Chapter 80
[Title: Pretty Good, Right?]
(Meme of a recliner tucked into the corner of a cabin)
It looks like a single-person sofa, but I've never seen this product before.
I guess I'm probably the first person to win one?
I was planning to sell it right away, but it really melts away a lifetime of fatigue, so I haven't sold it lol.
I'll use it until it wears out, then sell it lol.
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- If you write a bragging post, pay the bragging tax, fuck...
- Wow, it's better than the furniture in a mansion ㄷㄷ;
- What the hell? The Head Mod has stuff like this, so why isn't he listing it!!!
- Pics?
ㄴ OP) Not selling lol
ㄴ I wish luck would follow me like that just once in my life.
[Featured post: My 70-pull results...jpg]
(Meme of 10 cans of spicy tuna)
If you've seen it, get lost.
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- Damn lol, have an upvote.
- Paying the upvote tax and leaving lololol.
- An exchange rate so miraculous even an alchemist would cry ㄷㄷ;
- You should've cashed out around 30 pulls. How far did you go? lol
ㄴ OP) I didn't even have the presence of mind to stop... fuck.
- You think spicy tuna is a joke? lololol
ㄴ OP) Wanna throw down?
ㄴ Fact) It's a fact.
ㄴ OP) What the fuck is with this guy?
Ever since gacha was added to the marketplace, the rate of new posts had picked up.
Most of them were about gacha, apparently because products that hadn't been listed in the marketplace had been added to the draw pool.
- Why are so many products I've never seen before coming out?
- For real, these are rare items. They're one-of-a-kind products in this world ㄷㄷ
ㄴ The marketplace collectors must be losing their minds.
ㄴ Pull one cheaply, sell it, and turn your life around.
I hadn't set the odds to be impossibly low.
One pull cost 10,000 won by modern standards.
Ten pulls cost a whopping 90,000 won.
Since it cost that much, I divided the items into grades and added intermediate-grade products to the gacha pool as well.
The range was quite broad.
“I could just pick items worth around 30,000 won from the marketplace and put them in the intermediate grade.”
There were red ginseng gift sets, tea-bag sets, and even school chairs.
Even those were being sold at high prices in the Otherworld for various reasons.
Thanks to that, the excitement didn't flare up once and die down. There was an endless supply of kindling.
FullHPElf: Head Mod, how did you even think of something like this?
VampireToTheBitterEnd: Amazing.
VampireToTheBitterEnd: So this is how you make money.
FullHPElf: You're seriously devilish, in the best possible way.
Even the blue mods were full of praise.
There was a reason this method was endlessly milked even in the modern capitalist world.
To medieval people starved for dopamine, gacha was quite literally the devil's temptation.
- Fuck, I can't walk away now. I'm throwing all my money in.
- This is making me so angry. Why am I like this?
- Either the marketplace dies, or I do.
- This fucking sucks. I smashed every bathtub.
ㄴ Why would you smash that, you lunatic?
“Oh, this isn't right.”
The problem was that it really was the devil's temptation.
In just one day—no, half a day—people who had been steeped in addiction began to appear.
At this rate, wouldn't the rift monsters be applauding?
So I immediately uploaded an announcement.
[Notice: Stop!]
(Head Mod emote holding out a hand firmly)
First off, thanks to the Gallery user who made the Head Mod emote lol.
Everyone, stop pulling gacha!
You got addicted way too fast, even by my standards.
So I'm updating it.
Gacha Draw ver. 2
1. You can do up to 10 ten-pulls per day
2. You must have at least 500 coins to attempt a ten-pull
3. A pity system is now available
3-1. An intermediate-grade product will be provided after 50 pulls
4. Misses have been removed
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- I was about to curse you out, but I worship you for points 3 and 4.
- Deleted misses? Fuck, Head Mod, get those lips ready for a kiss!!!
- Damn~ This is the ultimate redemption arc.
- What about the Gallery users who already went all in?
ㄴ Head Mod*) They'll count toward your pity total.
ㄴ Damn, I knew I could trust the Head Mod!!!
The gacha system had been normalized.
As a result, even though the frequency of draws decreased, posts from people recklessly driving themselves into bankruptcy disappeared.
“It's not like I'm struggling for coins.”
I had plenty of sources of income besides gacha.
I had placed reasonable restrictions on it, so naturally, I thought the gacha chatter would gradually die down.
But then a new piece of kindling suddenly appeared...
[Title: Did I hit the jackpot on ten pulls...?]
Author: FullHPElf
(Meme of 10 cans of tuna)
Ha... fucking hell, I say.
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- Lol, straight to cursing, huh?
- A blue mod's heartfelt string of curses? You don't see that every day.
- Lololol, burp.
- A blue mod doing gacha? Holy shit lol
“Why is she doing this?”
The blue mod had become addicted to gacha.
*
The Gallery users threw themselves into the new marketplace system.
And among them, our proud long-eared blue mod was throwing herself in as well.
[Title: My 30-pull results...jpg]
Author: FullHPElf
- Tuna can
- Tuna can
- Spicy tuna can
- Three types of lollipops
.
.
- 500ml bottled water
Huff... huff... huuuuff...
- Lol, are they hyperventilating?
- Hey, breathe! Breathe!
- FullHPElf is the real comedian lol
ㄴ For real, the other elves are uncanny valley.
ㄴ This one crossed the valley and reached the Mountain of Hilarity, so it's just fucking hilarious lololol
ㄴ For real, their whole style is on another level lol
ㄴ The problem is that she's being completely serious.
FullHPElf had become addicted.
I thought she would do it once and stop, but she ultimately made it all the way to nine attempts.
The result was a total wipeout.
- Head Mod*) Hey, calm down.
ㄴ Lol, the Head Mod is stepping in to stop her.
ㄴ As if that's going to get through to her, ah lol
ㄴ The guy who made this is saying “calm down,” holy shit lol
I tried stepping in and leaving a comment, but FullHPElf had already lost her reason.
- FullHPElf: There's nowhere left to retreat, I say.
ㄴ FullHPElf) Let's go! Pull!! Pleeease!!!
She ultimately filled all ten attempts for the day and tried a total of 100 pulls.
[FullHPElf has won an ‘Ice Purifier Refrigerator.’]
In the end, she really did it.
- FullHPElf) Kyaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!
ㄴ FullHPElf) Fuck, this is it!!!
ㄴ FullHPElf) (Meme of an elf twerking)
ㄴ Lololol, this crazy bitch lol
ㄴ Fuck, this is a blue mod? lololol
ㄴ The dignity of a blue mod...
ㄴ Head Mod*) Calm down, fuck.
ㄴ FullHPElf) Who gives a shit? You made this monster! Elhoooooo!!
ㄴ FullHPElf) ))))(((()))))((((
ㄴ Fuck lolololol
It was a legendary scene on par with a World Cup semifinal.
For that moment, everyone set aside their jealousy and applauded out of pure joy.
But that joy was short-lived, and the Gallery naturally began to fill with noise.
- Suspicious thing about this draw.jpg
- Did they go easy on her because she's a blue mod?
- Fuck, is even something like this decided by connections in the end?
- Do you guys really believe that? lol
They were the conspiracy theorists who appeared everywhere.
Their theory was that I had gone easy on FullHPElf and forced her to win at the very end.
And then there was another theory:
- Didn't she already get all sorts of things from the Head Mod?
ㄴ For real, she'll be getting the biggest salary too.
ㄴ Analysis-post intel) The blue mods receive a monthly salary approaching 10,000 coins, plus new products.
ㄴ Fuck;
They were saying that she was already receiving enormous benefits from me, and now she was even taking this opportunity away from them.
- If you have a conscience, spit it back out.
- Those people would be rich already, for real.
- Fire the blue mods and make me one.
ㄴ I volunteer.
ㄴ I volunteer.
ㄴ Same.
The Gallery was thrown into chaos in an instant.
And normally, when there was chaos on this scale, the moderators were at a loss for what to do.
The FullHPElf from the early days certainly would have been, but she had already become numb to tactical nukes and was different now.
[Title: I'm sorry, I say. I'll explain, I say.]
Author: FullHPElf
(Elf emote flipping the bird)
(Meme of an elf twerking)
(Meme of an elf sticking its tongue close to the screen and grinning)
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ᅟᅩᆿㅋㅋㅋ코ㅗᅟᅩᆿㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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- Fuck lolololol
- She's seriously fucking insane lol
- The blue mod here is worse than the popular users lol
- After deleting countless gross-out pics, she finally...
ㄴ (Emote of someone unable to continue speaking)
- Hmm, oh...
ㄴ ?
ㄴ Dude.
It was nothing but consistent dismissal and provocation.
Why? It's not like I got a salary in the first place.
- FullHPElf) I don't get a salary, I say.
She had merely been selected as a slave for free, condemned to wrestle with disgusting pictures every day.
Occasionally, she received canned cola and soju from me—that was the entirety of her miserable blue-mod life.
ㄴ Fuck, who would believe that?
ㄴ Does that make any sense? You work as a slave without getting a single penny?
ㄴ Lol, there's a limit to how much we'll humor you.
ㄴ Who the hell believes that?
Naturally, the Gallery users didn't believe her.
And who could blame them? She deleted all those dwarf hag pictures and naked monster pictures for free?
It was clearly something that was hard to believe.
- FullHPElf) ^^
The problem was that it was true whether they believed it or not.
ㄴ Oh, it really seems true.
ㄴ Is this actually genuine?
ㄴ Wait, she really doesn't get a salary?
People slowly realized that it was true and began to murmur.
And soon, the arrows of that controversy naturally turned toward me, the one who had appointed the blue mods.
- The Head Mod turns out to be an absolutely terrible boss...
- This guy www is working a good slave to the bone www
- (Not human... emote)
- But isn't this actually a reward?
ㄴ (Commissioned art of a beautiful Head Mod)
ㄴ Oh, is that so?
ㄴ Oh, look at him go, fuck.
- Explain yourself!
- Don't you feel sorry for those blue slaves?
- Give them something for cleaning the bathroom!
- Give the unpaid trash-cleaning, elder-caring, gross-image-moderating admins some money!
ㄴ FullHPElf) (Elf emote: Do you wanna die?)
“Hmm.”
But I had been aware of that to some degree myself.
This wasn't an ordinary Gallery. It was a massive Gallery encompassing the entire world, and it had only two blue mods.
There clearly had to be some kind of reward.
“But I can't give them money.”
The moment I started paying them, it would no longer be a Gallery.
For the blue mods as well, it would stop being a hobby and become a job of sorts.
It wasn't for nothing that people ended up regretting turning a hobby into a job.
“But it feels wrong not to give them anything either...”
After thinking it over, I realized there was one answer.
[Title: Blue Mod Salary Controversy Resolved.jpg]
(Ten tickets for ten-pull draws)
I'll give you one of these every month, so let's make a deal lol.
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- Damn~
- This is good enough for me lol
- I thought I'd be jealous if they got money, but this is perfect~
- FullHPElf) ?
ㄴ FullHPElf) Are you kidding me?
ㄴ Lololol, you're the one who chose to be a blue mod.
ㄴ Grit your teeth and endure it.
ㄴ FullHPElf) I didn't choose this. Wanna die?
ㄴ FullHP, FullHP~ From now on, listen to the Head Mod and work hard cleaning the Gallery~
ㄴ FullHPElf) (Elf emote clutching its face and screaming)
ㄴ FullHPElf) What are you doing, VampireToTheBitterEnd? Come protest with me!
Come to think of it, there was one more blue mod.
VampireToTheBitterEnd had offered a strangely muted response to this controversy.
Maybe, as the owner of a castle, they had so many coins that they simply weren't interested?
But that was a mistake.
- Tuna can
- Tuna can
- 500ml bottled water
- 500ml bottled water
- Spicy tuna can
- Three types of lollipops
.
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- 500ml bottled water
VampireToTheBitterEnd: Ah
- Lolololol
- There's a real gambling addict here!
- FullHPElf) Eeeek!
ㄴ Are you back with us?
ㄴ Mirror therapy works perfectly.
VampireToTheBitterEnd was thoroughly lost in gambling.
They had already used up their daily limit, and had even burned through the 100-pull draw I had given them.
Naturally, the results were a total failure.
After squandering everything, ending on a 500ml bottle of water, VampireToTheBitterEnd left a chat message after a brief silence.
- VampireToTheBitterEnd) Head Mod
ㄴ Head Mod*) Yeah?
ㄴ VampireToTheBitterEnd) Want to meet?
ㄴ Gasp
ㄴ Oh no
ㄴ The Gallery was fun. I think I enjoyed it enough, all things considered. Yeah.
ㄴ The Head Mod was a good person too, when I think about it. Yeah.
ㄴ Fuck, don't send me away lol
I think I'd heard that some gambling addicts even went after the developers to hurt them.
“Oh.”
A chill ran down my spine.