The Golden King found himself, to his own shock, separated from his own body and now flying through a tunnel of blue light at rapid speed. Then just as soon as his journey had started, it stopped, dropping him off in a large and empty stone room, the only source of light in the room being a strange glowing flower hanging from the ceiling.
The Golden King quickly took a defensive stance, his eyes darting around the room, scanning, trying to find and identify any threats before they made their move to attack him. He found none, though whether there were no threats in the room or that there were and the Golden King just couldn't spot them, he wasn't sure. Which was never a good situation to be in, especially when you find yourself in unfamiliar territory.
Suddenly, as if appearing from thin air, a man was suddenly standing in the center of the room directly below the large glowing flower. The two men locked eyes with one another as they both measured each other, looking for strengths and weaknesses. Suddenly the man who had suddenly appeared spoke to Golden King.
"While it looks like you are my new trainee and it seems you have some skill already, which is rather good for me, as it will make it easier for me to make you into a soldier." The unknown man said to the Golden King, making him realize he was in some kind of tutorial for the exploration portion of the game.
"Well before we start, what's your name, trainee?" The stranger asked the golden king, who nodded respectfully before responding to the question.
"My name is Golden. What would yours be?" Golden King said as his response, playing along for now with the game until he was shown he needed to act otherwise, as he was here to discover any sinister purposes the game may have, which is easier to do when the game doesn't suspect you, hence playing along.
"Well, trainee, my name is Eter, a commander within the armies of the Detreon people and a devout servant of the goddess Detrei. I will be making sure you know how to fight in an enclosed space as part of a unit. So now that introductions are out of the way, march!" The man now named Eter informed Golden King of his name and station before ordering him to march.
This caused a rather surprising transformation to occur as the golden king suddenly found himself in a glowing green armor seemingly cobbled together by mushrooms before he could make sense of it. The Golden King was marching down a hallway that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The Golden King thought about trying to resist the seemingly overwhelming urge to march but decided to go with it as it seemed to be merely a part of his training in the tutorial.
Soon enough the Golden King found himself in a new room with his trainer, Eter. It was an intersection in between four hallways: the one he had come down and three others. He looked around the room trying to see why he had been forced to march here, but besides it being an intersection, there didn't seem to be anything special about the new room that made it any better than the one they were in previously.
"Good, now that you're in the training zone, it's time you got yourself armed." Eter said, waving his hand, causing a huge mushroom to suddenly pop out of the ground, acting as a table, as laid upon it was a mace and a shield. He looked at the two a moment, looking them over, which caused two green screens to appear, giving him details on his new shield and mace.
Viburnum shield-plant shield- shield type : round shield- description: a round shield with a series of small spherical white flowers at it center around this center are giant leaves that spread around and make up the rest of the shield. The flowers roots make up the strap for the shield to be held- special trait- repellent leafs : this is a plant who's leaves are an insect repellent so when an undead insect attacks this shield they will not find themselves repelled but burned as well.
Giant onion mace-plant mace- mace type : spiked mace - description: a giant onion with its roots having manipulated to form both a handle to hold it by and spike to stab into when the giant onion at it end hits. -special traits- big onion : the large onion at the end of the mace always hits harder than it was swung as if the onion mace the opponent is being smashed with is far larger than it actually is.
Now that the golden king had read the details of his odd but seemingly effective plant-based weaponry, he picked them up from the mushroom table and got into a stance, figuring he would have to use his new equipment soon after he had gotten it. Though he did take a moment to give his own armor a look over so that he could get more details in it like he had gotten on his mace and shield.
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Glowing mushroom armor-plant arnor- armor type : scale mail - description: an armor made up of hundreds of glowing mushrooms all sewn together into one piece of armor. -special traits- the great mushroo light: this mushroom arm not is always glowing making perfect for underground exploration for those with poor or no night vision and I'm case of emergencys this armor can let out one giant flash of light to distract and blind enemies.
Well, it seems my armor is good for more than just being a night light, which was a good thing to know the Golden King's thought before Eter brought his attention back to him. "Well, now that you're done looking at yourself, it's time to get to training, so we'll take the easy course, which will be going down the first hallway on the left." Eter said, pointing down the long hallway for emphasis.
The Golden King looked at Eter for a moment, wondering if his training really was walking down a hallway. But Eter kept pointing his finger, so the Golden King started walking, keeping his shield raised, figuring even if it was ridiculous, he should at least try to take it as seriously as he could. So that's why he was in no way ready when a few feet down the corridors he found a burning sensation in his shoulder as something took a chunk out of it.
He rolled to the ground and brought his shield up in time to block the following strike as one of the vines that were scattered throughout the long cavern hallway was blocked from its second peeling of his flesh by his bringing up of his shield in time. Golden King found himself breathing hard for a moment, the sudden intense pain and movement causing him to hyperventilate for a moment before he swiftly brought it under control.
"Well, it seems you found your trying partner for this path." Eter said from back in the main chamber. "You see, Hargal likes to create undead that are a part of their surroundings, used to defend his tombs with such creatures. So we figured it's best if you get trained to get used to your environment suddenly trying to kill you." Eter said plainly as more hidden vines suddenly shot out from the walls to try and kill Golden King.
Golden King was listening to Eter talk well, and at the same time, the hidden vines around him were trying their damndest to kill him. I can already tell I'm going to love it here, the Golden King thought to himself as he went deeper into the hallway, hoping to find the source of all the vines trying to kill him at its end.
Robert watched on as the new batch of players was trained in how to fight in the new regions; well, those that had already been playing simply began exploring the new parts of the world. "Well Simon, it seems the players are enjoying the new editions at least." Robert said with a positive tone, happy at all the positive feedback back for the recent additions.
"So am I, Robert." Simon suddenly said, speaking up. "All these new areas and new players have caused my ratings to go up as the viewers enjoy the shows unfolding on Allyssa." Simon was ecstatic as any host would be when finding out they were getting good ratings.
"Well, good to hear, I suppose." Robert always deciding not to put a damper on Simon's usual ranting obsession. "So I suppose on seeing new things you want to see how new players are doing as they train before they explore Hargal's new mountains?" Robert asked, figuring it would be something interesting for them both to see.
"Of course, Simon, it's always great for ratings to watch the newbies screw up; it always gets the crowd roaring with laughter." Simon said, his voice filled with excitement that Robert decided to ignore as the two focused on the wall of TV screens and saw what the training was for those looking to explore the Dragfly mountains.