The Game Cafe in Marvel and DC

9 – More Sells and Customers!

Over the course of an entire week, Zeref earned over $9,500 US Dollars from sales.

Zeref's first customer, Kyle, of which he learned the name of, was also apparently a part of the local gang. With Frank Castle, the Punisher, taking most of the people in the local gang out, Kyle visited much more frequently and spent a few hours playing the first Fallout, dying over and over again on his journey to the point that the farthest he has made it, was 124 days, a little over an hour in real-time.

His customer Kyle has continued to grind away at Fallout 1, attempting to 'beat' the game, and on his journey, Kyle has earned quite a few achievements, ones Zeref has been adding over time, ones he didn't think of when he made the first set of achievements.

Kyle has even gone as far as to start venturing in different directions from the vault at the start a couple of times to see what was around.

The first time, he headed north, hitting the game barrier and the message: [You cannot proceed further. Complete the 'Game' to continue]

From there he traveled west along the game's border towards the sea until he ran into his first super mutants, and was quickly killed without being able to put up much of a fight.

He tried fourteen more times after that, each time becoming a better fighter and more tolerant of pain before giving up on trying to make it past the large green mutants typically heavily armored and armed, and decided it would be more worthwhile to continue the mission to get the water chip and try another time when he had better equipment and maybe even some allies to take down the tough mutants.

However, on his way to Necropolis, a city of Ghouls, people that were hurt badly by radiation and apparently could live a lot longer and are considered kin by Feral Ghousl, his session ended.

Leaving part of his mind to continue working in the mental realm, Zeref looked over to Kyle who just quit the game and was back in the real world.

"Want to get another session?" Zeref asked.

"No thank you, I'm running low on cash, however, can I get a Service Rifle and 3 boxes of 5.56?" Kyle asked.

Raising a nonexistent eyebrow Zeref stated, "That will cost 75 Credits for the rifle, and 15 Credits for the ammo."

Zeref has also found that there was a loophole in the credit system.

A majority of Kyle's credits came from Extermination challenges, such as eliminating a certain number of enemies.

Killing 50 Giant Rats would complete the challenge 'Rat Killer' which was a repeatable challenge that granted 5 Credits per completion.

However, Zeref forgot to make the challenge and other challenges as it reset upon death...

Having Kyle purchase the rifle and ammo through the Credit Store on his computer, Zeref found the receipt popping up on his computer.

Raising his hand and facing his palm toward the counter, Zeref opened the System Store and purchased the Service Rifle for $200 Dollars and the ammo for $3 each.

Zeref was thankful that a lot of the items in the System Store were quite cheap, the profit certainly starts adding up when you consider the time he spent inside before he could purchase just this rifle and some ammo. However, he could earn even more profit once he patches the error with the challenges, which the other part of his mind inside the mental realm easily fixed within a few moments.

Motes of light appeared from Zeref and flowed into the air before his palm and before both of their eyes, the rifle and ammo cases appeared.

With only a few credits and not even enough money to purchase another session, Kyle left with the gun and ammo in hand and a fierce gaze in his eyes.

"Hmm, I wonder what he will do, he seems to have a vendetta against something," Zeref asked himself as he watched Kyle's figure leave the cafe.

Shrugging, he went back to work.

Zeref has spent quite a bit of time working on Fallout and was almost done with fallout 4 and its continuation feature now.

Once he was done with Fallout 4 and its continuation feature, he would have only one thing left to do, finish making the rest of the world, which would be an interesting change of pace compared to the USA.

Sure, it would probably take another week of real-time of his time, but it would be worth it, and he wouldn't have to do it at another time.

As the hours pass and it reaches late at night, just before midnight, which is when the cafe would close, Frank decided to pay a visit once again, and he wasn't exactly in the best of shape and decided to dirty the floor with blood that could his or someone else's.

"Frank, why have you decided to dirty my floor? You do realize that blood could scare away customers!" Zeref berated Frank Castle.

"My bad, I need more Stimpaks, I've got the money."

"Already? How careless have you been that you have already needed more stimpaks after purchasing some just this morning?" Zeref asked, curious.

"Sigh...due to me constantly hunting down every gang banger in the area that I see, the criminals have started becoming more cautious, traveling in groups, carrying more guns, and keeping more guards around their hideouts to defend and warn everyone inside if I show up," Frank said with a sigh as he sat down in the chair that is meant for one of the two PCs closest to the counter.

"You know, there's something currently for sale inside my Credit store that would greatly help you in your hunts," Zeref suggested, thinking of the Assaultron and Fertile Deathclaw Egg available in the credit store.

"Such as?" Frank asked.

"For example, for the price of 2,000 Credits, you can purchase yourself a fully functional and very dangerous Assaultron, a robot of war," Zeref recommended.

"A what?" Frank asked confused.

"Assaultron, a robot created by RobCo Industries to serve in the United States Military. These robots are equipped with devastating lasers implanted inside their heads that can easily vaporize enemy combatants, giving them a menacing red 'eye' on their faceplate.

For weapons, they can be equipped with long blades that can easily cut through steel, shock claws that can grab onto a target and send devastating bolts of energy into the person's body, and normal claws which can grab onto an enemy and crush bone.

They can even be equipped with Laser Rifles to replace their arms, giving them a different way to attack from afar without having to use their head laser. Any questions?" Zeref explained and asked.

"Is there any way I could get such a thing without these 'credits' of yours?" Frank asked, interested.

"Hmmm...I can give you one, but, you will owe me a debt, of let's say $100,000, are you willing?" Zeref asked.

Seeing that the Assaultron would cost $10,000 through the System Store and for 10x the profit it would be a good deal, especially since he can guess that Frank pays for most of the things in the cafe through illegal blood money he gets from the local gangs which means in this crime-infested city, it wouldn't take long for Frank to repay him.

Frank was silent and deep in thought.

"Okay, I guess ill have a debt to repay, this robot better be worth it," Frank warned Zeref with a glare.

"No worries, the robot will easily be able to dispatch those which you frequently hunt. Just be careful about larger caliber weapons if you don't want her to break on you, okay?" Zeref asked before he purchased an Assaultron with an added stealth blade and laser rifle upgrade to go along with interchangeable claws so that it would be capable of doing basic tasks and combat.

Motes of light flowed from Zeref's form and coalesced and formed a robotic figure of 5" 8' in height.

This figure had a symbol of the US Army on the left side of its chest and its entire body was made of sleek black metal.

For hands, the robot had two clawed hands with three metal digits, giving it the ability to grab or climb if it so desired.

For a head, it had a glowing red 'eye' between two plates of metal.

Its body was humanoid in shape and its legs were clearly designed to allow the robot to sprint into the battlefield at great speeds, making it the perfect infiltrator.

"Greetings First Lieutenant Frank Castle, how may this unit serve you today?" The Assaultron asked.