Level 03: Party
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Hatsumi asked Rennin for a bro-fist, then their fists hit each other.
"Rennin, welcome to my first MMORPG live-stream party!" Hatsumi exclaimed, then grabbed her new in-game friend.
"Have you chosen any weapon?" the girl in short shorts asked, while she brought out her light hammer.
Rennin brought out a dagger, and humbly answered,
"Yeah, and this is all I could wield comfortably, Hatsumi"
"It's okay, Rennin, at least you have a weapon to start with"
Hatsumi's fellow friends approached Ren. One of her friends in-game is a ginger-colored humanoid resembling a British shorthair cat, dressed up like a magician. The feline magician waved his hand, and he introduced himself,
"Hi! I am Hotaru, a Nyaa-un magician! Nice to meet you, nyaa!"
Hatsumi pointed her fingers to the feline mage, and she introduced him to Rennin,
"He's one of my best friends offline, Ren. He is in charge of my costumes, when I go to cosplay events"
"Wow, you guys will surely work together, Hatsumi"
Two anime-styled avatars behind Hotaru brought out their armaments. One guy seemed to be a black-haired middle-aged gunslinger with a pair of small handguns, presumably a Seecamp LWS 32 .32 ACP semi-automatic pistol. The gunslinger boasted an alabaster complexion; he donned black trenchcoat, with 5 small belts tightened on both cuffs; black leather pants, and black studded leather boots with spurs attached.
"They call me RavenSythe" the gunslinger in ebony clothing introduced himself to the rest of the party.
"RavenSythe is one of my fans in Osaka during my Comiketto appearance. He sometimes takes pictures of me, and even made a website dedicated to me!" Hatsumi introduced him to their newcomer.
The other guy wore a white short-sleeved hoodie over his red long-sleeved shirt, loose dark blue denim pants, and has black spiky hair. The weapon the hoodie boy brought out is a bokken, a wooden variant of a katana. Hatsumi introduced the bokken-wielding teenager,
“This is Roy-kun, I admire his artworks on VariArt! I’ve seen him before in one of the conventions here in the Philippines, and he’s simply awesome, even though we can’t understand each other at first!”
“Hi! Nice meeting you, Rennin!” Roy-kun smiled at Rennin, and shook his hands.
Hatsumi’s party finally introduced themselves to Rennin well, and then their leader, Hatsumi raised her voice,
“All right! Start streaming!” then she raised her fist to the sky.
RavenSythe set up his game recording application, and the party moved forward. Hatsumi approached a gynoid dressed up like a flight stewardess named Ysabella, and she commanded,
“Warp us to Brygul planet’s Forest of Rocks”
The gynoid flight stewardess nodded at them, and brought out a holographic computer. She typed in some commands, then she drew alien symbols on the other holographic screen, and a purple hexagonal grid magically appeared below them. The gynoid flight stewardess uttered,
“Destination: Brygul planet, Forest of Rocks! COMMENCE!”
The hexagonal grid shone, and wiped out Hatsumi’s party altogether.
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The first world the players will start in is the Brygul planet. Planet Brygul is a super Earth-type planet in NOAH universe. This world is designed for beginners, and to those who’d like beautiful screenshots in an Earth-like scenery. The starting area is called Forest of Rocks due to its mysterious rock pillars protruding the forests.
Hatsumi’s party ended up in a small military encampment situated in the middle of Forest of Rocks. A stubby, hippopotamus-headed armored marine welcomed the party, and briefed Hatsumi’s party,
“All right, you Animuu team, so far, your mission is to retrieve five black boxes from downed scout ships around this forest”
While the rest of Hatsumi’s party is paying attention to the hippopotamus-headed marine, Hatsumi faced away from the NPC, and she narrated,
“Right now, we’re here at Forest of Rocks”, then she chuckled for a moment, then she continued,
“Yeah seriously, the safe spot’s name is Forest of Rocks! As you’ve heard, we have been referred as Animuu by that funny-looking animal marine over there!”
Unexpectedly, the rest of her party members tried to reach the exit, yet she continued narrating,
“Animuu is basically a sub-race of humans that have the body style of our favorite anime characters, and recently, they included playable furries under this sub-race! The guy we meet at the Cityscape is an example of a Rearu, as in a humanoid character with near-realistic anatomy. My fellow member, Hotaru is a Nyaa-un, as in humanoid cats, like those furries--”
Hatsumi looked back to the hippopotamus-headed marine, and the animal marine laughed at her,
“Ha ha ha! They’re about to leave you, girl!” and the armored animal snorted in short bursts.
Hatsumi immediately rushed towards the group, and apologized to them for stalling their first adventure.
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Ren enjoyed the game so much that he lost track of time. His hands are both on mouse and keyboard, with left hand performing most of character movements by WASD keys, spacebar for jumps. His right hand is in his mouse, for camera control, and attacks.
“Ren, you have classes tomorrow!” called out by his mother from the other side of his wall.
“Okay mom, fifteen more minutes!” Ren replied louder, as he can’t afford to lose Hatsumi’s trail in-game.
“Sheesh, I’m just getting hang of this game already, can’t I have more time?” Ren thought to himself, while playing the game.
The game’s interface is clean, that the health meter and stamina meter are located conveniently at the top left part of the screen. The skill icons are situated right beside the player’s meters. The minimap is at the bottom right of his screen, alongside with other options vital for any online game as icons. There are small tabs beneath the health and skill bar that will access ‘Inventory’ screen, ‘Character’ screen, ‘Skillbook’ screen, ‘Journal’ screen, ‘Social’ screen, and ‘Options’ screen.
“Ren, we have to move!” Hatsumi yelled in-game.
“Mom wanted me to go to sleep, can we continue tomorrow?” Ren pleaded
“No, but instead, you may now log-out after we get one of the black boxes” Hatsumi rebutted.
“Okay then” Ren conceded, and continued playing at least for one part of the quest...
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Hatsumi’s party arrived at the unprotected section of the forest. There were fifty rabid marsupials hopping all over the path. Three of the rabid marsupials glared at the team, and wailed loud that it’ll disturb the whole forest.
“Chill guys, seems that we get the epic moment for this stream” RavenSythe commented, as he calmly loaded his mini-pistols for battle.
Hotaru, the feline mage, started casting an area-wide flame ether art.
“Ember Shower!!!” Hotaru vigorously yelled, then stabbed his staff to the ground.
Upon stabbing the ground, several small but bright fiery tangerine magic circles marked the ground, and even lit some of the rabid marsupials. A second later, rain of embers struck the marked grounds, pummeled many of the rabid marsupials to flames.
Hatsumi brought out her light hammer, then ran towards three unfortunate burning wild animals, and charged up her hammer.
“Titan Swipe!” Hatsumi uttered, as she swung her hammer onto the marsupials.
Her hammer slammed the heads of three unlucky enemies, and sent them flying towards the towering canopies. Ren is surprised and asked,
“Do you guys really have to utter your attacks? You might be waking up your roommates or something!”
Unbeknownst to Ren, two burning rabid marsupials were about to bite his forearm, then the middle-aged gunslinger threw lead onto the puny skulls of the approaching creatures.
“It gives epic effects to us, Ren! Besides, you’re on camera! Show off your moves!” RavenSythe laughed at Ren, and continued fending off the rest of the angered animals.
Roy-kun, and Ren stood back-to-back, at their defensive stances. Three of the rabid marsupials leaped towards Roy-kun. The spiky-haired boy in white hoodie shirt channeled some of his ether energy onto his wooden katana.
“Wave Sweep!” Roy-kun uttered, and swung his ether-enveloped weapon upward, and produced a waist-high airy energy wave.
The airy projectile sent the rabid marsupials away from their party. Ren rushed towards a group of rabid marsupials, and haphazardly stabbed one of them, then rend it apart.
“Wow, Ren! How brave...” RavenSythe praised Ren for his risky action.
“Ummm... that’s dramatic enough for our livestream, nyaa!” Hotaru remarked.
Unexpectedly, Hatsumi got surrounded by twelve more rabid marsupials, and they began kicking her fast. Hotaru heard Hatsumi’s painful wail, and he rushed back to his leader. The hammer-wielding girl cannot even get herself up, for the flying kicks of those creatures kept sending her down. The feline mage raised his staff again, and uttered,
“Cold Spike ~ magi-machine gun!”
Hotaru’s staff glowed blue, and pointed his staff onto the attacking creatures. He held his staff like a spear, and gunned the marsupials down with cold icicles. Ren, and Roy went back to Hatsumi, and brought her up together. Roy immediately brought out his small red vial, and let her drink it. Hatsumi felt revitalized after drinking the healing vial.
“Ha ha, Hatsumi! Y’know, if only Hye-sung was here, he would have recorded a video of you battered by those fanged kangaroos!” RavenSythe teased his party leader.
“As in... a character abuse video on my livestream, yeah right! Good thing that he wasn’t here, ‘Ven!” Hatsumi yelled.
The byzantium-haired party leader approached RavenSythe, and struck his belly with her right knee. Hatsumi then prevised,
“Yeah, that ain’t really funny. I’ll laugh at you if you die right on our first live stream!”
After their petty argument, Hatsumi called the rest of the party to continue forward...
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GM-Iota and other game masters of Fabulous Rainbows watched the players from different floating monitors all over their room. A godly-voiced man spoke to the crowd,
“Grandmaster speaking, the Creator has spoken...”
The game masters looked upon the angel-winged white-robed Grandmaster, and then the Grandmaster continued,
“Some of you, game masters, will have to play as ordinary characters. Not because I’m firing you guys off, but we’ll have to blend with the crowd, to weed out hackers”
“W-what? I’m gonna lose my badass Hekmatyar-donning look!” shallowly complained by one of the red-haired American game masters.
“Well, I’m fine not to be wearing this fabulous coat anyway!” chuckled by a female Russian game master.
“You can still have those clothes, don’t worry. I knew it, some of you will lose their badass looks. You’ll be able to wear them back at times of actual confrontation with any malevolent avatar” the Grandmaster reaffirmed.
Many of the game masters sighed deeply, and then the Creator, the one who owned the godly operatic male voice, spoke,
“Good evening, Fabulous Rainbows, I am the voice you all hear, I am Eden, the god of this universe that the Grandmaster made for us. It is confirmed, that some of you will have to blend with the rest of the players, and to start off...”
Eden the Creator materialized himself in front of the Fabulous Rainbows mid-air. The Creator has sparkling ivory complexion, white spiky-hair, golden eyes, and donned a red tuxedo. Eden suddenly pointed GM-Iota, and commanded him,
“Iota, blend with those guys in Forest of Rocks”
GM-Iota’s white uniform shattered in front of the team, and immediately replaced with blue short-sleeved hoodie shirt, with yellow futuristic chestplate on top, beige knee-length baggy shorts, and blue shin-high oversized boots, then his white hair turned dark blue.
"Whoa, thanks Pops!" GM-Iota exclaimed, and then jumped with joy.
"Now, name yourself, as long as your new identity isn't associated to your GM avatar" the Grandmaster commanded.
"Hatsya!" GM-Iota immediately answered.
The Grandmaster smiled at his son's avatar, and brushed his hair playfully. Henry's father, as Grandmaster, reminded,
"Okay Hatsya, have fun out there! Make sure you don't use your GM powers wrongly, or your sister will suspend your characters!"
Hatsya willingly nodded, and he left their headquarters happily. GM-Mintaka looked at his brother leaving their organization, and then she asked her father,
"May I leave the Rainbows too?"
"Not now, dear... I need you to watch over your brother's activities in-game" the Grandmaster declined.
"What the heck, pops! Henry can take care of that, after all, he's been itching to play as a regular character due to his NOAH stories" GM-Mintaka argued.
"Still, you got to keep an eye of him"
Iris sighed, and went back to her duty at the Cityscape 01...
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Hatsumi’s party reached the first scout ship crash site. Unexpectedly, they came across a lone fencer wearing blue short-sleeved hoodie shirt, with yellow futuristic chestplate on top, beige knee-length baggy shorts, and blue shin-high oversized boots.
“We get ourselves an interesting guest on our stream, mind if we invite him?” Hatsumi broke the fourth wall with a question.
Many of her party members nodded plainly, except RavenSythe. The cocky gunslinger ticked his tongue, and snarled,
“Whoa, a fancy-pants on our party? Hope he dies first, for bringing an oversized needle at a battle like this!”
Hotaru the feline mage slapped RavenSythe, and scolded him,
“Don’t be so cocky, Raven. He may look weak, but let’s just see his wonders, nya!”.
The feline mage stared at the lone fencer, and talked to himself,
“Isn’t he cute? He’ll be hotter if he’s wearing short shorts... He looks floaty at those clothes, nya!”
Behind Hotaru, Hatsumi pressed his shoulders, and asked,
“Isn’t he hot?”
“Y-yeah, Hatsumi... Did you ask him to join the party, nyaa?” Hotaru asked back.
Hatsumi approached the fencer, and asked,
“Will you join us? You look agile enough, Hatsya”
“Sure!” Hatsya affirmed, and then the team moved towards the downed ship.
The enemies around the downed ship are called Hyabuum soldiers. These Hyabuum soliders are gray-armored reptilian bipeds, armed with exotic polearms. Some of them were even armed with flintlock rifles with long, sharp fangs as their makeshift bayonets. Ren approached the downed ship, and took its black box.
“Okay, one down! Four more to go!” RavenSythe exclaimed, and his eyes are locked on Ren.
Unexpectedly, another party teleported near Hatsumi’s team. The party consisted of three spiky, robotic bipeds with assault rifles; a lightly-armored pig-headed barbarian armed with a heavy axe; and a spiky-haired ninja, wearing black bodysuit, a black scarf, and equipped with a pair of kunais.
“Piggy, go tank ‘em!” commanded by the conceited ninja
The barbarian pig rushed towards a group of Hyabuum soldiers. Three of the Hyabuum riflemen fired at the pig man’s shoulders. Instead of blood splattering at his attacked body parts, green crystalline damage effects are in place, in attempts of taming video game violence.
“Rough Divide!” the brave barbarian pig yelled, then swung his axe into the reptilian soldiers. His axe left fairly large green holographic gashes on their bellies, and his victims wailed before shattering into green crystalline dusts.
The three spiky humanoid robots fired in short, controlled bursts onto the oncoming Hyabuum soldiers, and many of the approaching creatures get hit on their knees and chests.
While Piggy’s group are busy fighting with a group of Hyabuum mobs, RavenSythe casually looked at them, that he’s actually recording their battle movements, as a part of their livestream. All of a sudden, the ninja noticed RavenSythe’s intimidating presence, and outcried,
“What the heck are you doin’? You wanna PVP with us?”
“Calm down Neruto-four-fours (Neruto44s), I’m just recording a gameplay video, and your team actions are worth taking!” RavenSythe retorted.
“Really?” Neruto44 snickered.
The cocky ninja rushed towards RavenSythe, and tried stabbing him with his low-tier pair of kunais. The cool gunslinger backflipped far, and fired his pair of little pistols onto the approaching avatar. His bullets struck the ninja’s knees, then impeded its movement.
“That’s it!” Neruto44 grinned.
The angered ninja mysteriously expelled a stream of binary numbers from his mouth...
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A boisterous, scrawny boy switched to another application while NOAH is still online. The application simply consisted of a boring black command line, with character stats of his current character named Neruto44.
“Teeheehee, stat-boost has taken effect!” giggled by the boisterous boy.
Neruto44’s agility stats gained 100 points, fully-restored its hit points, and ether points, and it rendered his character’s movement speed extremely fast, that only powerful ranged weapons can nearly stop it.
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Neruto44 laughed at RavenSythe, and then he dashed towards the gunslinger, with his kunai aimed towards his chest. RavenSythe unloaded a lot of lead onto the speeding Ninja, but not of them ever hit him. Unfortunately, the ninja avatar already struck his chest, rendering RavenSythe immobile due to damage. Neruto44 made his situation worse, by constantly circling around him, and stabbing RavenSythe from behind.
Neruto44’s party members rushed towards him, but with their weapons pointed at him. Piggy whined at their cheating member,
“What the heck, man! He’s just taking videos of our battles, man! Why do you have to do--”
Unfortunately, Piggy isn’t spared either, that he stole RavenSythe’s little handguns, and wasted lead on their tanking avatar. One of the spiky robotic riflemen ran away, and reported,
“Neruto44 caught cheatin--!” and the reporting rifleman is also slaughtered by Neruto44 himself, with a well-placed shot on his nape.
At the far side of the Forest of Rocks, Hotaru worriedly asked Hatsumi,
“Did Raven just separate from us? And... Ren is supposed to be away now, but seemed to enjoy this game much, Mi-chan, nyaa?”
“I d-don’t know, Ruru... Let’s go back!” Hatsumi worriedly affirmed.
Hatsumi’s team ran back to the first crash site, and while on the way, Hatsya received a call,
"Hacking activity detected at Forest of Rocks, take action!" screamed by a male operatic computer voice.
“Will be there, Eden!” Hatsya replied, and then closed his communication to the Creator.
Their party reached the crash site, and found a lot of dissolving remains of the Hyabuum soldiers, and many of the players Neruto44 slaughtered due to his new-found hacking tool.
“Crap, did you just kill your party members too?” Hatsya surprisingly asked.
Neruto44 laughed out loud, that he immediately dashed towards Hotaru, and attempted to stab him right away. However, Roy-kun parried his attack with his wooden katana, and kicked its groin.
“Heh, pure luck, bro!” Neruto44 sneered
“H-Hatsya, i-is this... even allowed? These kinds of PVP that will let you kill anyone, even your friends?” Hatsumi hesitantly asked Hatsya, while she hugged him for defense.
Hotaru hurled fire bolts onto the offending avatar, pushing him away from Roy-kun. Behind the hurt yet hacked avatar, Hatsumi swung her hammer onto the legs like a golf club, crippling its legs in the process. While crippled, Ren channeled some ether onto his dagger, and gashed Neruto44.
“Neruto44 is using a hacking tool, but it seemed that it went away moments after, that’s why he became vulnerable” Hatsya thought to himself.
Neruto44 laughed manically, and his eyes began bleeding small green numbers, indicating another character hack pulled off by its player.
“All of you are weak!” Neruto44 taunted, and headed towards Hatsya this time.
Hatsya’s hair turned white, and his ordinary rapier turned into a gold-tipped ivory winged rapier with fiery rainbow aura. White-haired Hatsya taunted at the obnoxious avatar,
“Nope, you are!”
The fencer with burning rainbow aura kicked Neruto44 at its belly, and cited,
“Neruto44, you have violated the terms of service via hacking tools used on your character to gain unfair advan--”
Ren, Roy-kun, and Hotaru were speechless on what they’ve witnessed in the field, that a hacker’s being dealt by a game master, right in front of them. Neruto44 interrupted Hatsya with a gash on his shorts, and cussed,
“You dimwit, you talk like a cop, but you’re still weak!”
“Thanks for ruining my pants, Neruto!” Hatsya snickered.
“Administrative operations, granted!” a godly male operatic voice screamed from nowhere.
“Heard that, punk?” Hatsya asked the unfavorable Neruto44.
Neruto44 kept brandishing his kunais onto Hatsya at a fast rate, but all of them are parried by his rapier.
“Farewell!” Hatsya exclaimed, as he just simply drew a star on Neruto44’s belly with his rapier.
Neruto44 spew a waterfall of binary numbers all over his body, in attempts to save itself from Hatsya’s flashy banning attacks, but at the end, his avatar started crumbling into green crystalline hexagonal pieces.
“Neruto44 is permanently banned for violating the terms of service, via hacking tools applied on his character, and multiple player kills” Hatsya reported to the other members of the Fabulous Rainbows.
Hatsumi and others were astonished on how their newly-recruited party member eliminated a hacked avatar from ruining their fun. Hotaru leaped towards Hatsya, and hugged him,
“T-thanks for saving us, Hats-nyaa!”
“It’s actually my job to ward off hackers like him” Hatsya remarked.
Hatsumi began narrating for their livestream, even though her cameraman, RavenSythe, is killed off in-game,
“For the first time that our party member turned out to be a game master! He banned a hacked newbie so well, that he should have been a regular player with awesome skill set!”
Hatsya’s white hair turned back into dark blue, and called Hatsumi,
“Hey, I think I’ve heard about you before! You are the famous cosplayer, Hatsumi Kalantiao, right?”
“Yup, and I was right there, watching you and your sister on those game costumes, you’re actually cute online and offline, Hatsya!” Hatsumi answered, and managed to praise him.
While the two were busy talking about their brief real-world encounter, Hotaru brought out a reviving feather, and forced RavenSythe to ingest the feather. After its forced ingestion, RavenSythe is awakened, and the two, Roy-kun and Rennin, handed out healing vials for him to drink.
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The owner of Neruto44, the scrawny, shaggy-haired boy, unfortunately angered his fellow playmates in their internet cafe. Piggy’s owner, who happened to be the owner of their internet cafe cracked his knuckles, and scolded Neruto44’s player,
“First of all, in my internet cafe, using hacks on any of the games installed here are not allowed! Second, you are a cheap, dirty bastard who’ll later betray a whole party over a cheat that gave you temporarily unfair advantage against us!”
“I-I’m s-sorry, boss!” Neruto44’s owner stuttered, while fleeing backwards.
The three boys wearing jersey shirt, and small trucker caps approached Neruto44’s player, and took him down with fists, and began curb-stomping on him.
“WE HATE CHEATERS LIKE YOU! NOOB! NOOB! NOOB!” the owners of the spiky robotic riflemen vehemently growled at their cheating member.
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