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⬣//A SINGLE CRACK LETS THE LIGHT IN.
As they say, fortune favors the brave. Five lucky players took part in a Limited Quest: The Mysterious Sky Islands, in which they discovered a brand new Root Town. While the team was largely successful in their efforts to make the mysterious floating town in the sky habitable, not everyone embraced the spirit of teamwork on this journey.
When you gate in to this shiny new Root Town, you'll notice something curious: it has no name. Its name simply displays as "???" in every context menu and there is no signage around the Root Town itself that points to its true name— rather, the name it had before they came along.
Whispers on the wind tell of an evil wizard in flowing white robes who ruthlessly boiled the village elder alive. With him died all of this mysterious Root Town's lore and history, and in its place are tales of the monster who robbed this land of its identity. The elemental sprites that populate this village refuse to speak their name, simply wishing you "good luck, have fun!" as you turn to leave.
While on your journey to check out the island, you'll notice how unstable the bridges are. Unstable might be putting it lightly, because for some unlucky souls, crossing the wrong bridge means plummeting to your death. It seems that whoever was put in charge of constructing these bridges didn't give a damn about structural integrity.
The local sprites are pleading with adventurers to assist them in building better, more stable bridges, but bridging the gap between one island and the next is not a job for a single person. If you have enough of a heart to heed the pleas of the sprites, you'll want to work with your fellow players to get the job done. All the wood, nails, and rope you need to construct better bridges has been helpfully supplied to you by the sprites. You could always sabotage the project too, of course, but what kind of person would you be if you did that?
The professions system has been added to fragment. Rejoice, busybodies, for there is much furniture to be built and dubious potions brewed.
In celebration of the new crafting & gathering system, a crafts festival is being held in the Unnamed Root Town. Take care not to plummet to your death while traversing those rickety bridges.
Players are encouraged to set up a booth of their own and trade their unique handcrafted items with their fellow adventurers. In addition to being supplied with enough level 1 and level 2 crafting materials to give the crafting system a spin, the local NPCs are running a contest encouraging people to come up with their own for a chance to have their creations canonized as real crafting recipes.
To submit your own recipe ideas, you need only fill out this handy form:
Recipe name:
Recipe category: Alchemist, Carpenter, Chef, or Jeweler?
Which two items does your recipe call for? Choose two items to combine. Only gatherable items (refer to the professions page) can be used.
Effect: What does this item do, if anything?
Description: A brief description of your lovely new product.
Fragment's beta test has seen its fair share of unusual bugs and unintended features, and with the latest update bringing many new changes, it's inevitable that some things have broken behind the scenes.
If two players happen to log in at the same time, they might find their avatars swapped with one another's. Thankfully, this issue doesn't lead to the unpleasant exchange of deep-seated memories or anything of the sort, but getting used to a body that isn't yours takes time. Thankfully, this particular bug resolves itself when both players log out.
The windy town of Unnamed Root Town is generally quite scenic and pleasant, but there's just one issue. It's far, far windier than it should be. If the rickety bridges don't kill you, the gusts that intermittently blow across the sky islands might knock you off your feet if you don't watch your footing carefully. Thankfully, the crafts festival on the southernmost end of the island hasn't been impacted by the severe winds. Among them is one voice that you don't recognize: a voice that promises a death, gruesome and bloody, in the days to come.
To everyone's relief, the carnival and its notorious hall of mirrors has packed up and left Lumina Cloth, but your past hasn't finished haunting you. The foul winds carry whispers of the past along with them, uttering words and phrases uncomfortably familiar to you. They're the voices of your past, the voices of people you've known, loved, and lost. Covering your ears won't keep the voices out of your ears. Nothing will.
Finally, on the more mundane some of things, professions have a few kinks of their own that need to be worked out. Occasionally, a crafted item won't come out quite right, instead resulting in one of the following "items":
Alchemist: Truth Serum. Become unable to lie for 24 hours.
Blacksmith: Whatever you're enhancing transforms into a denim disaster. Introducing your new "body" armor, "leg" armor, "head" armor, and "arm" armor.
Carpenter: Mirror Mirror. Reflects the person you're most afraid of becoming.
Chef: Durian Delight. A succulent durian pudding that reeks so strongly that its stench can be smelled all across the Root Town or Area you're occupying.
Jeweler: Crystal Ball. Breaks after one use but allows you to read another player's thoughts for five minutes.
With crafting in full swing, a certain admin has been lured out of his hidey hole by the smell of delicious chef-prepared meals. Hien is hungry, and you will feed him.
Chefs are not limited by the recipes they know like some professions are, so players are encouraged to think outside of the box and combine unique ingredients to cook up something truly special.
Taste, however, isn't the only important part of a perfect meal. Chefs looking to impress the big man himself are expected to present their culinary delights to him with pomp and finesse. You need to impress Hien if you want to gain more from this venture than the participation prize of a chef skin.
Those who successfully woo Hien with their delectable dishes will be given an additional prize: a little black pomchi pet to accompany their avatar around Root Towns and Special Areas. Hien will be giving these out at his discretion, so you better suck up to the dogboss in charge if you want a pomchi of your very own. If you catch Hien in a good mood, he may even agree to give you a different breed of dog if you ask nicely.
Hello, everyone! Can you believe it's been an entire month since our beta test began? Even though we've already been through a lot together, we've still got three months left! I'm rooting for you all!
As of today, the level cap has increased from 25 to 50. That means new armor and weapons will be available to you! Get out there to different Areas and start leveling up! But don't forget to stop every once in a while and enjoy your surroundings, too. Which reminds me—don't forget to check out the new Recreational Areas! We have a beach and hotsprings for you to enjoy now. I hope everyone continues to have fun exploring!
We've also opened up the GP shop, where you can create your own special armor set for a certain price, along with a few other things. Please check it out!
Oh, and don't forget to use these three new greeting cards I've made! Here they are! Make sure you use them so you can connect with your fellow players! We're all friends here, after all.
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Let's see... What class are you again?
[Yael goes fiddling around in context menus and ends up unequipping everything Ganymede is wearing. Oops?]
1/2
For a moment, Ganymede with Yael's face looks calm. Practically serene. Then, he speaks gently: ]
Oh, actually. You're not a jerk.
[ Beat. ]
2/2
You're actually just an idiotic, self-centered, perverted, stupid, short-sighted, muscles-for-brains hairbrained dumbass who has the immaturity of a five year old CHILD!
I've never met someone who was as much as a puerile ass as you are! And here I was, considering giving you the benefit of the doubt...when all this time you were only interested in making me a part of your wretched circus!!
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...Look,
[It was a mistake, Yael says, but his every word is drowned under a torrent of screams and shouts. He can't lower the game's volume low enough to spare his ears from Ganymede's tirade, but accidents aside, he supposes he deserves this. He's all he's been accused of being and much more.
He lets Gany yell. And yell. And yell. And as he does, various parts of Gany's body gently sway in the breeze...]
Are you done? You gonna shut up now? It was an accident, you prima donna.
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Then put it all back already. You can manage that if it was an accident, can't you?!
[ Yael-Gany's voice probably cracks. Sounds like he's dying. This might be a potential encore.
How is that an accident, he wonders?! He's sadly very cynical so he doesn't exactly believe it, but hey. He can at least try to ensure that everything is where it should be before the body switcheroo wears off. ]
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Piece by piece, slowly but surely, Yael redresses Ganymede's avatar.]
Happy? Christ. You wail like a dying cat.
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[ Ugh, what does he do now, though...the problem still isn't fixed.
He shifts to crossing his arms, still feel off-center in his current 'form'. ]
And I doubt you actually complained to the admins about this, like you should've instead of foolishly thinking I had anything to do with this nonsense.
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[At least it's a relatively benign glitch, he supposes. Yael begins plucking various items out of Ganymede's inventory and letting them haphazardly drop to the ground.]
See if you can pick up those items. If you can add them to your inventory, then we've got an even bigger problem.
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[ Anyway, inventory management is hard so it might be a mystery of the assortment at this time. But that sure is a pile. Can he pick them up / add them to his inventory? ]
Let's hope that there aren't any other bigger problems with this or I'm done with today for sure.
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At any rate, Ganymede will find he can pick those items up and add them into his inventory without issue. Gasp...]
You've got hobbies outside of the game, right? Go focus on those until they've resolved this bug. I'll take good care of your body until then.
[Heh. Heheh.]
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Hey, perverted muscle-for-brains, if you try anything funny, you'll regret it.
Got it?
[ He just feels like he should make THAT clear. ]
Also, it seems like I was able to put these items into inventory easy enough...
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Yael snorts, continuing to pull various baubles out of Ganymede's inventory to drop onto the grass.]
How about these ones? We should check just to be sure.
[...]
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Though, the blond also begins to unload whatever random items Yael has in his inventory as well, including what Yael handed on over to him. Keeping the clothing on, though, because he has shame. ]
If we're testing this, we should make sure it goes both ways.
Pick up some of your stuff and see if you can place it into 'my' inventory.
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Here. I've got a better idea.
[Yael, without a lick of warning, logs out and stays logged out. Five minutes pass. Ten. Fifteen. He still hasn't logged back in, and Ganymede remains Yaelymede all the while. Will Yael ever log back in...?]
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Ganymede will remember this, Yael. ]