipping rocks we sit by the lake and guess how many more days we'll be stuck in this floor. Then someone taps me on the shoulder, a small girl, around my age is what I see, "hello, have you seen this man?" She gives me a picture of a man in knights clothing, "uh no sorry was I supposed to?" she looks a little worried at my tone, but more depressed by my answer. "well no but he's my brother, he's names Diavel, tell him his sisters looking for him, 'kay?' I nod and so does Ben and she goes on her merry way, "looks like everyone's looking for someone or something," I shrug at Ben's statement, "doesn't matter we have our own work to do."
Side A:
I wake up to a empty room, it's already 3:30, "well I slept in," getting up I see a recorded message pop into my inventory. It's from Wildstar telling me that he was going out to level with his new guild and would not be coming back, there's some names thrown out none of them don't mean anything to me. " Now I'm just a loner," I put my armor on and walk out of the room, "lets go make some friends." Daniel's still out somewhere, he would let himself die and I'm sure I'll find him eventually but I'll be needing a partner if I want to go to the dungeon tomorrow. After eating a quick breakfast I take a seat in the town square, " maybe they'll let me go alone, not like one extra person makes a difference." I'm sad I didn't bring up the dungeon raid last night, he might not have left if I did. " It's dangerous to go alone," a girl steps in front of me, I laugh a bit, it's true through higher risk even if I'm surrounded by parties.
"I imagine you're not stopping by to give a nineties reference," she shakes her head, " no sorry I've actually been looking for my older brother." Oh good someone else forgot to exchange in-game names and locals to meet up. She gives me a description and a name, Diavel, " I've actually heard his name before, but I can't quite remember," she give a hopeful look as I scratch my head. " Um, um ,ha-ha," think man, think, "it's okay if you don't actually know." She looks like she's gonna cry, she's maybe my age and way-way shorter( I'm kinda tall but still), she has better armor than me, and getting off topic. " Wait, I think my friend mentioned his name in his goodbye message," she perks up instantly.
I explained what happened and that he was part of a guild that invited Wildstar to their ranks, " so where are they now?" I tell the girl that I actually have no idea, " you're not very useful are you," I was gonna give a answer before realizing it wasn't a question. " I suppose you'll just have to help me look, my names Raia," she declares, " I don't know how you came to that conclusion, but I really have nothing better to do, the names Takuto, well not my real name but...," guess what you're rambling now. " Pleased to meet you Takuto!' she smiles, literally two seconds ago you said I was useless, " feelings mutual Raia," and with that she runs off motioning to follow her, which is definitely the best way to look for someone not asking anyone, oh no definitely not.
Side B:
It's about one-two hours before sunset and Ben and I have been doing just short of nothing for the whole day, " hey Daniel whats a sword skill?" lot of stupid questions too. " It's just a more powerful attack," he gives a acknowledging "ah," and we continue with silence for the entire way back from the lake. " So I hear there's gonna be a dungeon raid tomorrow," I tell Ben, who nods his head, "we should go, I bet that Zach would show up." He agrees with me and we talk game plans before making our way back to the inn, we walk into the small restaurant on the bottom of two floors. " What's the first thing you'll do when we finally get out of here?" he asks me after finishing his bun. It's a question that should help me cope, but it just gets depressing with 99 floors to go, " eat, eat whatever I want." Ben laughs, "yeah that sounds like a plan if I've ever heard one," usually there would be a insulting joke attached to that but I guess neither of us want to make fun of each other now.
We continued talking about things we would in real life, but before long we've slept and it's morning, I'm already prepared for the dungeon raid. " C'mon, we need to go," I impatiently say to Ben, " no we really don't I doubt it's starting for another," he checks the clock, a surprised look comes onto his face, "yeah lets go." We're running out the door after realizing the set time was three minutes ago, "there probably debrief, we're good," Ben used denial, it wasn't very effective. We make it to the meeting in a record breaking 3 minutes, and see the last bit of people leaving for the dungeon, "see debrief," shaking my head I speed up to the stragglers and follow them outside the town to the dungeon. We would've make it to said dungeon quicker, had we not run into maybe the last pack of thirty boars in existence, Ben yells out " our luck though!"
There was no sign of Zach, however we did find someone we knew, "oh boy it's him pointing to the player who insisted people call Wildstar." Ben just sighs, he dislikes him the most, being in the same class as the guy tends to wear you out. "S'up guys," now he's talking to us, "oh nothing much just y'know walking into our own deaths." He gives a jerk-ish smile " oh Danny boy, ever the pessimist!" he laughs usually loud attracting unwanted glances from other players, I put my head down. " Really what are you doing here," I turn back from shying away from the others stare, " I'm looking for Zach." 'Wildstar' then tells me that he just ditched Zach for this guild, slightly angered at his willingness to leave a friend, one that he met in real life, we walk into the boss room.
I was not prepared for this, a fat mammal named Iiifang the Kobald Lord quickly threw us into the rooms walls, I stood up and charged, halfway to him he summons three lackeys to stall me, barely managing to knock two away to single out the other, I use the vertical arc sword skill to vanquish the first minion. Ben comes to help take the other two, we have one each chasing us, I slide under him and he jumps over me, we both slash at our companions opponent and they explode into XP and gold.
" Okay yeah, that was kinda cool," Ben lets out, I see Wildstar run towards the boss, "get ready to be amazed!" he starts to charge a skill, before being abruptly stopped. Iiifangs blade ran him through, and I see my first player death, someone I really knew, I fall down as he turns into shining crystals. The other 15 people in the raid retreat as Ben pulls me and we run away as well.