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Many of the love tales I have received so far, have been from people who have met in World of Warcraft. When it comes to romance, WoW obviously can’t be beaten!
This weekend though, I found a story in my mailbox from a woman who ran into someone in a game called La Tale.

“I’d never been much of a people person, so I did not really have any local friends. I played a lot of online games though. The friends I lacked in reality, I made there. Some I even considered true friends.

After having played FFXI, Maple Story and Luna Online, I found a game called La Tale. I had heard of the game before when it first came out, but was unable to play it due to having a crappy PC. As soon as I was able to try it, I jumped right to that game. I played it for about half a year, made some friends rather quickly and… met someone special as well.

On various occasions it seemed I had to run into him. No matter where I was in the game, he was there too. Like me, he was not much of a talker. On a random day I was in the Crystal Mines, an area in the game I went to to make money without doing quests. And there he was, with a guildie of his. I stopped what I was doing and said “hi”. Then his companion started talking to me and asking me questions like what did I think of him and such. I ended up lol-ing shyly, not knowing what to say. After that we continued running into each other as usual. We ended up talking and became riends.

Fan art image of Pyris and Esper Shot

After some time had passed, I realized I had started to like him very much. I told him I wanted to surprise him with something, but unfortunately he had the in-game couple request blocked – which would have been my way of letting him know how I felt.

A few months later I confessed my feelings to him and asked how he would feel about us getting to know each other a bit more. In the weeks that followed, we spent hours talking non-stop, sent each other cute little e-mails and exchanged phone numbers.

We have been in a long distance relationship – he lives in California, I in Arizona – for almost a year now. Neither one of us is playing La Tale any more. At first I was worried that after quitting the game we might become distant, but nope: things are still as awesome as they were in the beginning.”

Thank you for sharing your story with us, Pyris!

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