Build Sequence Is Key

Route?

Nichole headed to her cube leaving Jason to be the last one left at the table. He contemplates where he was, who he was with, how he had gotten here, and what was about to happen. It had all felt so real when he was going through it, but now he felt like it was really going to start. Once they committed to this chain quest it was going to be do or die. There would be no room left for almost or might have been.

Unready he still went to his cube anyway and settling himself acknowledged the prompt that had automatically appeared for him. This cube was already anticipating his needs.

'I wonder if Cecelia is paying attention and helping me get through this."

Jason said in the safety of his own mind. It was scary to him that he didn't know all the details of how he came to this point. There were too many unknown variables.

Putting a stop to any uncertain and confusing thoughts he turned his mind to doing what he could do. What was in his power. It was obvious that he couldn't do this alone, while he had a moment he shot off a group chat to his buddies, "Hey, where are you in the game? If possible we should meet up and do this together."

Sighing and then faking a deep breath he waited the for darkness that had enshrouded him to clear. He hadn't ever taken the tutorial so he had no idea what to expect. Without any info he couldn't make any plans. Instead he calmed his mind and got ready to respond. He would have a lot of work to do. Jason felt the peace that he usually associated with the moments before his game would load. The first few seconds in every game were critical. He had to get into the game find out where he could build and then build, build, build. This time, since he wouldn't know if the opposing army would attack he would have to go for a defense build.

When it did he could see that Aggy, Captain, a troop of orcs, as well as other sundry mythical beings were weapons bare surrounding Jason, Nicole, and their other four class mates.

"Wohooo! Jason you didn't tell me your team was all women! And beauties too!"

Aggy's words immediately took Jason out of his zone. His classmates were going to rip Aggy a new one. He was about to get an ear full of feminism.

Yet moments ticked by and none of the five of them said anything. They didn't back down or look away though either.

'Thank goodness for smart people!' Jason thought to himself. They had to be careful. All of them including Jason.

Out loud he said, "Ho, Aggy! I brought everyone."

The orc's keen eyes looked Jason up and down. His jocular nature suddenly stone cold. Jason knew that that whatever he said next would determine the relationship his team mates had with the alliance.

"I think that they will be a good asset."

And he didn't say anything else. They would trust him or they wouldn't.

After a moment Aggy looked around to several of the native players in the circle surrounding them. When he received nods he smiled at everyone.

"Welcome to the GooseBerry alliance. It will be a pleasure to work together." Aggy welcomed everyone.

Jason assumed that the long pause was for key alliance members to read through his team mates info and determine their skew. He couldn't read any of that himself, but was reasonably sure that their info would be mostly blank still.

Going on Aggy pointed over to an elf who had stepped forward, "If you would, please follow princess Ce'astle'adel. She will give you a tour of the camp and help you find whatever you need."

Jason moved to go towards the elf, but Aggy snagged him before he could take more than a step or two.

"You, you follow me."