“So guys the time is near. All of you ready to meet up??” I whispered to all of them.

“Sure. What time and where?” Soup was the first to reply.

“How about 7pm at this place called the Boar's Head? Its an inn at the Northern spine located near the training hall. I'm pretty sure I can get cheap food and lodging for one night for all of us there.”

“Sounds good. We can talk about what we've done the past month over some food and drinks.” Beathoven said.

“THIS GAME ROCKS. Flinging chickens out of the window to see which is the hidden chicken that can actually fly. Will head over once I finish the quest. See y'all later gaiss.” Which could only be Breadtalk.

“Alright I'll let the owner know and make the necessary arrangements. 7Pm!”

I entered the Boar's Head and found just the person I needed to see.

“Hey Elena! My friends are all coming over to celebrate a reunion after 1 month apart from each other. Could we get a room for 4 and a table for dinner?” I asked.

“On one condition. Return me those boots and I'll give you all of the above for free to celebrate your last night here.”

OH DAMN. I was still wearing those godforsaken boots! During the test with Xeron! Urgh! I could have had an easier time but oh well, at least it all turned out alright in the end.

“Of course. But i want to pay. I insist. You have shown me so much grace over the past month, bearing with my abrupt request to hire me and then giving me free time to do what I needed to do, providing training in the form of quests as well. Please. Let me pay. I insist.”

“Haha if it makes you feel that guilty, fine I'll allow you to pay for the meal and lodging. That would be 40 silver pieces.”

“Alright WAIT WHAT? Oh.. I don't have enough money...” I felt so ashamed.

“HAHAHA just pulling your leg kid we're just a humble inn. That would be 5 silver pieces.”

“Phew. Alright Elena here's 5 silver pieces for you.”

“Sure. Everything will be ready by 7 and i will personally see to it.”

She's gotta be the best boss anyone can ask for.

“However since you're not going to accept my gesture as a farewell gift, I better do something else for you. You're finally going to start embarking on real adventures huh... I think there's only one more thing that I can do for you. Come into the kitchen. Now.”

Yea Elena can become bossy sometimes but thats just part of her character and it becomes rather charming after a while.

I walked into the kitchen.

“Remember the time where I cooked a meal for you because we both thought you would require the extra stats for initiation tests should there be one?”

I nodded.

“Well I'm going to teach you how to cook so you can put it to good use during your adventuring. You already know you way about the kitchen from helping out so ingredients and equipment shouldn't be a problem so let me teach you the cooking skill now.”

NPC GODDESS I LOVE YOU.

“Yes master.” I said cheekily.

She taught me the basics of cooking, mainly temperature control, knife skills, seasoning and techniques of preparing meat. She also passed me a recipe book of all her original recipes. Soon I got a new notification.

New Skill : Cooking.

Elena has taught you the basics of how to work your food in the kitchen to help your adventuring in future. Cooking can help increase satiety and may even provide bonus stats upon eating good meals.

After she was done it was about time I was supposed to meet with my friends. I went to grab a seat on the table first and begun recollecting my past 1 month in RR.

“Open Stats and Skill windows.”

Stat Window Character name Jinx Alignment Neutral Level 1 Class Elemental Swordsman Title N/A Race Human Fame 10 Infamy 0 Health 900 Mana 1300 Strength 40 Agility 35 Wisdom 30 Intellect 30 Vitality 40 Affinity to Nature 7% Leadership 0 Luck 0 Perseverance 20 Sustenance 30 Attack 25 Defense 0 Fighting Spirit 5 Elemental Affinities Fire +5% Ice +5% Water +5% Wind +5% Lightning +5% Earth+5% Gravity+5% Light +5% Dark +5 Class Bonuses

Ability to wield any swords and use up to leather armour

+500 Health

+1000 Mana

Able to use magic and swordplay simultaneously

No miscast penalty due to spell failure due to absence of magic circles

Member of both the Intelligence and Warrior Guilds Skills Fast Reader | Intermediate level 2 (33%). Finishes books 42% faster. Mana Manipulation | Beginner level 3 (33%). Affinity to Nature +7%. Flare | Beginner level 1 (5%). Summons a small source of light. Katana Mastery | Beginner level 5 (70%). Increases attack power with a katana +50% and attack speed +15%. Gravity Crush | Beginner level 1 (40%). Weapon Atk +500% (Dependent on Gravity Affinity) Wind Steps | Beginner level 1 (40%). Increases movement speed +20% (Dependent on Wind Affinity) Electrical Impulse | Beginner level 1 (40%). Increases reaction time by 0.05s (Dependent on Lightning Affinity) Adrenaline Rush | Beginner level 1 (5%). Increases time perception by 5% when HP is below 10%. Cooking | Beginner level 1 (0%). Enables you to prepare meals.

It was a pretty eventful month for sure and I have gotten quite a lot to show for it. I just wondered what my friends were up to and it was about how we were going to complement each other for this journey of ours.

“Penny for your thoughts young man? You look troubled.” A familiar voice called out.

“Beathoven! Is that... A violin case you're holding?”

“Well. I know my name is Beathoven but I can't always carry a piano around with me you know. It's not a violin though it's a lute. Nice katana too by the way.” He winked.

“You're a bard! Holy shit I knew Soup would go something along a warrior class and Breadtalk would pick something totally random but dude you pulled off a hell of a stunt too! When the rest get here I think you need a long time to explain why you chose this and how you got this class!”

“Haha yea. Well looks like the rest aren't here yet. You wanna form a party first? The 4 of us should be sticking with each other like glue for the rest of the holidays going adventuring anyway.”

“Yea sure! Hold on.”

I found the community icon which could enable me to create parties or join guilds etc.

“Create party. Invite Beathoven.”

Beethoven has joined the party.

“Ohhh this is so cool it's the first time I've seen the party interface. Look it displays all our levels and classes! Omg Jinx you're still a level 1 noob hahaha! WAIT WHAT THE FUCK IS ELEMENTAL SWORDSMAN. A HIDDEN CLASS ISN'T IT?! YOU SUNNAVABEECH! Looks like you got a lot of explaining to do yourself.”

“Haha yeah i guess.”

And all of a sudden another guy came to our table.

“Who has to explain what?” Smirked Soup.

“HEYYYYY! I see you've chosen a warrior type class just as Jinx has suspected. You're always about manning up and standing in the middle of a pack of monsters in every single game huh.”

“It's called growing some balls dude.”

“Invite Soup.”

Soup has joined the party.

“Ohhh the party interface. Cool shit. Bard and elemental swordsman.. Holy shit both of you just cant stick to mainstream classes can you?”

“Gladiator. A manly class indeed no doubt but your name could be a bit manlier you know.”

“Says the bard named Beathoven. Hopefully your music will be better than your sense of humour.”

“Did someone say sense of humour?”

“HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! And you're always the latest one you ass.”

“Thou who is the most important gets to come the latest.”

“Invite Breadtalk.”

Breadtalk has joined the party.

Ohhhh party interface. Lets see what we have got for the rest of the forseeable future!

Party Name : Unspecified. Party leader : Jinx.

Jinx, Level 1 Elemental Swordsman

Beathoven, Level 10 Bard

Soup, Level 30 Gladiator

Breadtalk, Level 1 Trickster

“So... One mainstream warrior class that can tank every mother's son or daughter coming to attack us, one elemental swordsman which is a hidden class that most probably has to deal damage or something, another hidden class who I suppose has to con monsters or make them fall over banana skins or something while I play background music to lighten up the mood? Sounds exactly like us.” Said Beathoven.

“Well, first things first I think Breadtalk and I should explain what we did to get this class and what exactly it could do so all of us can better think about how to raid together. I guess i'll go first.”

And so I recited my tale as how I remembered it. The library. Claire. The mana manipulation skill. The Boar's Head. Elena. The training hall. Monarch. The intelligence guild. Dumblemore. The warrior's guild. Zarak and Xeron. What happened earlier today with Elena. It took awhile but the three of them were genuinely interested and were a great audience. When I was finished apparently all three of them were interested in different things.

“You think that chick Claire might be interested in you? Can you do NPCs in this game?” Asked Breadtalk.

“Well i'm not sure about doing NPCs but for our journey lets let Jinx do the talking to NPCs? I don't know if all the NPCs he met were just nice or maybe the ones i met were just horrible.” Beathoven said.

“We need to spar sometime man.. I couldn't get the privilige to spar with Xeron even though I'm a gladiator of the freaking warrior's guild as well.” Soup muttered

“Haha well at least you all know about me now. Breadtalk, care to continue?”

“Sure. Let's hope my story won't lose out to yours.”

And so Breadtalk told his story for us. When arrived on the first day, aside from punching himself in the face which we all knew and saw, he just went around town to explore it completely so that he had a better understanding of where he was.

Apparently, he was extremely intrigued by the followers of the Church of Loki. He usually thought of priests as jobs perfect for people who did not even have an ounce of fun in them. However as he passed by the church, he saw some people who were clearly priests, vandalising on one of the statues of Fenrir, the great wolf who was fathered by Loki. They were adding nipples and a well endowed crotch to the statue and he was amazed by it. He went forward to them and asked them how come they could do these sort of things and not get punished by their god. They freaking added a crotch to a significant statue!

Their reply was simple. Loki was the god of trickery. They followed him because they admired that trait of his. Although the church did teach holy magic and like other churches like the church of Freya, gave reputation points which one could spend to ask the guild for assistance, the people themselves in this church were less the sort of holier than thou priests but priests that just loved to have fun but wanted to be part of a holy community that still believed in strong moral values. They did community services, they also frowned upon the undead and true evil. They were less pure than the other churches for sure but if a normal person were to judge their moral compass, they would still for sure be classified under good. This was extremely appealing to Breadtalk.

He approached a young woman who was dressed in church clothing and he asked her how to join the church. She brought him to the elder responsible for interested new initiates and he told Breadtalk he had a few choices if he wanted to be part of the church of Loki. He could serve as a Paladin, priest or shaman related to the church. However Breadtalk didn't want such classes. They were too boring for him. He decided that he wouldn't want such classes but he wanted to be part of this community who worshipped a god of trickery. He asked if it was possible for him to remain classless but provide his services for the church. The elder smiled at him and agreed to it. And so Breadtalk spent most of his days in the church helping out with errands. He had to take food to the poor, provide manpower for repair work done for less fortunate families and all sorts of odd jobs. They couldn't give him traditional quests to help the church as he was classless and he could not even cast the basic healing hand spell so giving him a job at the healing altar was also not possible.

However, Breadtalk showed no complaints. He enjoyed working with the people there. He genuinely enjoyed work so time flew past for him. He became close to the people there and everyone recognised him due to his unusual request. They respected him for the pure goodwill he had shown the church. They gave him a place to sleep and eat and in return he worked tirelessly for them and brought joy to wherever work was as such was his nature. One day however, when he woke up in his chambers, there was a crow that was perched on his chair. A crow in a chamber sounds odd as no bird would usually coop themselves up in a room but this crow was different. It spoke to him.

“Breadtalk. I have seen what you have done for innocents as well as my people. You intrigue me. You should be able to guess who I am now and I am willing to make a class for you. I have observed you for quite some time and I believe this quest would enable you to show your true nature and the true spirit of what it means to serve me. You just need to do one thing. Play a prank on my church people. How much I enjoy it will determine the reward you will get. Go make some magic.”

The crow then flew away.

Breadtalk begun to carve out his master plan. He contemplated what sort of prank would he want to play and he decided that it should be something huge. Something that would represent why he wanted to join the guild in the first place. It would have to be unknowing, seemingly holy but at the end obscene and cause for laughter. As usual it took him less than a few minutes to decide on what he wanted to do.

He went to a sculptor he had worked with before immediately to consult his help for his plan. He had the sculptor to do two things. First it was to engrave a stone platform with the following plaque.

Loki's statue of Fertility.

This statue was miraculously created by Loki one night to give a miracle to his people. If enough people were to help suck the essence out of this statue, it will give birth to a new being that would greatly help the church in it's future to come.

Next he asked the sculptor to consult an alchemist and come up with a paste that would cover Breadtalk himself in a white paint that would solidify after a short time and harden but it would be rather fragile such that he would be able to break out of it from the inside.

During the middle of the night, Breadtalk put his plan into action.

He shifted the stone platform into the centre of the garden and quickly masturbated to enable himself to look like a more potent statue of fertility. He then wore a mask and coated himself with the concoction the sculptor and alchemist came up with. In just five minutes, he was able to feel like he was encased in a molding of himself and everything was set.

The next morning, many people realised there had been a new addition to the church. A carefully carved statue of a lifelike man with a sizeable penis. People wouldn't realise it was him as he was wearing a mask and he just prayed that someone would fall for the bait.

The people of the church begun to wonder about this miracle and as they read the plaque, everyone came to an agreement that in order to bring it to life, they had to do one thing. They had to suck what looked to be the part they had to suck in order to bring it to life.

This shouldn't ever happen in a church but because it was the church of Loki and Breadtalk had the god's favour to do such a thing, what seemed to be a mass orgy was taking its shape. People who had nothing to do and heard about the statue would just go and suck it as they thought it was only a statue, no harm would be done and they would not be commiting a hineous crime even though it was obscene as hell.

Breadtalk was just enjoying himself in the statue when he heard the people coming around him and doing what he had manipulated them to do. More than a hundred people had already sucked on that particular thing already when Breadtalk finally hit his limit. He still needed to drink and pee so he decided that over a hundred people sucking his dick would be a good enough prank for Loki. He could not see and did not hear much commotion so he broke out of his shell.

But there was one problem. There was an old woman. Still doing what Breadtalk would have wanted her to do but this time he was not a statue anymore.

“BY BLACKENED BODY OF G- I'm so sorry madam.” He managed to blurt off before running into his chambers, nude, laughing his ass off imagining all these people who sucked his junk. When the people around it saw what happened, needless to say it caused an uproar. Not of protest but of cheers as they all realised what just happened.

Inside his chambers however, stood a figure waiting for him. He had expected the crow to come back but this time, Loki himself was personally standing in his chambers, waiting for him.

“Well done lad. I bet saying you made over 100 people suck your dick in 6 hours would be quite an achievement to your peers wouldn't it. The idea seemed ridiculous but when people actually stood in line to.. Well I had quite a good laugh, especially with the timing you chose to emerge yourself. I'm sure you already know about me. I'm currently held captive by the gods somewhere in the mountain range of Jötunheimr. This is just one of my spirits I have left in the mortal world which is speaking to you now. Know that I am using what strength I have saved up in order to bestow this class to you. This is your reward for upholding the spirit of my church and adventure with pride. I would be giving you some more personal quests in the future should I require your services.”

Quest Complete : Loki's Test

You have completed what Loki has requested of you albeit in an unsightly fashioned which was still funny. Loki has approved how you dealt with the task assigned for you and chose a class for you which aligns to your nature and demeanor.

Congratulations. You can now change class to : Trickster. Will you?

Yes|No

He chose yes and sure enough he had a few additional skills which were all rather unpredictable. Which made Breadtalk one of the happiest boys in the world the moment he opened his skill window. He had mainly three skills which was the bread and butter of his class.

The first was Loki's Entourage. This skill enabled him to gain stats and a score buff through doing ridiculous things at his own whim. He tried it out by making a sled, climbing up to the highest building in the game which was the clocktower and sliding off the roof of it, sprinkling holy water all over the people below him while shouting “You have been blessed! WOOOO!” before crashing into an adjacent building. He gained 5 stat points in courage and dexterity due to that feat but when he repeated it again, it did not give any more stats. He concluded that every retarded action he tried was unique and could not be repeated. A score buff was what he discovered to be a rating of 1-10 depending on how entertaining or funny an action is. The sled ride stunt got him a seven so Loki must have been pretty entertained by the sight of that. I mean who wouldn't. This score buff provided an extra amount of stats to every single category effective for 24 hours. However the true worth of this buff lies in the next skill.

The second skill he had received was Loki's Roulette. Depending on his score buff from Loki's entourage, Breadtalk could use this skill to draw upon a particular weapon from Loki's hidden armoury. Seven was a dual pistol which could shoot out what seemed to be a cloud in the shape of a chicken's head. He tried aiming it at a rock and at the moment of contact, the bullet went “CUCKOOO!” and the stone exploded.

The third skill he received was called Shapeshift. Loki was known to be a shapeshifter, taking on the forms of anything from people to animals in order to meet adventurers or finish his own quests. This skill was also apparently passed down to Breadtalk. He could alter his appearance any way he liked but it seemed like his proficiency of the skill now was so low that he could only alter his appearance slightly such as hair colour and face features. He could not really change his body shape or size yet. However this would also be quite a useful skill in the future.

The skills itself seemed fun and relatively well rounded but the true perk of this class came from the class bonuses. Because he was blessed by one of the great gods himself, he could wear any armour or weapon from any class just by meeting the level requirement. He could wear armour meant for warriors or mages or thieves or any other job. He was also extremely blessed with the Luck stat. There was a bonus +100 Luck simply because of the class. That was 20 levels worth of skill points! He would also have increased reputation and affinity with the churches of Loki scattered around the continent.

It all sounded damn good until I realised the drawbacks of the class. First you needed to have a sense of humour like Breadtalk's or you would be a goner. Second, it was rather unpredictable so you won't be a very stable character despite the huge buffs. Third, the weapons from Loki's armoury should prove to be extremely powerful but if they were a different weapon type for each number.. He would need ten times as long as any other player to get their weapon mastery to a decent level and trust me, weapon mastery was something that took a players years to master just for one weapon alone. 10 weapons? LOL.

But I doubt Breadtalk cared about stuff like that. He just wanted to have fun and I bet going around in the game trying to accomplish feats which were as stupid and retarded as possible should have covered every single definition of fun.

“Holy shit dude we're all virgins here but over a hundred people sucking on your junk? You are one huge douchebag bro.” Soup was trying not to laugh as he said this.

“You should have made an exception and whispered me to go over. I could play some romantic music and maybe some horny priest would've spooned you.”

Yup. These were my screwed up positively whacked in the head friends and I was never the least bit embarrassed about it. Anything was fun with them around.

“Alright so now we have information on both our classes. I know both the bard class and gladiator class are typical classes which are not hidden but they were still not as mainstream so would the both of you also elaborate abit on how you've gotten the class and what you've done? Both of you are the only ones not at level 1 and I don't know how one can even go to level 30 while being confined within city walls.” I looked towards the direction of Soup who looked extremely smug upon hearing that.

“Well alright I guess we all should tell each other what we've been doing for the past month. My story isn't anywhere as interesting as both of yours though.”

“I went to the warriors guild straight away and told them that I wanted to be a gladiator. As Jinx said i think they prefer the straightforward types so they loaned my a greatsword and asked me to finish the basic training hall with it first. I just went and whacked that bloody scarecrow like a million times before that Monarch told me I finished the training. After that I received the sword as a reward which was the usual route. Not a bloody fine katana like that one but hey it was better than nothing. The warriors guild saw that I had the greatsword mastery and finished basic training hall so they sent me to a building run specially by gladiators. It was located in the Rosenheim Kingdom so I had to spend 2 days on a carriage to travel there. Apparently you can leave the town if you were sent to another by a quest.”

“Upon reaching, I realised the place was designed just like the Coliseum in Rome. Fitting for gladiators really. Turns out everyone who wants to be one had to go through an initiation test. We had to fight against 5 warriors, one after another with no breaks in between. I died during my first try so I guess I'm the only one here who has died before. However I died when I was fighting the fourth guy and since I literally had to cut down the other guys, whenever I won a duel I received exp. Thus it was easier on the second try after I reached level 4 and added all of my stats to strength. When I completed the task on the second try, I was level 8 already with about 2 weeks to spare. They gave me a greatsword of my own as a reward. After that, I started dueling for fun in the coliseum and since it was just for fun, honour and experience, I could surrender and not risk dying. However we had to pay a price to fight and the winner gets more money back and since I won more than I lost I made a bit of money whereas the loser loses everything. I also took up a part time apprenticeship with a blacksmith because I needed to keep repairing that greatsword so i decided to learn the skill instead of having to keep paying for it. I think this will be helpful for our group as well.”

“After 2 weeks there with 2 days left I took the carriage back to Junad so here I am, level 30 blacksmith after all my efforts with a repair skill level of beginner level 5. That katana looks like it could seriously use some of my work though. Just saying.”

“You're right it does. Let's do that first thing tomorrow morning where we get ready our supplies before we embark on our adventure. Alright Beathoven. Guess its your time to play your part. Pun intended.”

“Boooooooo.” Breadtalk rolled his eyes.

I tried.

“Okay well in real life I'm already studying so I didn't just waltz off to the library like Jinx did. Instead I wondered what I should do for our party and it must be something I like. You guys know I play the piano in real life, Grade 8 and all but honestly I genuinely liked playing the piano. Playing computer games with you all and the piano are all I do during my free time and both are fun but I saw this as a chance to do both so.... I went to the intelligence guild straight away and asked if they knew how I could change my class to a bard. Junad isn't exactly an arts centre like the city of Morata so they told me I had to go to Rosenheim kingdom as well. One of the elders had to visit the music guild over there to pass a letter so he gave it to me instead as a quest so I would be able to leave Junad.”

“I guess the reason why the 4 of us didn't cross paths at all during the 30 days was because it really wasn't meant to be. I was in Rosenheim all the way, Soup only joined halfway and he only stayed near the coliseum anyway. Jinx and Breadtalk were always in Junad but since Breadtalk was always at the East spine and Jinx the North and South, none of us would actually meet. So close yet so far huh guys. Just a passing thought. Anyway after I reached the music guild in Rosenheim, I felt like I was in paradise. Most bards were female so I got my eyecandy needs covered. Above all else, the music was genuinely amazing. They had all sorts of genre. It's just like real life music but the instruments were all so varied. There were ancient instruments you hardly see anymore nowadays like the lyre, harp, lute even a harpsichord that looks like a piano! I tried playing the harpischord and it looks like your real life skills carry over in RR due to muscle memory. I could play it immediately and people around me didn't look surprised. However I needed something portable so I could aventure with you guys and the momeny I saw the lute, I fell in love with it. So yup I'm now honing the art of lute music so please bear with my noob melodies for awhile.”

“After I chose my instrument, the guild master asked me why i wanted to be a bard so I told him the truth. To play music which I love while adventuring with the friends i love. And he gave me my initiation test. He wanted me to compose a song based on the reason why I wanted to be a bard and that was it. I had to find a senior in the guild who was willing to help me learn the basic fingering and read notes of the lute and after that I was on my own. You know how people ask why we like to hang around each other so much and its just so hard to put it into words? Like you know we set aside every Saturday to go out with each other and we see each other so much already its a wonder how we haven't grew sick of each others faces. Well maybe I'm already sick of your idiotic faces but I still want to see you all. Well it's even harder to put that into music. But after 2 weeks of painstaking meditation and trial and error, I finally managed to piece up something that I thought conveyed my emotions rather well. I went back to the guild leader and played it for him. The guild leader gave a nod of approval and tadah, I'm now a full fledged bard with one original song to his name. He also gave me a book filled with songs and since playing other songs were easier than composing your own, I know quite a number now and each song I play will give my party and I different buffs. The guild leader also gave me one additional score though and it was so bloody hard I haven't mastered it until now. Once I do however I think that would be my most powerful piece yet. As for my skills in combat, I'm practically useless for now. All I have is a skill named bash where I'm supposed to smash my lute as hard as I can into an enemy but I swear thats not something I should do. I'm pretty sure the lute would break there and then. Think RR just added it for noobs who have extra guitars or something.”

“Speaking of which I'm level 10 now because on my way from Rosenheim Kingdom back to Junad, I was ambushed by a squad of bandits. Luckily there were a few high level players in the caravan and we all formed a party and I played songs to support them while they vanquished the bandits. The book of songs the guild leader gave me covered many bases. I could protect myself as some songs removed aggression from myself such that no enemies will usually target me and after that I raised their attack speed and attack by a few notches so everything was settled pretty fast. Turns out bards are one of the classes in this game which is really just pure support, not like priests or shamans who could still fight on their own. I don't think there are songs that inflict damage onto opponents yet but if there is it must be damn rare because our supporting is always reliable. Playing music does not require mana and only very little stamina cost so I can play for 24 hours straight no problem if you all can fight that long. However, they say as you adventure more, rare song pieces which may require mana might exist so I'm looking forward to when I discover those type of music. As for stats, I put them all into wisdom as it helps me learn faster and also learn more. Quality and quantity. I also have an “Art” stat like all artistically related professions do. The higher my art stat, the better the buffs I believe. I also think some songs require a minimum art stat to learn. So yeah thats about it for me.”

Just as Beathoven finished his story, the waitress came along and since I was the one most familiar with the establishment, I went ahead and ordered 4 plates of Boar steek which was by far the best food item I've tasted so far. I also ordered 4 fruit punches which definitely punched my taste buds the first time I drank it. Just as the waitress was about to return to the kitchen though, Breadtalk caught her by the shoulder, spun her around and kissed her full on the mouth.

The three of us sat there speechless, in shock and none of us even had time to think of a playful comment.

The waitress herself looked shock as hell too. After 2 seconds however she got over it and slapped Breadtalk right across the face. Blushing furiously, she stomped off and all of us looked to Breadtalk, demanding an explanation.

“What? I got 2 points in courage and 5 points in charisma for that! Loki taught me a thing or two about girls and trust me if she blushes it's a good sign. He found it entertaining enough he gave me a 4 for that effort alright!”

Loki's entourage indeed. Like I said only Breadtalk could have the balls or should I say retardedness to pull off something like that and I guess a 4 is quite bad but seeing how to get a 7 you needed to risk your life flying through the air in a makeshift sled I guess 4 is a pretty reasonable number. Not to mention gaining courage and charisma stats so easily, it must be good to have an incentive to have fun in the game.

The waitress came back with our food and drinks a few moments later and it was awkward as hell. She was still blushing and Breadtalk had a face with a solid red handprint on it so I found it extremely funny but I couldn't laugh in the presence of the waitress. Breadtalk slapped himself hard on the other side of his face just when she finished serving the food.

All of us were stunned yet again and looked to him for an explanation.

“I was about to apologise to the waitress as I had to kiss her for being so lovely and I wanted to do it while looking as good as I possibly can. Having one hand print on one side of the face isn't a very nice look so I made another one to make it symmetrical! Don't look at me like that it's perfectly normal. You are absolutely beautiful by the way so maybe you could come join me after you've finished your shift.” Breadtalk said with the most boyish grin on his face you could imagine a 16 year old pulling off.

“I just might have at that.” replied the waitress after recovering from yet another shock and looking extremely entertained by the antics of this ridiculous joker.

“Bro. You have got to teach me some of that sometime. That was retarded alright but make no mistake. Smoooooth.”

“Shut up Soup you just need to drop your pants and with your looks the girls will come knocking already.”

“Guys you do realise RR doesn't allow adult content till our real age is above 18 in our country right?”

“Oh yeah. Fuck.”

And so we ate and drank to this reunion, a whopping 30 days without each other which had been the longest since... Since we ever met actually. We talked about possible battle strategies, we talked about what we wanted to do which, which quests to take, which dungeons to raid and all we could talk about is how we could spend time together in RR to make the most epic journey ever. The waitress did indeed come looking for us after her shift ended though and Breadtalk just admitted he was trolling her but appreciated her spontaneity. Old sayings are repeated for good reason. They are usually true and for today, the quote of the day was : Third time's the charm. We ended off the day after witnessing the last and most impressive slap by the waitress to restore her dignity and we retired off to our room, engaged in a brief pillow fight in which Breadtalk was flung out of the window apparently by Soup and without saying it deep down we all knew.

These 30 days were just for us to do what we want. The next 30 months or even years however, would be for us to become what we want as a party, as brothers. Let the real adventure begin.

End of Chapter 6