Afterlife
Of the best online multiplayer games, there are many ways to play, but the best are the ones where you can do everything. Afterlife is a game as big as a planet. You can purchase property, be it land, air, or sea. Make a family and live in a house with a white picket fence. Conquer whole nations and build an empire. Become a hero and adventure. Magic did anything from turn any intended or unintended Target into a pile of Ash with a Fireball to clean the toilet. Strength is a number not reflected by the size of your muscles. Health is displayed by the amount of blood leaking from your mouth. You don't necessarily have to eat. You can consume food without gaining weight. Death has no hold on you because you can respawn. But you have to die to enter. Or actively dying. You can't kill somebody so they can play a game. Or at least not in most countries. You can watch these Afterlives for a fee Livestream, series or movies. Half of the price of your entertainment goes to the emergency uplode or the family of those in Afterlife.
Ruth Montagues's Life story
Ruth has been living purely to enter this game since it came out when she was only 15. At 17, she joined the military for the discount, experience, and retirement. She had saved up with a nice nest egg. Got a comfortable job as a secretary and researched everything she thought she might need in game. She was able to purchase her ticket at only 40 years old.
Agriculture, engineering, basket weaving, etc. Any vacation she took was more like week-long internships or silly retreats where you survive in -20° weather in a shelter you make yourself made of pine branches, sticks and snow. Her hobbies were perusing Afterlife brochures and purchasing bundle packs of equipment whenever they came on sale. Keeping abreast of in-game lore, she watched all the edited live streams of players. They are made into movies and TV series. Half the money Afterlife makes from them goes back to living relatives or the emergency download charity. When her health declined, her excitement only grew.
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Ruth was invited to an Afterlife assisted living apartment complex. This service is recommended. Afterlife apartments also have hospice and it is required in most countries. Working with a designated artist, Ruth finalized her avatar. Every detail about her original self was put into sprite form. Down to the same freckle on her foot. Ruth made it back when she was 30. A realtor helped her pick out land. An in-game construction company helped design buildings to put on it. These services are available for an additional fee.
Ruth purchased a mountain next to the ocean. At the foot of the mountain is a port town. That side of the hill is steep and very heavily wooded. To get to her house on the exact opposite side of the mountaintop, you either have to take a boat to the beach access she has following the rocky cliff face at a safe distance or take a game trail on the inland side that is right next to dungeon territory. The hazards in that forest are the adventurers as much as the monsters.
Ruth's house is encased in a wall with a big square gate with protection and environmental magic soaked into every Stone, mortar, and the whitewash painted over it all. There are 4 buildings inside. All are made of whitewashed stone and wood flooring. The 3 biggest and symmetrical are connected with a covered breezeway, making a U shape between them with floor-to-ceiling windows facing the courtyard in the center with wood-slat covers that slide out of the way. All but a little tool shed left of the gate. The big building to the left of the gate is a workshop. The one in the back is the living area. To the right are the kitchen and dining room with a big pantry underground. In the middle is a flower and herb garden. With the environmental magic, all the plants flourish with the status effect of Sheltered. Surrounding the house are the plots of land set aside for fields. About 40 acres segmented into 8 sections with irrigation and separated by wind brakes.
Ruth wishes to continue to be the most boring person and play this MMO like a single-player farming Sim. No political intrigue, mysteries, or hero business. This stream is a part of our emergency uploads charity program. Thank you for watching Ruth Montagues's afterlife.
