My Demons: A Fantasy Life (3/3 Closed)

After finishing their meal with Shirou, the gang heads over to the arcade to grind, grind, grind. They follow Shirou to the VIP room, complete with food, beds, and a bathroom, so you never have to stop playing for long. With enough money, a person could live here and play the MMO all day and night, stopping occasionally to sleep. Shirou goes up to the main panel, and Keramon uploads a program Shirou designed to help skate around some of the cheap updates. "With this, we should be able to access some of the features that have been locked behind a paywall. We will also receive better gear, to make up for the revolving door of new equipment." "I'm only going to play for a while. These violent games are not really my thing." Dante reaches down and puts on the virtual reality helmet and gloves, and the others do the same and sign on.

Dante dusts off his Duelist character. He keeps the long black hair with a red stripe that he selected last time. This time he builds his skillset towards Tanking, equipping both an ability that draws more agro from mobs, as well as a rune that increases his chance to dodge. He equips some basic chainmail armor, easily replaced by gear down the line, but still stronger than the legendary gear he got before all the updates. Wormmon drastically changes his well endowed character, respecing as a Sorceress, a Mage type class with a focus on dark magic. Wormmon gives his character long black hair with braids and a ponytail, and equips very revealing black and red robes. "That skirt is short, even for you, buddy." "Just wait til we get more gear. There's outfits even sexier than this, right Shirou?" "Oh, most definitely. And I see that you still have a few notches on the breast size."

Judith isn't impressed with the boys' perverted attitudes. "Childish... Let's see, what kind of character should I go with? Oh, I can be an Elf. Now which class?" "Well we could always use a Healer." "Don't worry, I got the heals covered." "Hey Judith, you should be a Bard. You know, because you like to sing." "You're right. Good call, Wormmon." Judith makes a female Elf Bard with a large lute. She makes her character look like her, with long blonde hair and a slender build. She equips some green basic elven robes and leather armor. Shirou chooses a half Human, half wolf demon character. For his class he selects Druid, a multipurpose class focused on using nature and spirit magic. He specs towards healing/support to provide several buffs for the party down the line. His wolf demon has long grey hair with fuzzy dog ears, and he equips blue and white robes that grant a bonus to his healing. With everyone ready, they load into the game.

Dante, the Duelist, Shirou, the Druid, Wormmon/Willow the Sorceress, and Judith the Bard successfully enter the game. They appear in one of the game's larger cities. Dante looks around at all the buildings. "Wow, things have changed a lot." While the buildings may be larger, the style hasn't changed much from the classic fantasy setting. The game also retains its stunning graphics, as well as a somewhat cutesy style for its characters. Upon entry, they are given a new quest. Shirou is the first to open his quest log by bringing up a hologram page and scrolling through with his hands. Even though the game was set in a more medieval setting, there was advanced technology from regular sci fi games as well. Different areas of the game were focused on different styles. "Let's see, looks like this quest is designed to introduce new and old players to some of the new features."

The four players take a moment to go over some of the different menu screens. It was daunting basically starting out from the bottom, but given enough time, their abilities and their gear would eventually be something worthwhile. Wormmon looks around and sees players recruiting for a party. Above their head it reads "Crotum Raid 4/6 Must be 220+ Armor Level." A lower level player runs around looking for a party to join, but the other players ignore him because of his level. "Can I please join your party? I've done this raid before." "You have to be at least 220. Get lost, noob!" "But, that's why I'm trying to do the raid. To get better armor and increase my armor level..." Wormmon is not impressed with the elitist gamers. "Hmph, bunch of snobs. Those jerks probably kissed butt to get somebody to carry them."

Dante continues scrolling through different menus. "What else is there? Guild? Don't need to bother with that yet. Pets, oh look a penguin! Friends list, hey I have some friends online! And they are nearby." Dante looks around the city to see if he spots his friends. Dante and Wormmon walk over to the market square and look around at all the players, some of them have shops opened up in the square. "Dante, let's buy some better gear!" "The things they are selling cost a lot more than what we have. Let's do some missions, get some gold, and level up before we start buying gear." Shirou and Judith head over to Wormmon and Dante. "Do you see your friends? Maybe we can team up. That reminds me, I'll start a party." "I'm starting the party. Accept my invite. Also, I wanna be the Guild Master when we make our guild." "Guilds, ugh..."

Though this day turned out to be a bit more, alive then he might have imagined there was still the burning feeling that he didn't want to go home now, while he had to go back home eventually it was now time to pursue the small thing that made any kid happy, of course, it was video games. While Edgar never really prefer playing games with just a tad too much violence he didn't really see any game that might offer a better time killer than an MMO. Aside from a few tricks and words he didn't really know much on the subject, such as what character to play in order to get the most out of playing. But who really cares about maximizing everything, apparently everyone who hardcore plays an MMO ever but eh.  Plus it was finally a chance to shine on his own, maybe not in the way that'd be best for real life but a virtual score will at least make him feel better, even if just a little bit.

Managing to find himself sneaking a bit through the crowds and finding his way to the game, thing. Was this seriously where gaming has gone? Feeling like whoever made stuff like this could do better he quickly shook his head before logging into the game, he had to sign up though and never doing something like this barely managed to log in, using his dad's email address not having his own. (Not like he'd ever check) And had to pick a name, Edgar. Taken, Shea, Taken. Edea, Taken. Shgar, Taken. Eventually, through many different combinations of his first and last name, he managed to get the name Ehgaa. While stupid it wasn't taken, plus it wasn't like he was gonna play this for that long right, right?

Deciding what he wanted he just went with what he always did in games, Battlemage. Except he only came with one weapon, a large staff he'd use to beat the tar out of someone, very, very bad for long range but get in close and basically he was unstoppable. With enough self-sustaining buffs to make him a tank He felt his chosen class was good, then again he had no idea what he was doing.

Getting to, somewhere? Not that he'd know where he was he managed to get in line just in time to see someone, merciless slaughtering all newcomers that came to the town, luckily he was spared this onslaught as the character just stopped killing for a second, Edgar then used this time to slowly back up figuring he'd go look for quests or whatever hoping whoever that was didn't see the target and he'd get to play the game for more than five minutes before encountering a brutal end.

The gang is about to start a quest when OH MY GODDESS! Someone is terrorizing the starting area, going on a killing spree, targeting low level players. All of a sudden Shirou is engulfed in a wave of flames. His health drops to zero and he falls to the ground. "No, Shirou!" Judith runs up to the psychopath and confronts her with her hands on her hips. "What the hell do you think you're doing going around killing people?! Other players are trying to start leveling, and you're here exploiting your power to ruin their day." Judith didn't realize that Bloodyrists was actually being played by Katsura's partner Nyao. Dante runs over to Judith and tries to calm her down. "It's alright, let's just go back to questing."

There were players either just starting out, or didn't have the new gear from the updates, and they didn't appreciate a high level steamrolling over them. Dante and Judith go back to Shirou's body. Dante reaches down and a menu box pops up. He is given the option to revive Shirou, and brings him back. "What was that all about? It seems low level players can be resurrected with little penalty." "I guess even this area can be dangerous. We should group up with other players and start grinding quests." Dante checks the area and recognizes some players on his friends list. "Hey, that looks like Timothy and the twins!" Dante hurries over to greet his buds. "Is that you, Timothy? It's me, Dante. Do you wanna group up for some quests?"

The group starts finding more players to join the party. They set out to the farmland outside the city to get some quests out of the way. In addition to the usual, "Go kill a bunch of monsters" type of quests, there are also quests like farming. The group starts a quest where they have to collect wool from sheep. Judith has fun petting the sheep, and feeds it some grain. "So this game doesn't have to be all about the bloodshed. You can do other things too." "Yes, it seems that there is a stronger focus on leveling up different skills like cooking, and fishing. I should level up my tailoring to make better gear." Wormmon gets bored of sheering wool from sheep, and goes back to slaughtering low level wolves and goblins.

Everyone explores the area, leveling up different skills as well as their combat skills. Judith in particular takes a liking to sheering and playing her lute. "Hey Judith, with you collecting wool from sheep, I can use tailoring to make gear for us." "Cool. Also, we need to figure out which gear is going to sell for the most, so we can actually turn a profit." "Now you are getting it. It does cost a lot of gold just to get these skills leveled up." Certain quests shared with the party would be completed even if only one player finished it, so working together they are able to rake in more experience. They start receiving better gear, but it is only slightly better, and nowhere near what they will need for later areas.

Pretty soon, the area was full of players grinding. The local market was flowing with all kinds of goods. Basic things like wheat and wool did not sell for much, considering how much easier it was to harvest, but more advanced goods like enchant scrolls and special armor could net players a small fortune early on. Out of the four of them, Wormmon was having a harder time focusing on his secondary skills. "Come on, Wormmon. You've got to level up something. Don't you want to make money and buy better gear?" "I'd rather incinerate goblins with my dark magic than mess around with that stuff." "Why don't you take up mining, and blacksmithing? You would just have to mine ore when you are out on missions, then you can smelt it into weapons and armor." "Wormmon is a Sorceress. What use would he have for blacksmithing?" "Well we already have the robes covered. What skills do look fun to you?" "Hmm, how about wood cutting? It says I get to chop down trees and work part time as a lumber jack." "Again, you are not a big tough character. Just go with enchanting. You could make a killing with that down the line." "Fine. I'll go with enchanting, and wood cutting. But that means you have to be the blacksmith, tough guy. Now go fetch me an ax!"

Dante: XGoldxFoX99, Duelist
Wormmon: Jiggly-lock, Sorceress
Shirou: MasterPervyW0lf, Druid
Judith: LayDLuvCoff33, Bard

Well, that was, something to say the least about that situation. At least they seemed to of already slated their bloodlust before getting to the young character, while he was happy about that turn of events he was curious as to why a game would just let you, kill everyone? That seemed a tad bit unfair. At least without punishmen- his thought was cut short as a red skull appeared next to their name, he supposed that was the showing that they killed people? While not a punishment in his eyes he supposed it was better than just having nothing happen. He tried to ignore that fact but his curiosity was peaked, to say the least, and while she did just slaughter an entire. Maybe it was a stupid idea to approach the insane murderer, that skull did not help the fact but hey, what was the worst that could happen.

Since he was still in the area, only backed up until the last was murdered, it was quite the sight to see this tiny mage in nothing but the started equips, what basically amounted to a stick on his back follow this red skulled murderer who just spent the last minute murdering everything she saw with nothing but a question. Which he then just sent over. "Excuse me I was just curious but was there a point to that?" Ehgaa asked standing not that far from the one in question, either two things were about to happen, either A, He was about to get killed just the same, not knowing that they'd get banned if they did. Or two the answer would be something along the lines of. 'I just wanted to.'

Either way, it was something to do, at least interesting.

The group continues gathering resources and leveling up their life skills. Dante takes up blacksmithing, but there wasn't any high quality gear he could make at this stage. He would need to mine ore at later areas in the game to forge the good stuff. After Wormmon had asked, rather demanded, Dante to get him an ax, Bibi's character BirdInquisition gave him an ax from the town. "Oh, thank you Birdy!" Wormmon may have lacked the psychical strength of a much larger, melee combat oriented character, but his ferocity helped him harvest plenty of lumber. Plus his character had to haul that big laser cannon around before, so it wasn't too difficult to haul the wood back into town.

As Dante is in the fields harvesting wheat, XXXbloodyrists666XXX comes up to him and sends him a friend request. This was the same player that went on a rampage before, and now she sported a skull above her character, signaling to others that she was marked for killing players outside of designated zones. Dante didn't want to upset her, and risk suffering her wrath, so he accepts the friend request. Another player named Ehgaa came up to the high level. Very brave considering what Bloody did earlier in the town. "Hey there. We have played before, but not since the new updates. Hey Ehgaa, are you a new player? ...You're not going to attack us, are you bloodyrists? Do you two want to join our group?"

Meanwhile Judith and Shirou are gathering wool from sheep. After collecting plenty of wool, they return to town. Judith takes the wool up to the spinner to weave the wool into fabric. Shirou then takes the fabric and tailors it into cloth armor. He makes some gear for him and Judith, including a fur lined coat covering his shoulders, and fingerless wool gloves for Judith so she can still play her lute with the gloves on. Whatever they don't need they sell for a minor profit. Shirou's Tailoring skill levels up, and he unlocks new patterns. Judith's Gathering and Weaving skills go up as well. "This new gear is great. It is nice and warm." "It sounds like you are enjoying the game. Are you still going to get offline soon?" "I think I'll stick around for a while."

After a few easy quests and gathering missions, the group is ready for a tougher challenge. Dante and Judith go up to a young Elf woman crying on the side of the dirt road leading out of town. She is wearing robes, sitting next to a broken down carriage. "What's wrong? Are you alright?" The elf pulls her hands away from her face and looks up. "Oh, it was terrible! My fiancé and I were traveling into town to prepare for our wedding ceremony, but our carriage was attacked by bandits." Off course. Only someone as dastardly as bandits could have done this. Dante thinks back to the last time they encountered bandits in the game. "These bandits, what kind of symbol did they wear? Are they loyal to the Bandit King?" "No, I don't think so. They didn't look like the bandits that attacked our village before. They had these strange black and white markings on their gear."

Dante thinks for a moment. These didn't sound like the bandits from before. If Soulja Boi was still the Bandit King, then they could just go talk to him and get him to call off the attacks. But it sounds like these were bandits unaffiliated with the Bandit King. "Are you hurt? Where's your fiancé now?" "I am uninjured. It was terrible. He tried to protect me, but the bandits captured him. Their leader smacked me, then stole my ring. They rode off with my fiancé, my ring, and all of our money that was going towards our wedding." Judith comforts the woman, putting her arm around her. "Don't worry. We will get your man and your money back. Come on, Dante, we've got business to take care of."

Dante and Judith head back to the area outside of town to share the quest with other players. "Hey guys, we've got a big quest if you are interested. Bandits attacked a carriage, they captured someone and stole all their possessions. The only problem is it wasn't the main bandit organization, so I don't really know where their base is located." "Hmm, well even if it's not the bandits from before, we can still go talk to the Bandit King. Maybe he knows about the other bandits." "Sounds good. Let's go see the Bandit King. His base is in the area, west of here." Dante, Wormmon, Judith, and Shirou group up with as many players willing to join, and set off to speak with the Bandit King.
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(It's a virtual reality game, so it's all taking place inside the game unless a character log off. They can however deactivate the screen on the helmet, so they can get up and move around in the real world while still logged in, they just can't do anything in game. At this time, the screen will be in a little box in the corner, so they can look around, but still see what's happening in the game.)

Well that was a basic answer for someone who just murdered a whole lot of people, while he did get his answer someone else came over, Goldfox plus a lot of x's came over, and ended up asking him if he wanted to come with, while the bloodyrists said they would Ehgaa thought about it for a few moments. "I mean, sure I suppose. I've got no idea what I'm doing anyway so." With that Ehgaa ended up joining that group, if this was a large mistake or an easy solution, well that was going to be said in about a few minutes with doing quests, though they just did some quests while Ehgaa got used to doing, pretty much anything. He managed to hit something with his staff so that was one step, he was sure the rest would just come to him naturally.

Apparently, two of them saw a quest with someone called the bandit king, either that or they were going to go talk to a bandit kind to find other bandits, that made sense, a bandit would probably know where other bandits are. "I'll go too, I mean if no one objects." Having a noob among people who seemed to know what they were doing seemed like a liability, but who knows maybe he could have a use if this game had puzzles he'd probably be a good help. Plus they did ask him to join so might as well just ride this to wherever it'll take him, good or bad.