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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 2:19:31 GMT

the completionist in him prompts him to complete all quests in a game, no matter how much of a nuisance it was to accomplish it.

the area between the two checkpoints were troublesome. terrain navigation, running away from aggressive mobs and taking detours to stay away from pk-ers were all nothing new to him. it was manageable for someone who's used to playing games, but doing it in vr makes it a much harder task.

approaching the entrance of the city to officially start his way there, kyle opens up his menu interface to double check everything. he equips items with muted colors so as to not stand out from the scenery along with weapons he got as loot. he contemplates on upgrading them before heading out, but grumbles at the thought of going back to the city for something as menial as a few extra stats.

the egg to be delivered lays on his arms before it decomposes into pixels when he places it in his inventory. as soon as it's done, he checks his surroundings for people before heading on.

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 2:48:57 GMT

[attr="class","spiral"] kyle is not the only one with a need to clear out all notifications from his status bar. fernando is in a similar predicament, compounded by the fact that the rewards for these quest remain unknown. until the game explicitly states the rewards and how much they measure up in terms of efficiency, he clears them blindly, favoring time spent over waiting.

coincidentally, fernando parallels kyle in more ways than one. they have matching classes. they have matching strategies. they're even doing the same quest.

fernando bats an eye when he makes eye contact, drawing his pistol and stuffing his own egg back into his inventory.

"just looking to cross for this quest, buddy. don't got much on me neither."

his voice and appearance don't match his real persona, which means neither party is aware of who they truly are.

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 3:14:44 GMT

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olivia was absolutely puzzled by the odd request to deliver an egg - what with her avatar looking like a freshly cracked yolk, but who was she to say no?

she bobbed her way out of the city to find someone pointing a gun. syren squinted her beady black eyes and asked, her voice bubbly and pixie like, ”what’s all this?”

her avatar and voice distorted, no one knew it was olivia behind the screen.

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 3:31:45 GMT

another ranger pops in on his vision. he sees him, stops on his tracks, and greets him with a smile.

"oh, uh, sure. wanna party?"

the voice was groggy and tired, differing from the usual tone of his voice in front of his superiors. unlike the other two, however, he doesn't use voice filters.

he wasn't sure if partying up prevents friendly fire, and thus, prevents pk-ing. this was the safer decision.

kyle opens another screen on his interface, managing to send an invite to the player in front of him. his username brings a slight tug on his lips as he notices the unusual name. for a game as young as blades and bulwark, the early use of it surprises him.

"ooh, barcode username. edgy."

as he sets up the party, another model approaches them. it doesn't look like anything that resembles as a human, unlike the other furry avatars people use to live out their furry dreams. he stares at it for a while, confused as to how it can speak, before turning to fernando's avatar.

"is that a special mob?"

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 3:42:30 GMT

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[attr="class","spiral"] fernando doesn't recognize the voice at first but it does sound familiar. he says nothing about it though, waiting for when they're out of the PVP zone to strike up an action conversation.

a party request shows up in a display panel in front of him and fernando accepts it instantly. his train of thought is that the earlier he establishes rapport with the system and its function, the more paramount it'll be to edging out the others.

"you think so? it has its uses."

olivia's entrance marks a confused look from fernando who's seen a variety of avatars. there was the humanoid arcanine, lucas' geodude fetish DLC, and even a ninetales lady. but none of them had looked like this. whatever it was, was more akin to a monster than an actual player. fernando aims his pistol.

"shit it talks. must mean bonus loot."

little does he know, he's living out his wildest fantasy of blowing her fucking brains out.

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 4:12:48 GMT

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olivia wasn’t aware her player tag had been disabled, curtesy of perry. he had warned her about ‘player versus player’ or PVP. he had mentioned hiding her name so others won’t pry on her avatar’s small squishy body.

then the talk of parties. she had also over heard chat of large player groups getting together. is that what was going on?

”no i am actually a-“ she began before she felt a vibration, the climbing of a pistol. the smallest of actions alerted her and syren reacted with light enveloping her teardrop body and exploding in a MOONBLAST at her assailant.

”i am no mob!” syren declared with a whimsical tune as electricity clashed with moonlight around her body. syren was safe, for now, and glowing with silver light. annoyed, she looked to the other player character, and prompted him with an invite to join their party.

she bobbed up and down and squeaked, ”i was assigned an egg to deliver.”

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 4:46:27 GMT

he takes his weapon out, a standard bow and arrow, but he doesn't draw the string to fire a shot just yet. he remains skeptical, leering at the slime creature, as he asks no one in particular a question that has lingered in his head.

"sounds suspicious... what kind of person plays a character without legs or hands? that's, like, voluntary crippling."

the head scientist Lucas Lane comes to mind. suddenly getting crippled for no acceptable reason makes the scenario familiar enough.

he draws his bow at it, charging up his bolt beak at the person claiming to be a player.

"maybe this is some gimmick of a special mob from the developer. it did fire off an attack. maybe it says predetermined lines to get players' guard off. they do seem generic."

the string draws further back. electricity cackles wildly at the tip of the arrowhead as it points at the poyomon.

"say something an npc wouldn't say."

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 4:57:20 GMT

[attr="class","spiral"] Fernando's caught by surprise when it retaliates. It even cancels out his own attack. Giving her the benefit of the doubt, he lowers his weapon.

"Oh. Well, that's weird."

He looks to Kyle and then back at Olivia's blob. He makes a good point and Fernando finds the numerous non-human players quite disgusting. At least Lucas had an actual costume that looks very similar to the Pokemon.

"If it got the Egg Quest then I don't think it's a NPC."

Unfortunately, her party request shows on Fernando display but the accept command is grayed out. He can only be in one party at a time and he's not the party leader. He makes no comment about these either, not while tensions are still relatively high.

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 18:37:49 GMT

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olivia was a woman of many words, always one to speak her mind and use precise and carefully chosen vocabulary. now, however, with a digital pistol and arrow being aimed at her avatar and the two talking she squinted her eyes in confusion, which her avatar copied.

”what the #*€% is a ‘npc’.” olivia, and syren, asked in the avatar’s bubbly voice. olivia herself did a double take at the game’s censorship. the noise she just heard was... annoying if not outright irritating. somewhere between an alarm and a buzzer, or the harsh sound a television made when the connection was faulty.

she blinked in confusion “the #*€%?” syren repeated, just as puzzled. in the real world, on the eastern front of hoenn, in a city of white stone, hidden away in castle of silver towers perry was snickering to himself. he had turned parental controls on olivia’s account.

her social interactions were limited, she couldn’t even join a party - which is partially why the invites she spammed to the others present continued to appear greyed out. they needed to invite her.

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 18:51:33 GMT

the request prompt wasn't exactly ignored. kyle simply feels the need to tease the person behind the unusual avatar. he accepts it promptly after the brief debauchery.

he starts to snicker with the profanity filter, trying hard to contain it. it still shows despite his efforts.

"how young are you? is this your first game?" for someone to not know what an npc is, kyle assumes the person to be a child who bought the game to join the bandwagon. not that he can fault them though, since that's how every hobby starts.

he cancels the attack, but the weapon remains in his hand. one cannot be too careful in a pvp prone area. he starts moving to their objective, cocking his head to the direction to prompt the other two to follow him.

"we'll blaze through this. just don't attack anything on the way and keep moving."

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 19:02:42 GMT

[attr="class","spiral"] Fernando settles into file and rank. There's no need to press the issue and once Kyle allows Olivia into the party, he has no choice in the matter. Not unless he leaves the party and decides to attack her. But with Kyle here, that leaves him with two opponents without an edge on either.

For now, peace settles and Fernando answers with a soft 'hmph'. Likewise, he accepts Kyle's assumption as well and looks at Olivia before returning to their path. "Watch your mouth, kiddo. If you got a toxic mouth you'll end up being reported."

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 19:32:46 GMT

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they thought she was a child?! her? THEE olivia abbiaiti!!!!!! she was flabbergasted and quite annoyed, and ready to teach these youngins what was what... when her avatar started to flash with silver light. she hadn't pressed the attack button and this time there was a prompt for her. it was a multicolored and simply displayed ???? for the text.

olivia clicked it.

”what the #*€% is going on now?!” olivia and syren said in unison; in the real world her screen was flashing the word EVOLUTION and in game, random coding in neon green began to wrap itself around her avatar.

with a flash of light, the coding faded and olivia's display returned to normal but now she... was a clampearl?

she couldn't float anymore and promptly fell to the digital ground with a thud. "what... just happened."

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 23:32:17 GMT

the iconic filter makes him turn around. he watches her avatar change before him, turning him from a blob to another avatar who still doesn't have any limbs to make things easier for her.

kyle stares intently, unsure if he should be expecting any different from the kind of player to choose a limbless avatar. maybe the transformation sequence was a gm trying to make fun of her. poor child.

he turns to fernando, and then to olivia. "are you sure you're a player character?" avatars don't usually update without any prompts, and he hasn't seen her pause to open up a menu and use some kind of item.

"maybe it's a bug? i'll report this to the mods just in case it is. i hope they fix it for you."

the longer he stares at her, the more curious kyle gets. he starts to scratch the back of his head before blurting out the question he wants to ask. "how do you move now? do you just... roll? are we supposed to pick you up or something?" as much as he wants to help her, kyle plays this game to have fun and not to carry, both in a gaming and a literal sense.

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POSTED ON Mar 21, 2020 2:43:21 GMT

[attr="class","spiral"] fernando turns his head toward kyle at the same moment he does. their stare is brief but it conveys their mutual confusion. "this is definitely some kind of mob or shitty DLC."

kyle volunteers to report her and fernando feels the urge to have his finger twitch. he kind of wants to go back to his previous train of thought and just eliminate her altogether. he'll need the other person's approval or a committal that they'll stay out of butting in on olivia's behalf though.

"that means your our tank if we get ambushed. they should be targeting the monster looking member before anyone else."

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POSTED ON Mar 21, 2020 4:12:56 GMT

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this situation was, quite frankly, entirely too much for the abbiati matriarch; technology had always been kept at a distance from the snowpoint clan and olivia was slowly being forced to adapt to the modern world. this game, however, was undoubtedly new to her. the community, with their wealth of knowledge who saw her as a child or a mob. it was humiliating and induced a deeply disturbing feeling of nostalgia. as her time as a child, knowing nothing. being treated as nothing if you could not comprehend the sea or it’s tellings. incompetent if one could not read the stars, glide through the waves, or recite intricate ancient unknown runes for no other reason than a command; obedient, ignorant.

olivia took a deep breath, her new avatar closing its shell and water rimmed it’s edges in a razor shell before she opened up, and said, “i will heal and act as defense for whomever carries...” she glanced down at her shell body before continuing, “... me to the egg’s destination.” olivia released her breath. “i am here to support, i suppose.” syren mused , and olivia pondered. she was an adult, a former gym leader, a political entity, ceo, and a childbearer - not a mother, she would not dare entertain such a claim.

perhaps that is what she could do for these two boys. support them as she might of her own. “i could also attack, as you’ve seen.” her avatar added with her bubbly voice. she was already considering ways to force her way through this quest, and olivia is a very stubborn woman.