42 Chapter 42 (2/2)
”Good to know.” James turned his attention away from the town, back to a random instance. He noticed a group in this new instance had teamed up with another party, to try and bring down Old Man Jenkins. Smart.
”So, what type of quests do they have? Are they auto generated based on mob and dungeon types?”
”Mhmm. The developers have a lot of generic ones in the game, such as Kill X number of creatures, return with X types of items. They left the generic quests simple, to enable the coding to be quick and easy. Which makes sense, given how many mob types there are.” Rue chuckled darkly as she winked at James. Oh, he was well aware of the fact he was likely to keep getting crazy floor types. Oh well, it kept things interesting.
”Are there unique quests too then?” Most games had quests that could be time sensitive, or unique, based on specific triggers.
”You have played a lot of MMOs, haven't you?” Rue looked James up and down, and he wasn't sure if she was implying that as a compliment. Oh well, he was going to take it as one.
”Yeah. Let's just say, in a few games, I'm kinda a big deal.” He crossed his tentacles smugly in front of his orb, though in hindsight, that action probably looked a lot less cool than he had hoped it would.
”Keep telling yourself that Glyax.” She smirked at him and turned back to the dungeon. ”Anyways, unique quests trigger after players have discovered secrets that each mob type and floor will have in it. Some of these secret quests can be triggered at any times, others are hinted at, or completely hidden, until you create the mob circumstances required, or hit certain research levels.”
Oh, so he had a part to play in what quests unlocked? That was cool. ”Got any examples of those for me Rue?”
”Psh, the big deal can't figure them out on his own?” Her smirk grew. James had brought that one on himself.
”Oh, going to be difficult today Rue?” James couldn't help chuckle as the pixie stuck her tongue out at him, before she started laughing too.
”Don't you know it's frowned upon for a lady to be too easy?” She shot him a wink and bit the bottom part of her lip seductively. For someone talking about not being too easy, she was sending mixed signals that James just couldn't handle. If he had a nose, he was sure it would be bleeding.
”You are such trouble.” He commented. The group of 10 adventurers were doing surprisingly well against Old Man Jenkins. The boss was level 15, and what he could tell, the players ranged from level 8 to 11. However, they were doing good at communicating, and appeared to be taking advantage of their larger numbers to not only keep the boss constantly moving and changing aggro targets, but also keeping mobs clear of the fight. He was certain they would win.
”You know you enjoy it.” Rue grinned and turned to watch the fight, before she waved her hand. A screen pulled up in front of her, and she drew James's attention to it. ”Now, just because I'm nice. You want to rewatch the mimic fight?” Sure enough, the screen appeared to be a recording, paused right before Dwight's group opened the mimic.
”Wait. This game has recordings?” James had seen some games where you could record instances and gameplay. He silently cursed himself for not thinking to check for a feature such as that.
”The developers built in a records section in the game, which holds recordings for the past 24 hours of in game play. If you know the instance number, you can pull up certain instances, and watch everything that happened in them.” She touched the screen and moved her hand across it, causing the video to zoom out. She then twisted it around, and zoomed back in, so they had a clear look at Dwight's face. ”The developers secretly unlocked it with the hot fix, and it was part of the reason they added in the tentacle feature.” She hit play, and they got to watch Dwight's full expression as the mimic ate him again. Oh, James was going to love this feature.
”Can we,” he paused, as he chuckled darkly to himself. ”Can we upload these to the dungeon core forum?”
”Why else do you think I'm showing you this feature?” Rue winked and waved her hand, closing the video. ”Us enjoying the bullies' demise was fine and all, but sharing it to the rest of the dungeon cores to watch and enjoy as well? I'm all for public humiliation.” James found himself like his pixie even more, as he pulled up his forum post, dropping Dwight's video clip into it. The other dungeon cores were going to love this.