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Cheer all you want for the happy ending, but the sequel is of a somewhat darker timbre. Nerd marries girl, nerd spends all of his after-work time gaming, then, after a few years suffering abject neglect, girl divorces nerd. True story: Everquest widow here. :-(
YCCMA, muddgirl: Awesome! Look for prezzies from me next time you sign on, and apply to the MeCha Bunnies clan!
And the main use for a clan is to have a place to level up, get ingredients for stuff that are hard to drop, etc. Some folks are really into the PvP, but I'm not that much.
The evil misunderstood boss should be the pixe and the quiet, pretty girl should turn out to be a spy for a vulture fund that the boss is raiding the 401k's to prevent breaking up the company and selling it to Bhutanese sweatshops. Then all the game-playing cow-orkers could turn to gold-farming to raise the money for a private buy-out to fight off the (now evil) pretty girl. Power returns to the workes and Father Stalin leads us all! End on La Marseillaise