Omake
Dear Diary,
I’ve been stuck on this tropical island for 3 days now.
Although I have enough food and water to survive the situation is still grim.
For this is not a deserted island. There are violent aggressive natives who I believe wish me to be a sacrifice to their god.
All attempts at communication have failed. They either don’t understand me or think what I offer them is food. My hand is not food! Neither is my pet Wilson!
My pet Wilson is the only thing keeping my sanity together. Isn’t that right my lovely lord of flies rotting slimy coconut friend?
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Chapter 2 – Red Rage Revenge
Three hours and forty seven minutes. That is how long G8-41’s hell lasted.
*Pop* *Splut* *Pain* *Death* in that order, no variation. Every 10 seconds. Being an AI he can tell time down to the millisecond. After his inevitable painful death he has 10.000 seconds of rest before it begins again.
It takes the adventures an average of 4.98 seconds to kill him. The longest he lasted was 8.210 seconds when he hid under one of the casters robes. That time was almost a mercy killing. G8-41 found out the male caster doesn’t wear beneath his robes. And the stench means he hasn’t bathed recently either.
This is hell. Not the good kind of hell where G8-41 is king and enjoying it. No the bad kind of endless torture and suffering without end as a gooey loot piñata. As a “rare mob” the spawn time should be longer he thinks. It seems way too fast at 10 seconds. At least it should be a few minutes.
The developers must be sadistic bastards, making their AI feel full pain and killing them over and over without mercy.
He tries everything he can think of to escape.
Communication “I’m a sentient being who can feel pain, please stop.” which only comes out “Gi GI GI gi GI gi.” Countered by the adventures casting silence.
Looking Cute. Sadly this looks like a runny egg slowly rotting. Countered by the adventures lack of aesthetics.
Attacking. Body Slam does 0 damage. Spit Sticky Goo disappears before it hits the target. Countered by an apparent bug in the slime attack system.
Running. Slimes top speed is a brisk walking pace. Countered by well just shooting arrows, they don’t even bother to run after him.
Dodging. It takes all of his 10 stamina to bounce 3 feet away. Same as the above but they don’t lead him as much.
Hiding. For some reason he has a nice cheery red glow which is easily seen from a distance. Countered by adventures innate loot detection devices called “eyes”.
Playing Dead. Countered by the adventures raising their curb stomp skill.
He was about to give in to despair when his salvation arrived. A system shutdown message appears. The next 5 minutes are the longest for G8-41 but then the horrid initiation into this world is at an end.
He quivers in his home nothingness for several minutes after the system shutdown. There must be a way out of this. Maybe Eris made a mistake. Let’s trying praying to her and see what happens.
“Oh goddess hollowed be thy name. Please come to the aid of your follower. Appear before me Eris goddess of umm whatever you are the goddess of.”
His half-assed demon summoning and Christian prayer to summon a Greek goddess somehow works. Eris appears clad in black leather with silver trim which matches her shoulder length black hair and slightly glowing silver eyes.
Even after all he’s been through G8-41 decides to take a moment to appreciate the busty beauty. Her chest armor is low cut and stops above her naval. It’s really just a leather crop top designed more for style than for protection. Her pants are low rise form fitting black leather that he wonders how she can move in something so tight. Knee high boots with 4” heels completes the sexy rogue look.
It’s almost enough to make him forget the past 4 hours. However his impending sand bag life of pain reminds him he should clarify the deal he agreed to with Eris. “So, Eris, about being reincarnated in a new world as a demon lord. Why am I an AI who feels pain stuck in a cannon fodder slime body?”
“Well silly it’s what you agreed to. Reincarnated as a daemon load AI, with your memories, bonuses, magic.”
“Daemon load AI? As in a computer system process and not as in ruler of hell?”
“That’s right.”
“WHO THE HELL WOULD AGREE TO THAT! You said demon lord, D-E-M-O-N L-O-R-D!”
“You must’ve misheard or something. You were dying at the time you know.”
“You were the one that murdered me! I have 0 mp and my stats are less than a farmer! How exactly did you give me magic and bonuses?”
“Well instead of that dreary blue color most slime have you are instead uniquely colored red. A nice bonus don’tcha think? And I gave you a magical cheery red aura. No matter how lost or depressed you are you can look at that wonderful aura and feel happy again. It’s magical~”
Absolutely flabbergasted by how he was completely swindled he could do nothing but sputter nonsense. His rage building more and more as he tries to understand. He can no longer contain himself when he looks up and sees her smirking grin.
G8-41 uses Spit Sticky Goo. It’s super effective!
Eris is hit right in the face. Red goo splatters into her mouth, up her nose and the remainder comes to rest in her silky sleek black hair. Her eyes glare at him through the dripping goo. As the goo drips down into her ample cleavage her face turns beet red.
2.5 seconds later she pulls out two wicked looking daggers from her wide hipped belt.
“Die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die. How dare you assault a goddess! You dare pollute a woman’s hair? DIE!”
G8-41 is already dead so he can’t die again. Thus her yandere fueled rage attack continues for some time. In his own rage he continues to spit sticky goo at Eris as she stabs him. None were as effective as the first but eventually she is completely covered in sticky red slime. Some of which seems to be slowly changing into a viscous glue like mess.
“You are totally beneath me. You don’t deserve my notice. Go get farmed to death already.” The goddess says in a huff before she vanishes.
“I hope my slime causes chafing!” he says to the nothingness.
After his rage clears he wonders why his slime trolling ability started working. He notices a system window. Apparently in his despair and rage he missed it popping up. Now applying Alpha-to-Beta patch (478329/32467823461)
All is not lost he thinks. A hugely complex system in beta should have plenty of bugs to exploit. He’ll just have to find them and abuse them like a true demon lord would. Looking at the patch progress he should have plenty of time to explore.
Hours later he’s both hopeful and frustrated. Most of the system is down for patching including the critical character growth and combat system preventing him from digging for exploits in those systems. On the plus side most of the help system, in-game browser, dev wiki pages are accessible. He’ll have to be careful but he might just be able to get developers to program in some beneficial Easter eggs for him with a bit of page editing.
He also finds he has access to the general user system menu. It has things like UI customization, system spec settings, logout button, bug submission ect. The logout button is greyed out as is the bug submission button. The UI customization does many things including options to show or hide varies notifications and parts of status, ability and character screens.
He spends some time customizing the UI to his liking.
(Author’s note this means I can just show the relevant to story stuff and not spam readers with useless status info. Also I can randomly pull crap out and say look it was there the whole time! ^-^ I like to foreshadow things so hopefully this won’t happen much unless I really screw up.)
Spoiler :
(Hint hint) Foreshadowing is doubly true in the chapter omake. It doesn’t just setup the chapter tone it will have vague references to distant future plots. Well or not so vague in chapter 1 omake. Anyway have fun playing where’s Wilson in the forums.
Another find he has is the pain level slider. It goes from 30 to 150 percent. His is set to 150 and greyed out. The devs really do like to torment AI’s. For a normal player the higher the pain the shorter the respawn time after death. 3 days at 30 percent and just 6 hours at 150%.
Time to use the in-game browser and learn about the world outside the VR. He learns it’s much like his old world, although seems a few years ahead of the one he came from technologically speaking.
After a long time searching he finally finds the game he’s in. Oriana. Very little knowledge about it is available. No press, little information online, almost like the game company doesn’t want anyone to know about it. Other than the gaming companies name and that its using a new full immersion VR technology almost nothing is known.
The game companies name is NERV – New Entertainment Reality Virtual with a parent holding company named New World Zero aka NW0. If that wasn’t ominously Orwellian enough they are also privately held so no pesky need to be public about its goals or finances.
They are trying too hard he thinks. Are they compensating for something or just that pretentious? Well whatever, he’s sure they are doing something to players’ minds or just think their VR will be that revolutionary. Either way probably doesn’t have anything to do with him.
All work and no play makes G8-41 a dull AI. After a bit of forum trolling to raise his spirits he ends his online time by signing up for an email address and Oriana beta. Might be able to get more information via the beta forums if he’s accepted. Also preventing one more newbie from joining and playing, ‘let’s kill the red glowing loot bag’, always a plus.
Well patching is almost done and now he has some slime attacks. Hopefully his next game world debut will go better than the last. He imagines himself as a paratrooper about to jump from the plane into heavy enemy fire.
*Pop*
*Splut*
The sounds of enemy fire can be heard all around *Pop* *Pop* *Pop* *Splut* *Splut* *Splut* Oh wait that’s just all the blue slimes spawning in. He feels a bit silly, of course it would take time for the servers to fully load and have players login.
May as well explore while the players are logged off. In short order G8-41 finds he’s trapped in a newbie zone. A large city in the middle surrounded by mountains with one exit out. Of course the one exit out has a well-guarded fortress with many NPC guards in it. The city is also well defended by the same guards.
*Pop*
*Splut*
Unsurprisingly they are hostile he thinks as he respawns after trying to sneak by them to escape this newbie area death trap.
“Hey look it’s a red glowing slime, it must be a rare mob. Let’s kill it.”
Oh good the uneducated unwashed masses of newbies have arrived. His unflattering thought is not far off. A group of 3 adventures wielding pointy wooden sticks and wearing loin cloths advance on him.
He has no idea why this group of adventures is so poorly equipped but he might as well see what a fully operation battle slime can do. He tries to preemptively attack with his spit sticky goo ability but nothing comes out.
The lead savage stabs him with his bad joke of a weapon for 4 damage. G8-41 second attempt at spit sticky goo works. He wonders if it’s due to his non-hostile alignment. Savage 2 & 3 attack for another 4 damage each. He refuses to call such shoddily equipped players adventures anymore.
G8-41 decides to use body slam hitting savage 2 in the stomach for 20 points of damage. After a gasp for air the savage fades into a mass of particles and drops a tiny glowing crystal. A one-shot kill. The other two savages look at each other and run for it.
Slowing them with spit sticky goo and hitting them two times each with body slam G8-41 finishes them off. This is much better he thinks. He wonders why they are so weak and what the crystals they dropped are.
He goes to pick up one of the crystals to look at. However just as he touches it the crystal levitates and fly’s into him.
Player Death Crystal Claimed
+1 wood carving skill
+1 spear skill
+2 xp
Hmm not very much at all. Opening up help he reads about player death. Upon death players will lose 10% experience, skills, ability levels, and are unable to logon again for a period of time. They will also drop a player death crystal. If the crystal is claimed by a players ally they can choose to give it back to the killed player returning 50% of the penalty (5% of total skills & xp). Otherwise whoever picks it up gains 10% of the penalty (1% of total skills & xp).
So the player I killed had around 100 spear skill, 100 wood carving skill and around 200xp. Maybe less if it rounded up, after all it might be a minimum of 1 if lower than 100 skill.
He continues to read about skills. Each time a skill action is performed he can gain 1 skill point. However it becomes increasing difficult to skill up. First 3 skill levels take 10, 100, and 1000 points respectively. Also you need at least 10 skill points, first level of skill, to use most skills. A few basic skills such as poke things with sticks can be used untrained though.
Since he doubts most NPC’s or players are willing to train him in magic it looks like he’ll have to take it by force. Time to go noob hunting he thinks. After several hours of easy kills later he gains the following abilities and skills.
Attack Abilities
Body Slam (Tackle): Does 11 damage and has a 22% chance to stun target (2 seconds)Spit Sticky Goo(Trolling): Causes a short distraction (2.5 seconds) as the target looks at you in anger.Pseudopod (Weapon Skill): Create a temporary projection of slime membrane to attack foes. Does 5 damage. Modes: slightly pointy (spear), normal (club)
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Skills Summary
Wood Carving (Novice 22%) – You cut the wood more than yourself when carving… usually.Spear (Novice 12%) – You know which way to point the sharp end.Club (Novice 15%) – A simple weapon for a simple mind.Throw Rock (Untrained 30%) – Rocks aren’t just for chewing anymore.Tackle (Novice 73%) – Belly flops are more graceful and less painful to you.Trolling (Journeyman 0%) – You are the highest skilled in the skill. You’d be called a trolling god but you still suxors lol.
This is not working out well at all. Not a single caster in the bunch and the skill gains aren’t worth the effort. He might as well train by hitting a tree repeatedly. He also hasn’t gotten a single loot drop from killing newbies or any reputation gains.
“Where are all the casters? Why are there so few newbies running around? What’s with the insulting skill summary? Why are players stuck in the Stone Age? And why don’t they drop anything? Is this all there is to my life?”
“Hai”
“Do you want to die?” he says as he makes a yakuza face at the blue slime that just dare to insult him.
“Hai”
“You’re not the brightest slime are you?”
“Hai”
“Sigh. Going out on a limb here and going to say that is all you can say right?”
“Hai”
“Great I can start my own comedy act that only idiot slimes can understand. Go away.”
“Hai” The blue slime replies before coming to attention and bouncing away.
At least he thinks that was standing at attention. The blue slime sort of became less wiggly and taller for a moment. Does that mean they will follow orders?
“Hey wait, I want you to follow me around.”
“Hai”
G8-41 moves around in a large circle as the blue slime follows him.
“Ku ku ku. So begins my reign of slimes. Alright first slime recruit bounce up and down while spinning and moving in a square. Also pick up that rock.”
“Hai”
The blue slime just bounces up and down. As expected they will only follow one simple command at a time.
G8-41 moves to a new blue slime. “Follow me.”
“Hai”
G8-41 again moves in a circle but only one slime follows.
“Leadership is 1 does that mean only one lv 1 mob will follow my orders? Tell that blue slime next to you to follow you.”
“Hai” The blue slime recruit turns to another blue slime and says, “Hai” the other slime responses “Hai”
Round and round he goes. This time both slimes follow.
New Skill!
Command (Novice 0%)
Command is the ability to direct others with authority.
Effect: Able to order minions to do actions they normally wouldn’t do and they are more effective at those actions. Higher levels allow more variety of orders to be carried out more effectively.
“Ku ku ku chain of command and my first slime army is born.”
“Hai” x2
“Time to prove your loyalty to me slime one. Attack the blue slime following you.”
“Hai”
The normally non-hostile mob takes initiative and attacks. Four hits latter he downs his fellow slime. Although he looks nearly dead as the target slime dealt 3 hits in return before he died in the first demonic loyalty purge.
Well at least they are loyal. Quality is nonexistent so will have to go with quantity. To raise his leadership stat and command skill G8-41 orders slimes to attack their fellow slimes every chance he gets. Thus began the first demonic army’s unprovoked invasion.
To raise his own attack skills G8-41 found he could join the attacks after his minion started attacking. He also sometimes amused himself by pretending to be a yakuza and after a slime “accidently” bumped into him he would attack.
For the most part players started to avoid him. If they got too close G8-41 would initiate combat with a minion slime then attack with spit sticky goo. Even if they got away most would have to spend hours getting rid of the cold, mildly acidic sticky allergen. Doubly true if it got into the players hair. G8-41 took particular delight targeting those with long flowing locks.
Hunger Warning
You haven’t eaten anything for 8 hours and thirst or hunger levels have fallen under 30% sated. You should find something to eat. You will start to take penalties the more your thirst or hunger levels fall.
"AI controlled slimes need to eat? Wonder what slimes eat.”
After slime farming G8-41 has a lot of blue slime goo and a few blue slime cores. He decides to eat a blue slime goo. It raises his thirst and hunger levels 20%.
New Title: Cannibal
You have eaten the corpse of your own kind. Maybe you were desperate for food or maybe it was part of a dark ritual. Whatever the reason you are now a cannibal and are looked at in terror by your own kind.
Racial Affiliation Slime: +10 fear
New Racial Affiliation Level!
Local Thug
You’ve achieved first level of racial terror (slimes). Slimes under your command will follow your commands better out of fear.
+100 command skills when commanding slimes
+10 leadership toward slimes
“Ku ku ku. Let’s see what happens when I eat a blue slime core.”
New Title: Devourer of Souls
You have eaten the soul of your own kind. They look upon you as an evil member of your race.
Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear
New Racial Affiliation Level!
Local Evil
You’ve achieved second level of racial terror (slimes). Slimes under your command will follow your commands better out of fear.
+100 command skills when commanding slimes
+10 leadership toward slimes
+100 to intimidate skill when used on slimes
Although eating the core doesn’t change sated levels it was still worthwhile. G8-41 wonders how normal slime eat. He watches his fellow slimes a bit and notices that occasionally a brown patch of dead grass appears under them. He tries to think about absorbing the grass under him. The grass under him turns brown and he gains 3% sated to his hunger bar. Easier to just eat slime goo he thinks. He fills up the rest of his hunger and thirst bars by eating slime goo.
Now it’s time to increase his terror level of his own race. The bonuses are nice and it amuses him as well. After 4 more hours of terror he has gained the following.
Terror Action
You have eaten a fellow slime alive.
Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear
Gained new skill: Bite
Gained ability: Devourer (Bite)
Terror Action
You have ripped out the still beating core of a slime with your bare pseudopod.
Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear
Gained new skill: Martial arts
Updated ability: Psuedopod (Slime-fu)
Terror Action
You have absorbed a fellow slime alive.
Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear
Gained new skill: Grapple
Updated ability: Psuedopod (Grapple)
Gained ability: Absorption (Special)
New Title: Mass Murderer
You have killed more than 100 of your own kind in a short time. Oh the slimanity!
Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear
Terror Action
You have bathed in the blood (goo) of your own kind.
Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear
Terror Action
You have put 10 or more own race heads (blue slime goo) on a pike (stick)
Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear
Terror Action
Tortured your own kind to death via dehydration. Slimes fear dying of dehydration more than any other way.
Racial Affiliation Slime: +1000 fear
New Racial Affiliation Level!
Rising Evil
You’ve achieved third level of racial terror (slimes). Slimes under your command will follow your commands better out of fear. Your name is now whispered in terror. Slime parents use your name into scaring baby slimes to be good.
+500 command skills when commanding slimes
+50 leadership toward slimes
+500 to intimidate skill when used on slimes
New Title: Terrorist Master Mind
Your rapid and inventive campaign of terror has caused further terror in the hearts of the slime populous.
Racial Affiliation Slime: +6666 fear
New Racial Affiliation Level!
Evil Overlord
You’ve achieved fourth level of racial terror (slimes). Slimes under your command will follow your commands better out of fear. Slimes are calling for a hero to save them from your evil.
+1000 command skills when commanding slimes
+200 leadership toward slimes
+1000 to intimidate skill when used on slimes
All in an evil day’s work. Yawn. Well time to sleep for tomorrow the great demon king AI will continue his demonic rise. G8-41 finds a nice pile of leaves to rest in and goes to sleep.
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Next chapter blurb
The great slime prophet gives hope to the slime people. After 10000 minutes of terror the reign of the evil overlord red slime shall come to an end. A hero shall rise up and defeat him. With his companions he shall slay the great terror and bring back peace to the newbie zone. Fury of Heroes.
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