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"Morning mom." I said, waking up with a stretch.

"Morning Nynn." My mother replied. She looks a thousand times lighter and more...what's the word....radiant!

I was, hoping for this result but not at this magnitude. She looks like a teenager who found a new crush!( I have seen this first hand in case your wondering.)

We washed up, changed, and went downstairs for a hearty breakfast of...

... egg and cheese sandwiches.

Okay! So what if my mom can't cook anything grander than that without turning the kitchen into a war zone! She still makes a fine breakfast, thank you very much!

We sat down in a comfortable silence as we worked through our food.

"So Nynn, how was your first night in the game!" She asked suddenly. This is the first time she talked since saying morning to me, so I was surprised at the question.

Still though, I told her all that had happened since we went our separate ways.

"Wow, so your level must be pretty high right now." She commented, referring to the little killing spree my new party member and I went on.

"Wow, not worried that your son could have died in that mess? So mean!!!" I poked at her. Her face took arose hue as she bunched up a towel in her hand to retaliate with!

"It's a game, why would I be worried?" she asked as I ducked to dodge an incoming towel.

"Mean! I even turned down the pain absorbers to." I lied, then covered my face to hide my smile at her reaction!

"You did what?!!!" She near exploded!

"Joking joking! It was a joke sorry!" I quickly said, holding my hands up in surrender, showing her that I was actually teasing her!

"Oh? Look at how spoiled you've become!" She said with a weird ring to her voice that made me want to run!

"Um, mom? Are you okay?" I said, half terrified at this side I never saw!

"Yes, but you won't be!" I got up out of my chair to bolt, but was too late!

She pinned me down with a mid drift tackle, then proceeded to tickle the life out of me!

"Wait *haha* IgiveIgiveIgive *hahahahahaha*please stop!!!" I pleaded through laughter and tears.

"Not in a million years Nynn! You shall be punished for making your mother worry!!!" Was my mom's reply! And true to her word, she tickled till there was nothing to tickle before she finally gave me rest!

"Come, let's finish eating." she said, going back to the table and leaving me with giddy stomach and my thoughts.

Actually, now that I think about it, I didn't check my level, our anything for that matter, before I jumped offline, and I told her as much after I got my wits back in order and my stomach back to my food.

"I see.", was her only reply to that.

"So mom, how was your night?" I asked, turning the conversation over to her. I expected her to say something on the lines of, 'Its good game sweetie, but its not for me.' and then just give up on the game right then and there.

To my surprise though, she ducked her head, fiddling with her sandwich, and muttered ('muttered' being the operative word) "It was okay, I guess. Why do you ask?" I could have sworn that I saw her cheeks go the slightest of red! I then thought to how she was acting, and how light and happy she was while she was tickling me! A big, goofy grin made its way onto my face before getting replaced by a smirk.

"No reason. Just checking up on you." I replied. Her cheeks went redder at that!

I have only seen my mother show 3 expressions since I was 6: depressed, tired, and fake happy.

As you can clearly see, embarrassed is not one of them!

"Don't look at me like I did something! I'm a grown woman! What does it mater to you?!" she instantly spat at my knowing gaze.

"Rrrrrriiiiiiiiight." I relied, to which she just continued eating, now actively avoiding me.

I wanted to continue teasing her, but my stomach voted against it, so I decided to let her off the hook,... this time.

"So are you going to play today?" I asked her.

"Maybe." She answered, though it sounded like a definitely to me.

Deciding to let mom off the hook for now and not push it, I polished off the rest of my sandwich, washed the dishes that were used, and went right back to the game.

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Hobside Village

"Where have you been!" Apparently, Angus was all ready on and has been on for quite a while.

"I was eating breakfast with my mom." I replied, proceeding to make my order.

We are now at a tavern in the village to get some food and rest up for the moment.

Apparently, we were so caught up in fighting last night, we forgot that we could get hungry in the game. As a result, we were starving! ( yes you can starve to death in the game! How cool is that!!!) You'd think all the meat we ate would have done the trick, but we ate it raw and we were fighting every second, so it actually made the hunger worse!

*notification music*

'Ah right!!! I missed out on the Analysises because of the fight!' I thought o myself as I started mourning the loss of being apart of the early squad!

"*tsk*" Angus made a very irritated noise under her breath at my notification which flew right pass me as I cruised the pages and started reading the posts I missed and the lore ideas being passed around, dropping my own two cents in with every one.

When I was done and finally relaxed, we got our food and settled down to gorge! Then I heard something that got my ears perked up.

"Hey, have you heard about the incident out in the outskirts?" Someone, a female I think, said in a whisper. This sounds interesting.

"Heard about it! I saw it for myself! At least a hundred bodies littered that area!", another girl, her friend perhaps, exclaimed, queuing me in on just who they were talking about! I suddenly felt sweat dampening my hands and face.

"Really! I thought it was over a thousand!"

'We would be dead if that was the case!' I thought, gut squeezing at the fact that we accidentally became famous! I didn't even notice that there were people nearby!

"Seriously though, any team that could walk into a monster spawn nest and reek havoc on them must be strong, let alone 2 at the same time! I'm betting that that squad was at least lvl7!" Eh? That really was a spawn nest?!!! And two at that?!!! No wonder they were endlessly pouring out the woodwork!

Spawn nests are areas chosen by the game to spawn monsters. All mobs from any area have their own spawn nests. Due to that, they are avoided as much as possible, as they have the highest mob density and the mobs there are very aggressive, so they will come after you and continue to do so in waves until either you're dead or you show yourself to be too strong for them.

"Hey! Did you hear anything I said at all!", a voice in front of me suddenly shouted, sounding familiarly annoyed.

"I'm sorry did you say something?" I was so immersed in my eaves dropping (I try not to sugarcoat the obvious), that I didn't hear her say anything.

"*sigh* I was asking you if you checked your level yet." I know it hasn't been a day yet (the 2 days we spent pounding at death's door don't count), but I'm starting to wonder why she hasn't walked away from this attempt to make a party yet. She doesn't seem to have the patience for it.

"No I haven't yet." I said while pulling up my menus.

Status: /10

HP: 77/90

STM: 75

HUG: 70

FTG: 25

Other:

Str: 73

Spd: 35

Agi: 43

Tgh: 87

Iq: 8

Con: 65

Rsp: 4

Masteries:

Shield Mastery: 17

Shield Combat Mastery: 10

Improvisation Mastery: 8

Body Reinforcement Mastery: 13

Wow! Not bad at all!!! Although the Body Reinforcement Mastery was new. When did I even get it

"My level is ten." I reported, "What's yours?"

"Your lying, right?" Well that response came as a surprise!

"Of course not, why would I?" I was starting to wonder if it's the same person again.

"Tsk!", was the response I got from her. Wait, did she just click her tongue just now? Hey, that's rude!!! Although, you looked cute when you..... wait... ahhhh what am I thinking!!!

She went back to her food, effectively breaking eye contact, and said, with what I'm assuming is a bored look on her face, "Mine is ni....."

"Ahhhhhh!!!!!" A high pitched scream barraged the air! What's going on now?!

"Outside, now!" Wow! Not even a second later and Angus was ready for what's to come! And now I feel myself practically being dragged out of my chair and through the door of the café!

Let's just say, I wasn't ready for what was out there.

"Oh crap! Is that a....."

"*audible gasp* A Gremlin Hoard is going to raid us! And it's huge!" Some random person answered my incomplete question.

And I would like to have the honor of saying that, yes, there are a bunch of armed and ready Gremlins were charging for the village!

However, calling this army huge is an understatement!

Dang!