Quill snapped awake with his entire body either hurting and/or sore, with a couple of floating blue screens in front of his face.

Ailment- Infection (weak)

You have received a quest!

Rat extermination

Dire rats have infested your area of the dungeon. As the sole living human in this station it’s your responsibility to clear them out. Lucky you!

Objective-Exterminate all rats in your current station

Rewards upon completion- 2 healing potions, 1 mana potion, 1 stamina potion, 1 cleansing potion, basic armor and weaponry, 1 new common skill.

“... Can I deny a quest?” He spoke with his voice croaking from how dry it was. Of course silence was yet again the only answer he got so he very slowly sat up with a pained groan. First thing first. Water. He needed water… Actually he needed alcohol but water was the next best thing.

Quill made it to the bathroom and turned on the faucet and began to drink. The water probably tasted like ass given this dungeon was modeled after a metro station but he was so damn thirsty it tasted like a fresh spring water blessed by god. Holy shit did it taste good!

After several minutes of just drinking out of the faucet he shuffled his way back out to the main room and sat down at the table, snatching the bag of trail mix he took from the kiosk he began eating as he went over the quest he was just volunteered for.

So the first thing he could deduce was that he was alone in the station and there was no one else around, at least alive. He only hoped that the guard was the only one here with him when they were sent into this “Tutorial” (Using that word real lightly here). He’d hate to see someone not only have to deal with the rats but also whatever the hell was clawing through the tunnels posing as a train.

The second thing he took away from this was the rewards fucking sucked. If there was more then one giant rat out there when he opened that door then the rewards fucking sucked.

Third and final take away was that the system was an asshole. And not those fun assholes that are for a good laugh, or those assholes you want in your corner when shit is about to hit the fan. No, it was definitely one of those assholes that no one liked but still seem to keep showing up to things despite no one inviting them.

He finished off the trail mix and went back to the bathroom to drink some more water before heading back into the safe room he was in. Now granted, going back out there to fight a bunch of giant rats seemed like a really stupid idea. But he had a gun now and that meant it would be a whole lot easier to kill the bastards then jabbing a tooth into them or power bombing them from atop the stairs.

He picked up the gun, he had never fired one before or knew much about them at all really but hey, perfect time to learn. He also grabbed the bloody rat tooth just to be safe and the taser as well. Hopefully this would be enough to take out several of these bastards and maybe get him another level or two.

He walked to the door, and after unlocking it he cracked it open and peeked outside. The dead guard was still there, only he didn’t have much flesh left on his bones. He also didn’t seem to have many of his bones left either.

Right next to where the little bit of the security guard lay was 3 big fat rats that were snoring somewhat loudly. Oh yeah, this was perfect! Not perfect in the sense that there was indeed more than one of these bastards and thus proved his point that the system was an asshole. But perfect in the sense that now he just needed to stealthily kill the three giant rats and he wouldn’t even waste any ammo.

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He very slowly opened the door and quietly crept out towards the nearest rat that was thankfully the smallest and farthest away from the rest.

So since his only real stabby/cutty tool was the tooth, he didn’t think cutting or ripping at the monster's neck was an option. Or at least not one if he wanted to kill the thing quickly and quietly. So he would need a different but still good option.

Creeping closer to the rat, he studied its body for a second and decided to aim for what he assumed was the base of the skull. He didn’t really know rat anatomy or if dire rats even had the same anatomy as a regular rat so he was making his best guess.

Positioning himself above he clutched the tooth/knife with both hands and with every ounce of strength drove the tooth into the creature's skull as hard as he possibly could. The rat eyes snapped open and it jerked for but a few moments before stilling and Quill got a notification

Killed adolescent dire rat lvl 4. Experience gained

Yay! He removed the tooth with a bit of effort as the thing was lodged into the skull fairly well and went on to the next biggest one. This one seemed a little bigger then the level 5 he killed if he were to hazard a guess so hopefully killing this one would net him enough experience to level up again.

Quill positioned himself above the rat much like the first one and with the tooth plunged it down into the rat's skull but this time he met more resistance and the damn thing not only woke up but let out a pained snarling yelp. Quill then quickly slammed his body weight into the tooth plunging it further into the monsters skull, ignoring the protesting pain in his shoulder as he did so. The monster thrashed for a second longer and then stilled but it didn’t take an expert to hear the loud growling coming from behind him that the third and biggest rat had just woken up and it was pissed.

He quickly yanked out the tooth and pivoted towards the dire rat who was getting up from where it slept and stared at him with murderous rage. Quill just smiled smugly at the thing and raised the gun he was holding towards the rat. “See ya” And pulled the trigger.

Or rather tried to pull the trigger. He couldn’t pull the trigger. Why couldn’t he pull the trigger?!?!

He looked at the rat who looked back at him. Quill then did the sensible thing and bolted with the rat letting out a snarl and charged after him.

He would have headed towards the break room area if he thought he could make it but the rat was absolutely faster then him so he ran towards the kiosk instead. Hoping the rat wasn’t very good at making turns as he ran around the thing with the rat following.

He was only sorta right. The kiosk thankfully prevented the rat from gaining too much speed as it ran around the building trying to chase him but now they were in an awkward stalemate and he would absolutely run out of energy before the rat did.

Why wasn’t his gun firing?? He tried to look it over trying desperately to figure it out while still playing ring around the rosy when he realized the safety switch was on like a fucking dumbass.

Quill quickly flicked the thing off and nearly blew his own head off as the stupid thing discharged.

He growled as his heart nearly jumped out of his chest but he got it working now and so he pointed the gun behind him, opened fire at the dire rat and proceeded to miss.

Quill barely managed to jump to the side to dodge as the Rat barreled for him and fired the gun again… And missed again!

He then proceeded to let his emotions get the better of him and emptied the whole clip at the rat and missed ever single stupid fucking shot! Guns were fucking stupid!

Quill threw the pistol at the rat which managed to hit the thing in the head because of course that was the one time he would land a blow! He couldn’t decide if he was annoyed or happy about that as he brought the tooth and taser at the ready as the rat charged him again.

Thankfully Quill was getting pretty good at stepping to the side as something barreled towards him and he jammed the taser into the rat as it let out a howl of pain and its body locked up.

Taking full advantage of that he let up with the taser and brought the tooth down into the rats eye. His own frustration and anger at missing all those shots made him stab as hard as he could, imagining the tooth going all the way through the rats skull. Suddenly he felt a sudden surge of energy pour out of him and into the tooth.

The moment the tooth made contact with the rat's eye, a massive burst of blood erupted from the other side of the creatures head as its other eye exploded along with part of its skull and the monster instantly collapsed dead.

Quill himself felt drained and he fell promptly on his ass, as his vision spun a bit before settling down with him looking at the very much dead rat with a mix of confusion and awe. There was no way a gun could do that… Yeah, guns were stupid.