A fresh breath
A mechanical sound of a door closing was the last thing Basilis heard before all turned black. A sense of lightness shrouded his body as he saw everything change color. He saw himself flying.
[Welcome to A new breath Online] said a mechanical sound.
[First time login requires the creation of your account]
[Please wait a moment to create your account]
‘Uh, this is interesting’ Thought basilis while floating in what seemed a white space, weirdly everything was white, but not blinding.
[Welcome Basilis Chryso, please set the name of your account]
‘Right, let's see’ he thought “Set the name of my account as WorldSmith please”
[Account name set as WorldSmith, please confirm name]
“Confirm name”
[Account name confirmed as WorldSmith, now on to character creation, please take into account that you can only possess one character at the time. Would you like an explanation of the status of your character?]
Basilis nodded then concentrated, for what Oscar information told him about this game, is that it's too complicated.
[Time to introduce you to the status of ANBO. ANBO takes into account all cultures and all most of old games concepts, you can build your character how you want as everyone has the same start.]
‘Just not the same grow’ Basilis mocked in his mind. The game was really about resource management. As simple as one could tell, if you don't manage in a efficient way you will have a hard time.
[ANBO starts with the self. The self is you, the user. It's the root of all you are and do, your essence.] a black dot appeared in front of Basilis. [Then there are the aspects, the general parts of what you are, how strong you are physically, mentally or spiritually. The body, the mind and the soul.] The black dot was surrounded by 3 hexagons, one red, one yellow and one blue like a hive.
[For each of these aspects there are the status of Power, Storage and 2 related Abilities. The bigger their respective aspect is the bigger they are and can be.] Each hexagon was then concatenated with other hexagons to make the hive even bigger, like a second circle of hexagon circulated the first circle.[Power is how much you can express your aspect, Storage is how much you can use your aspect and Abilities are the result that comes from the mixing of 2 aspects.]
[The power and storage of the body, mind and soul are: Strength, Vitality, Intelligence, Focus, Will and Spirit respectively] Each of the hexagons that touch only 1 aspect hexagon became of the same color of the respective aspect, just more white.
[The abilities that appear when 2 aspects touch the same hexagon are: Endurance when body and soul touch, Dexterity when mind and body touch and Wit when Soul and Mind touch.] The the last three hexagons that touched 2 aspect became orange where red and yellow touched, purple when red and blue touched and green when yellow and green touched.
[Even more so there are what is called Strain, Gauge, Value and Talent.] A third circle of hexagon circled the second circle. [Strain represents how much your power can hold, Gauge how much activities you can do continuously related to the respective aspect, Value how much is you storage worth and talent how good you represent your ability. These status cannot be assigned with points when in character creation.]
[The strain related to the Body, Mind and Soul are: Encumbrance, Memory and Resilience. The Gauge related to Body, Mind and Soul are: Stamina, Stress and Eupnea. The Values related to the Body, Mind and Soul are: Health, Sanity and Pneuma. The talents related to Endurance are Defence and Resistance. The talents related to Dexterity are Agility and Sense. The talents related to Wit are Control and aptitude.] The 15 hexagons that appeared took the color of their respective status.
“Oh wow, Bask will really stay reading all this things all day, lets just go with it” Said Basilis as he scratched his neck.
[First Select your 3 Aspects] The three central hexagon started to shine [You have a total of 9 points to use, aspects can't be lower than 3 when is character creation. For better explanation of each aspect press the desired aspect]
A pop up appeared in front of Basilis.
Aspect
Base
Body
3
+/-
Mind
3
+/-
Soul
3
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Basilis put the same number of points in all his aspects, his reason was a lead from his family teaching. ‘Perfection is balance, it is impossible for a perfectly balanced body to exist, but the pursuit of balance is what makes it possible the highest mastery of forging’
[Select the Storage, Power and Ability of each aspect] A second pop-up appeared at the right of the first one. [You have a total of 18 points to select the status of each aspect. Storage, Power and Ability can't be lower than 1 when in character creation. For better explanation of each status press the desired status]
Power Base Strength 1 +/- Inteligence 1 +/- Will 1 +/- Storage Base Vitality 1 +/- Focus 1 +/- Spirit 1 +/- Ability Base Endurance 1 +/- Dexterity 1 +/- Wit 1 +/-
“Aaaaaaaarg! This is going to take a while!” cried basilis as he pressed all status.
Time passed by while basilis put made his character.
“OK OK, let's go with this… after all i am going to be a smith, not some front-liner adventurer, I don't need witt nor soul, balance of the aspects is more than enough, and some will, people should always have a high will” Scoffed Basilis, he didn't like the idea of using a spellcaster at all.
It took him a while to complete it, but he decided to go with high points into body.
Aspect N. Base Body 6 Mind 6 Soul 6 Power N. Base Strength 5(6<-7) Inteligence 1(3) Will 3(5) Storage N. Base Vitality 4(6) Focus 1(3) Spirit 1(3) Ability N. Base Endurance 4(6) Dexterity 4(6) Wit 1(3)
“ok, ok… uh?” After looking at his points he saw a value between parenthesis. “Umm, you, AI thing. What are these numbers in parenthesis?”
[This is the result value that is the same as your status plus your aspect value bonus]
“Aspect value bonus? How do you calculate it?”
[This information is classified]
“... Well, ok. I have to go with this.” Before he confirmed status he saw that his strength was (6<-7). Wondering why it was like that he asked “AI, why is my strength like that? Six and arrow then a seven?”
[You effective strength cannot be higher than you maximum related aspect]
“Oh, ok, let me change that point of strength into something else… here” Basilis quickly changed his strength point into will, he really liked the word and all. He saw how his effective strength became a simple 6 and his will became a 6 also.
“Right, AI thing, what about Strain, Gauge, Value and Talent ... Mmm, how are they affected?”
[Information classified]
“As expected”
[Confirm status]
Basilis nodded, then table with lots of names appeared.
[Please select your race]
“uhh… this was not in the information i got…” He saw lots of races names, human, elf, dwarf, beast man with all their counterparts, even centaurs were there. Doubt surfaced Basilis thoughts “Ai thing, why are you making one select the race after the status selection?”
[It was desired this way so the user won't enclose his creativity when selecting his status points, by selecting status prior to the race it was found that users would select their playstyle before even daring to be the most efficient one could be.]
“But wont races affect the status points?”
[No, ANBO was made so races affected character growth more than character status points]
“Mmm, well, can you filter all the races that give a balanced growth?”
[Growth information is classified]
“Let me rephrase… can you filter races that have all-rounded skills?”
A table containing only 1 name.
1-Human
“... Well what was i expecting”
Basilis selected human as his race, the another table appeared. ‘This one must be the class related table’ he thought.
[Please select your class]
1. Fighter
2. Crafter
3. Chanter
4. Ranger
“Filter classes with forging related classes”
1. Crafter
“.... Again, what was i expecting? Ai thing, give me a explanation of classes”
[All users in ANBO possess something known as class. Class are what the player can normally do. Fighter uses weapons to fight, Crafters crafts objects and chanters evoke breath to chant spells. This represent the desired path of the user. Also, when one reaches circle V of a class, one can select another class to possess.]
“Uh? Does that mean that one can technically possess all classes?”
[Not necessarily. Users in ANBO also possess something called potential, all users start with 9 potential points. How one desires the use of these points determine the future of the user.]
“What if one desired to get a potential point back?”
[Information classified]
“... i am really expecting to much” He said as he selected his class. Another table appeared.
[Please select your ingame name]
He thought of a name, then he remembered the phrase “Gold and Glory” from his family, good at forging he was, but his naming sense was bad. With some word tricks and language translation he said his ingame and confirmed.
“Auro Doxa”
[Character creation completed, now select where you want to spawn]
A map appeared in front of basilis.
“...”
“...”
“...”
“WHY DOES IT TAKE DAMN MUCH TO MAKE A SINGLE CHARACTER?!?!?”
[Answer not in the database]
“OH FUCK OFF!” Basilis hastily selected a dot on the map near to some woods.
“AND I ACCEPT!”
[Character generation completed]
[Please enjoy A New Breath Online]
[Have a fresh breath]
Everything went white.