Now, where did we leave off? Oh right “I’m telling you it’s your fault, All of this! We wouldn’t be in this mess if you just laid off of Bob!” Said Pinky

“Laid off of Bob? Laid OFF of BOB?! I would be happiest if Bob never came into my life again! If we never saw each other ever again I would be ecstatic! It’s you guys that come around bugging ME!” Said Micky. Oh, right there we are. They’ve spent an entire in between chap to use up their free actions (One commenter wrote: way to break the fourth wall author). Anywho lets recap on the events from in-between.

They fought monsters, though spent most of their time running away. So far Micky gained 14000 XP well and beyond anything he has ever gained before. Normally Micky gains between 25 and 50 XP but he is abnormally well suited to Pinky’s combat method. In normal [Party]s or normal situations, Micky and Pinky would never be able to use their methods to the fullest. Pinky for his part is a [Purple Mage] and a DPS/debuffer. Micky was a [Pink Mage] and if he was invited to a [Party] would be relegated to the back as a Buffer/Debuffer. Together they should not be doing so well.

But the dungeon they were in was low level and they could actually survive for long enough to let the things die of old age *Cough* DoT. Of course, while the [XP] was good for Pinky it was not nearly as beneficial as it was for Micky. Had he been in normal groups this would have been nothing for him, but Micky, for some odd reason, had trouble in that area.

It was during one of those normal fights that something abnormal happened.

[Battle [Won]: []x0 Has run away, []x0 has capitulated, [Big Blue Slime]x1 has died]

[Opponenets defeated: [Big Blue Slime]x1]

[Loot: 1024XP Chance [Class Weapon]x1 [Roll] Y/N?]

Both Micky and Pinky stared. This was unheard of, this was unseen in the forest this was the legendary item drop! Oh sure their parents had had item drops! But this wasn’t something that you could get from ‘The Forest’ or any monster farms really. This was something that you had to get from a [Dungeon] and not just any dungeon but a [Low Dungeon] ranked dungeon or higher! This was unheard of as far as these kids were concerned. So the two did the reasonable thing, they looked at each other, considered the other wants and needs, and raced to roll need as fast as they could!

[Roll]

[1st ‘Micky’ 65, 2nd Bartholomew ‘Pinky’ 42]

Micky only felt a twinge at the fact that even the system forgot his name, but he couldn’t fault it when even his own family did. No, He was ecstatic, he won the roll, He. Won. The. Roll. He won the roll. This may take a while. Pinky, on the other hand, punched the cave wall.

“I rolled need. I should have rolled greed, why didn’t I roll greed?!” Pinky

“Hu?” Micky

“I have a staff at home, I think, I think the system took that into account. I don’t need this as much as you do. Even though I could use it more, even though I’m the main dps, even though I’ll never win a roll like this again… I...” Pinky

“Dude if that’s the way you feel about it...” Micky looked down at the win notice. He could pass the loot over, he tightened his fist till his knuckles turned white, why should he pass over his hard earned loot? He won this. The system gave this to him in response to his need. But then he sighed. His father would not want him to be greedy. Micky tried to be the best he could be, and never live with regrets or debts hanging over his head. But these people made it so hard.

“No, you need it more than I do.” Pinky

“No, you’re right, you’re the main DPS you need to have the best gear.” Micky

“No, there’s a reason why system [roll]s are sacred. There’s a contract in it, if it’s tried to be taken by force or subterfuge than the system will respond.” Pinky

“But that doesn’t count if I give you the loot willingly. Here Pink you can have the loot.” Micky

“No Micky, If you give it to me I will just give it back, keep the Loot.” Pinky

“No, you’re the main dps, take the loot and help us out of here.” Micky said and sent over the loot [Roll].

Pinky however, Promptly sent it back “Keep the loot dang it!” Pinky

“No” Micky “Yes” Pinky “No” Micky “Yes” Pinky “Growl” Unknown.

The two boys looked at each other “Alright I’m keeping the loot but you can’t complain about being the main dps without a weapon.” Micky said as he opened the [Chest]. It was not a surprise when a staff came out. It was totemic, at the bottom was a small blue slime slowly turning into other totems of people and creatures important to his life, like his parents, Jimmy, even Pinky was there.

Thankfully no Bob, but somehow he would think the villagers would yell at him for that. How could you not like Bob? How could Bob not be important to your life? The top of the staff had two sharp axe blades making the whole thing look like a disproportion axe built by a guy that heard about an axe and didn’t know what they were used for. But Micky liked it, It was just what he needed. It combined melee with the power to channel through a staff, and with the short axe blades, but with a clear [Staff] design it was still within his [Class Weapon] proficiency.

“Fine but no complaints when I win the next loot drop!” Pinky

“Fair's fair, and the system is always fairly cruel to everybody.” Micky

*Chuckles*

The monster slowly pranced around the corner, a gracious and lith thing. It owned this dungeon and everything in it. Pinky grew nervous and prepared to cast when he got a clear shot. “Pepperoni?” Micky [Curse of… [Inturupted]] “Noo!” Micky said as he smacked into Pinky [Interupt]ing his cast.

“That’s Pepperoni you can’t hurt him!” Micky said. Pepperoni was his cat. He had been missing for the past week or so. Pepperoni was an outdoor cat and they let him wander as he saw fit. They would give him scraps and this is where he got his name.

The first thing that Micky ever fed Pepperoni was, well, pepperoni. When Micky was asked whats that “Pepperoni?” Came out of the Juvenile Micky, not understanding that they were talking about the cat instead of the what he was feeding it. And so the kitten Pepperoni and the young Micky were inseparable. They had started doing their own things in the past 8 years but they loved each other no less. Micky would not stand by while his first best friend was about to be murdered.

“It’s a monster get out of the way!” Pinky

“No!” Said Micky

“It’s going to kill us! Can’t you see it’s… licking its paw?” Pinky said. The cat’s intelligent eyes seemed to say ‘Are you done? Well I’m not.’ Then it continued to clean itself paw waving its paw over its head.

“Hey Pepperoni, Here boy.” Micky said as he approached. If cats could roll their eyes, instead he just slowly walked away, his tail high into the air, his butt proud and for all to behold its glory. As if to say ‘Come here? What am I a dog? You come to me.’

Micky started to follow Pepperoni through the cave, trying to catch up. Pinky had summarily decided to ignore the previous incident and just follow this debacle. He wanted to use this blackmail material later when this all fell apart.

The mana slowly grew less dense as the kept following Pepperoni, who had clearly become a monster in the intervening week that they had been apart. He was the top monster that they had seen in this dungeon, at least here in this [Low Dungeon]. He was a [Roving Boss] ranked monster, worse he was named.

Apparently he kept his name when he had become a monster and was now [The Wandering Death, Pepperoni]. That would be an interesting story for when adventurers eventually came here to clear this place out. ‘Oh no, Pepperoni!’ ‘The Pepperoni is here, run!’ ‘We were defeated by the Pepperoni! Should have brought Tums.’ ‘Pepperoni the hun!’ *Chuckles* Pinky just had to see this.

They walked around for a bit until they came across another ROUS. “Pepperoni run!” Micky said as he started to turn around *Growl* Pepperoni said as he prepared to pounce.

“No Pepperoni! Come back let’s get out… Nevermind.” Micky said as Pepperoni caused the [Giant Rat Thing] to start running in the other direction.

It appeared that Pepperoni was at the top of the food chain here. Micky had become useless and a real ‘Baby’ now while Pinky started [Curse]ing the monster. So Micky decided to try out his new staff in combat. With Pepperoni's agility tanking the monster, Micky went in for a swing. The cave made the overhead swing awkward but Micky was prepared for this.

The swing bashed into its skull but when it turned toward Micky, Pepperoni struck distracting it again. The ROUS turned back to the real danger. This continued until the monster died even in death it seemed aggrieved ‘I was just trying to kill the invaders, why did you attack me?’ It seemed to say. Even in its last moments when it [Enraged] it still could not change the status quo.

Pepperoni was a higher ranked monster, a [Mini-Boss], no as a [Roving Boss] he was a [Bonus Boss]. A prize boss that the system would award bonus loot for. Of course Micky didn’t think like that, and Pinky didn’t really realize it. So peace was sustained for now.