by Brian Simons
Greetings Players!
Arbyten, Inc. is pleased to announce a few changes. First, we will add servers to address the lag issue. Second, we will refund players who participated in the Sagma’s Tower content. Third, we will make every area of the game PvP starting immediately.
As always, thank you for playing Travail Online, where hard play makes fun work!
Yours,
Domin Ansel
CEO & President
Arbyten, Inc.
Daniel read that last line three times before it sank in. PvP. Everywhere. Not a single safe zone? The second anyone logged in they’d be a target. He shook his head and thought about the ramifications for a second when someone knocked on the front door.
Daniel crept down the stairs as quietly as he could and peeked through the peephole.
He knew this moment would come, the moment the bank realized someone was squatting in the house it had just repossessed. Would they bring police? Private security? He would run if he had to, though if they had the house surrounded he’d have a hard time of it.
He peeked through the window from his mother’s room. There were no vehicles, no teams of guards in bullet proof vests with attack dogs. He felt foolish for letting his imagination get that far. That would be overkill. He was just a squatter.
A man stepped back from the front door and stared up at the house, right at the window Daniel peered from. He let go of the curtain in a hurry, but it was too late. He had been spotted.
Another loud banging on the front door.
Daniel crept down the front stairs and tried to get a glimpse through the small glass window toward the top of the front door of the house. The man outside wore a simple blue button-down and blue pants. His face was perfectly smooth, without a trace of a wrinkle or blemish. It was his eyes that gave him away though. Those glassy eyes didn’t bother to blink.
The man at the door was a robot.
“Is this Manayunk?” the robot yelled through the door. If this kept up, the neighbors would hear. They’d see that Daniel was camping out in the locked-down house. He needed to get rid of this bot.
“Yes,” Daniel yelled through the door.
“And are you Daniel_of_Manayunk?” the voice asked, drawing out his Travail Online handle as if the words somehow pleased him.
Daniel opened the door.
“Yes,” he said. “Who are you? What do you want?”
“My name is Devon Shirk,” the bot replied. “And I recruit.”
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About the Author
If Brian Simons were an action figure, he would come pre-equipped with a coffee cup jammed into one hand socket and an e-reader in the other. A former barista, corporate attorney, and health educator, Brian has finally started writing down the stories that have bottled up in his head.
Brian’s LitRPG stories are inspired by the never-too-many books and video games he has consumed his whole life. You may find him in a café near his Philadelphia home writing, reading, and worshiping a cup of sweet, sweet coffee.
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Titles by Brian Simons
Travail Online: Soulkeeper (Book 1)
Travail Online: Resurrection (Book 2)
Travail Online: Transcend (Book 3)
Ripcord Online
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