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⬣//JUST AS A SEED TAKES ROOT.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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(Is PKing still on the table? Who knows.)]
I feel it would be as bland as the way he dresses.
[Owen honestly wouldn't be surprised if Hien didn't even have a bed...]
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Is that considered bland? He seems to be inclined towards more edgy skins than bland, considering he's a Harvest Cleric cosplaying the grim reaper.
[ Fandaniel wants that scythe skin, he wants it so much, but that's neither here nor there. What is here is them strolling into the guild and Fandaniel nodding a little greeting to Cultist Grunty as it wiggles spookily in welcome at the two, but they aren't stopping there to chat.
He leads Owen onward towards the private rooms and stops at the door, selecting it for the list of those who have them already. There it is, Hien's, and that's what he selects. Now to see, just how does the Head Admin decorate? ]
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He wears all black. It’s horrendously uninspired, which means it’s basic and bland.
[Sorry to all goths. Wear more colors.
Owen does wave to Cultist Grunty as they pass, because he still finds it incredibly charming even if he hopes it never finds out about all the sin happening between the guild members. It needs to stay cute and innocent.
Hien’s room is… lacking. As in it lacks basically everything, but with no furniture and nothing changed from the room’s default options. There is, inexplicably, a dog plush set in the corner of the room, so it's clear the admin has at least entered the room before. Still, it's not what Owen was expecting.]
...
[Huh.]
See what I mean about him being bland?
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[ Proof that Hien did show up here, at least once, but that's it? Well. Owen isn't wrong, he supposes. No real sense of design or color for that poor man. ]
Wouldn't it be terrible if he used those to spy on the game?
[ Why else would it just be there, alone, in a corner, turned to face the room? Watching, always watching, with dead beady eyes. ]
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[Which is why he has a dog hairclip.
Owen picks up the plush, looking it over for a moment before he puts it down. He makes the executive decision to turn it around, though, so it's facing the corner of the room. Look away, dog... Look away.]
A bit ineffective to have just one, here, unless he's very paranoid about people entering his room.
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Somehow I am not surprised. I wonder if he prefers animals to people. I do know he was avidly following that pet thread on the forum since he knew about my snake.
[ Which isn't even a bawdy joke, he literally does have a snake. ]
Ah, but I also wouldn't put being paranoid beyond him. Prefers animals, expects the worst from people, that seems to check out, hm?
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It would explain a lot about him.
[But enough about Hien. Sure, they’re in his room, but Owen didn’t proposition Fandaniel just to gossip about the administrator.]
Now, do you just want to keep talking about him, or do you actually want to have some fun?
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Mm, fair enough. Let us see just how detailed they made all of our senses. [ And he'll take those few steps needed to cross the room, reaching out to snag one of Owen's arms and tug him around, away from the little plush toy, and back towards him. ] Come down here and kiss me, Owen.
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Owen lets himself get pulled back, but he wonders how much control Fandaniel is going to try to take in all of this. Does he think Owen is going to be obedient?
(Should he be? Maybe, as Fandaniel is charming in that edgy, clowny sort of way…)
He puts his hand under Fandaniel’s chin, leaning down and brushing their lips together. It’s honestly quite chase - but it’s a kiss, and that’s what Fandaniel asked for.]
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If Owen had meant to tease the man with such a chaste kiss, Fandaniel would try to push that further, opening his mouth against those lips and seeking to snag a lower lip with his teeth, nipping at it. ]
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...
Maybe it's best not to question these things. He doesn't need to think about his taste (or lack thereof). It's not that he even dislikes it, an approving sound getting caught in the back of his throat as he crowds closer, trying to deepen the kiss in turn with crowding Fandaniel back to the walls.
It's testing the waters, trying to see if Fandaniel will still try to keep charge, or if he'll back down. There's no push and pull, as far as Owen is concerned, but he wants to test his control.]
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It's a matter of trying to figure out exactly what Owen may want; does he take control or does he give up control? He'll decide as they carry on making out against the wall of the room. While his mouth is busy, he makes sure to find a way to keep his hands busy, as well, and they settle first on Owen's hips before wandering up, searching for ways under cloth and armor — although considering his class, the dancer, there likely isn't much to begin with — so he can skate his fingers and palms over bare skin, fully intending to feel Owen up, as much of him as he can. ]
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But it's true that Owen's armor doesn't amount to much; despite the fact the armor skin he's chosen meaning he's wearing layers, it's still just flimsy robes and leggings. There's nothing to really stop Fandaniel's wandering hands, and Owen will let him feel as much as he wants - for now. Testing might not get them very far, but it's not like he's going to stop trying to overanalyze every choice Fandaniel makes and what it might mean for him, later. You can never have too much
blackmailinformation on someone, and sex is one of the times people are at their most vulnerable.He pulls back from the kiss, though, looking down at the other and brushing his thumb over his cheek.]
Say, Fandaniel... What's your preference?
[Some context would probably be good for that, and yet he just... leaves it at that.]
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Mm?
[ When the kiss breaks and Owen pulls back, Fandaniel looks up at him through lidded eyes. He'll put a pause on feeling Owen up, though his hands remain very much all over him, one having slid its way up his back and the other down to a hip, idly playing at whatever waistband his pants have with his fingers.
His preference? ]
As in... what do I like? Try not to take this too poorly, but it's anything, really. [ Sometimes people take offense at that. It's vague. ] Were you hoping for something more specific?
i forgot if we put a nsfw warning up but i just remembered we're in an event so here's another one
Well, that's incredibly vague.
[That's barely even an answer, and also not actually an answer to what Owen was really asking if the way his lips twitch is any indication. It's all just part of the same test to see just what Fandaniel will tolerate from him.]
Do you want to fuck an ass or a cunt?
[gazes into the middle distance...]
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