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 soundless lift was one of the greatest inventions out of all that allowed the current build of the Online Hub. With how high those buildings would go and how massive they usually were, the number of lifts and stairs required to provide the necessary throughput of the crowd would normally turn any other building into a humming machine by mixing all the noises made by the different elevators.

'I wonder how good they became,' Peter racked his brains, trying to figure out how far his local Incubator could go.

The existence of this institution was the very reason why every single Online Hub was so massive.

On the bottom floors, players would indulge in either the game itself or all the other services they could make full use of and spend the money they earned in the game. According to the official bulletin distributed amongst the high-managers, the better one was at managing the Hub, the less money would leave its first three floors.

The incubator system