"I do qui-" the voice chat cut out and i was logged out of my session.

"Goddamnit. Stupid ISP." I muttered to myself, checking my connection.

I pulled out my phone to check if there was maintenance going on, and thats when i realized. I had no cell service either.

What the hell is going on

Now, in such a situation you will end up panicking. Thats something you have to understand.

I got up, grabbed my keys and immediately left the dorms. Only, the campus was not what I was met with upon exiting the door. Before me was a huge spire. I walked around it and before long I found an entrance, but thats not all I found.

"Holy shit, Jason is that you?" Someone I didnt initially recognize asked me. It took a second, but it soon dawned on me that this was Thomas Sanendorf, one of my childhood friends who moved away in elementary school.

Around him were more people I knew earlier in life. Julie Kevins - an old coworker from a summer job when i was about 15, Mason Redd - my best friend in highschool, Sam Connors - my neighbor before i left for college, and Craig - the mailman in the small town i lived in briefly before going to university, we we're similar in age and often smoked together after his shifts until i moved into the dorms.

"Uh.... what are all of you doing here?" I asked cautiously.

"Yeah... uh... we'd like to know as well... one minute we were walking out our front doors and then we were here." Mason answered.

At that I turn to look behind me and wouldn't you know it, im not outside my dorm. There is nothing around for miles. Just grass and the occasional hill or tree.

"Ah... i uh... i see.. what uh... what is uh..." my gaze returns to the spire. The rest of them must have caught that because they all shrugged to say dont ask me dude. Were all in the same boat.

"Aha! Why hello there players!" A previously unnoticed man in a rather dapper suit spoke up, "Welcome to the monument of souls. You may be wondering, 'What in the actual hell is going on here suit dude?', and the answer is yes! Well... sort of... you will make it there eventually, but do keep in mind its not exactly how you might picture it! Anyways, allow me to introduce myself," the man took a stap forward before he resumed.

"I am Tora, the agent in charge of guiding you players along on floor one. You see, the world has many hidden... layers... you may think that all of existence lies within this realm you call 'The Universe' - quite a rubbish name might I add - but that couldnt he further from the truth. This world, like many you may be familiar with in fiction is part of a vast network of those like it - and not so like it. This is the monument of souls - as is the structure you see before you. Its a support beam, think of it like a quest marker in a game. You come here to be given your objective."