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Post by CROCTUS on May 17, 2015 14:38:04 GMT -6
 What to do, what to do. Sarah Beckett, rather Croctus, wandered out into the east field to decide on her next course of action. She looked around at the green grass rolling on through the fields and sighed lightly staring at the wildlife around. She saw that there were some docile animals around, but something seemed off. Based on their movement patterns (as if just because this was a VR-MMO it would have predictable movement patterns), it looked like it was following a track that brings it in the way of the road. That generally means it can be fought.
Croctus reached into her pockets, but lo and behold, she didn't have any pocky to throw in her mouth. This place sure was real, she thought she was back home for a minute there. But how difficult would it be to harvest these creatures for experience? Would she be alright by herself or would she need backup at this low of a level? She wasn't familiar with the system yet. God, being a speedrunner first time through a game was near impossible.
Whatever, she sat herself down in the field and looked up at the sun. Maybe somebody would come along to help her answer that question. For now, she scrolled through her HUD to see if she could search through the FAQ section or if there was a recorded Bestiary. OPEN
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Post by WALKURE on May 17, 2015 15:34:35 GMT -6
❝ Can't stay at home, can't stay at school. Old folks say 'You poor little fool'. Down the streets I'm the girl next door. I'm the fox you've been waiting for.❞
Verdammte, this was quite a game. When she had been signed on, it was just a bunch of matrices with test scripts and low-poly objects. Hell they didn't even have any real environments when she wrote this thing up. It felt pretty real on a base level, but that didn't really intrigue her quite as much as the physics renderer did. Like holy shit what did they have to give up to get this thing rendering so smoothly? Admittedly video game code wasn't her native territory, but she knew enough about it....like, shit, what kid didn't write a basic video game in Unreal when the damn thing came out for free? ....Not that it actually mattered since she'd already torrented the full version when it was released.
She loved the physics in Unreal....but what the shit kind of engine was this that they were running on? Good god, she really wanted to see the brains behind this thing. From what she could tell, they might have built their own engine from scratch. Half of her just wanted to look at every little detail in the game and try to figure out what kind of object file it was, how the AI ran, and what language it was scripted in. She felt like she was flying as she walked about in the grassy field, letting herself get lost in the literal feeling of the game. It was kinda like a drug in a way, it just felt so cool to be....literally able to sense things in game. Would it be the same with injury? Would she feel if someone stabbed her in the stomach or sliced off her head?
It was a seriously exciting thought, though not enough for her to experiment upon herself right this second. Nah she'd need someone else to volunteer.
She stopped walking, though, as she spotted a chick sitting in the middle of the field not ten feet away from her. The question was, player or NPC? That could be answered decently. Most NPCs had a certain proximity detection where they'd automatically respond to a player character. Time to test that, then. The girl turned, shifting her direction so she was headed towards the strange redhead with a sauntering step. Nine feet. Eight, seven. Six, five. Nothing and nothing. By now an NPC would have responded...which meant this was a real player.
Not quite as easy to experiment with, but still, she could learn something about her.
Emmie grinned, waving to the girl. "Yo, over there. What's up?" she called casually. Would she get anything out of her? Would she ignore? There was something about this girl that seemed intrinsically interesting. Maybe it was the bright red hair, maybe it was jus how...nonchalant she seemed. Hopefully she wouldn't disappoint.
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Post by CROCTUS on May 17, 2015 18:16:12 GMT -6
What better than a random girl with interesting colors in her hair to come along to answer her question. Or hopefully to answer her question. Croctus looked over at the girl as she called out. Assuming that the girl wasn't talking to herself or seeing somebody behind Croctus, the red haired girl offered a single wave from left to right. "You looking for somebody?" she replied without really addressing the question she was asked. Maybe it was her lack of social capabilities that kept her from answering or the fact that this girl looked really...well, intense for lack of a better term. Weird dye in her hair and bright bright pink eyes.
It was probably just nothing at all, and Croctus unsettled herself by thinking it right off the bat. But why did she feel bad? Hell, she didn't know. Shaking her head for a moment, Croctus stood up. She placed her hands on her hips and tilted her head to the side looking this girl up and down. "I'm simply chilling around here," she finally decided to answer. "Kind of looking about the movement patterns of the foxes around here. They aren't aggro'd so easily, but it's clear they are an enemy not only on the small healthbar, but the movement patterns crosses onto the road approximately every minute twenty seconds. Any gamer knows that path crossing wildlife is an enemy." Hopefully this girl was a gamer of some sort so she would understand.
Croctus scratched the back of her head and looked at one of the red foxes walking along the road as they spoke. It looked up for a moment, not seeming to see them specifically, before walking off the road again. "I wondered how much grinding it would take to get ahead on just these little creatures. Their vision range seems to be somewhere between 1200 and 1500 units, but I haven't tested it yet." Croctus seemed to almost forget about the girl standing there as she looked at the fox. Offhandedly, she mentioned, "You think we could take one?" WALKURE★ Just what I wanted, the crazy girl <3 |
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Post by WALKURE on May 18, 2015 6:34:44 GMT -6
❝ Can't stay at home, can't stay at school. Old folks say 'You poor little fool'. Down the streets I'm the girl next door. I'm the fox you've been waiting for.❞
Heavy eyelids blinked slowly once, twice, as fraulein settled into a casual slouch, putting her weight on one leg. "Nah, not really. It's not the people I'm looking for so much." She cracked her neck, arms crossing over her chest. Well, this one wasn't answering. Was she just being defiant? That could be fixed. Finally though the girl stood. She was decently tall for a girl of...what maybe eighteen or so? Judging by how she looked anyway. Pink eyes glinted as the other began to speak, and slowly her lips curled up into a warm, engaged smile. And if she thought about it, there was definitely a flutter of excitement in her heart like damn. This here, this was a girl after her own heart.
She shifted her weight to the other foot. "Babe.....look I get we totally just met and all that, but....scheiße can I just say...you're the first person I've encountered that speaks my language." She tilted her head, pink blue and black dancing with the movement. "Me personally I've just been looking at the actual game itself y'know? I actually wasn't sure if you were an NPC at first. But once I got past the interaction range and you didn't budge....." She smirked. This was actually much, much cooler. "But you're right about the foxes. The AI's not that complex; I'm not native to game programming but I was working on some projects before I jumped into this game and all that. You're probably right about the sight range. I honestly love testing this stuff y'know? I say we take one. I'm kinda curious to see whether they have pain tolerance programmed in as well. They wanted to emulate reality to an extent right? Man I would actually be so friggen amazed if they managed to emulate behavioural stuff. If they have a fear algorithm I have got to get my hands on it when I get out of this game."
Emmie rolled her shoulders, looking at the fox not far away....looking at the prey. "I think they actually have other sensory algorithms as well...hearing and all that. Any idea what the range is? I'd hope it's better than their sight. I'd be disappointed if it wasn't."
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Post by CROCTUS on May 18, 2015 9:55:10 GMT -6
...Babe? Was this girl deluded or something? Nobody in their right mind calls Croctus a babe. She was a sloppy human being and a gamer, but based on her responses to the whole vision distance stuff and pathing, it sounds like she was one of those kinds of girls too. At least, she hoped that was the case and this girl actually knew what she was talking about. Croctus crossed her arms and looked the girl up and down trying to decide if she was faking any of this and whatnot...but she deemed it too detailed to be fake.
A small smile graced the lips of the red-head. She looked over at one of the red foxes and inhaled deeply. "I'd be left to assume that the pain tolerance is relatively nerfed. If you think about it, extreme pain would cause people to desync from the system or become braindead. If this is meant to be real, you can't think you're dead or your are dead. I'd imagine that the pain meter gets rougher the lower health gets. If you think about it, it would make the most sense to limit the movement and ability to get back up after an attack the more you're hurt, but that also would prevent early desyncs." Surely, this was complete speculation, but to Croctus, it made complete sense.
She scratched the back of her head and took a few steps back from the fox. "As far as other senses go, I haven't tested those things yet. If it's anything like other MMO's with creatues and such, I'd expect a large variance from 3500 to 5500 units of hearing. It's a lot, but I don't know if they took the time to differentiate the breeds of these animals. Some hear better than others." She clapped three times and the fox didn't care to look over at them. Instead, it kept walking around as it was. She frowned and sighed. Croctus walked back up to the apparently infatuated girl. "I'd imagine since these ones are neutral, their sound is more like an aggro radius. You know, if you attack one, then ones within the sound radius attack as well?"
Croctus walked closer to the fox and smiled. It growled slightly as she approached. One...two...three...fo...Aha! The fox started to aggro towards her. "Three point 66 seconds give or take." She got ready to be in a fighting stance. Guess it was time to fight this fox, and hopefully there weren't any others in range for this test...or maybe they should be. Hm...fun experiments with lives on the line. I like the sound of that. |
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Post by WALKURE on May 19, 2015 12:21:01 GMT -6
❝ Can't stay at home, can't stay at school. Old folks say 'You poor little fool'. Down the streets I'm the girl next door. I'm the fox you've been waiting for.❞
Emmie thought for a moment, pondering the rehead's words. "Mmm, that makes some sense. I mean, the connection is neurological...send too much stimulus through and you fry the person and the system they're using. But I mean....if this is real, too....mmm, I guess it's a case of whether or not they sacrificed natural experience of pain for the sake of the game running more smoothly. I guess I can't be too disappointed if they did. Love to see if there's a way to fix that though, if I ever get out." She said it casually, like she didn't really...care if she got out or not. Which, frankly, she didn't, in a way. Depending on how long she was stuck in here, it was entirely possible her brother would finally catch on to her....jobs. Heck when she woke up, she might just find herself trapped again, in a much less interesting prison.
No thanks.
She tilted her head and listened amusedly at miss brainiac's explanation for the auditory senses of these creatures. Well, that did sound like pretty standard AI. "Not a bad theory. Definitely worth testing." Though, perhaps, not with herself. She wondered about arranging a little meeting with some other player with a large enough pack of...eh, foxes, wolves, whatever creature was nearby....and then watch the test unfold. She wondered if there was some sort of a cancel algorithm - if you reached a certain distance from the enemy would it stop chasing since you were no longer in its range of vision? Or did they move beyond that, to something more realistic? She'd need more people than that to test it with. And stupider ones, too - this girl knew her stuff. Wasn't really the kind of guinnea pig she'd want for this experiment.
Emmie leisurely stalked towards the fox along with her current partner, taking a wider angle so she was more to the side. She took in her surroundings - pretty plain, not much around them. Both were unarmed, but there was just something about the idea of kicking the fox in the face that seemed incredibly thrilling. Part of her wondered if she'd hear or feel breaking its bones if she crushed its leg. She'd never broken her own before, so she was wholly unfamiliar with the sensation. The fox started towards them, and Emmie smiled, readying herself with one leg braced back, ready to catapult her forward. "Let's see if they prioritize first-spotted over newest target. Could be either, depending how the array's set up." Ah, test one was underway. The only question here was which one of the two was the guinnea pig?
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Post by CROCTUS on May 19, 2015 15:53:43 GMT -6
This chick was definitely into the algorithms of the game, much like Croctus. However, it seemed things were different in some senses. The red head got the vibe that this girl wasn't a game crusher that looks into the physics and codes of games to find wall clips and slide reset timers and such. No, this girl looked like the kind of girl that knew the ins and outs of a code so that she could either make it or break it. What was she in the real world? Nah, that's probably not a very respectful question to ask people.
She was a little bit...well, psycho to put it plainly. The algorithm she kept looping back to was the pain control mechanism. Maybe she was some sort of masochist, or worse a sadist. Either way, she seemed a little weird in that sense, but Croctus wanted to make light of the situation. "What, you want your kinky shit to be more real than ever?" she jested. Hopefully, it was going to remain a joke, but who the hell knew with her weird colored hair and pain addiction.
But to keep along with the test, Croctus let the fox attack first. She didn't want to change it's aggro based solely on who was attacking it first. That was when she saw it lunge forward at her. She ducked back a bit, but the fox still sunk its sharp little teeth into her arm. "Yeow, fuck you!" She took her other hand and promptly punched it in the face. She watched it's health bar go down by one fourth, and hers go down slightly.
She looked at her arm where she was bitten. She wasn't bleeding or anything, but rather she had glowing spots on her from where the teeth went in. The pain was slight, but nothing like the real kind of pain you would feel if you were bitten in real life. She ran her hand over the spot a few times. "Feels like a bite for maybe one second, but the pain is relatively low. They definitely nerfed this shit." The red head shrugged and gestured forward for the crazy girl to go next. "You're up, babe," she said, slightly mocking.
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Post by WALKURE on May 21, 2015 15:07:46 GMT -6
❝ Can't stay at home, can't stay at school. Old folks say 'You poor little fool'. Down the streets I'm the girl next door. I'm the fox you've been waiting for.❞
Oooh, she could feel those eyes boring into her, much in the way she so loved to do the same with the more interesting specimens she played with. So this was what it felt like, to be analyzed? It was somewhat exhilarating, making her want to pick the redhead’s – ah, Croctus, that’s what her tag was – Croctus’ brain to see just what it was she was thinking. Emmie wouldn’t pretend to be good at emotions. She was godawful. But she definitely recognized reluctance....or was it caution? When she saw it. Fraulein was smarter than she gave credit for initially. She couldn’t help the laugh that bubbled up at the other girl’s jest. ”Schie, oh my, is that how it sounds?” She brought her index finger to her lips, partially hiding what appeared to be an innocent, giggling smile. ”Apologies, my mind is just wired to be intrigued by physiology. I can’t help but be excited by comparing the reality of neurological reactions with those in a virtual reality game. I don’t know how to turn off the scientist, it seems.” ....It wasn’t kinky to find fascination in experiential pain in virtual reality systems was it? Though maybe that was an American thing. As the fox made its move, a small, toothy smile broke Emmie’s features. Ah, she could almost see the AI written right out in front of her. So, it was a front facing matrix. Croctus was the first variable entered into the array, making her the target. And, if she was right, the array was reset each turn – which meant that, most likely, she would be the target in the next round. And it was so interesting~. She was rather distracted by Croctus as she analyzed the damage to her arm. She took a mental note of the assessment – short-term sensory experience of pain. ”Interesting~” she chirped, before turning back on her prey. ”Danke, fraulein~” she breathed, a sly smile upon her face at the use of “babe”. Oh, so cheeky, this one. For her own attack, she decided to take a sidelong approach. Hitting it in the face was probably the easiest way to go...and admittedly she really quite did want to crush its skull...but when this turn ended, she would likely be the first target, and having her foot or fist right in its path was not ideal. Instead, she gave chase to her prey, dashing sidelong towards it. With a heavy kick, she landed a blow to where its ribs should be. It felt solid, but....lacked the satisfying crunch she had been looking for. Rather than pout, she started to immediately backpedal. ”Come at me, little meat, show me what your bite feels like~” she crooned, her eyes briefly darting to Croctus as she gave a nod. Its focus was wholly on her now; Croctus would have the perfect target.
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Post by CROCTUS on May 21, 2015 18:12:17 GMT -6
She thought she had heard it wrong before, but it seemed that it wasn't the case. The girl occasionally threw in some weird alternate language shit mid sentence. Sounded European or something. She couldn't tell, but she did know it wasn't Italian. Didn't sound like any of the Italian cuisine she made. Maybe it was Dutch or German or something like that. Oh wait. What was that move made forever ago? The hills live musically? The sound of the hills...The Sound of Music! That movie has Fraulein in it. They were German weren't they? Hell yes. Easy peasy.
Oh right, they were battling a fox or some shit like that. She should be paying more attention to--OOOOOOOOOOOOOH! The kick to the chest lifted the fox off the ground for a moment, before it hit the ground for a second. Damn, that looked like a solid kick. Too bad MMO's had general basic limitations on unarmed combat without previous skills. If this was real, the fox wouldn't be standing, and it looked like the crazy pain girl was upset about that. Oh well.
The fox was indeed aggro'd though, and it hated that little kick. Or something. It took its attention away from the red head and lunged at the other girl. It's teeth wrapped around her leg, but it wasn't on there for long before it let go due to a foot stomping it's head into the ground. Croctus' foot slammed down on the head and she kept it there while she looked at her companion. "See what I mean?" she stated with her foot still on the creature's head. She gestured down at the fox placing her hands on her sides. "Go on, kink girl, finish it off." She didn't mean any offense by it, but she couldn't help thinking things like that when she was so obsessed with pain.
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Post by WALKURE on May 22, 2015 14:45:00 GMT -6
❝ Can't stay at home, can't stay at school. Old folks say 'You poor little fool'. Down the streets I'm the girl next door. I'm the fox you've been waiting for.❞
Schie, that hurt. That hurt. And yet, the expression upon Emmie’s face was one of sheer exhileration, even as she opened her mouth and barked out a string of slurs between languages. She counted the seconds that she felt the burn, watching her health bar decrease by five per cent. A little scowl distorted her features and she looked down at the pitiful creature as Croctus crushed the creature’s head into the ground. ”That’s all? Really? Schie, I thought there might be more fun to you than that. Perhaps I’ll have to find something bigger.” She kicked her leg in the air a little, shaking out the burn. It lasted only a few seconds, just as Croctus had said, but indeed there was a little glow upon her skin to indicate the damage done. ”Mmm, yeah. I see. Kinda wanna have a word with the head geek here – because that right there should have fractured its skull. I am...disappoint, as they say.” She giggled at the use of ‘kink girl’ again, her smile growing. ”A’right, if you want me to, babe.” she countered, winking playfully at the other female. Oh yes, she was an interesting redhead...interesting and, perhaps, for now, useful. She seemed to be a competitive sort; prime material for player tests. Although....admittedly she couldn’t have her too competitive. After all, she wasn’t so sure she wanted this world to end. No, it would be far preferred to stay here. But for now Croctus was safe. For now. She honed in on the fox, which was now recovering from the skull-crushing foot-stomp it just received. As she stalked her prey, she couldn’t help but wish that she had something weaponized.....even something as menial as a pointy stick. Just something she could use to skewer the thing. Ehh....she could manage with her fists and feet for now. She did, though, wonder about one possibility, and so planned a rather precise attack. Rather than charge the animal in any fashion, she stole behind it, and sort of...pounced, catching it beneath her body, wrapping her arm around its throat such that the fox’s head was caught in a tight hold. The creature squirmed, but didn’t seem to be taking any damage despite the fact that, in such a hold, it would logically be suffocating. Emmie sighed, shifting her grip and simply snapping its neck, standing from her crouch as the fox let out a high yelp and its body disintegrated into pretty little fractals. She stretched, smirking over at Croctus. ”Guess you can’t naturally use a choking ability. But I’d bet you can earn one at a higher level or something.” she murmured. Her smile broadened. ”Lots of good data here.”
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