Chapter 5// escape
"It wouldn't be in a game if we can't defeat it" said Kindle, shaking so much that he couldn't stand. "Well there is a way to kill the thing, but it involves draining it's data and rewriting it." Quall said with his eyes locked on the monster. "We however do not have access to that power. The Gamemaster, Saiwroth, is the only one can debug a databug." "So it is just like suicide. that is not fair! It is a game!" shrieked Kindle. The databug had now noticed the two fighters and begin to advance on them. "The extreme magic power from a low level weapon must have glitched the game and brought this thing out." Quall continued. "So basically, it's my fault. Well I can take care of it anyways so stand back!" Kindle yelled. He began to imagine the fire on the tip of his waveblade again. He thought of how it had felt to have the fire before. He imagined that it was there, and then released the energy again.
This time the explosion was much more immense. In real life Leer fell out of his chair from the simulated momentum. Now there was smoke everywhere, and what seemed to be endless black holes in random spots. Quall was lying down next to him, with little signs of getting up. Kindle's cellphone was shaking, so he knew the blast had knocked him around too. He checked it. He only had 3 HP left!Just great. It was gam over for him and he would be gone. "Gate out now!" called Quall. He was obviously in pain to even talk, even if it was just a game. "Think about escaping back to the root town and you will get there. Before the databug gets us and we will lose for sure. That stunt you pulled inflicted paralysis from my back down, so I can't leave until it wears off. Worst case scenario I get a game over and lose an hour of my time. But you should leave now! Damnit, don't play hero. It's just a game." "Yeah, sure Quall. Sorry about what I did to you. I mean wasting your time and all" "Well I've got some apologies too, so get out before I start rambling." Kindle took the orders and escaped into the root town.
As soon as he got there, a new character with long and spiky blue hair was waiting. He had lightning tattoos around his face and was dressed in blue robes. "Hello Leer, or Kindle as you are called." He said. "Jonathan!" said Kindle, ready to pour the details on what had happened. "Here, I am Saiwroth, the gamemaster!" Jonathan announced. "Well anyways, my friend Quall and I found the pl." "I know all about what happened. You somehow glitched the dungeon with an extremely high level spell and released a databug, and then proceeded to do it again to corrupt the whole area!" "Oh.." Kindle said, wondering what his fate would be. "This is just a pre-release. Imagine what would happen if someone found out about this and shutdown the production. Only about 50,000 people have the game now!" "But what about Quall!" "This is the bad part. I have determined that while databugs can no longer perform datadrain, the one that you released used another way to immobilize your friend. We saw footage of the databug strangling Quall and then putting those purple data wasters all around him. Quall was then absorbed in to the body, but did not suffer a game over. "So he is trapped in that databug!" Kindle concluded in horror. "The databug is trapped in him as well" said Saiwroth sadly. Quall in real life is breathing and fine, but seems to have nothing on his mind so far as paying "The World." He lives by himself and has no family, conveniently for us. So until we straighten this out we will act as nothing happened." "But Quall is in trouble. You can't just twiddle your thumbs in the hopes that he will get better." "Of course not!" said a frustrated Saiwroth. "We will begin action immediately. The proper thing to do would be deleting your character data, but you could prove useful in our investigation. I thought that in the trial version I had cleared all databugs, but it appears some got away. I have what you need to clean out the trash. The ability to datadrain! There is still much to explain, so hold all of your questions until later. Much of this game is modeled after "The World" including the graphic design. That is how databugs may have been transferred here. There are three bosses that you may challenge in order to be hailed "Quest complete" We put our strongest data in to these bosses. You will need to drain and collect data of these powers to gain the strength to beata databug and separate it from Quall. Basically you have to play the game. If you are wondering why I could tell all of this, I was monitering you on your quest with Quall. "Whoa,whoa,whoa!" Kindle halted. "I am all for saving Quall, but I can't "data-drain". I'm not the most graceful player either, and, and I don't want my mind sucked out. But... it is my fault that an innocent guy had his mind snatched, and I can't just leave him there. So teach me datadrain!" "I knew you would say that" said Saiwroth. I noticed that you were able to do a scorch thrower attack , the strongest fire move in this game, with 10 times the power. The interesting thing is that you had nothing equipped to do it. First you used the visual of the fire from the dungeon and then you did it without even having anything there. If you concentrate hard enough, you may be able to data drain in this manner as well. Of course there are no guarantees." Kindle knew that this was going to be life-threatening. He couldn't even imagine how tough it would be to suck the data out of a monster by just concentrating. But he also knew that he had an ability to do something that none other could. Possibly fate had chosen him to save his friend and possible many others. Or maybe he had a big ego and was in way over his big head.
"It wouldn't be in a game if we can't defeat it" said Kindle, shaking so much that he couldn't stand. "Well there is a way to kill the thing, but it involves draining it's data and rewriting it." Quall said with his eyes locked on the monster. "We however do not have access to that power. The Gamemaster, Saiwroth, is the only one can debug a databug." "So it is just like suicide. that is not fair! It is a game!" shrieked Kindle. The databug had now noticed the two fighters and begin to advance on them. "The extreme magic power from a low level weapon must have glitched the game and brought this thing out." Quall continued. "So basically, it's my fault. Well I can take care of it anyways so stand back!" Kindle yelled. He began to imagine the fire on the tip of his waveblade again. He thought of how it had felt to have the fire before. He imagined that it was there, and then released the energy again.
This time the explosion was much more immense. In real life Leer fell out of his chair from the simulated momentum. Now there was smoke everywhere, and what seemed to be endless black holes in random spots. Quall was lying down next to him, with little signs of getting up. Kindle's cellphone was shaking, so he knew the blast had knocked him around too. He checked it. He only had 3 HP left!Just great. It was gam over for him and he would be gone. "Gate out now!" called Quall. He was obviously in pain to even talk, even if it was just a game. "Think about escaping back to the root town and you will get there. Before the databug gets us and we will lose for sure. That stunt you pulled inflicted paralysis from my back down, so I can't leave until it wears off. Worst case scenario I get a game over and lose an hour of my time. But you should leave now! Damnit, don't play hero. It's just a game." "Yeah, sure Quall. Sorry about what I did to you. I mean wasting your time and all" "Well I've got some apologies too, so get out before I start rambling." Kindle took the orders and escaped into the root town.
As soon as he got there, a new character with long and spiky blue hair was waiting. He had lightning tattoos around his face and was dressed in blue robes. "Hello Leer, or Kindle as you are called." He said. "Jonathan!" said Kindle, ready to pour the details on what had happened. "Here, I am Saiwroth, the gamemaster!" Jonathan announced. "Well anyways, my friend Quall and I found the pl." "I know all about what happened. You somehow glitched the dungeon with an extremely high level spell and released a databug, and then proceeded to do it again to corrupt the whole area!" "Oh.." Kindle said, wondering what his fate would be. "This is just a pre-release. Imagine what would happen if someone found out about this and shutdown the production. Only about 50,000 people have the game now!" "But what about Quall!" "This is the bad part. I have determined that while databugs can no longer perform datadrain, the one that you released used another way to immobilize your friend. We saw footage of the databug strangling Quall and then putting those purple data wasters all around him. Quall was then absorbed in to the body, but did not suffer a game over. "So he is trapped in that databug!" Kindle concluded in horror. "The databug is trapped in him as well" said Saiwroth sadly. Quall in real life is breathing and fine, but seems to have nothing on his mind so far as paying "The World." He lives by himself and has no family, conveniently for us. So until we straighten this out we will act as nothing happened." "But Quall is in trouble. You can't just twiddle your thumbs in the hopes that he will get better." "Of course not!" said a frustrated Saiwroth. "We will begin action immediately. The proper thing to do would be deleting your character data, but you could prove useful in our investigation. I thought that in the trial version I had cleared all databugs, but it appears some got away. I have what you need to clean out the trash. The ability to datadrain! There is still much to explain, so hold all of your questions until later. Much of this game is modeled after "The World" including the graphic design. That is how databugs may have been transferred here. There are three bosses that you may challenge in order to be hailed "Quest complete" We put our strongest data in to these bosses. You will need to drain and collect data of these powers to gain the strength to beata databug and separate it from Quall. Basically you have to play the game. If you are wondering why I could tell all of this, I was monitering you on your quest with Quall. "Whoa,whoa,whoa!" Kindle halted. "I am all for saving Quall, but I can't "data-drain". I'm not the most graceful player either, and, and I don't want my mind sucked out. But... it is my fault that an innocent guy had his mind snatched, and I can't just leave him there. So teach me datadrain!" "I knew you would say that" said Saiwroth. I noticed that you were able to do a scorch thrower attack , the strongest fire move in this game, with 10 times the power. The interesting thing is that you had nothing equipped to do it. First you used the visual of the fire from the dungeon and then you did it without even having anything there. If you concentrate hard enough, you may be able to data drain in this manner as well. Of course there are no guarantees." Kindle knew that this was going to be life-threatening. He couldn't even imagine how tough it would be to suck the data out of a monster by just concentrating. But he also knew that he had an ability to do something that none other could. Possibly fate had chosen him to save his friend and possible many others. Or maybe he had a big ego and was in way over his big head.