New Friends

After a couple hours of maintenance, Live Universe finally came back on, and the swarm of complaints settled. I turned on my SkyVisor, and logged into Live Universe. When I spawned into the game, Jean was nowhere to be found, so I decided to wander around Floria on my own. I walked along the stone-laiden path of the town, looking along at the small market stalls set up along the sides of the road most of which were run by NPCs, with very few player shops scattered around the bustling streets. Most of the player run shops were selling materials or crappy extra gear they found, hardly anything worth buying for your average combat player. A few things stood out, but I wasn't here to shop. I was looking for someone to party with, since my usual partner was nowhere to be found.

As I walked around town square, I could hear all sorts of players looking for parties. "Looking for a healer!"

"In need of a lvl 3 tank!"

"Searching for any extra party space!"

"In need of someone with high Luck for a dungeon run!" The last sentence caught my attention, as I quickly ran over to where I heard the call from.

Standing there was a small party of 3, a Cleric, A Swordsman, and a Ranger. As I walked over to the group, they waved me down.

"Hey, I heard you were looking for someone with high luck, and I was hoping if I could join your party," I asked, staring at the group blankly.

"Sure thing, Pal! As long as you got high luck that is. What's your class and race?" The young cleric piped up. He seemed to be the leader of the group, despite playing a support role.

"Yeah, I'd say my luck is pretty high," I said, smirking smugly, "I play a Kitsune Assassin, how about you three?"

"I play an Elf Cleric." Said the young boy in reply.

"I play an Orc Swordsman" Continued the burly man.

"And I play an Elf Ranger," Added the average sized girl to the right of me.

"Alright then, now that we've got all that figured out, what dungeon do we plan on doing? I'm not exactly sure there's any dungeons for people around our level. I'd think we'd have to grind a little bit more than just being level 2-3" I asked, curious as to what the group's plan was.

"Ah, well you see, we heard about this secret dungeon only available to players level 1-5, and we needed someone with high luck to balance out all of our horrible luck." The Cleric continued.

"Oh, I never knew something like that existed! I'm glad I decided to join you all. I hope we can get some good rewards from this low level dungeon, but I kind of doubt it." I replied hastily, ready to go take on a dungeon. I felt a little bad that I wasn't doing it with Jean, but I thought it'd be alright. I can go into a dungeon with him later.

The four of us departed off to the Kobold Woods, the secret starter dungeon, hidden in the woods to the west of Floria. The path to the dungeon was barren, with hardly any players in sight. Only tall oak trees and my companions in sight. When we finally arrived at the dungeon, a large warning barrier appeared in front of me:

[WARNING! YOU WILL NOW BE ENTERING A DUNGEON AREA. YOU MAY NOT LEAVE THE AREA UNLESS YOU ARE KILLED OR COMPLETE THE DUNGEON.]