A new promo video began to sweep the internet for a game not many people had heard of but those that had played allyssa it was out of this world literally. As the game seemed to you use some state of the art technology to send you to a virtually reality as far as anyone could guess.
Though why the game was doing this no one had any idea. There were no big companies linked to it and all the governments and big names of the world looked as shocked by its existence as anyone could tell. In fact a few were so shocked they actually panicked and tried to ban the game in their country which just boosted sells for the game. Nothing like telling someone not to do something to make them do it.
Though there were several who thought the game was far to real to be any sort of technology and was an actually real world they were helping real people. Well the problem with that was when you live in a world where Eldritch entities either take over your body or give you power, people were having mixed feelings about that hypothesis.
Though there were more than few that didn't really care how the game worked they just wanted to play it. They were excited to fight the undead with weird vegetable weapons and armor they made. Though they were curious when the dungeon diving expect would come in as of right now the game was focused on defending the forts from the undead. So it was more of a tower defense game than a proper dungeon diver.
Though people weren't all that concerned as the map for the world had proven to be massive as players defended multiple forts across small miltant empires that large of a map made them figure that they would unlock dungeons later as they defended the forts from undead.
So all Robert and Simon could think was that the promo had done it's job and brought a lot of interest to Allyssa's world. As both the creator and the players enjoyed the game a certain goddess was enjoying her rather important haul from the siege of Faria.
There Detrei was in a secret room in the heart of one of her churches at the capital of one of her people's empires. She was slowly cutting up and examining the remains of calacra below a large statue of Robert in his atla form. " Ah so many interesting things in this little tree there is. Soon I can make use of them and when I do I'll be with you father." Detrei said a beautiful smile on her face as she looked at her statue of her creator Robert.
" Mmmmm but in the mean time I do have to give some reward for getting me this fine specimen." Detrei said as she eyed calacra's corpse. She then took one of his taloned branch hands and slowly began to rework the martial. As she had seen mark do before. When she was finally done she was holding a staff that was made out of pale wood with a sharpened taloned hand at it's head.
calacra's reach-undead staff- weapon type: magic staff- description a tall wooden staff made out of pale wood with a sharpened taloned hand at its head- special trait- heart grasper- the hand at the head of the staff will reach for the heart of whatever foe of its user it is directed to. It usually does this by stretching and reaching around an opponent defenses and then tearing out the opponents heart with its sharpened talons.
Detrei thought the magic staff would make for a fine reward if she said so herself. It would at least stifle any rumors among the players that she was ungrateful or was not a woman of her word. She grasped the staff with light and it disappeared to only reappear when Mark returned to Allyssa so he could claim it. With that out of the way Detrei swiftly returned to calacra's corpse to draw something from it that she would need for her future plans.
As Detrei was plotting what she was going to do with the boons she had gained from calacra's corpse mark was doing his rounds at the asylum. He was once again talking to one of the mad supers. The one known as the Cut once again they were watching cheesy action cartoons as the cut cheered on the hero fighting the Saturday villain of the week.
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It was so surprising to mark so many people kept baying for the Cuts blood especially since the guy seemed to love the idea of hero's and good being triumphent over evil. They'd probably say that was due to the drugs that made him a child. Mark's counter to that was that the drugs made him a child not change his preferences. So the Cut honestly believed in justice and good more than most people from what Mark had seen.
Eventually though Mark had to move onto the rest of his patients. " Have a good one Cut. Keep cheering on the hero for me would ya?." Mark said with a cheerful upbeat voice trying to keep Cut happy who looked back at him and gave him a thumps up before turning back to the TV to cheer on the hero. Mark still found it a bit depressing that he couldn't call the Cut by his actual name instead he had to call him by mad title. This was done to prevent retaliation to the families of the mad by vengeful family members of the mad's rampage when they were under the controll of their powers or Eldritch entities.
Mark eventually finished his rounds giving all the other mad supers like the twins their medicine and making them comfortable. Then he spent some time with them trying to be happy company for them before he left. Eventually his shift ended and he had go. He wished Sharon at the front desk a good day and headed to his beat up car.
Mark quickly started it up and on was on the highway not long after. As mark made his way down the highway way he began to make small blue shapes hover over the dashboard as practice for his power. He was doing this because the fight in allyssa at the siege of Faria had shown just how rusty at fighting he had gotten.
So Mark figured if he wanted to be ready for his next fight when it happened he should at least practice so that he was once again adept at using his own powers. He spent most of the ride home just making basic shapes in the air such as pyramids and cubes. Once he was sure he was good at those again he slowly began to form a chain with collar at the end.
Using this chain and collar combo he had it wrap around the radio and through careful manipulation had it turn the radio on. Mark was then surprised to hear a bunch of radio host talking about the game allyssa and how it had increased in popularity shocking alot of people considering it had gotten banned in a few countries and how their was some big event coming up soon in game.
Mark was surprised to hear that allyssa had become big enough to get talked about on the radio. As well as the fact their was some big event about to happen in the game he didn't know about. Though to be fair he hadn't played the game in a couple days deciding to not play the game and make sure there were no after effects of getting his heart ripped out in game.
Though as far as he could tell there weren't and if the game was gaining popularity then their were probably similar incidents and weren't any reported side effects from anyone else so he should be fine. So once Mark got home he immediately turned on his computer and began looking up any news on this big event going on in allyssa.
As Mark scrolled through the screen he saw that him and several of the other early players had done enough to turn the undead tide sieging all of the Detreons forts in Detrei's favor. Now with so many forts having free man power the Detreon were going to try and take back some of the old small mountain forts lost in the early days of this war.
" Well then I can't really turn down that kinda of excitement can I?" mark asked himself with excitement at the prospect of taking back some old undead for the Detreon. Honestly sounded like turning down a chance to be vanderberg and heading into the lair of draculara.
So with his mind made up Mark quickly clicked onto his download of the fields of allyssa as he once again took a comfortable position on his gaming chair. Soon his monitor began to glow and mark found his mind and soul once again traveling through a tunnel of light to Allyssa.
" Well Robert it looks like you have quite the event planned." Simon said interest filling his voice as he tried to figure out how why Robert had planned out such a major event without telling him or him noticing.
" I haven't Simon I haven't planned anything with this being an actual world that means the players actions have consequences. The only thing I've been doing lately is keeping the undead counter attacks from getting out of hand." Robert said in an a clearly exhausted voice.
" Oh well good to see the players are keeping things interesting for us and shaping the story in ways you didn't even predict. Though have the undead really been getting out of hand?" Simon asked his static filled voice sounding curios somehow.
" Yes several of the more intelligent have been panicking at the sudden counter offensive as well as all the players suddenly showing up. So I've had to stop several plagues they've created as a counter that would have left allyssa a dead husk." Robert said a bit of heat in his voice at all the fires he was having to put out.
" Well look on the bright side Robert. Will have a grand show to look forward to a siege on such a scale unseen on Allyssa ever before." Simon said his voice filled with excitement at the show that was about to start. Robert just rose an eyebrow but turned to the monitors to watch the battle about to unfold before them.