‘Jesus, that’s half my points and I still need to upgrade Dave’s equipment. Actually if I buy the long Las Conversion and the Carapace armor it’s more than ⅔ of my points. I probably don’t need carapace armor yet, but maybe there is a less expensive Variant that Dave can wear. Carapace Armor.’

Arbitrator Light Carapace Armor

Rating: 30

An armor made from plas-steel plates overlaid a plastic fiber body suit. A form fitting body glove is worn under. The helmet is equipped with a micro bead and a rebreather can be attached.

Cost: 500p

‘This will definitely work. Now I need to find a weapon I can give him. Maybe he should just go full melee. He needs a good melee weapon then. I wonder.’ I browse through the melee weapons. ‘All of the good magical weapons cost Ranked rewards and at the very least vibro weapons cost D ranked rewards. A sword made from just good material will work for now. A ceramite sword only costs 50p.’ I stop looking at the items in the shop. ‘So far I want the Long Las conversion which is 300, Light carapace which is 500, and a ceramite sword for 50. That’s 850 Points. I probably want to restock on frag grenades so that’s 60. Taking the cost up to 910 Points. I need the overcharged power packs which are 20 per power pack. I’ll want 5 to be safe so that’s another 100. Making my cost thus far 1010. That leaves me with 536 points. Just enough for another suit of light carapace.’

‘But do I really need carapace armor. Better safe than sorry. I’ll put 30 Points into Reaction Speed and keep the last 6 Points.’ I confirm my purchases and a light shines on me. Another light shines on my Lasgun. The light only shines on me for a brief second then disappears but my Lasgun is suspended in the air for a minute before it is let down. Now my Lasgun has a barrel that is twice as long as before. 5 overcharged power packs, 4 frag grenades, a white sword made of ceramite, and 2 sets of black light carapace armor appear in a pile on the ground next to me.

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I look down at the newbies who are still talking amongst themselves. “Hey, does anyone want to trade 50 Points worth of materials or items for a set of flak armor?” I yell down.

“How do we know you’re not scamming us.” Ms.Baker (the office lady) asks.

“Because you can check the price in the system.” I say.

“We’ll see about that.” She says but makes no effort to move.

‘Your loss.’ “Hey, Charlie get up here it’s your turn.” I yell.

“Alright.” He yells back then jogs up the stairs.

“Dave help me carry this stuff to the room.” I tell Dave, who is standing at the bottom of the steps. He walks up the steps and we both take the stuff and move it to our room. After moving the items to our room we went out to wait on Charlie. After 10 minutes of waiting a beam of light appears in front of Charlie. Charlie grabs all of the stuff then heads towards us.

“So, what did you get?” I ask him.

“I bought ODST armor for 750 Points, a Gauss Carbine for 300, 5 magazines of anti-personnel and 5 magazines of armor-piercing ammunition for 150, 2 frag grenades and 2 krak grenades for 80, a backpack with food and water pills for 41, some bandages and rolls of gauze for 20, and finally 10 bottles of hemostasis spray for 100 points. I only have 46 Points left.” He responds.

“I guess great minds think alike. We have almost the same load out. Except for the ODST armor and Gauss Carbine. Speaking of the Gauss Carbine what is it?” I ask.

“The Gauss Carbine is a portable railgun that uses magnets to fire slugs instead of gunpowder.” He answers.

“Wow that’s super cool.” I say.