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June 30th, 2014 (3:49 AM). Edited August 14th, 2014 by Skymin.
Hello! Bonjour! Merhaba! こんにちは! Hola! Ciao! Hej! Здравствуйте! Hallo! 您好! Pozdrav! Hei! Labdien! 안녕하세요!
Welcome to CLOUD!
Hello! Bonjour! Merhaba! こんにちは! Hola! Ciao! Hej! Здравствуйте! Hallo! 您好! Pozdrav! Hei! Labdien! 안녕하세요!
After ICARUS' annoucement, the crowd went beserk, leaving you and your life completely changed. Whether or not you were given a coloured key is irrelevant right now, your survival is necessary if you want to keep your identity or get it back from ICARUS. The teleporter was the only way out and lucky for you, you made it. The fate of those still in the foyer is now unknown to you. Did the fighting continue until only one DAEMON remain or was peace somehow formed? Whatever it was, you're not apart of it anymore. Now, you're on your way up the 100 floors of the castle.
CLOUD's story so far
the CLOUD revolution - the first day ♪♫ - posted june 30th, 2014
03:06, 25th May 2025 (JST)
As you jump through the blue portal, that familiar feeling of teleporting overwhelms you and you find yourself… outside. It's still dark but you can see the orange glow on the horizon -- the digital sun will rise soon.
Despite the darkness, you can see the world around you quite clearly. It's a field and a rather large one too. You don't recognise it exactly, but it seems like the kind of field that might spawn in a low-levelled STORM dungeon. The words "FLOOR 1: PLAINS" hover over your HUD for a second before disappearing, alerting you of the name of this place. Wow. How original.
It seems you and whoever you teleported with have appeared in a random place in this field and you can see yourself on the ingame map. It looks like there are key places on your map, but they haven't been discovered yet, and only their names are seen when you interact with them. To the north is something called 'DEEP FOREST', to the south the point reads 'FOYER DUNGEON', to the east 'LITTLE TOWN', and to the west 'GREEN HILL'.
It seems fairly stock standard, but you won't find out anything if you stay here. You can see other members appearing in the distance around you so you better get a move on if you want to discover these places first! Or, if you're not close to an enemy, you can teleport back to CLOUDLAND in CIRRUS.
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June 30th, 2014 (11:00 AM). Edited June 30th, 2014 by Nakuzami.
A burdened heart sinks into the ground
A veil falls away without a sound
Not day nor night, wrong nor right
For truth and peace you fight
Sing with me a song of silence and blood
The rain falls, but can't wash away the mud
Within my ancient heart dwells madness and pride
Can no one hear my cry
Embrace the dark you call a home,
Gaze upon an empty, white throne
A legacy of lies,
A familiar disguise
Sing with me a song of conquest and fate
The black pillar cracks beneath its weight
Night breaks through the day, hard as a stone
Lost in thoughts all alone
In the white light, a hand reaches through
A double-edged blade cuts your heart in two
Waking dreams fade away,
Embrace the brand-new day
Sing with me a song of birthrights and love
The light scatters to the sky above
Dawn breaks through the gloom, white as a bone
Lost in thoughts all alone
In endless dreams, countless realms collide
Hope falls only to rise like the changing tide
But all dreams come to an end,
Just whispers on the wind
Sing with me one last time, for light's sacrifice,
Endless dawn came but not without a price,
Lost in the waves there glimmers, a pale blue stone.
I think of you, all alone
Pink Goddess, Naku
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July 1st, 2014 (12:59 AM). Edited July 1st, 2014 by Swolligator.
July 1st, 2014 (10:55 PM). Edited July 29th, 2014 by Skymin.
Rosalee Bennett // PumpkinXO
>> Level 1, Unassigned Class, Cloud Nine
>> 25th May, 2025
>> ??? & Manchester, England
A small gasp escaped Rosie's mouth as the key in her inventory changed from a silver to a deep red. Somehow, out of the billion or so members who were registered to CLOUD, she had been 'chosen'. She was special, important or some other crap. But more importantly, she had nothing. No name, no money, nothing. Just a red key and her Daemon. How long would it take before she was kicked out of her home, until her possessions were repossessed for some strange reason? How long did she have until the world realised that she was nobody?
Inside the DREAMSCAPE, everything just felt so much more… real. It was why Rosalee had bought herself one in the first place. Most people bought it for the RPG edge or for some kind of advantage during battles or something. Rosie, however, wanted to lose herself. Yes, she mainly used CLOUD for shopping, chatting and attending events but it all felt so much more relevant. Like she wasn't wasting her time in a game, but spending her time somewhere else. She had never regretted buying it.
But now, watching the madness that ICARUS had left behind unwind, it was like watching a natural disaster happen right in front of her eyes. The shoving from her left and right, she could feel. When the crowd moved around her, forcing her forward, she felt suffocated and claustrophobic. If she had done this from her computer, Rosie would have easily been able to just… get her head into gear. To find her goal and move. Right now was the only time she regretted her DREAMSCAPE.
"H-help!! Please, help me!" She wailed, but her voice was lost throughout the crowd. She had been in virtual moshes before, but never a crowd this violent and panicked. She was pulled down amongst the much taller Daemons around her, drowning in a virtual sea of people. She hadn't noticed yet, but her treasured clothes, the items she had spent money, real money on were gone, replaced with default rags.
Her legs buckled and she fell to the ground, curling her fingers so they wouldn't get stomped on. Half of her wanted to just sit here and wait for someone to attack her and the other half wanted to scream and run for her life. Choosing which one to do felt like choosing between death by drowning or fire. For someone who had never died or had even come close to any sort of danger within the game, the idea of it sounded so scary. She had nothing to lose, but she was so afraid. Did it hurt like real life?
"Get a hold of yourself!" Rosie slapped her hands on her face, scrambling to her feet. She couldn't do this on her own, she had to get someone to help her. She moved with the crowd, unsure of where she was going, scrolling through the guild chat. Many of them were expert players, but like her, many of the 'inexperienced' players had flooded the chat with cries for help, none of which received any replies. She would have flicked through her friends list if she had the time but UI disappeared as she was shoved out of the crowd and to the ground, somehow to a spot where feet weren't surrounding her. She looked up, a stone golem for a Daemon pushing through the crowd to her, fists clenched with a ugly look on his face.
"You look rich. Give me your key!" He growled. Rosie would have noticed the obvious voice changer if she wasn't scared out of her mind. When she whimpered in response, he shouted again. "Give me your KEY!" He swung his foot, colliding with her stomach. She let out a wail, even though the sensation she felt wasn't really pain. The system detected a fight and automatically slotted a weapon into her hand (something it did if it recognised the user had not fought before). The only thing she had was her key, which materialised in her hand from pixels. The golem's eyes widened, growing more greedy.
"You have a coloured key! Give it to me! GIVE IT TO ME!" He roared at her. Not knowing what else to do, Rosie sat up, holding the key defensively but knowing it wouldn't do any good if he lunged at her.
"Get away from me!'
July 2nd, 2014 (3:03 PM). Edited July 2nd, 2014 by Pepperton.
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July 7th, 2014 (4:00 AM). Edited July 7th, 2014 by Quest.
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July 7th, 2014 (6:33 PM).
A burdened heart sinks into the ground
A veil falls away without a sound
Not day nor night, wrong nor right
For truth and peace you fight
Sing with me a song of silence and blood
The rain falls, but can't wash away the mud
Within my ancient heart dwells madness and pride
Can no one hear my cry
Embrace the dark you call a home,
Gaze upon an empty, white throne
A legacy of lies,
A familiar disguise
Sing with me a song of conquest and fate
The black pillar cracks beneath its weight
Night breaks through the day, hard as a stone
Lost in thoughts all alone
In the white light, a hand reaches through
A double-edged blade cuts your heart in two
Waking dreams fade away,
Embrace the brand-new day
Sing with me a song of birthrights and love
The light scatters to the sky above
Dawn breaks through the gloom, white as a bone
Lost in thoughts all alone
In endless dreams, countless realms collide
Hope falls only to rise like the changing tide
But all dreams come to an end,
Just whispers on the wind
Sing with me one last time, for light's sacrifice,
Endless dawn came but not without a price,
Lost in the waves there glimmers, a pale blue stone.
I think of you, all alone
Pink Goddess, Naku
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July 8th, 2014 (5:43 PM).
Adrian Mason
Venice, Italy
May 25th, 2025
"Wave to Yesterday"
Adrian parked his car and hopped out. He'd just got back from, what he saw as a very successful business lunch. He pulled the briefcase from the passenger seat and walked up to his room. It was getting close to five again and just like last week, he was in a bit of a hurry, just out of curiosity as to what it would be that is announced.
The door slid open with a pneumatic hiss and Adrian walked into his home. He ran to the kitchen and grabbed a soda and left the briefcase next to the counter. then hurried to his office and booted up his PC and Dreamscape headset. Soon everything was powered up. He hooked up and waited for the clock to hit five.
The clock finally tolled and Adrian was logged in automatically, which was surprising. He was whisked to a zone he'd never seen before. It was all castle-y. He figured it was just a DLC area. As he tried to move he realized he was frozen to the seat, just like last time, and his tail again wedged very uncomfortably. He looked ahead to see that dumb looking dragon again. What a goof. The dragon started talking..
"Greetings, CLOUD members! I am your host, ICARUS, and I officially welcome you to your new home! Today marks the day of revolution, the day that CLOUD truly changes the world. To celebrate this wondrous occasion, we have prepared something special for you, our members who have supported us for every single second that CLOUD has existed."
Adrian didn't like where this was going by the tone of ICARUS' voice. He switched view to his monitor and turned off the head set. He got up and ran to his front door, made sure it was locked as tight as possible, then got the briefcase and ran back to his PC to see Icarus was about to start again.
"CLOUD has always worked to meld the line between our online selves and reality and now, what we do behind a screen will have so much more of an impact on our lives than ever before."
Adrian felt the tension building up in his stomach.
"You may recall receiving a special item last week; a silver key which is individual to your DAEMON. Your KEY is no longer just an item. It is your identity. Embedded within the coding of your KEY are your details, and not just your name and birth date. Passwords, bank accounts, social security numbers, credit card details... everything you have ever done is now recorded in one location. Just by equipping and using the KEY as a regular item, you can access all of this. And not just your own. By equipping and using another member's KEY, you are able to access their details just as easily as your own. As they are non-trading items, the only way to obtain another member's key is by killing their DAEMON."
Adrian immediately reached to his side and pulled the unloaded pistol off the top of his gun rack and began making sure it was all clean and ready to use without taking his eyes off the screen. He slid the magazine in and placed it on the desk next to his monitor. He grabbed the next and repeated, then another, and so on.
Icarus started once again, "Other important changes have happened in CLOUD. All levels have been reset to zero and all items aside from your KEY have been removed and deleted from all accounts. Your DAEMON has been reset to factory settings. All restrictions have been removed from all locations which means PvP is allowed in all areas aside from the CLOUDLANDS lounge, which will boot you out after an hour after entering. Also, it is now impossible to log out your DAEMON. However, if you are killed and your key is taken from you, you will respawn in CLOUDLANDS and you are free to try and win your key back.... Are you unhappy with your new world that I have so graciously given you? Fine! Come face me then! CLOUD has been converted into a new domain, a hundred story castle! Right now, the CLOUD you know resides on the first floor. Once you defeat the boss which rests within the new STORM dungeon, the stairs to the next floor will reveal, granting you new opportunities to protect yourself, or to make yourself stronger to defeat and take from others. I will be waiting for you in the hundredth-floor dungeon. Defeat me, and take back what you held so dearly, what you took for granted."
Adrian could hear the yelling and unhappiness which only motivated him to work faster.
"There is however, a catch. I have spread out among yourselves unique, colored keys. These have been given out to several random but now special players. These colored keys are important for unlocking the doors to bosses and all of these colored keys will be required to open the final door. To you players who have my special keys, I have given you no choice." ICARUS grinned, showing the audience a set of silver keys, one of which looks extremely similar to your own. If you look closely, even your name is etched onto the side! "I have your key. Your identity is mine. Come and claim it back."
Suddenly Adrian felt like he was being stared at and focused center-room only to meet the gaze of Icarus. Adrian glared back as he looked at the key Equinox was holding, a darker shade of cyan. He checked it to see if the dragon was bluffing. He wasn't. Just like that, a a*****e game developer had taken his fortune, his happiness. Adrian's hands shook with both fear and anger.
"So, which has become more important to you? Your online or offline self? Do you protect what you have or rebuild your identity from scratch? Thank-you for your time and enjoy yourselves at our new update celebrations. Have a nice morning, day, night and evening."
Icarus logged out and the freeze was lifted. Adrian put the last gun, on the pile now formed on his desk of pistols, sub-machine guns, and a couple rifles. He knew things in real life were about to turn into a giant mosh-pit, just like this castle foyer. With all this firepower, let them throw thieves, raiders, rioters, or serial killers, they'd all end on the ground. Just like a certain game developer, probably sitting in his moms basement.
Adrian snapped back to reality and picked up the Dreamscape and a sharpie. He crossed out "DREAM" and replaced it with "NIGHTMARE" on both sides then felt witty and wrote "Let darkness protect us all..." On what would be the helmets left temple.
He put it on and popped up from his seat and was instantly charged at by a deamon of a tiger. Equinox could still feel the rage of loosing his entire life and charged up his punch. As the tiger pounced Equinox swung, connecting straight with its jaw and sending it flying a good 3 to 4.5 meters back. He felt some of the anger leave with the punch.
He looked around quickly, without as much anger he could think a little bit clearer but it was hard to think while being shoved around like 12 year olds at the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 67 release.
Suddenly he heard a kid yell "HEY GUIZE LUK TAT UGLY LZARD HZ E KE CALOR!!!! GET HIM!"
It was the saddest example of English and Equinox figured that kid learned speech in CoD but it did the job as every player within hearing distance whipped around and stared at him. The crowd took a step forward and Equinox took one back, bumping against the seat. He scanned his inventory for anything of use that may have been missed from the take but all he had was the damned key. He equipped it and flipped it so he was holding the shaft and got into a defensive stance.
"You wan't the key? You're gonna have to fight for it."
July 8th, 2014 (6:56 PM). Edited July 9th, 2014 by SkyisUmbreon.
Raymond Hughes
AKA ShinobiOnigiri
San Francisco, California
Raymond watched with barely hidden amusement as Caleb stormed out of their dorm room, still fuming about the mess Ray had left behind. It wasn't like he had done it on purpose; more like it was something that would just passively happen. Coming home from a day of classes or a day at the gym he would just jump out of his clothes and into the shower, not really caring where they flew. It was a bad habit that had followed him from home and he felt somewhat guilty for making Caleb suffer through it. He sighed, rising from the bed and starting to pick up his clothing that littered the floor.
The bus ride had been a little longer than expected, so he had ended up arriving back at the dorm at around 9:30. Still, Caleb had insisted that Ray completely clean his side of the room as he couldn't stand to look at it that dirty side any longer, and Ray not wanting to spurn on another rant, had complied.
By the time the last sock had been picked up off of the floor, the digital clock by his bed read "11:30PM." He collapsed into the chair at his desk and let his head roll back over the edge of the backrest, staring at Caleb.
"Are you happy now? Sheesh…"
His room literally sparkled from wall to wall, and he hated to admit that he actually liked it.
Too bad it wouldn't last for long.
Caleb scoffed, taking a look across Ray's side of the room with a satisfied smirk.
"Yeah, I am. This place was completely filthy before, I'm actually surprised the stench didn't pollute the air and kill us both. I know you know how bad sweat smells after five days, and I definitely don't want to find out again! And it wouldn't kill you to put things where they belong would it?"
Ray groaned and sat up, flipping open his laptop and booting up the outdated system. He then stretched both of his arms, later lowering them and taking hold of the DREAMSCAPE helmet that rested atop the second level of his desk. It had been a really bad idea to buy this helmet for gaming instead of an updated laptop that he would actually need for school, but despite this he was for the most part infatuated with it. It definitely felt like real life; as if he had only blinked and opened his eyes to a completely different world, only this time he wasn't just viewing it from the other side of a screen; he was in it. But it wasn't quite time to use it yet so he set it back in its place and pulled up an internet browser, resolving to look through several forums and sites to see if there were anything else he could unearth about this mysterious update.
* * *
A half an hour later Raymond lay in bed, his head now covered by the DREAMSCAPE and already having begun his ascension into CLOUD, only this time it was different. He wasn't anywhere near where he had last logged out, in fact even his gear was missing, as if someone had stolen it right off of his DAEMON. Also, he could do nothing but look at his new surroundings, which seemed to include a grand foyer of a mansion, or perhaps a castle… not to mention what looked like every active DAEMON in the entire game, also facing the same problem. Ray watched and listened as the one called Icarus appeared and began his "grand announcement", his eyes narrowing with every sentence. At the news of everything he ever owned or was being recorded on that useless key he had received, his eyes widened and he began his struggle against the force that held him there, but to no avail.
He grit his teeth in frustration at his helplessness as the malicious avatar continued it's speech.
"Other important changes have happened in CLOUD. All levels have been reset to zero and all items aside from your KEY have been removed and deleted from all accounts. Your DAEMON has been reset to factory settings. All restrictions have been removed from all locations which means PvP is allowed in all areas aside from the CLOUDLANDS lounge, which will boot you out after an hour after entering. Also, it is now impossible to log out your DAEMON. However, if you are killed and your key is taken from you, you will re-spawn in CLOUDLANDS and you are free to try and win your key back."
Well that at least explained what had happened to his gear… but everything reset?! It would take way too long to regain what had been stolen from him! Not to mention he was a college student, and losing his identity at this point in his life would ruin him.
"There is however, a catch. I have spread out amongst yourselves unique, coloured keys. These have been given out to several random but now special players. These coloured keys are important for unlocking the doors to bosses and all of these coloured keys will be required to open the final door. To you players who have my special keys, I have given you no choice." ICARUS grinned, showing the audience a set of silver keys, one of which looks extremely similar to your own. If you look closely, even your name is etched onto the side! "I have your key. Your identity is mine. Come and claim it back."
With a few closing remarks and a challenge, Icarus disappeared, this action also seeming to have triggered a release on the players seats.
Instant Chaos.
The now free players had almost immediately begun attacking each other, searching for the colored keys Icarus spoke of, and Ray could already see the messages through the chat that showed deaths already beginning to pile up. He swore sharply as he took out his own key only to see that it had changed color to match those of his eyes, and attempted to hide it from view as quickly as possible. Not quick enough.
As the shadow of what looked to be a large DAEMON loomed over him, he turned to face his aggressor. Making his expression impassive, he stared down the anthropomorphic lizard that had called out to him, though he had to look up. The guy-er, lizard was at least 6'2, which didn't compare to his 5'8 nicely at all. He opened his mouth to speak and his voice, while mostly even, carried the whisper of a challenge.
"We both know I can't do that."
The creature drew himself up and puffed out its chest, attempting to intimidate him he guessed.
"I WASN'T ASKING PERMISSION, KID!" roared the reptile as he pulled back his left arm and swung, aiming for Raymond's stomach. Now normally for Raymond, an arrogant opponent like this would be cake, but of course he had just received a hard reset. At least he remembered some of the moves. He danced out of his opponents reach to dodge the wide swing and took out his crimson key, which he then proceeded to jab into the lizards exposed side several times in what he hope were tender spots.
Lucky! The reptile collapsed on the ground holding his left side in pain. Unlucky. Several people had seen the attack, or more specifically the key, and were now heading towards him… great. Attracted by a movement at the edge of his vision, he saw where Icarus had stood what looked to be a portal with several low leveled regular monsters guarding it. It also seemed that people were getting some class specific starter gear as they faced off against the imps, later disappearing into the portal's light. Destination spotted, the only problem being the horde of angry, panicked players that stood in his path.
Taking a deep breath, he pocketed his key and broke off at a sprint towards one of his enemies. Taking advantage of this, the bearlike DAEMON lifted a paw and swiped at him.
Only to slash at air.
Raymond slid on both knees leaning backwards between its legs, gritting his teeth at the slight burning from friction. He didn't wait for himself to stop however, and once he was clear of the DAEMON, he sprung right back up and tore off towards the portal.
i'Ve gOt tO BeLiEvE At wHaT My hEaRt tElLs iN Me, EvEn iF It's a fAkE ThInG
July 9th, 2014 (9:18 PM).
Kiernan Carney / Rorschach
"Usually my luck is good when it comes to these types of things. Guess all my time spent in the lightning dome has used it all up, eh?" Kiernan playfully poked the frightened daemon sitting beside her in the ribs. The bipedal elephant shivered a bit before covering its face with its hands. "Hey come on buddy there's no need to be down." The confident young woman moved her avatar to wrap a comforting arm around the neighboring player. "Here, as a show of good faith i'll give you my key. It was one of those specially colored ones that guy was talking about."
The elephant quickly raised his head with a bewildered expression. "I thought that we couldn't trade keys."
With a devilish grin, Kiernan whispered quietly in his ear. "You're right."
Before he could even react the white haired avatar beat the unsuspecting daemon to death with her bare hands.
You defeated DuMb0dore. Earned Item(s): DuMb0dore's Key
Level Up! You are now level 2!
Rorschach tossed her prize in the air to herself. While she didn't really want the poor guy's identity or what came with it, she had learned over the years that stocking up on assets was the best strategy in most situations.
"Now... time to leave this mess." The crowds of daemons had mostly swarmed towards the light in the center, just out of range from the mobs that surrounded the exit. Kiernan moved her avatar swiftly towards the pillar of light, occasionally stopping to pick off a straggling daemon.
The throngs of panicking players proved to be the most difficult maneuvering that she had to do as it took her nearly ten minutes to push and shove her way to the front.
Standing before Kiernan were two Goblings which may have been absolutely pathetic if she were at her original level, but alas she was now at level two.
"It's either now or never." she muttered under he breath before sprinting forwards towards the monsters. Mustering up her best Ronaldo impression, the young woman slid on her knees as the monsters swung their swords where her head would have been had she been standing. She popped up behind them and as they whipped their heads around they each received a key slamming into their face.
They burst into a flurry of pixels, each mob leaving behind an item. With an accomplished smirk Kiernan reached down and grabbed the one closest to her.
You defeated 2x Gobling(s). 1x Item(s): Thief Class Starter Pack
LEVEL UP! You are now level 3!
Immediately equipping the item from her inventory, the drab rags that she had been donning were replaced by a tan long sleeved shirt that was slightly too large for her. A pair of brown shorts, cut off at the thighs, and knee socks complimented the tunic quite nicely. And as a class distinguishing touch, a green cape covered her shoulders and a bandanna wrapped itself around her head.
As much as Kiernan would have loved to stay and admire her daemon's new outfit many of the surrounding mobs were starting to take notice of the player.
Without a moments notice, she sprinted forward, dove into the pillar and in an instant was swallowed by the radiant light.
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July 10th, 2014 (10:55 AM).
The world erupted around Micah's Daemon, but everything was calm surrounding his desktop. He sat there, staring betwen his webcam and center monitor screen. He was streaming the event, and unlike usual the comment box was quiet, possibly due to viewers frantically trying to save their identity.
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July 12th, 2014 (12:32 AM). Edited July 29th, 2014 by Skymin.
??? // RENU0xu
>> Level 1, Unassigned Class, ???
>> 25th May, 2025
>> ??? & ???, ???
"Oh mon Dieu. Well, this is a bit of a pickle." RENU0xu, or Renu as most online referred to him as, furrowed his brow, taking a step back from all of the conflict to get a good look of what was going on. There was so much violence going on right now, it was sad that so many people had resorted to it. Renu just wanted to go up and hug or pat each and every member on the back, tell them it was going to be okay and that they should all work together to try and beat the 100 floored castle so they could go back to normal.
But, knew if he tried that, he'd get at least a few unhappy punches to the face and most of them would probably try to kill him.
"Greed changes people." He gave a dramatic sigh and decided on his new path: he, if no one else would, would have the common sense to see through this ICARUS' deceitful words and be an outstanding role model to his fellow CLOUD members. Yes, that sounded perfect! Magnifique!
As he predicted, members had started attacking the coloured key users most of all; to have that much power, a key that could reverse things back to the way they were (at least ICARUS claimed it would) was something that anybody who had any kind of confidence in themselves and any kind of will to keep their identity wanted.
Renu himself had not received a coloured key, which was both a good and bad thing. Good, because he was not so much in the lime light. He was a speck of sand compared to the importance of these coloured key bearers, but bad because if there was one thing that Renu loved more than himself, was attention. Of course, there were other ways to grab the limelight but to become so important in mere seconds just made his heart swoon.
No matter! He would strive on to become a beacon of hope for his admirers! And his first act of righteousness in this new world? To save the digital life of one of these coloured key bearers! If he would not be a bearer himself, he would make sure he could path the way for these bearers! Be known in a different light! Bien sûr!
"Wait for me, I will rescue you, mon cher!" He tumbled into the fray, spotting the closest person in distress, a red, dinosaur-like DAEMON with the name Kuoto floating above his or her head. A crowd had already started to form around the DAEMON after a particular one shouted the fact Kuoto had a coloured key into the public chat. The dinosaur, far faster than Renu expected, pounced away, finding itself away from danger. Renu was about to change targets before he spotted two other DAEMONs chase after the dinosaur in the shadows, stalking for prey. They flanked the poor dinosaur, approaching from both sides.
Renu ran in, running on all fours like the fox he was and scooped up the dinosaur under his arm, jumping out of the crevice as the incoming DAEMON sliced down his key, using it like a weapon. The attack missed Kuoto, instead landing a fatal hit on his accomplice DAEMON behind them. "Haha! Nothing is impossible for the great Renu!"
He spotted another DAEMON in trouble rather quickly, this one closer to the centre of the foyer. He landed his jump perfectly, landing next to the lion with his key own silver key brandished, deflecting an attack from an oncoming DAEMON. He let Kuoto back onto the ground next to the lion, standing defensively in front of them both like a knight in front of his king (or kings).
"Have no fear, for I, the courageous Renu, have come to your aid! Ha!"
July 12th, 2014 (10:30 PM). Edited July 13th, 2014 by Skymin.
July 13th, 2014 (10:19 PM).
Raymond Hughes
AKA ShinobiOnigiri
San Francisco, California
A DAEMON with the body of a gorilla slammed into him from the side, knocking Ray down and sending him sliding a few feet while the enemy DAEMON advanced. Ray rolled away and bounced to his feet as the floor he had lain was pulverized by the raging primate, and took advantage of its slow recovery, taking a few strides before jumping towards the avatar. With a savage yell Ray slammed the key with both hands into the back of the gorilla DAEMON's head, repeating this action twice more as he landed on its back. He stood up and stepped off of the fallen DAEMON's body, his face grim with the full knowledge of what he had just done to some other poor human being; he had ruined its life.
You defeated BoogieKong. Earned Item(s): BoogieKong's KeyRay winced as the notification popped up and did his best to shake off the guilt as he stooped to pick up the plain key the DAEMON had dropped and broke off once more at a sprint towards the portal, which, thankfully was only a few meters away.
Level Up! You are now level 2!
The instant he reached the outskirts of the goblins aggro range they were upon him, or at least those who weren't already accosting the other player who had gotten close enough. Still, numbers were a problem, and since he didn't have any of his old stats or equipment save for some dumb key, this would probably be a little more difficult. His train of thought was derailed suddenly as a goblin decided to play baseball, swinging a club at his head with all the enthusiasm of the Great Bambino himself. Startled at first, he regained his posture quickly and ducked forward, which only invited the other two to come in swinging at his face once more, only this time like golf clubs. He grit his teeth and dove to the left, twisting so that his shoulder took the brunt of the hit; he preferred taking one hit rather than two.
Rolling, he came to his feet and quickly lunged at the first goblin that had attacked him, jabbing it in the chest so that it keeled over, then following up with a hard heel that connected with its temple and killing it. He ignored the experience messages as the other two ran at him snarling like wild dogs. Jumping to the right, he dodged a swing at his injured shoulder and struck with the key at the goblin's side same as he had done with that lizard and jabbed at its side several times, although this time with more enthusiasm since it wasn't a person he was harming this time. As he watched its health bar shrink to nothing the other came in and clipped the side of his chin with his fist, giving Raymond's head a good shake. When he came to his senses he growled and grabbed the fist of the monster, calling on whatever strength his DAEMON had to throw it over his shoulder, and into the raging mob.
He took hold of his injured shoulder and rolled it to assess the damage; not a sprain or anything bad, just some annoying lingering bruise damage. He was about to turn and walk through the portal when he stopped and looked down at one of the dead goblins to find an item message lingering over the body. He bent down and grabbed the loot, causing the body to lose its purpose and fade as floating words appeared on his screen.
1x Item(s): Ninja Class Starter Pack
Level Up! You are now level 3!
He grinned as a black ninja shozoku took the place of the worthless rags he had spawned in and welcoming the familiar weight of a ninjato that equipped itself to his back. Raymond came back to his senses quickly, remembering the riot that was taking place all around him, as well as the goblins that were beginning to change targets. Without another word he turned and jumped, diving into the portal.
i'Ve gOt tO BeLiEvE At wHaT My hEaRt tElLs iN Me, EvEn iF It's a fAkE ThInG
July 14th, 2014 (4:43 PM). Edited July 29th, 2014 by Skymin.
??? // RENU0xu
>> Level 1, Unassigned Class, ???
>> 25th May, 2025
>> ??? & ???, ???
Leading the way, Renu sprinted towards the center of the castle, his legs taking him as fast as his agility level allowed. If he had been running in game a few hours ago, this distance would have been nothing. Now, it was like running in real life; slow, painful and would probably give him cramps.
"We are almost there, mes amis. Just a little bit further and--" He stopped dead in his tracks as he just slipped over the line of a monster's vision range, an oversized rat, as the monster's eyes glowing red and focusing on Renu. He had forgotten his detection skills had ceased to exist after the level reset. Usually, he could be right in front of a monster and dance around and it wouldn't notice him. "How foolish of me. No matter! Prepare to meet your maker, monster! En garde!"
Renu flung his hand out, his key materialising in his hand to initiate battle mode. Two other monsters, a bug-like monster and a slime, had noticed him now and Renu turned back to his comrades.
"Three monsters, and there are three of us! This should be cake compared to your courage and valour against the other players. Luttons!" Renu ran in, swinging his key in a flurry of silver and swiping down at the monster. He laughed, this time not holding back as he had against the players, bringing the key back up for another swipe, the monster's health reaching yellow.
The monster, however was not unprogrammed and reacted to the damage, the rat swiping upwards at Renu. He jumped back, catching a slice from the rat, watching his health dwindle slightly. He would have to be careful: the fight against the players had worn him down. But only slightly.
"Is that the best you've got, you furry fiend? Prenez cela! Et ceci!" Renu slashed and slashed again, the rat's health falling into the red. He finished his combo, jumping into the air and bringing his key into the rat's head, exploding it into pixels. "Eh bien combattu. But you are no match for me!" Renu laughed, collecting his bounty.
1x item(s): Black Mage Class Starter Pack
LEVEL UP! You are now level 2!
"Sacrébleu! A mage! Out of all the classes…" Renu sighed. Mage was in fact the class he was worst at. His speciality lied in Ranger or Thief classes. "No matter. No class is too great for the great Renu!" He attached the class, equipping a basic staff, robe and magic bangles. He wore it proudly, though on the inside he felt horribly embarrassed.
"Let's fly, mes amis! Before more monsters slash at our backsides!" He shouted to his comrades, the portal in clear view. He waited for Kuoto and Gallo Leo to finish fighting themselves then bounded into the blue light by their sides.
July 17th, 2014 (7:37 PM). Edited July 18th, 2014 by Pepperton.
July 21st, 2014 (12:35 PM). Edited July 22nd, 2014 by <Challenger>.
Adrian Mason and Kazuki Takemura
Venice, Italy/Osaka, Japan
May 25th, 2025
"Killing is My Business, and Business is Good!"
The crowds seemed to part as a titan of a Minotaur pushed his way through them. "Everybody, out of the way." Kazu typed on his computer almost rapidly, sending out messages to his lower leveled friends to stick together and get the hell out of here. He sipped his coffee casually as he tapped away on the keyboard. ATLAS was nearing the scaly beast in the center of the room. That guy knows how to pick a fight with everybody... Kazu grimaced as he looked at the numbers against him. "Damn...He needs help," The writer mumbled to himself. He neared the crowd, and instead of attacking them from behind, just walked through them. ATLAS was literally waist deep in enemies.
The Minotaur managed to make it through the crowd, as they thought he was going to be their champion, but that was quite the contrary. ATLAS walked up to the scaly beast and took a defensive stance beside him. "You like you're in a bit of a spot, friend. I'm here to help with that." The massive Minotaur put up his fists and looked around at the surrounding players. "These guys don't look like a threat, but their attacks combined could prove...fatal." He looked to his scaly friend and grinned. "You got a colored key too, I see." He held up his own. "They call me ATLAS."
Equinox looked to his side to see a large figure approaching. He shifted slightly towards it and held his key like a battle hammer. He preferred swords but that option wasn't available. The crowd parted, letting what he recognized as a Minotaur into his little ring of death. Equinox was ready to strike a blow but instead the large beast decided to make a stand with him.
"You like you're in a bit of a spot, friend. I'm here to help with that. These guys don't look like a threat, but their attacks combined could prove...fatal." The Minotaur took notice of Equinox's key and gave off a grin "You got a colored key too, I see." The player held up his own key "They call me ATLAS."
"Equinox. We can have a formal introduction after, kay?" Equinox lowered his voice a little "My plan is to keep the big boys distracted so the little ones have a better chance to escape, you in? I could definitely use the help. Got a little bit more attention then I was hoping for." Equinox raised his key hammer again and got ready to fight. He hoped his former hand-to-hand training would pay off now...
At first, Kazu thought that the scaly beast was going to attack him, but he dropped his key hammer shortly after. ATLAS gave a grin of approval as Equinox decided to accept his help. The Minotaur put his key away and held up his fists, eager for a fight. "You're right. Introductions can wait." His eyes moved over the enemy forces quickly. "I think we can pull this off. All we have to do is fight smartly." His fists clenched in preparation. "I don't have to worry about my weapons being gone."
ATLAS heard a flurry of movement from behind him. He spun, letting out a bull's roar as he did so, and slammed a ferocious back-fist into whatever it was, which happened to be a werewolf sort of thing, sending it across the room. "These guys mean business. If they start to overwhelm us, we can always retreat." He danced from foot to foot eagerly, fists still cocked. "But, I don't intend on retreating." The horde seemed to be growing restless. "They'll charge soon enough...Should we beat them to it?"
Equinox turned his head to a noise to his six. ATLAS must've heard it too as he spun around too. He let out a roar and took out a large canine adversary. The wolf ended up on the other side of the room. "These guys mean business. If they start to overwhelm us, we can always retreat." The large beast said "But, I don't intend on retreating."
"What they don't know is this IS my business, and 'Business is Geewwwd~'" Adrian wasn't sure if he was even old enough to get that reference but whatever. "I hope you're experienced in the tactic of Attrition Warfare, because that's what this comes down to, and we're on the less resources side..."
A knight in boring armor decided he'd try his luck and charged. Equinox dodged his sword, grabbed his hilt right above the sword and used it as leverage to force him down into Equinox's knee, then bashed him over the head for good measure. The knight faded into pixels, back to the great void of the respawn. Equinox got back into a defensive position after the knight disappeared. He kind of wished he had taken the time to find a class before all of this so he could get some XP towards it. All of this fighting was going to be wasted experience wise.
"I say we wait, ATLAS, let them come to us. Your call though.. So, shoot."
ATLAS nodded and glanced at his scaly companion. "That sounds like a plan to me." He grinned at the man's reference. "Megadeth. I approve." He slammed his left palm into the face of a nearby Anubis like creature. "I'm familiar with it...Wear them down until they run out of supplies." A grimace came across his face. "We're gonna lose one of those." ATLAS looked around. "Maybe we can rally some help...I say we fight it out. You're right. Let them come." His position switched from Guard to Wall position. "They might have numbers, but we can take these guys out, no problemo."
"More numbers on our side would be nice though, to be honest..." Equinox replied to his new friend. He paused wondering when the crowd that was getting more and more restless was going to charge. Couldn't be much longer with how bad the uproar was getting. He said in a lower tone "You ready, I think the sh!t is about to hit the fan."
ATLAS nodded slowly, eyeing the restless crowd. "They sure are eager to tear us to pieces..." A grin came across his face. "Let them come. I could use a good fight. I count at least forty...Do you have any friends who might help us out? I'm not too keen on doing this alone." This time two jaguar-human hybrids charged, both of which caught a roundhouse to the side. As they burst into pixels, the horde charged. "They're coming!"
Equinox dodged a strike from some kind of lizard as the horde charged. He spun in around and gave it a very strong kick in the gut then brought the key down on it's head. The lizard crumpled to the ground and disappeared into a cloud of pixels as his buddy charged to try and save him. Equinox punched him in the throat and took out his leg with a low sweep then pounded his face into the foyer's cobblestone flooring. "This is NOT how I wanted to spend my day!" He yelled out to his bull friend.
ATLAS looked at the portal, and then to his friend. "We need to get out of here! Now!" He punched a demon-esque thing square in the jaw with enough force to break a boulder, sending him soaring into the crowd. The impact caused a hole large enough to break through..."FOLLOW ME!" The minotaur charged forward, battering aside anything dumb enough to get in his way. His horns were made use of. Soon enough, he was near the door. "LET'S GO!"
Equinox followed in the trail of destruction. No need to get his claws dirty when his friend was paving the way. Suddenly he remembered! He still needed a class again!! Close to the portal he trailed off into the monster infested grounds. He picked a group of skeletons, they looked easy enough to defeat. A flurry of claws caught one of them off guard. It spun around and began to attack, easily dodged by Equinox. He roundhouse kicked it in the head and it dropped to the ground. He moved on to it's buddy and got a couple good swipes in before finishing with and uppercut to it's (former) chin. He kicked the last skeleton in the chest and elbowed it in the jaw. It fell and join his friends in a cluster of pixels. He picked up all of the loot they dropped, three classes! As he was about to choose one he was attacked by a player. He dispatched of him quickly and headed back to ATLAS.
"Hey! Find a weapon somewhere we're gonna need it! It's probably gonna be even worse on the other side of that portal! And finding one in real life wouldn't hurt either, people like to riot when the bank isn't open, never mind when they've lost they're whole life!"
In a rush to grab a class, the Minotaur rushed over to the skeletons his friend had chosen, picked one up, and carried him back to the portal like a football player. Once he arrived back at the portal. The skeleton had been clawing him, every so slightly taking his health down, but now it was halfway to non-existant. "Damn it!" He bopped the skeleton on the head until it poofed away from existence.
1x item(s): Defender Starter Pack
Level up! You have reached level 2!
ATLAS sighed in relief as he got to the portal. He quickly equipped a basic bronze two-handed sword, some heavy bronze plated armor, including greaves, a helmet, a breastplate, and gauntlets. "Come on, Equinox! Let's get out of here!" With that, he leaped through the portal. Hopefully his ally would come soon.
Equinox quickly opened his inventory and looked at the classes. he dropped all three then picked one back up and equipped it
1x item(s): Warrior Base Class
Level up! You have reached level 2!
He quickly equipped his new sword than sprinted for the portal and dived in. "Wait for me"! he yelled after his current partner.
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July 21st, 2014 (10:56 PM).
Samuel "Sam" Green
July 22nd, 2014 (1:50 AM).
Terrigan / Tegan
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July 22nd, 2014 (6:51 AM). Edited July 22nd, 2014 by antemortem.
Andrew; Corona
level one
inventory: none
class: none
"So, which has become more important to you? Your online or offline self? Do you protect what you have or rebuild your identity from scratch?"
The words reverberated in my head for a long time, longer than I would have liked because while they were, I was standing motionless staring at my feet while the commotion around me nearly knocked me over multiple times. I was an ant in the crowd of roaches, barely visible over the crowd. At the same time it was a comforting feeling because I knew that only those I was companions with in my guild would recognize me. Well, them and the people I'd backstabbed dozens of times before. This might be the only chance the universe has to deal me my comeuppance. It'd be just in doing so; I'm a terrible person.
It was only then that I realized I was holding the key, the one ICARUS claimed was our lifeline, our whole lives in that five inch piece of medal. I clutched it tight in my glove. Someone bumped into my mask and shifted it slightly. Their elbow didn't feel good but I wasn't rattled by one elbow hitting me a little harder than the other sixteen million I'd experienced in two minutes' time. I was still in my seat and yet I was being battered to a pulp. Why hadn't I moved yet? What was I doing? I swear I wasn't shaken by what was going on, I just... Get the hell up, for Christ's sake!
I tucked my key inside my hood, where I'd learned thieves tend not to check when patting you down for your belongings, and stood on my chair where I was finally at even height with the rest of the crowd. So many heads, so many pairs of eyes all seeing red and lusting for blood - were we all really out for the same goal now? Were we all on equal terms at that point, and are we working together or is everyone an individual unit working toward a singular goal? That was annoying, trying to justify everyone's rationalization when I hadn't even really processed the situation yet or made a decision other than to stand on the chair so I could see.
In an attempt to be productive I activated my Lens and scrolled through my contacts searching for anyone from my guild. Hopefully one of them would be near me - aha! ringmaster's online!
Evidently he wasn't free, and I figured that most other people would be in similar situations. For now, I had to take matters into my own hands until I could meet up with someone. I reached for my scarf, for a moment forgetting that weapons had been stripped from us, but I still loosened it from my neck and let it lie limp in my hands. My once precious scarf, the weapon that brought me many wins and fame within ACID... Oh well. Maybe I can use it to strangle someone. I learned quickly that I would have to use whatever necessary to just survive.> Corona: heyheyhey are you there please answer
Before I could wink an eyelash, someone was on top of me, and one end of the scarf was lost in the crowd of people. My hand shot up to my hood to make sure the key was still there; it was, but it wouldn't stay in its current location for long so I dropped it in my coat and turned my attention to the large form crushing my body. The DAEMON on top of me was actually a rather innocent looking... puppy? Maybe a fox of some sort. It was trying to stare me down, threatening me with a pair of gleaming claws. Instead of showing fear I tugged at the scarf until the other end was free to grab, and tossed it around the paw of the DAEMON, knotting it and bringing the DAEMON's arm to the ground.
At the same second, I received a text message.
I rolled my eyes and fought off the fox-bear-dog-thing's attempts at batting me with a peculiarly declawed opposite paw. I witnessed someone before violently ramming a piece of metal that I assume was their key into the face of another animal I couldn't begin to identify earlier so I took it upon myself to consider this a plan of action. I removed the key from my pocket and eyed the DAEMON.< ringmaster: kk you there?
He - I'm also terrible with genders so it could be female, sue me - attempted to strike up some sort of deal with me in his last moments. "Come on, we all want the same thing, huh?" I couldn't help but return to my previous inner monologue as well as consider the fact that this very same creature who was begging me to spare him had just bounded from the middle of a billions of people to threaten me with its pathetic claws. In the end, I was of course torn, but so was his face by my key. His silver key was almost swept up in a blur of boots, but I swiped it in the end. Along with it came a neat little treat.
received items (1): 7tork's Key
Rank Up! Level 1 -> Level 2
Of course, that was just a silly DAEMON trying to nab himself a key or two. The poor fool. I definitely should have had a few more drinks before getting on, though, because I was feeling incredibly shaky and not at all up to par. It would be the one night that actually being alert would be of utmost performance, too! And just as the words articulate in my mind, someone's already bumrushing me again. I don't get it, what's so appealing about attacking others that don't obviously have a colored key? I felt that I wouldn't have very many allies whatsoever in the end. Then again, there's millions of people here; someone must have an inkling of comprehension of what's going on and willing to not attack me for more than five seconds, yeah? Yeah.
So after ducking into the crowd, dodging multiple airborne assailants, I make a beeline for the Mobs guarding the gate. That's where all the cool kids seemed to be heading anyway.
> Corona: meet me at the gate, bring a beer
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July 23rd, 2014 (1:12 AM). Edited July 23rd, 2014 by Quest.
03:06, 25th May 2025 (JST)
As you jump through the blue portal, that familiar feeling of teleporting overwhelms you and you find yourself… outside. It's still dark but you can see the orange glow on the horizon -- the digital sun will rise soon.
Despite the darkness, you can see the world around you quite clearly. It's a field and a rather large one too. You don't recognise it exactly, but it seems like the kind of field that might spawn in a low-levelled STORM dungeon. The words "FLOOR 1: PLAINS" hover over your HUD for a second before disappearing, alerting you of the name of this place. Wow. How original.
It seems you and whoever you teleported with have appeared in a random place in this field and you can see yourself on the ingame map. It looks like there are key places on your map, but they haven't been discovered yet, and only their names are seen when you interact with them. To the north is something called 'DEEP FOREST', to the south the point reads 'FOYER DUNGEON', to the east 'LITTLE TOWN', and to the west 'GREEN HILL'.
It seems fairly stock standard, but you won't find out anything if you stay here. You can see other members appearing in the distance around you so you better get a move on if you want to discover these places first! Or, if you're not close to an enemy, you can teleport back to CLOUDLAND in CIRRUS.
current quests
None so far.
Currently Unknown Quests
How to begin: Find Genevieve in the DEEP FOREST!???
How to begin: Talk to Sari in LITTLE TOWN!???
How to begin: Near the village of GREEN HILL!
NOTE: These are not the only quest that your characters can complete! Be creative and detail your own quests (as long as we determine the rewards)! Whenever, a new quest is created, it will be added to this post as well as the OOC thread, so stay tuned!
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July 23rd, 2014 (7:01 AM).
Corona & Terrigan
There were groups here, people having teamed up to get to the portal. Terrigan had a history of being overly confident in her own abilities within CLOUD, but this time even she knew to be careful. She didn't have any gear except for three weird, large keys, and she didn't have any spells or skills raised. Only her own reflexes and luck.
A large rat creature came towards her with rabid eyes and sharp teeth. Terrigan slashed with her key and hit the head of the monster. It's health bar dropped but not to zero. It came in for another attack and managed to scratch her leg. The trousers conveyed the damage visually by getting torn near the knee where the claws had struck. Her health bar dropped a bit. She was weak, so weak now.
Getting pumped up, she knew that she wouldn't give up just from that scary realization. She made a leap and swung her key down from above. Much like with the Daemon before, it went through the monster's face and made it shatter into pieces of data as the creature's health dropped completely. As she slowly realized that she wasn't useless despite being at Level 2, she saw in a blur the message that appeared in her HUD.
Received items (1): Red Mage Starter Pack
Rank Up! Level 2 -> Level 3
Red Mage? As she backed away from the monsters behind a group who seemed more eager to battle them at the moment, she hastily clicked the pack from her inventory and felt her appearance change. It contained a pair of simple, red robes, a staff and a white scarf with a minor evasion bonus attached. Okay... She had always been a fighter; mages weren't her way within CLOUD. But she'd work with what she had for now. At least her white beanie hat was still on her head, for now.
She equipped the staff and the "armor" and ran back in towards the portal. She couldn't run straight through it, the monsters were too perceptive of her at this level. She needed to fight at least some more monsters on her way. Maybe she should have called up the guild channel again.
But she didn't. Instead, she stormed in and lunged with her staff for the first goblin-like creature that stepped in her way, failing to notice the player's name above its head.
Unfortunately, the player paid little attention to the upraised staff, as he was searching through the crowd of oddly colored and shaped faces in search of ringmaster, another player from the SENATE. ringmaster was popular among new guild members and was one of Corona's best friends within the game. While he'd just texted him minutes ago, ringmaster didn't seem to be at the gate yet.
Corona scratched his head, ducking low to avoid airborne spars betwixt DAEMON and Mob aplenty. Speaking of Mob, he would probably have to fight some soon. All he's had to face were some squirrely DAEMON and those weren't satisfying since the only thing yielded were keys and experience - what good is experience without a rank for it to apply? And God knows what Corona would find useful to do with the keys. He was terrible at bargaining. He'd probably offer his foot before the keys on accident. Attentiveness was another thing that Corona could work on because while he was pondering which Mob to attack, the blunt staff lunging through the air practically split his skull.
Terrigan enjoyed the feeling of attacking properly rather than swinging a valuable key around, but something felt wrong when she hit her target. The 'goblin' didn't crumble as it should as a level 1 monster. Instead, she watched a health bar drop the slightest... And a name hovering over the head she had just nearly split in two. It was a player.
"Oh no, I'm sorry!" she immediately exclaimed and backed off. Then she realized how bad this might really be. If it was someone bent on getting through this with his identity safe and sound, he might think that Terri just tried to take his away from him. And that was the last thing she thought of going around doing now.
A twitch and a quick hand covered the injured area following the assault. "Agh, what the hell!" Corona screeched, jerking around to face Terrigan. He wasn't at all surprised to see the girl's catlike features, though the beanie threw him. This girl - whom had questionable fashion choices - had just tried to flatten him with a staff. He made several disgusted faces from behind his mask.
Terrigan, of course, didn't see these grimaces and just thought he was staring numbly at her.
"Listen, I don't mean you any harm," she said. "I just want to get to that portal, I don't care about anybody else's keys, okay? I hit you by mistake."
Just then, a particularly nasty goblin that indeed didn't look too different from Corona - apart from the nasty face and lack of scarf - lunged at the black Daemon from behind.
"Look out!" Terrigan shouted.
"Whatever you say," Coronoa muttered, but Terrigan's words weren't very interesting to him - though she was lucky he didn't choke her with his scarf - given the second preemptive strike emerging from behind him. He reached quickly for his scarf, turning on his heels and throwing it in the goblin's face. A nasty pale yellow claw slit Corona's coat, revealing his key, but also creating a quick access point to it.
Corona grabbed the key before it could fall out and jammed it into the goblin's neck. It felt like the consistency of lard, the key entering the goblin's neck fat. What does ICARUS feed these things, anyway? He tugged at the key, eventually freeing it from the goblin's neck but also releasing a foul smelling odor into the air.
Regardless, the goblin evaporated, leaving behind a reward for Corona's efforts.
received items (1): Fighter Starter Pack
Rank Up! Level 2 -> Level 3
What exactly... Corona scratched his head, slowly processing the items in his hand: two metal wristplates and a short sword, just a couple inches longer than the standard kitchen knife. "Am I seriously supposed to fight with these? Jesus, I'd forgotten how camp low class weapons are." Corona smirked, lacing one of his wristplates onto his right wrist. "But I guess you're not any better off, Dumbledore."
Terrigan winced at the nickname and was about to retort, but then she looked down at her strange red garments and just sighed instead.
"Low level gear. Yeah," she muttered, but then noticed that they suddenly had an as good as clear path up to the portal. "Look, you're going there too, right? It's now or never."
Corona turned his wrist over, grunting in disappointment. Why didn't the cat-otter with no fashion sense respond to his top tier insult? He shrugged. The duo turned to face the open path and, with Terrigan in tow, leapt toward and through the portal.
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July 23rd, 2014 (1:20 PM).
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Boom there, clobber there, and a few fistfights there. It was like a birthday cake turning upside it's head, spun around, and filled with everything bad like explosions, explosions, and even more explosions. The world was in turmoil ever since that big announcement came. A full reset? Keys? Why? That was what LGDClaw, the small but passionate pirate cat thought to herself as she laid there on her chair with her small legs crossed, as she peered upon her purple key held by her little blue paws.
"You STOLE that key from me!" one of the players shouted nearby, meanwhile. "Even though I didn't key one in the first place, that one you're holding belongs to ME! Hand it over before I your next lunch is a nice case of death!"
"I'm afraid that's where you're mistaken!" the other player who was facing him replied. "It's too early for lunch!"
"Then death will be your breakfast!"
"It's.. slightly too late for breakfast too!"
"Then what should we call this time?" both the players stood in thought. "Br...unch? Brunch? No, that's completely idiotic. Anyways! Hand that over right now!"
Idiots, the lot of them, LGDClaw could only think. Then again, perhaps her arrogance was only justified because she had only gotten lucky. Oh well, keep a man down was a motto of hers! Still, I do wonder how the other Pirates are holding up. The Pirates would plummet if word came up that we were suddenly, ugh, weak? But then again, this might be the chance for our Guild to rise to the top! I suppose the possibility is there as well. But first, let's see if any of em' turned up alive.
She finally had risen from her seat, and quickly went down towards the ground floor. Left and right she saw countless Daemons destroyed, and perished over the way of brutality. Sounds fun, right? Yup, if you were drunk, and just lost your date. Otherwise, this turned out to be pretty awful. Unfortunately, LGDClaw hadn't seen a friendly face as yet. Did most of them lose already? Even her shipmates? Quite the dozy situation here.
But still, she knew that she couldn't stay here for long. She needed to fend for herself for a while. So instead, she went on her own to leave a global message for her clanmates:
> Rachel here. Bring me a soda, and don't die. In that order. Meet me in monster zones or something if you're alive!
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Let the market decide
Let the market decide where Dan Bern will play next. Bern and his band are auctioning off a private concert at the auction winner's house. You can apparently make his appearance as large or intimate as you want. Would a dutch auction like this be enough to build a U.S. tour on?
You too can play with U2.
You too can play with U2. With a little forethought and practice, a guy named Glen Goland lived every amateur guitarist's wet dream last night in Boston. Have you done anything to make your wildest dream come true? Or, like me, are you just letting it all ride on dumb luck?
"Experience Britney"
"Experience Britney" Ok. The line starts here... (joking;)
15 year old girl who had a heart attack last Friday
15 year old girl who had a heart attack last Friday at Sydneys Big Day Out during Limp Bizkit's set died yesterday afternoon. This was the original story I read about it, that said she was 18. It seems even worse knowing she was only 15 years old.
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Explaining a Productive Decade
Stephen D. Oliner
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This paper analyzes the sources of U.S. productivity growth in recent years using both aggregate and industry-level data. We confirm the central role for information technology (IT) in the productivity revival during 1995-2000 and show that IT played a significant, though smaller, role after 2000. Productivity growth after 2000 appears to have been boosted by industry restructuring and cost cutting in response to profit pressures, an unlikely source of future strength. In addition, the incorporation of intangible capital into the growth accounting framework takes some of the luster off the performance of labor productivity since 2000 and makes the gain during 1995-2000 look larger than in the official data. Finally, we examine the outlook for trend growth in labor productivity; our estimate, though subject to much uncertainty, is centered at 2-1/4 percent a year, faster than the lackluster pace that prevailed before 1995 but somewhat slower than the 1995-2006 average.
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An unstructured cell-centred finite volume method for modelling viscoelastic flow is presented. The method is applied to the flow through a planar channel and the 4:1 planar contraction for creeping flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid. The results are presented for a range of Weissenberg numbers. In the case of the planar channel results are compared with analytical solutions. For the 4:1 planar contraction benchmark problem the convection terms in the constitutive equations are approximated using both first and second order differencing schemes to compare the techniques and the effect of mesh refinement on the solution is investigated. This is the first time that a fully unstructured, cell-centredfinitevolume technique has been used to model the Oldroyd-B fluid for the test cases presented in this paper.
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Porting LinuxBIOS to the AMD SC520: A Follow-up Report
As of July 15, 2005, we have moved the arch repository to Subversion. Arch checkouts will continue to work, but any new changes will be available only in Subversion.
Well, it was too easy. Things were going well with our project to port LinuxBIOS, until we tried to Flash the Flash part. Then we started to hit some problems with the board, the board design and the AMD SC520.
What went wrong? Put simply, when we tried to use the flash_rom program to Flash the part, it failed even to discover the type of part we had on the board. From there, it got worse. We wrote a small program to dump the Flash part, shown here:
#include <errno.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> # include <stdlib.h> #include <ctype.h> main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd_mem; volatile char *bios; unsigned long size = 512 * 1024; int i; if ((fd_mem = open("/dev/mem", O_SYNC|O_RDWR)) < 0) { perror("Can not open /dev/mem"); exit(1); } bios = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd_mem, off_t) (0xffffffff - size + 1)); if (bios == MAP_FAILED) { perror("Error MMAP /dev/mem"); exit(1); } write(1, bios, 512*1024); }
When we ran this program, we couldn't get sensible results. This program runs and runs well on everything else we own--several thousand K8 nodes, our laptop, 1,500 Xeon nodes--so it is not the program. What's going on?
As mentioned, we found a problem with the design of the MSM586SEG and the other SC520-based boards from Advanced Digital Logic. The problem, put simply, is the full Flash part cannot be accessed from the CPU; only the top 128KB of the part can be accessed. This limitation requires us to modify all of the tools that we support for Flash access, so they are aware that although the nominal size of the Flash is 256 or 512KB, only 128KB of that space is available.
Making that change, however, still did not help. When we dumped the Flash part, we got not garbage but nonsense. We saw strings that read CCCCoooo and so on. This nonsense led us to think that the Flash space was being cached somehow. In addition, we believed the hardware design had a problem such that burst reads from the Flash part--which would happen if the cache were enabled in the range of memory--were returning the same byte four times, not four consecutive bytes.
Then, we hit some other problems. We had two MSM586SEG boards, and the IDE interface on both of them stopped working. It turns out that the MSM586SEG has an FPGA controlling many functions, and we suspect that this FPGA has some teething problems. We decided to try out the older design, the MSM586SEV, which has no FPGA.
The MSM586SEV resolved all our problems save one: we still got nonsense when we tried to read the Flash. It now was time for some deep-diving into the SC520 architecture. We learned that a set of 16 registers, called the PAR registers, need to be managed in order to enable Flashing the part.
What are the PAR registers? They are used to steer memory and I/O access issued by the CPU. Almost all processors today have a special set of registers in the memory and I/O address generation path to modify the manner in which such addresses are handled.
Why is this type of register needed? With multiple busses capable of supporting memory and I/O access, the processor has no idea where to send the access unless it is told. That is the function of the PAR registers. Consider the block diagram of the SC520 shown below.
A given I/O access can go to the PCI bus or to the GP devices shown at right. A memory access can go to SDRAM, the Flash part or the PCI bus. The PAR registers allow the BIOS to specify, for a given range of I/O or memory, which bus it goes to, whether it is writable or read-only and whether it is cached.
We found that for the BIOS range of memory, 0xe0000-0xfffff, the PAR register was set to SDRAM. This setting is not surprising: for performance, the BIOS typically copies the BIOS image to SDRAM and then makes sure all BIOS code fetches go to the SDRAM holding the BIOS. This operation is commonly called "shadowing the BIOS".
Because Linux doesn't use the BIOS at all, we can ignore this setting. What we do is set the PAR register for the BIOS region, PAR register 15, back to the original BIOS. This is a simple matter of mapping in the registers, and then setting the register. Here is a code fragment to do so:
if ((fd_mem = open("/dev/mem", O_SYNC|O_RDWR)) < 0) { perror("Can not open /dev/mem"); exit(1); } mmcr = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd_mem, (off_t) 0xfffef000); if (mmcr == MAP_FAILED) { perror("Error MMAP /dev/mem"); exit(1); } p = mmcr + 15; l = *p; printf("l is 0x%lx\n", l); /* clear cache bits */ l |= (1<<27); /* enable writeable bit */ l &= ~(1<<26); /* set type to flash, not sdram */ l &= ~(7<<29); l |= (4<<29); /* 64k pages */ l |= (1<<25); /* blow away base and size stuff. */ l &= ~(0x1fff | (0x7ff<<14)); printf("l is now 0x%lx\n", l); l |= (8 << 14) | (0x2000000>>16); printf("l is now 0x%lx\n", l); *p = l;
Once we had this done, we still had troubles. The further problem was the design of the PAR registers. They live in memory at 0xfffef000; in other words, they are placed right in the middle of the top 2MB of the 4GB of memory space. This space is, by convention, reserved for BIOS Flash, but the SC520 breaks that convention. So, although we had worked around the board problems, we now were faced with an architectural problem.
A light bulb went off at this point, though, relating to comments we had seen in sample code from AMD. The AMD code always was careful to program the PAR registers to place the Flash part above the top of DRAM, that is, at 32MB or hex 0x2000000. We modified our parbios program slightly, and voilà--all 512KB of Flash now was available, starting at 0x2000000.
Th effects of this change are far-reaching. We had to modify our flash_rom program to enable the Flash on the SC520 and place the Flash at an odd location in memory. Nevertheless, at least we can program it now. This change also affects LinuxBIOS itself. If we want to use all of the Flash part, or simply more then 64KB, we're going to have to make a lot of changes to how LinuxBIOS addresses Flash. We've never seen a machine to date that could not address Flash directly at the top of memory.
MMCR can be moved...
"Probably the single biggest problem is the location of the configuration registers, placed right in the middle of the top 2MB of memory"
You can map the MMCR to any 4k offset in the lower 1G by writing to the CBAR register. 0xFFFEF000 is just the default location, so I would not see that as a flaw.
I ended up using rolo instead of Linuxbios on a SC520 based product I designed a few years ago. U-boot is another very powerful option, but they are both more targeted to embedded products.
MMCR can be moved ... but not removed.
The problem in this case is that even if you "move" the MMCR, it is still sitting at its old position 0xFFFEF000, in addition to the new one.
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The code snippet is broken - presumably due to mangling by a CMS. Given the extreme difficulty I'm having in getting this godawful commenting system to not mangle these code snippets, that's my working theory. LJ staff, please fix your CMS so it doesn's strip spaces in >code<>/code< blocks! I had to use in a >code<>/code<block, which is (a) gross and (b) should probably not be interpreted as an entity, but rather as a literal.
In addition to the total loss of indenting, I found two other problems. First:
bios = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd_mem,
off_t) (0xffffffff - size + 1));
looks like it should be:
bios = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd_mem,
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#include #
should evidently be:
With those changes it builds OK here. The dump doesn't look too interesting on this system - probably not a flash image, anyway - but it's an AMD64 box so it's quite likely the flash is mapped to somewhere different. Any idea what address it might be at?
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Stiller comedy looks to bring down Batman
After four weekends at the top, "The Dark Knight" should finally get washed out of first place.
DreamWorks and Paramount's big-budget comedy "Tropic Thunder" opens at 3,319 playdates on Wednesday and has a good shot at staying No. 1 through the weekend.
Studio is looking for the Hollywood sendup, which stars Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr., to at least match the overall five-day take of last week's "Pineapple Express" at $41.3 million.
"Thunder" costs a reported $90 million, however, compared to just $27 million for "Pineapple Express," giving DreamWorks substantially higher expectations to meet before its film exits theaters.
Because its auds skew older, "Tropic Thunder" is very unlikely to match "Pineapple's" record-breaking $12.1 million debut last Wednesday. DreamWorks is looking for an opening day in the mid- to high single digits.
However, the pic should far exceed the $23.3 million opening weekend take for "Pineapple Express." Now that Warner Bros.' megahit "The Dark Knight" is seeing its weekend grosses fall into the teens, "Thunder" will likely be No. 1 for the frame, with the only potential competition coming from Warner Bros.' youth-skewing toon "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," which bows Friday.
After opening at No. 1 last Wednesday and Thursday then slipping back to No. 2 for the weekend, "Pineapple Express" took the top spot again on Monday, grossing $3.9 million vs. $3.8 million for "Dark Knight."