Delayed Transfer

Mark and Sam went back to the living room to plan their next move.  They still haven’t found anyone who could play the role of their healer so they took the guild member’s list and checked again.

“What about Northshire?” Mark asked Sam.

“We don’t know his real name and where he lives.”

“I know but we can talk to him first.”

“Nah, don’t like him, he’s arrogant.”

“You don’t like him because he stole your in-game girlfriend.  We don’t even know, your previous in-game girlfriend Sedusa could be a 40 year old man living in his mother’s basement and you admitted that there’s a high possibility of that but you’re still livid when Northshire stole her from you.”  Mark laughed so hard.  Sam snorted then continued with the inspection of their list.

“Anyway, what about Dwarfessa?”  Sam asked Mark when he stopped laughing.

“I know her.  She’s only 16 and she lives in North Carolina so that’s a no go.”

After perusing the list for quite sometime, they still weren’t able to find anyone who could be their healer so Mark opened again the topic of selling the role to Donald Dren since once they have the money, the party mates could quit their job if they wanted to and just focus on dungeon diving. 

“I haven’t thought of that.  At least I’m fine.  You’re my boss and you pay me a lot of money and now I have employees of my own so I can leave the project to them and just inspect them once in a while.” Sam laughed.

“Hey! Just make sure that the quality is acceptable and don’t forget to bring the equipment to me every week.”  He reminded Sam.

“Yeah, yeah.  Okay I think your idea of selling the healer role has merit but we need to talk to Enleed and Amina first.”

“We need to do a lot of things first.  We need to plan the division of loot since one big part of why the role would be highly desirable to a rich guy like Donald Dren is the item that he could get from the dungeon.  So this is my plan.  The loot will go to anyone who needs it and if Donald or anyone he assigned need the equipment, we still need to sell it to him for money.  Do you agree.”

“I do but will he accept that?  We already sold him the role and we still need to sell him the items?  Isn’t a bit, I don’t know greedy?”

“He’s got a lot of money and he knew the value of our dungeon items.  It can make people stronger!  It has multitude of uses.  Protection or research so I bet he would agree to our condition.  I already sold him a pair of leather shoes for one million dollars.”

Mark then turned serious.

“I need to tell you something, Sam.  We can only do this dungeon for less than a year based on my mother’s item durability.  So that means we need to do a lot of diving to get all the items that we can so each one of us can get stronger for our own protection and of course to get a lot of money by selling the items to rich folks.”

“That sucks.  I thought I will be doing this for the rest of my life and I really liked to.  Just like those Korean web novels about being hunters and getting strong and rich while doing it.”  Sam said forlornly to Mark.

“We don’t need to be down just yet.  If there’s my dungeon already, there could be more in the future, who knows and if that really happens, we have an advantage since we already got stronger by exploring our own dungeon.”

“You’re right. I’ll call Enleed and you call Armina.” Sam said to Mark.

Mark called Armina and invited her to his house for a special guild get together and she agreed and said that she’ll be there in an hour.  Sam said that Enleed said the same things.  So while they were waiting for the other two to arrived, they talked about the dungeon and Sam speculated on Mark’s mother being a sorceress and what type of powers she had.  Mark said that it probably wasn’t strong enough since they did die in a car accident.  Sam apologized again to Mark and he just shrugged and said it happened a few years ago.

Mark received a text from Armina that she’s arriving so he went outside to receive her.  He saw the uber car that she was riding stopped in front of his house and he invited her inside.  He then told Armina that they were waiting for Enleed.

Armina looked around asked Mark and Sam where the others guild members.  They told her that only her and Enleed were available for the meet up.  She just nodded and sat in the living room to wait for Enleed.  Mark wondered how Armina could be calm in the presence of two men and he directly asked her.

“I know the both of you and we’ve been guild mates for years.  Nice weight loss by the way.  And besides, if it comes to a fight, I could take both of you.  I know Krav Maga.”  Armina said. 

Mark actually didn’t know if she was being serious but it wouldn’t surprise him if she was.  She was a beautiful Indian woman.

“Do you know how to shoot a bow in real life?”  Mark asked her.

“Yes.  I got into it as an exchange student in Japan and continued doing it as a hobby when my family moved here.”

“How good are you?” Sam asked Armina.

“Good enough to hit what I aim at.  What’s with these archery questions.  I like archery that’s why I chose being an archer in any of the games I played. 

While they were talking, Mark stood up and went to the dining room to prepare food for his guest by Replicating some restaurant dishes.  When he heard the doorbell, he knew that it was probably Enleed.