Deadsilence examines her character sheet: dark elf, rogue. Skills were blank. She was at Lv. 1, and she waited; her wife was taking her sweet time in the character creation screen. While she waited, she summoned a dagger and tossed it up and down, catching it with practiced ease.

  Skill Discovered: Knife Play Lv. 1

  EXP granted for skill discovery: 25 EXP added.

  Congratulations: You’ve reached Level 2

  She laughed; if her wife kept making her wait, she’d never catch up on the level disparity if it’s this easy to gain experience.

  She assigned her stat points. She was in this world to support her son and to have fun, not to train, no need to Get Good when you’re already Good.

  Finally, her wife logged in.

  HelzBom: a cute dwarf with sideburns, a petite goatee, and sturdy leather robes, her class displayed as Cleric/Crafter.

  “You know multiclassing might not be efficient, your heals will suffer,” Deadsilence pointed out.

  “Oh, I’m sorry, I thought I married a rogue type who’d like smoke bombs, not a wall-of-meat tank who needs healing like a fish needs water,” HelzBom said.

  “Oooh, you can make smoke bombs?” asked Deadsilence.

  She nodded, “I think so, not ’til we are in town though and I can get some supplies, ’til then…”

  She summoned a big hammer.

  “I’ve got a big hammer,” HelzBom said with a grin.

  They walked through the forest to the town, each leveling in different ways: HelzBom healed a deer and got to Lv. 3; Deadsilence got challenged to a duel by a pack of squirrels. They gathered; they stealthed on a raccoon and found a quest item, a shiny thing, that got returned to an armadillo who wore it as a hat but then lost it again when it rolled into a ball. By the time they left the forest, they had a dozen skills and were near Level 10.

  They saw a cat girl and a bunny girl setting up a picnic table with drinks and food. The shop’s door was open but had a Closed sign on it.

  They then saw their son Aiden or in-game Skidmark, climbing the wall to reach the roof; he obviously had done it a lot because the nearby tree's bark was worn off from where he used it to reach each step with practiced ease.

  They went to the cat and bunny, who seemed inseparable. “You two must be Skidmark’s in-game moms,” Deadsilence joked, introducing themselves to the couple.

  The bunny woman whose player tag said ExpertBunny nodded, “You must be his Prime world moms. It’s a pleasure to finally meet you two.”

  The player Noobkitty nodded, “He’s on his fortieth or so try, so he’ll be down in just a minute.”

  They watched him back from the ledge, then give it a run and jump. He turned midair, bounced off the wall, yelled “Parkour!”, adjusted his hips as he fell and… landed perfectly.

  Announcement: The skill [Parkour!] has been added to the world.

  To acquire the skill, jump off a two-story building or higher and land without receiving damage.

  Beaming with pride at creating a new skill in the world, Skidmark ran to his moms. “I did it, and you got to see me do it.”

  He hugged them; both HelzBom and Deadsilence hugged him back.

  Deadsilence looked up at the roof of the building. “I’ve got to try that. Bet you I can get the skill in five tries.”

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  “If you can’t, you have to eat Noobkitty’s Musical Cake,” Skidmark said excitedly.

  “If I can, you have to meditate for ten minutes,” his taller mom retorted.

  He considered and agreed; he planned to cheat and distract her anyways.

  They started climbing the building.

  “We do have a ladder,” ExpertBunny suggested, but it went unnoticed.

  HelzBom shook her head and looked to Noobkitty. “So you’re the reason Aiden gets vegan food both in-game and in real life.”

  Noobkitty nodded, “No perpetually murdered pig meat in my story.”

  HelzBom nodded, “He says your veggie burger is better than mine.”

  Noobkitty winced, “That’s a bit unfair; the world AI kinda cheated with that particular recipe. It was potentially ExpertBunny’s and my last meal, so it made it special.”

  “Can I try one?” the shorter mom asked.

  Noobkitty brought her out a tempeh bacon, cashew cheese veggie burger with spicy peanut sauce.

  Apocalypse Burger Lv. 100

  The world didn’t end, so now it’s just a tasty burger.

  "No stat buffs on a lv100 food item," asked HelzBom who looked to Noobkitty, she shrugged.

  "Like it says, the world didn’t end, so no buffs from an Apocalypse Burger. My other recipes give buffs, but the world did nerf my skill levels. Not complaining though, I have a lifetime to skill grind."

  "You know, Aiden wouldn’t mind if you started skill grinding at night again. He slept very soundly to the feed of it."

  ExpertBunny grabbed the cat girl close and smirked. "Give us a few more weeks of long nights together, then maybe I could let her start night streaming again, on weekdays."

  "Don’t I get a vote on this?"

  ExpertBunny laughed. "You know better than to want to put it up for a vote."

  "Definitely north," a woman approaching the picnic tables said.

  Her silver-armored knight nodded. "It’ll be more difficult, but customization options are interesting for mountain and hilly terrain."

  "And we will be closer to God," the cleric said.

  The knight stared at her.

  "I know, not really, but I can still imagine it, and the town will be beautiful on the mountainside."

  They sat examining the map and making a travel plan.

  "What do you plan on naming your town?" HelzBom asked curiously, looking at the small world map.

  There was a scream of "Parkour!" as Deadsilence jumped off the building. She prepared herself for landing when something confusing, a gold-wrapped coin, hit her. She became confused and crashed onto the ground, face-planting for critical fall damage.

  SisterQuery from the table cast Heal on the rogue, restoring her hit points.

  "We were thinking something like Havenrise," SisterQuery said, looking to her party for their opinion.

  Noobkitty, with a mischievous look, said, "I recommend the name Sourdough for your new village. Because it will rise, and then the first two towns of Coro?en will be Sourdough Starter."

  HelzBom stifled a laugh.

  "We are not naming our town Sourdough," SisterQuery protested.

  Grimmblade said nothing, already seeing where this was leading.

  "Let’s see what people like better," ExpertBunny said.

  Eyes wide, SisterQuery panicked, but too late.

  Announcement:

  Admin ExpertBunny has activated a live poll. You have one minute to vote on the name of Coro?en’s second village!

  A) Havenrise

  B) Sourdough

  HelzBom made her vote. Sitting up and collecting herself from the fall, Deadsilence made her vote. Across Coro?en, about nine hundred votes were cast. Players were scattered about, exploring the new map and aiding in the creation of its lore.

  Voting complete.

  A) 32% Havenrise

  B) 56% Sourdough

  C) 12% GYOATunheim

  Noobkitty laughed. "Wait, can I redo my vote? GYOATunheim is pretty good."

  SisterQuery, annoyed: "Seriously? We have to name our town after a bread pun?"

  Grimmblade pulled up their town building interface and saw the name Sourdough was indeed already locked in.

  There was the sound of running on the roof as Deadsilence approached the edge of the roof to jump. Quickly, Skidmark released a loud fart, distracting his mom, who misstepped and fell straight to the ground.

  SisterQuery healed her again.

  Deadsilence stood and yelled to her wife, "Your son’s a cheater!"

  "Our son, dear. You don’t get to disown him because he’s using distraction tactics."

  She started the process of climbing back to the roof.

  HelzBom looked at Grimmblade’s map.

  "This world seems small; we could probably explore it in two weeks," HelzBom considered.

  The yell of "Parkour!" came from Deadsilence, and Skidmark yelled, "Mother Fluff!"

  It was enough distraction to cause her to lose her footing and land badly, taking damage, but at least not crashing this time.

  Noobkitty’s party laughed.

  "It looks small, but it takes longer than people think. The world keeps changing," Noobkitty said, offering the dwarf a smoothie. "How many times did you find the armadillo’s hat?"

  "Four times. What’s with that armadillo?" HelzBom asked.

  Noobkitty shrugged. "He just likes his hat. So how long did it take you to walk from the starting point to town?"

  HelzBom considered. "About two hours. We kept getting distracted."

  "Distance, it’s a ten-minute walk. That’s Coro?en now, small quests, distractions. A ten-minute walk takes two hours if you let it and don’t choose to rush," Noobkitty said plainly.

  "That actually could be fun." She looked up, seeing her wife about to jump. She timed herself and yelled, "Hey honey? How about we play this world for a while?"

  "What?" Deadsilence asked, then realized her mistake and got distracted again. She landed oddly and received damage, her ankle hurting for a few seconds.

  "What, my moms are going to explore Coro?en? That’s awesome," Skidmark yelled down.

  "Yeah, we could see the world you saved," HelzBom said.

  Deadsilence rubbed her ankle. "I don’t know if we should explore the world of a cheater!"

  "I promise I won’t cheat this time," Skidmark yelled down.

  She climbed back up.

  This was the time. She’d do it. Her son wasn’t a liar, a trickster, but not a liar, so she had focus, she had speed. She looked, and her son was lined up to run with her. Silently, they gave three beats of time and then ran to the edge of the roof with a shared scream of "Parkour!"