42 Mysteries and Theories. (1/2)
While a certain someone was busy improving his digging. There was a certain group of people that was busy with some other kind of digging.
It was a normal room, but each person had a very ashen expression. They looked absolutely exhausted, their eyes would close if they did not force themselves to keep them open. They looked haggard and mentally destroyed. They were showing more resemblance to corpses than actual living beings.
There was no source of light, except the weak reflection of some screens that were powered by thunder crystals. Their eyes were staring stubbornly ahead as if every other thing they would cost them their lives.Without the occasional breathing, there was no other noise. An eerie silence filled the room, clad in depressing darkness.
But as the time passed a general feeling of unrest came over each one of them. Some tried to relieve their stress by chewing their fingernails others just quivered seemingly afraid of something. Despite the nearly tangible tension in the air, not one word was spoken. Rather those people did not even dare to even open their mouths.
The number of people using different technics to cope increased slowly but surely. One even began to rip out his hair. But no matter what they did, their eyes never once moved away from the screens. Those eyes kept on moving rapidly, over the screen searching for something.
This situation has been like that for the last 2 weeks and yet there was no end in sight. Unless, of course, they find the solution.
It seemed to be so close but yet so far away, that no one has found it even after all these sleepless nights. Those men developed an obsession and they would not even rest until they solve this strange situation.
From time to time they were even swapping their places, hoping for some kind of epiphany or inspiration to help them. Instead, they were greeted by the same bleakness as before. It was a mystery, that went contrary to any prior knowledge they made.
They spent all their lives, realizing their dream of creating this groundbreaking simulated world. Yet their world was currently falling apart right in front of their very eyes.They put everything else besides to just to solve the issues it faces, even going as far as sacrificing their own health. But to no avail, their world was currently spiralling out of control and they had no clue about the cause or any potential fixes.
The door was suddenly kicked open and angry men stormed in. The man had an ugly expression on his face, ready to murder the next person, who was foolish enough to look at him wrong. He sat down for a moment, accessing the current situation before he closed the door in one violent motion. As the room began to shake, nobody dared to turn around to be the target. Everyone felt that a storm was about to come.
” HOW DARE YOU” a mad scream was reverberating in their ears.
”HOW DARE YOU GUYS WITHHOLD SUCH HIDDEN EVENTS FROM ME”, a confused expression could be found on any onlooker.
”DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE SCREAMED AT ME? AND FOR WHAT? JUST SO THAT THE PLAYERS EXPLORE AND FIND THE REASONS THEMSELVES?” Everyone was looking at their boss dumbfounded, did he lose his mind? Even they had no clue what has caused this madness, how should players have any clues?
”Look I can understand that the plan of you guys, would have never passed. But putting it in the game without any kind of feedback is a big breach of trust. You guys are just lucky, that the players absolutely loved it. Even our Sponsors are currently very happy because our approach trains the children on so many different things, that they will be the backbone for the final push against the monsters.
We even got massive new funds approved and they wish that we to expand the server size so that more people can join. But they demand that we lift the heavy restrictions we put on magic beforehand. The creatures should be challenging after all. We agreed, to lift the shackles a bit from time to time, to not get rid of the survival aspect too soon.
We have to work on many things till the upcoming patch. We have to make sure that our little magic world remains stable. We have to make sure that this augmented world suits the needs of our customers. We are very far away from the potential capacity that this world can carry after all.
He lowered his voice by a lot so that no one outside of this room could hear.
”I will let you guys in on a very delicate secret, due to your accomplishment to this company. Not only did the Church promise us a massive amount of gold, but no they also plan to send their very own elite in this world to train them. They even think about delegating bishops into this world, to be their trainer. Do you know how many players we could attract when that news spread? With that, we come closer and closer to achieve our goal.”
” The purpose of this world was to be a breeding ground for an army to the nail in the coffin of those creatures who killed our children for far too long. A final push against the monsters. Everyone one in this company has lost many they knew. That is why everybody is working so hard. I am proud that you guys are doing everything to eradicate these monsters.”