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[SeriousConcentrate]

Louis thought about it for awhile.

"I'm honestly not sure if I will. I don't have a lot going on; if I quit this I would have to find something else to do."

"Anyway, I don't see why we can't have fun. Sure, our mortality is a little more starkly rendered in this situation, but there's so many things that can kill you every day. A sudden illness, an allergy, crossing the street, maybe just being in the wrong place at the wrong time and getting shot. We try to enjoy life anyway. The only difference here is that it's more in our face than usual. Regardless, I do agree the sooner we get out, the better."

"I'm not either, but it's more 'in general' with me."

"It's OK, though. A lot of people don't, so it's not like you're the odd one out or whatever. Look at this guy."

Stein pointed to LordGecko, who was ahead of them.

"He doesn't care about it. I don't. I don't think our healer does, either. You have company even among us."

[Xanmyral]

Xoddahs adjusted the gauntlet on his arm several times until it looked about right to him. Its made of metal, it covers his hand, yet it doesn't increase defense. The dark mage grunted to himself, supposing he shouldn't be surprised.

Hearing the conversation as a passive listener, the man jumped in. "I'm not much for roleplaying either, I just go with the flow largely. Hard to really find immersion in an MMO when the stories tend to treat you like its a single player game and you wind up being the millionth 'chosen one.'"

"This situation is aggravating, frankly, and I imagine the further down this rabbit hole we go the more I'll want to ignore it. Mostly because it isn't what it looks like on its face and that bothers me."

Xoddahs sighed and lamented largely to himself. "I just wanted to bring back my guild and run dungeons, was that so much to ask."

[Swordstar]

"Eh, it's not a big deal. I do better at low health anyways so it's not a huge deal. It's not like we're going to be running into any more enemies before we hit the city anyways."

[GiglameshDespair]

"Very well."
Her multicore processing meant she could listen to multiple coversations at once, and she dropped back slightly to interject after Xoddah's final sentence.

"Is it likely we will have to run dungeons anyway? If you have previous experience you can share, that may be helpful."

[Blade Master Model 42]

Some time later, the group reached the gates of the city of Wandermere. Another high walled city, surrounded by fields. A light breeze caused the grasses around the city to shimmer in a very convincing simulation of a real field. The effect is ruined though, by a sense of wrongness. There are no little sounds made by wildlife, or even by the plants in the breeze. There is only a faint sound produced by the wind itself.  The longer the players remained inside the game, which was a little more than twelve hours at this point, the more this became obvious.

As the players drew closer, the gate opened, showing a train of five wagons flanked by around twenty players. The eclectic group had little in common aside from all being members of Golden Buddha, the merchant's guild. With the gates fully open, the caravan began to move, and the creaking of wheels filled the air.

[zomara0292]

"Hey, guys. These merchants bring up a very important question. We share our gold. Any one of us can pull from it as much as we want at any time. We may have had a conversation about this, and I missed it, but, it may cause issue later if we all are not on the same page."

He paused for the briefest of seconds before adding,
"I also wanna give our healer a gift. She works, and will be working, arguably the hardest in our group. Anything we do to supe her up now will help us when we must focus on ourselves, later.

[Twinwolf]

"That's a good point. So we should probably talk about it as a group first before purchasing anything, unless it's something obvious like getting someone a new weapon when the current one is about to break."

[zomara0292]

"Break? This game has a durability system? I could have sworn when I looked through the tutorial, it didn't mention anything about that."

[Twinwolf]

"I didn't see it in the tutorial either, but I noticed a number in my weapon's stat screen that's been going down each battle. I assume that's something like how many uses it has left or something. Not that odd in MMOs."

[Swordstar]

"Hmm, looks like it's only partially party gold. Or rather, it's individual gold that can go into a guild account. Not saying your ideas are bad, just pointing out."

[zomara0292]

"OK. I see is now. Its the number to the bottom left of my sword stats, and my personal gold is that number to the far left of my stats. Which means I have. . . 145 gold. I guess I don't have much. Well, we will see what can be gotten. Thanks.

[kj1225]

Sol seems to be checking a menu or something. After a moment twenty gold enters the guild account.
"Welp, there's my tithe to the group... And yes, I agree that helping the healer would be a good idea."

[GiglameshDespair]

"It is true I will be mostly unable to obtain gold myself, but I beleive I am sufficiently equipped for now."

[Swordstar]

"Alrightly then, we can stand outside here all we want, but that's not going to do anything helpful. Come on!"

She grinned and dashed into the city.

[Swordstar]

dammit internet