After dinner with Ms Calie and Ms Scott, I went back home to eat right away. I was pretending to be cool and all, but I could barely hold myself while they ate in front of me. It was torture. I have to eat dinner tonight no matter what.
After being full, it's finally time for Gemfall. I've been imagining what I should do if I ever meet an NPC. Ms Scott seems to be not fond of them.
If you're like me, you have to play simulations in your mind and get ready for every possible question or thing the NPCs would say. you must have a reply ready at all times.
But wait,
Is the term NPC right here though? NPC stands for Non Playable Character, but if I remember correctly, I can assume that you must rely on an ingame inhabitant to move around. That means they are sort of a playable character.
I think I will go with the term Ingame People, or IP. It can never go wrong with that.
But before I start, I have to give this some thought first. I have already wasted a copy. I have to think before moving on.
Recalling our conversation in the restaurant, in my mind, the game is like a Visual Novel. I assume you have to get close to an IP so that you could ask favors since you can't do anything, and I assume you could search for the treasure just like that.
But if it has natural language, the game will go beyond a common visual novel. Its difficulty will spike tremendously. I mean, a visual novel has scripted outcomes depending on what you choose, but in Gemfall, the possible branches aren't fixed and could probably go to infinity. That's if i understood it correctly.
Since you could ask freely, this means finding the right person is crucial. Consider a lowly peasant child vs a royal court mage. Their knowledge base is very different. You could have way more probability of success in finding the artifact if you choose the royal court mage.
Oh wait, I think I remember Calie saying she's with a captain earlier right? Lucky her. You could get to sail all over the place. I hope I can find one. I hope I can find someone who travels a lot.
But man, I'm kinda excited to meet them. Like in games, the shopkeeper, you could only press “buy”, or “sell” buttons. But here I assume you could haggle, talk about his story, and if you're close enough, ask his trade secrets, ask for his connections, etc.. That does sound exciting. No more annoying repetitive voice lines.
Damn I can’t wait anymore.
I activated the second account, and I donned the helmet right away.
“Color: Black”
“Shape: Square”
“Destination: Kallindell (Recommended)”
“Start Game”
In my excitement I forgot, I have to experience the Falling sequence again. It's like a roller coaster ride.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
This doesn't get old.
But wait, while falling I could see someone below. I'm afraid I might fall on the person.
Oh shit, I think I'm going right through them.
I began panicking, i would shout
“OOOIIIIII! GET AWAY FROM THERE!!!”
To my surprise, the person, a woman, would extend her arms to catch me while on air. That might be a bad idea. I am going very fast, blazing fast. I could hear how fast the wind was.
I shouted once again,
“GET AWAY FROM THERE!!!!!”
She's not listening!
Eventually I would touch down and a massive explosion would happen. The surrounding area would disintegrate and form a crater. Smoke would envelop the place. I can't see anything.
When the smoke cleared up, I could see the person who caught me clearly. She looks like an adventurer. With a big sword on her back, she looks quite big. She would be wearing light armor which accentuated her big muscles.
She would shout something like a warcry.
“RAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH”
I believe it should be quite hot. I was flaming while falling earlier. So this is what the people on Gemfall are like huh, kinda insane.
This is very good. I would prefer to have someone like a sage, but someone strong is good too. Like if someone is strong she can take me around dangerous places and I could search for the artifact there.
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First words are important, I have to make a good impression… Let me think of something… Let me think…
“Move north 5 meters.”
Wait, did I just say that?
Noooooooooo….
“Huh?”
The muscle girl will reply in a deep voice, as she glares at me.
“Oh sorry, that came out wrong i-”
“Debbie, that gem… it has a bad color. Worth chump change.”
A child carrying a staff would say.
“Oh really? Oh well, we'll find you another one.”
The muscle girl will do a stance similar to a javelin thrower.
Me, knowing what's about to happen, would beg with all my ability.
“WAIT WAIT WAIT PLEASE NOOOOOO!!!!”
In an instant, I got thrown so far I was able to see the curvature of the world. I landed again in some remote area. The throw was so strong, it made a crater after I landed.
Ah shit what just happened?
It took me a while to recover from what just happened. I have to remove my VR helmet to reflect.
Damn.
This is harder than I thought. My first encounter… went so bad.
This feeling reminds me of something.
The people you meet heavily depend on where you drop. Depending on the time of the day, we don't have an idea who will pick us. At this point it's more or less random.
A revelation would appear in front of me.
This mechanic, is something I'm very familiar with. It's gacha. Fcking gacha. It seems no matter where gacha seems to find its way to me. But it's not just any gacha. Its advanced gacha. At least on normal gacha you could choose the banner you'll roll for. Here, it's totally random.
It's a gacha where the random character you get could reject you. What the fck, that's brutal. I already have bad luck at gachas, if you add trying to win them over…
This is harder than I thought. I just realized I'm bad at this. This is like a game for extroverts, the 10b feels so far away.
But I can't give up now. Even if this is the case, I'm not running away.
I think the kid carrying a staff last time said about me having a bad color and is worth only chump change. There's already an economy going on for gems? This is bad. I don't have an idea what the market is like in the game, no info shows up on the internet either.
Right. I will just consult my lucky color.
But wait, that might be a bad idea.
I have bad luck when it comes to these things. I believe my lucky color will end up being unlucky.
Wait, my sister.
My sister has insane luck when it comes to these things. It's not surprising probably because of her I got 5 copies of gemfall. Whenever we go to some carnivals, she would always get the prizes, ace the luck based games. I can't believe I'm panicking. I almost forgot my trump card.
I would call my sister in my room.
“Ahh! I have already told you a lot of times! don't turn off your lights when using the computer!”
As she turns on the lights in the room.
After turning on the lights in the room, she sees how cluttered the room is, she has no words. She shook her head and she started tidying up the room. I felt bad watching her do that. I should tidy up more next time.
After being done she asked,
“So what do you need me for?”
“Can you help me with this?”
As I let her don the helmet.
“Just pick anything you want if the game asks you for something.”
This is what she picked up.
“color: blood red”
“shape: circle”
“starting point: Redridge Hill”
Behold, the winning details. I started laughing maniacally. Knowing my sister's luck, this account will win the 10b. I can see it now. From now on, I started video recording my gameplay. I just know this is it.
Wait, the zone, it's not recommended? But i don't really know anymore. I had a freak encounter in the recommended zones. I have to trust my sister this time.
After being done, I thanked my sister, and she went on her way. She still needs to prepare for school tomorrow.
I can't wait to get started.
After pressing the game start, I started falling. I'm fearful. Not just because of heights, I'm more afraid of what will happen next after witnessing my last encounter.
After a while I started to see the place where I would land. It seems like it's surrounded by farmlands. It seems ill drop on something like a house?
Oh wait, that might be bad. Say if I dropped on the house and destroyed it, I'm going to make a really bad impression to anyone who'll pick me.
Oh no no no not again….
The game, maybe sensing my desperation, answered my prayers and it seemed it changed trajectory a bit. Still bad though, I think i'm still destroying a part of the house, and an animal pen seemed like it. Glad it's empty though. I would really feel bad killing someone.
After a while I landed and exploded violently. Part of the house is destroyed, a crater formed right at the animal pen.
Ah shit. Bad luck always follows me around.
After a while the smoke disappeared. The destruction I caused became clear. Damn I could only apologize. I started racking in the back of my mind what type of apology I will use. I'm kinda afraid of what will happen next.
A sheep then made its way on the crater. It seemed really large. Like a giant from my eyes. What happened next is like a scene straight from a horror movie.
I haven't seen a sheep's mouth in real life, and when it opened its mouth, I got terrified. From my pov, It's very big, it seems like a monster mouth would eat me whole.
I could only close my eyes in fear. When I tried to open my eyes afterwards, I was enveloped in black void. Where the hell am I? Is this the game over screen?
I then heard a small voice shouting.
“Master, Master where are you????”
After a while, the voice slowly became clearer.
“Ohh Master, thank god you're safe…. I got your favorite treat, let's go back..”
Said the voice.
After some silence, the voice said,
“Master, what's wrong? Are you ok?
Meanwhile I sensed some movement in my surroundings. After a moment, I started moving fast, I started seeing a light and eventually, I could see the world around me again. Apparently I'm inside the sheep, and I was just puked out.
After a while a young lady picked me up. She cleaned me on her shirt, and she raised me up in the sky as if trying to check me out carefully.
I must say I'm quite enjoying the view, I appreciate all the beautiful things in life and beautiful ladies are no exceptions.
But I think the young lady before me could be even more beautiful if she would remove that angry face and start smiling.
Oh wait,
I have a bad feeling about this.
I'm in big trouble here am i?