False Advertisers

Aika sat him down and began her story, the story she had wanted to tell someone for a long time, she couldn't put her finger on it but she felt he would understand.

She had grown up not impoverished but what passed for 'poor' in this day and age, and although her family was happy they always wished they could live a little better, she had average grades and wasn't that good at sports, but she was beautiful her skin was flawless, she had piercing green eyes, raven black hair, her body was athletic and perfectly proportioned, it was her looks that got noticed.

An advertising agency approached her parents and presented an offer and a contract, they looked over the contract but not being lawyers they didn't understand much of it, but the 'signing gift' was a large sum and they were in debt and low on time, so they signed.

At first it seemed great, she got a state of the art VR rig and a permanent job in the Another World game, everything seemed perfect, she got to meet a lot of players including many famous ones, the job was simple and low stress, but after a few months her parents realized that she seemed to be making very little money for someone of her position, after some working out they discovered that she was only making 30 gold an hour which was much less than minimum wage, she checked with the other 'Aika's' and they made 45 to 48 gold.

Her parents finally got a lawyer to look over the contract for them and the news was bad, Aika was locked into working in the game of Another World she couldn't seek employment elsewhere even as a side job, the wage was set that low because they accepted an 'advance' payment it wasn't a gift as they had been led to believe, and her image was their property and they had given all rights to it up so they couldn't make any money off it at all, the only good news was the contract stated that the avatar of Aika was hers and that she had to work in the game but it didn't say specifically for them, the company that owned another world condemned their actions but couldn't interfere as the advertisers worked for a gold sellers website and not them.

Aika then did the only thing she could, and found a job in game somewhere else she hoped this would be a way out but within an hour 3 large players showed up and told the owner of the place, 'as long as she works here we won't move' and them proceeded to block the entrance, since the main cities are safe zones they couldn't be moved, picking them up or attacking them was blocked they couldn't be polymorphed into something small, nothing could be done, and the owner reluctantly and angrily fired her, and she ended up back working at the trade post.

A sly smile came across Ulric's face, "send me a friend request and give me a few weeks, i may be able to help,"