Cursed Earth Online (First Cycle)

Prologue: Double Trouble

The hot, dry air permeated through their bones as they walked through the radio-active desert wearing the full-body lead-polymerized suits as the barren landscape of what once looked to be Las Vegas greeted them.

The travelers numbered at least ten, all armed to the teeth and carrying heavy bounty from the things they had slain. All they needed now was to find a crystalline machine known as a Terminus and sell it all so they could reap what they had sown. Little did these wanderers know though, that the very safety and assurance that they had sought was also their impending end.

The largest of the party carried an enormous, rapid firing rail-gun that resembled a gatling-gun. Large that he was, he was placed at the very back of the line due to him being incredibly slow with movement but whatever his feet couldn't chase, the quick spew of raining bullets from his weapon would, which also served as him being the one who watched their backs.

Unfortunately for the party, all it took was a quick tap to his shoulder that no one noticed to end all their lives as the large man open-fired on his comrades, splashing blood everywhere and as if it was divine retribution, the blood that splashed everywhere froze in mid air for a split second and ripped through him like bullets.

With the party dead, their bag of loot was picked up by two figures; two girls, one wearing a hoodie over her face and the other wearing a hockey mask with full leather attire.

"Welp, another score for us", said the one with the hockey mask as the username on her bracer turned red as his partner picked up the sack and revealed her red bracer as well. They had killed another group again, these Red Players. 'ThatClassicLady', were the words written on the bracer of the girl wearing the hockey mask as she and her partner ran away from the scene while her partner hid behind a dumpster, the words 'Vetalyni' leaving an after-image as she vanished with a splash of blood as a group of players wearing the same lead suits as those they had just killed came after them and cornered both of them in the alley.

Little did these pursuers know, they were playing right into their enemy's hands.

"Prepare for Trouble", the girl with the hockey-mask begin to declare.

"And make it Double", said the girl with hoodie as they posed dramatically and grinned maliciously with effect as their targets stood over the pool of blood they prepared and were impaled by enormous stalagmite of hardened red fluid.

In Cursed Earth Online, there were quests that depended on what you chose as your "Archetype" and "Alignment", these two in particular chose "Marauder" and "Nemesis", two of the Archetypes that often dealt with killing other players and their Alignments were both "Denizen", ones that lived anyway they chose. And with the Denizens, there was only one absolute rule; "Only the strong survive, everyone else is just a moving target".