Drift

ARCADE: Chapter 4

Chris : "Ah"! I yell waking up at a counter I hear Marlon voice groan as I spin my head around. "Marlon! You ok? "I ask as I place a hand on his shoulder. " Yeah, you?" he asks back. "A little spooked" I return. "Yeah me too" He says rubbing his head. "What are you wearing?" Pointing at my plain white shirt and clothe pants. "I was going to ask you the same thing" I say. Two Glass mugs slide in front of us. "Cheers Love" she says as she winks "First drinks are free for newcomers." She says smiling. "Excuse me Miss" Marlon says even though the girl appearance wise is the same age as him. "Do you know where we are?" he says confused. "Riiiight, the late bloomers", she says remembering something, "Welcome to Barry's Beginners Point Tavern" "um say that one more time" Chris says confused. "I said Welcome to beginner's point where all players start out their journey." She says. "Players?" Chris says. She sighs "it's in the tutorial video in your inbox" She says drying a mug. "Here "she says walking from around the counter and taking Chris' hand he raises his eyebrows in surprise. She leans in and a lines her fingers with his. Marlon looks at him with eyebrows raised and a smirk on his faces. She uses Chris' hand to touch the Air and a screen appears blue with multiple slots. She press the slot entitled inbox. I taps on the Video sent to them by an unknown user. "This will explain everything." She says taking her hand off Chris' and walking back behind the counter. "Welcome to Arcade, This is real life gaming Experience Where you and Hundreds of others are stuck in a game the rules are simply. It's life which means there are cheat codes and their allowed. The only rule you can't break is THIS if you die in this you stay dead forever. By this I mean if you are killed in this game You will be killed in real world. Remember also that this streams live on a feed of listing numbering the total of kills, players left, deaths, suicides< And Levels of floors cleared. Oh speaking of that there are 100 floors or levels to clear, On each floor there are 4 bosses and several mini bosses spread out you kill all four big bosses to access the next floor. Know if you're thinking that because games are usually 2D Flat Land. Your wrong each floor is a full 360 Degrees cylinders. With mountains, oceans, deserts,forest, and ect.. Each floor's terrain different. And finally there are 4 Mega bosses at each 25 floor mark. The objective of this game is to survive. The question is how long can you survive?. May the odds NEVER be in your favor." The video ended. "Oh My God ... We're ....we're ..." Chris stutters. "Hosed " Marlon says in shock. The screen give an update July 17, 2018 Death count: 2,084,000. Long term levels achieved: level 15 out a 100. "Aw crap." The day together. A large party enters the tavern. cheering and hooting celebrating over a victory. "Do you hear that??" Chris says surprised. "Yeah it's a group people about to party like theres no tommorow." Marlon retorts. "No, no , listen ...." He says as he stops taking. Over the shouts and laughter, they is chanting a word. "Chug, Chug, Chug, Chug !!!!" Every starts saying in unison as people from all around the bar join the group and starting chanting. They walk over to see Kristian gulping back a large mug..

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