Bart

Anne responds: "It targets people you know in real life. And it is not just your contacts? Weird.... No one should volunteer. NO ONE!" The rest groan and look like they are going to call her Mom.

Bart reacts: "Okay then, Anne. Are you okay with us picking a random other person? We all know we all reeaaally want to see what that app does." Bart taunts her to do it.

Robin jokingly muses: "Maybe I should insist Pieter picks me?" No one responds. "Dammit, guys, should we really pick someone at random?"

Bart rolls his eyes. "Fine scardedy cats, Pieter just select me."

"You sure?" I ask he nods.

Name: Bart

Surname: Erikson

Gender: Male

Age: 32

Level 1 (0 / 10 xp)

Class: None

Perks: None

Add Quest

Add Class (Class Designer perk required)

Followed by a pop-up.

Slow Beginnings: add your first target [+5xp]

First Achievement: Unlocked Achievements Tab

We enter the restaurant. Bart shows me his phone. I see he has a new app downloaded called LifeQuest. "Okay, guys. We plan to get a fun quest for Bart. He obviously gets a say." Robin mentions lifting you with one finger. I try to humour him, but that doesn't work. "It seems the quest has to be realistically possible."

Soon, the waiter takes our drink order everyone order beers or wine. I choose to order a soda.

Roos asks: "Bart, do you have interests outside of D&D and sport?"

He leans in and says: "Well, I like cutesy magical girl anime, sentai and other superhero films. A good rom-com here and there." He brushes like a little girl. He was ashamed of liking anime and rom coms, being a sappy weeb.

I chuckle. "Wait, that is what you embraced about. Roos remembers, when I spent that summer pretending to be 'Ainz Ooal Gown'."

"Yeah, that was soooooo dumb. Also, you were 20. No way you didn't do it as a joke." She responds.

"Yeah, but still hella cringy. It was fun. Especially the kids who wanted to play along." The rest chuckles at the idea of me pretending to be some evil lich and kids playing along as my minions.

"Wait, that might be a fun quest," Roos says.
"Have Bart do a pose of a show or hero he likes each time the next round arrives. Until we get home." I chuckle at the idea, so do Robin and Anne.

Bart chuckles: "Sure, that seems like a funny idea. No one would find that obtrusive." He rolls his eyes as he says that last part.

"Well, we look like a group of drunks anyway."

"Hey... why?"

"You and Robin are on your third glass, and we have yet to make an order for tapas. Roos and Anne are about to order their second bottle. So yeah, we seem like a party of drunk,s me just being your designated driver. Also, most people here will never see you again."

Bart Erikson will receive the following quest: Do a memorable pose from a show or a movie you like with each order of the evening.

Reward: perk: Powerstance I

Quest Giver: Gave a quest to a target for the first time. [+5 xp]

Level Up! [+1 Perk point]

One step at a time: Levelled up for the first time. [+5 xp]

I chuckle. "What the fuck, Powerstance. What does that do? I can't find out until he has completed it."

"You can see the rewards? And what things do?" Bart questions.

"I can see the rewards. Not what they do yet. But since I can select everything on your profile and get an explanation or a more detailed version, Bartolomeus, Hendrick, Olrictus Erikson." He squints and nods.

For the first three rounds he does power ranger, or sentai poses. The fourth, he does a pose resembling tuxedo mask if I am not mistaken. Last, he does a moeprettye magical girl type pose. Nice to see how he decided to take more risks as he got drunker. As I expected, it gets treated as a dumb joke. Which is. We finish our evening, but before we go home,e I take a look at Powerstance.

Bart Erikson completed a basic quest [+5 XP]

Beginner QuestMaster: A target completed a

quest for the first time. [+5 XP]

Level Up! [+1 Perk point]

Powerstance I: Whenever you do a powerstance you gain a bonus related to the power stance you do. Hidden: mild compulsion to do stances from shows you like.

I tell Bart as I drive him and the rest home.

Author's note: By all means, write your own branch. I am going with my own dumb idea. However, I believe there will be a different interesting branch out there. The same goes for all of the other different branches.