First Quest (Video, username 'westandreamcatcher')

[lightnovelexperiences]

[So.

The camera picks up an idyllic looking sandy Mediterranean beach, near a patch of grass and forest. It shakes a fair bit, like a cell phone cam in an unsteady - or nervous - hand.]

This is... this is uh. Deedee. ...'s player. Don't... if you know my real name from before the Badgernet crash don't throw it around.

I uh.

I'm on the fucking Shores of Awakening. I'm on fucking Mundus.

And taller and y'all hear how high my voice is. I can feel my tails.

I woke up alone face-down on the sand here. Felt it burn. I uh.

Please advise.

Comments

[nijistaryume]

So no cheat, except they get to do all the cool stuff. Huh. I guess at least that's good, then you don't have even more problems.

[turingcompletionist]

Yeah! I wouldn't want my players to be able to coerce and control my Mundanes, that's gross. They're people too, you know. Procedurally generated, but still people.

[nijistaryume]

Just like how you said the gods were people. That's a looooot of advanced AI for a game.

[turingcompletionist]

Well, they're not just for the game. Well, okay, the Mundanes are mostly just for the game and they're fairly simple, but the really advanced ones, the gods? They're going to be used for other projects too, ones that aren't ready yet, so they're running the game for now.

But like the ones that are running the enviromental bullshit in game? I originally made them to be terraformers.

[She shrugs.]

What can I say? Advanced AI has been my life's work. I wasn't the sixth woman to win the Turing Prize for nothing.

[nijistaryume]

Wait, like to run the environment in real life? Like, that "we're gonna have turnips on the moon by 2015" thing that didn't actually happen? I saw that online once.

[turingcompletionist]

Yeah! You could think of them running the environments in AWO as practice.

Sadly, you can't always get the grants you want when you work for the government. So sometimes you have to leave, start a video game company, and use it to raise funds for the really fun stuff while making AIs that can serve more than one purpose.