Eight-Bit Bastards: Level One by Joshua Mason

Author:Joshua Mason [Mason, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781072858904
Amazon: 1072858908
Goodreads: 46200839
Publisher: Bebuka Books
Published: 2019-06-05T23:00:00+00:00

Level 1-12: The Mage and the Kitten-Man

They’d taken seats on a pair of blocky benches in the middle of the park-like town square. Sean tried not to let his mind wander to the stranger events of the last day and a half as Mark explained all he’d gathered about how classes and class quests worked.

“So yeah, you choose your class at level five, but you don’t get to really ‘take on’ the class until you complete the class quest and acquire the class sigil.”

Sean nodded. “Yeah, sigil. Right.” Did I really eat mushrooms and talk to a tree?

Mark snapped his fingers and waved them before Sean’s face. “I need you to pay attention. We don’t want you going off willy-nilly and getting bonked on the head again.”

“Pull your shit together, Cubes,” Claudia said.

Ugh. That name is gonna stick. “Okay, okay. Who’s first?”

“What do you mean, ‘Who’s first?’” Mark asked.

“I mean”—Sean pointed his finger at each of them in turn— “which of us gets our sigil first?” He shrugged. “I’m down a level, so it can’t be me.” He glanced at Mark who had buried his head in his notebook.

Mark raised his head from the notebook and very purposefully didn’t look at Claudia, but his avoidance was more obvious than his prior gawking. “I figure ‘ladies first,’ right?”

“So... not Claudia?” Sean joked.

“Real funny there, Cubes.” The smile on Claudia’s face betrayed no genuine irritation.

Sean suppressed a frown. Maybe when I get my class distinction, it’ll dislodge that fuckin’ nickname. “Ok. Heather, then.”

“What?” Heather asked.

“Your class. You’re going first. We’re helping,” Mark offered. He shot an annoyed look at Sean.

Is he already getting his back up about me teasing Claudia? Really? Sean sighed. His class should be ‘White Knight.’

Heather nodded. “That works for me. I’m going to be a mage, obviously.” At her words, Mark scribbled in his book.

Heather pointed to a shop across the street. “Finna in the shop there says becoming a mage requires a trip through the Night Swamp to the east. I’m not much of a”—she did the quote sign— “swamp enthusiast, but if that’s what a girl’s gotta do to get her hands on some pyrotechnics in this screwy place, that’s where we’re going.”

Heather bounded off the bench with a cartoonish sproing effect.

Sean shook his head. “That’s gonna take some time to get used to.” He looked at the sky where the unusually large, too-close-sun smiled at them like it had something nefarious planned. It hadn’t yet climbed to mark noon yet. “Do we have enough time to make it there and back?”

Mark raised his head too quickly, betraying that he hadn’t really been as entranced by the book as he’d tried to appear. “It might be that time shifts automatically depending on where we go. There’s no telling whether the swamp holds to the ‘steady-state’ time of old platformers or something more like here”—he rolled his finger as if encompassing the entire world— “with a set-interval day and night cycle. I’m guessing the latter, as I don’t see any reason for it to change.

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