Fate plays cards.

After receiving that notification and seeing the raised eyebrow of the old fart, I knew id done something right, and then it went to hell. Everything started swirling around and I felt myself loose my balance. Hitting the ground not long after, I started into consciousness as the system of the pod spoke softy. "phycological desync detected, soft arouse processing, soft arouse failed, starting emergency conscious haul, ECH successful. Phycological desync halted, please consider consulting a phycologist before reentrance" I lead over the side of the pod and threw up what little was in my stomach, looking down at the now ruined carpet I felt like I'd tanked a dozen or more bottle of Tequila, and from the look of the shit reflection on the not so shiny anymore side of the pod, I looked it to.

After a few minutes of dry heaving I was finally able to bring my body back into my control, I got up slowly and then started to clean what I could, before getting what little sleep I could. Upon waking up in the morning, I showered shaved and looked into the mirror... I still looked like shit, I snagged a breakfast bar and a premade smoothie, from my fridge on my way out the door. Getting into my truck It didn't start at first. "Come on you old bitch, come on!" and with a final groan she came to life. Tearing down the road to work I was trapped in my head.

Could I make enough to save Lily? And then what? do I keep playing the game? and what about Ashly and Joseph, As much as I might wish that situation was over and done with...Knowing them its not. Sure I've scared them enough to earn myself a few more weeks of peace but soon enough one of them will come around again. I'm not sure what I'll do if I don't plan something out before that happens. And what about this game? Its taking the world by storm and its only in closed beta right now. It's going to get big... And its going to get big fast. So far I've been lucky in the game slowly building up my strength but it'd be stupid of me to put all my eggs in one basket. I need to expand my income streams.

That was my last thought before instinct kicked in, and I pulled into work and started to walk from my old truck to the doors. My phone started going off in my pocket, panicking thinking it might be about Lily, I picked up without thinking. "This is Aurther speaking," And the voice on the other line stopped me cold in my tracks. "Good morning Mr. Herald, I'm contacting you to give notice that in exactly 11days, the game is going to go live for everyone. pods are already on for preorder, of course to make things fair, the entire closed beta world will be reset. However, all Members of the closed beta will be granted the right to return to where they first started, just in a different way. For instance freeing Lucifer was NOT supposed to be so easy to complete. Now I understand that you and Player [Deaths_Glare] Are friends in there game and as such will be allowed to keep your friends list active. Now I must also notify you that until the new capsules come out in ten days, you will be unable to access the game in almost all of it's entirety. However as the top closed beta tester even though it was a short closed beta i will admit...In any case you will be granted a special boon. Each beta tester will be granted these boons based upon their current progress however each will be locked by unknown conditions that you must solve yourself, good luck on your endeavor, and Mr. Jones has deposited the lump sum you were supposed to receive for your participation in streaming the beta." [Click...BZZZ...BZZZ] I pulled the phone from my ear slowly in shock. this was way to fast.

I reacted soon after, if the game was gonna drop soon I needed to take a risk. So it was six grand per eight hours. and the closed beta which was canceled was supposed to be for 2 months. That's 6x7=42, 42x4=168, 168x2=336. or $336,000. So close to best case scenario for Lily. And+ to far from the worst case so I jumped over to the stock market and made a choice. I dumped the entire lump sum (except for twenty grand, so I can start paying the hospital for her treatment) into two types of stock, ReachingRealm, and New Realm its self. I locked it in and watched my account balance drop, But I hoped I made the right choice. With any luck the stock I just bought will pay massive dividends back to me in less than a months time.

Until then I still had work to do, after all it's only Wednesday, heading inside I said hey to Rachel, got changed and got started with my first client of the day, my mma class. After them was the wanna be sword fight who now was much more urgent... for obvious reasons. speaking of which sense they announced the new release date this morning the gym has been swarmed with people trying to increase there muscles mass and dexterity scores. I my self understood the crazy rush after all, I was one of the original testers.

When all was said and done and the gym was cleaned up and locked down i went home in my beat up old truck to find someone I did not want to see in my driveway. Getting out my truck anger...no fury flowed into my veins, As Joseph stood up off my porch. MY front door ajar and from what I can tell my house is being ransacked by my ex.