I opened my eyes and found that I successfully passed through my door, and what's now in front of me...
I did NOT expect an entire vehicle already built for me!
Four wheels, four weapons on top, I think these are SMGs. A radar on the back, this vehicle has all the basics, I suppose a fighter has to start somewhere, right?
Though I can't see the pilot seat anywhere. Am I supposed to put one on it myself? Or do these even have one?
"Um...Lava!" I called out to Lava. I don't know if he can hear me or not. I'm not hearing anything from outside my 'bay'.
Actually, I think it might be better if I explore my bay first. If this is mine, then I don't think anyone else can enter, can they?
The first thing I find is at the front-right of the vehicle, at the corner of the bay, I find two devices. One with a sort-of-ring with 16 different colours on it on the side, the other is displaying a hologram of an SMG wasp with the number 2 on a small
screen in front of it.
I don't knowwhat I just said there...
I think these are the tools for building or modifying a vehicle. I could do that right now and at least paint my starter vehicle, but I have a tour still, I think.
"You can enter and exit it as you please." So I presume I can just walk through the same wall to leave?
I came through the wall on the vehicle's left, so if I go back to the same wall...
"Woah..." I'll need some time to get used to this 'walking through a wall' thing.
"Well?" Lava was just standing there waiting for me patiently.
"I expected that place to be empty..." I'm just a little dizzy, ok?
"We provide 3 starter robots for every new fighter. Did you see them all?" Wait, three?
"I...only saw one."
"There's a computer to the right of the...ahem, your vehicle. The monitor displays all of your current robots." Lava explained "You can also use the PC to rename your vehicle." That sounds useful.
"Ok then." I walk back through the door to my bay without thinking...I barely felt anything there, I guess I was just thinking too much previously.
When I enter my bay, I'm to the left of my vehicle, Lava said that the PC is to the right of it.
Going around the front of my vehicle, I briefly stop just in front of it. Looking at it from here looks like it could come to life at any moment. Ahem...
Continuing towards the PC, I pass those two tools for the vehicle, no doubt I will be using them sooner or later.
Reaching the PC, I presume this is the one Lava was talking about, I see a lone monitor on the wall.
If the monitor is on its own, could it be a touchscreen?
Touching the monitor with my right forefinger, it quickly comes to life, displaying 4 buttons in a line. The 3 on the left each have a picture of different vehicles, the last one on the right just has a '+' on it.
I'm not sure what that symbol means. I look at the buttons with the vehicles on them, the one on the very left has the picture of the vehicle behind me.
"'Bay 01'..." I muttered. So each bay has a unique number? I look to my right and see on the wall, big and bold:
BAY 01
Robo1
I guess the "BAY 01" is the bay's number, but what's with the "Robo1"? I suddenly remember something: "You can also use the PC to rename your vehicle." So 'Robo1' is the name of this vehicle?
I tap on the first button, all of them move down to the bottom of the screen while three hexagon shaped buttons appear, along with a larger picture of the vehicle above them.
The button on the left was grey with the word "Selected" on it in white.
The middle button was orange with the word "Rename" on it, also in white.
Lastly, the button on the right was red with the word "Dismantle" on it, again, in white.
I don't think pressing "Selected" will do anything, and I don't think I want to dismantle my starter vehicle. So I press the middle button to see how I rename my vehicle.
A text box appears in front of the picture with "Robo1" in it and a text curser at the end. An onscreen keyboard also appears at the bottom of the screen, blocking all of the buttons for the bays.
What should I call this vehicle? I don't know, I'll just leave it for now. Tapping elsewhere on the screen, the text box and the keyboard disappears.
I tap on the button with "02" on it, presumably bay 02, the same three hexagon buttons show up, but this time, the left one is orange with "Select" on it, like the rest, in white.
I tap on the 'select' button and I hear a sound behind me, startling me.
Looking back, I see a different vehicle in the same place. This one is much taller with two mech legs on the bottom, it has four plasma launchers for its weapons.
Again, I don't see any pilot seat of any kind. Maybe we use a different way of controlling these vehicles.
On the wall, big and bold, says:
BAY 02
Robo2
I'm starting to see some kind of pattern here...
Turning back to the screen, I select bay 03. Hearing the same sound behind me, didn't startle me this time. This vehicle is 'hovering' in the air. I notice four hover blades, two on each side, and SMGs on top and bottom of it. Cool. Like the other two,
there's no pilot seat.
I think I got the hang of this, sort of. I decided to leave my bay and meet up with Lava.
