Shurki POV
After despairing over my lack of funds, I decided to get plan B rolling. Yeah, the plan that had me solo and hope for the best. Anyways, I went to dad’s building once more. This time, I visited the head of distribution and asked him for an installation in my room. Of course he consented and even told me that he would install the console a day before the other’s would get theirs! Ah, the perks of being the son to the CEO.
I realized that I had nothing to do after asking the head of distribution for a capsule, so I went to the visitor’s lounge and sunk down on a lush caramel sofa. Instead of reading a magazine, I brought out the packet that Mr. Brouts, the chief programmer, had given me.
LEGENDARY AGE
In Legendary Age, the beginning town is set to be the Town of Ad hominem, Latin for beginning. Upon spawn you will be given a short wooden stick and 10 copper. Inside the city, there are 3 sections. The combat section, magic section and the craftsmen section. Each section is in competition with each other and elects a representative to become a candidate for mayor. The mayor then holds absolute power over the doings of the city.
You will spawn in a neutral zone, where most of the inns and taverns are. Note that the sections are highly competitive and will try to recruit you to their section and bar you from entering others.
Outside the city, there are “monsters”. Following is a list of these “monsters”
Rats - Level 1-2
Bunny - Level 2-5
Chicken - Level 3-5
Cat - Level 1-10
Dog - Level 2-10
Snake - Level 7-12
Wolf - Level 10-15
Bear - Level 20
These are all of the monsters in the city and it’s surrounding plains/forests.
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After 3 hours of reading, I was disappointed. The information in the packet was useful but not stellar. Any player could figure out the information given by the packet with some observation. Although there were some interesting parts, such as how the mayor is elected, most of the information was easily discoverable and plain boring.
After giving up on the packet, I took a walk. Normally, I would have taken the car but today, I just wanted to clear my mind and think about things. While in the middle of a fantasy about me slaying giant two-headed wolves, I saw a person almost drown after leaping off the bridge. Actually, I take that back. I didn’t see him jump in, but rather, I saw what happened afterwards. After he leaped off, a crowd gathered at the foot of the bridge. Curious, I squeezed into the crowd, only to realize in horror that they were spectating a man struggling against the freezing currents of the river. I quickly jumped in to save him.
The raging river current washed me away as soon as entered the river. The river bared it’s cold fangs(waves) at me and swallowed me in a gulp. Immediately, my arms sprung into action, pushing downwards, trying to find leverage to elevate me. My eyes stung as the cold poked at them. As I was struggling against the cold grasp of the water, trying desperately to break through the surface, I noticed that the person drowning was approaching my position, courtesy of the river currents.
It was then that I realized my fatal mistake, I didn’t know how to swim. Pathetic right? Anyways the drowning person crashed into me, disrupting my attempts to break through the surface. I really thought that I was going to die. But as my vision began to fade, a dark figure dropped in front of me.
Oh god, the water was cold. So cold that it was stuck to my cloth, sinking it’s fangs into my skin. After lamenting on how cold it was, I realized that I was saved. My savior? An off duty cop that jumped in after me.
Anyways, using my connections at the police station, which were non-existent but being the son of the CEO of Dalbergia, I was able to “acquire” connections. Anyways, in the end, the off-duty cop was able to get a bonus and I offered him a job at Dalbergia. Even though I didn’t have the power to employ people, I’m sure that I could have pulled a couple of strings to make it happen.
------------------------1 day later---------------------
Finally, the day where the Distribution Director promised to install the capsule for Legendary Age came. Early in the morning, before my dad woke up, in fact, before the sun woke up, I opened the door to let the two secretaries of the Distribution Director in. Why was I being so secretive? Well there are many reasons but the most prominent was that my dad would have flipped shit if he saw that I had gotten my hands on a capsule a day before Legendary Age was released.
After about an hour of interesting cursing, multiple runs to the general store and a couple of quiet phone calls, my capsule was finally installed. The main problem in installing it was connecting the power source, apparently the power for the capsule required a special cord that neither of the secretaries brung.
During the morning breakfast, I tried one last time to get my dad to accept my demands.
“Hey, dad. Is there any way for me to be able to get that 10 million dollars that I’ve been asking you about?”
“Ha. Nope.”
“Uhh well then, could I use my allowance to buy some gold on the new gold market right now?”
“Hmm, sure, how much gold are you planning to buy?”
“20,000 dollar’s worth so 200 gold.”
“Wait, wait, wait! You have that much money? You know that’s nearly half of an average person’s wages for a year! And also, where did you get that money?”
“Uhh allowance money saved up? You promised that I could use my allowance to buy the gold.”
“Okay okay sure. But you aren’t allowed to bother me with borrowing money again you hear me?”
“Sure thing dad!”
Then dad whipped out his smartphone and called someone, presumably the person in charge of managing the gold market. From his conversation, I was able to discern that dad pulled the 200 extra gold from the company reserves rather than from the 1000 gold that they were about to sell.
As soon as I received the code for 200 in game gold and dad left, I rushed into my capsule.
Welcome to Legendary Age. Would you like to create a new character. Please note that you are only allowed to create 1 character at a time.
“Ummm”
Hurry up boy, I don’t have all day.
“Sorry, yes I would like to....”
Okay now what race would you like to be?
“Umm creator?”
Hmm, creator has a nice ring, keep on calling me that. So, what do you want?
“I have this code for 200 in game gold, I was hoping to use it during my character creation.”
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Wow, you are rich aren’t you? Alright, hurry up and tell me the code.
“Sure, it’s TSKFRWS.”
Okay, I see, you have 200 gold in your account right now. Alright, I’ll make you a proposal. I’ll give you a question and if you can answer it correctly, I’ll give you a reward. But if you can’t guess the correct answer, I’ll take all of that gold from you. Now, you can skip this proposal and go straight into the game, but you can guess the answer for as many times as you want.
“I’ll answer the question.”
Alright, inside the beginning city of Ad hominem, there are three factions, the combat faction, magic faction and the craftsmen faction. Now, how do they determine the mayor of the city?
“Each faction elects a representative and they have a duel to determine the mayor?”
BZZZZ, wrong.
“What?”
Your answer was wrong, of course.
This was bad, I was about to lose all of my hard earned allowance with this one question. Think Shurki Think. THINK. The packet that the chief programmer gave me had this information in there. But all it said was that the sections elected representatives. WAIT, sections?
“Each SECTION elects a representative as candidates for the mayor.”
Anddd? It is sections but how do the candidates become the mayor?
“The candidates….”
Hmm, it’s impossible. I didn’t read about how they determined the mayor out of the candidates. There had to be an answer. But the packet didn’t have any of this information. At least, I didn’t see any of this information.
C’mon now, I don’t have all day.
“The candidates….”
Yes?
“The candidates have a duel amongst themselves.”
Hah, yeah right. First of all there are three candidates, how do they fight each other? In addition, wouldn’t the craftsmen have a disadvantage?
“The candidates have the people of the city elect the mayor.”
Really? Then wouldn’t the section that has the most people win?
Wait. I’m missing something. What am I missing? The section with the most people win. Wait, isn’t that the answer? I remember there was a line in the packet about how each section was eager to recruit new people and denied entry into other sections.
“Is it, the candidates become mayor based on the population of their section?”
…
“Sooo, am I right?”
....
“C’mon now, I don’t have all day.”
Yes, dammit yes, your right.
“Okay so now my reward?”
Your pushin it. There, your reward.
Suddenly a blue window popped up in front of me.
A new title has been granted to you!
Legend of the RichBeing rich in game doesn’t mean that you’re rich in real life. Being rich in real life doesn’t mean that you’re rich in game. But being rich in game before the game has even started must mean that you must be filthy rich. Therefore, to you 1 percenter, I bequeath the title of Legend of the Rich. You will be known as “that rich person” from now on, and the effects of the title will manifest, regardless of being worn or not.
The Rich Dun WorkCan you imagine a rich person carving dolls or making armor? Not possible, that kind of job is left to sweatshop employees. A rich person bargaining with a merchant for an extra copper? Don’t make me laugh.
Therefore, all craftsmen related skills and professions have been disabled. You will be unable to learn any of their crafts and prices of products by craftsmen will increase by 10%. Gotta pay up.
The Rich Dun BackstabBeing rich is hard, constantly lying, deceiving, playing political games and doing anything and everything to ensure their retention of wealth. Now, there is one thing the rich don’t do, they don’t dirty their hands. They have professional assassins to do that.
Therefore, all assassin related skills and professions have been disabled. However, assassins will flock to you for work - any work requiring an assassin will cost 10% less.
All Who Are Rich Are WelcomeThere is one thing that the rich excel at, donating money. Who doesn’t love money? All noblemen and clergymen will allow you entrance to their mansions/churches and you will gain intimacy with them a lot easier (*wink wink, use your wallet).
+100 fame
The Rich Are SmartHow do rich people get their riches? Hard work? Nope. Honesty? Nope. They make the money through their own smarts. So it can be assumed that all rich people are smart.
+10 Intelligence
In order to ensure fairness, you will not be able to register for Legendary Age anymore. Please check back tomorrow when the game is released.
Sighing, I groped for the off switch on the capsule and exited. I hadn’t planned on being a craftsman so the fact that I couldn’t learn any crafts didn’t affect me. But I really wanted to become an assassin, comboing people and striking from the dark. It was unfortunate but it was the result of that easter egg. I knew I could do nothing about it plus, I guess its also fortunate that I can’t be an assassin since I wanted to become the best player in the entire game. After all, I had to be all secretive and stuff to be an assassin. Also, I’m sure that wouldn’t sit well with dad’s image of me.
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Thanks for reading! Happy New Year!
PS: I’ll try to get some action in for the next chapter, sorry about the 4 chapter long prologue