by Jason Cheek
Suman Kanuganti: Level 30 Guardian – small man, silver hair, green eyes, dark blue skin, angry about sharing loot rolls for pets with people of The World. Added him to my watch list.
Noralys Chave: Level 29 Druid
Scott Shade: Level 27 Druid
Justin Ekis: Level 26 Druid
Rohan Zaveri: Level 31 Guardian
Monica De La Cruz: Level 30 Druid, has become aggressive, brown hair, Spanish ancestry, close friends with Angie
Victoria Francis: Level 20 Druid
Midnight Sun Guild (old friends from Chaos Online currently 40 members – mostly family and IRL friends)
Zedic ZStat: Level 31 – Human – Ranger / Healer – (uses a bow and martial arts – iron-knuckles) – male - wavy short-blond hair, full beard, blue eyes, 6’2” sturdy build, animal companions is a Wild Dog (shaggy white fur coat) named ZTop.
Zyndi ZStat: Level 31 – Human – Ranger / Healer – (uses bow and daggers) – female – long dirty-blonde hair, hazel eyes, stacked figure, 5’4”, animal companion is a Lynx (gray fur with black tiger stripes) named Zweety.
Beastkin Player Zeven’s Group (800 ghost warriors and two hundred farmers – Mistborne is also a family name in the clan)
Zeven Al'Zaric: Level 29 – Badger-Kin – Essence Shaman / Warrior – (uses staff, long-sword and magic) – male - 6'2" Silver+Grey coat, silver-blue eyes. Brown-leather peasant shirt, thick-wool kilt, leather armor chest and heavy wolf-hide tunic. Nightmare quest gives a type of Spirit Shaman tree. Current Title: Spirit Hunter. Focused on enchanting using runes. Blaidd Ogof Hold. Chieftain of House of Bruic Diongmhalta. Has Low-Light vision. IRL name Stephanie Weber, gunner’s mate, medically discharged from Navy. Lives in Yorktown, Virginia. Had Loss of power from an April ice storm that kept her out of the game for a week after completing her Nightmare quest. (Combat Pet name: Bright Claw of the Azure Sky – Grizhawk.)
Nahimana Tor’Narc: (companion of Zeven / Nicknamed Nahi) Level 34 – Daughter of village Elder - Hunter / Shaman apprentice – female – 5’ 8” Silver fur with black highlights, green eyes. Low-Light vision.
Torrac Tor’Narc: Level 50 – Badger Kin – Tracker / Essence Shaman – (staff, magic, bow) - male – 6’5” Elder of tribe, father of Nahimana, friend of Zeven, died during attack. Low-Light vision.
Big Red: Level 25 – Red Wolf-Kin - Warrior – male – 6’ 1”. IRL name Tony Weber, brother of Zeven, from Fox River Grove, Illinois. Low-Light vision.
Beathan Bruic: level 38 – Badger Kin – Warrior – War Leader of the Clan’s Guards – died protecting the clan during their escape from AAA PKers.
Arcturus Guild (Guardians) / Norwegian group (32)
Arcturus Borknager: Level 38 – Wolf-kin, Warrior – male – Guild Leader - black fur with silver highlights and sky-blue eyes. Shield and Long Sword with Two-handed blade on back. Anders, Norwegian group, friends from Chaos Online
Bjørn Hansen: Level 37 – Wolfkin – Rogue – Officer – Bow and daggers. Brown and black Wolf-kin with brown eyes,
Liv Kristiansen: Priest – Officer – Silver Wolf-Kin with black highlights and golden colored eyes. Staff with glowing white gem topped by a blade. Pointed base to be used by fighting. Friend of Anders.
AAA (PKer guild part of Chaos Storm)
Cody Kuel: Guild Leader –
SoDak Jilling:
Aven Taurig
Nacario Deathreaver: Level 40 – Rogue - Leader
Xxnos Copexx: Level 40 - Rogue
Stannis Dickatheon: Level 39 - Rogue
Carebear Slayer: Level 39 - Rogue
Muhrder Piehole: Level 39 - Rogue
Ferry Crew between Lonsalindel and Tulduroc on the ship Paddlewhirl
Gokmit Clubelvest
Roadkill (PKer guild part of Chaos Storm)
Lizzie Short: Rogue level 43, 5’2”, short brown pixie haircut, human, pale skin,
Alliance Zero (PKer guild part of Chaos Storm)
Hazug Blackbane – Level 42 – male dwarf – artillery gunner – Warrior
V-MMORG Admins:
Niles Mulliner: the admin taking money to help Julie cheat in The World.
Orc that made agreement with Julie: (yani is sex slave / grug is food)
Kug Bloodreaver:
START OF DOM’s NPC’s (Domenic’s notes / 24 Paladins, 240 Dwarves at arms, 50 non-combatants, 1 Gnoll companion =315 NPCs (324 Domenic, Gnoll, NPCs and players / 270 Water and 270 Earth Elementals=540)/players: Daniella, Tony, Kat, Glen, Jimmy, John, daughter, and her boyfriend)
Tony Tomohiahya: Anthony, Virginia, Human, Hunter, male, bear pet. Large Rock Bear
Fluffy Tomohiahya: Danielle, (Danny) Virginia, Human, Hunter – female, bear pet, Large Rock Bear
Runartin Stonehammer: Glen, Texas, Dwarf, Warrior – male
Lena Stonehammer: Kitty, Texas, Dwarf, Priestess – female
Nuthar Inurface: Jimmy, Florida, Gnome, Priest / Bruiser – male, 3’2”, bald headed, brown eyes, long goatee,
Daiza Karrath: John, Florida, Human, Warrior – male – cheated on Julie while we were dating,
Rinaquenon Karrath: Julie (John’s daughter), Florida, Human, Fire Mage – female
Aegis Karrath: Kenneth (Julie’s boyfriend), Florida, Human, Warrior – male -
Bruddol Jadepike: Level 33 NPC Male Dwarf (CLASS TBD) Expert Miner / Architect
Gutirrg Rotfist: Gnoll Blood-brother.
Oksana Oakenstaff: Level 32 - Female – Half Dwarf-Human, Earth Shaman (Twin Sister of Iolas Oakenstaff) and love interest.
Gala Ranit: Level 29 NPC Half Dwarf-Gnome Bard (Will become my Master Scribe and a Lieutenant)
Madori Bryce: Level 33 NPC Female Half Dwarf-Dark Elf - Ranger - Blacksmith from Dwarven Capital Aeroch Nor - Lieutenant
Iolas Oakenstaff: Level 32 Male Shaman - Half-Dwarf-Human, Paladin (Twin Brother of Oksana Ironwood.)
Ferox Ironwood:
Gorran Carabineer: Level Sword Trainer – Half-Dwarf from Telrain.
Lexi Ngwen: Level Half Gnome Female Paladin from his clan.
Lorna Lightstorm: Level Human Female Priest at Telrain (sick of the Human Politics and left the Human area)
Kurin HellHammer: Level 48 - Male Dwarf – Guard Commander at Dwarven Capital Aeroch Nor.
Vudune Tortoris: Level 42 Male Dwarf Warrior (friend of Kurin’s 2nd in command ) at Dwarven Capital Aeroch Nor.
Pounce: Level (Same as Player) Male – Blink Lynx cat companion + eventually a mount.
Dwarves from the Mining Town of Kragrock
Male
Borear Hammertoe - Blacksmith - gray beard, bald head, gray eyes, wields a large hammer (same one he uses to smith)
Savrulir Bristletoe - Mine Leader
Grobrut Cavebuster
Strokhot Coalshoulder
Nurakdrin Silverbraid
Kukuil Blackspine
Skorgaeth Kegjaw
Female
Thilaelydd Flintgrog - Sub-Mine Leader
Dalofruni Smeltmane
Erirgrangrid Grimbelt
Olgilsia Redchin
Skonmeginn Bronzeback
Kuggulynn Flintgrog
Children
Mutoline Hammertoe - female - Clan Hammertoe - Blacksmith's granddaughter - dusty-skinned, dark-brown eyes, her long brown hair is set into five braids - two in front to either side of her head and one large main braid that ran down to her mid-back. A leather cap was tucked over her head that matched the simple dark-green leather pants and brown leather tunic she wore with Celtic-like designs woven into the sleeves and cuffs. A plaid tartan-like sash hung diagonally across her chest. Zeven guessed her at around 10 years old. Belt at waist with a small pouch and simple iron dagger. Now that her grandfather died, she is now the Tánaiste (heir apparent)
Doufalynn Flintgrog - female - Clan Hammertoe . Sub-Mine Leader's daughter - her long dirty-blonde hair was set into two braids that ran down the front of her chest and were intertwined with soft gray strips. She had very pale skin with blue eyes and rosy cheeks
and was wearing a gray leather tunic and brown leather pants with similar Celtic designs on her cuffs and sleeves. A matching plaid tartan-like sash hung diagonally across her chest. Zeven guessed her to be between 6 to 8 years old. Belt at waist with a small pouch and simple iron dagger.
Lokuth Kegflayer - male - Clan Hammertoe - an unruly mane of red hair roughly chopped short, dark-olive skin, green eyes, and wears dark-brown leather pants and a light-brown tunic. A matching plaid tartan-like sash hung diagonally across his chest. Zeven guessed his age to be that of Doufalynn, aka 6 to 8 years old. Belt at waist with a small pouch and simple iron dagger. (Given Steel Blade of the Crusader that was owned by his mother=
Aeroch Nor
Avna Hammertoe - female - Blacksmith's daughter and new Chieftain for Clan Hammertoe
Aeroch Nor Ambushers
Clan of Slagsmith
Thrakulck Densehide - male - lvl 45 - Group Leader
Themragith Densehide - female - lvl 44 - Group Sub-Leader
Snagril Embergrain- male
Arroginn Embergrain - female
Aeroch Nor Guards (Guardians of Aeroch Nor)
Nodraic Grimaxe - male - Guard Leader
Notmure Hetbrewer - female - Guard Sub-Leader
About the Author
Jason A. Cheek, the author of The World & The Last Paladin series, works in Germany due to his current job assignment. He lives with his wife and daughter, along with their two dogs Monty and Melow (rescue dogs from Greece). Originally from West Palm Beach, Jason lived most of his early life in Florida, except for when he was serving in the military or traveling for his job.
Always feeling like he was born out of time from an early age, Jason’s interested ran the gauntlet of martial arts, swords, archery, Dungeon & Dragons, the SCA (Society of Creative Anachronisms), reading Sci-Fi, and Fantasy. After leaving the service, Jason taught himself computer support and networking by his hobby of computer gaming.
Working eighty plus hours a week as a waiter, Jason put himself through college, studying to be an Occupational Therapist Assistant. In the end, he ended up becoming an Information Technology Professional due to his many hours of playing first person shooters and strategy games at LAN parties around the United States or logged into Anarchy Online and World of Warcraft leading his guilds.
Excelling in his career as an Information Technology Specialist, Jason was able to get a job traveling the world. During that time, he became interested in motorcycles, skydiving, white water rafting, scuba diving, and other extreme sports. Moving to Germany after meeting his Polish wife, he taught himself German and Polish, settling down in Europe with his current job and started writing books.
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The Last Paladin Series
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Book Two - Destiny
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The World Series
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Book Two – Mixing It Up
Book Three – You’re Going Down
Book Four – Helping A Friend
Book Five – The True Enemy Revealed
Book Six – That Wasn’t The Plan
Book Seven – Elusive Prey
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Post Credit Scene
(Saturday, May 10th / Day twenty of The World.)
(Rani Lamkin reporting to her V-MMORG Supervisor.)
“You’ve gotta do something Doug,” Rani demanded as she burst into her V-MMORG supervisor’s office. She was so pissed off that she almost couldn’t take it, “They fucking killed me!”
“Hey, Rani,” Doug pleasantly said, waving one of her coworkers away to give them some privacy. The V-MMORG Admin, he noted, was still wearing her skin-tight gaming bodysuit. He realized she must have been really pissed off to have stalked through the entire office in that, “take a seat and fill me in on what happened.” Professionally ignoring the grimace that crossed her face, he spun around and pulled a soda from the mini-fridge in his office and held up a bottle of water and soda for her to choose.
“Water,” Rani said, catching the bottle he tossed her.
“I take it this has to do with your Startum Ironwolf assignment,” he prompted as he sat back in his chair to listen.
“That’s an entirely different situation that we need to have a serious discussion about,” Rani fumed in-between gulps of water, “It was his friend Domenic that had his Elemental pets kill me once he heard that I’d been the one to report his Moonshine Elementals in to be fixed.”
“Domenic?” Doug repeated, the confusion clear in his tone as he sat forward and pulled up his keyboard, “I don’t recognize the name-”
“Ugh, his player name is Vengeance Burnslinger,” Rani hurriedly clarified, annoyed that she’d used the asshole’s in-real-life name.
“Ah, yes,” Doug recalled, leaning back in his chair, “the Moonshine Elemental fella.” He shook his head at the concept. “It’s too bad we had to gimp the creation; I hate having to stomp on players that are being inventive.”
“Inventive,” Rani asked, giving him a look that said, are you crazy? “those things would’ve unbalanced the entire game.”
“True,” Doug said, “which is why we toned down their explosive effect,” he sadly shook his head as his voice took on a winsome tone, “still ingenious.”
“Well, that ingenious asshole killed me when he heard that I’d reported him,” Rani complained as Doug frowned.
“He knew you were an Admin at the time,” Doug asked as Rani flinched at the look her boss was giving her.
“A few of Startum Ironwolf’s guildmates figured out my identity,” Rani grudgingly admitted, “and someone happened to mention that in front of Vengeance Burnslinger.”
“He should’ve known better than using force against one of our official representatives,” Doug said as a frown came to his lips, “Luckily, we have a procedure already in place for that. I’ll let Justin’s people know to set up a ban on his account for forty-eight hours.” He gave her a shrug. “We can’t have players wantonly killing Admins.”
“That’s it, you’re not going to kill him for assaulting me,” Rani asked incredulously, sitting up in her chair to glare at her boss, “It freaking hurt like hell and, on top of that, I lost all of my gear.”
“Lost all of your gear,” Doug gave her a confused look as he sat up and began typing at his keyboard again, “gear should be damaged but not destroyed-”
“The asshole killed me with an Acid Elemental,” Rani said, the anger clear in her voice, “and even if any of my gear did happen to survive, my gravestone is in the middle of an Orc Horde.”
“That would do it,” Doug agreed as he thoughtfully sat back again in his chair to consider the issue, “Hmmm, Acid Elemental, not a bad replacement for the Moonshine Elementals-” Seeing the daggers she was sending his way, he waved the comment away, “So, what is this other issue that we need to have a serious discussion about?” making air quotes.
“Startum Ironwolf is a way bigger threat to The World’s balance than Vengeance Burnslinger’s Moonshine Elementals could ever be,” Rani said in exasperation as she went on a rant about the day’s events.
Doug silently listened to Rani as she explained the Dark Lance spell that Startum had used to stop the horde. As she was explaining that
tens of thousands of Orcs had been slaughtered in a matter of minutes, her supervisor began poking away at his keyboard. Calling up her perspective, he rolled back the video recording of her gameplay until he’d reached the part that she was reporting on.
“Let’s move to the conference room, so you can walk me through the chain of events leading up to the fight and the battle itself,” Doug said, standing up smoothly and motioning Rani to follow him as they moved the discussion into the conference room next to his office. This was the room that the team used to discuss important in-game events.
A number of her coworkers curiously raised their eyebrows as the pair hurried to the conference room. Rani waited for her supervisor to remotely login to his own computer to set up the sync. Once everything was ready, he handed her the keyboard and mouse so she could walk him through the chain of events. One way or another, Rani silently swore, Startum was going down. With a fervor, she began describing the series of events that led up to the massive overkill as several of the veteran Admins on the team wandered over to listen in on her report.
“He stopped an invading Orc horde,” Susan exclaimed from where she stood next to Frank as they watched the video playing on the main screen from the doorway.
“How many Orcs did they kill,” Frank asked, squinting across the room trying to read the enemy kill count on the screen.
“Fifty-seven thousand three hundred and ten,” Susan said, clearly stunned, “in what looks to be fifteen minutes.”
“No shit,” Frank exclaimed as his mouth dropped open in shocked amazement
“Do you mind,” Rani asked, clearly irked as she glared at her coworkers. She couldn’t wait to see the smug look wiped off of Startum’s supercilious face. Unfortunately, that outburst had the entire team rushing over to see what the hell everyone was talking about.
As the team began discussing the impossibility of it all, Doug was focusing on the different parts of the battle as he thoughtfully observed how the spells were being used. Rani explained to the newcomers how the player in question had used a relatively common spell like Dark Lance to cause such unheard-of slaughter. The main point Rani focused on pushing was the need to either completely remove or severely reduce the spell’s effectiveness with an Emergency Hot Fix. To her surprise, the veteran Admins were against the idea. Not that any of that mattered, she sourly thought, she knew Doug would see it her way. The impromptu discussion was brought to a halt to Rani’s surprise, when Doug closed the laptop and started to stand up.
