"Sorry for the info dumps, but this is the final prologue! I swear! Probably…
Also, how to tables?
Also again, I hadn’t saved in a bit and half the chapter got deleted when my windows decided to randomly shut down and update… stupid windows. It deleted from about the deage yourself weirdo part to the end. It’s not much, but for an amateur writer who really should be doing homework, it’s something :P
Prologue- Incognito
“We have decided to give you an offer to help both you and us. In order to not permanently change your character, we have decided to set you back to level 1…”
Roger ”WHAT!!”
“And in return we will change a certain amount of things about your class and add some things that should’ve been added if the development team wasn’t so lazy… along with a feature that we need to add in order to show other players that we ‘nerfed you’ per say, but didn’t actually.”
Roger “YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT SETTING ME BACK TO LEVEL 1! For me, who is level 262, that’s like setting a normal player back from level 589! You better have some offer for me to even consider considering it!”
“Woah, buddy, hold on, remember, you get to negotiate, and I have access to agree on some minor terms, I know setting you back to level 1 is a big deal, doubly so since your skills are as well, and some you shouldn’t have at your level are getting deleted, but..”
“WHAT”
“Crap, you heard that? Well, yeah, in order to not make you a overpowered level 1, we have to set your skills back as well, also the stats you manually grinded for. But at least you keep your class?”
“This is bull, it took me two YEARS to get me to where I am now.”
“look on the bright side, at least this means you get some concessions, and some big ones at that. Management does Not want you to leave, so you could probably ring out some pretty big ones.”
“*sigh* Fine. First of all, I want to be able to allocate my class stat points to strength and agili-“
“No.”
“What? Why?"
"That’s actually a pretty big concession you know, even if I could authorize it, I wouldn’t.”
“I want my age of dea-“
“NO!”
“Oh COMEON!”
“Seriously, that would take at least three quarters of your concessions.”
“Fine… I want to be able to manipulate mana and make my own spells.”
“Are you sure?”
“Of course!”
“Okay, that’s one, though we were going to do that anyway…”
“What did you just say?”
“Nothing, nothing. Alright, next?”
“I want to be able to change my avatar from that old dude.”
“Wasn’t the whole reason you wanted to be able to manipulate time magic to deage a purposely old avatar? Weirdo.”
“Oi, just because I’m a dark gamer doesn’t mean I can’t rollplay. Okay, second is that I want to be able to have class advancements and class advancement quests, along with time magic spell books a monster can drop just for me, since other people can’t use them anyway”
“Again, we were going to do that anyway.”
“What was that?”
“Nothing, nothing, these are just some hard concessions, but we will do it for you. Are you sure?”
“Yes. Ok, then, I want the experience penalty gone.
“I’m sorry, but we can’t do that. Even I was authorized to make that decision I wouldn’t”
“What? Why?” Questioned Roger.
“Because that is a big thing that balances your character. We are getting rid of a lot of balances as it is.”
“I had the experience equivalent to a level 589, and that is to big of a concession? Whatever. Can you at least lower it a bit?” Pleaded Roger.
“Eh, I guess, maybe, I will have to talk to management on how much. Be right back.”
Roger sighed as he lay on his couch. ’At least I’m getting something out of this’, He thought as he gazed upon the beautiful sight of a torn up tv, ratty pillows, fast food wrappers, and a ripped up mattress.
Although Roger is, or WAS, the top pvper, as a dark gamer, he is pretty bad. Roger has a hoarding problem in game. Any legendary, mythical, or even artifact items, he hoards to display in his tree house in game, only selling rare or below.
The item levels are as follows, from least to greatest. Shoddy, basic, common, uncommon, rare, artifact, mythical, and legendary. Most of the items he sells are really common, and he has to sell boatloads just to keep his two room apartment, one being a bathroom.
“Hello? I’m back. So, yeah, management agreed, but only to take It down by .25 and ths is your final request.”
Well that is better than I-wait what?
“Wait what? Level 589, and some expert, advanced, and even master level skills and unique abilities set to level 1 basic or deleted, and that is all I get?”
“Well, yeah, the experience penalty is an extremely big nerf on your class. It is pretty much the only thing keeping it balanced, as everything else, other than the class stat points for mage class, are getting removed. Like I said, pretty hard requests.(lol) Also, we have a special thing that you have to accept and it is a pretty big deal.”
“Fine, lets see what this is.”
“In order to Keep up appearances and such, we are going to announce that since you are a major figure in some politics and kingdoms, we are going to turn your character into an npc, when in reality, we are just going to give you an ability to be an npc. You will be incognito, if you will. This means you will not show up on the city, country, and world player leaderboards and you will only show up on the ‘everyone’ and ‘npc’ leaderboards. Also, you can give out quests, but only if you have enough rewards for them, and you can sacrifice experience and stats as rewards for requests.”
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“Wait, does that mean I will still have my contacts and relation with the royalty? And what about my treehouse?” Questioned Roger. "oh, and does that mean i can't get a murderers mark? Because I am disguised as an npc?"
"Haha, finding out exploits already, yeah, as long as noone sees you kill someone, and no witnesses remain, you wont't gain infamy."
“No, you will no longer have your contacts in royalty because the excuse is just for appearances sake, as well as to keep people from hunting you. After all, people still think you are a level 262 Time Mage npc. As for your house, well, it will be deleted, an all items set back to be where they were originally.”
“Seriously? I don’t get a concession for that? I have at least 5 legendary items in there”
“Fine, what is it.”
“I want to delete the house and everything in it. If I can’t have them, then no one will!
“Wait, but there are only 100 legendaries in the game, and you own 5 of the 9 discovered.”
“4 remember, I lost my staff. Can I have that back by the way?”
“Of course not. It is in the hands of a player, we can’t just take it from him, he got it fair and square.”
‘more like he picked it off of my crumbled corpse after he happened to come across the battlefield.’ Roger thought.
Flashback
I was on a battlefield field filled with corpses. Everything was extremely slow, with me moving faster than their brains could register. After a whole hour of battle, the only thing left of the 200 strong army of elite players the conquerors guild sent after me was 50 players. Unlucky for me, I was almost out of mana. Yes, me, with my absurdly large mana pool, was almost out of mana. The infinity gear on the top of my staff whirring faster that a saw blade with fast forward cast upon it, I was slowly losing the rest of my mana.
“Give it up, Chronos!” Starmuncher, the leader of the Conquerors guild said to me. “You’re outnumbered and you’re out of mana. You can’t run!”
I grit my teeth. ‘looks like I will have to use that skill,’ I thought. My frown slowly turned into a smile, a look of determination on my face.
“I may not be able to run, but neither will you!” I roared.
I raised up my legendary staff of infinity, and slammed it into the ground. “AGE OF DEATH!” I roared. Suddenly, everything turned grey. The grass, the bodies, even the players around me began to wither.they aged and aged and aged, until they all withered into dust. At the same time, time slowed around them, so it happened in a split second.
“HAHA, TAKE THAT!” I yelled, then promptly keeled over and turned to dust.
YOU ARE DEAD
Age of death is a skill that you only get when you master time magic mastery, fast forward, and slow down. It is the pinnacle of time magic. At least, system assist based time magic. What it does s speeds up time within every piece of matter, and slows time down around it, instantly turning everything to dust. The only thing is the cost. If you have anything less than full mana and full health, it drains everything from you and you die. if you have full mana and health, you are left with 1 hitpoint. Stepping on a rock could kill you. If you die from your own age of death, you lose ten levels, a level in each skill and proficiency, and have 95% chance to drop your best item. My luck wasn’t very good.
As I fell, the staff of infinity, my only weapon, fell with me. Out of my inventory. A day later, a random level 20 mage came, saw something shiny, and picked it up. “Huh”
Said nooblet. “this thing looks shiny. Since I can’t identify it, it’s probably worthless though. Maybe I could get a few copper for selling it."
Flashback end
And that’s why roger wanted them to lessen the penalties of age of death. That is also why they refused every single time.
“anyway, I want you to delete the weapons in my possession.”
*sigh* “Fine.”
“Oh, and also, does that mean I can issue a quest to retrieve the staff of infinity?”
“Yes, there would have to be a hellova reward though.”
“Still, food for thought. Is that it? Is there any more ways you want to screw me over?
“Well…”
“Oh come on.”
“Haha, no, that’s all. Pleasure doing business with you Roger Skye.”
“You too, butthead.”
“Aww, come on roger, you know you”*click*
*sigh* ‘Well this is just great.’
A/N
Well, first fight scene, probably bad, but who knows? Advice needed, thanks! Also, hopefullly the real chapters will be longer.
Just fyi, i know most of my 5 readers think he was screwed over. Well, he was. But only for now. There are alot of hidden benefits, and i mean ALOT that he hasnt discovered yet to being an npc.
Spoiler :
He is not just disguised as an npc, he is REGISTERED as an npc. Think of what they can do in other vrmmo.stories when they are super advanced. There is also a reason why his exp penalty reduction was so low, and it has to do with becoming an npc.
also, how do I write in the chapter space, when I click on it, I cant write on it so I have to click source and that white box comes up on the place where you write, then I copy paste there and it changes its color. how to fix? yeah im a noob at computers. I can only post it regularly after I post it in the changed coler then edit it, then re copy paste it.
also, why am I now a musical penguin? I liked cookie seeker lol