Juan swallowed nervously as he offered Elea his arm like a gentleman, if a bit awkward and stiff. It was one thing to get an eyeful of her curves, and quite another entirely to feel their softness pressing warmly against his arm!<br/><br/>"Y-yeah, let's head back to town and hand in the quest!" He managed to stammer out. As they made their way back to civilization, he started to relax, enjoying walking with a beauty on his arm.<br/><br/>The sun was dipping below the horizon by the time they reached town, and the streets were lit by the homely glow of<em>everburning torches</em>. Not that it was any less lively - even more players were logging in during their free hours in the evening. A small crowd was gathered as usual around the quest board, a literal large board in the middle of the town square which hosted all the bills, flyers, notices and posters for quests on offer.<br/><br/>"Where did I put it... ah, here," Juan fished out a stub from his inventory and returned it to the goblin quest poster he had evidently originally torn it from. It disappeared with a flash... then both adventurers felt power surging through them as their experience bars shot up, up, and up... to level 2! Rays of light shone down upon them like spotlights from the skies, and a heavenly choir of angels trumpeted their congratulations with golden horns. Then as quickly as it had begun, the level up animation ended, the lights and angels faded away and everything was back to normal once more.<br/><br/>A bunch of congratulatory - and some lewder - messages poured in from the other players around. Juan rubbed his head, unused to the attention. Luckily that too soon faded away as people turned back to what they were doing before. "So, uh, should we go shopping for clothes? Or get your staff identified first?"