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An Online Fiasco (Vahn Seele x wiki234)

Vahn Seele

Vahn Seele

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As Genwyn sat down at her laptop, she tucked a few strands of hair out of her face. She felt exhausted from the day she'd had at school; the drain of the required socializing and studying doing quite the number on her. Looking at her laptop, she saw the icon in the top right of the screen, along with a few pings from her instant messenger. "Where does she find the energy to play these games right after school? Am I just that out of shape, mentally?" She asked herself. There were the usual messages, asking when to expect her on. Her twin sister's screen name continued to flash, as if beckoning her to reply sooner rather than later. Opening the messenger, the effort feeling like metal grating on metal, Genwyn tapped out a quick message before standing up to get ready for the evening. She'd have a long evening of gaming ahead, that was for sure, given her sister's appetite for the online gaming space.

"I'll join you in a few. Need to go rid myself of the dread of school." She said, buying herself at least ten minutes to gather her bearings before settling into another lengthy MMORPG session.

How long had she been playing this game with her sister? A few months? The thought filtered through her mind a for a bit as she recounted the details. Changing out of the more alluring, multicolored top, Genwyn settled for something a bit more comfortable: a white t-shirt that was a size too big, hanging comfortably over her shoulders and down to her thighs. With a light stroke of her fingers over her cheek, making sure that the dark circles under her eyes weren't too heavy. She wouldn't let her sister keep her up all night again playing this game.

If her twin knew it was her playing the game with her, Genwyn doubted she'd continue. She'd divulged enough information to let her know that she wasn't a guy, and that she lived in the nearby area. It was a kind of test, to see if her sister was naive enough to try and meet up with strangers online. Even with their parents giving her all the warnings, Genwyn was a little afraid that, even though her twin was 18, she'd end up a statistic on a news channel.

With her "gaming" face on, Genwyn sat down in front of her laptop and booted up the MMO, a game by the name of Legend of Dagger Heights. It was a standard MMORPG, with plenty of grinding. Its biggest bonus was that it was a true free-to-play game, with subscriptions and in-game purchases limited to cosmetics and minor boosts. Subscribing even put you in a special league of people that were specifically subscribers only, to keep the game fair for everyone who couldn't afford to pay anything into the game.

"I'm at a the guild hall when you want to go questing." Genwyn sent to her twin, taking a drink of water as she lightly tapped her foot against one of the legs of her desk.
 
Gale of course had already changed her clothes, not really much than wearing a sleeveless t shirt and shorts and a big blanket around her. There really wasn’t a lot to do since for the last 2-3 days she had already grinded her weekly gear and finally being able to get back in with the reset.

“ got the weekly hunt, the gem hoard, and the deep dive to do for the weekly stuff.” Giving a sigh as she felt tired and stretching as she sat down and started her quests with the other girl as they started to finally play again.
 
Getting the message from her twin, Genwyn settled into the groove of how they normally would play. As Genwyn played a support class character, she rarely had to take the lead in quests. She'd always played a form of support, making sure to never bog down the game with too many of her own quests.

"We've been through most of the usual weeklies. Is there really anything else to do?" Genwyn typed in messenger. The MMO had become very formulaic and routine. This made it easier for Genwyn, as playing games was never something she was great at growing up. Gale had been more into video games than Genwyn.

"You ready to graduate soon?" Genwyn asked between quests. Whether it was true or not, Genwyn felt that Gale talked more with her online persona than with her real twin sister.
 
“ theres some overclocks that I really want to get, the system is mostly good but the roll is dumb since it’s a 1 of 2 chance to get it for your main weapon and I think 1 of 3 or 4 get to get the actual one though it’s higher since i crafted the other ones so I have it a bit easier.” Explaining her idea for it. ” already have the best overclock for the hardest hitting aoe weapon, the splash damage is dumb.” Staring the quest now to do the weekly general quests then the overclock and the deep dive.
 
Most of the things that Gale said went over Genwyn's head. She knew the terms, but having it all explained so plainly to her just felt like she barely understood the concept of what she was doing. "I'll follow your lead. I'm always the support caster, remember?" Genwyn said, settling into the usual rhythm.

While there were others that were much better at the game, Genwyn did her best to try and keep up with Gale. She paled in comparison, both in stats and in understanding of the game, but she didn't have to be the best. She just had to know how to keep up. As they began to run through the quests, Genwyn took some notes of things, some quests that she might need to do in the periods between quests with Gale to be able to keep up.
 
“ tank FTW.” She would simply type before another message popped, “ always go for the big damage stuff or the big armor for games like that.” Changing some things on her character before they would actually start. Eventually though a message would come up finally after finishing one of the three quests in the first chain which would the same as the other but slightly different than the deep dive. “ I think you said you lived by me, hell we might even go to the same school or something. Might be weird but maybe we should actually hang out or something. Well my sister doesn’t know so have to ask her though. Been bored at home.” Giving a sigh not caring if she would accept or not anyway just feeling like it.
 
As the game progressed, an hour or two would pass with barely a blink. Keeping up with Gale seemed to get easier with time, especially when she was nice enough to give advice. She had introduced herself as new to the game, and Gale had been working to help powerlevel her, as well as get her accustomed to the game mechanics.

When they had hit a lull, after a few of the harder quests had been knocked out, Genwyn looked to see a message pop up. Alarm went up in her mind. She wanted to meet up? This was exactly the thing she was afraid of. Perhaps she had invited the opportunity by being so near, geographically, but now she was in a bit of a situation. "Well, if you want to meet up, I'd be fine with that." She said, trying to play it cool. "Anywhere in particular you were wanting to go?" She asked, heart beating loudly in her ears.
 
The girl felt weird but didn’t really care as she shrugged seeing that it would have been someone that goes to the same school or a different one around here though, not really thinking anything else about it. “ there’s a good milk tea place that’s really close to my house. “ I could take my really fast scooter there, takes like 10-15 minutes to get there. It’s next to that big grocery store.” Explaining but not minding Giving her the address too then even by text if they wanted to share numbers. “ don’t know if my sister is gonna be busy or whatever so you might see her too if she wants to go though.” Giving a shrug.
 
Genwyn gave a faint sigh. Did she just become the bad person in this little thing? Gale had been willing to bring Genwyn along, so she had been smart enough to not offer to go alone. "I'm familiar with that place. If you want to meet there, I could meet you there." She said. She'd have to figure out how to explain this one, and it was almost a little stressful to consider.

"Any particular reason you wanted to meet? Not every day I get asked to hang out with someone offline." Genwyn asked, posing the question to see if she could figure out why she'd offered to meet up.
 
“ it is obvious ~.~ “ She would reply leaning back to stretch before gale would type, “ we’re close and been able to stick with each other for all the quests. I finished my 20 rank milestone level up yesterday myself and I got a new parts pack to change the look like a reaper kinda thing and I got a good helmet that really fits for one of my characters.”

She stopped before starting to think a bit about it. “ I mean it is the first part.” Not really seeing anything bad as she did know about friends actually doing that and working fine though even a bit weird for her still.
 
Genwyn looked over the response that she was given. It was a fairly innocent response, and Genwyn gave a visible nod. Realizing that the nod wouldn't be visible to Gale, she typed back. "That makes sense. These quests are pretty demanding, and doing them all together can make friends out of people." She said, trying to play off the request as something innocent.

"What time would you want to meet? Being that it's Saturday, I can meet whenever." She typed, shifting some items around in her inventory as they talked back and forth. As she tinkered with her equipment, she continued to wonder how she was going to explain this one to her. Perhaps she could go with her and have her online persona stand her up? No, that would be heartbreaking. She'd have to eventually come clean, but the dread kept her from admitting it at that moment.
 
“ could do afternoon tomorrow maybe. But have to ask sister.” Sending as she leaned back being on her phone going for the bathroom and coming back as she waited for the other.
 
Genwyn wasn't sure what she should do. She knew, in her mind, that she needed to tell her in private. If the two had the conversation in public, there was likely going to be a lot of shouting and screaming. No matter the way that Genwyn spun this situation in her mind, she could only see Gale getting upset at her over this. She might even bring their parents into it, and she'd have to explain herself.

With another sigh, she tapped out the message, each key feeling like a heavy weight on her conscience. "Sure, that sounds good to me." She said, looking to the time. "You have any more quests that you want to do tonight?" She asked, uncertain on what else she might want to do.
 
” well don’t know how long your gonna be on still.” Wondering then, “ just gonna farm materials to do overclocks to finish.” Stretching with a yawn going to check then before starting.
 
As it had been a few hours, Genwyn was tempted to get some sleep, but she didn't want to leave Gale alone. She could afford another late night if she slept in tomorrow morning. "It isn't too late. Maybe I can get the components for a spell or two I'm missing." She said, prepping her gear for another run with Gale.
 
“ gonna maybe go after one though. Maybe could help tomorrow.” Giving a yawn then as she would refill everything and wait for her to start.
 
Once all her gear was prepped, Genwyn gave her affirmative that she was ready to start. The quest would be one they'd done dozens of times before, gathering materials.

After another hour, Genwyn could barely see straight. "I've gotta call it a night. I'll see you after noon?" She asked, making sure that Gale was still certain she wanted to meet up. Maybe she could luck out and Gale would change her mind.
 
“ yeah that’s fine, ttyl and thanks.” Finally logging after she did make it, stretching to take a shower and finally sleep.
 
With nothing further to say, Genwyn drug herself away from the computer and curled up in her bed. Within minutes, she was fast asleep. She would get a shower in the morning.

Once she drifted off, there wasn't much else she could dream about except that game. It had become a recurring them to dream about running quests with Gale or something skin to that game.

When the sun had been up for a few hours, with most of the house being awake, Genwyn was still dead asleep, recovering from the especially late night.
 
Gale would be still sleeping herself more that she wasn’t the more lazy one and it was hard for her to wake up when it was easier to sleep unless someone got her, the girls head under the blanket as she was a bit awake but couldn’t really do anything but still just lay and sleep again, slowly putting a timer though so she would eventually have to change and be ready for the the meet of course.
 
Genwyn forced herself to sit up as she felt the burn of the sunlight against her eyelids. It was much brighter than she expected, throwing her off a bit and leaving her head extremely fuzzy. Pushing the blanket off, Genwyn barely realized how late it was. It was close to 11 a.m.. With her eyes bolting open, Genwyn felt the rush of adrenaline as she gathered up her clothes and rushed to get a shower. If she didn't hurry, Genwyn wouldn't be able to leave the house without looking ragged.

With a quick hot shower, Genwyn rushed through her morning routine. With teeth brushed, hair hidden beneath a towel, Genwyn dressed in a black and blue top with long, black shorts. It was a lazy approach to dressing, but it was better than spending all of her time stressing over her appearance. With a free hand still rubbing the towel into her hair, Genwyn stepped out of the bathroom and into her bedroom to find a pair of shoes to put on.

So far, she hadn't seen a trace of her sister. A small pang of worry ran through her mind that Gale might have left without checking in with her. Though it was a needless worry, as they had agreed on the afternoon, it still gave her a bit of a start. With her hair dried, and ready to face the day, Genwyn went to Gale's bedroom door and lightly knocked against it. "You up, Gale?" Genwyn asked, calling through the closed door.
 
Finally the alarm would be off as she got up with a shower and started to change, slipping on stockings ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) with a sleeveless great shirt that had a red logo on it and a blue striped jacket. She stretched with a yawn looking over at her phone and getting everything before hearing the knock with the door finally opening. “ your going out somewhere?” Wondering of course as she was dressed too, “ well actually though was gonna ask you to maybe come with me to meet a friend I had to hang out. Almost time to meet though.” Softly saying with another yawn as she walked down.
 
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