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[Guild][Orcarella]: omw

[Guild][Solace]: Really?!

[Guild][Orcarella]: y

Solace has invited you to join a group: y/n

Solace is now group leader

[Group][Solace]: Hi

Drew had a moment of panic. He really wasn’t sure what the etiquette was here. Normally, when he was in group it was for a reason and there was some kind of script, usually along the lines ofmana up, protect the flag, buff me, you two take blacksmith, anyone know tacs. But he wasn’t sure what to say when the plan was sit on a rock and fish.

[Group][Orcarella]: Hi

Shit. That was not a good opening. Traditional, but not good.

[Group][Orcarella]: how are you?

[Group][Solace]: I’m feeling quite virtuous actually

[Group][Solace]: I went over all my lecture notes on the Lorentz transformation

[Group][Orcarella]: you’re at uni?

[Group][Solace]: Yes, physics

[Group][Orcarella]: Me too. not physics though lol

[Group][Solace]: What are you reading?

[Group][Orcarella]: Latest Scott Lynch. You?

[Group][Solace]: Um… I kind of meant what are you studying

Drew felt like a knob.

[Group][Orcarella]: oh right, game art design lol

[Group][Solace]: Cool

Drew still felt like a knob. And he suddenly realised he had no idea how to get to Alarion. He called up the map, something he hadn’t done basically since he’d started raiding, and squinted at it, mousing over the different zones to try and figure where the hell this place actually was. To his embarrassment, it turned out to be due south of Orcarella’s home city, the orcish stronghold of Vala’Threk. His bindstone was set to the City of Stars, that being the closest major hub to Crown of Thorns, where he spent ninety percent of his game time, so he was going to have to travel the old-fashioned way.

He got on his dreadsteed and galloped through the shiningstreets of the City of Stars and up the spiral ramp that led to the skyship tower that would take him to the eastern continent. As usual, one was just leaving as he arrived, so he parked himself on the platform to wait, another thing he hadn’t done since he started raiding.

[Group][Solace]: I’ve been meaning to pick up Republic of Thieves

[Group][Orcarella]: i only read the other two last year

[Group][Solace]: Any good?

[Group][Orcarella]: not as good as the first one, better than the second

[Group][Solace]: I thought the first one was a bit all hail my awesome main character

[Group][Orcarella]: yeah but he was actually awesome

[Group][Solace]: That’s the problem. He was clearly supposed to be

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