[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] Dean was a newb to dive gear, but it didn't matter.  He was playing in a party with his three best friends, all experienced players in dive games, and he'd figure it out as they went along.  Eventually, he'd get good enough that they could beat the game. He just didn't expect the only way out was to beat the game.  Or a rogue update that disabled the pain suppression settings, make it harder to level up, and reset his character stats every time he respawned. With an unstoppable Orc invasion led by a Shadow Wraith bearing down on their spawn point, they're only hope of survival is founding a new city, building a new spawn point, and defending it from the Orcs. All as a level one character. **************************************************************************************** As a note, I'm starting to edit earlier chapters, so some chapters will have a [Revised] tag attached, indicating that they're an edited version.