“Congratulaion peasants for surviving the introduction catastrophe (Tsunami Northwest Europe)”

When you can read this, the introduction of the new world mechanics have succeeded and you are now part of it. Several disasters struck the earth as side effects, but don’t worry, there will be new participants for the lost pieces ^^. As the old owner of this world grow bored with it that there were less and less wars, no frontier to explore etc., he sold YOU to us, INTERSTELLAR WORLD STRUGGLE TV. As the name should suggest in your language, we intend you to struggle as much as possible for your survival and broadcast the most interesting events.

So to satisfy our customers, the new motto for this age shall be :

FIGHT TO SURVIVE!

Thank you for being part of INTERSTELLAR WORLD STRUGGLE TV.

‘Oh Jesus, not this shit. Why ? Why now? I want my peace back. What will happen to civilization? ‘(Arn)

“Jo guys, did you read that ?” said Arn, looking at his friends under the seats. Nods came back as a reply, Sebastian being pale in the face. Seeing that, he tried to dismiss the window with a touch on the upper right side. It started to swirl and disappear in a new symbol of his peripheral view, which looked like a @ sign.

Overlooking the rest of the crowd on the floor, he could see several people start crying and throughout only plastered faces.

A few movements later something outside the ship in the water catched his eyes. There were several circles of light appearing underneath the water surface, only to stop suddenly. A few seconds after that a shark would appear and look at the ship. Observing this phenomenon, he saw at least 40 fins swimming to the ship.

“Seb, Leo, Arn, look outside, the ship is being swarmed by sharks” called Nils out.

“Ok, let’s get down to the middle deck and watch from the railing” suggested Sebastian.

Leaving the mass of the people on deck, they went down. Going down narrow stairs towards their destination, they heard cries in front and to the side of them, coming from the backboard ( left ) side of the ship.

Immediately they rushed to the middle deck. The picture which unfolded itself was gruesome.

Grappling irons were hanging from the handrail and several shark creatures were attacking people. The few surprised people who watched the catastrophe originaly from here were overhelmed by a rapid raid. The shark creatures had a shark like head with a big mouth full of razor sharp teeth, a big back fin and fins on the side of the torso. Beside this, they had a human stature, greyish skin as well as two arms and two legs and a overall high of 1,5 meters.

In front of the friends were 3 shark men, 2 which had simply bitten the heads of their victims while the third stabbed a person into the abdomen with a spear. This was also the origin of the ear scattering cryes.

Dumbfolded, the group watched in horror as the shark men bit more from their victims and the spear was again tossed into the person.

The new arrival of 2 sharkmen over the handrail broke them loose of their statuesque freezing. Nils grabbed a lifebelt and threw it against one of the sharkmen. The hard hit made the creature loose his grip out of surprise and fell back to the sea. Meanwhile Leo shortened the distance and grabbed the spearman with his arms. Sebastian ran with a loud scream to one of the shark men and hit him with his big fists. The rest of the people ran back to the viewdeck.

Still at the original position beside the stairs, Arn stopped one of the fleeing students who survived the first onslaught by smaking him at the cheek.

“Get to the captain and tell him we are under attack. The ship must drive maximum speed and we need more people on the middle deck to defend it. Got it?” screamed Arn at the perplexed student.

“Jawohl (German equivalent to Yes Sir) “ yelled the other student and ran away in the direction of the bridge. So Arn turned back to the fight.

The sharkman with the spear was thrown around like puppy and had lost his spear, while the head of Sebastian’s shark man was smahed. Nils had the 2nd biter also under control with a grip from behind. The only thread in the moment was the second sharkman who climbed over the handrail and looked confused. Maybe he had thought that the humans were only prey ?thought Arn as he grabbed the spear and drove it into the lower parts of it. Half fascinated, half disgusted over the scene, the shark man screamed in a very high pitch only to lose his strength and to fall backwards over the handrail.

Astonished about himself, Arn backed away from the handrail and stabbed the other one sharkman held by Nils. Finished with killing these murderers, the 4 looked a bit confused at each other.

“I think we should toss the irons down before more come” said Leon into the awkward silence. Nodding to him the group tossed them back, only to see that still around 20 sharkfins were visible on this side of the ship.

As Arn was looking down, a new blue window appeared in front of him.

“Congratulation to your baptism of fire.

After killing another sentient being, You are worth to get acces to your statues window, inventory and most of the other player settings.

Hail the struggle.

Thank you for being part of INTERSTELLAR WORLD STRUGGLE TV.”

Directly afterwards followed another one.

Congratulation, you achieved a skill : Spear combat

Your ferocious stabbing with this weapon you acquired the skll spear combat.

Skill level 1

Weapon handling and damage +5 %

10/100

He could see the same surprise at the faces of Sebatian and Leon.

“ I got the staus windo and spear combat. What did you get ?” asked Arn

“Unarmed combat and status” Sebastian

“Same here” Leon

“Throwing mastery and status” Nils

“Seems good, look around if you find something valuable and then let us throw this things back to the sea. We..” ( Arn)

“ATTENTION ATTENTION HERE IS THE CAPTAIN. EMERGENCY, THE SHIP IS ATTACKED BY UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE, TO ALL PASSENGERS AND CREW, DEFEND THE MIDDLE DECK. THAT IS AN ORDER. I REPEAT, WE ARE UNDER ATTACK AND EVERY AVAIBLE PERSON HAS TO DEFEND THE SHIP! THE SIDES ARE UNDER ATTACK! WE WILL GO ON FULLL SPEED WITH COURSE TO OUR PORT ON NORDENEY”

“Ok, finish up here fast and help them. By the way, this looks like Massive Multiplayer online role play games” commented Leon.

“Wuah, I don’t wanna touch this things” said Nils. “They look disgusting and look, all the scattered brain and guts doesn’t make it better”

“ Tss, make it fast and toss them back. Pussy” said Arn and started to lift the brainless dead sharkman.

Aprubt he let the corpse fall again, as he it started to shine and dissolved slowly into nothingness. What was left was a small vial with a green liquid in it that rolled with the movements of the ship over the floor. Arn grabbed it quickly. With a close look he could see a describtion.

Lesser healing potion. Restores a small portion of health.

“First loot. Look!” said Arn triumphantly while swinging it directly in front of Leon’s face.

“Yeah, nice, but what shall we do with these three?” was Leon’s reply and pointed to the human victims laying on the ground.

“Although I don’t like it we should throw them also over board.” Voiced Sebastian his opinion.

From the other side of the ship they could still hear screams and cries.

“Fuck it, we will do it fast and then help the other side.” Said Nils and shortly afterwards the two headless human were tossed down.

When the group started to move the stabbed person, a groan could be heard.

The girl looked terrible, bleeding from the 2 stab wounds and being very pale, the eyes only opended to slits.

“Holy shit, she is alive. Quick Arn, try the potion on her. “ persuaded Sebastian Arn. So Arn took out the potion, forcefully opened her mouth and poured the liquid down her throat.

10 seconds past and nothing happened beside the girl groaning more. Descisionless, the group stared at her down, only to have a glimpse from time to time down the handrail to watch for eventual danger. After around a minute, the wounds started to regenerate slowly , so Arn send Sebastian for a first aid kid.

When he came back, Sebastian was in a hurry.

“Guys, news. Apparently the shark men overtowered the right side and are now fighting with the crew. It doesn’t seem like the rest is of use in battle. Most of them hide on the lower deck with the assistents and professors. Also, the captain is dead, killed by a thrown spear through the glass of the bridge when the shark men entered the bow. Seems like the first officer is now steering the ship“ reported Sebastian.

After applying the band aid to the girl by Nils, she could sit up and already talk a few words. She also got a message of being now part of the game , as the potion was her entry ticket as an otherworldly object.

“ So what to do next?” asked Leon

“ I suggest that we split up. Before anyone complains, only for a short amount of time, like say 10 minutes. Two look here out for more incoming grappling irons, one looks how it proceeds at the other side and the last one goes to the bridge to report that left side is safe. What do you think ?” suggested Arn.

“Mhhmm , mja, maybe…” Sebastian

“Seems solid, how do we decide who does what ?” interrupted Nils.

“Rock Paper scissors ? You know it is possible that in 10 min nobody returns ? “ warned Leon.

“ok, Rock Paper scissors, who wins stays” ( Arn)

After several heated rounds of the game, Arn and Nils lost. Being the first one who lost, Arn decided to go to the other side while Nils would go to the bridge.