Not just a message but...

"Hey John, I spent some time looking over what you sent me and, to be completely honest with you, it looks like you're both rusty and a little underdeveloped as a game-maker. But it also looks like you have potential and I could really use some help to get this thing off the ground. I can't offer you money or fame or that you'll get all the girls, but I want you to help me on Axxxiom. If you're interested, join the game at nine o'clock tomorrow morning and I'll show you my plans for the rest of the game. -LunarBell"

John was so excited to be working on a game like this that he didn't even really care about the minor insults that LunarBell threw his way. HE checked the clock and saw he only had five minutes before he was supposed to meet her in game. Damn you sleeping in! He quickly ate a granola bar and drank some water before he logged into his Axiom and joined the game only a couple minutes after nine. The space was completely different. This wasn't the landscape he was treated to the night before, but it looked like an office space with computer terminals and windows on all the walls.

"You're late." He turned to the left and saw LunarBell standing at a terminal and glancing out a window occasionally. "Since we aren't really working together yet, I'll forgive it but I don't like people slacking off on group projects." She turned around and John saw a serious look on her face as she crossed her arms. "Don't make it a regular thing and we'll be fine." She finished her spiel and let her arms fall to her sides and a small smile crossed her face. "Welcome to the Admin Room. It's the behind the scenes room that the creators of the Axiom added for game creators. In here, a creator can change aspects of their game as a whole, modify 'levels,' monitor player activity, and a bunch of other stuff that I haven't discovered yet." John looked around and everything started to click. Each computer was the storage space and editing terminal for a different location, viewed through the window beside it, in the game.

"Alright. This is a little much to take in but there are two questions I want to ask before you go too far into this. The first is how am I here? I'm not the creator of the game." John had a quizzical look on his face as he gestured to the room around him.

"No, you're not. But there is a way to add other people onto a project. Your name won't appear as the 'creator' but it will show up in the extra information of the game."

John had his name on what could be a landmark game for a groundbreaking piece of technology and he didn't have to pledge thousands of dollars to a crowd funding campaign. The only thing that was going through his head was "Holy crap!"

"Okay. That makes sense. The second thing I wanted to ask you is...what's your name? I'm guessing you found mine from the sites I sent you last night but I don't know anything about you."

LunarBell looked at John with an astonished look on her face. "Wait...you didn't cyber-creep on me last night as soon as I gave you my username?"

"No...should I have?" John looked back at the door, unsure if he was unknowingly getting himself into a bad situation.

"No! I mean you didn't have to. I have nothing to hide. It's just...every other time I have ever interacted with a guy online somewhere, he looked up my username and MAGICALLY came back knowing things about me I never told them that I don't have on any of my public profiles and it's creepy. So it's kind of nice having to actually introduce myself to someone." John notices the smile fighting to take over her face before she lets it win and holds her hand out. "I'm Holly."