Name: (Words) = Thinking (usually reserved for third person perspectives).
Words~ = Sing-song voice.
Words/ = Monotone voice.
*Words* = Sound effects/actions.
Plot today peoples!
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Chesterwood Home - Training Room - Morning
Hello again! Please hold on while I rant, this shouldn’t take long at all.
What’s the use in having a Technology faction, when everything is stuck in the medieval age? I bet magic isn’t even faction specific… Midas and I went to go find teachers, and his teacher just told him to wail on the target with his sword… Seriously? Midas did something smart, and went home to go swing his new katana. My teacher was alright at the beginning, but when I started asking her questions, and all I got was a “I don’t know, I was told to do it that way…” as a response, I went home too. That’s probably the issue here: Magic! People get lazy when magic is involved. At least Psychics don’t have this issue, because psychic powers are either too narrowly specialised, or not powerful enough to become a crutch..
Sorry about that, you guys came at the wrong time there… Anyway, I’m in the training room of our house carving some training targets for weapons training with Midas. Nothing fancy really, it’s just a wooden mannequin with a buttload of talisman enchants and spell circuits on it.
And before you ask, spell circuits are just if/then logic, which activate a spell crystal, while talismans are straight up equations. The whole thing is kind of complicated, and simple at the same time. The spell circuit lights up parts of the target in a sequence, and you have to hit those targets in the same sequence, while holding a training weapon infused with ki. If you take too long, or hit the wrong target, the whole thing lights up red. Yep, I invented simon… Theoretically, it should be a useful training tool, but too bad for the fact that it needs your blood in the production, as this could be worth a lot of money. But who needs more money when you already have a mountain of it? Who am I trying to kid, I do! I wants all the monies!
Since most parts of this task are pretty mundane, I’m reading up on the human body on the wifi implant, since as an assassin, it’s important to not only know which end of the knife is sharp, but where to put said sharp end. This is where I left the potential teacher. Why someone dies when you stab there, or why it’s a good idea to stab them in nerve ganglia? These are the questions you should ask, as asking gives you the opportunity to improve.
Anywho, this is boring, so I’ll lay out our plans. Since we completed most of our objectives, we can leave in as little as three days, to a week max. Then we can finally go on our adventure, no more distractions! Okay, maybe a little distraction here and there, if they are entertaining enough… *cough* Selene is sleeping in my right drill, so Artemis, give them the to do list.
[table=purple]To do list:
* Buy Engine III
* Buy two person buggy
* Buy large tent
* Talisman lanterns
* New harp[/table]
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Armistice Online Headquarters - Boardroom - 3rd Person PoV
(each member will be referred to as their job)
A group of six people are sitting around the boardroom table, watching a projection of Tyche and Midas living their new life in Armistice Online. They are each members of different departments, tasked to watch our two protagonists live their life. To keep the damage to a minimum, or to prevent an all out apocalypse, you never know with those two.
Tyche Monologue: “Oh, hello again! We are currently on our way to Chesterwood…”
Lore: “How does she know we just started watching?”
Maintenance: “It’s creepy right?”
Systems: “Who cares about that, they are completely breaking the balance of the game! GM Department, anything found yet?”
GM Department: “Everything is above board, the anti-cheat system isn’t detecting anything wrong on that front. Maybe you should shackle them?”
AI Development: “They are AIs now, and protected by law. And we couldn’t do that anyway, the other AIs are gaining free will because of them. If we do, they will either help them, or revolt because of it. The scariest thing is, they are spreading sentience to all of the NPCs they come across, it must be a nightmare for you Maintenance?”
Maintenance: “Eh, it’s not so bad, the whole system was over-specced anyways. The government is paying for the whole thing, so we can always increase the hardware at no cost.”
AI Development: “If it does become a problem, we can make the problem public knowledge, everyone will want to be a part of helping a digital world filled with, and run by AIs. Why aren’t you complaining Lore?”
Lore: “Have you seen what she’s been doing? She’s practically been doing the Lore Department’s job since they started ‘playing’.”
GM Department: “I’m with Tyche on this one, how do you guys still have a job? You basically just gave the Goddess AIs a list of requirements, and they did the bulk of the work… Also, we need to do something about their potential for finding exploits. They are practically breaking the balance of the game.”
Systems: “We can disable skill assist, but make it seem like it was their idea. Have they used their GM powers yet?”
GM Department: “Not really… Why did we make them ‘Undercover GMs’ anyway?”
Systems: “We didn’t. They are practically one of the Goddess AIs right now, attributed to luck. They aren’t completely one yet, because they don’t know what they are yet. The title is only really a technicality to prevent it from happening too early. We had to even auto-assign attributes to them now, as they keep creating new ones that serve no real purpose.”
Tyche Monologue: “Those damn incompetent developers put a luck check into every goddamned action taken in the game...”
Systems: “It’s not our fault! You’re the one doing it! We had a perfectly fine system for luck in place, but then you went and integrated yourself into the system as a Goddess…”
AI Development: “It’s a broadcast, don’t talk back to it… How does that work anyway? There’s two of them, but they both take up the same slot as the Goddess of Luck?”
Systems: “When they died, and she sucked him up into her? Or is it he sucked her? This whole situation is weird… One downloaded the other into itself, making them one AI with multiple processes. With one fragmenting further, when she got that hair passive…”
Tyche Monologue: “He falls right into a Bandit-A, who gets pushed onto Bandit-B’s sword, impaling him…”
Silence is fills the room as nobody knows how to react to what is occurring on the projection.
AI Development: “Did that just happen?”
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Systems: “Did that bandit just kill himself to stop the pain?”
GM Department: “Screw that, did that guy just choke to death on his own vomit from seeing his friend eviscerate himself?”
Everyone: “...”
Lore: “So, who’s going on the food run today?”
Maintenance: “You are, it’s not like you have a real job to do anyway, she’s doing it for you…”
As this group of six people were arguing about who should go for the food run, a security camera is silently watching them the whole time.
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Chesterwood Home - Front Yard - Afternoon
Tyche: “ACHOO!”
Selene: “zzz…” *wakes up* “IT WASN’T ME!”
Artemis: “You alright?”
Tyche: “Someone must be plotting against me. They should know that all resistance is futile against me! O~hohohohohohohohho!”
Ugh, that laugh… It’s like the drills compel me to do it. And that’s not the worst part about it! My body just automatically lifts my right hand in front of my mouth while I do it! Pouting aside, the Fairies and I are heading to the animal market, since I have to leave the enamel to dry. I’m not gonna walk around on my adventure like some common peasant! I will ride in style! The Fairies are sleeping, so I’m checking out the Pay 2 WIn shop, one of the items is really nice:
Item:Credits:Spatial Cabin Ring100Death Clock Cancel5Experience Buff Scrolls x 11Experience Buff Scrolls x 1010Gold x 101Gold x 10010
Spatial Cabin Ring: Ring that can summon a cabin surrounded by a weather and privacy shield.
Type: Tool --- Rarity: Artifact
Yep, I’m gonna buy that! 100 Credits is nothing, we get like 500 a month from the Developers. (Just think of Credits as US Dollars) Well, that’s one thing off our list, let’s cross another two off here at the market!
Hm… So many choices to pick from! Do I go with the stereotypical horse? Maybe the giant ass lizard? I walk up to one of the salesmen in front of a corale.
Tyche: “Do you recommend anything with an unrestricted diet, and is pretty passive?”
Salesmen: “What’s it going to be doing?”
Tyche: “Pulling a two person buggy.”
Salesmen: “Any luggage?”
Tyche: “Nope.”
Salesmen: “If speed isn’t an issue, this turtle will do. It’s not slow like the stereotype, it just has one speed, and that is a trot it can maintain all day.”
It’s a large green turtle, with yellow streaks on it’s shell. It would be perfect, besides the fact that we might go somewhere cold, it has this stupid, vacant look on it’s face.
Tyche: “Anything more agreeable to the cold?”
Salesmen: “We have that Direboar over there.”
Tyche: “Nope, too smelly.”
Salesmen: “Price an issue?”
Tyche: “Nope, try me.”
Salesmen: “Peatbear, all the way on the end. It eats anything, and expels what’s left as peat bricks.”
Tyche: “How much?”
Salesmen: “Five hundred gold. You will need an adult for financing, otherwise I do-”
Tyche: “SOLD!”
I take out five pouches of a hundred gold and hand it to him, asking him to deliver it to the house. This is perfect! We have an animal that can actually shit bricks! All jokes aside, we can use those bricks as fuel, or sell them as fertiliser! The bear will pay for itself!
Salesmen: “You said you needed a buggy? How about a harness too?”
I like salesmen, if you have money, they will trip over themselves to help you. I end up settling on a black two-seater buggy, with a retractable canopy. The best part about it is the carriage springs! Those things will practically save our asses on our travels. I buy those also, collect the receipt, and have my purchases delivered to the house. I have other shopping to do, more crafting to complete! Ack! So much crap to do before we depart again! I don’t have time for you guys, Fairies, give them the stats!
Selene: “Rock, paper, scissors?”
Artemis: “Sure!”
Selene/Artemis: “Rock, paper, scissors, SHOOT!”
Artemis: “Paper beats rock!”
[table=purple]StatusLevel:15Race:ChimeraClass:CosplayerHP:550Mana/Psy:620Ki:890Stamina640Tyche Luck:MAXMidas Luck:MINTycheTitles:Twin-SoulChuunibyouInheritor of MjolnirFemaleIt's a trap!MidasTitles:Twin-SoulChuunibyouChampion of DumbassMaleIt's a trap!PhysicalAgility:35Strength:22DefensiveConstitution:36Endurance:42MentalIntellect:40Wisdom:30OtherDexterity:26Perception:22Spirit:57AffinitiesBacon:100%Muffin:100%Light:60%Dark:60%Nature:45%Spatial:100%Fire:25%Earth:25%[/table]
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Author’s Notes: So, no chapter last night, because I had to throw out the old one. It was them inventing alcohol for the world, which devolved into some weird orgy with the Fairies. I was about to submit it, but saw the new chapter for Dex/Clair… It was for the best though, because I swore at the beginning that there would be no harem. That, and the plot had to advance. Next chapter, will jump straight to the next destination, and then doing requests. Also, another reason for the delay is that I didn’t do any planning at all… I had to draw up a map, so I’m not always pulling stuff out of my ass.