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

[turingcompletionist]

I don't think so. When something happened like this before, due to honest mechanical failure, the two of them didn't lose their levels. I think the level loss is something separate, but I'm fucked if I know.

[nijistaryume]

Hmm... Hacker who watched too much anime? I don't get it.

[turingcompletionist]

Me either. I'd almost wonder if the kids did it to him on purpose... but the question there would be why.

[lightnovelexperiences]

...because an adventurer was responsible.

A PC.

and broken equipment or a broken build is how.

[turingcompletionist]

[............]

Oh motherfucker. I think you're right. Fuck.

[lightnovelexperiences]

The nerf is them protecting themselves. It's gotta be.

[turingcompletionist]

Yeah.

Oh my poor babies, who did this to you?

[nijistaryume]

You know them the best, I guess. Though parents can be pretty willfully ignorant sometimes if their kid's hurting other people.

[turingcompletionist]

... point taken. But I did program them to interact with people in good faith, so. [She sighs.] I really wish they'd let us talk to them.

[nijistaryume]

So they're being antisocial right now? Or this is always?

[turingcompletionist]

Right now. Which makes all the sense in the world, since Io evidently was attacked and the part of them that handles Deedee's Mundus destroyed. They're scared and so they've built a wall that keeps everyone out.

Even the people who made them.