West shrugged. He had already come to accept that the security of travelling with Brielle was going to involve the occasional polite conversation. Of course, he would still have preferred if they had walked from place to place in total silence, but he sighed and answered her question anyway.
"It's, uh, pretty much all I do." He admitted with a slight shrug "I guess its all I'm going to be doing for a while." Even though it wasn't really a joke, he laughed "I uh, played a lot of MMOs, I was so hyped for this one. I like the numbers." That was possibly the first time he had mentioned his fascination with the numerical side of video gaming to anyone, even though it was particularly evident from the way he played, he still assumed people would think differently of him for it. The way he crunched numbers in his head, it wasn't normal. He could understand that. He also vaguely understood that in regular society, abnormalities were shunned and so he kept it to himself. Part of him hoped that in this world, things would be different.

"I also wrote stuff." He added, after a slight awkward silence "Nothing much, on forums and things. I write down ideas for how to beat bosses and I challenge myself to take out bosses by myself." Something clicked inside his mind and a small concerned look appeared on his face "I doubt that'll be plausible in this game..." He admitted "To fight a boss by myself I need to see what it does first, and I can't really achieve that without dying first. And, of course, no respawns." As they turned a corner in the path, all of a sudden the walls of a town came into view. From where they stood, the town appeared to be deserted, excluding a couple of obviously NPC guards either side of the entrance. West assumed that he was right, that they were to be the first people to set foot inside the second town, which probably meant they were the highest leveled players in the game so far.

A small smirk played on West's lips but it soon vanished as they got closer to the town walls. All along the walls were what appeared to be small scratch marks, but as they got closer, West began to see that they were words. More importantly they were names. It didn't take a genius to realize what the names were, players who had already fallen in the game. West wasn't surprised that people had died, but the sheer number of names on the wall were astounding. As he stood, gawking at the wall, we wondered which name belonged to the boy in the woods.
"L-let's go." He mumbled, realizing he was staring. He didn't have time to get caught up on people he didn't know. It was his own life that mattered, above all else.