Getting out of the shower, a towel around my waist, I grabbed a microwaved hamburger and sat in front of my computer. I had a busy afternoon coming up: some reading to do, a few games of League of Legend to get me screaming at some ten years old, insulting the virtue of their mother, then probably some Heroes of Might and Magic to strategically calm down. After that, maybe I'd order pizza and watch a movie... I had a few administrative things to do, but I'd probably postpone that a bit, taxes could wait a day more, I still had time to pay up and the tax collectors are not everywhere. On hindsight, that's an event flag if I've ever raised one... But first, I noticed I had mail and boy do I hate the notification bubble hovering there on the app!

'Congratulations, you've just won first prize!' Said the mail. Now this bugged me, and I stopped playing with the baseball I had in my hand. It didn't bother me to actually win something, but I wasn't some old man, stupid enough to take the bait of what was obviously some spam, or scam, that had managed to get past my automatic filters... Which brought the idea that, maybe, it wasn't spam... Still, it smelled fishy. But what were the risks, I had a solid antivirus and wasn't dumb enough to click on a link or download something I shouldn't...

Noticed how I keep repeating that I wasn't dumb or stupid? Pure self-praise, that this bloody email was about to shatter. Anyway, I started clicking. On the screen, a dark castle, appeared. It looked like came out of the old Castlevanias, dark and gloomy, and pixelated... so pixelated my eyes screamed a little. All of a sudden, some creepy music started while a joyfully out of place female voice announced: "Congratulations, you are about to enter a whole new world, where demons, ghouls, vampires and other fierce monsters battle valiant knights, magicians, archers and pretty much everything else you'd find in an RPG. Get ready to embark on this..."

"Urgh, nah thank you!" I said as I closed the window. Whatever game this was an ad for, I wasn't interested.

"Hum, sorry to bother you, but I wasn't finished..." resumed the female voice, her tone slightly disappointed as I stared at the computer. I immediately opened the task manager and closed my email app, but still she talked, saying something about a Demon Lord or whatnot. I shut down the computer. "Hum... That's quite rude you know; you're not listening to what I'm saying at all..." finished the voice AFTER I had shut down the computer and unplugged it for good measure.

I cast a quizzical look to the burger's wrapper, wondering if maybe there was some out-of-date ingredient in there, as in really life-threateningly out-of-date... Then the thunder struck, out of nowhere, and everything became white.