[CENTER][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/210130/e0cb160ca3d86f8cb8540be25e5665b5.png[/img][/CENTER]

[indent][indent][indent][color=gray][sub][right][color=#98A9B1][b]Location:[/b][/color] Wayfarer’s Retreat -- The City of Thorinn, Aetheria[/right][/sub][/color]
[hr]

[i]This was bad.[/i] 

The sudden proposal was nice, in some roundabout way. Benkei was unaccustomed to romance, seeing as how his isolation in his everyday life meant that he had few friends and exactly zero confessions at high school. And marriage? Benkei’s thoughts on marriage were not rose-tinted. He’d watched throughout his childhood the breakdown of his parent’s marriage, and the toxic effect it had left on both himself and his older brother. To him, marriage was nothing more than a vehicle for more misery between two people. Part of him wondered if he was even capable of feeling or experiencing love. It didn’t matter, however, since he’d put so much of himself into the game. Who needed love and affection when you could get the respect of your peers. The reaction of the party to his plan at the same time made him feel...[i]warm[/i] inside as if their respect for his plan gave him some semblance of acceptance from the group. 

[i]And then the women all got drunk.[/i] 

[color=98A9B1]“When the hell did they patch that in?”[/color] he grumbled, looking at Alja stumbling around like a comedy routine. He was too focused on strategy and combat to ever really get into the world like some roleplayers and had never drunk ale or anything of the sort in-game. Hell, he never even ate anything unless it had some effect to boost his effectiveness in battle. 

[i]So why was he suddenly hungry?[/i] 

[color=98A9B1]“I swear,”[/color] he muttered, [color=98A9B1]“If the game designers decided to drop a survival update without publishing a dev letter about this, I’m going to break something,”[/color] he let Graves handle the woman. The older man seemed better at dealing with that. Benkei had no idea what to do at all with that. 

[color=98A9B1]“I hope everyone can sober up quickly. I doubt we’ll have the luxury of sleeping off a hangover when the dungeon awaits us.”[/color]

[/indent] [/indent] [/indent]