Arthur walked over to Donovan’s car, entering the passenger side. They greeted each other and made small talk, giving Arthur ti to put his seat belt on before Donovan started driving. The two continued the small talk on the drive ho, Donovan wasn’t that interested in New Genesis so he didn’t ask much about it.
Eventually they arrived ho, Arthur exited the vehicle and waved goodbye to Donovan before making his way inside the house. The lights were all off, aning he was the first to arrive ho.
He made his way upstairs, climbing to his room, or more accurately his floor. He walked into one of his rooms, where he was t with several rows of potted plants. This was one of his hobby rooms, specifically the room dedicated to growing dicinal and poisonous plants, one of his previous interests. Arthur made sure to water his plants before leaving, closing the door behind him.
He then moved over to his bedroom, stripping down from his current outfit into sothing comfortable and loose. The next room he visited was the newest addition to his collection of various junk filled rooms. This room in particular was sothing he only started putting together after returning from the previous tiline, his own personal gym.
There were many factors of a person that affected how they would experience New Genesis, so factors were uncontrollable, such as a person’s height. Whereas so could be adapted and improved, such as a person’s physical health and overall body mass.
Your body’s mass was sothing that couldn’t be changed through in-ga settings, but it did update as your real body changed.
It was also just a good habit in general to take care of your body with exercise and proper dieting. Especially because there was the risk of severe muscle atrophy and other health defects if you didn’t take care of your body when you were outside of the capsule.
These issues occurred due to your body being stationary for so long, working out beca widely accepted within the player-base, and shortly after so people found that training their physical bodies actually benefited them in-ga as well. One of the many reasons was that having a smaller silhouette was more advantageous, as it would directly translate to having a smaller hitbox within the ga.
Arthur spent the next half hour performing a mix of aerobic and light strength exercises. He was starting off light due to his body being untrained and unfit, due to his previous aversion to any and every form of physical activity.
As he was finishing off his last exercise for the day, he heard what he assud to be his sister clambering up the stairs. Eventually Anna peeked her head out from around the corner, proving his guess right. She inford him that food was about to be ready, aning he should clean up and co down quickly. Arthur finished his exercise, wiping down the sweat from his body with a nearby towel.
After tidying himself up sowhat, he made his way down the flight of stairs, greeting his father who was currently slaving away in the kitchen, putting the finishing touches on what looked to be his father’s famous cheesy ham and potato bake.
Arthur took a seat and waited as his father slowly brought a few dishes to the table, first up was the potato bake, followed by a small bowl of chicken Caesar salad, and finally a plate of sweet and sticky pork ribs.
As the family enjoyed their al, several questions were thrown around. Being one of his company’s biggest investnts yet, Arthur’s father was curious about the experience of the ga, especially from his son’s point of view. He had heard all the speeches from the developers, but it was important to get the perspective of a player.
Arthur told his father all that he had experienced, while trying to make it seem less violent than it was. He probably wouldn’t appreciate hearing how his son was attacked by goblins, stabbed several tis and mauled by a wolf. He did however share so things his father would appreciate, such as the scenery and general feel of the ga, how it was almost indistinguishable from real life.
His sister started bombarding him with questions, she still had her reservations about his safety and how scary the machines seed, but since Arthur seed to have enjoyed himself she put that aside. After dinner, Arthur helped clean up the table before making his way back to his room.
He took a quick shower before getting ready for bed, he spent the next couple hours reading before his eyelids beca too heavy to open. When he woke up, it was almost ten in the morning, his father and sister had already left for work, leaving Arthur to his own devices.
Arthur checked up on his plants before going downstairs, he whipped himself up a quick breakfast and went back to his room, spending the rest of his morning reading the current news articles. This was a new hobby he had, reading articles he already knew the climax of was a strange feeling.
He paid attention to a couple news articles, that had co out recently. A couple ga journalist websites, those who Arthur had filtered out of the invitation list, started creating sar stories against the ga and company. A petty move, but it seed as though the internet figured out why they were doing it and had started making fun of them for it.
Not long after Arthur had received a ssage from Donovan, telling him he’d be there to pick him up shortly, it was already ti for day two of the beta test to start. He made a quick sandwich and got ready to leave the house just in ti, as he just received the notification that Donovan was waiting for him outside.
Donovan drove Arthur back to the beta tester facility, when he arrived he saw that groups of people had been waiting for a while. They ford small groups, each talking about their plans for today’s session with child-like excitent.
As Arthur walked into view, several eyes locked on him, a feeling he still hadn’t gotten used to. He made his way into the facility, walking past those who glared at him. He approached one of the developers, asking for the 3D model of Fluffernutter, the cat of the beginner village. When asked why, he responded with the reason that he wanted to make a large statue of the cat.
He walked over to the briefing room, where he noticed two people sitting next to each other, they seed to be having an important conversation, it was Maria and Acai. Arthur approached the two, and he overheard them talking about levelling up faster, he felt like he could assist his new friends without being too overbearing.
"Hey guys, any plans for today?" Arthur spoke up as he took a seat next to Maria, they were sitting on the edge, leaving only one seat vacant.
"Heya rl-- Arthur... We’re just talking about ways we can level up faster. It feels like the levelling in this ga is too slow." Maria began calling Arthur by his in-ga na, before correcting herself, it was all too common of a mistake.
"Right, well you should probably focus down on the main quest of the beginner village, from what I’ve seen the main quests give more experience than just grinding monsters." If Arthur started lecturing them on advanced ga chanics and levelling techniques this early in the ga, he’d be seen as suspicious, and attracting more attention wasn’t sothing he wanted right now.
"One thing I’d recomnd is for you two to work together to do the raid quest." Arthur began explaining the Lycoa goblin raid quest, and the difficulties he had to face. He also told them about what equipnt to buy, such as an extra torch, or slings as a cheap and easy ranged option.
When asked about how he knew about these things, he just said he talked with so NPCs. This was a pretty easy reasoning to hide behind, due to most people struggling with talking to NPCs in the first place. It may be that so villagers ntion a sling being used to fight off vermin, a cheap and powerful option for those who cant maintain a bow and arrow.
Eventually people started to fill the briefing room, Arthur noticed a few familiar faces, such as the guy who got destroyed by the goblins while trying to hunt him. Eventually the morning briefing started. There had been a couple changes, most of which were background updates.
The most interesting of which was the few changes made to Gaia’s prediction algorithm, it was even given a reason for the changes, due to it making several major mistakes yesterday when guessing the actions certain players would have taken.
It seed as though Arthur was already making ripples, but he couldn’t afford to stop now.
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