⬣//JUST AS A SEED TAKES ROOT.

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>>Secrets // >>Guilds // >>Grunties // >>Carnival // >>Zelkova Corner

⬣//THIS WORLD IS MORE THAN 0S AND 1S.

A team of four courageous adventurers managed to unearth a secret Area unique from the others: the Hulle Granz Cathedral. Unlike other Areas, this one is lacking all the usual monsters, dungeons, and treasure. What might the purpose of this Area be, then...?

Well, if you’re feeling penitent or perhaps wish to hold a sermon of your own, head to Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground and knock yourself out. What? Too soon?

Anyway, be not afraid! The cathedral is perfectly safe. Following Ganymede’s little incident in the cathedral, a timely email has been sent out to beta testers regarding health and safety that reads as follows:

To our beta team,

Please exercise caution when playing video games for extended periods of time. Take breaks every thirty minutes and do not sit in the same position for more than two hours at a time. Remember to stay hydrated and play in a well-lit environment.

Failing to take care of your health while gaming can result in a litany of health complications, including but not limited to eye strain, muscle fatigue, headaches, dizziness, and involuntary loss of consciousness and motor functions.

We take the health and safety of our beta testers very seriously. If you have any concerns, please contact us at cccorp.ccmail.com.

Thank you for your continued efforts,
CyberConnect Corporation of Japan.

⬣//ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL.

Guilds have been patched into the current version of Fragment and are now available for players to create their own and join others. While some guilds have opted to go the private route, others are in need of players to fill their ranks!

The admins have kindly supplied those recruiting for their shiny new guilds with a number of goodies to aid in their player gathering efforts:

⬣ A bundle of personalized flyers proudly displaying their guild logo and a description of the guild’s @ home and available amenities.

⬣ Party poppers and streamers. Nothing screams “join my guild!” like a face full of glitter, confetti, and colorful strips of ribbon.

⬣ A megaphone that lets your voice echo far and wide, even across Root Towns and Areas, but with great potential for abuse comes restrictions! The megaphone can only be used five times before it breaks. Use it wisely!

⬣ A unique recipe for a cocktail, latte, tea, or other type of beverage that can be blended up and served in little sample cups to court potential members. These drinks are unique to their guilds and, when consumed, have a special effect that reflects the leader of that guild. Is your guild leader a pretty cheerful guy? Drinking their special brew will make you feel happy too!

Whatever effect your guild’s drink has is up to the leader’s discretion, but if you so desire, drop a comment under the questions top level and we’ll brew one up for you.

Additionally, you may host a guild open house and invite potential guildies into your @ home to let them take a look around! Guild @ homes are typically locked to guild members & their guests only, so use this as your opportunity to put your best foot forward and impress the world with everything your guild has to offer.

⬣//FATHER, I HUNGER…

Also arriving with the newest update are mountable Grunties! Aren’t they cute? ...Well, they’re someone’s definition of cute.

While the ability to ride around town and in Areas at 2x speed is certainly alluring, you can’t just walk up to the Grunty Ranch located in each Root Town and take one out for a stroll. If you want a mount of your very own, you’ve got to commit! Becoming a proud Grunty owner means you must first become a proud Grunty parent, and to do that, you’ll need to raise your Grunty from infancy into adulthood.

Just what kind of adult might your Grunty become? That depends on how you raise them and what you feed them. Those strange "foods" popping up all over Areas might not taste good to you, but they sure do to Grunties!

For more information on how to acquire a baby Grunty of your very own and raise it into a proper — or not so proper — member of Grunty society, head on over to the Grunty Ranch.

⬣//PROPER CARNIVAL WEATHER.

Mac Anu, the City of Twilight known for its gentle ocean breezes, has been uncharacteristically warm lately. Very, very warm. Its usual orange skies have been swapped out for vivid blues, the sun dwelling high in the sky and threatening to burn everything in its wake.

It won’t take much wandering to feel the effects of heat exhaustion sink in, and even after you log out for the day, those symptoms seem to linger. Do Hien and Zelkova know what the hell is going on? Of course not. Unusual occurrences are slowly becoming the norm in Fragment, it seems, but the point of a beta test is to work out any kinks. Report it and move on.

Lumina Cloth is similarly affected by unusual weather phenomena, but it’s much more pleasant and hospitable than poor Mac Anu. The sun hangs just above the horizon, bathing the strip in early evening light. It’s much cooler here too, and what’s more, it appears that a carnival has rolled into town. What fun!

All the usual carnival fare is here: greasy fried foods, drinks served in foot long glasses, and a litany of carnival games that are totally not rigged. Entry is free and so are the prizes, but some of them take a bit of legwork to win.

⬣ Successfully PK another player to win the carnival exclusive Thursday The 12th™ skin. PK’d players will receive an appropriately spooky ghost skin of their own!

⬣ Step on up to the dunk tank and get dunked on to win a sexy swimsuit skin! Both the dunkers and the dunkees will win this skin, but only those who successfully dunk the player in the tank will be rewarded with the chance to show off some skin. The appearance this skin takes is dependent on the player wearing it, so have fun and get creative with it!

⬣ Take a trip through the hall of mirrors with a friend and do some reflecting! Stare too long into the mirrors and you might recall a memory that doesn’t belong to you, but to the person venturing through the hall of mirrors with you. Did that really happen? Surely it’s all in your head. Memories available for memshare are limited to the ones listed on your application.

Additional rewards include giant plush monsters that can be used to decorate guild @ homes and private rooms (limit one per player!) and a pet goldfish that, unfortunately, will die a hero’s tragic death within a week. Womp womp.

⬣//ZELKOVA’S META ROUNDUP.

We’ve had a busy week! It seems like there was a glitch that allowed players to equip other players as weapons, which resulted in a ten player chain, wielded by none other than our hardworking head administrator, Hien! I’ll have a talk with him about not doing this kind of thing in the future, I promise!

That wasn’t all, though. An unknown entity reached out to the players participating in the ten-player chain and issued them a special title: Good Friends Stick Together. Fragment’s not supposed to have titles. Well, at least not in the beta. But you can go ahead and add it to your name if you want to anyway, and it shouldn’t cause any problems! We still can’t pinpoint who sent those messages and how they overrode the permissions to create those titles in the first place, but... Hmm. I don’t want to start any rumors, so I’ll keep looking into it.

There are those armor sets too, which I didn’t know had been handed out to those of you that reached level 25. Oria brought it to our attention, thankfully! There’s not a whole lot we can do about it now, but we know that some of them are pretty invasive. But knowing is half the battle, right?

Our friend Ganymede suffered an accident recently that had him lying unconscious in the hospital for about a day. He seems to be feeling better now, thankfully. Ḩ̵̲̼͆̃͐̆ò̸̧̰͕̥̈́͒̕͜p̷̫͙̯͇̾̄͜ę̸̹̒f̷̠̭͉̱̅͘ǘ̴͎̙̥̭̈́̈́l̵͇̙͍̳̜̇̓̒l̷̬̲̀̆̈̅̂ͅỳ̵̧̻̖ ̷̠̫̭̰̦̋͗h̴̰͕̑͗e̸̦̼͇̾͘ ̴̡̢̝̺̳̊̎̎̔p̴̳̠̼̜͔̂̅̐à̵͕̹̟ͅỹ̴̡̛͝s̶͉̕ ̴̢͕̬̑̆̕͝b̸̹̲͗͒̊͑͠ē̶̛͖͠ṯ̸̻̺́͒͐t̶̻͕͎̑ĕ̶̖̀͗͛͋r̷͙̗̙̲͙̓̚͝ ̷̻̠͉̈́̚a̷̡̙̳̽́̀̋̔ẗ̴̢̨̛̬̺t̴͖̳͝ē̷͇̆͆̍̚ͅn̵̪̜͉͊̉̔̄͐t̵͕̼͈̓͋̈́̕î̷̬o̸͇̐͋͑͌n̶̟̫̟̽̑͒͐͘ ̷̜̈́̈̀̂̎t̶͙̂͛ô̸̠̜ ̶̫͎̎h̶͖̳͛i̸̗͖̖̅̂͆̄͛s̸͔̈́̇̍ ̸̩̗̻̕s̵̬̼̳̲̞͝ù̸̞̺̣͙̾͒͛ŗ̴̻̟̻̭̂̈́r̶̡͈̲̣̣͋̊͗̕o̶̥̝̮̓ų̴̻̯̬̊̑̑͌̉ͅn̶̢̙̦͔͖̈̒͝d̷̰̼̤̥̃̿͒̌̎i̸̯͑̾͊̑͝n̵̦͐g̸̪̾͝͝s̷̛̝͙̣̹̍͛͝ ̸͔̲̠̩͗̓̀͘a̷̛̼̓̈́͊ṅ̵̥͆̎ḑ̶̨̯̱͍̇ ̷̛̗̮̀̆ḧ̴̼̪́͗͝i̵͓̬̤͂͐͒s̶̮̎̿̃ ̴̛͔̋͗̽h̷̝͑ͅē̴̱ȃ̵̝͎ͅļ̷͍̀͐͊̊̽ẗ̸̼̺̟̥̼́̄͛h̶̥̹̬̮̽̅ ̷̟̖̮͛́̿t̸̢̤̤̂͒͋̍o̶̼̟̓ ̵̥̳͙̖̆̈́ả̶̛̳̱͙̖̩̿̽͘v̴͈͉͖͊͘ỏ̶̤͚̅͑͝i̴̱͈̩̳̳̿̇̕͠ḏ̵͙̮͗͆ ̶̯̭̝̹̯͊s̸͍̰͔̔̀͋͋̐u̷̟̠͑̔̏̚c̵̨͖͉͇̀͆͘ͅh̴̨̓͌̄̈ ̶̧̱̻̼̏̃̃i̷̱͉͈̿̎̋͒͜͝n̴̢͓͍̂͝͠c̷̢̢̛̹͚̑̓̅ͅi̶͕̟̻̘̫̾͌d̶͉͉̏̇e̵͉̱̩̯̤͐̎̉̾n̸̡̠̈͜ţ̴̇͑̈́͘s̵̩̼͔̙̙̉͘ ̵̮̯̞̮̾̈́͋̔̈h̵̡̗͉͉͈̉̐̅̚ȁ̵͖͚̖̾p̸̰̬͖̩̀̈́̆̓p̶̢̛̼̈́͆̒͘ͅe̷̟̘̩̲̻̾̊n̵̨̩̜̟͆͘i̵̙͉̺̮͠ͅṋ̷̆ġ̶͙͚ ̴̩̋à̷̄̑̂͝ͅǧ̵͖̜͍͕̒̑͒a̷̧̛̞͐̃̈́͘i̷̯͉̬̯̽̍n̷̘̝͓̽̅̕!̵̩͑

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NPC - ZELKOVA

[dzelkva]

[ With everything that's been going on lately, Zelkova figures he should make himself more available. So, he's hanging around Mac Anu despite the heat. He can be found near the Chaos Gate or overlooking the canals on one of the larger bridges.

He also has flyers for his own guild, Moon Tree, and is handing them out to anyone interested. ]

[notfunny]

[ this weather absolutely stinks but he'll deal with it for now. if it means encountering zelkova, then... it seems like it'll be worth it. right? ]

Moon Tree...

[ what an interesting name. ]

... what's the meaning behind it?

[dzelkva]

It's the name I almost chose for myself. I like both the moon and trees, so I thought I'd combine them. It makes a nice name for a guild, right?

[ And given that his name is Zelkova, it adds up. ]

[notfunny]

[ oh, it definitely adds up. how could cyno argue against that reason by itself? ]

It does. [ he smiles faintly, continuing to look over the information presented on the flyer. ]

What kind of sabotage are you alluding to?

[threatmewted]

[Pointedly not taking the flyer.]

Why is it so hot here all of a sudden?

[dzelkva]

[ He doesn't seem to mind much, at least, as he puts the flyers back in his inventory. ]

I actually don't know. The weather in Mac Anu isn't supposed to change like this.

[threatmewted]

Seriously? Isn't it pretty much your guy's job to know what's going on?

[gluttoning]

[Here he comes with two of those ridiculous drinks from the other root town in hand, approaching Zelkova atop one of the bridges.]

Oh. Cool. I found one of you.

[He holds out one of the drinks.]

Here. You must be kind of warm.

[dzelkva]

[ Oh.

Zelkova's eyebrows rise as he looks at the drink, but there's no hesitation as he takes it. ]

Thanks! It's actually not so bad for me here, but I know plenty of you are having real trouble. The other Root Town is better, right?

[gluttoning]

A little. I think it being closer to nighttime over there helps. Most everybody is staying over there.

[He doesn't mind the heat too much, but even he's feeling pretty uncomfortable, sleeves rolled up past his shoulders.]

You're kne of the staff, right? Is it supposed to be this hot? I don't remember seeing any kind of announcement.

Re: NPC - ZELKOVA

[insinning]

[Taking a flyer! He's a polite boy. ]

Moon Tree? Is there anything we have to do in the guild?

[dzelkva]

[ What a nice, sweet boy. ]

Have fun! That's all you need to do!

[insinning]

Hm? No missions or a goal to work towards? It sounds like a nice place...

[Reading it]

...could I keep my grunt there?

[ganymed]

[ He doesn't look overly excited about the heat, though fortunately the Mediterranean isn't exactly another name for frozen terrain. ]

Hard at work?

[ Spotting the flyer, but it's also a general question. ]

[dzelkva]

[ He shakes his head. ]

Handing flyers out isn't hard to do. [ Especially when all these heathens won't take it... ] I hope you're doing okay in the heat.

[ganymed]

I mean, besides handing out the flyers too.

[ How many heathens people have refused to take his flyers... ]

...As for the heat, thankfully I'm used to hot weather. Though, I wonder whose idea was it to implement this sort of uncomfortable thing in a game?

[tablescraps]

( Mithrun acquires a flier for Moon Tree. He also looks like he's going to straight up pass out from heat in a few minutes.

At this point, he's probably wearing the swimsuit skin (with the shorts coverup, hat, and sunglasses).

Looks at the flyer. )

... Okay.

( Agreeing to... the guild ??? maybe ?? )

[dzelkva]

[ Ah, a smart choice with the weather. Zelkova approves.

And also hands Mithrun a water. ]

Oh, you want to join?

[tablescraps]

( Mithrun has obtained a Water! 🎊

He holds it in the hand opposite of the flyer. )

Not really. But I can.

[secondthoughts]

[ It's fucking hot.

When Hector approaches Zelkova, he looks appropriately miserable. His hair is damp and sticks to his forehead, sweat glistens on his... Yeah, you get the picture.

It's hard to tell if the twisted expression is on his face is displeasure from the heat, or displeasure at seeing Zelkova. ]

Hey. You're the guy who gave us our gear at the beginning, right? [ Just to confirm. He could be wrong. ] Do you have a sec?

[dzelkva]

[ He raises his eyebrows at Hector. Wow, he looks absolutely miserable. ]

Sure. What is it?

[secondthoughts]

[ Here we go. ]

It shouldn't be this hot. I turned off all my sensors and stuff, and I'm still boiling.

[ He could just log off but he literally just logged on?

He frowns. ]

And then there was the guy that was unconscious for 24 hours, and the kid who couldn't feel their body. I feel like these bugs should've been ironed out in an alpha test, not a beta test.

[ Is he complaining to the wrong person? ...Probably. ]

pre-patch 2.5

[tot]

[ it's awful and it's hot but she's here to have a bit of a mingle and a chat. she'll look at the flyer for a moment looking it all over before saying anything. ]

Trust you to have a guild like this one. It sounds nice.

[dzelkva]

Thanks, I'm glad you think so!

[ It seems like he really means it, too, from the way he smiles at her. ]

I thought it'd be nice to have a guild dedicated to peace.

[tot]

I don't think there are too many of us who are that violent, but it doesn't hurt to make sure to constantly cultivate a welcoming environment.

[ she's aware of fandango who is eager to start fights as well as personalities undoubtedly clashing. ]

Moon Tree sounds so serene too.