Real Life RPG (9 page)

              Apparently once your race changed so did your appetite, the people I was with ate the bodies of killed human enemies, insects and any other animal they could find. They of course fed it to me and for the most part it was absolutely disgusting. Ferocity told me to change my race and it would become more palatable. I stayed in the camp for about two weeks real time when Agony came up to me with a gleam in his beady black goblin eyes.

              “Now guild master, the fight you had with the leaders of the soldiers of light against the Orc Jokesonyou has been well documented” Agony said as I could see the orc torment sneaking up from the back. “We had offered Jokesonyou the head of our guild but he laughed at us, your fight with him opened up some eyes once someone put it on youtube. You have been secretive about your abilities but gold makes human tongues loose. You have the ability to destroy armor and your staff if used correctly takes away half of all life points on a single hit but you cannot wield it as often as you wish. We have to level you up and change your race, we have a job that was given to us by the human guild Fire Stryke, they want to raid a stronghold belonging to someone’s ex-husband”.

              “I know more about it than you do” Ferocity spoke as she came up from behind me. “Fire Stryke is an all-female guild, non are perma players though. One of their husbands was caught cheating in real life, to get payback she wants to destroy the stronghold he has been building for so long”.

              “I am not a part of this at all” I said as I attempted to walk away.

              “She promises the castle is filled with rare and legendary items” Ferocity said as she placed her hand to stop me.

              “Still not interested” I said as I attempted to move her hand.

              “We will not pass this chance up” Torment said as he also got into my face. “Our position here is precarious, all it takes is one human to see us gathered and blab about it. We would be wiped out before we could even react. The money we would get could allow us to buy skilled crafters to come in here and finish our building before any attack could come”.

              I still shook my head, not that any of it mattered as I was picked up by Ferocity and teleported along with her to a forest I had never seen. She asked me to join her party which I accepted and began to kill the local wildlife in the area, each level 20 or higher. Imagine her surprise when they rose again and started fighting other creatures. She looked at me and I shrugged as we went deeper into the forest, until we came across a mountain troll. Unlike Ferocity he was gray and was slightly smaller and a lot thinner than I thought a troll should be but had a huge club that he carried.

              “Why you hunt with food, let’s kill food and eat food” the troll said as I looked at his stats.

              “This one is not food, are we going to fight or what?” Ferocity shot back as she held a club in her hand also. She was not on this guy’s level though, at least not alone but with the boost I could give her there wasn’t too much doubt that we would eventually win.

              “I came down from mountain to look for mate, you look like mate” the troll said in his guttural tone. “
Too many food come with weapons, kill mates in mountain, those who come back don’t act like troll no more”.

              I listened as the wheels started turning in my head. Back at Menstrual Tavoria had told me that her kind, which I took to be NPC’s had begun gaining some form of sentience. Whenever they died however when they respawned all knowledge would be gone and they would revert to the way the game originally made them. The troll was probably a regular enemy who had gained sentience and went searching for something besides waiting around for someone to come kill him.

              “Well then troll I don’t think I want to fight you or get eaten today” I replied as he focused his stare on me.

              “You food, food job is to be eaten” the troll replied.

              “I see, how about joining us then, if see any other food feel free to kill and eat it” I began before deciding to through Ferocity under the bus. “Besides if you join us you can get to know Ferocity here better”.

              “This is good plan food, but me still hungry” the troll replied as a pop up box appeared in my vision.

              I accepted the troll as a companion, as soon as I did his status screen popped into view asking for me to give him a name. I chose Leeroy Jenkins after the famous videogame player during the early days of MMO before it virtual and took a look at his stats. Which made me a little jealous if I was being honest with myself, Leeroy outclassed me in every way I could think of as far as attributes went.

              I finished looking at his stats and welcomed him into the party. Ferocity for her part looked angry I got a companion but said nothing as we continued on the hunt. A small black bear crossed our path and charged. It was a level twenty and with its first hit, a direct claw strike to Ferocity’s shoulder it took away half of her life points. Ferocity returned the blow as Leeroy charged in club first yelling out his new name and connected solidly. The bear had its attention split between the pair and was soon killed. Leeroy immediately began tearing the carcass apart and stuffing as much of the raw meat into his mouth much to my horror. Ferocity for her part looked disgusted at first but soon joined him in his grisly kill which left me on the outside looking in. I had level up twice in that fight, I now stood at a level twelve but decided not to check anything yet. I would visit a skill trainer first to learn another skill and possibly learn some more spells. Leeroy for his part ripped off a leg and handed it to me, which I declined. It seemed faster than I thought possible that the pair finished the bear, at least what they could get off of it since neither had a knife or some type of blade to skin the beast properly. “I am still hungry” Leeroy said as he stood up, his face covered in gore. “I need more food now!” A status box popped into my vision.

I of course had to accept the damn thing as Leeroy smiled. Ferocity for her part seemed to be in better spirits also and started coming up with different ways to complete the quest. We wandered about until we heard the sounds of fighting, at least that is what I thought I saw. I signaled them to be quiet as we crept closer, in the clearing I could see two characters both male and obviously tank class that had a female elf surrounded.

“What are you doing out here all alone?” One of them teased as they closer to the elf as she struck out with her sword doing no damage since it landed on the warrior’s heavy shield.

I scanned all three of them, the elf was a level 15 and primarily an archer, after looking around closely I could see her broken bow discarded on the ground. The Knight class warriors were both at level 30, they should have moved on to tougher fights instead of trying to start fights with lesser players.

“They are going to try to take advantage of her” Ferocity whispered as she had her club in a death grip, her green knuckles turning white.

“What do you mean take advantage of her?” I replied. “You can’t rape people in a video game, even if it was possible all you have to do is log out”.

“It’s not that simple, the girl is a perma player” Ferocity said as she began to walk forward, I stopped her by pulling on her loincloth.

“This is a game Ferocity, you can’t rape other players”.

“I know all too well what can happen to lone female perma players, why do you think I chose to become a troll instead of a beautiful elf” Ferocity replied as the elven girl screamed. “You need to stop thinking of this as a game Fool. Slavery is real here, rape is real here. Just because you respawn means little if the person who is attacking you does not kill you and keeps you from killing yourself”.

I started my chant and let the corroding rain fall. The warriors didn’t seem to notice as they threw the girl on the ground, their strength obviously outmatching hers. Ferocity waited until they were busy trying to rip her clothes off and charged, I sent Leeroy along with her. The first attack was a direct hit which sent one of the men flying. The second one grabbed his sword and turned around quickly but failed to noticed Leeroy in time as he brought down his club for a smash. The girl’s elven armor disintegrated, obviously not as durable as the other two as I walked into the clearing. The knights formed up together but as tough and durable as they were their armor started to fall to pieces around them, their shield was the first to go, followed by the rest of it. The girl for her part snapped out of her fright and dug an older looking bow out of her pack and spun around and started firing arrows as quickly as she could. She did no real damage but the knights were too busy to notice. They attempted to flee but were cut down. Leeroy immediately went tearing into both bodies before they could disappear, biting into an arm here or a leg there. I got over my fright and checked their loot through the gore and became 3 platinum richer as Ferocity went over to the scared elven girl. I decided it was time to use my duplicate skill and found myself with 4 platinum, 96 gold and 4 coppers. Leeroy once again offered me some meat, it looked like a forearm that he hacked off using one of the knights blades but I once again declined as killing such high level opponents had level me up even more. I would leave the weapons for Ferocity, our guild could probably use them better than I could since there weren’t any mage gear. I walked over where Ferocity was trying to calm the girl down.