Chapter 9 (1/2)
I found a small settlelance, the dwellings weren't e There were three such tents Three families, about ten people
Certain spaces, such as the kitchen, the wood chopping block, or the butcher table, were coli simple flax tunics and leather boots They lived a simple life, at one with nature
I couldn't try to e jammed into my brain, but I couldn't actually speak And just look at me now – normal animals and humanoid NPCs would just run away from me I had better chances with players Well, I was a type of de
Still, I wanted to continue watching them Just a bit uess was that they didn't have the barrier thing
I wanted to relax So beaten black and blue by the constant unease, like pins and needles inof extreetting used to the feeling itself bit by bit, but I feared that after I'd co back to reality would drive me insane
Actually, why did these people decided to live all the way over here?
The world was so real I forgot it was a game sometimes, but they were NPCs Did they have a particular reason to live here? Did the developers expect the players to go in this deep?
I thought, this could be an event, and approached as close as I dared, then I understood why they were living here They were elves
That reuide's words It said there were ninety-nine hus Did thatin places so remote? I heard human civilization here were rather developed, with trains and everything So there was quite the econo as Earth, then the developers wouldn't bother es and settleenerated
Oh hey, there was a kid A boy, about 5 years old The only other kids in this settle rather forlorn
…oh God I want to meet him I want to meet him so bad!
I never had the best ie The only exceptions were little kids
Was there a way to make him not wary of me…? I couldn't think of any Oh, wait There was those items that player dropped Maybe I could use them
One old, un-dyed cloak
Three small coins, and a few coins of another type They looked like they were made from silver and copper, respectively
A wooden stick that looked like a meat skewer
And the Identification Crystal 5/99 I had since the beginning, plus one dark-red caterpillar fang
…I could beco person ever
Anyway, first ti the cloak Co my dry-ice smoke as hands was really difficult
It took ers, I couldn't do any fine manipulation I used nearly an hour just to put the cloak on h my Ghast body… why?
I could use s It was actuallythem, but it worked I could hold small items like the crystal or coins withinonto a purse (which meant that if I was surprised, I'd drop the stuff)
The cloak was big, but I could pick it up as long as I enveloped around half of it It felt like balancing a tray with a dish of soup on top – difficult, but still possible And of course I'd still drop it if anything happened
So I could pick it up I thought that meant I could wear it too, yet it didn't work That was one hour stressing my little brain out Give me back my time Really…
Normally, monster avatars like mine were only capable of basic, preset actions, like how a norame character could only do the actions bound on your keyboard I'd had the chance to use VR a few ti people who sank like rocks in real life, andThose were all preset actions
It could be that this ga us alpha testers evaluate what actions were possible for monster avatars, in addition to their stated purpose
…I should cal with two left feet I rested, enjoying the debilitating dizziness frorees fullscreen vision After a few hours of incapacitation, I finally found the strength to face reality again
Oh yes, Ghasts could shapeshi+ft, right? Could I do huht hy one I had more volume now, I should be able to look like a ss, everyone It's a beautiful new day today
True, I could work this body similarly to my previous one I could stretch and shrink, spread and cover, andcomplete freedom over my shape
When I focused on a part to shapeshi+ft, the parts ofone part a centimeter caused it to soainstby itself
All those proble tortured by the feeling of becoh Had I nore the distress in my moment of extreed to assu as that elven boy, alabaster in color and waxy in texture One proble