Game start.
Welcome to Global conflict, the latest in VR fantasy adventures.
Please select your allegiance. The side of light or the side of dark.
Please note that some races will be locked depending on which side you choose.
(Dark)
You have selected Dark; the available races are as follows.
Shadow elves
Orcs
Undead (choose an origin race if starting as undead)
Goblin (choose one of three variants if choosing goblin)
Demon
Human
List benefits of undead origin races please?
As an undead you have lived and died before, Due to the unholy magic used to bring you back you gain a bonus of infinite stamina.
Unfortunately you have been dead a while so most of your memories have faded but one still remains. You will gain one random skill based on the origin race you choose.
Elves gain heightened focus, allowing you to crit with magic and increasing the range of any ranged weapons.
Humans gain block, as one of the few races who believe in using shields block increases defense while shields are equipped by %50.
Orcs gain shove, a quick activation skill that applies 3-8 feet of knockback to the target based on strength.
Goblins gain elusive, giving them a small chance to evade magic ability’s for %100 of the damage.
Dwarfs gain grapple, when activated stuns both the caster and the target for 2-6 seconds depending on strength, must have no weapons equipped to use.
Beast gains slash, applies bonus damage to an attack and a set chance at causing a 10 second bleed. Chance to bleed modified by agility stats.
Undetermined, You have been dead so long nothing of your past race remains, gains the skill humanoid scavenging, allowing bonus material drops when killing humanoid targets.
Demons cannot be made undead as they return to the demon realm upon death.
"Hmm, explain goblin variants"
Goblins are both the oldest race in the world, and the stupidest (que brain jokes)
All goblins start with the 3 racial skills
General Weapon’s mastery
General crafting mastery
Create goblin lair
In addition goblins have a reduced growth rate gaining 1 point of strength, agility, and stamina per 2 levels and 1 point of int and wisdom per 5.
Goblins come in 3 variants.
Standard goblins stand 3-4 feet tall and are the only one of the 3 variants that can perform magic.
Standard goblins start with create embers as a starting skill in addition to their racial skills.
Hobgoblins stand 4-5 feet tall and are the core fighters of the goblin race.
Hobgoblins spawn with Weapons wielders; they may wield any weapon their strength allows them to lift regardless of level, but may not equip any weapons or armor.
(In essence, Hobgoblins drop all items on their person upon death)
Brutes are the final variant. Brutes stand 6-10 feet tall and can only wield clubs as weapons.
Brutes spawn with perfect wrestling. So long as a brute is bigger (see taller) the brute can match any opponents test of strength (knock back and stun don't work if you block).
Brutes have negative %15 magic resistance.
"Hobgoblins sound interesting, I always liked hard mode. I choose Hobgoblin for starting race"
A picture of a dark green Hobgoblin dressed in a loin cloth and a belt appears, “Increase its height to 5 foot, smaller nose please, and Pale green Brown eyes.”
Please choose a name for your character. Goblin names may not be longer than 5 letters. “Kif"
The goblin merged with the player and Kif smiled feeling good about his choice.
Welcome Kif, to the world of Global conflict. The only Goblin hive that has sworn allegiance to the Dark lord Sear is the Volcan hive lead by Matron Rue.
With a flash of light Kif was suddenly in the middle of a dark cave. The voice from character creation asked one more question, "Would you like to begin the tutorial?"
"Yes" said Kif.
"Please choose a weapon", at those words hundreds of different rusty weapons appeared in front of Kif's eyes. He looked at the swords and they all had requirements of 5-10 strength.
"Character menu" Kif called out wondering what his starter stats were.
Name Kif
Race Goblin-Hobgoblin variant
Level 1
Alignment Neutral Evil (you work for the dark lord)
Class: none
Stats
HP 20
Mana 20
Strength 5
Agility 5
Stamina 5
Wisdom 5
Intelligence 5
Luck 5
Racial traits
Stupidity 5
Fear 5
Kif stopped for a moment, “examine Stupidity and Fear"
Goblins are stupid, sometimes too stupid to realize how bad the situation is, during combat gains 3 points of resistance to fear and disabling affects for every level.
Goblins are cowards, to cowardly to start a fight unless the opponent is terribly outnumbered, Fear gives the player a 1% chance to fear themselves at the start of a fight for every level.
"That’s, just mean “Kif murmured.
Looking back at the different starter weapons in front of him Kif grabbed a rusty knife.
Rusty knife
1-1 damage
Strength requirement 3
Flavor text (you could probably do more damage with your fist)
"Having chosen a weapon please kill the target” With a flash an 8 inch rat with red eyes appeared and jumped at Kif.
!!!Fear!!! You have been feared
-1
-2
-1
The rat got off several bites on Kif's arms before the Fear condition faded and he was able to move. Kif grabbed at the rat with his free hand and managed to latch on to it.
-3
It bit into his hand and latched on. Holding the knife upright Kif stabbed the rat several times
-1
-1
-1 Crit
At the Crit for one damage he threw the red eyed nuisance at a wall to get it to stop chewing on him.
-5
Congratulations you have slain a rat.
+2 experience, 8 more needed for level 2
Kif slumped Gasping, That rat had done quite a bit of damage to him.
"Your weapons mastery gives you a percentage damage bonus to any weapon you wield. “Said the voice. "Now touch the rat’s corps to move on."
Kif touched the corps and a popup appeared in front of his eyes.
[1 rat hide gained]
[1 rat meat gained]
A needle and thread appeared in front of him and the voice spoke, "Continuing on to the crafting portion, please take the needle and thread and using the rat hide create a pouch,
Being a goblin all crafting must be done in manual mode."
Kif looked at the needle and thread, then at the Rat hide. He folded the hide in half and stitched the 2 sides and most of the top together tightly leaving only a small opening
Ding! You have created leaky coin pouch,
[One leaky coin pouch, capable of holding up to 50 coins it has 3 small holes in it (watch out that nothing falls out)]
Kif attached the coin pouch to his belt and the character creation voice spoke out,
"The next part of this tutorial has to do with your lair. All goblins live in lairs and as such you are able to create a new lair in whatever cave you go to.
The lair is where a goblin first spawns, and is considered a safe zone for respawns and logging out. Be careful though as having your lair destroyed will force you to respawn at your races origin lair.
Please cast your lair creation in the hatchery cave now."
Kif called up his menu and selected Create lair.
He noticed half his mana bar vanish and a small dark patch appeared in the wall. Beneath it appeared a chest with the title [Kif's stuff] floating above it. "I guess this is my in game bank?" he murmured.
"The final part of this tutorial deals with death" the voice spoke, interrupting his thoughts.
"What?" was all Kif was able to ask before a powerful bolt of lightning struck him from nowhere.
-1,000,000
You have died, number of safe respawns remaining for your lair, 4
Would you like to respawn?
Yes, No
"Yes" Kif said frustrated at being one shot. "Why the hell did you need one million damage to kill me? I only have 20 hp."
Ignoring his questions the voice continued "For every rule in this game there is an exception. All races share a penalty of losing half their level upon death except for goblins.
Goblins are able to ignore this rule so long as they have safe respawns left in their lair. Upon the lair being destroyed, or all safe respawns being used in a 1 week period the goblin in question will suffer the
Death penalty of losing 5 levels and being locked from the game for 48 hours. Please note that the Create Lair spell has an internal 72 hour cool down. This marks the end of the tutorial; please loot your corps and good luck."
Kif looked down at the corps of a dead Hobgoblin and sighed, then picked up his empty coin pouch and rusty knife. "I am starting to wonder if getting into the beta for this was worth it" he muttered as he walked out of the hatchery.
Leaving the Hatchery Kif came upon an open area in the cave system, lit up by lava flowing from somewhere in the ceiling down into a lava river right through the main hive, it looked like there were some extremely rickety bridges being used to cross.
As he looked around in awe he felt a tugging on his arm. Looking down brought he faces to face with a 2 foot goblin child. Her ribs poking out of her side she looked terrified and hopeless. Kif looked into her eyes for a good minute before his inner self
Broke down and he pulled out his rat meat. "It isn't much, but here" He said handing it to her. Her eyes widened and then the girl grabbed it and scarfed it down quickly.
"Thank you" the girl said afterwards. Ding!
A popup box appeared in front of Kif's eyes
[Goblin Mi wants to join your hive]
[You have unlocked a hidden racial stat Goblin Elite
{Everyone knows that the most feared opponents on the battlefield are the goblin elite, being tens of times stronger than their normal brethren. No one knows why.}{Having
The lowest growth per level of all races, this still probably isn't enough to make up for it}
Bonuses, plus one to all stats for each goblin in your lair.
Goblins in lair= 1]
"Nice" Kif said. "Now all I need is to get like 4 more goblins in my lair and I will have the same stats as a level one of any of the other races."
Kif started actively looking for quests among the other goblins in the home Lair. As he did he got a message that Goblin Mi had found some leather straps and placed them into his lair's chest.
Getting more scavengers could be useful, he thought.
Kif eventually found an old Goblin who wanted help.
Old goblin "something to do? Why yes the bridge I like is rotting, take these sticks and go repair it. It is bridge number 3" the old goblin pointed to a pile of sticks and boards laying on the floor.
Kif picked up the pile and headed off to fix one of the rickety bridges spanning the lava river. He had noticed that none of the goblins in the lair gave out proper quests, instead it was all 'do this for me' and he would get some experience during the quest instead of at the end.
Kif carefully walked out onto the Bridge with the large wooden 3 sign hanging at its entrance. Upon finding some broken and rotting beams he started removing them and hammering new sticks into their places.
Upon using the last stick a popup appeared informing him he had reached level 3.
It had been 3 hours since Kif started playing and there was a loud BONG sound as the character creation voice spoke. "Now that all beta testers have logged in and started, the global conflict creators are announcing racial survivability quests. In 7 days all the players of each race will be given a quest to determine if that race will stay a playable
Race at the launch of the game.
Current players in each race
Human 300
Dwarf 178
Light elf 361
Beast 266
Dark human 122
Dark elf 290
Goblin 1
Undead 175
Demon 340
"O hell" Kif stated, realizing he was the only beta tester of the first 2000 to choose goblin, “This quest may be the end of me."
Squaring his shoulders Kif moved faster off the old bridge and went to the old goblin, "hey Goblin Bu, I need to be stronger, tell me a quick way to get it" he demanded.
"Why should I?" Bu grumped. "because I fixed your bridge, before that I fixed the roof of your hut, and before that I broke old man Ub's walking stick just like you wanted" Kif replied.
"I never liked that jerk Ub" Bu said, “alright, the best way to get strong is through being in the Goblin core, Go talk to the Matron, she will assign you a unit."
Kif thanked the old goblin and headed towards the Matron's house. Old Matron Rue was one of the strongest goblins in the Hive, boasting a level of 400 Kif had only met her twice. She was batty as all hell.
"Who are you, what do you want?" she demanded as he walked in. "Never mind, I don’t care, Commander Li, Take this young hero and put him in the shock corps, they are running low on bodies." Matron Rue proclaimed.
"Matron Rue," Kif started only to be interrupted.
"I said I don't care, Follow commander Li NOW!!" She ranted.
A popup box appeared for in front of Kif informing him that his class had become [Shock corps rider]
Commander Li, The general of the goblin army walked over to Kif and said, "Come along now, let’s get you learned on what it is to be in the Shock corps.
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The 2 of them Climbed to the top of the cave, near where the lava river flow started. Here Hobgoblin warriors and brutes were sparring with each other to get stronger.
"Go on", Commander Li said, “Push 3 of them into the lava and you will have completed your basic training." Kif looked on and realized that this was probably a good reason for why the Lair didn't have too much of an overpopulation problem.
Going down to the wrestling area Kif came up with a plan; he would find himself a strong hobgoblin and watch their back, while having them watch his. Hopefully they wouldn't be smart enough to decide to back stab him.
Kif walked up to a Hobgoblin that was being pushed back by 2 other Hobgoblins, The name Mu floated above his head. Smiling evilly Kif snuck up behind one of Mu’s attackers and quickly stabbed them in the back of the neck. The hobgoblin gasped
And collapsed dead from bleeding quickly. Kif immediately jumped the other nameless Hobgoblin and wrestled him into the River. Turning to Hobgoblin Mu he said, "Back me up and ill help ya" then turned to deal with the next threat, a large goblin brute charged him.
Goblin Mu jumped forward and intercepted the brute, Kif moved up at his right and attacked the brute's leg, injuring it and applying a bleed.
[Bleed, -2 hp per sec for 10 seconds]
The Brute roared and swung its club knocking both Kif and Mu back. Kif staggered up to his feet and yelling his own cry jumped at the brute. He was swatted to the floor like an insect.
[-10 hp]
He watched from the floor as the Brute raised its club to flatten him into the floor, and then Mu appeared and rammed his own rusty saber into the brute's chest, killing it.
Mu slumped exhausted and Kif crawled up and asked him, "Hey, ya want to work together?" Kif's reply was a notification,
[Congratulations on gaining a goblin to your lair, Hobgoblin Mu Level 5 has joined your lair. +1 to all stats.
Current goblins in lair= 2]
The week went by quickly, with Kif each day struggling to survive the random skirmish at the beginning of the lava lake. He was only tossed in once.
Kif reached level 6, and with a Ding of announcements the racial survival quest began.
[The orcs dislike the fact that goblins have the same ranking as them in the dark lords army, they also want your mountain. Fend off an army of 20,000 orcs
Remaining defenders, 200000 goblins.]
Almost immediately that 200,000 dropped to 199999 as one of the defenders slipped and died in the lava river. "I don't know if 200,000 will be enough." Kif whispered morosely.
Kif’s current stats.
Name: Kif
Race: Goblin-Hobgoblin variant
Level: 6
Alignment: Neutral Evil (you work for the dark lord)
Class Shock corps rider (you got drafted)
Stats
HP 40 4 per stamina point
Mana 36 4 per intelligence point
Strength 8+2 1 per 2 levels
Agility 8+2 1 per 2 levels
Stamina 8+2 1 per 2 levels
Wisdom 7+2 1 per 3 levels
Intelligence 7+2 1 per 3 levels
Defense 5+2+ (0) 1 per 2 points of strength
Luck 5+2
Racial traits
Stupidity 5
Fear 5
Skills
General Weapon’s mastery (beginner level 4) 4% bonus damage
General Crafting Mastery (beginner level 5) No bonuses available at this time
Create Lair (Beginner level 2) Castable in caves only at this time. Increases based on Goblins in lair
Commander Li yelled loudly at all the Goblin Shock corps, “those Orcs think they can take my mountain, not over your dead bodies they won't, come, we go to the upper gates to show them
Goblins are unstoppable!" With this Commander Li lead the troops away from the lava river training area and up towards one of the lair's 2 entrances. Up through the cave routes
Past the mushroom farms and near the top of the mountain Commander Li showed off the prized Goblin defensive siege weapons. Big round boulders and Rock sleds.
"Man the sleds and go crush those Orcs" Li commanded.
Mu pushed forward and jumped onto one of the sleds saying, " come on Kif, I will pilot you ride." Kif stepped onto the sled, looked over the ledge of the mountain and froze.
(You have been inflicted with the fear stat {6 seconds}). It was a terrible time to have it trigger as Commander Li stuck his foot on the back of the sled and kicked them off the mountain.
"Aaaaaaaaah, I don't want to die!!" Kif cried clinging to Li. More Rock sleds were launched off following his own and the boulders started getting pushed down the steep slope as well.
Kif watched as a sled with 2 Brutes on it passed his own near the bottom of the mountain and hit what looked like a wide purposely built ramp. The brutes were immediately thrown off their sled and
Catapulted into the oncoming orc army. 1 second later Kif's sled hit the ramp and he and Mu were launched into the air. Mu kept them on the sled and aimed it for the orcs before kicking off,
Separating them both. The rock sleds impact flattened 2 orcs in the middle of the forward 10000 formation and then it was Kif's turn. He flew head first into an orc’s helmet.
-20 hp
You have inflicted stun (6 seconds) upon Orc Warrior. {It is said that goblins have the second hardest skulls after dragons. Only you would put this saying to the test}
Kif staggered to his feet, he had dropped his dagger but the Stunned orc had dropped his sword. Grabbing the blade he quickly rammed it into the warrior's throat, then ate 5 swords to the back and died.
-20 hp, you have died would you like to respawn?
"Yes" he said. [Remaining safe respawns 3]
He quickly ran back up the cave system to the exit of the lair. Checking the quest update showed the following
{Remaining attackers: 18,900
Remaining defenders: 145021}
As he ran back through the cave system he received the notice that his lair mate Mu had died. Resurrecting him would cost 50 mana. "And I only have 40" Kif grumped as he stepped onto a rocks led for the second time.
A brute stepped onto the back of the sled and they were launched off. Calmer than he was before Kif focused on the approaching orc army. He spied forward army’s commander and steered his sled towards his target. Maybe if the orcs lost their leader
It would help stem the bleeding defenders. He hit the ramp harder than Mu had but still managed to stay on the sled. The orc commander’s body guard noticed the airborne suicide squad and shoved his commander out of the way getting crushed by the sled instead.
Kif landed hard and quickly grabbed the dead bodyguard's weapon.
-20 hp
Standing quickly he charged at the orc commander and managed to inflict a wound on its shoulder before it recovered drew its own weapon.
-30 hp
Orc Second in command Hrolk Level 9 stood out above its head. Hrolk gave a mighty, easily telegraphed swing over his head at the goblin that dared challenge him, and missed.
Kif knew he was dead if he was hit so he focused fully on dodging everything and attempted to strike the commander with the stolen blade.
No matter how hard he tried though, he could not get passed the Orc’s defense. The durability of the stolen blade hit 2/10 and it was time for Kif to gamble.
He charged forward thrusting the blade ahead of him in an attempt to stab Hrolk. The orc struck the blade hard, breaking it but leaving him open.
Kif jumped and managed to jam the sharp edge of his broken sword hilt into Hrolk's throat before eating a backhand by the Orc’s mail gauntlet.
{Critical hit -40 hp
You have inflicted a heavy bleed upon the opponent -20 hp per second for 10 seconds]
-20 damage, you have died do you want to revive?
"Yes" he grumped [remaining safe respawns 2]. "I don't even get to see what the drops are." he complained as he ran up to the battlefield.
Kif immediately jumped onto an empty sled and road it down. Observing the Orc’s front Battle group it appeared that losing the orc commander had disrupted them a lot. The orc’s were
No longer fighting in formation but were actively splitting up to hunt for goblins through the boulder crusted battle zone. Kif's concentration was enough he did not notice the boulder passing inches from his sled before him,
And the boulder, hit the ramp. He struck a group of orcs and immediately grabbed a downed weapon (there were swords and axes lying all over the place at this point. Over 100,000 Goblins had launched themselves to their deaths by
The time he arrived at the bottom of the mountain and more were still coming. Kif fought for all he was worth and managed to kill off 4 more Orcs before succumbing to the Orcish attackers.
You have died do you want to respawn?
"YES!" he said [remaining safe respawns 1]. Running up to the Upper mountain exit one last time he noticed that they have reached the halfway point of the defense.
[Remaining attackers 10,000
Remaining defenders 72,068]
Aside from him each orc had managed to take out 13 goblins before dying. He was stopped from grabbing another sled by Commander Li. "It looks like their heading for the Lava flows entrance," Li declared" quickly to the lower gates!!"
With this the goblin commander lead his surviving defenders back down into the caves. Through the Mushroom farms, through the city and over the rickety bridges, into the Acid spiders dens, past the poison slime pools, to the lower exit
Where the Lava River stopped. There, inside the entrance to the mountain cave was a rickety wooden fence with an opening in the middle. A rope strung across it had a sign saying "gate"
Commander Li organized his remaining defenders to hold the walls and when the orcs arrived the final fight began.
Kif watched on in despair. He had only been a goblin for a week but he loved the race. Hard mode and the ability to both infinitely stack plus move his spawn to wherever the hell he wanted was amazing. He saw no way the goblins would be able to hold back
This fresh attack force of Orcs. They were in a tight formation with shield bearers in the front and spear men behind them. Orc archers and mages were throwing fire and arrows at the crude gates protecting the goblin army. In desperation Kif started looking throughout the cave for something to turn the tide.
The goblins lived in an active volcano. About twice a year it did a soft eruption, pouring lava out and burning half the Lair do nothing before releasing the lava through this tunnel. At the back of the tunnel was a natural damn made from a rockslide stopping the Current lava river from flowing through there?
Examining it Kif knew there was no way he could break the damn himself, but there was one large Stalactite at the top of the cave. Convincing himself the idea was stupid enough to make the Goblin commander proud Kif ran to the Acid Spiders den. Thankfully the spiders had all gorged themselves on the Goblin defenders as they ran through the cave. He harvested as much webbing as he could and hurried back. Taking a stick and a rock he made himself a fragile club and started climbing the damn.
Kif reached the top of the damn and attached a portion of the spiders silk to a long protruding rock. Then, jumping he grasped ahold of the stalactite with one hand and 2 legs and started trying to tie the web to the rock. After 2 attempts he succeeded but now he was stuck as well. Taking his makeshift club he hammered away at the highest point on the stalactite he could
Praying he could break it.
-1
-0
-0
-1
-0
-1
Ones and 0's popped up showing him he was doing something and he redoubled his efforts. With an audible crack the rock gave way and Kif screamed in success as he swung into the natural damn, shattering it and dropping to the floor.
He managed to sit up and watch in awe as the lava flow gushed out, incinerating him and the defenders and attackers in seconds.
You have died would you like to respawn?
"YES" he cried happily. [Remaining safe respawns 0] "Check quest"
[Remaining attackers 0
Remaining defenders 1]
"Woooo" he said and grabbing goblin Mi who was playing on the floor he started dancing in happiness.
Mi was shocked but then started laughing and dancing with him until they were both tired. Kif headed out to find the Matron and finish this racial survival quest before he messed up and died one last time.
"The orc army has been stopped, there were no survivors" He declared upon reaching Matron Rue.
"You survived" she replied, "but good. For succeeding I give you a gift” 2 nameless hobgoblin NPCs walked forward and Kif got the message
Elite Lair defender level 15 wants to join your Lair
Elite Lair defender level 15 wants to join your Lair
He quickly hit accept then stopped thinking.
Goblin Mi was a scavenger, she added scraps of leather and other things found in the caves to his chest every day.
Goblin Mu on the other hand was more like a NPC party member, following him around and fighting with him.
So if he wanted to place his Lair in a cave outside the main lair, maybe he needed to gain more defenders to keep it safe.
As he thought about the implications of having a summon able army an announcement rang out
[The Goblin race has completed their racial defense quest first among the dark races. for this bonus they are the favorite race by the dark lord and gain higher quest rewards for the next 2 weeks.]
This announcement was followed quickly by
[The beast race has completed their racial defense quest first among the light races. for this bonus they are the favored race by the pope of the church of light and gain higher quest rewards for the next
2 weeks]
Exhausted from his marathon Goblin Kif logged out