She was excited to be in an inn with electricity.Right now, though, she was excited to be taking her first hot shower with running water. She wriggled...her shoulders as the warm water washed away a night's accumulated sweat. As she promised, she'd come real good. What a naive thing to have said only a few short hours ago. She laughed at the idea of capturing such an evening in such a short, simple phrase.Ram, standing beside her in the shower, showed all signs of contentment. If anything, the. “Hey, let’s check our stats, see if anything changed.”“Ah crap, how could we forget? I wanted to avoid standing around analyzing our stats. There was not much to see the first time.”They looked at their palms. Rayner felt his focus being sucked in by the tattoos until he could read his stats.Name: Rayner, Race: White, Title: Faithless, Level: 1, Class: Barbarian, Mana: 10, Skills: N/A, EXP: 30.“A barbarian!” Rayner said. That is not how he saw himself at all. Then he remembered what he was. They ordered their drinks and food."Thank you for meeting with me, Ms. Cummings. And also for trusting me." I must say that I came here with a few trepidations, given that you're related to someone who hates my guts. Oh, and please call me Lisa." You must be referring to my brother. He is quite the troublemaker, isn't he? I'm sorry he's caused you so many headaches." Thanks," said Lisa confused."So you've obviously read my paper. What did you think about it?"Lisa paused, choosing her words. " She yelled as bolts of energy shot through the portal and struck the lead figure.As the lead figure went down covered in electrical energy, a man emerged from the portal followed by a young female. The female let loose with a blast of energy at the smaller of the figures in body armor.Three youths emerged from behind a pile of rubble and moved out across the clearing towards the portal as the two new arrivals provided cover fire. The taller female of the armored group fired her weapon at the.