Quick Info
Word Count: ???
Status: Work In Progress (since 2025)
Age Rating: 12+
Genres: Game, Slice of Life
Reader’s Discretion Advised.
This titles comes with a variety of people with different backgrounds, personalities and reasons to play one specific game. Not all of them are always good people, or their moral code don’t line up with yours.
Summary
BRB 4 Raid, also known as [Before], is a guild on the Ilmatar server on the Yggdrasil data centre in the game The Tales of Velkrinni, a niche mmorpg that somehow manages to get by with dedicated fans and a community that loves their stupid fantasy game launches over seventeen years ago.
This is a collection of stories and vignettes in chronological order following a member of the guild or deeply entwined with their guild culture in every chapter. They are technically all standalone, and we only follow them while they’re either online in game or otherwise engaging with the guild in the vicinity of the game of Velkrinni. It contains everything one can expect from a guild that spend too much time online in the forms of fantastical animals in a Nordic mythos based setting: drama, rivalry, friendship, love triangles, a retired guild leader who treats everyone else as kids, a chaotic healer with a stupid build, a player who still doesn’t know how to play after several years, a player who acts like the local underpaid craftsman, that one player everyone listens to and stands above the guild leader for seemingly no reason… And, of course, raids.