for dzelkva

[selfconcept]

little cutie goes here aka I'll think of something later

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[selfconcept]

Several... things.

[ He thinks back on the time when Zelkova said that player panic shouldn't happen again, and yet... here NoName was, useless as always. Something happened and he couldn't do anything about it. ]

First, the special gear code and the "bug" for the hall of mirrors from the Lumina Cloth carnival a few weeks back are linked. They're by the same person, but as to who that is... I don't know.

Second, did Hoerwick pull you out for maintenance or something for a week?

[dzelkva]

I think all of it is linked. I'm still trying to figure out who it is, though.

[ Ugh, why are they so elusive? It's even starting to frustrate him a little bit. ]

My creator doesn't need to perform maintenance on me. Someone knocked me into one of the outer dungeons.

[ Of which Hien probably doesn't know about. ]

[selfconcept]

What...? What the hell is an outer dungeon?

[ There are inner and outer dungeons?? This is complicated suddenly for NoName. He thought dungeons were just dungeons. ]

Anyway, do you think that whoever knocked you out there is also responsible for the other two?

[dzelkva]

It's both outside and inside of Fragment.

[ Does that help? No. Great. ]

I think it's possible. I would like to think that there wouldn't be multiple threats running around.

[selfconcept]

[ There's a deep sigh leaving his mouth. ]

I hope so too, but you're talking about something like a venn diagram, right? The thing in the middle. Not in the game, yet still in the coding area.

[ He thinks he gets it. Kinda. ]

How did you make it back?

[dzelkva]

Something like that.

[ That's the easiest way to describe something that likely only makes sense to him.

But at that second question, Zelkova holds out his wrist as a green bracelet slowly takes shape around it. It glows and shifts with overflowing data. ]

I destroyed monsters until I eventually found a spot to get back into the game.

[selfconcept]

Wish that was me.

[ NoName tries to inspect the green bracelet and its coding. Sure, there's overflowing data, but of what? What is its purpose? ]

[dzelkva]

[ His inspection doesn't glean much information, if anything. It's a strange bracelet to him and nothing more. ]

Why's that?

[selfconcept]

Killing monsters would have been a better use of my time. I just lost a lot of sleep over the past week. I've been spending hours trying to find the perpetrator of the bugs, but I can't come up with anything. I have nothing.

[ NoName, no results. Sad. ]

[dzelkva]

That's how it goes when the perpetrator does everything to not be found.

[ He's been running into the same issue. He gets it. ]

Get some sleep, NoName. Log out.

[selfconcept]

... I hope the meeting goes well. It's a surprise that the company is deciding to do this in the first place and not have me say everything in their place.

[ NoName sure hopes it will, despite what he mentioned before to Pete: players knowing that they're on developing prototype technology as beta testers to test things out. Of course there could be harm involved. He shakes his head at the thought of people being so stupid to not think of that before or that they keep playing and still complain about health risks. ]

But yeah, I'll... get some rest.

[dzelkva]

I bet you need it.

[ Being awake almost constantly can't be good for anyone. ]

I hope that the meeting brings up answers that I can't give. There's a lot of stuff that I just don't know, so I bet it'll clear everything right up.

[selfconcept]

[ Yeah, he was seeing things. :') Nice things to do right next to a virtual corpse! ]

I feel the same way. I don't know as much as the players think I know either, but I can't even say that. We'll see how it goes. Did you want to say anything, Zel? I know I called you here, but...

[dzelkva]

[ Wow, sounds like he had a great time! :) ]

I'm still trying to figure things out on my end too. I'm not gonna leave it all up to the company to tell us everything.

[ They've been pretty bad about it. ]

What's most important to me are the players, so I want to see them safe.

[selfconcept]

One of the players... tabibito, asked me if there was a way to keep the players safe when the game gets "malicious" like this. I couldn't give them an answer apart from logging out.

[ Which, yeah, if Hien knew, he'd tell them!! But no... ]

[dzelkva]

Logging out is the best advice, especially if they're worried about safety.

[ He would give the same advice, simply because he isn't sure what other advice to give. ]

[selfconcept]

But they keep coming back. Then complain about the risks again.

[ He's so fed up with this now, honestly. He heaves out another sigh. He's too tired for this. ]

Though I'm glad--I know that you like this world and want everyone to have fun in it, but that the players are more important that you'd rather tell them to leave than stay.

[dzelkva]

If they're worried about getting hurt, they won't have. Defeats the purpose, if you ask me.

[ But yes, their safety is overall more important to him. Consider it bumped up in his list of priorities. ]

[selfconcept]

[ Oh. He'll remember that Zelkova sides with him. ]

Yeah.

[ And the reason why NoName is here because he can't give two fucks about his own safety. ]

But I'll go now. Thanks for listening to me.

[dzelkva]

Contact me anytime. I'll always listen.

[ After all, it's easy for him. ]

Now go log out and sleep.

[ Before he forces you to log out. ]

[selfconcept]

[ NoName nods and immediately logs out. He's going to sleep for a full 24 hours. Goodbye, world. ]