OOC THREAD // IC THREAD




Hello! Bonjour! Merhaba! こんにちは! Hola! Ciao! Hej! Здравствуйте! Hallo! 您好! Pozdrav! Hei! Labdien! 안녕하세요!
Welcome to CLOUD!
Hello! Bonjour! Merhaba! こんにちは! Hola! Ciao! Hej! Здравствуйте! Hallo! 您好! Pozdrav! Hei! Labdien! 안녕하세요!







OOC THREAD // IC THREAD​

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1:42am AUST, 25th May, 2025
Song: Doomsday - Atreyu (Lead Sails Paper Anchor)

"Seems like Doomsdays come early this year,
The last angel has gone.
I can't remember the last time I cried,
The last angel has gone home"

Fletch screamed the chorus from the top of his lungs as he sped down the deserted stretch of road. He was pumped to see the band as they toured Australia during the 'End of the World' Tour in a couple of weeks' time. With windows wound down the wind whipped his hair about as the cool summer air stole the words from out of his mouth and into the starry night. He felt like he was on cloud nine, on top of the world, even bulletproof as he pushed his Honda Civic past 120 kilometres per hour and up to 140. Safe in his knowledge of his proficiency at driving, Fletch had zero qualms about breaking the speeding limit when he felt like it. At this time of night though, he felt most alive having just come from a mutual meeting with his latest booty-call by the name of 'Jenny'. She was by far one of his more adventurous 'friends' and had done this thing that completely blew his mind. Even his gentlemen 'friends' who should know the area well hadn't ever managed to do something so amazing.

Looking at his phone he felt a rush of urgency as he remembered his brother's cryptic text about logging into Cloud in just fifteen minutes time. The Nokia Lumia 1820 vibrated angrily on his passenger seat as the reminder to log into Cloud in the intervening fifteen minutes flashed on his display. Earlier in the evening, before he had headed out, the guild chat had been rife with chatter about the upcoming event. Not that he really had much to do with the guild other than being 'just another member', but rather having it open while he worked on his assignments provided a brief respite. The way he figured it, he could be home and online in time for the announcement, then log out and head to bed before his 9am accounting lecture when the assignment was over.

Pulling into the driveway of his flat, Fletch killed the engine of his car and grabbed his school bag and phone from the passenger seat. Slinging his bag over his shoulder, he idled up to the pitch black flat, fiddling with his keys until he found the right one that would unlock it. It was a nice suburban house, three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a large living room/dining room area. His parents had bought it years ago when the economy hadn't been so strong, but after they had fixed it up and moved to Sydney, they allowed Fletch to live there rent free while he studied at university. While he took the master bedroom, Fletch rented the other two rooms out to his friends; Geoff, a Welsh punk exchange student he had met in their first year of university and Ellie, a half-aboriginal honours student from Perth. More than likely both of them were busy in Cloud waiting for the announcement which was later confirmed as he snuck past their bedrooms and could see the faint blue glow emanating from beneath their respective doors.

Flicking the light on in his room, Fletch let out an exhausted sigh as he dumped his back on the foot of his bed and emptied his pockets on the bedside table. Coins clattered on the hard wood surface, keys, wallet and phone soon followed. The phone he picked back up, connecting it to his dock-port alarm clock where it began charging and playing a premade list of Atreyu, Breaking Benjamin, Dark Tranquillity and a whole range of other Alt Rock and Metal bands. He booted up his computer before passing through into the bathroom to take a leak and brush his teeth. In the mirror he flattened his wind swept hair and quickly took his shirt off to reorient it after putting it on backwards when leaving Jenny's house. For a moment he paused and flexed his muscles in the mirror, turning around and noticing the red scratch marks running down his lats and traps. Flexing some more, he sized up his muscles in proportion to the rest of his body and figuring out that his next gym session should include more triceps workout.

Putting his shirt back on, Fletch slid the bathroom door shut and fell into his desk chair before turning around to begin typing on his computer. Logging in, his first instinct was to check his email and bank balance, but when he logged into Cloud to access these services, he was forcefully booted out and told that the login portal was closed until the release of the announcement. The guild chat was rife with contemplation on what the announcement was about and rumours ran rampant throughout the chat. Picking up the stress ball sitting beside his LCD screen, he began bouncing it against the far wall of his bedroom which had the living room on the other side. When the clock finally ticked over to 2am Fletch tossed the ball and turned to his computer, letting the ball fly past the back of his chair and bounce under his bed. Forcefully logged in, he went to teleport his character to the Cloudlands to check his email only to found that the entire UI had been disabled.

What was stranger was the bizarre castle that the millions of other users were trapped in. Even though he barely used Cloud, Fletch still had a decent idea of the different places in Cloud and if this wasn't some high levelled dungeon, then it was nowhere within Cloud. Looking around he was amazed at the sight of the amount of users stuck in this place; with so many in one place he wondered how the Cloud megaservers hadn't already destroyed themselves. They could handle a lot since Cloud was practically international but this amount of players was just insane. Before he could talk to anyone around him the lights flickered and a large red humanoid Demon/Dragon thing spawned in the middle of the castle. Immediately he identified it as the Daemon of Icarus.

"Greetings, CLOUD members! I am your host, ICARUS, and I officially welcome you to your new home! Today marks the day of revolution, the day that CLOUD truly changes the world. To celebrate this wondrous occasion, we have prepared something special for you, our members who have supported us for every single second that CLOUD has existed.

CLOUD has always worked to meld the line between our online selves and reality and now, what we do behind a screen will have so much more of an impact on our lives than ever before.

You may recall receiving a special item last week; a silver key which is individual to your DAEMON. Your KEY is no longer just an item. It is your identity. Embedded within the coding of your KEY are your details, and not just your name and birth date. Passwords, bank accounts, social security numbers, credit card details... everything you have ever done is now recorded in one location. Just by equipping and using the KEY as a regular item, you can access all of this. And not just your own. By equipping and using another member's KEY, you are able to access their details just as easily as your own. As they are non-trading items, the only way to obtain another member's key is by killing their DAEMON."

Fletch flicked through his inventory seeing all his little amount of items suddenly gone except the silver key he had received like Icarus had said. Bringing up the details of the item in his HUD he noticed that the name of this item was his Avatar's and in the description it had everything Icarus had spoken of; email, bank account, TFN, debit cards, everything. Around him people struggled to get out of their seats but unable to do so and an American user two seats in front of him began swearing off a list of profanities at Icarus. Fletch's own heart start racing as he began to panic about other people obtaining his key. Hiding it back into his bare inventory, he was ready to fight tooth and nail to keep it, but with his Avatar's small stature and agility he would easily be able to avoid most of the massacre.

"Other important changes have happened in CLOUD. All levels have been reset to zero and all items aside from your KEY have been removed and deleted from all accounts. Your DAEMON has been reset to factory settings. All restrictions have been removed from all locations which means PvP is allowed in all areas aside from the CLOUDLANDS lounge, which will boot you out after an hour after entering. Also, it is now impossible to log out your DAEMON. However, if you are killed and your key is taken from you, you will respawn in CLOUDLANDS and you are free to try and win your key back.

Are you unhappy with your new world that I have so graciously given you? Fine! Come face me then! CLOUD has been converted into a new domain, a hundred story castle! Right now, the CLOUD you know resides on the first floor. Once you defeat the boss which rests within the new STORM dungeon, the stairs to the next floor will reveal, granting you new opportunities to protect yourself, or to make yourself stronger to defeat and take from others. I will be waiting for you in the hundredth-floor dungeon. Defeat me, and take back what you held so dearly, what you took for granted."

"There is however, a catch. I have spread out amongst yourselves unique, coloured keys. These have been given out to several random but now special players. These coloured keys are important for unlocking the doors to bosses and all of these coloured keys will be required to open the final door. To you players who have my special keys, I have given you no choice. I have your key. Your identity is mine. Come and claim it back."

Fletch had already discovered his deleted items, but pulling up the overview of his Daemon in the HUD he noticed that Icarus wasn't lying; he was in fact level one again. The only good thing that had really come out of this though was that is K/D ratio had also been reset, allowing him to no longer have such a dismal rate. He wasn't quite ready to take on Icarus' challenge, he would need others for that, but even the Cloudlands sounded like they would be a danger zone as no doubt campers would sit outside waiting for the lower levelled Daemons to be booted out after an hour before mauling them to death. Perhaps he could band with such people but Fletch doubted they would be as friendly and would more than likely turn on their own crowd. He wasn't quite sure about having his own key as opposed to Icarus having it. While he had his own, he still had access to his identity but it also meant that if someone else killed him they could access it as well. Then again, how likely was Icarus going to meddle with those keys as opposed to someone else? Were those keys even safer with Icarus than with their owners?

"So, which has become more important to you? Your online or offline self? Do you protect what you have or rebuild your identity from scratch?

Thank-you for your time and enjoy yourselves at our new update celebrations. Have a nice morning, day, night and evening."

At the close of his speech Icarus logged out. The locks around Fletch's Daemon set him free and he was able to move about, but as he tried to follow suite he noticed that the log out button had been disabled. Chaos erupted around him as Daemons began running in every direction or started to attack one another. It was complete Anarchy and Fletch began focussing on moving his Daemon between the legs, talons and tentacles of his fellow Cloud users as he searched for a viable exit. Going to Cloudlands now would be ultimate suicide, as would staying here, but a blue glow from the centre of the foyer provided another way out; a portal. As he scurried for the portal, he noticed an ensemble of feet exit the portal as a mass of scary monsters now surrounded the portal. Retreating out of Aggro range, Fletch hid in the shadows of an arch before jumping to the guild chat. Now he regretted having a white Daemon, but if he could group up with some other guild members, he would have a higher chance of survival.


Fletch quickly entered a message:

[/GUILD]>LFG, Portal, 1 Tank

The message was soon buried beneath the cries from his other guildies but Fletch continued to send the message every minute hoping someone would notice it and group with him. He wasn't well renowned within the guild, but a couple of the higher levelled members had taught him the basics of tanking; he had no trouble taking a hit. Turning away from his computer, Fletch rolled over to his bedside table where his phone sat, pulling it off the dock and stopping the music before pulling up the installed messaging app.


Three texts and five calls later and all Fletch could deduct was that his brother has his phone off and refused to take the call. Which was odd, his brother never turned his phone off, even when he was meant to. During their dinners at home he was always receiving calls at any time so why now would he turn it off? Figuring his brother was a lost cause, Fletch turned back to his screen noticing that he was suddenly taking damage. Taking off into the crowd, he quickly lost his attacker, hiding in another arch shadow in a more desolate place of the foyer.​

Rosalee Bennett // PumpkinXO
>> Level 1, Unassigned Class, Cloud Nine
>> 25th May, 2025
>> ??? & Manchester, England​

[1:07:11] HarukaKage: Everyone, @Kuoto has a colored key!​

1:13am AUST, 25th May, 2025
Song: Seven Lions - Worlds Apart (feat. Kerli)

1:13... 1:14... 1:15...

The time ticked away as Julie flicked her wrists back and forth, cycling through the few chats she had open. Whether it be in the guild, her stream, or private chat, the number one topic seemed to be be all about the event. What exactly the event was was a mystery to everyone both on and off CLOUD. The company often did things like this, but very rarely did they not give out any information on it. Typically, the higher-ups would've 'accidentally' leaked some of the information. A glimpse here, a teaser there, rumours everywhere. All of those would usually be commonplace by this time. This time was obviously different and absolutely no one knew whether or not it was a good or bad thing. Everything seemed to be left to speculation. Hell, the number of confused people within the chat rooms seemed to grow with each passing minute.

The magnitude of such an event like this was simply awe-inspiring, or it would be if Julie didn't have to wait so long. Patience was not something that the girl was known for and the light tapping and constant flicking between chats seemed to explain that perfectly well. There's still forty minutes to go, thought the girl with a sigh. Typically, she'd be asleep right now, her DREAMSCAPE device around her head so that she could play at the same time. However, with forty-five minutes left, there was nothing the young woman could do but wait.

The girl sighed once more before standing up to make her way towards her bathroom. Turning on the cool water in the shower, JJ looked towards the mirror, once again activating a part of the Lenses HUD. She wasn't quite used to them yet, particularly the green circle around her eyes that only seemed to form when the device was activated. Nonetheless, she couldn't get over just how useful they were. With a quick flick of her hand, the chats seemed to hover in the space in front of her. Still no news, she thought. Might as well kill some time. Flicking her hand upwards, the chats disappeared once more as the Lenses turned off. Focusing now on the pitter-patter of the water against the wall, the girl stepped in upon removing her attire.

Despite the cold water that now touched her skin, the brown-haired girl's mind still wondered about the event. Her impatience seemed to have no bounds. Could it just be another item giveaway? She immediately thought of the key that she was given last week. Odds were those keys would unlock something today, after all, what else is a key used for? If there's a key, there must also be a lock.

The next half hour went over quite like this, even after getting out of the shower and getting into more comfortable clothes. The event was almost upon all of CLOUD now and despite Julie's many guesses, she couldn't help but admit everything was still a mystery to her. Lying down in her bed, she placed the DREAMSCAPE helmet over her head and counted down the seconds before she was entirely logged in.

5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

Within milliseconds of the countdown, Julie opened her eyes to see thousands of DAEMONs surrounding her in what appeared to be a large castle. She had never seen so many players at once, even in the clubs at ALTO. It seems like everyone is here. With each passing second, more and more CLOUD members entered the huge mega server before a large red, demon-like DAEMON appeared in the center of the large building.

"Greetings, CLOUD members! I am your host, ICARUS, and I officially welcome you to your new home! Today marks the day of revolution, the day that CLOUD truly changes the world. To celebrate this wondrous occasion, we have prepared something special for you, our members who have supported us for every single second that CLOUD has existed.

"CLOUD has always worked to meld the line between our online selves and reality and now, what we do behind a screen will have so much more of an impact on our lives than ever before.

"You may recall receiving a special item last week; a silver key which is individual to your DAEMON. Your KEY is no longer just an item. It is your identity. Embedded within the coding of your KEY are your details, and not just your name and birth date. Passwords, bank accounts, social security numbers, credit card details... everything you have ever done is now recorded in one location. Just by equipping and using the KEY as a regular item, you can access all of this. And not just your own. By equipping and using another member's KEY, you are able to access their details just as easily as your own. As they are non-trading items, the only way to obtain another member's key is by killing their DAEMON."

To say the least, JJ (or tornSHADOWS depending on how you look at it) reacted accordingly. She immediately flicked her wrist in a fashion not too dissimilar from what she did in the real and opened up the inventory. Her eyes lit up in shock to see that her items slowly began to disappear before leaving her with nothing but the key. Her weapons, potions, clothes, all of them were gone. Julie looked down at her DAEMON's body, finding nothing except for what appeared to be a simple nightgown. The base clothing? she thought, not being able to remember when she last wore these. All of that hard work.

"Other important changes have happened in CLOUD. All levels have been reset to zero and all items aside from your KEY have been removed and deleted from all accounts. Your DAEMON has been reset to factory settings. All restrictions have been removed from all locations which means PvP is allowed in all areas aside from the CLOUDLANDS lounge, which will boot you out after an hour after entering. Also, it is now impossible to log out your DAEMON. However, if you are killed and your key is taken from you, you will respawn in CLOUDLANDS and you are free to try and win your key back.

"Are you unhappy with your new world that I have so graciously given you? Fine! Come face me then! CLOUD has been converted into a new domain, a hundred story castle! Right now, the CLOUD you know resides on the first floor. Once you defeat the boss which rests within the new STORM dungeon, the stairs to the next floor will reveal, granting you new opportunities to protect yourself, or to make yourself stronger to defeat and take from others. I will be waiting for you in the hundredth-floor dungeon. Defeat me, and take back what you held so dearly, what you took for granted."

"There is however, a catch. I have spread out amongst yourselves unique, coloured keys. These have been given out to several random but now special players. These coloured keys are important for unlocking the doors to bosses and all of these coloured keys will be required to open the final door. To you players who have my special keys, I have given you no choice. I have your key. Your identity is mine. Come and claim it back."

ICARUS logged out of CLOUD and with it, an uproar from the entirety of the castle. DAEMONs all around broke into fighting and for a moment, JJ was glad she knew what she was doing when it came to PvP. Now that everyone was back to level one, she could easily take most of them as long as they didn't team up on her. With a sigh from her avatar, she flicked over to the guild chat. Maybe Silver would be on for once, she thought. He did want me here after all.


Everyone seemed to be confused and lost in the situation and hundreds of messages came in every few seconds. The only calm one appeared to be Atreyu, Silver's kid brother. He wasn't the best player, but he did understand the basics. Not to mention he told me to watch him. She skimmed over the chat once more, finding nothing from Silver. With a sigh, she settled on the next best thing. His little brother.

Starting a separate chat with him alone, she sent the message:


Rather than trying to orientate the both of them, Atreyu thought of a better plan. Selecting JJ's name in their individual chat, he brought up a pull down menu which produced a selection of other options.


Clicking the button 'Add to Party', his HUD changed to show a picture of his avatar in the top left-hand corner; a small crown emblem sitting atop the picture showing that he was the leader of the group. Below his picture and name with accompanying health and stamina bars was a picture of JJ's avatar and accompanying details. With the party created, another tab in his chat opened up to display their typed messages. Grabbing his headset from it's position lying on his desk, he placed it over his head, pulling the attached microphone down to beside his mouth. The headset had been a birthday gift from his brother last year; one he hadn't used frequently but now came in handy.

"JJ, can you hear me?" he tried the party channel, hoping that she would be able to voice chat with him to alleviate the burden of having to stop to type to each other.

"Loud and clear," JJ replied as she grabbed the key from the inventory. Luckily, she could use it as an attack item, not that it made much of a difference.

"Tank, DPS or Heals?" He asked, noticing a green party aura envelope the distant figure of JJ's avatar on his screen.

"You should know that by now," she told him. "DPS. Are you still training at being a Tank?" She held back a laugh for a moment. At this point, most people didn't think any of this would matter, but no one realized just how helpful it would be. If the two were able to get someone who can heal eventually, they'd be set. "Regroup and we'll figure out what to do from there. If we can get someone who can Heal by the time we leave, we should be set."

Choosing to dodge the many attacks that were being thrown around, JJ made her way towards the blue blip on her radar.

"Yeah, I still remember a thing or two. Hold on." Cycling through his DAEMON's ability, all had been reset and the same for his key commands. Finding the one ability he had left, he quickly shortcut it to his F1 key, before cancelling the window and turning back to the main HUD. Hitting the button, he watched as his DAEMON turned from the small, fluffy, agile DAEMON he was used to into a large, fearsome wolf-fox-dog hybrid thing. Holding down both his mouse buttons, Fletch's DAEMON began bounding forward from the shadows, heading towards JJ's and pushing every DAEMON in it's path to the side.

It didn't take much time for the two to meet up as they headed closer towards the center of the castle. It wasn't hard to get through the crowds with everyone being reset, no one has any items or armor. They had no idea how to cope. Moving beside one another, the two made their way farther in, watching the many DAEMONs be put down by others. Left and right, keys were being lost. For the most part, they ignored the rest, focusing on their own well-being.

"Get away from me!' The two heard from in front of them. Quickly halting in their tracks as JJ attempted to look in to the circle that formed. She was horrified to see a way too familiar avatar within the circle. The pink, winged DAEMON in rags whimpered beneath a large, stone golem. Without hesitation, tornSHADOWS jumped in front of the almost defenseless DAEMON, her key apparently stopping the monster's blow.

There was a loud noise as the golem collided with JJ's key and he stumbled back, wailing in pain. His eyes seem to boggle in his brain before he focused on the new DAEMON in front of him. He growled loudly, brandishing his own key -- a coloured one at that. Rosie went wide-eyed at the situation in front of her, recognising the DAEMON who had saved her digital life.

"... JJ!" Rosie said, her eyes flicking between the miko and the golem DAEMON. She was torn between thanking her, asking her what she was doing here or asking her if she was going to take her key, but no noise came from her mouth. Instead, she rearranged the key in her hands, scrambling to her feet.

Seeing JJ leap into action like that, Fletch tried to do the same, sending his DAEMON on a direct impact course for the golem DAEMON. From what he new about tanking, he was the one who would take the hits while the others played safe and attacked with all they had. However this took him on a collision course; his wolf-hybrid DAEMON crashing into the golem DAEMON sending them both sprawling. Atreyu immediately began utilizing his basic skills; biting and slashing in flurries of fury.

Letting the DAEMON behind her stay behind, JJ felt her avatar body jump forward at the enemy. Using her key, she swiped at the beast multiple times, only stepping backward to gain some space before attacking again. She was used to magic when it came to fighting, but when all you're given is a key, you're forced to make due. Working side-by-side with the wolf DAEMON, the two pummeled the golem, only taking a few hits here and there due to their teamwork. With time, the last blow was dealt by tornSHADOWS. A message flashed across her HUD.


Rosie exhaled -- honestly though, breathing here wasn't entirely necessary -- and looked up at her saviors, smiling weakly. She had never been in a battle before, let alone a PvP match. It seemed stressful and hardly fun, how did people do this in their spare time? Although admittedly, they didn't do it for the other person's entire identity (Rosie had to remind herself she didn't have one now). "Thanks Torn. And," she glanced at the stranger's username, "Atreyu. Thank you. I would've been dead if you hadn't come along."

"Don't mention it," Fletch spoke weakly into his mic, adding her name to an invite to their party of two. With a swipe of her , Rosie accepted the request, Torn and Atreyu's name appearing in the top corner of her HUD.

Shaking her head at Atreyu, Torn reached over at their new comrade before pulling her hand back. She didn't expect her to already be standing. "I wouldn't be thanking us yet Pumpkin." She had half the mind to call her by her real name, but kept it to herself. "We've still got to make it to the portal and past the guards." Rosie nodded then shook her head sadly. A part of her wanted to snicker at the Australian accents in her ear but she knew there was a little bit more than that on her mind.

"But... I don't know how to fight. I've never done any of the RPG Cloud or fighting or PvP or anything. I don't even know how to use this thing." She swung the key in her hand. Swords were definitely not something she learned how to use at school. "Won't I just slow you down?"

"Don't worry about it," she told the inexperienced player. "This guy has no idea what he's doing either." It was mostly the truth, he did hold himself during the fight, but at the same time, it was as if he was merely button mashing. "You can learn as we go, you just have to be sure to stick close to me and Atreyu here. You do that and we'll be okay for a short while." For a moment, she was amazed no one was attacking them, this place was a battlefield, and yet they seemed to still have the time to talk. With a sigh, JJ opened up her inventory and slid down to the new key that she had obtained. Part of her was glad that the Seafoam Green Key didn't have anyone's identity. On the other hand, she felt as if this was a brand new weight on her shoulders. Equipping the key to her free hand, she couldn't help but laugh. This felt like those old Disney games from the 2000's. The third one was meant to come out this year sometime.

"Okay." Rosie nodded, giving herself a boost of self confidence and gripping her weapon tightly in her hand. "How do we get out of here?"

tornSHADOWS pointed towards the center of the great hall. She half thought the bright tower of light would've given it away, at least two those who were used to dungeon crawling. She silently scolded herself for forgetting. "Just over there. There is a lot of enemy monsters guarding it." We beat a few of them and we be able to go through get out of here. Of course, I have no idea where we'll be going." Rosie followed her finger, noticing a great lot of people had also seen the blue light, but hardly as many as were still quarreling over the keys. She wondered how many of them were like her and didn't recognise what the light meant.

Atreyu scanned the foyer, seeing that many of the players had since disappeared and many more hovered just out of aggro range from the mob of monsters encircling the blue portal. If they wanted to fight more players, then they were in the right place but the players dropped nothing but keys, and so, after JJ's suggestion, he headed off towards the nearest mob. With JJ and the new girl, Pumpkin, in tow, they soon came upon a large creature, its health bar above its head with the name Kobold Brute emblazoned above that.

"So JJ, any ideas?" He asked as the Kobold Brute started stomping over towards them.

Leaping forward he slashed, bit and mauled the Kobold Brute in the same style as he had the user: key spamming. When they were younger, Fletcher and his brother had a Playstation 5; Silver would spend hours on it while Fletcher would only play occasionally. Often he like to reminisce how angry his brother got when Fletcher beat him just by mashing buttons. Since then, any CLOUD fight he had been in he used the same tactic; sadly it hardly ever worked. Now against a regimental mob, he was able to truly get into the spirit of button mashing and soon, witnessed the Kobold's health bar drop to zero.

"At the moment, we just need to attack. They're the same level as us. They should be a lot easier than that golem guy." She attempted to give her two party members a reassuring smile before turning towards another rat-demon hybrid that came marching . Moving forward as fast as she could, Torn used her two keys to attack and block in turn. She hadn't expected the strength of the mob to be where it was. The fight was over quickly but she had taken a few hit here and there.

Rosie on the other hand, swallowed and felt like she stumbled into this fight rather than run gracefully like Torn and Fletch had done. She swung her key wildly, targeting one of the closest mobs (unintentionally activating the in-game targeting system), which noticed her immediately and charged back at her. She yelped, her courage disappearing as large, frog-like enemy made inhuman noises at her and charged in for an attack. She mentally encouraged herself and swung as the frog leapt, the two attacks colliding at the same time. She was thrown back and felt a peculiar feeling wash over herself. Her vision, mainly her HUD went red for a moment as she noticed her health bar in the corner dip. It didn't hurt, but it sure felt like it should have.

The frog mob was frozen for a few moments and Rosie took her chance to try and get the upper hand, swinging at the frog. Numbers appeared above at each attack, its health bar slowly dwindling down. Its frozen status didn't last long, as the frog swiped at Rosie, knocking her back as it got back up on its feet. She copied, scrambling up, exchanging blows. Tunnel vision set in as she continued to slash, ignoring her health bar. Soon, the frog mob had fallen, and Rosie was victorious. But, it seemed her health had dropped to just about halfway. She cringed, but her health was soon forgotten as she picked up an item the mob had dropped.


Looking to his own health bar, Fletch noticed that he had lost significant health in his battle; much more compared to the likes of JJ and Rosie. Then again, both had been fighting with their keys while Fletch had opted for a more feral approach. When the monsters struck the ground and dissipated in a shower of pixels, Fletch noticed something lying on the ground. Touching it with a claw, the item disappeared only to reappear in his inventory.


Equipping the item, Fletch watched as basic chainmail armor customized itself to his DAEMON alongside a shield in one hand and what looked like bladed claws in his other in lieu of a blade. "Hey JJ," he called out over the microphone, excited for his prize, "I look pretty badass! It dropped some starter pack thing!" Fletch made his DAEMON wander in circles, attempting to 'show off' his new additions to her.

"Oh, I got one of those too." Rosie went through her inventory and clicked on the starter pack she had received, equipping it like she would an item of clothing. She was now rid of her basic rags, instead in a basic robe with a staff and a headband. "What's a white mage?"

"It's what I like to call: A lifeline," the experienced player said to her. "In the long run, your class will keep us alive." Looking where the rat monster had been defeated, JJ reached down to grab her own new pack.


Immediately selecting it from within her inventory. a bright light appeared around her before her clothes magically changed once more. Now out of that horrid nightgown, she looked down to see her new garbs. The leotard and overalls were one thing, but the steel breastplate, gauntlets and headband really ruined the look. Part of her wished she could have her old miko clothes back, but for now, she'd have to do.

"Are you guys ready? I highly doubt any of us want to stick around this place any longer." Directing the two to jump in before her, Torn turned once more towards the rest of the castle. The number of DAEMONS had quickly diminished with the fighting, meaning more and more had lost their identities completely. She sighed, afraid of what could happen. They were lucky to be able to get out of there in one piece after all. Turning once more, JJ jumped into the portal with her keyblades in tow. Where are we going? She thought as light became the only thing in sight.​

STREAM DERP #34: "WHAT A FUNGI" - [ACTIVATE]​

1x item(s): Dragoon starter pack!
Level Up! You are now level 2!
Skill learned: Medium Armor Equip, Spear Equip!
HP: 500>514
STM: 200>226
ENG: 100>110
ATK: 1>3
DEF: 1>2
ABP: 1>2
ABD: 1>2
SPD: 1>3
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??? // RENU0xu

>> Level 1, Unassigned Class, ???
>> 25th May, 2025
>> ??? & ???, ???​

??? // RENU0xu

>> Level 1, Unassigned Class, ???
>> 25th May, 2025
>> ??? & ???, ???​

1x item(s): Thief Class Starter Pack
LEVEL UP! You are now level 2! ​

LEVEL UP! You are now level 2!​