By Eddlynn Jennifer Mangaoang
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[Room 218; Maligaya Girls Dormitory, D City] [Saturday: 8:58 PM]
The loudest and longest fart Jay has ever heard occurs amongst the clashing and whooshing sound effects from the role-playing game the residents of Room 218 in Maligaya Girls Dormitory are playing. All at once, Jay reaches for her Hello Kitty uchiwa from her pen holder and fans away from the smelly odor.
“Yah!”
“Ugh!”
“Mari! That’s disgusting!”
The perpetrator only laughs wildly. “’Tamo ‘to. Not like you don’t fart. Your poop smells worse than mine.”
“Bitch, please,” Sonia blows away the nasty smell using her right hand away from her face. “Jay, stop pushing the polluted air towards me.”
“’Luh. Sorry naman,” Jay sets the uchiwa on the table and instead goes for the white electric fan in the corner wall next to the restroom door and drags it to the middle of the room aiming at the big table where they usually eat and hang out when they’re not doing their modules and assignments.
“Right!” exclaimed Dana. “It’s better to turn that on. Anyway, it’s so fucking hot here. What is this? Forty degrees? Forty-one?”
“Celsius?”
“Tanga. Of course, Celsius. What, you thought I meant Fahrenheit? Then we’ve been freezing here since last week.”
Mari rolls her eyes. “Para lang nagjo-joke. No need to be rude. Anyway, grinding is so hard. We’ve been farming this material since one and it’s almost eight hours!”
“It’s not like we got things to do,” Jay expertly dodges the Hangged Mummy’s attack and lets her pet, Fuu-chan, a blue-and-green-colored sparrow-like bird creature, use her blind attack. “Besides, where do we even go in this heat?”
They resume farming for big paper charms by whacking at or throwing in magic attacks at the mobs of Lunagent Mountains Area 2. Creatures here re-spawns quicker than other farming areas, so there are always mobs here. The quest is stackable, so materials farmed here can be exchanged for 2,200 spina and 519,000 experience points for every report the player makes to the NPC in El Scaro. No need to go back to the city to renew the quest plus these are valuable for a guild and personal banks and leveling, especially leveling since their party’s levels are too low for them to successfully complete the current story chapter. The bosses are too hard to defeat and even with the four of them, it takes a lot of revita and revival droplets to keep going during boss battles. If four of them died altogether, they’ll have to go back to the city where they were last in, and that will add more time wasted. It doesn’t help that revival droplets and revita potions need synthesizing which means additional farming for flower nectars and costing thousands of spina.
The telephone in the room rings and Sonia picks it up. “Ey?” She listens to what is being said on the other line. “Oh. Okay. Got it. Thanks.”
“What?”
“Chinese arrives. Let me just get it.”
Jay watches as she put on her slipped-on shoes and onto the hallway. Their dormitory has three floors and a basement parking lot. The first floor is mostly miscellaneous areas- lobby, reception desk, security, cafeteria, laundromat, and a communal bath. The cafeteria offers breakfast and dinner but at the strictest times. For breakfast, it opens at seven and closes at ten a.m., but some classes start at seven or eight and students need at least half an hour to make it in time or the professors will deduct attendance points; well, most of them do. Only those who have later classes enjoy the breakfast offered by their dorm. Dinner is another matter. Most students eat dinner in the cafeteria. It opens from five until eight in the evening and offers a variety of choices, sometimes Chinese or Thai, but mostly Filipino dishes. Almost. Always. Filipino. Dishes. Those who crave for something else will have to suffer from take-outs and orders, sometimes convenience store food.
Sonia is panting as she enters the room. “Damn this building. They don’t have an elevator and we’re on the freaking third floor!”
Mari reaches out for the delivery bag and set about distributing their shares. Jay orders sweet-and-sour chicken and egg chaofan and Mari has a chow mein with stir-fried tofu and broccoli in yakisoba sauce. Sonia and Dana are “dieting,” and only orders two siopao each and twelve pieces of siumai. All of them order ube boba tea.
“Oh, wow,” Mari exclaims. “This is yummy.” She slurps her noodles and shoves a tofu and broccoli right after.
“Slowly. You’re eating like a pig,” Dana pushes Mari’s boba tea to her face. “Your food is not going anywhere.”
Dana laughs and shoves more food in her mouth.
“Ew! Girl, please, close your mouth or you’ll see.”
“See what?”
“My fist. You wanna?” Dana shakes her fisted hands in front of Mari.
Mari only laughs louder, and Jay and Sonia shake their heads at their friends’ antics.
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