"This is ridiculous." Sam cursed as Kevin somehow borrowed a car to drive them to Lowandah falls. The place was about 30 minutes from town, and the Frogboss was the aim. "Absolutely ridiculous. I can't fucking believe I let myself let you drag me on this ride."

"You wanted to come. Don't make it sound like you don't want to be here." Kevin laughed, as the radio played some rock and roll. He normally didn't listen to rock and roll, but he figured that if he was going to go fight a boss, he had to have theme music. Seriously. Why be a protagonist in a fantasy story if you don't even have your own theme music?

[Feedback accepted. We will add theme music for those who hit certain levels or accomplished certain missions]

"Oh- well, that's actually a pretty good one." Kevin nodded. Guess a system that could get feedback directly wasn't that bad. There wasn't anyone on the road, and it was really, freaking hot.

"What's a good one?" Sam asked.

"I submitted a feedback to add theme music."

"So you mean we could be like professional wrestlers and explode to the scene with our own theme music?"

"I hope so. They could fuck it up by adding shitty theme music." Somewhere out there, musicians and composers vanished. Kidnapped by the system and forced to make theme music for the beta test players. But the main characters don't know that.

The last bit of the drive took them through muddy roads. Sam cursed as one of the bumps on the road made him hit his head on the car. "Man, I bet Uncle Jim's gonna ask you to wash his car. All this mud-"

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"Yeah- yeah. Car wash. No big deal." Kevin answered. "Just some water and soap. It'll be fine."

"Imagine if the blue screens took away our water."

"We'd be dead if that happens." Kevin instinctively looked at the back seat where his equipment was. They even bought food to last a few days. He heard enough horror stories about people being lost in the woods to last a lifetime. They even had an extra compass each. Just in case.

"Yeah. True. No water sounds like shit. Can you imagine not having water to wash your poop? Horrible. No idea how fantasy folks do it."

"I bet they have water. They have buckets, you know."

"But they don't have hoses."

"They don't?" Kevin looked at Sam funny. Sam shouted and Kevin dodged a cat on the road. "Stupid cat."

"I don't think so. Rubber was invented- what- a few decades ago?"

"Are you sure? I thought rubber hoses were around for like centuries." Kevin said.

"Do I look like a history book? I don't know when were rubber hoses invented-" Sam started scrolling his phone. "-it doesn't say. Wiki has nothing."

"Really? Is your google-fu that bad?" Kevin shrugged, as he arrived at the waterfall. It looked pristine, except for that strange warping thing in the middle of it. A dungeon. "Guess that's our target."

"Man, you think they'll give some super power at the end of it?"

Kevin shrugged. "I hope so. They better give me something worth my time."

"Think that'll cost you $15 for gas, and $10 for tolls."

"Can you don't remind me that I'm poor as fuck?" Kevin answered.

"You're not. You just like to pretend to be poor. Alright. I got my magic shovel." Sam said, as he stepped through an invisible line. Kevin followed.

[Entering Lowandah Fall Dungeon. Defeat the Frogboss to earn your reward!]

Kevin's shovel appeared in his right arm, and the magic shield on his left, and he was suddenly reminded of the bug on his leg. The cockroach-bomb chittered happily. Kevin intentionally kicked a tree with it, but it phased through it like nothing. It continued chittering. "Stupid bug."

"Alright? Dungeon time?" Sam looked.

"Yeah."