1 A normal day

6 AM. Once my alarm goes off I know that I didn´t sleep enough and it´s already time to get up. Sleepwalking to my kitchen while browsing through my recent Youtube videos a grab a cup of coffee and head to the bathroom. I always need a good shower in the morning or I can´t get going. I take a sip and jump straight into the hot wet.

While somewhat listening to the video I collect my thoughts from last evening.

"That last game sure wasn´t bad. I always knew that I love platformer but this is on another level." I just ran around killing mobs, unlocking new abilities, getting hit, dying, doing epic boss fights with even more amazing music. I should start paying more attention to the music. And the scenery.

"Honestly", I think to myself "sometimes I'm not sure if I can even be considered a gamer. I don´t pay attention to detail, I rarely finish a game and worst of all I´m not even that good."

Once my 10-minute video runs out I know it´s time to stop and get out. Otherwise, I run late. Jumping out of the shower I grab a nearby towel and take a look in the Mirror and take a sip of my coffee.

"Johnathan Sedas, 24 years old, in the prime of my life. And what am I doing all this time? Playing video games and going to work. That´s pretty much it. I do have quite a few friends, but most of them are currently studying and are quite a few hours away from me. It´s not that I´m alone but it feels like that."

Looking up from the mirror I re-evaluate my looks. Red hair, cut short, green eyes with a tinge of blue, 1.74m tall. I´m not skinny, or muscular or fat. Just between all of it. I tried doing sports, really. But that´s not really for me. I was doing soccer for a couple of years when I was younger but I stopped it all together when I started work with 15.

I tried to boulder and I really enjoyed it for like 3/4 of a year but just kinda stopped going.

I banish these silly thoughts, knowing they won´t get me anywhere and start getting dressed for work. I´m a Service Technician for a local company doing basic maintenance. Not much to be sad there. In essence, I´m an Electrician but that term doesn't suit my current occupation anymore.

After I put on my attire I drive to my company where I´ll get work for the week. I just have to visit my office once or twice a week and I´m good to go. Nothing much to be said for my work. I´m just checking up on stuff, doing basically nothing most of the time.

After an annoying day of work, I drive home. On my doorstep is a package for me without sender notice. "Weird. I can´t remember ordering something. Might have been on a whim, or a really old one that took forever to deliver. Oh well, at least after I moved I don´t have to visit the Post Office anymore and they just leave it here. Really convenient."

I take the package with me and drop it off on the kitchen table. After I grabbed a piece of food and got out of my work attire I start my PC and drop down on the chair. "Nothing beats sitting down in front of you after a long days work." I start browsing through my various Subs in different platforms to see if there´s anything noteworthy. Meanwhile, I start my favorite MOBA game and take a second look at all my social media stuff.

MOBAs are a genre of game that only came up like 10ish years ago. "Multiplayer Online Battle Arena" is the aberration of it. Basically, it just means that you control 1 dude in a 5v5 environment and try to destroy the enemy base. I´d say that´s one of the games I´m better at, albeit still not really good.

- Game Server connected -

- Voice Server connected -

"Oi DevaVentus, finally you are online. Let´s get this going, we´ve been waiting."

A deep Voice greets me. It´s a friend of mine who goes with the IGN "BigBabyBrother". He and his brother "SmallBabyBrother" are always online in this game. Always ready to go for another round. "Students", I sigh. They seem to have all the time in the world. I always hated their IGN´s.

"Sup Big B, Lil B. I´m all set to go for a couple rounds. I ate and housework can put on hold for today. Not much motivation for this anyway."

"Great, let´s jump in straight away. I´ll open the queue"

Big B is always so eager. Well good for me. I don´t like playing this game alone.

After a couple of wins and losses, a lot of frustration and happiness the clock was showing that it was 9 PM already. If I play another couple rounds I´ll be way tired again for work next day and I don´t really want that.

"B brothers, thanks for the games, I´m out for today. Watching a couple vids and heading off to bed. See you soon"

"Alright Deva, take care man. You know we always enjoy playing with you."

I browse through Steam to check if any noteworthy games or on sale and after I couldn´t find any I closed all my tabs and turned off my PC. Then I remembered that I still have a package to open.

After grabbing it and sitting on the couch I start opening it. It felt heavy, like a book of some sort. After I opened it I saw that it indeed was a Book. It was dark green, had no cover and no text on the spine. Now that´s a type of cover that I´ve only ever seen for empty books.

After getting rid of the trash I opened it. It wasn´t empty as I first thought. Written on the first page stood:

"A Gamers Journal, written by DevaVentus"

What was this? Some kind of prank?