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

"On your left!" Claudia shouted as she smashed her fist against the ogre's face.

"On it!" Tom shouted back, throwing his spear to the left without even looking at the target. Right before his weapon could cause any damage to the enemy, Tom swapped placed with it before recalling it to his hand. Then, using the same momentum his spear had as he threw it, he pushed his spear forward, pushing it right through the massive body of another ogre.

"Look up!" Tom shouted, scanning the area with his new skill. He swung his spear around before pushing it forward once again.

When compared to the size of the ogres, the spear appeared not like a weapon but rather like a toothpick. Yet, even though the holes it was leaving on the ogres' bodies amounted to as much as a mosquito bite would amount to humans, the ogres fell one after another.

Amoral drawbacks of Claudia's skill (+18/quickie)