Post by Midori on Nov 22, 2014 0:44:59 GMT
[attr="class","polaris"] [attr="class","girtab"] [attr="class","gif"] [attr="class","backgroundsinister"] [attr="class","stardust"] [attr="class","stardusk"] [attr="class","lockedroom"] [attr="class","psychelock"] [attr="class","murasak"] Let's see, where to begin? Well, you certainly know that many of the other Adventurers she had participated with either stagnated in level or grew very rapidly in level, to the point where it was nearly absurd that this kind of thing could have happened in this universe. But they were there and in less than a year, there were reports that some had reached the previous level cap of 90 that was set in the other Elder Tale servers. Now, since Unfounded Kingdom was an entirely new server, there just weren't enough Level 90s to really be able to discover whether the game had translated to reality as they had expected. Namely, there was an announcement in the patch notes that Level 100 could have been reached. Yet, no claims had been made to support such an idea. Maybe the level gap between 90 and 91 required something else to achieve. She didn't know. She wasn't Level 90, after all. Yes, Midori was still Level 13 at this point of time. She had spent a few months holed up in Buckingham Palace, checking out what Apocrypha's new guild headquarters had to offer. Frankly, Fernweh was too lazy to do anything other than come up with a mission to sleep in all the beds in the palace. It was a rather odd goal but very appropriate of that guy. She had no idea what happened to Kazuko and the formerly "new" recruits. Hiro had said that there would have been a couple new members applying to Apocrypha since their numbers were a bit too stagnant in spite of their new territory. If they had managed to take control of their own guild territory, they needed to step it up. He was out to be meeting them these past few days, she had suspected. Either way, the new recruits had signed up for the Solstice branch. That meant she wouldn't be needing to show off her peculiar social skills to anyone. Really, she was fine with it. It was hard to come up with a way to greet someone other than "Hi, I'm Midori! I'm a researcher trying to find our way back to our old world!" Books were her new friend now, she had come to realize ever since she became a Biology student in the real world. One peculiar story had been lodged in the shelves of its own library, which she had taken the time to read. It seemed to be some sort of fairy tale in which Shakespeare had existed in this world, freeing the land from darkness. Interesting enough. She continued to read and discovered that the novel was actually talking about the Adventurers. Given how old this book was, it was hard to tell whether this story was the real deal. Adventurers had only recently arrived in the Unfounded Kingdom, yet there was already a story that predicted their arrival. Not only that, but the story included several familiar locations. There was Londinium, the land where the nobles once lived prior to the First World Fraction, until one day they simply vanished. Sarum was described as a frontier village where its inhabitants had once consisted of Druids, where they developed the technology that allowed them to control golems. It was rather accurate. There were plenty of golems to be found in Sarum even today, now that the area had been captured by the main scouting parties. Here was where it got a bit interesting. The story returned to the Shakespeare fairy tale and introduced the land of Avon and the city of Stratford. This new area had only been recently discovered after the Sarum scouting parties continued north to find a new route. Now, the Northern Europe server of Elder Tale lacked these two cities previously described. Londinium was there, but Sarum and Stratford were entirely new discoveries. The players who had come from the Northern Europe server had claimed that it was supposed to be part of the Scandinavian countries, but there was nothing of the sort in this world. There were no ferries or boats leading one to the mainland as there had originally been. These incidents meant that everything written in this book couldn't have been a tale written back where this land was originally part of the Northern Europe server. Really, there was no way to know whether that server would still have been the same. The GMs for the Unfounded Kingdom had stated that it was simply going to be a new standalone server. Now that the Apocalypse had happened, they really needed to wonder. Was the Unfounded Kingdom the only server affected by the change from computer game to reality? Or were the other servers and their respective players also in this new world? And if so, what happened to not only the nobles that lived in this land, but also the Northern European Adventurers who had chosen Londinium to be their home city? It was hard to believe that they would have been forcibly transported to the Scandinavian mainland, yet there was no sight of a high-level Adventurer at the start of the game. Midori had two theories on what could have been the case. The first theory concerned the Unfounded Kingdom and whether they were the only ones affected by the Apocalypse. There were a few subtheory possibilities that came with this idea. One, the Unfounded Kingdom was the only server affected by the Apocalypse. This was one of the main two theories. If this were true, it would have made sense. It was a completely new server where everyone had started fresh, without any idea of what they should have expected from the change. Areas, monsters, skills, everything was changed. This only made for a very convenient setting in which the players of Unfounded Kingdom were the guinea pigs of this unusual phenomenon. However, there were a few issues with this idea. If it was supposed to be its own world, why was there the need to remove all the nobles from the world? Considering the interaction between the Adventurers and the People of the Land, the situation from a creator's standpoint would have been far more interested had they been implemented. And yet, the world lacked these figures of authority. Not even the People of the Land were aware of these circumstances, as the nobles had been written to have disappeared many years prior. For the second theory, the entire world of Elder Tale and its players was affected by the Apocalypse. There were a number of points initially against this theory, namely the lack of Adventurers from other servers dropping by their server. No Adventurer of that sort had ever arrived in Londinium. There was an easy explanation to this idea. The Unfounded Kingdom, while based on Britain, didn't necessarily have to be Britain. There was an assumption that the new world they found themselves in had copied the physical landscape of Earth. There was the Half-Gaia Phenomenon where the total area of the land seemed to have decreased to a fourth - that theory was posed by the cartographers who mapped the area and it was yet to be disproven. However, if Unfounded Kingdom Britain and Northern European Britain was supposed to be the same place, there was a logical explanation. The Unfounded Kingdom didn't necessarily have to be Britain. After all, since the Thames Coastline was mapped, people had tried to explore out the coast in search of the mainland. The English Channel in real life, at its narrowest, was somewhere around 30 kilometers. Reduce that distance to a half from the Half-Gaia Phenomenon, and the distance only would have been 15 kilometers. This was only simple physics, but if one were standing high enough, the maximum visible horizon would have been greater than 15 kilometers. Yet, there was no coastline of France to be seen. Therefore, the Unfounded Kingdom had a higher likelihood that it was somewhere away from Britain. Considering the lack of functional airplanes or feasible ships at this current time, they could be out in the middle of the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans and no one would have realized anything. One major point of evidence contradicted this idea, though, and that was the position of the stars and constellations. According to some of the Adventurers who had taken astronomy as a hobby or career, the positioning of the stars was exactly the same as though they were still physically in Europe. This brought trouble to the thought that the landmass they stood on could have been anywhere else in this world. It still didn't explain why the coastline of the mainland was nowhere to be seen, however. After thinking about this idea, Midori thought of an alternate solution for the second theory. This interpretation of the second theory was a little more abstract and called upon the storyline of an old game she had played a few years back. It was a game where the participants were deceased people who found themselves in an alternate plane of the world. They still walked the streets of their familiar world, but they were merely ghosts. Everyone who they passed from their own world were unable to be interacted with. Yet, there was one way to return back to their own world, and that was to clear the game. Midori imagined that this kind of setting was an appropriate metaphor. Let's say that an Adventurer of the Unfounded Kingdom had woken up in Londinium. Now, an Adventurer of the Northern Europe server had also found themselves in Londinium. It was, after all, one of the starting cities for the old server. But perhaps... rather than the two Adventurers being in different places, maybe they were standing on the exact same spot. Recall in many MMOs about the function of channels. Players were able to choose their channel, where they would end up in the same location, yet were unable to see or interact with each other except through chat. Telepathy in this world seemed to be limited to other players of the Unfounded Kingdom. Mana had tried to contact her friends back in the Japanese server, but was unable to register them into her friends list. Anyway, perhaps a channel did exist in this world. It was as though they were in a parallel universe, unable to communicate with the players of the Northern Europe server. This could have explained why the nobles weren't present. Perhaps People of the Land were simply unique to the world now. Therefore, the nobles were sent to a different channel, possibly the same channel as that of the older server's Adventurers. Midori couldn't confirm nor deny this idea. The major issue with any of these ideas was how this situation even came to fruition in the first place. First of all, how did they even end up in the world of Elder Tale. Sure, you could just wave your hand and say that it was magic. Maybe it was magic. But if it were magic, this basically meant that they needed to find an equivalent magic to change the world so that people could return. Talking about this situation from a scientific point of view was nearly impossible. The technology of Earth was not yet advanced enough that fully conscious virtual reality had been invented. If the technology had been similar to those virtual reality MMO stories that were popular at the time, it would have been possible. Yet, Elder Tale was not a VRMMO. It was a traditional MMORPG that somehow became real life. There was really no way to explain this phenomenon at the time otherwise. All she really had to draw her conclusions from was this strange book. Yet, the strange book's pages past the discovery of Shakespeare were blank. It was like one of those magical books that told a story as it happened. Well, there was only one lead at the moment. Scouts had located a path leading from Londinium to Avon that was relatively safe for Adventurers around her level. It was time for a trip to Avon. [attr="class","borderradius"] 皐月 冬子 |
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