The cafe was quiet at this time of the day, so the man at the counter got bored and switched on the television.

In today’s news, the national space agency has lost contact with all it’s probes and satellites beyond the geosynchronous orbit. Our land based observers are also reporting loss of line of sight. Some astronomers speculate that a bubble had emerged around earth.

“Huh, shit’s getting weird.” Sam said to Kevin, and Kevin just shrugged. How weird could it get, they’ve already gotten it pretty bad.

“Damn right it is.” The man at the counter laughed. “Do you think this is the apocalypse?”

“I think it is.”

“We’re doomed. So fucking doomed. So, here’s another cup.” He gave both of them another cup of iced coffee.”I wished they actually made the planet colder before we all die.”

“Hah!” Sam laughed. “Damn right. I’m drenched from walking in the sun! No idea how this dude does it.”

“He looks skinny. Probably has nothing to trap the heat.” Kevin groaned.

In other news, the presidential office and the legislative chambers are proposing some new regulations to deal with life with these blue screens. Some parties have claimed that these blue screens override the authority of the government, and have begun ignoring tax and other statutory payments. Insurers are faced with challenges that actions caused by the blue screens are considered acts of god.

“Once again, I am reminded that humans are scum.” Sam said.

“What do you think’s on the other side?” The exceptionally chatty counterman asked. “Turns out all we’ve been believing so far is a lie.”

“Do you think blue screens were in any of the scriptures? I certainly didn’t have blue screens on my bingo card of the apocalypse. I thought climate change would hit us first.”

“Climate change is a lie, bruh.” The counterman said.

“Oh no you’re one of those!” Sam frowned and pretended to stand up. “We gotta go.”

“I gave you free coffee! And it’s a joke.”

“I can’t stand climate change deniers. I wanna spit them all out now.” Sam coughed and choked.

“No, don’t vomit in my cafe.”

Kevin just sat there and kept his eyes glued to the TV.

Today we have Professor Young from the Institute of Sciences giving his view on the Blue Screens.

He looked kinda crazy.

“It goes without saying that this upends everything we understood about the world, and we’re still trying to understand how the invisible particles that control all of this, even interacts with everything else. This could be the legendary dark energy.”

“So you’re saying something out there figured out how to control dark energy and clear these blue screens?” The host asked.

“Well, now that we know they are blue, we probably should be calling them darkblue energy. But honestly we don’t know. Our rudimentary readings suggest that it is getting stronger in intensity, and before long it will have a big breakout. I’m actually quite pleasantly surprised to see the world function normally.”

“You were expecting social collapse, professor?”

“No, not like that. But I expected it to be a lot more... chaotic. Even today, we have sightings of unusual locations across the world where some of the ‘dungeon’ creatures have stepped into our world. This has never happened.”

Kevin paused, as he processed that. “Wait. Has the preview started? I thought we still have some months to do.”

Strangely, the blue screen actually decided to reply.

[Developer Blog: Management insisted that we roll out some new features to keep users satisfied, and as such we have begun implementing small scale dungeon breaks. We generally do not recommend interacting with these features, as testing is still underway.]

The man with the bomb cursed. “What if someone gets hurt?”

[We will consider them part of testing. But not to worry, we are only introducing level 1 to level 5 monsters as part of our first phase].

[PS. As you are an advanced user with a SSSR mission, you are now able to access the [Developer’s Blog]].

“I don’t want that!” Kevin cursed. Sam and the counterman turned to look at him.

“You okay, bruh?”

“Some places have monsters. They’re not stable, and people might get hurt.”

Sam shrugged. “Eh. If it’s just level 1 to 5, I don’t think anyone will get hurt. A toddler could beat it, easy.”

“You’re taking this too lightly.”

[Optional Mission added : Visit the nearest Dungeon Break near you in Lowandah Falls, and defeat the Frogboss!]