Patricia Smith
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Crucis looked over the maps that Sharak had annotated for DicingDevil, and took some notes. He saw the waterfall which Duom had mentioned, as well as a few bosses and a large tomb to the North-West of Kruxol. He guessed that the tomb was filled with undead, because, well, it was a tomb in an MMO. After the war, the Kruxol area was probably the safest place to voyage into the wild. Most players were quite low-level, and he was currently at peace with DeathGang. However, since this area was low-level, it…-
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"Well, if everything is my fault, then don't come back." "I'll come back whenever I like, this is my house!" "You barely show up here! If you want to go, then just bloody leave." "...See you in the evening." "I'm not opening the door this time, so you'd better take the keys. But I'd rather you didn't!" "I don't care, I've already taken them. Now goodbye." Deniz stormed out. He slammed the door of his car shut, as he started the engine. Congratulations, Deniz! You have unlocked . I have taken your…
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Sharak handed out a dark-grey key each to every player of the group. "Use these keys on the Text Freihet game, and it will allow you to switch to a more advanced version of the AI," he said. "It should react to this item by prompting you for a number, and if you type in the number we've printed on the key then it will change to an AI which resembles our automatons more clearly." Crucis looked down at the key, and saw that its stem was imprinted in black with the number '4183239616' in an elegant…
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"Another quest says to 'defeat an enemy, while knocking out all of their pieces,'" Crucis said. "I'm not sure if the people making these quests know much about Arinos. But is there any way to complete this quickly? It sounds like it shouldn't take longer than one dialogue." "The easiest way would be to play out a quick dialogue against the Simpleton," Fahiz replied. "We could do that now. Do you want to play the cobra again?" "Why not a Dragon? I've already seen it used against a Simpleton, so I have…
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Scanning through the list of miscellaneous quests pertaining to the 'Legendary Beasts' game, Crucis saw a cluster of quests which began with the word 'first' - 'First completed game against an A-Ranked (or above) NPC,' 'First completed game of the Gauntlet Challenge variant of Legendary Beasts,' 'First successful use of the Golem piece.' These challenges seemed like they could be completed quickly, and given how much EXP Crucis received for playing Arinos the first time, it seemed like an opportunity for…
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"What's the easiest piece to play?" Danemy said with a hint of nerves. "It's a bit complex. Some people are better at certain pieces than others," Fahiz said. "I think the rat is the easiest, but for Sharak it's probably the 'null,' since he's omniscient or something." "Yes, there's a 'piece' that's recently been rediscovered from the early practice of Arinos, which we simply call 'null,'" Sharak replied. "It says as little as possible, and tries to bring attention to its interlocutor. However, it also…
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Sharak walked up to the skeleton of the dead protestor outside his building, on seeing that the smoke had cleared. He cast , and the skeleton took on a faint, dark-green glow as it scrambled to its feet. "Excellent," he said. "What should we have it do? Wait, dance a jig." At this command, the skeleton shook into action, moving its legs creakily from side to side in a simple dance. "Does that mean it worked?" Fahiz asked non-commitally. "Indeed," Sharak replied. "Well, let's have it drag out the…
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"Curse this insolence! You allowed half of the rebels to escape?" snapped a rasping voice from the throne. "Yes, sir," Allodil replied, in a trembling voice. "I apologise, but they were only children, so we didn't feel like it would be just to kill them. We took them prisoner, but they managed to find a hole in our encampment and escape." "Did I not say to kill all of them? I don't care who they are! I don't care! Why would you think otherwise, am I merciful?" "Sir," stammered Leroa from beside Allodil,…
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"Sharak, could you give the players some exposition about the Emperor of Arcorus?" Fahiz asked politely. "No, sir. I daresay that long expository speeches by Mages are something that can indeed be done too much. It is against my programming." "Nonsense, it's never enough! Besides, frankly, if exposition occurs in any other way than old Mages using long paragraphs then it doesn't count as exposition at all... Ahem, what I mean: Sharak, you are a good man pretending to be wicked, and you do not break…
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"What's the ?" DicingDevil asked, looking up from the party menu. "Quite a name. It mentions that it was one of the rewards for completing the last task." "Ah, I know the name," Sharak said. "It's a well-known series of poems originating from the Mausolas tribe of the Northern Aimsa region. I'm sure we have some copies here. But Fahiz will have to look for them, he keeps them in his drawer buried under works about the Flying Dutchman." "I'll do that, but don't you have the apocalyptics?" Fahiz said, as…
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