Chapter 2

Opening up his administrator HUD he goes to the Public Broadcast Sub-Category and activates the admin apparel set hiding his face so when he is out in public people won't come up to him and harass him about not being able to log out. He then activates the broadcast and waits a few moments as the world pauses so people can watch and listen to the broadcast without being attacked by mobs or anything else.

Global Broadcast

“Hello everyone as you may know my name is Stanley Lindsey the Creator of Transcend Online. I am making this broadcast because it has become apparent that we are all stuck inside Transcend Online and are unable to logout. I don't know what caused this but I am not even able to shut down the server I fear that this bug might be deeper into the system than I originally thought because it also took down the outside communication systems. To keep more people from logging into the game I closed the servers to new connections so people can't log in I will keep it like that until I am able to get everyone here out of the game please while we are all stuck here report any bugs you come across because I might be able to link it to the bug and lead me to solve it but please don't try to spam the report as there will likely be multiple reports I will be dealing with, and please don’t just report so you can physically and verbally attack me. Please, anything will help, help me help you. For the hackers who are of course in here, there is never a game without at least one hacker. For once you guy can actually be useful to the game. For every loophole, you people can find and report, once I fix it I will grant you any one thing you want. This is for each loophole found. Even though I say this I will not grant custom-coded items or high tier items.”

“That is all for this announcement, even with this problem hanging over everyone, I hope you all can at least enjoy my game a little bit I have spent a lot of time and money making it and I am very sorry that this has happened. Even with all the prelaunch tests, I have done nothing like this has ever come up.”

“Thank you for listening.”

With the announcement done Stanley checked the reported bugs log and set the notification settings to once every hour if there is a report so he isn’t instantly spammed with reports. After that, he went and started to create a character so he could blend in with the people and not be noticed and would have free will to move around. Before he did that though he needed to talk to the AI that runs the whole game system.

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Administrator console

Entity call: AI Overlord

Summoning Entity: AI Overlord

Summon successful 

With this Stanley expected the AI to open a voice and text chat with him, but instead, the Overlord appeared in front of him in a physical NPC character model.

  “That's new” Stanley mused to himself

  “You called master?” the Overlord said and kneeled to him

  “Yes something major has happened and many of the game systems are nonfunctional you are to put 60% resources into a full system scan and repair there are bound to be major bugs in the game since this happened the main thing I want you to focus on is to bring back up external communications so we can talk to people on the outside and explain what is currently going on. Put all 60% resources into doing that then once it's done focus on the bug in cell 184 then spread those resources out to fix all the reported bugs in the started area the more of those we can crack down on the better.”

  “Confirming commands. Allocating resources... complete.” the AI droned in a toneless voice

  “That is all for now dismissed”

  “Acknowledged”

With that, the AI disappeared and Stanley decided he needed to make a character to explore his creation with. under the guise of looking for bugs when he really just wanted to run around his world

Administrator Console

Character creator

Error

Open Character creator

Error: cannot have more than one Character

Set user Character model administrator

Character model set as Administrator

Set Admin Character limit to Infinite

Admin Character limit has been set to Infinite

“Finally that took way to much time” Stanley muttered to himself. “Why did I even set a limit for that? maybe the AI did it to try to limit people from breaking the system by creating more characters and spamming certain items.”

“Now since that took me way to long there are now multiple bug reports I have to respond to so I will have to get to creating a new character for myself after I deal with these reports”

Admin report list

You have 387 pending reports

Would you like the pending reports to be listed? Yes or No?

Input: teleport to the first report

Teleporting

With that done a portal started to appear in front of Stanley “This is going to be a very long day,” he sighed to himself and the portal dragged him in.