It's a game, even if your life depends on it. These things are there for you to enjoy right? How long until they show up to take the headset away and lock me in? It might be egotistic to think they'd watch the clock ready to strike, to catch a nobody in the Container Park.

The Old Fox might do that though. What the hell is wrong with that guy? From the first moment, he behaved like he was better than anyone else. The Big Boss, Annie's dad sent him to guard his daughter, but he treated me like trash before hearing the details.

If he knows that I pissed her off for no reason, he might camp outside the big red even before the time is up. It was so stupid, she still deserves an apology even if they lock me up. But Baldie can go fuck himself too.

It was such a big lie that he helped, he did jack shit. The Aspirant said she didn't see the Kid, or that we bumped into each other by accident; that saved my life. The Inspector only set me up in this stupid program because he didn't reach his quota.

He didn't explain anything, only yelled when I fucked it up.

Do the mission like your life depends on it, huh? And what else, oh, I made it hard for no reason. How about you tell people what you want from them? Say that the ten credits were for the stupid Premium subscription, not spending money.

It doesn't help anyone that you say, you done it in six hours if you don't tell me how. It's bullshit anyway, there is no way that crafting would be that fast. What if he teamed up with all the other cops running this program, and cleared the dungeon?

Oh, right. The dungeon, huh?

There used to be a Plan Z, that was so stupid and risky, that I never considered it for real. The funny part is that while Wroddit is of the opposite opinion it could even win the quest. Well, there's no reason to worry about losing everything at this point, is there?

The salvaged PC is on its last legs, but it's better not to put the headset on again before the plan is ready. Going out in a blaze of glory and wasting the last few hours doesn't have to mean the same. I can still show that Mustached Moron what Arnim the Numbered is capable of.

There is no reason not to take on the stupid-high danger anymore. I can't lose more than what's already lost. I thought about it before, though calling it a plan is a stretch, even if this is the only thing remaining.

Until then, the more the avatar can rest while I'm logged off the better.

There is one more energy drink for me, which might mess up this head even more, but I can deal with it. The game offers some stamina potions too. Except if you overdose them, then apart from the tiredness, you'll even throw up all over the place.

There is that Cursed Dungeon, and by pure chance, the character found the entrance earlier. It's the most challenging area anywhere near the starting village. It's designed with small groups of low-level players in mind, to teach them what the tutorial can't show.

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Wroddit has a few challenges issued about it, so many articles deal with the strategies. One of them is even written by DragonS. The longer you browse the forums, the more his name will appear and I teamed up with him without knowing.

[Fresh Start Cursed Dungeon Solo Challenge]

This thread is about how to tackle that place with a character below level ten, alone. He must love writing, because all his topics and comments are long and bloated, even if his style is all right. It still makes more sense to scroll to the comments first and look for a tl;dr version.

[How do you clear the starter dungeon with a fresh alt, alone? The short answer is, you can't. The long answer is five pages of why it's impossible. Kudos for trying though, the dude wrote the best guides since beta. But please put up a disclaimer next time that you can't.]

Here we go, it's off to a rough start, yet I'm still curious, even if it's impossible. He's not a God, so only because he couldn't do it, someone else might. What does he even know? The first paragraph has some new info about him.

[Hey, you guys might know me from the game as DragonSlayer. Since I was the first to solo the Starter Dungeon, it was clear someone would address this new challenge to me. It was back in the open beta, and I knew already, that it was impossible, but here goes nothing.]

Huh? He did put a disclaimer there after all.

[Many followed since, and until recently there was one thing common in all the challengers. They were high-level multiclass characters, with over a thousand hours in the game. This changed after they released the new type of potions, and a pure Warrior build could solo it too.]

Wait, didn't he say it was impossible? Oh, these were high-level avatars, okay. So this challenge is for noobs like me. Well, not noob players, only fresh characters. The dude has a thousand hours in this shit already, he's anything, but a beginner.

Skimming through his wall of text is a challenge in itself though.

[The original contest was to run it with a fresh alt, no gear or anything, and you can't even pass the guards like this. I tried with the Training Ground gear, but if you get Golems with their 8 Res, all your stuff will break before you make a dent. So I bought the best possible weapons.]

Oh boy, the 'throw money at the problem' approach. How many attempts did he make? After a little scrolling, it looks like he tried ten times with expensive gear. He got the highest stats a character below the tenth level can wear. It must have been a costly experiment.

[On the 7th attempt I got lucky with the spawns and reached the class selection before the Boss Room. This gave me the idea to bring higher-level equipment and use skills, but this approach has two issues. First is the weight, the second is time. You can't log off in a dungeon.]

I skip through every second paragraph and then read only the even sentences. To summarise, once your gear exceeds forty kilos, the player is a sitting duck, so it's a no-go. The training takes days, or even weeks, which is unrealistic to stay alive in there, plus you can't log off.

But wait a second. It doesn't matter. The goal is not to clear the dungeon, it's to reach the tenth level, and by the looks of it, he did it. On two separate occasions, no less. This could work, I can't believe it. So how much did that low-level gear cost?

[This of course won't work as a free user, because of the lack of slots and auto-combat, nor as a beginner. The gear was well over two thousand golds for each attempt at Taji Market price, not counting the potions. This allowed me to reach the Boss Room five times.]

And that's it, he never survived that, but it doesn't matter. He reached the tenth level during two attempts. That price tag though... How many budget cuts can you make if you only care about the leveling, and not to make it out of there alive?

As weird as it sounds, this could be a suicide into victory.