Wish Legacy

Teyo began his download of the game. Briefly he felt as if he didn't know how to log off the console but after thinking about logging out a screen appeared in front of him allowing for the prompt. He came to in an awkward position on the floor of his room. He sat up and checked his watch and truly only a couple minutes had passed. He was quite surprised as the Specter 2 had nothing of the sort of mind boggling difference in game time to IRL time.

He got up and docked his helmet and began to look for " Wish Legacy " online. All he found was an official website, there weren't any videos up on any platform he searched. After looking at the official website he became excited, he would be playing in the coming minutes. A short intro video played on the main page of the website. In it he learned that this was a release by none other than Warlock's of the Grove and Snowstorm! Two super popular branding companies linked together with a few smaller studios to produce this game. The pre order numbers were in the hundreds of millions! " How have I not heard of this game until I logged in?" Teyo began to scour the internet a bit more and read on a thread that WL had become a hit sensation 4 years ago after a teaser trailer was shown at a few expos. Since then the game had almost zero publicity but still the idle murmer and ramblings of those who saw the trailer permeated throughout the circle of the fans who witnessed it.

"I guess I really need more friends. If I wasn't such a loner I would maybe have more influencers around me. Then again 4 years of waiting would have surely put me off."

He began to wonder how many of the preorder numbers reflected those who still kept interest. The game is available for purchase he was downloading it right now. " Hmm it was on sale though. Maybe they're not performing as it would seem on the outside." He bagan to check the forums on the official site and he found his answer. " Server load at capacity please bare with us as we are experiencing technical difficulties. Maintenance underway estimate wait time of 24 hours. Procurement of additional servers in process. Game will not shut down for individuals in que, however the game in not accepting additional logins."

" Psh. Sounds about right. Bunch of nerds inadvertently DDOS attacked the servers by all trying to play. Either that or some ragers are miffed because it released on a new console they don't own and so they're getting revenge. Snowstorm literally never learns. This happens to every game they release. Buy more servers and have a better infrastructure! Damnit. Now I have to wait a whole day to play." Teyo's excitement grew as his patience wained. " Wait someone has to be streaming this.. Let me check Twinge." Teyo began to see a list of individuals who began streaming POV's of themselves inside their blank Specter 3 Home Zones. So many titles eluded to the issues at hand.

"24 hour - Wish Legacy waiting room"

"Que time's endless WL Waiting"

"Let me iiiiinn!! - WL"

"Snowstorm get it together. Sadge"

All of the titles were just a bunch of people streaming for clout, many of the folks were just blatantly watching other videos and making guess about the gameplay. Teyo clicked on a few of the pages that titles represented factual information about the game. The teaser trailer on the official site just showed a series of photos captured in game. Everyone seemed to be making conclusions based on what they saw. Some well known steamers had thousands of people in chat and were being bombarded by tips from people with text to speech on so they could throw out their ideas to the chat. " Idiots. Apparently no one knows anything. Those who do are probably tight lipped. The lucky ones who got in are all probably having a laugh."

Teyo began his usual routine of checking on a few streamers who were playing other things. Even though quite a few people had been streaming waiting screens, today being the Specter 3's release date, many other new titles had come out as well. Popular series like the Honor and Duty series released it's umpteenth new version that seemed nice in the aspect of actual immersive feel. The only issue is it was yet another re-skin of the same game, a minimum amount of effort was put into the new release. Yet people still flocked to these shooters and household names like flies on shit. He began to click on a variety of games that were streaming from the Specter series. Many individuals had already gotten use to the A.D.S of shooters from the consoles previous versions but a trending topic he began to see in chats were the actual feel of recoil made a majority of people really bad. The level of immersion had taken quite a leap now that it wasn't just optic and sound VR. You were there, on the front lines. The concussive feel of explosions and firing a weapon had put people who usually ran willy nilly around corners into the fray into the noob seat once again. " Hahaha Everyone is camping or ratting, shooters are so boring now."

Teyo clicked on a few more titles and watched people fumble around in their new games before getting a notification that one of his favorite streamers went live. He quickly clicked over to his page.

He was a smalltime streamer named KlawKarver. Usually he only had an audience under ten. However Teyo found his attitude and comedy quite fun and had been around for the past year. " Holy shit he's playing Wish Legacy!"

Klaw seemed to only have a couple more chatters currently and his title was set to a simple " :p ". Teyo knew this was one of his shortcomings had he only set it to something more attention grabbing people would eventually show up even if he was on the bottom of the list.

Klaw was seemingly in a dark cave of sorts. He was accompanied by three other individuals a female and two more males. They all had simple clothing on and a single weapon in their hands. Klaw had a dagger and was leading the way by the light of a lantern into a cavern adorned by large stalagtites and stalagmites. The sounds of distant drips and skitters echoed through the cave as they crept through it. Everyone was seeing him play in first person. He was looking at his teammates and it was obvious they had not known each other or their capabilities. One of the men there wielded a longsword but was quite frail looking and could barely keep the sword up. The other had a large wooden shield and a small handaxe. The female had a small wand. As they navigated the cave they began to see a light off in the distance. They all slowed down, Klaw turned and whispered to them. " Okay there's something up there, why don't I put this torch out and I'll creep up and take a look. You guys stay back and wait here for me. Protect her she's our healer. If I die you guys may still get to the next level."

The timid looking man spoke up. " Look man, let me go, I don't think this class suits me well. I wanted to get a mage class but I got this stupid knight class instead. If I die I'll get a re-roll."

Klaw spoke up. " No. I don't care if you think the game gave you a bad class. At least your brave enough to walk towards death. You may be weak but get it together. I'm a rogue. I was meant to do the scouting. And if anything I have the ability Vanish. Hold here and wait for me."

The shielded man stepped in front of the woman and nodded to Klaw. Klaw put out his torch and stepped closer to the light some 40 yards away. As he neared it he began to pickup some sounds of chatter. He slowed to a snails pace and hunched over. The light in front of him confirmed to be a fire. Behind the spires of stone Klaw noticed the shadows on the cave wall beyond to be that of some large looking humanoids. They seemed to be eating something. He decided to get a closer look. He inched even closer barely lifting his feet. The cave grew eerily silent as he stepped forward. Someone in his chat kept spamming a scared emoji. He got just up to the small camp and hid behind the stones for a peek. " Shit " he whispered. There were 4 goblins sitting around a fire eating huge bats. Just then one of them perked up in his direction and he ducked back down. Klaw began to hear footsteps coming towards him and his heart began beating rapidly. The stones in front of him were tall but thin. He got so low he was on his hand and nees. After a few second the footsteps stopped just on the other side of the rocks in front of him. A few sniffs were heard. Then Klaw heard a stream of piss begin to hit the dirt next to him. He let go a quick sigh of relief. After a short while the goblin walked back to his fire and Klaw began to creep back to his party.

Once he returned he let out a few whispers and couldn't find his party.

" Hello? Guys? " he was in pure darkness and the torchlight was nowhere to be seen. He began to walk further back towards the cave entrance and then tripped over something. Klaw felt the cold nip at him as he fell into a large puddle. Over the next few seconds as he felt back to what he tripped on he came to the realization he tripped over his teammate.

" Huurrggggh! DIE!" From the side Klaw heard none other that the timid Knight jump from the rocks above him. Klaw barely noticed his figure as his eyes had just began to acclimate. He quickly rolled out of the way.

" What the hell man it's me! What. happened!?" Klaw yelled out.

" Oh ho ho, Mr Party leader. You idiot. You thought I was just going to sit here and take this shitty class and run with it! F that! Die or kill me! I don't care!"

" You fuckin idiot!" Klaw stepped back and out of the way as the timid knight swung out again. His sword clanging the ground as he swung. By this time Klaw could see a bit better the soft dim light in the cave gave just enough visage to his traitorous teammate. Klaws chat was buzzing wildly as he had been raised by another streamer who was giving up on waiting to see some gameplay. Even as dark as his view was they could tell it was in the game. People were ranting 'Kill him' 'Treason!'. Teyo sat back in awe. He had been here the whole time and it was nice to see his favorite streamer get a little recognition.

The two of them danced around each other for a few exchanges, it began to become apparent that the timid knight was becoming out of breath. Klaw once again tried to talk to him. " Look this is getting us no where! There's goblins up ahead why didn't you just wait? Stop this madness!" He held his dagger out at him with a wavering hand.

His chat flew with streams of hearts. People began to see his inaction as a sense of sympathy. Klaw easily dodged each attack at him and even tried to stop the fight. Teyo was pissed off at the words of those who bombarded his chat.

Aww look he's so friendly!

What a nice guy!

Your teammates! He's just scared!

Teyo look on as the chat blew up. He read the situation completely different. " He's a fuckin traitor, he killed your teammates and your trying to give him quarter? Your... Oh.. your scared..." Teyo realized that Klaws hands were trembling. He didn't want to kill a person. Perhaps the game is so immersive that the whole situation is giving him real qualms about this. " It's to late the coward knight has already taken it to far." Teyo decided to drop a donation to Klaw to hope he would see his words in the long line of chanters. Some folks were even beginning to say the same things Teyo was thinking but the chat was scrolling so fast he knew no one would be able to read it effectively in this situation.

MindYoBidness donated 100 coins -

" Klaw I know it's hard but you gotta nut up and end him! He's just going to backstab you. Afterwards grab your teammates gear and LIVE!"

Klaw heard the bit donation. He and the timid knight had been circling each other for some time now. It became obvious to Klaw he had to do it.

" Alright. Look, I'll kill you. Isn't that what you want?"

The timid knight perked up. " Yeah that's all I.... I just want a re-roll." He began to tremble on his words.

" Okay but you gotta do it on my terms. You're getting me out of this level before your dead you got it!? Be my sacrifice. We handled the slimes perfectly fine before this point but you gave up on us! Now you gotta payback that broken trust. Do you think they complained about their classes?" Klaw pointed to his companions dead corpses.

At this point the timid knight began to sob and dropped his sword. " This game.. it's to real. I'm a murderer....I want a refund."

Klaw went over and picked up the shield and the wand off the dead teammates. He then went over to his sobbing knight.

" Here. Take the wand. Give me your sword. Up ahead there's some goblins, you charge in and sling that magic. I'm sneaking past and getting out of here." The sobbing knight nodded. They began to make their way forward.

Teyo began to wonder why Klaw even tried. " He's a better person than I am. I'd have sent that guy back to the main menu." Teyo then realized something. Why hasn't he just logged out? Why did he need to be killed? " No way.. What does he mean?"