MotivatedSloth

"Hello, sir. Are you cashing out or leveling up?"

Dungeons Online was the first game that cracked the system. Let nerds earn by nerding, and they will nerd forever. And Dungeons Online did just that. 

Noobs turned into middle-class workers. Pro-players turned into celebrities and multi-millionaires. 

And there was Tom. Likely, the only top ranker that lived off the scraps and cat-food. A courtesy of his father that went and disappeared, leaving Tom with just enough money to survive until his graduation. Until the day where the option of cashing out would appear.

Dungeons Online. A game where developers never shared a single bit of information. A game where the death of one's avatar is permanent. A game that can turn a beggar into a lord just as quickly as turning a celebrity into nobody. 

But where does all this money comes from? How is it connected to the unnatural disaster that all governments across the world buried any information off? And how is this all connected to Tom's missing father?

Dungeons Online

The monster threw its last bit before squeezing down and lying flat on the ground in an instant. Unluckily, Claudia got soaked from feet to the tip of her head. Not only was her entire back already covered in slime's insides from slipping on it and falling to the floor, but now even her front shared the same fate.

'Good thing she managed to protect her face,' Tom thought while helping the girl up. Not minding the slime all over her arm, Tom grabbed Claudia's soft hand before pulling her out of the small puddle that made up most of the slime's remains.

"That was close," Claudia muttered as she took a few breaths before looking down at her own silly state. "Now I'm all covered in it!" she protested in a disgusted voice.

Fluid clothes and stone (SLIGHTLY +18)