To Live Again, For the First Time!

MMXLV Guild Chat:

Doorii has joined the guild...

Dyson (Guild Master): [Who's the new member DanK?]

Only the guild master and the vice-guild master could send invitations and since Dyson knew that he hadn't sent the invitation, it had to be DanK, the vice-guild master.

DanK (Vice-Guild Master): [My new Bestie, I don't need all of you anymore.]

BBAD (Member): [You had an old bestie? That's news to me?]

'Do you have to be like this… not cute at all,' Kayden thought. But he probably deserved it, Kayden had known BBAD for years now and that's just how they interacted.

Good friends were nice to each other while best friends roasted each other.

Of course, if necessary, they would still always be there to support each other.

Dyson (Guild Master): [That's harsh man.]

Dyson (Guild Master): [Do we know him?]

DanK (Vice-Guild Master): [Nope. My new roommate.]

Kayden had a silly smile on his face that couldn't be seen by anyone else across the screen.

Beeme (Member): [Is he any good?]

DanK (Vice-Guild Master): [Not sure.]

Doorii (Member): [I think so.]

Theo found it both funny and peculiar that these people were talking about him when he was already in the chat.

'I mean if it was before it would have made more sense no?' He thought.

Beeme (Member): [He thinks so!]

Genie33 (Member): [Great, let's go for a game and test him out.]

Genie33 only ever really cared about games.

It didn't matter what time it was. If you need someone to join you in for a game, Genie would always be ready to jump in.

Most people suspected that he might have an alarm for notifications, either that, or he never slept.

Both were equally likely.

DanK (Vice-Guild Master): [I'll pull you guys into a party. Who else is up for a round right now?]

Dyson (Guild Master): [I'll join. We'll have to see what the new guy is made of Afterall.]

Genie33 (Member): [Me too.]

DanK (Vice-Guild Master): [Perfect. It seems that everyone else is busy anyways. It'll be Me Dyson, Doorii, Genie33, and BBAD.]

BBAD (Member): [When did I say I was in?]

DanK (Vice-Guild Master): [You're always in.]

BBAD (Member): [True.]

Dyson (Guild Master): [Ok let's get started then.]

Kayden glanced at Theodore to see how he was faring, not expecting that, at that very moment, Theodore also looked Kayden's way.

"How many people are in your guild?"

Kayden snapped out of his small daze and responded.

"16 with you."

Theodore thought about this fact for a bit. You needed a minimum of 10 people to make a guild in Mobba, which made one assume that there would be hundreds of thousands of guilds considering that there were millions of people playing, however, that was not the case.

Registering for a guild was rather simple, but one person could make a guild once every 3 years.

Now you may ask, why would someone need to make multiple guilds?

Well, they don't, and they can't.

The thing is. When you make a guild, all of the member's fame points were added together for the total sum of fame points of the entire guild. If you had hundreds of members, only the top 50 player's points were counted. There were also guild points that could be earned after the creation of the guild and those would end up being the foundation for its survival.

Over time, it would be harder and harder for people to just come in with a new guild and surpass the pre-existing ones, but it was by no means impossible.

The guilds ranked within the top 100 in fame points were on the leader board, while any guild ranked under the 20,000 mark was cut off.

These rankings were updated quarterly (four times a year, every 3 months) and so, though there would be over 20,000 guilds, most of them were only in their trial period, while the ones ranked at the bottom still had a lot to be worried about.

This number could not be underestimated. With so many players in Mobba, anyone with a higher rank in a large guild could become famous.

This was even more so with the top players, especially if they had the resources of a top guild backing them.

All the guilds wanted to recruit people at the top of the leader board so that they could increase their fame points and consequently their rank, but it wasn't that simple.

Many of the top rankers were already a part of a guild and a number of those within the top 50 made their own guilds and brought them to the top.

The competition was fierce.

As for those rankers who didn't want to join a guild, if they hadn't joined or created one already, chances were, even if you bribed them, they wouldn't join.

This frustrated many people.

This was the main reason why Theodore was impressed when Kayden told him that he had created a guild with his friends a couple of years ago. This would signify that the guild had survived the passage of time, but he was even more surprised when he heard that there were only 16 members including him.

This would mean that the members of this guild would all be ranked rather high. There didn't have to be someone within the top 200, but there had to at least be someone within the top 500 and this was internationally.

However, after the initial shock, Theodore didn't think too much about it.

Their two phones simultaneously changed to the screen in which they had to choose what character role they would for this round.

"Dyson the guild master plays swordsman and BBAD is most familiar with tank while Genie is the mage. I normally play assassin, but since you're here, I can play support." Kayden started explaining the dynamics of the team when the screen changed.

There was a high number of players who liked to play the assassin in Mobba, and so Kayden just assumed that Theodore would be more familiar with it than with support. He was happy to give his role to Theodore so that he could see how his skills measured up.

Even so, Kayden didn't expect too much.

After all, from what he knew so far. Theodore didn't play much, and he was even a top scholar majoring in acting.

Except for maybe his minor, he didn't seem like much of a gamer at all. And you didn't even have to be into games to be into computer science.

Theo could also somewhat tell what Kayden was thinking

"Nah, I'll take support, you can just do your usual role."

"Are you sure? Support is also a very important and equally hard job." Kayden thought that Theodore was just being polite since he had only just joined the guild.

"I don't know if you knew this, but in the first version of Mobba, each party was only 3 players."

Kayden was indeed familiar with this fact; he was a true fan.

"My Big Brother Nathen, Emilin, and I played together, and guess what. My brother ended up as a tank, Emilin as Assassin, while I took support. You can trust me when I say that I'm very familiar with the role." Theo's laugh was one of both amusement and a little bit of self-deprecation. But thinking back, he still found it a little funny.

Kayden saw that Theodore was being serious and so he conceded, choosing the role he was most familiar with, Assassin.