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

"Hello!" Kira said with a wide smile on her face. "I'm sorry for troubling you, but I came here to have a little talk," she said as soon as the doors to the farm opened up.

"If you are looking for the owner of this place, then he is away right now," a young man in the wheelchair replied. He was sitting in the living room across the corridor. A small remote controller in his hand gave away how he managed to open the doors from so far away.

"Ah, I hoped to meet one of the people that work with him. It doesn't necessarily need to be Tom himself," Kira smiled, trying to verbally push her way ahead.

'Isn't this the guy?' Kira thought, recalling all the operations involving this particular family. 'Wait, what if he knows?' the girl asked herself, unable to hold back a shrug from shaking her body. 'No, I wasn't in the operations, even if they know, it has nothing to do with me personally,' she thought.

Talks at Tom's farm