It happened almost in an instant, no if one was to be clear several things happened all at once...
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It happened almost in an instant, no if one was to be clear several things happened all at once.
For the briefest of moments a cold chill ran thru the collective spines of every player, a long with it was a strange dizzy feeling the king one gets when standing up to quickly and finally was the sensation if feeling the sun on their skin and the gentle breeze of the wind.
Two years ago, the fist two massive multiplayer role playing games of their kind were released, Sword art Online allowed its users to enter the game without the risk of walking into a wall.
It did this with the use of something called Nerve Gear technology, tho most people didn't know the details it comedown to this, the helmets people used to enter the game, somehow intercepted the signals in a person's brain.
This meant that a person could move all they wanted inside the game, while their own bodies stayed completely still in the real world.
The two games were made by the same company and everyone calked it what it was, a greedy company trying to make money.
Which it was, but each game gave certain perks for example Sword art Online allowed its users to learn magical harnessing, this allowed people to make guns- grenades and anything they wanted while being able to use magic.
The thing was that not everyone could do it, some people could choose to play entirely without magic and use more common things, at least until they could build whatever they wanted, that is if they didn't buy it from someone else.
Sword art Online, was a world that was losing its magic and its people were preparing to live their lives without it.
Alpfheim Online however was a game where magic was in its abundance and everyone learned to use it from the get go.
However there were two distinct differences that further separated the two games Sword art Online had only Human Players, everything else was either a monster or a None Playable Character.
Their forms vary but regardless, if something wasn't Human its life didn't matter.
Afheim however was a world completely dedicated to Faeries, every playable character was one type of a fairy or another, the lives of everything else didnt matter.
There was a rumor going around even before the two games were released, that the company had done this on purpose.
The story went that when a player reached a certain level or floor, they could enter theother game, essentially jump thru worlds.
Still none of that was here nor there, as every player suddenly felt a cold chill run tru their very beings, they looked at their hands and noticed that their bodies had changed.
Children now looked their own ages, their avatar forms now lost, yet their armor remained and those that were playing as a nother gender soon found they now resembled themselves in real life.
Then every single player found themselves teleported to the town of beginnings. Almost instantly the entire sky turned red and blood rained yet it never touched the ground.
No, instead something far worse happened a hooded figure materialized from all of the blood drops and announced that if they ever wanted to log out, they had to reach the last floor or else be trapped in the game forever.
That had been to years ago, now life seemed to throw them a nother curve ball, as repots from the town of beginnings announced that several people that had died had just comeback.
When everything started those who were in denial or simply gave into despair, either killed themselves or started killing other people.
That was the thing death was permanent no one could re spawn, yet they now had come back to life.
However something happened almost instantly, a lot of them started attacking the near by people, killing several spectators.
The people respond, but they realized something horrible, as good and as detailed the game was, it failed to do several things and now people were finding it suddenly could.
What they realized was that ordinary Human needs and sensations were now real and that meant they now felt the pain of everything.
For the briefest of moments a cold chill ran thru the collective spines of every player, a long with it was a strange dizzy feeling the king one gets when standing up to quickly and finally was the sensation if feeling the sun on their skin and the gentle breeze of the wind.
Two years ago, the fist two massive multiplayer role playing games of their kind were released, Sword art Online allowed its users to enter the game without the risk of walking into a wall.
It did this with the use of something called Nerve Gear technology, tho most people didn't know the details it comedown to this, the helmets people used to enter the game, somehow intercepted the signals in a person's brain.
This meant that a person could move all they wanted inside the game, while their own bodies stayed completely still in the real world.
The two games were made by the same company and everyone calked it what it was, a greedy company trying to make money.
Which it was, but each game gave certain perks for example Sword art Online allowed its users to learn magical harnessing, this allowed people to make guns- grenades and anything they wanted while being able to use magic.
The thing was that not everyone could do it, some people could choose to play entirely without magic and use more common things, at least until they could build whatever they wanted, that is if they didn't buy it from someone else.
Sword art Online, was a world that was losing its magic and its people were preparing to live their lives without it.
Alpfheim Online however was a game where magic was in its abundance and everyone learned to use it from the get go.
However there were two distinct differences that further separated the two games Sword art Online had only Human Players, everything else was either a monster or a None Playable Character.
Their forms vary but regardless, if something wasn't Human its life didn't matter.
Afheim however was a world completely dedicated to Faeries, every playable character was one type of a fairy or another, the lives of everything else didnt matter.
There was a rumor going around even before the two games were released, that the company had done this on purpose.
The story went that when a player reached a certain level or floor, they could enter theother game, essentially jump thru worlds.
Still none of that was here nor there, as every player suddenly felt a cold chill run tru their very beings, they looked at their hands and noticed that their bodies had changed.
Children now looked their own ages, their avatar forms now lost, yet their armor remained and those that were playing as a nother gender soon found they now resembled themselves in real life.
Then every single player found themselves teleported to the town of beginnings. Almost instantly the entire sky turned red and blood rained yet it never touched the ground.
No, instead something far worse happened a hooded figure materialized from all of the blood drops and announced that if they ever wanted to log out, they had to reach the last floor or else be trapped in the game forever.
That had been to years ago, now life seemed to throw them a nother curve ball, as repots from the town of beginnings announced that several people that had died had just comeback.
When everything started those who were in denial or simply gave into despair, either killed themselves or started killing other people.
That was the thing death was permanent no one could re spawn, yet they now had come back to life.
However something happened almost instantly, a lot of them started attacking the near by people, killing several spectators.
The people respond, but they realized something horrible, as good and as detailed the game was, it failed to do several things and now people were finding it suddenly could.
What they realized was that ordinary Human needs and sensations were now real and that meant they now felt the pain of everything.
blueayes
If you want peace, then you must prepare for war.
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- austin
It was but an instant he blinked and he soon found himself in the town of beginnings once again, next to him was what he could assume were every player that had been present when the hole mess started.
Almost as if it had been a replay of the events that had occurred two years ago the sky turned red, however this time there was no blood falling from the sky.
No instead it was an un worldly how, the ceiling that everyone had become so use to seeing began to vanish until it was completely gone. Replaced by a blue sky, the only hint that there was a way to go up, was the notice in his help screen showing where the floor guardian was.
Again he felt the cold sensation pass and his body felt as the a feeling similar to that of when his foot fell asleep, had been spread all over.
Then just like that it was gone, a near by window showed the truth of what had occurred.
Unlike the first time when people's faces- physical limitations - body shapes and genders had been shown, the second time had mixed both their game avatars strengths and weaknesses with their original bodies, their true bodies.
Immediately after he felt as if a drill had been forced thru his head and in an instant, hishelp screen showed all of his information.
Age- weight- hight- wat kind of armor he used, along side the potions and weapons he carried.
However, there were things that shouldn't be there, for example his skill in usingcomputers, an everyday thing in the real world was now listed as a type of skill, the proof was the fact he could ride a bike, was now listed as a skill.
Then there was the other thing, the areas map seemed to grow for miles, so much so that aperson could keep going and not reach the edge for years.
The sound of murmurs cought his attention and it wasn't until a man, thru an N. P. C onto a wall, that he knew, this was no longer a game.
There was blood on the wall and a nearby woman, thru herself at the fallen man begging the player not to hurt him.
He could see people moving their fingers in the air and calling out to their teammates or guilds.
Teams were different from guilds, the people in them, stayed together simply because they wanted to or didn't want to be alone.
Guilds on the other hand, there was aresponsibility for each other there, they were both the same thing, but while the guilds had banners and stuff to mark them with, teams didn't.
Instantly the people began to divide amongstthemselves, it was at that moment that the few loners, instinctively looked for people they knew.
Leaving only the desperate and confused to stand not knowing what to do.
Instincts kicked in and the teams and guilds began to force order in the town, forcing theresurrected people to calm down or be so hurt that they wouldn't even try hurting anyone.
Floors one thru seven are known as safeareas, children and people that couldn't handle it stayedbehind and made their lives on these floors, in the fields- forest and towns.
That was why they were protected, it didn't matterwho it was, but if anyone attached anyone in these floors, there was a wordless agreement amongst the Adventures , to put those people or monstersdown.
Sure some tried to fight back in their mixture of confusion and desperation, but now everyone that hadn't killed or died in the first few months, was a hole lot stronger then they were.
He looked up into the sky one last time andsomehow knew that this was truly somethingelse, he could taste the air, feel the wind and sense the warm blood on his that a man bleed on his hands, as a higher level playerforced him to calm down.
Almost as if it had been a replay of the events that had occurred two years ago the sky turned red, however this time there was no blood falling from the sky.
No instead it was an un worldly how, the ceiling that everyone had become so use to seeing began to vanish until it was completely gone. Replaced by a blue sky, the only hint that there was a way to go up, was the notice in his help screen showing where the floor guardian was.
Again he felt the cold sensation pass and his body felt as the a feeling similar to that of when his foot fell asleep, had been spread all over.
Then just like that it was gone, a near by window showed the truth of what had occurred.
Unlike the first time when people's faces- physical limitations - body shapes and genders had been shown, the second time had mixed both their game avatars strengths and weaknesses with their original bodies, their true bodies.
Immediately after he felt as if a drill had been forced thru his head and in an instant, hishelp screen showed all of his information.
Age- weight- hight- wat kind of armor he used, along side the potions and weapons he carried.
However, there were things that shouldn't be there, for example his skill in usingcomputers, an everyday thing in the real world was now listed as a type of skill, the proof was the fact he could ride a bike, was now listed as a skill.
Then there was the other thing, the areas map seemed to grow for miles, so much so that aperson could keep going and not reach the edge for years.
The sound of murmurs cought his attention and it wasn't until a man, thru an N. P. C onto a wall, that he knew, this was no longer a game.
There was blood on the wall and a nearby woman, thru herself at the fallen man begging the player not to hurt him.
He could see people moving their fingers in the air and calling out to their teammates or guilds.
Teams were different from guilds, the people in them, stayed together simply because they wanted to or didn't want to be alone.
Guilds on the other hand, there was aresponsibility for each other there, they were both the same thing, but while the guilds had banners and stuff to mark them with, teams didn't.
Instantly the people began to divide amongstthemselves, it was at that moment that the few loners, instinctively looked for people they knew.
Leaving only the desperate and confused to stand not knowing what to do.
Instincts kicked in and the teams and guilds began to force order in the town, forcing theresurrected people to calm down or be so hurt that they wouldn't even try hurting anyone.
Floors one thru seven are known as safeareas, children and people that couldn't handle it stayedbehind and made their lives on these floors, in the fields- forest and towns.
That was why they were protected, it didn't matterwho it was, but if anyone attached anyone in these floors, there was a wordless agreement amongst the Adventures , to put those people or monstersdown.
Sure some tried to fight back in their mixture of confusion and desperation, but now everyone that hadn't killed or died in the first few months, was a hole lot stronger then they were.
He looked up into the sky one last time andsomehow knew that this was truly somethingelse, he could taste the air, feel the wind and sense the warm blood on his that a man bleed on his hands, as a higher level playerforced him to calm down.
blueayes
If you want peace, then you must prepare for war.
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- austin
Roundingup the trouble makers was the easy part, the problem was keeping them from acting like idiots again.
The entire open area was filled with mad screams of desperate people or children that simply wanted to go home to their families.
An alert cought his attention it seemed that the group chat still worked, however a recording could be sent and spread out by anyone really.
"This is Michael leader of the guild the Black Hammer. The information I'm going to give you is incredibly delicate so you might want to sit down.........
The American, Uropean players have sent what little information they have and it's bad and good for everyone."
"According to the American players they sent out scouts to every floor they cleared and thankfully they were able to pass without an issue.
The same goes for the people in Europe, nither one of them thought it was a good idea to push their luck on the floors they hadn't beaten yet."
"From what they have uncovered is that we are no longer subjectsubjected to permemantly die, but we will come back after three seconds or a full.minut should we repeatedly die."
"The last peace of information was them requesting we inform them of what we might uncover, according to them the fields have changed and with them, roads that didn'texist are now present some lead to nearby villigas.
That is all they know................ For guild leader's and Solo players eyes only.
The way both of these people were able to a aquier this information was by repeatedly killing any player that got out of hand. The children obeyed almost emidiatly but......... I don't need to explain it
The entire open area was filled with mad screams of desperate people or children that simply wanted to go home to their families.
An alert cought his attention it seemed that the group chat still worked, however a recording could be sent and spread out by anyone really.
"This is Michael leader of the guild the Black Hammer. The information I'm going to give you is incredibly delicate so you might want to sit down.........
The American, Uropean players have sent what little information they have and it's bad and good for everyone."
"According to the American players they sent out scouts to every floor they cleared and thankfully they were able to pass without an issue.
The same goes for the people in Europe, nither one of them thought it was a good idea to push their luck on the floors they hadn't beaten yet."
"From what they have uncovered is that we are no longer subjectsubjected to permemantly die, but we will come back after three seconds or a full.minut should we repeatedly die."
"The last peace of information was them requesting we inform them of what we might uncover, according to them the fields have changed and with them, roads that didn'texist are now present some lead to nearby villigas.
That is all they know................ For guild leader's and Solo players eyes only.
The way both of these people were able to a aquier this information was by repeatedly killing any player that got out of hand. The children obeyed almost emidiatly but......... I don't need to explain it
blueayes
If you want peace, then you must prepare for war.
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- austin
Oh sorry with everithing happening so quickly I haven't reintroduced myself.
My name is Dante or at least my avatars name is, my real name is Jose. I'm thirty years old and Im part of the team known as the Soul Takers.
I bought the game online from someone who had bought a copy and sold it to me, considering I was the highest bitter, so why did I buy it simple.
I was a factory worker back on earth, no in the real world, I think. Every day get up - eat- go to work and if I wanted my weekends free I had to have a reason for not going to work.
I hated it, it wasn't a bad life I knew wat was expected of me, but it felt so empty. I only played videogames on the PlayStation and on my cellphone, but I needed something to get me away from all of the constant complaining of how we aren't producing enough.
Even tho we were all doing the jobs of two different people each.
The soul stealing routine that only changed because, someone misses a day and they needed a replacement.
So when I heard the game allowed you to feel as if you were in a nother world, I spent a lot of money I barely had.
To be perfectly honest with you, I'm one of the ones that wishes this wasn't a game. Everyday it feels like we have a purpose, to live and enjoy life, something completely different from what I left behind.
My name is Dante or at least my avatars name is, my real name is Jose. I'm thirty years old and Im part of the team known as the Soul Takers.
I bought the game online from someone who had bought a copy and sold it to me, considering I was the highest bitter, so why did I buy it simple.
I was a factory worker back on earth, no in the real world, I think. Every day get up - eat- go to work and if I wanted my weekends free I had to have a reason for not going to work.
I hated it, it wasn't a bad life I knew wat was expected of me, but it felt so empty. I only played videogames on the PlayStation and on my cellphone, but I needed something to get me away from all of the constant complaining of how we aren't producing enough.
Even tho we were all doing the jobs of two different people each.
The soul stealing routine that only changed because, someone misses a day and they needed a replacement.
So when I heard the game allowed you to feel as if you were in a nother world, I spent a lot of money I barely had.
To be perfectly honest with you, I'm one of the ones that wishes this wasn't a game. Everyday it feels like we have a purpose, to live and enjoy life, something completely different from what I left behind.
blueayes
If you want peace, then you must prepare for war.
- Location
- austin
Still nothing changed the reality of the situation, this word was a virtual game and nothing more, our true selves were somewhere else and we could die at any moment. Be it because we died in the game or if someone removed the helmets we wore in the real world.
You might think that being trapped in a place like this was maddening and for the first two months people, straight up killed themselves.
But humans are stronger then they give themselves credit, those that survived the initial shock either started fighting to get out, or said fuck it and started making new lives in this world.
The later were probably the smart ones, after all if the guard protecting the floor wasdefeated, then they could move safely between floors.
Thece people became merchants, some sold informative others tools- potions and armor.
"Hey it's being passed by word of mouth, but a meating is beeing held in the main plasa." Rick one of my teammates, the guy wears minimal armor. The reason is simple he moves around a lot, because if he didn't his explosives would kill him.
Still he wears long black pants, a breastplate and knee and wrist guards.
"So have any idea how we ended up in the Japan first floor, shouldn't we have been sent back home." I asked him.
"I think whatever it was just wanted the people in the system to gather in one place. From words I heard here and there we arnt the only ones toshow up in a nother country's first floor." Rick answered.
"So where is everyone else?" I asked Rick.
"Resupplying, we were low.on food and potions........ Can you feel it?" Rick asked me.
"Yeah something's changed a lot. I don't know but ...... this feels real..... I can't explain it, but either the hole thing was upgraded or this is real." I answered him.
We both walked in silence after that, still neither one of us could deny what we were seeing.
Before the N.P.C's either simply walkedarounddoing the same thing over and over again, or they just offers some dialect and gave a mission.
There was no emotion in their eyes, a person could stave- push and beat one and it wouldn'treact.
Now they hid behind curtains, inside their homes. Some bleed and others cried, this was way to much detail.
It was almost like if they were truly alive, but that was impossible. Wasn't it?
We reached the meating area and nearly everyonewas there, except for the truble makers.
"I wonder why I'm starting to think about them with disgust. No I know the reason, with the exception of the children, everyone of them was a coward.
Here we were fighting for our lives and seeing people that we talked to only minutes earlier, die in front of us. While they..... they took the extra sword or potion they had and we needed away."
"All right the reason we gathered all of you here is, we have to know how to deal with the....... people that returned." A black man with a bald head, spoke to the ground, he struggled to find a way to talk about the resurrected people.
"Simple, we find the ones that were our team or guild members and leave the rest of the trash behind!" A girl screamed, she was hidden underneath the sea of faces.
"I get how all of you feel, believe me I do, but everyone that survived or died passed thesecond floor has already returned to their guilds or teams.
The rest are triying to sort things out, diying shook them up." The man answered.
As I looked closely at him I noticed he was a bartender in one of the higher floors.
"With the exception of the kids, the ones that don't want to fight. We will desperate the troublemakers between our guilds andteams." The man said and instantly, everyoneprotested.
No one wanted them, some screamed howthey didn't want dead weight, others how cowards would cause unneeded troubles and a few people.just stayed quiet.
"Alright here's the thing. We all agreed to leave floors one thru seven alone and keep them safe considering how exhausting it is to go up thosefloors.
If we leave those people here or let themform their own groups, we will end up having more then one player killer group to deal with." The moments the man said that everyone suddenly became quiet.
There was a guild dedicated solely to kill otherplayers, the one time they attacked one of thefloors
They made every player search each section until at least one of them was found and killed. Stories said that those that werecought were tortureduntil they talked, but no one knew if it was true.
It's known as the U.P.F United. Players. Floor treaty, every player eventually agreed to it as time went on, so if it was ever broken the perpetrators would be hunted down in every sector until theywere found and executed.
The rules are simple: No one is allowed to rape anyone within a town or a safe zone. If you get raped outside of these areas it's your fault, this is a death game you could have killed your attacker after or before it happens.
:No one is allowed to kill any player in the floors numbered one thru seven. If one dose eye whitneses are needed to prove that it was absolutely necessary.
All players are to gather and hunt down anyone that breaks the no killing other people in the designated floors.......
Two simple rules, but extremely effective.
"What do we do about the ones that are to far gone?" A man wearing a red bandana asked.
".......We take them to floor twelve and leave them in the blue forest, they can live there for whatever life they have left. Best of all if they redirect they will be ressurected inside the blue forest." The man answered.
"The others aren't going to like this." Rick said.
"Yeah but do you want any of those people near the orphanage." I answered him.
Nether one of us wanted to listen to the rest of the meeting and as we walked away a small pop up window showed itself and automatically it began to say everything that was being said in the meeting
You might think that being trapped in a place like this was maddening and for the first two months people, straight up killed themselves.
But humans are stronger then they give themselves credit, those that survived the initial shock either started fighting to get out, or said fuck it and started making new lives in this world.
The later were probably the smart ones, after all if the guard protecting the floor wasdefeated, then they could move safely between floors.
Thece people became merchants, some sold informative others tools- potions and armor.
"Hey it's being passed by word of mouth, but a meating is beeing held in the main plasa." Rick one of my teammates, the guy wears minimal armor. The reason is simple he moves around a lot, because if he didn't his explosives would kill him.
Still he wears long black pants, a breastplate and knee and wrist guards.
"So have any idea how we ended up in the Japan first floor, shouldn't we have been sent back home." I asked him.
"I think whatever it was just wanted the people in the system to gather in one place. From words I heard here and there we arnt the only ones toshow up in a nother country's first floor." Rick answered.
"So where is everyone else?" I asked Rick.
"Resupplying, we were low.on food and potions........ Can you feel it?" Rick asked me.
"Yeah something's changed a lot. I don't know but ...... this feels real..... I can't explain it, but either the hole thing was upgraded or this is real." I answered him.
We both walked in silence after that, still neither one of us could deny what we were seeing.
Before the N.P.C's either simply walkedarounddoing the same thing over and over again, or they just offers some dialect and gave a mission.
There was no emotion in their eyes, a person could stave- push and beat one and it wouldn'treact.
Now they hid behind curtains, inside their homes. Some bleed and others cried, this was way to much detail.
It was almost like if they were truly alive, but that was impossible. Wasn't it?
We reached the meating area and nearly everyonewas there, except for the truble makers.
"I wonder why I'm starting to think about them with disgust. No I know the reason, with the exception of the children, everyone of them was a coward.
Here we were fighting for our lives and seeing people that we talked to only minutes earlier, die in front of us. While they..... they took the extra sword or potion they had and we needed away."
"All right the reason we gathered all of you here is, we have to know how to deal with the....... people that returned." A black man with a bald head, spoke to the ground, he struggled to find a way to talk about the resurrected people.
"Simple, we find the ones that were our team or guild members and leave the rest of the trash behind!" A girl screamed, she was hidden underneath the sea of faces.
"I get how all of you feel, believe me I do, but everyone that survived or died passed thesecond floor has already returned to their guilds or teams.
The rest are triying to sort things out, diying shook them up." The man answered.
As I looked closely at him I noticed he was a bartender in one of the higher floors.
"With the exception of the kids, the ones that don't want to fight. We will desperate the troublemakers between our guilds andteams." The man said and instantly, everyoneprotested.
No one wanted them, some screamed howthey didn't want dead weight, others how cowards would cause unneeded troubles and a few people.just stayed quiet.
"Alright here's the thing. We all agreed to leave floors one thru seven alone and keep them safe considering how exhausting it is to go up thosefloors.
If we leave those people here or let themform their own groups, we will end up having more then one player killer group to deal with." The moments the man said that everyone suddenly became quiet.
There was a guild dedicated solely to kill otherplayers, the one time they attacked one of thefloors
They made every player search each section until at least one of them was found and killed. Stories said that those that werecought were tortureduntil they talked, but no one knew if it was true.
It's known as the U.P.F United. Players. Floor treaty, every player eventually agreed to it as time went on, so if it was ever broken the perpetrators would be hunted down in every sector until theywere found and executed.
The rules are simple: No one is allowed to rape anyone within a town or a safe zone. If you get raped outside of these areas it's your fault, this is a death game you could have killed your attacker after or before it happens.
:No one is allowed to kill any player in the floors numbered one thru seven. If one dose eye whitneses are needed to prove that it was absolutely necessary.
All players are to gather and hunt down anyone that breaks the no killing other people in the designated floors.......
Two simple rules, but extremely effective.
"What do we do about the ones that are to far gone?" A man wearing a red bandana asked.
".......We take them to floor twelve and leave them in the blue forest, they can live there for whatever life they have left. Best of all if they redirect they will be ressurected inside the blue forest." The man answered.
"The others aren't going to like this." Rick said.
"Yeah but do you want any of those people near the orphanage." I answered him.
Nether one of us wanted to listen to the rest of the meeting and as we walked away a small pop up window showed itself and automatically it began to say everything that was being said in the meeting
blueayes
If you want peace, then you must prepare for war.
- Location
- austin
We walked for a few minutes listening to the meeting, there wasn't anything really worth paying attention two, things in the town of begging had already assume a strange sens of normality.
The N.P.Cs were going about their day, tho they seemed more on the edge, most likely worried about catching some un welcomed attention, from the wrong people.
I could hear guilds names being called out one by one and whatever representative was there suddenly answere.
Rick turned to look at me, we both knew what this was and it didn't set well with us. The sex ratial was off most of the players were men and there were extremely few woman.
One would think that for this reason people would choose a girl to be on their team, unfortunately that wasn't the case.
We could hear them looking at theresurrected individual's skills -weaponry and so on.
This was no different then being sold as a slave, I switched to my American chat screen and found that the same thing was going on over there.
Guild and team representives, chose not to get any girls for teo reasons one girls tend to be more emotional then men and the other unless they already had anoyher woman on the team.
There was always that one idiot, that wants her and ends up breaking the unity of theteam because of it. I've seen it happen in other games.
It was cruel but everyone neded to be on their top game whenever the fighting started.
Questions were being asked, as to who knew how to cook- repair armor and so on, if they weren't fighters then maybe their skills could help.
Invitations to join guilds or teams were being sent out and being confirmed. Some people reflected them and said they would rather do it alone, then be someone's slave.
After that the only ones left were either truble makers- children that didn't want to fight or people that were seen as they were dead weight.
Back when all of this first started a mirror was given to everyone and the moment they all looked at their reflection, their game avatars had changed into a near identical copy of their bodies in the real world.
Now whatever happend had mixed in the two, they still had their old normal looking faces, none of the handsome or gorgeuse character faces people normally see.
However everyone was now slightly more muscular and if they had been fat before, they had lost some weight.
Some people had been together for the entirety of the two years, others only a few weeks or days.
Still no one was confused of who was who and that seemed to help make things go back tonormal.
The N.P.Cs were going about their day, tho they seemed more on the edge, most likely worried about catching some un welcomed attention, from the wrong people.
I could hear guilds names being called out one by one and whatever representative was there suddenly answere.
Rick turned to look at me, we both knew what this was and it didn't set well with us. The sex ratial was off most of the players were men and there were extremely few woman.
One would think that for this reason people would choose a girl to be on their team, unfortunately that wasn't the case.
We could hear them looking at theresurrected individual's skills -weaponry and so on.
This was no different then being sold as a slave, I switched to my American chat screen and found that the same thing was going on over there.
Guild and team representives, chose not to get any girls for teo reasons one girls tend to be more emotional then men and the other unless they already had anoyher woman on the team.
There was always that one idiot, that wants her and ends up breaking the unity of theteam because of it. I've seen it happen in other games.
It was cruel but everyone neded to be on their top game whenever the fighting started.
Questions were being asked, as to who knew how to cook- repair armor and so on, if they weren't fighters then maybe their skills could help.
Invitations to join guilds or teams were being sent out and being confirmed. Some people reflected them and said they would rather do it alone, then be someone's slave.
After that the only ones left were either truble makers- children that didn't want to fight or people that were seen as they were dead weight.
Back when all of this first started a mirror was given to everyone and the moment they all looked at their reflection, their game avatars had changed into a near identical copy of their bodies in the real world.
Now whatever happend had mixed in the two, they still had their old normal looking faces, none of the handsome or gorgeuse character faces people normally see.
However everyone was now slightly more muscular and if they had been fat before, they had lost some weight.
Some people had been together for the entirety of the two years, others only a few weeks or days.
Still no one was confused of who was who and that seemed to help make things go back tonormal.
blueayes
If you want peace, then you must prepare for war.
- Location
- austin
We walked around looking at the various shops selling, food- water- knives-armor- explosives -pations and magic crystals.
Like it or not but we all had to replenish our supplies, but we had to be careful, the streets and even the majority of the buildings didn't have anything seperating them, so people couldnt use them as land marks to navigate.
There are story's of a players turning the wrong corner or going to deep in an alley and being lost in the town for days and in one passion for months.
Oddly enough this is where into brokers came in. The thief job didn't exist here, that didn't mean anything in the long run, to get food you either hunted monsters for their meat or you bought your food at a shop, the same went for everything else you might need.
Not everyone could fight, before when this was nothing more then a game a person could just log out or come back to life, butseeing the creatures in front of you was something completely different.
A lot of people died just because they forgot, they could just turn around and run or hadn't leaened how to fight properly.
So people needed money and you got money by fighting monsters and completing quests.
But what if you just didn't have the skills or nerves to fight, well if people were getting lost and players could transfer money to one another.
Then didn't it make sense for people to charge those that were lost in the town's, it was an honest living and even if people resented it, no one could argue that they were a lot of help.
These people passed their days mapping out the town, what building was wat shop and so on, that was the beuty of it all a person could get high qualety equipment even on the first floor if they had the mony and if they knew whitch shop to buisit.
I asked a merchant once and surprisingly the n.p.c had an answer for it, he just loved the town and had gotten tired of his time as an explorer.
It seemed the town's and villages were designed with variety in mines.
Ricks hand flew in front of my face, stopping something that had been thrown at me. He opened his hand and showed it was a kiwi, Saito a Japanese teen who joined our team had thrown it at me.
Rick for his part just took out one of his none poison dagger and cut the thing in two, he bit in to one half and thru the other half at me.
Stuff like this now felt normal, but before the fact that we still got hungry was more of a mental thing, people.need to taste and chew. In the real world some sort of chemicalsmust be being pumped into us, as for the bathroom, the less we know the better.
Still it was amazing just how fresh the fruit was here, the kiwi was sweet and soft, but honestly we needed to increase out or cooking skills, in this world that was seen as a job and like any job. If your level isn't high enough the food won't be as good.
Near even with al of the seasoning and properly cooked tasted like burned and mixed drinks, were nothing but water.
People got around this by eating fruits, going to a shop and buying food, getting someone to cook for them or actually learn the skill.
Satio pointed at a large group of childrenbeing moved, it looks like they're rapping things up.
"We heard about the auction, so did you guys see anyone we could use?" Satio asked us.
"No." I answered.
"It's better that they didn't, with the exception of the little kids, the dead in combat and anyone on the month list, everyone of the lower class have a knife or a bullet with their names written on it."Raffaell said as he swong his new hammer.
Our team was made of older men the oldest of us was around thirty three and Satio was the youngest considering he was onlysixteen.
A man's scream made us turn around and members of the Army were taking a group of people to the sub levels.
Or if you wanted to name them the dunjens, where all of the prisoners were kept.
"I was talking to a friend of mine and according to him, all of the trash came back two.
Everyone back in Los Angeles is hunting them down, we might have to teleport back to the American section to back them up and make sure the criminals go into their cages." Rafael told us, tho the way he said it was more like he was looking for our approval.
"If they need us our friends will ask for help, in the meantime I suggest we figure out whether we stay at an inn or we go back up and camp oout for the night." I answered Rafael.
"Well look at that, everyone look at your notifications ." Saito told us, we all made a pinching gesture and acted as if we were pulling something down.
A letter from the guild known as the Army said that it would no longer be taking low level members, everyone that wanted to join them had to be level forty or higher.
The Knights of the Blood were saying the same.
One by one teams or guilds were closing their doors to new members below level forty, there was one exception tho anyone with any useful skill could apply but only if their skill was high enough.
"Looks like everyone wants to stay away from the troublemakers." Rick said.
" You guys buy watt you need, in the meantimewe will find a good inn, or do you idiots want to sleep on the dirt instead of a warm bed." Rafael said, before all of us gave him a thumbs up
Like it or not but we all had to replenish our supplies, but we had to be careful, the streets and even the majority of the buildings didn't have anything seperating them, so people couldnt use them as land marks to navigate.
There are story's of a players turning the wrong corner or going to deep in an alley and being lost in the town for days and in one passion for months.
Oddly enough this is where into brokers came in. The thief job didn't exist here, that didn't mean anything in the long run, to get food you either hunted monsters for their meat or you bought your food at a shop, the same went for everything else you might need.
Not everyone could fight, before when this was nothing more then a game a person could just log out or come back to life, butseeing the creatures in front of you was something completely different.
A lot of people died just because they forgot, they could just turn around and run or hadn't leaened how to fight properly.
So people needed money and you got money by fighting monsters and completing quests.
But what if you just didn't have the skills or nerves to fight, well if people were getting lost and players could transfer money to one another.
Then didn't it make sense for people to charge those that were lost in the town's, it was an honest living and even if people resented it, no one could argue that they were a lot of help.
These people passed their days mapping out the town, what building was wat shop and so on, that was the beuty of it all a person could get high qualety equipment even on the first floor if they had the mony and if they knew whitch shop to buisit.
I asked a merchant once and surprisingly the n.p.c had an answer for it, he just loved the town and had gotten tired of his time as an explorer.
It seemed the town's and villages were designed with variety in mines.
Ricks hand flew in front of my face, stopping something that had been thrown at me. He opened his hand and showed it was a kiwi, Saito a Japanese teen who joined our team had thrown it at me.
Rick for his part just took out one of his none poison dagger and cut the thing in two, he bit in to one half and thru the other half at me.
Stuff like this now felt normal, but before the fact that we still got hungry was more of a mental thing, people.need to taste and chew. In the real world some sort of chemicalsmust be being pumped into us, as for the bathroom, the less we know the better.
Still it was amazing just how fresh the fruit was here, the kiwi was sweet and soft, but honestly we needed to increase out or cooking skills, in this world that was seen as a job and like any job. If your level isn't high enough the food won't be as good.
Near even with al of the seasoning and properly cooked tasted like burned and mixed drinks, were nothing but water.
People got around this by eating fruits, going to a shop and buying food, getting someone to cook for them or actually learn the skill.
Satio pointed at a large group of childrenbeing moved, it looks like they're rapping things up.
"We heard about the auction, so did you guys see anyone we could use?" Satio asked us.
"No." I answered.
"It's better that they didn't, with the exception of the little kids, the dead in combat and anyone on the month list, everyone of the lower class have a knife or a bullet with their names written on it."Raffaell said as he swong his new hammer.
Our team was made of older men the oldest of us was around thirty three and Satio was the youngest considering he was onlysixteen.
A man's scream made us turn around and members of the Army were taking a group of people to the sub levels.
Or if you wanted to name them the dunjens, where all of the prisoners were kept.
"I was talking to a friend of mine and according to him, all of the trash came back two.
Everyone back in Los Angeles is hunting them down, we might have to teleport back to the American section to back them up and make sure the criminals go into their cages." Rafael told us, tho the way he said it was more like he was looking for our approval.
"If they need us our friends will ask for help, in the meantime I suggest we figure out whether we stay at an inn or we go back up and camp oout for the night." I answered Rafael.
"Well look at that, everyone look at your notifications ." Saito told us, we all made a pinching gesture and acted as if we were pulling something down.
A letter from the guild known as the Army said that it would no longer be taking low level members, everyone that wanted to join them had to be level forty or higher.
The Knights of the Blood were saying the same.
One by one teams or guilds were closing their doors to new members below level forty, there was one exception tho anyone with any useful skill could apply but only if their skill was high enough.
"Looks like everyone wants to stay away from the troublemakers." Rick said.
" You guys buy watt you need, in the meantimewe will find a good inn, or do you idiots want to sleep on the dirt instead of a warm bed." Rafael said, before all of us gave him a thumbs up
blueayes
If you want peace, then you must prepare for war.
- Location
- austin
Buying was an interesting art, the way the game worked was simple high level items be them armor, potions, food and so on cost more the higher their effects were, even the material played a role in the price.
A person could get what they needed by buying from an n.p.c or traiding with another player.
Why anyone would do this for weapons or tools was simple. Not every attack was a guaranteed hit and to be able to have an extra swing of your sword or to be able to have a better chance of hitting your opponent, washeavenly sought after.
To be able to leave an enemy confused or stunned, was a blessing that saved livesmore often than not.
For this reason the merchants became aguildof their own, however to do this they had to master alchemy- engineering andmore skills that I really can't even name.
Cottages and mansions were also for sale butthey cost a lot, so if a person owned land or a building, chances were they had a lot of gold.
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A person could get what they needed by buying from an n.p.c or traiding with another player.
Why anyone would do this for weapons or tools was simple. Not every attack was a guaranteed hit and to be able to have an extra swing of your sword or to be able to have a better chance of hitting your opponent, washeavenly sought after.
To be able to leave an enemy confused or stunned, was a blessing that saved livesmore often than not.
For this reason the merchants became aguildof their own, however to do this they had to master alchemy- engineering andmore skills that I really can't even name.
Cottages and mansions were also for sale butthey cost a lot, so if a person owned land or a building, chances were they had a lot of gold.
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blueayes
If you want peace, then you must prepare for war.
- Location
- austin
We left Rick and Dante behind, those two needed to replenish their supplies and in all honesty we needed to get of the streets. It's strange having the need for a warm bath, in a virtual world.
If this is virtual reality.
Two years of fighting has caused us to set our own way of living and now with this hole reboot nothing's changed or so I want to believe.
To feel pain- hunger- exaustion and sexual desires, like it or not but soon bit by bit people will forget about the real world. Some like before will simply waited for someone else to finish the game, others might forget why the he'll we're even going up
The children in the orphanage didn't deservethis and it's them that will be affected by it, more than everyone else. They're the ones that might forget sooner then everyone else and God help us all, if someone gets pregnant , I don't even want to think about the consequences of that.
My help screen light up and from the looks of it all of the cheap inns are full, even the mid class ones are gone. Saitos been looking thru the map and from the looks of it we are going to sleep like kings.
As things stood most players were going to wait and see how the lower classes would react to everything.
The seven floors would keep them safe, so they can level up and be able to defend themselves, but that's not what everyone is waiting for.
The orphanage is located here and it's a target for anyone that just wants to cause truble, not only that but they are triying to see who might be useful.
Once all of the confusion and panic passes how will these people react, will they have to be taken to the cells- will they fight - become merchants or join a team/ guild.
"Looks like the only place with any openings is the most expensive Luxury Hotel in town." Satio told me.
"...... "
"What is it?" Saito asked me as he he noticed my hesitation.
" I want to go look at the orphanage, you don'thave to come, I'll do this on my own." I answered Saito.
"Alright let's go, it's not the rooms will be filled up anyways and if they are well just camp out." Saito answered me.
The damn town took twoenty percent of the first floor and withought any street signs we had to rely entirely on our maps.
As we walked I couldn't get my self to feel at eas here, the n.p.c's showed to much emotion fear, anxiety and curiosity wen we passed, others just plain dissmised us.
I didn't like it, they seemed to human, to alive.
Regardless the sight that greated us when we arrived at the orphanage was one of the worst we ever saw, children as young as five were being confirmed by other kids and the few men and woman that took care of them were being over worked.
Kids that put on their older brothers or sisters game helmet on and turned it on by accidentor simply played when their parents or siblingsweren't around were trapped here.
It seemed like the people running theorphanage were kicked out of their building, the increase of children they had taken in had brought down all of their savings and theywere forced to choose between, the orphanage or food.
Atleast that's what the notification said.
I walked up to a woman who looked like she was in her late teens. "How did you loose the building?" I asked her.
She looked at me with a desperateexpression and spoke. " We didn't haveenough to buy the building, so we rented it and the fact we brought in more children only increased the rent."
Me and Saito both stared at each other before we walked back a bit.
"Don't." Saito told me.
" What?" I asked him.
"Ask the others if they are willing to pitch in, either we can buy the building or pay the dann rent and put a rug on those kids heads." Saito told me, his expression was one that showed just how much he had changed. Long gone was that scared kid we met back then.
"Dante Rick, I want to buy the orphanage, before the two of you say anything listen up.
It looks like they can't afford to keep so many kids and pay the rent, I figure we but it and use it whenever we are in town.
It's always going to be an orphanage but let's be honest we're almost never here." I sent Dante and Rick a voice mail.
" Sure." Rick said.
"You are the leader. Added Dante voicing his aproval..
Coal was the name of the currency used here and the one most players have, the other one is diamonds. As I.looked at the buildings price I exhaled and spoke.
"Fivety diamonds and eight hundred coal."
"Stop hessiatating and do it already, the two of us already finished our shopping anyways." Rick told me, tho the sound of his voice showed he wasn't happy about it.
The two of them sent me the money they had on them and Saito added his part and with one click we were all brick.
The moment the sight said confirmed, I placed my name on it, however I sent the message to Saito who wrote his name and passed it on to Rick, who later sent it to Dante who returned it to me.
Officially we were the proud owners of a Great Lords Mandsion.
We walked back to the woman and stopped right in front of her and a man who was around his early twenties.
"We'll crack you a deal, we will let you stay and live here under the following conditions.
1: This has to always be an orphanage.
2: There will be no preferential treatment between girls and boys.
3: You will not allow people.to.just come in and take the kids." I told them.
They both looked at me with confusedexpressions, but ehen the simple silver Cross we used as an emblem for our team manifested itself on the two giant wooden white doors, they two of them understood.
They simply vowed and began to walke the children back in, some skipped happy to go back, others walked slowly still crying
Fifteen friend request were sent to me and my team, no doubt the people that worked in the orphanage. Unfortunately I had to accept them all, my notifications showed that the others were doing the same
Why did I do it? Why did I help them? No reason really, it just didn't feel right.
Quest began to pop out one after another, invitations to cathedrals- meeting lords- hunting down monsters - looking for clothes and so on.
I began to look as to why the hell this was happening and then I saw it written in bright red letters First of Four Orphanage Guardian Lords.
I could feel.a head ache comming.
If this is virtual reality.
Two years of fighting has caused us to set our own way of living and now with this hole reboot nothing's changed or so I want to believe.
To feel pain- hunger- exaustion and sexual desires, like it or not but soon bit by bit people will forget about the real world. Some like before will simply waited for someone else to finish the game, others might forget why the he'll we're even going up
The children in the orphanage didn't deservethis and it's them that will be affected by it, more than everyone else. They're the ones that might forget sooner then everyone else and God help us all, if someone gets pregnant , I don't even want to think about the consequences of that.
My help screen light up and from the looks of it all of the cheap inns are full, even the mid class ones are gone. Saitos been looking thru the map and from the looks of it we are going to sleep like kings.
As things stood most players were going to wait and see how the lower classes would react to everything.
The seven floors would keep them safe, so they can level up and be able to defend themselves, but that's not what everyone is waiting for.
The orphanage is located here and it's a target for anyone that just wants to cause truble, not only that but they are triying to see who might be useful.
Once all of the confusion and panic passes how will these people react, will they have to be taken to the cells- will they fight - become merchants or join a team/ guild.
"Looks like the only place with any openings is the most expensive Luxury Hotel in town." Satio told me.
"...... "
"What is it?" Saito asked me as he he noticed my hesitation.
" I want to go look at the orphanage, you don'thave to come, I'll do this on my own." I answered Saito.
"Alright let's go, it's not the rooms will be filled up anyways and if they are well just camp out." Saito answered me.
The damn town took twoenty percent of the first floor and withought any street signs we had to rely entirely on our maps.
As we walked I couldn't get my self to feel at eas here, the n.p.c's showed to much emotion fear, anxiety and curiosity wen we passed, others just plain dissmised us.
I didn't like it, they seemed to human, to alive.
Regardless the sight that greated us when we arrived at the orphanage was one of the worst we ever saw, children as young as five were being confirmed by other kids and the few men and woman that took care of them were being over worked.
Kids that put on their older brothers or sisters game helmet on and turned it on by accidentor simply played when their parents or siblingsweren't around were trapped here.
It seemed like the people running theorphanage were kicked out of their building, the increase of children they had taken in had brought down all of their savings and theywere forced to choose between, the orphanage or food.
Atleast that's what the notification said.
I walked up to a woman who looked like she was in her late teens. "How did you loose the building?" I asked her.
She looked at me with a desperateexpression and spoke. " We didn't haveenough to buy the building, so we rented it and the fact we brought in more children only increased the rent."
Me and Saito both stared at each other before we walked back a bit.
"Don't." Saito told me.
" What?" I asked him.
"Ask the others if they are willing to pitch in, either we can buy the building or pay the dann rent and put a rug on those kids heads." Saito told me, his expression was one that showed just how much he had changed. Long gone was that scared kid we met back then.
"Dante Rick, I want to buy the orphanage, before the two of you say anything listen up.
It looks like they can't afford to keep so many kids and pay the rent, I figure we but it and use it whenever we are in town.
It's always going to be an orphanage but let's be honest we're almost never here." I sent Dante and Rick a voice mail.
" Sure." Rick said.
"You are the leader. Added Dante voicing his aproval..
Coal was the name of the currency used here and the one most players have, the other one is diamonds. As I.looked at the buildings price I exhaled and spoke.
"Fivety diamonds and eight hundred coal."
"Stop hessiatating and do it already, the two of us already finished our shopping anyways." Rick told me, tho the sound of his voice showed he wasn't happy about it.
The two of them sent me the money they had on them and Saito added his part and with one click we were all brick.
The moment the sight said confirmed, I placed my name on it, however I sent the message to Saito who wrote his name and passed it on to Rick, who later sent it to Dante who returned it to me.
Officially we were the proud owners of a Great Lords Mandsion.
We walked back to the woman and stopped right in front of her and a man who was around his early twenties.
"We'll crack you a deal, we will let you stay and live here under the following conditions.
1: This has to always be an orphanage.
2: There will be no preferential treatment between girls and boys.
3: You will not allow people.to.just come in and take the kids." I told them.
They both looked at me with confusedexpressions, but ehen the simple silver Cross we used as an emblem for our team manifested itself on the two giant wooden white doors, they two of them understood.
They simply vowed and began to walke the children back in, some skipped happy to go back, others walked slowly still crying
Fifteen friend request were sent to me and my team, no doubt the people that worked in the orphanage. Unfortunately I had to accept them all, my notifications showed that the others were doing the same
Why did I do it? Why did I help them? No reason really, it just didn't feel right.
Quest began to pop out one after another, invitations to cathedrals- meeting lords- hunting down monsters - looking for clothes and so on.
I began to look as to why the hell this was happening and then I saw it written in bright red letters First of Four Orphanage Guardian Lords.
I could feel.a head ache comming.
10
blueayes
If you want peace, then you must prepare for war.
- Location
- austin
It had only been a moment but we knew word had gotten out fast, there was a feeling in the air the kind one get before it hits the fan.
The message board had light up and it wasn't good, do to the fact that the building now belonged to us and all of the players that took care of the children were on our friends list.
As a direct result they were officiallyrecognized as our team members, that wasn't the issue eight hundred children were being watched in the orphanage.
That was eight hundred new members for our team, like it or not those children fell under the orphanage and the orphanage now fell under our control.
Without wanting to we had taken control of the next generation and that didn't set well with a lot of people.
Already there was arguing going around between the guilds and amongst the sections, but do to the seven floors treaty no one could move against us,withought bringing the other sectionsagainst them.
Still this would be a problem for the near fefuture.
Still rather than going in and getting first dibs on the rooms, Saito and I decided to wait for Rick and Dante.
From the outside the place had a large front yard, a equallylarge back yard and somany windows that washing them would be a nightmare, considering there were three floors of them.
All around the place was a thick stone wall that had several gargoyles standingon next to each other by a distance of eight steps.
Yet both the mansion and the entrance to the front yard stood a set of large wooden white doors, that now had our teams siilver Cross proudly displayed on them.
The message board had light up and it wasn't good, do to the fact that the building now belonged to us and all of the players that took care of the children were on our friends list.
As a direct result they were officiallyrecognized as our team members, that wasn't the issue eight hundred children were being watched in the orphanage.
That was eight hundred new members for our team, like it or not those children fell under the orphanage and the orphanage now fell under our control.
Without wanting to we had taken control of the next generation and that didn't set well with a lot of people.
Already there was arguing going around between the guilds and amongst the sections, but do to the seven floors treaty no one could move against us,withought bringing the other sectionsagainst them.
Still this would be a problem for the near fefuture.
Still rather than going in and getting first dibs on the rooms, Saito and I decided to wait for Rick and Dante.
From the outside the place had a large front yard, a equallylarge back yard and somany windows that washing them would be a nightmare, considering there were three floors of them.
All around the place was a thick stone wall that had several gargoyles standingon next to each other by a distance of eight steps.
Yet both the mansion and the entrance to the front yard stood a set of large wooden white doors, that now had our teams siilver Cross proudly displayed on them.