Chapter 4
The Shy Guy
I woke up earlier than I thought today, so I decided to eat a quick breakfast and log into FF: World.
Two new emails. I always liked to read them before logging in or logging off.
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To: Eliot
From: Heather
Subject: Wanna train?
Hey Eliot! Wanna get together in the Training Center today and beat up some monsters. My character is only Level 2 =( but I'll get stronger for sure. I just want it to be the two of us. Don't get any ideas hotshot, just as friends. Although the guys will be jealous you are with a babe like me LOL.
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To: Final Fantasy World Player
From: SquareSoft
Subject: Recent Events
Greetings Player, we hope you enjoy playing this game.
Recently one player was logged in constantly for two days and has been hospitalized from it as a result. We implore all players to please take note of the amount of time you spend in the game. Such a result of overplay may result in serious medical problems. Please limit your time spent online.
However if you choose to ignore this safety then we are not held responsible for any injury that may result.
We have also heard rumors going around that a player has died as a result of playing the game. We can assure you that such a thing cannot occur unless that player has been playing constantly without proper nutrition.
Also we have heard reports of a strange armored monster carrying a crucifix that has attacked several players. If you have any imformation about this monster please email SquareSoft directly about the problem and title the Subject "Armor Monster"
Thank you for your support.
Ryu Hikara, Final Fantasy World Designer
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"That Ryu guy made this game? Not too surprising. Might as well log in for now." I said preparing to log in and placing the helmet on my head and appearing back in my dorm room.
My pocket immeadiatley beeped to signal somebody was calling me. It was Heather, she was waiting in front of the training center.
"Dear Eliot, meet me at the Training Center entrance. Hurry these fanboys are getting touchy."
I laughed to myself just picturing that, but this was serious so I went straight there without delay.
She was surrounded by boys so she wasn't hard to find. I pushed through them all and found her. They didn't seem happy I was going to see her.
"Eliot! Thank god you're here. Let's go!" she said leading me by the arm into the Training Center. I was trying to keep my sunglasses on my forehead as she led me forward. The "fanboys" didn't follow because they weren't exactly the best fighters.
"Thank god. I thought I'd never get away from them." She said resting for a few minutes.
"Well it's cause of how you dress you know? They wouldn't be all over you if you weren't so.........slutty." I said bashfully, hiding my face.
"Well I just felt like I should be similar to who I am. I do look like this in real life, well my hair is a little shorter and stuff like that but I wanted to remain close to who I am." Heather explained. "The character I see before me, isn't this what you look like?"
"Well yes. The height and sunglasses and everything is all there. But you must have known that boys would flock around you because of you're appearance." I stated.
"Yeah I would have though, but deep down I'm glad I get the attention. In real life I want to be a model." she told me looking off into space.
"Well you certainly have the body for it if you look like that." I said to her.
"I'm glad you think so. You're the first person I've met to like me for who I am. The first boy at least. C'mon enough talk about my looks, time to beat up some monsters." She said pounding her fist into her cupped hand.
We trained on and on for awhile then rested on a rock by a river flowing through the area. I got to Level 7 and Heather was at Level 5. Ashley eventually found the two of us and she decided to join us.
"There you two are. You guys on a D-A-T-E?" she said like a little kid, well she kinda was.
"Get real Ashley!" Heather said pointing her nose in the air.
"Well you guys ready to go outside to train?" Ashley asked us.
"We just got done training. We're a little tired." I told her.
"Well how about just for a walk?" she asked us.
"If you want to." Heather agreed. I soon followed.
As we left it felt like we were being followed by somebody. Was it that girl in the black robe? Maybe just my imagination.
"What's wrong Eliot?" Ashley asked me.
"Nothing." I said as we left the Garden.
The field wasn't much different than it usually was. I wonder when I'd be able to venture out to the other areas of the world.
"What happened last night Eliot?" Heather asked me.
"Well trained and then this monster attacked me." I told them remembering the guy being attacked by it.
"Was it wearing armor and carried a crucifx?" Ashley began to question.
"Yes, how'd you know that?" I asked her a little shocked.
"Got an email from SquareSoft about it." she explained.
"I got one too." Heather chimmed in.
"As did I."
"You should report it to them since you saw it." Heather told me. I don't know why but something told me I shouldn't.
"Perhaps I will. Maybe it's a defect or somebody hacked it in the game to kill inexperienced players." I responded.
"Well once you log off you should tell them." Ashley said as her gaze went to the bushed behind her.
"Something the matter kiddo?" Heather asked yawning.
"Thought I saw something." she said still looking at the bushes. Heather walked over to look and found nothing. She turned to face us.
"See nothing there." she said as a rod poked out from the bush and touched across her rear. "What the heck?" she screamed grabbing into the bush and producing this small kid.
"What's the big idea!? Touching my ass like that!?" she practically screamed at this little boy.
"I-I'm sorry miss. I didn't mean to. I was just.........uh." he was speaking as though he were facing death itself. Well Heather in this mood seems like death itself, not too different from most women.
"Why were you hiding in that bush?" Ashley said as Heather let him drop to the ground.
"I was just trying to f-find something." he said not raising his head to talk to any of us. He spoke in a shy manner aswell. I decided to ask him an obvious question.
"What's your name?"
"M-m-me? My name is Tucker. I'm a White Mage. If you need my help just ask. B-bye!" he said running away. We saw him vanish after he ran, must have Logged Out.
"That was strange." Ashley said.
"What time is it?" I asked both of them.
"About 2:20. Why? Have to go?" Heather said.
"No, I just remembered this weird guy Emailed me saying to meet him in the parking lot at 2:30. He also seemed to know you two." I explained to them about the email from this Necros.
"Sounds fishy to me." Ashley commented. "Should we go?"
"I'm going. He might not even be there to hurt us. Maybe just to ask something. Could just be some player wanting help. People do come up with weird names for these online games." I told them both heading back for F- Garden's Parking Lot.
Once we arrived it was almost 2:30. No sign of Necros. "Maybe he won't show." Heather said as a person came through the wall wearing a black robe. It was that girl from before.
"Greetings Eliot, Ashley, and Heather. As you have suspected I am Necros. And you're all thinking about why I called you here today." she explained. I tried to look at her face but the robes she wore were so big they covered it completely.
"Why did you call Eliot here?" Heather asked getting a serious expression on her mature face.
"To warn him about something. That creature you encountered the other night, it may attack again. But have you wondered anything about that monster?" she asked.
"What's it's purpose? Is it just a regular monster?" I asked her. She seemed to know a lot about that monster in black armor.
"It is no regular monster. It was created by somebody. But you saw its power for youself didn't you?" Necros asked me.
"Yeah. It beat that other player very easily. I'm glad I made it out ok." I said remembering the event.
"It didn't beat him."
"But I saw it defeat him."
"True, that player was defeated but normally when a player loses all their Hit Points they must log back in and start from when they last saved. However this monster does something different." she begant to explain.
"What is that?" Ashley chimed in.
"The skill it uses on players with its staff does more than log them out." she kept saying.
"Get on with it! What does it do?" Heather burst out.
"The player you saw attacked died. The monster has the ability to kill people playing the game. You've seen the email from Square. It said that the player's death was a rumor, but that's far from the truth." Necros said laughing.
"But why would they allow something like this to happen?" Ashley said sounding a little scared.
"If people knew you could die from playing this game, then nobody would buy it. Square doesn't want that to happen." she told us.
"Why are you telling us this? What does it give you?" I said folding my arms over my chest.
"To warn you. And also, I want you to one day be able to destroy this monster. Square would themselves, but they have their reasons." she said turning to leave.
"Wait we still have questions! Why are you helping us?" I shouted to her.
"Because I want you to kill me." she said vanishing. What did she mean by that? To kill her? What's going on here?
"Guys what do we do about this?" Ashley said with fright in her voice. She was terrified by the sound of it.
"Well let's just avoid this monster until we become strong enough." I said.
"Like how strong?" Heather asked.
"The guy who was killed by it told me he was at Level 32." I turned to face her.
"So at least Level 32. I'm up for it. How about you Ashley?" Heather asked our small little friend.
"I guess so. As long as you two are there to help me." she said.
"Hey girl. I'll always be there. Well I should log out for now. I'm tired. A figure like me needs her beauty sleep." she said winking at us.
"I'll email you guys later. Heather Log Out!" she said vanishing in the normal manner people do when logging out.
"I'll be going to Eliot. Bye. Ashley Log Out!" she said disappearing too.
"Might as well. Eliot Log Out"
I was back in my room and checking my email.
One from Ashley, Heather, and that Tucker kid.
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To: Eliot
From: Ashley
Subject: Totally freaky
That Necros girl totally freaked me out. But if you and Heather are willing to fight her I'll be right there with you guys. Just protect me cause I break easily XD. Well did you get an email from Tucker? He seems nice but a little shy. What did he say to you?
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To: Eliot
From: Heather
Subject: Today and other
Well that encounter was surely strange. Well I'm willing to take on that monster but only if you help me level up a lot. Let's do our best to protect Ashley too. You remember me wanting to become a model right? Well I've been mailing a few companies about it and one of them would like to see some pictures of me. But I don't know which ones are good. If you want I can send you some of my personal favorites and I'll let you be the judge.
Think of it this way; If I get in then you'll be friends with a model. But you don't seem like the kinda guy that would be drooling over something like this. Well check out if Tucker mailed you. He seems nice but it'll be awhile before I can forgive him touching my ass like that, even though it's hard to miss lol.
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To: Heather
From: Eliot
Subject: Re: Today and other
Pictures of you would be nice. As long as they aren't nude or anything, it's just not my style for THAT kind of modelling. I'm glad I have your support with this Necros thing. But what do you think she meant by "I want you to kill me"? That just makes it really weird.
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To: Eliot
From: Tucker
Subject: Hello
Hello Sir Eliot. I am sorry for my actions earlier, but I get nervous around people. Especially that one girl. I feel I can talk to you about that kind of trouble regarding it. Just do not tell her I like her. Please? If you ever need my help in the future do not hesitate to call on me. My character stats are below.
Name: Tucker
Race: White Genome
Gender: Male
Class: White Mage
Level: 6
Skills: Double
Magics: Cure, Esuna, NulShock, NulTide, NulBlaze, NulFrost
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Tucker seems like a nice fellow. Much more polite and talkative offline. Who does he like though? Must be Heather, I mean he acted all shy around her. I wonder why she made her character like that. Oh well, I'm hungry I need a bite to eat.
How do you like this? I hope everyone enjoys it. I've been thinking about doing a stats page to tell you all the character classes and stuff like that just so you know more about what they can and cannot do.
The Shy Guy
I woke up earlier than I thought today, so I decided to eat a quick breakfast and log into FF: World.
Two new emails. I always liked to read them before logging in or logging off.
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To: Eliot
From: Heather
Subject: Wanna train?
Hey Eliot! Wanna get together in the Training Center today and beat up some monsters. My character is only Level 2 =( but I'll get stronger for sure. I just want it to be the two of us. Don't get any ideas hotshot, just as friends. Although the guys will be jealous you are with a babe like me LOL.
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To: Final Fantasy World Player
From: SquareSoft
Subject: Recent Events
Greetings Player, we hope you enjoy playing this game.
Recently one player was logged in constantly for two days and has been hospitalized from it as a result. We implore all players to please take note of the amount of time you spend in the game. Such a result of overplay may result in serious medical problems. Please limit your time spent online.
However if you choose to ignore this safety then we are not held responsible for any injury that may result.
We have also heard rumors going around that a player has died as a result of playing the game. We can assure you that such a thing cannot occur unless that player has been playing constantly without proper nutrition.
Also we have heard reports of a strange armored monster carrying a crucifix that has attacked several players. If you have any imformation about this monster please email SquareSoft directly about the problem and title the Subject "Armor Monster"
Thank you for your support.
Ryu Hikara, Final Fantasy World Designer
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"That Ryu guy made this game? Not too surprising. Might as well log in for now." I said preparing to log in and placing the helmet on my head and appearing back in my dorm room.
My pocket immeadiatley beeped to signal somebody was calling me. It was Heather, she was waiting in front of the training center.
"Dear Eliot, meet me at the Training Center entrance. Hurry these fanboys are getting touchy."
I laughed to myself just picturing that, but this was serious so I went straight there without delay.
She was surrounded by boys so she wasn't hard to find. I pushed through them all and found her. They didn't seem happy I was going to see her.
"Eliot! Thank god you're here. Let's go!" she said leading me by the arm into the Training Center. I was trying to keep my sunglasses on my forehead as she led me forward. The "fanboys" didn't follow because they weren't exactly the best fighters.
"Thank god. I thought I'd never get away from them." She said resting for a few minutes.
"Well it's cause of how you dress you know? They wouldn't be all over you if you weren't so.........slutty." I said bashfully, hiding my face.
"Well I just felt like I should be similar to who I am. I do look like this in real life, well my hair is a little shorter and stuff like that but I wanted to remain close to who I am." Heather explained. "The character I see before me, isn't this what you look like?"
"Well yes. The height and sunglasses and everything is all there. But you must have known that boys would flock around you because of you're appearance." I stated.
"Yeah I would have though, but deep down I'm glad I get the attention. In real life I want to be a model." she told me looking off into space.
"Well you certainly have the body for it if you look like that." I said to her.
"I'm glad you think so. You're the first person I've met to like me for who I am. The first boy at least. C'mon enough talk about my looks, time to beat up some monsters." She said pounding her fist into her cupped hand.
We trained on and on for awhile then rested on a rock by a river flowing through the area. I got to Level 7 and Heather was at Level 5. Ashley eventually found the two of us and she decided to join us.
"There you two are. You guys on a D-A-T-E?" she said like a little kid, well she kinda was.
"Get real Ashley!" Heather said pointing her nose in the air.
"Well you guys ready to go outside to train?" Ashley asked us.
"We just got done training. We're a little tired." I told her.
"Well how about just for a walk?" she asked us.
"If you want to." Heather agreed. I soon followed.
As we left it felt like we were being followed by somebody. Was it that girl in the black robe? Maybe just my imagination.
"What's wrong Eliot?" Ashley asked me.
"Nothing." I said as we left the Garden.
The field wasn't much different than it usually was. I wonder when I'd be able to venture out to the other areas of the world.
"What happened last night Eliot?" Heather asked me.
"Well trained and then this monster attacked me." I told them remembering the guy being attacked by it.
"Was it wearing armor and carried a crucifx?" Ashley began to question.
"Yes, how'd you know that?" I asked her a little shocked.
"Got an email from SquareSoft about it." she explained.
"I got one too." Heather chimmed in.
"As did I."
"You should report it to them since you saw it." Heather told me. I don't know why but something told me I shouldn't.
"Perhaps I will. Maybe it's a defect or somebody hacked it in the game to kill inexperienced players." I responded.
"Well once you log off you should tell them." Ashley said as her gaze went to the bushed behind her.
"Something the matter kiddo?" Heather asked yawning.
"Thought I saw something." she said still looking at the bushes. Heather walked over to look and found nothing. She turned to face us.
"See nothing there." she said as a rod poked out from the bush and touched across her rear. "What the heck?" she screamed grabbing into the bush and producing this small kid.
"What's the big idea!? Touching my ass like that!?" she practically screamed at this little boy.
"I-I'm sorry miss. I didn't mean to. I was just.........uh." he was speaking as though he were facing death itself. Well Heather in this mood seems like death itself, not too different from most women.
"Why were you hiding in that bush?" Ashley said as Heather let him drop to the ground.
"I was just trying to f-find something." he said not raising his head to talk to any of us. He spoke in a shy manner aswell. I decided to ask him an obvious question.
"What's your name?"
"M-m-me? My name is Tucker. I'm a White Mage. If you need my help just ask. B-bye!" he said running away. We saw him vanish after he ran, must have Logged Out.
"That was strange." Ashley said.
"What time is it?" I asked both of them.
"About 2:20. Why? Have to go?" Heather said.
"No, I just remembered this weird guy Emailed me saying to meet him in the parking lot at 2:30. He also seemed to know you two." I explained to them about the email from this Necros.
"Sounds fishy to me." Ashley commented. "Should we go?"
"I'm going. He might not even be there to hurt us. Maybe just to ask something. Could just be some player wanting help. People do come up with weird names for these online games." I told them both heading back for F- Garden's Parking Lot.
Once we arrived it was almost 2:30. No sign of Necros. "Maybe he won't show." Heather said as a person came through the wall wearing a black robe. It was that girl from before.
"Greetings Eliot, Ashley, and Heather. As you have suspected I am Necros. And you're all thinking about why I called you here today." she explained. I tried to look at her face but the robes she wore were so big they covered it completely.
"Why did you call Eliot here?" Heather asked getting a serious expression on her mature face.
"To warn him about something. That creature you encountered the other night, it may attack again. But have you wondered anything about that monster?" she asked.
"What's it's purpose? Is it just a regular monster?" I asked her. She seemed to know a lot about that monster in black armor.
"It is no regular monster. It was created by somebody. But you saw its power for youself didn't you?" Necros asked me.
"Yeah. It beat that other player very easily. I'm glad I made it out ok." I said remembering the event.
"It didn't beat him."
"But I saw it defeat him."
"True, that player was defeated but normally when a player loses all their Hit Points they must log back in and start from when they last saved. However this monster does something different." she begant to explain.
"What is that?" Ashley chimed in.
"The skill it uses on players with its staff does more than log them out." she kept saying.
"Get on with it! What does it do?" Heather burst out.
"The player you saw attacked died. The monster has the ability to kill people playing the game. You've seen the email from Square. It said that the player's death was a rumor, but that's far from the truth." Necros said laughing.
"But why would they allow something like this to happen?" Ashley said sounding a little scared.
"If people knew you could die from playing this game, then nobody would buy it. Square doesn't want that to happen." she told us.
"Why are you telling us this? What does it give you?" I said folding my arms over my chest.
"To warn you. And also, I want you to one day be able to destroy this monster. Square would themselves, but they have their reasons." she said turning to leave.
"Wait we still have questions! Why are you helping us?" I shouted to her.
"Because I want you to kill me." she said vanishing. What did she mean by that? To kill her? What's going on here?
"Guys what do we do about this?" Ashley said with fright in her voice. She was terrified by the sound of it.
"Well let's just avoid this monster until we become strong enough." I said.
"Like how strong?" Heather asked.
"The guy who was killed by it told me he was at Level 32." I turned to face her.
"So at least Level 32. I'm up for it. How about you Ashley?" Heather asked our small little friend.
"I guess so. As long as you two are there to help me." she said.
"Hey girl. I'll always be there. Well I should log out for now. I'm tired. A figure like me needs her beauty sleep." she said winking at us.
"I'll email you guys later. Heather Log Out!" she said vanishing in the normal manner people do when logging out.
"I'll be going to Eliot. Bye. Ashley Log Out!" she said disappearing too.
"Might as well. Eliot Log Out"
I was back in my room and checking my email.
One from Ashley, Heather, and that Tucker kid.
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To: Eliot
From: Ashley
Subject: Totally freaky
That Necros girl totally freaked me out. But if you and Heather are willing to fight her I'll be right there with you guys. Just protect me cause I break easily XD. Well did you get an email from Tucker? He seems nice but a little shy. What did he say to you?
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To: Eliot
From: Heather
Subject: Today and other
Well that encounter was surely strange. Well I'm willing to take on that monster but only if you help me level up a lot. Let's do our best to protect Ashley too. You remember me wanting to become a model right? Well I've been mailing a few companies about it and one of them would like to see some pictures of me. But I don't know which ones are good. If you want I can send you some of my personal favorites and I'll let you be the judge.
Think of it this way; If I get in then you'll be friends with a model. But you don't seem like the kinda guy that would be drooling over something like this. Well check out if Tucker mailed you. He seems nice but it'll be awhile before I can forgive him touching my ass like that, even though it's hard to miss lol.
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To: Heather
From: Eliot
Subject: Re: Today and other
Pictures of you would be nice. As long as they aren't nude or anything, it's just not my style for THAT kind of modelling. I'm glad I have your support with this Necros thing. But what do you think she meant by "I want you to kill me"? That just makes it really weird.
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To: Eliot
From: Tucker
Subject: Hello
Hello Sir Eliot. I am sorry for my actions earlier, but I get nervous around people. Especially that one girl. I feel I can talk to you about that kind of trouble regarding it. Just do not tell her I like her. Please? If you ever need my help in the future do not hesitate to call on me. My character stats are below.
Name: Tucker
Race: White Genome
Gender: Male
Class: White Mage
Level: 6
Skills: Double
Magics: Cure, Esuna, NulShock, NulTide, NulBlaze, NulFrost
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Tucker seems like a nice fellow. Much more polite and talkative offline. Who does he like though? Must be Heather, I mean he acted all shy around her. I wonder why she made her character like that. Oh well, I'm hungry I need a bite to eat.
How do you like this? I hope everyone enjoys it. I've been thinking about doing a stats page to tell you all the character classes and stuff like that just so you know more about what they can and cannot do.