Alan: Sure. Thanks a lot for this opportunity!

Alan ended the conversation, and was notified he received a new message containing the Black Rose contract. A quest window popped up:

Alan began searching for information about the Undercity, and in the process learned quite a bit about Khersath. Unfortunately, the globalnet didn’t contain any pictures. No free ones, at least. Khersath was apparently an ecumenopolis, a city that made up the entire planet; the planet had roughly twice the radius of Earth. It was home for hundreds of billions of players, trillions of robots or other beings, and consisted of over 100 levels, each level around 5-stories tall. Every level was built on top of another, and the ground was rarely if ever seen by Khersath’s inhabitants. The most prominent and prestigious buildings were all on the top floor, where there was actual sunlight. The city-planet was divided into quadrants and each of those quadrants were further divided by levels in terms of class, species and other factors. There was a military quadrant, a merchant quadrant, a living quadrant and a private quadrant. At the center was the main plaza area. A player could easily spend their entire life in the Game simply playing on and in Khersath. While the majority of the planet was a safe-zone, there were multiple combat and hostile zones as well.

According to the Hub, the Undercity was the lowest portion of Khersath, and as the name suggested was home to the more dangerous and seedy elements of the city-planet. It was one of the few inhabited combat-zones, where combat between players was allowed. Hostile-zones were, like they sounded, zones generally uninhabited by players, but full of enemies to battle and potential items. There was little free information about the Undercity on the globalnet, not even any indication of how to enter it. Luckily, the quest provided Alan with a few supposed entrance locations, but as his map of the planet was mostly blank, the only location that was useful was one near the center of Khersath where the four quadrants met, by the main plaza. The main Administrative Center was in the main plaza as well, which was a place he wanted to visit. He’d have to figure out how he’d get there though…

Well, there were other things for Alan to do. He quickly sent a message to Icewolf after Eve reminded him, then, after a bit of consideration, sent another message to Kitana, Ace and Daisy informing them of the Black Rose guild tryouts. He and Eve then looked over the sample contract. Unlike beforehand where he would need to trust that Eve knew what was best, he was now able to get a sense of her reasoning, which was interesting. Eve had a clear way of weighing disadvantages and advantages, examining likely chances of worst or best case scenarios, a never ending dividing future that continued to propagate until—