.hack//AGI- Tales of Artificial Intelligence
Helba hummed softly, tapping away at her keyboard. Her eyes scanned the code, and she tilted her head slightly.
"Might as well leave some farewell gifts." She typed in some more code, and uploaded it to The World''s server.
Character Generator Online. . .
CREATION
The dungeon was filled with static as a shadow began to form. It was a faint image of a person, and it began to become tangible. The person was floating in mid air horizontally. Three blue rings, reminiscent of the golden rings from Chaos Gates, encircled the person, and when they faded, a completed avatar hovered in the air. A girl with closed eyes, an orange circle underneath her left eye and long red hair hung there, wearing a short orange dress and elbow-length orange gloves. Her eyes snapped open, and one could see that they were grey.
She slowly fell, landing on her boot-covered feet. She looked around, seeing for the first time.
Mac Anu
The twin blade stood at the Chaos Gate, sifting through keywords. Her short blue and purple hair moved in the artificial breeze, and her azure eyes were narrowed with concentration. She had a turquoise line that stretched across under her right eye. She wore a sleeveless blue vest, and blue shorts. Suddenly, a wavemaster shouted to her,
"Oi! Aoiro! Want to go to a dungeon?" The player, Aoiro, replied,
"Buzz off, baka! I'm busy!" The wavemaster roared back at her,
"My name is Baku, not baka! You better watch your back in the fields!" She rolled her eyes, and gated out, golden rings fading as she did too.
Delta, Closed Oblivious Remnant
When Aoiro gated in, a violent sight caught her eyes. A player dressed mostly in orange was being attacked by three players, a Long Arm, Heavy Blade and Heavy Axeman. She cursed as she realised the girl was standing still, and not doing anything. She shouted,
"Hey, cowards!" As the Long Arm turned towards her, she ran past him, her Tsumuji blades slashing right through the Long Arm's side. As he fell back, intending to heal, Aoiro turned her sights to the Heavy Axeman, who swung his axe at her. She leapt into the air, landing on the flat of the axe, and slashed the Axeman in the neck with both blades. He stumbled, flashing red, and the Heavy Blade lashed out at her. She caught the blades with both of her own, blades crossed and holding the heavy sword up. She then launched into a backflip, landing behind the Long Arm, her blades at his throat. She slashed across it, and the player fell forwards, greying. The Axeman, who hadn't stopped to heal, swung at Aoiro. She leapt back, axe blade barely missing her torso, and she lunged at him, stabbing him twice in the stomach. He fell backwards, greying. Finally, the Heavy Blade backed away, and Aoiro stood before him.
"Don't kill me!" Aoiro rolled her eyes.
"Newbie killers don't deserve to live." She threw her left Tsumuji out, and it halted just before the Heavy Blade's throat. His eyes widened.
"Please d-don't kill me...it was Baku's fault! He told us to go out and hunt newbies!" He gibbered, and Aoiro sighed. Baku was an influential guild master, ruling through fear. She feigned understanding, nodding sympathetically.
"He forced you, didn't he? 'If the newbs don't join the guild when you ask them, kill them', yeah?" She asked, and the Heavy Blade nodded. She smirked. "You're the bigger fool for following him." She let her blade stab the player in the neck, and she brought her other blade round into his stomach. The player collapsed, greying. She then walked over to the girl, sheathing her Tsumuji.
"Sorry you had to see that so soon. Are you a newb?" The girl stared at her.
Attacking- acceptable protocol. The girl processed what she had watched, and lashed out with a sword that appeared out of nowhere, catching Aoiro in the arm. Aoiro gasped with shock, and leapt back. "What are you doing?! Answer me!" Although it had caused a very small amount of damage, Aoiro was not impressed.
"Answer me." The girl replied. Aoiro growled, frustrated.
"Stop copying me, it's annoying! What's your level, how long have you been playing? What's your name?" Her interest was piqued by the odd girl, even though she was irritated.
"...annoying...level...playing." The girl seemed to merely echo the twin blade.
Playing...processing. Blademaster. Character name is Sodachi. The girl suddenly responded.
"Level 1 Blademaster. Character name is Sodachi." She repeated what she had found. Aoiro frowned, looking at the player.
"You're different, kid...Want me to show you around?" Sodachi's grey eyes still stared at Aoiro, and the twin blade could see a hint of orange in the eyes.
"Show around... Delta Server Mac Anu. Coding..." Aoiro stared at the girl in surprise as she talked nonsense. It sounded technical.
"You're...not a player character, are you?" Sodachi nodded.
"According to the database...I am not a PC, I am not an NPC." Aoiro whistled, looking at her.
"You're like a child...I know! I'll teach you about this game! Come on!" She sent Sodachi a party invite, and the girl automatically accepted it. "We'll gate out now. But first, there's something you'd better learn." Aoiro folded her arms. "You must not attack other people. You can only attack them if you agree to a PvP, a little duel. People who attack other players are called Player Killers. They are bad. If people attack you or a friend, you are allowed to kill them." She lectured Sodachi, and Sodachi froze, adding the information to her internal database, before nodding. Golden rings encircled the two as they gated out.
CC Corp Offices
Shibayama, player name Kamui, turned to Saito, player name Magi, and spoke coldly.
"You've found an irregularity in the coding? I wonder if some immature little hacker is trying to insert Vagrant AIs into the server again. This is the third time this week that you've found an irregularity. I shall log in now."