Terra sphere had a lot to take in for a beginner, even more so from a individual with very little background gaming experience, she would get involved through friends and partners though on this occasion it would be through family. Barry her eldest brother introduced the game through a email as an attachment with the following note 'you have to try this!!' even if it did have a huge file size and took a long ass time to download. It was rather the fault of her internet package not being the latest faster super ultimate premium package out at the moment but rather a old service the company doesn't advertise anymore though it was cheap and worked efficiently enough for a students salary She mistook the file as a security program or system update her brother usually sent her way, it was a thing he might get excited about as that was his field of expertise 'labeled the tech guy in the family. Even though his profession was computer security, this mystical craft was believed to cover all technological devices which he was regularly called upon to set up or fix. Issues such as phones, blue ray players or cars their eldest brother was hounded unmercifulness. Even their father would refer to Barry on matters of technology, the man was a cornerstone on their technological needs. A movie and some case work she needed to catch up on, her laptop ping to indicate the download of the program. Upon activation the file opened up to be a interactive Vr program, out of curiosity she booted it up and arrived onto the log on screen which enough graphics and information to explain that the attachment and program she was looking at was a Vr game. Late enough in the night she disconnected from her VR unit and set it aside for another time. reaching for her phone she text a message to barry ''why did u send me a game?'' usually people would accept the game as a gift and wouldn't think to far of it though for barry it was out of character, she wasn't under the term 'gamer' and it wasn't her birthday or anything close to a holiday to be receiving gifts, it was just strange behavior she thought or just a free game which barry is sending out to everyone. Her brother could be rather sketchy that way, though it hasn't stopped her from exploiting it to amass thousands of pirated songs. The next day coming in from work experience, closing the front door behind her and flopping herself down on the sofa, her mind played over the days stress at work. Opening a bottle of wine would start that chain where a second bottle would be opened subsequently, a sure way method to relax though she wanted to do without the hang over the next day and it only being the middle of the week. Her thoughts and interest settle onto the VR unit, the game her brother sent her. It had to be pretty something for him to send her it, digital game was a uncommon matter for each of them. She logged into the game and on the main screen read Welcome to terra sphere.
It felt it took longer for her to choose a appropriate name for the character than what anyone would usually spend time choosing. She went through dozens of comon names and exotic, more often the names she conjoured reminded her of stripper names and she soon discarded them. Though it appealed to her that even with the most rediculous of names she still had anonymity, she could have any name and be anybody without anyone knowing her real identity. though eventually exhausting her immediate ideas she settled on a name she once hear, she recalled a girl by the name or troy who got expelled from her university for various disreperble acts. she thought it was a unusual name for a girl, that was usually reserved for males wasnt it? though times were changing, bob, jack were now unisex names and anything can go now adays. she liked the name Troy, it rung well with her and it kind of reminded her of that place or city, that movie with brad pitt anyway on the beach and then sneaking into the city in a constructed fake horse, true story just without brad pitt in real life. The surname was a simplier matter, she knew of it and liked it, new identiy 'troy marshall'. getting through setup, character custimization was the most time consuming thing she done all week, partially her fault for being a bit fuzzy though the system had loads of editable options which she meticoulsy scrolled through. it was rather fun at this point, she enjoyed creating up her character and configureing through the possible races. she spent a bit of time experimenting what race to go for though it was generally for apperencd which shd would settle on. happy with her character outcome, troy settled for human, though it was a tight choice between humanand the race with cat features, felis when she recalls the namd. she imagined how a race of cat people could exsist, a sick world with some sick pople and some extreme beastialty for that outcome to happen. it was probably a fan choice which included the feature in the game, she could always remeber dressing up as cats to be a popular custume on holloween and the sluttly version of it too. masteries was a somewhat difficult section to choose from, she didnt really know what to choose from. she was rather uncertain, apart from the brief discription how she would utilise these in the game. she didnt really think of herself as a up close brawler or swordsman and imagined it to be to much physical work. she settled on three mysterys that sounded the most interesting to her.
Secluded and alone in the wilderness, nothing eerie about that. Lastly she examined herself, as much as she can without a mirror, there was plenty of differences, her body was rather more toned and then with a amusing laugh she took in the color of her hair, moss green. Cool she thought, she had become the avatar she had created. A prompt now took Troy’s attention, it was a mini instruction detailing each status on her hub, she read through this with bored attention, it was useful information but a lot of it she quickly started losing interest and wanted to experience her new environment. She followed some of the guides and brought up her mysteries, they gave her the basic run through which she already know of from the mastery description during set up. Next she studied Naturamancy, it had a limited activate abilities which she could access at the moment, the ability or spell could be triggered through chanting the required words like a real hogwarts student or through a series of actions. For now she settled on the motions rather than the complicated incantation and to avoid looking a bit silly talking to herself while alone in the forest. Picking the spell ‘thorns’ it described the ability as a offensive spell which attacked the targets with damaging vines of thorns she apparently had to pick a target area which she then settled for a tree. After settling for the tree as a target she select the spell and large vines with vicious looking thorns shot out from the ground and dug into the tree. It was a impressive animation which admittedly cause troy to flinch somewhat when the thorns gouged into the tree, the wood cracked under the pressure and shredding effect the thorns had caused. That would be a painful ability if she ever managed to catch herself in it, it was a horrifying thought, she imagined herself accidentally muddling up the spell and catching herself in its effects. However she could still be caught against a opposing naturamancy user casting the same spell against her. She knew she could feel in this game or the computer told her mind that she was experiencing those feelings at any rate, could this also stimulate pain, a couple of seconds thought to experiment the problem and then she nipped herself, ‘’ouch’’ weird why they would include pain or the sensation of it in a game. It could surely put off some people, she was almost put off, imagining herself experiencing all kinds of pain a world could offer, it could put her off some of the games activities if she was going to be in discomfort.
She came across the character statuses, meters which were Health, Energy, Water, Food, Rest, and temperature. She experienced a little bit about temperature when she stuck her hand into the stream, it was nothing serious to endanger her, maybe it would be a different story if she dunked her whole body in it for a considerable while and stayed out unsheltered over night, in reality thats how hypothermia would settle in. A instruction panel warned her that if any of her status meters dropped below half she would suffer their effects, she wasn’t sure how they could effect her in a vr computer. Maybe the game would eventually kill of her character if she forgot to eat and her meter dropped down to zero, it might be the same reaction to the temperature gauge as well. She wasn’t sure how ‘sleep’ would effect her and how her character would go about that, it wouldn’t be a exciting feature watching her character ‘Troy’ have a afternoon dose for a couple of hours. She settled on setting her character to sleep when she was logging off for the day or a few hours. She considered the condition of her character when left sleeping in this world what would happen to her character while she was away. Abandoning her or sleeping outside in the wild seemed like a invitation to get a all you can be buffet for a pack of wolves. Wolves, yes those vicious animals chill and hunt in forests, Troy was in a forest too. Troy and wolves in a Forrest with a pain simulator active, experiencing her body being torn to pieces by a herd or pack of wild animals was not a nice thought, not at all, stuff of her nightmares but not a enjoyable experience she would surmise. The game wouldn’t be that realistic would it? She didn’t see a age rating anywhere and wasn’t much paying attention for one either, though being dismembered could have some expensive therapy sessions ahead for youngsters if experienced to that kind of thing, or maybe anyone to that infact. With this train of thought troy considered her continuation in this game, she wondered why her brother would send her terra sphere. After all the effort and time she put into the game so far, all in all she prob had invested over an hour, looking at the clock in her hud she was corrected, she had been consumed in the game for almost three hours.
Getting carried away she lost track of time, reading through the guides took some time though the real time spent was character creation, it was rather fun editing her possible character. She started moving away now from her place of her birth in this world or just her spawn location if you wanted to dash her exciting origin story. Walking, hiking or whichever one does when traveling through a forest, she figured she was a bit out from civilisation though the Forrest couldn’t stretch on forever or could it, she wasn’t really sure what environments was included in this here game, for all she knew the whole world in the VR was just one ongoing continuation of leafy trees and bushy bushes. She brought up her menu, skimed through the settings to search for a inclination or direction she should be going, stumbling on a map, obviously she needed more time to familiarise hers self with the games hud and menus and sub menus. Using the map in the game was very much like using a mobile app on one’s phone, it had some of the same gestures you would need to zoom in, out and scroll around. The map centered around herself, being the center of her world she started scanning the area for points of note, just as she surmised, more trees, some outcroppings of rock and mostly more general forest however to got interesting whenever she zoomed further out or clicked the rab ‘region’ it showed the location as ‘brisshal’ it supplied a basic information which she was rather deep in, ‘a forested area’’ she concluded that trait all by herself. Troy was in one region though there were others, some other forested areas and citys, towns as well, she all found a funtion to lay down a map marker to help guide her in that direction, it also helped when the map minimised of sorts, she could view it when she thought of the map application. There was a skill to mount horses and other various animals, a big ass eagle like those from the remake lord of the ring movies would be badass to travel on, the view would be a slight improvement than staring at the thick greenery around her. Even she was giving a lot of dirt about forests, trees and just general plant life it was also a quite relaxing and peaceful compared to new york.
‘what the hell is that’ startled, troy came across a reptile looking dog creature, possibly even a scorpion that had unprotected sex with a badger. Focusing on the creature a hp bar sat above it with a label, she guessed the label was the creatures name, made sense after all, she never heard of a creature such as this ‘infant engdrega’. Walking around it was her sensible way of dealing with this situation though she had those spells she was contemplating on using. The creature the size of a adult dog but with a roided out build and a scorpion like tail, it milled around at lazy pace, troy reckoned if it came to a foot race she could outrun it. It was a optimal moment to try out her abilities of a living target, what better target than a weird monster reptile thing. From a distance troy was readying her spell, she also picked a path which she could leg it if the monster was more pissed off than hurt from the attacks, if the thing just shrugged off her attacks and came for her troy was running, maybe even just logging out of the game if things got a bit scary or too real for her. Going for the spell she had experimented with previously ‘thorns’ she lined up a target area of the endrega, focused and attempted to recite the incantation, stumbling abit with the wording she settle on just selecting the spell manually and that was it. Thorns activated and the area under the endrega erupted with large entangling jagged vines with nasty looking sized thorns which crunched into the endrega and subtracting its health a marginable percentage though giving off a plenty of disturbing noises and shrieks the creature did not die. The endrega broke out from the vines, and came charging towards Troy. Adrenaline now pumping troy was in the state of fight or flight, panicking somewhat, it distracted her decision making skills though her body was falling on old habits and opting for running when things got crazy. She hesitated because her mind was taking a second take and third moment passed and then her panic cooly abated. The endrega was slow as turtle shit, not precisely, at a stance the creature would eventually catch her, being realistic the thing would be on her heals while she was taking a leisurely stroll though at a walking pace for someone intended to be somewhere the thing was outmatched.
She figured this was a good pace to practice her abilities, if the endrega got to close she can just run a few yard back to create some space between her and the monster or casually walk backwards blasting spells at it until it keeled over, she was sure she would be still out pacing it if she did. Readying up her spell again she activated the spell manually through the tabs to cast ‘thorns’ against her target, she was curious about the incantation method and it was a goal she was going to set herself too. Just as before the earth underneath the target erupted with horned stalks which entangled the target with crushing vines and slicing thorns, the endrgea staggered momentarily while another chunk of health drained from its hp bar, it was down to roughly half of its remaining health. After the abilitys damaging effect the endrega emerged from the vines the ensnared it and continued its determined steady pace towards troy. She reckoned she was able to let off another spell before the thing was in the area she was uncomfortable with. She didnt have a very wide repertoire of spells she could cast atm or really at all until the future when she unlocks the higher levels. It interested her to discover what spells those could be and what kind of badass she could evolve into though she though what kind of time would something like that involve. She didnt think she would be invested enough to find out, yea admittedly the game was kinda cool though with life, her studies and a gold fish attention span this might just a be phase, at best. With little other offensive means Troy started again with her naturamancy ability ‘thorns’ and the same, still awsome effect, a animation which would’nt get boring unless under plenty of repetition. Under the targeted endrega vines covered in thorns encircled the monster, crushing it again and piercing its body with sharped edge thorns. Shrieking through the pain, their was some guilt now, attacking a unprovoked creature and shredding it up like this, the thing was really looking a bit worse for wear now, green blood oozed from its lacerated wounds, it was now limping and a continuous haggard shrill began coming from it. The effects of her attacks left very graphic marks on the monsters form, if she was looking as bad as that monster she guessed she would be feeling that crumby too, time to end its misery.
The creatures last breath, if the thing even breathed,Troy released the last attack she would need to kill of the Forrest monster that was with great effort limping its way towards her. The animation took effect with her initiation of the spell and the throned vines snapped up out from the ground, encased the endrega, squeezing thorns into its body for a brief moment. The spell had its effect of damaging the creatures health and again lowering its hp bar down to a persistent flashing and their it stopped while still having some hp left after all. The Creature broke out from the vines and slowly paced its way towards Troy, stubborn ol thing she had to give it that but now it really was on the brink, a hard sure swift kick would have been enough to send the beast down the river sticks. Closer investigation would reveal that the creature was down to 3 hp. Surly the next attack would be the end for the creature however Troy was feeling a bit worn out, all she was doing was standing still and manually casting off spells at a single target however she felt as if she had just ascended a couple of flights of stairs at a run. Did her spell casting effort in the game tire her out? it was a real staggering surprise to feel how the action in this game could really affect her, it was physical fatigue she was feeling in a game. That knowledge just blew her mind. She thought of this technology as military grade then, surely something of this nature was being used to train troops and the like though seeing this being employed in a game was surely ground breaking. Was this the reason why her brother had sent her this game, because of its real life simulating features . She was’nt sure though he should have been able to get in touch with her by now, that was only if he was playing inside the game as well. The game could make one feel pain, temperature and fatigue, her energy levels had dropped below the fifty percent mark, she recalled the guide how it described the result when a ‘need meter’ dropped below the half mark, using those spells had fatigued her then she surmised. The energy would regenerate back up eventually though seeing how the endrega was just about clinging to life Troy would try a interacting experiment.
‘’For science’’ lifting a large rock over her head she dropped it heavily down upon the endrega and watched its healthy skip a small step to the 0 mark. A notification poped up telling Troy that she had slain a ‘infant endrega’ and that she was rewarded so mastery points . At that moment Troy had learned many things all at once, she could earn mastery points by killing things, encouraging her to be a murdering psychopath, the environment can hurt/kill things, that was a interesting one she was experimenting with the large rock she had pick up, last she learned that endrega stank. The creatures corpse remained, unlike some other games she played, bodies and corpses and such would dissapear , each game having different times in which the corpses and such would just dissolve of vanish. Maybe it was a distance thing in which she would have to move a ways from the body and the system would just move, delete or reanimate the creature else were. Either way Troy continued on her original path, following the map marker she had placed down to guide her out from the woods, she was soon coming up on the road which will follow her marker. The roads she gathered would be a safer option than the wild forest which she was trampling through. Torn somewhat between hunting more endrega, the creatures were easy target for easy mastery points, she thought of hunting the area to score more points, she could improve her Naturamancy, she had used it more frequently than she had her other skills. It would also be useful to unlock more skills for her Naturamancy and also tweaking it to cause more damage, maybe next time she would be able to kill the endrega in just a couple of hits hopefully. Thinking of point distribution, armor would also be a vital necessity Troy thought. Unsure what armor she would need, making a fist and summoning up the system interface she examined the choices, they all had benefits over each other, their were light, medium and heavy armors, she would have to possibly experiment to find whats suitable to her. Considering point distribution she wasn’t sure when she would be able to mount animals or when she would get the chance to though when she would be able she would like the have a few points invested in that, she considered it to be a fun activity and almost necessity to travel around at a reasonable rate. Making a steady pace towards the map marker, troy was still considering her point distribution, would spreading it evenly benefit her or specializing in a mastery first, her most mysterious mastery was Hunting she wasn’t sure how much points she should invest in it and how much benefit she would gleam from it. Maybe the forums or other players could help fill her in and shed some knowledge of this ability. The ability had a description of skills in the area of hunting, not a big shock with a title called ‘Hunter’ it apparently helped her to damage beasts more easily, know their weaknesses and stengths or something along the lines of that and track them. Tracking them sounded interesting though going about that she was unsure of that for the moment, maybe tracking paw prints or something. Well still being new to this game a lot of things will be a learning process for her, like that hilbilly saying ‘’you gotta keep trucking and keep trucking on’’ unsure were she heard that or wether she said it right it didnt stop her trying to get to the marker she placed on her map. She could use a drink, thats what she thought and with that and curiosity she made a fist and sprung up her hud, still fiddling with the system to find what she wanted, she became a bit irritated when it didnt come as handy as she wanted, for a complex game it did have a lot of information for her to shift through. Looking for what she wanted eventually and almost kicking herself for not finding it sooner, she realized now that her ‘need meters’ would obviously be on her character’s status screen. ‘‘duh Troy’’ peering at the meters she could see that they all apart from health and energy, energy having regenerated fully while simply walking, all but those two meters decreased all in various levels. Troy focused on the ‘thirst’ meter which has dropped by 7%, she considered the feeling as she did her fatigue and the sense of exciting wonder came over her yet again when she considered the ability this game or programme had on her actual feelings and sensations, definitely mind boggeling stuff. Scary stuff even, her mind jumped to notions of brain washing though having difficulty trying to connect this game to plots of mass manipulation and realsing how she didnt actully know how brain washing worked. she reminded herself though that it was just a game and nothing as extreme as brain washing.
Even if troy didn't have to worry about the effects of brain washing she sure as hell had to worry about that pain simulator this game had pleasantly included, she pleasantly was able to experience it when something of a large lizard dog had fallen down ontop off her and brought her to the ground. Screaming in fright and pain, Troy was thrashing under a endrega that was momentarily before clinging up a tree for the purpose of ambushing prey passing underneath. While in the full drive system it was with some misfortune that she was unable to speak out, move or just take the machine off her and throw it out her apartment window and into the incoming traffic, the scene and experience now was just horrible. Screaming her lungs out, her limbs were also wildly lashing out and wrestling with the endrega, the creature back off her when its attack had hit her. The system had deducted a hefty amount of health from troys Hp meter, what was once a full green bar had been brought down to a orange amber state, the digits read 40%, the creatures successful ambush and attack there afterwards had grievously lowered Troy’s health bar. Like her hp she was far from feeling 100%, ‘this pain simulator crap sucks’’ troy would later go on to think. Reading later with more intrigue she would discover that the pain simulation is toned down a rather bit so as not to really replicate real life injuries. The fright and was what panicked Troy the most, minding her own business until a monster falls down upon you, first times for things like that could be rather frightening. After the creature got of her troy sprang up and ran, after some distance she looked over her shoulder and could see the endrega scuttling in pursuit behind her but outpaced by a vast stretch. Slowly coming to her wits, though somewhat still shaken, rather feeling a bit disgusted being under the body of that thing the thought sent shutters through her however anger manged to blossom from her panic and slowly coming to a halt she brought up her Naturamancy spell list, selected thorns and began the motions to cast her spell at the assaulting endrega. She wanted to hurt it, hurt it for dropping her perfect 100% hp bar and second for embarrassing herself and panicking under a virtual 1s and 0s if you thought logicaly about this. ‘’Avenge me lethal thorns’’ she said out loud for her own amusement and revenge, of couse looking over her shoulder and after the all clear in which there was no around. As the spell drained a portion of her energy the spell was cast and the animation produced the same effect of sprouting damaging thorned vines form which latched around the endrega, ensnaring it and halting its advance for a brief couple of seconds for its hp meter to take a dive and then it removed itself from the lifeless vines which moments earlier was filled with lethal vitality with a goal of encasing its target. The endrega left behind the husk of Troy’s spell, sitting by itself now was the appearance and shape of a thorn bush. If things didnt work out soo well for Troy it was good to see that she could possibly fall back on landscaping or such, Naturamancy could had a edge in a business such like that, the least she could conjure some thorn bushes around a garden like the ones she has been casting around the forest. The outcome of her spell ‘thorns’ typically created a thorn bush which was a somewhat outcome when the spell produced it intended purpose of damaging the target. Troy considered the life expectancy which her spell produced thorn bushes had, she somewhat doubted these created bushed would remain for long, even though she inwardly wished they would. The endrega like the one previously was making a steady and fortunately slow march towards her, she had plenty of time to ready up her next offensive spell or experiment with her secondary spell she attempt this naturamcny spell which she didnt have the need to use until now. Selecting her second naturamnacy spell, Troy motioned her hand to select a healing spell. It took her a moment to employ the spell to herself, all her focus and targets were enemies and she didnt care to heal them at this moment are really ever at all. Though never say never. She wasn’t even sure if the system would let her heal a enemy anyway though the way this system, game was acting pretty open, she was suspiciously sure that if she were to heal a enemy such as the endrega that game would allow it though she wasnt going to waste a heal spell on that filthy lizard thing that had fell on her from atop a tree.
