ONE MONTH IN.

[cccorp]

⬣//A SINGLE CRACK LETS THE LIGHT IN.

A NEW ROOT TOWN.

A new, mysterious Root Town is now available to everyone! The only problem is that no one knows the name of this town, and the bridges that help you navigate the area appear to be a little... dangerous. Put on your toolbelts and help make things a little safer! Or don't. That works too.

PROFESSIONS.

Have you wanted to gather plants, create potions, or enhance your own armor? Well, you're in luck! The professions system has arrived, and so has a crafts festival along with it! Submit your own recipe ideas by September 1st and you'll have a chance at it becoming an official recipe everyone can make!

MORE GLITCHES.

Be careful when you log in, because you might just swap avatars with someone else. Either accept your fate and get used to your new look or coordinate logging out together.

The wind is also too strong in the new Root Town. Maybe a little too strong. Try not to get knocked over, and also try to ignore the whispers of those from your past that float along on the wind.

"HAPPY" ACCIDENTS.

For such a big new feature, professions are bound to have a few minor glitches to work out. From a full denim-clad armor set to a crystal ball, some of the items you can create are a little... odd.

A NEW QUEST APPEARS.

Think you can impress the Head Admin with your culinary skills? Then step up to the challenge! For your hard work, you'll get a chef outfit skin, and potentially a cute little Pomchi to follow you around if you really impress him! Oh, but be sure you don't do a terrible job either. Who knows what could happen?

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[worldbent]

→ PLAYER INFO

Name: Kit
Contact: kitsoru and PM!

→ PLOTTING

Avatar Name: 0koto
Class: Shadow Warlock (Water)

Plans:

NEW UPDATE STUFF:

• For the new systems I'm leaning towards Alchemy for Matoba, since it suits a magic-user pretty well and he absolutely would want to abuse the truth serum etc. But just in general it'd be a nice replacement for support magic for him, I think?? RIP Shadow Warlocks the squishy brainless DPS class
• He's got some armor and skins and stuff he might be willing to trade???? After glancing at the GP Shop, he'd be willing to toss the trade thing on some items. He is nothing if not a business man, come do business with him :)
• The winds will be fucking with him for sure but he's pretty good at repressing/ignoring that stuff so I don't see it doing much to him rn
• He refuses to feed Hien. Get your own food, bitch. (see below sigh)
• It's time to GRIND TO LEVEL 50 YEAH so Matoba will want to run a lot of dungeons!!!


PERSONAL PLOT:

Closes eyes okay so....... As of right now Matoba has his fingers in a few pies. Most of which they really shouldn't be in.
• He recently made a deal with Mithrun to exchange information off-Fragment on the downlow about "dv" and the game, especially wrt how the game has access to their brains/memories/etc and just kinda talking shit about that
• After talking with Fai he's going to be looking into who CC Corp's investors and backing are, especially because he wants to know what yakuza shell corps are definitely backing them (for v personal reasons)...
• He's still worsties with Owen and also has been gaslighting him on his OnlyFans for the last few weeks, ganba Matoba on getting that dirt so you can honeytrap him in the game
• He's fucking Hien sigh I use current tense because he will do it again. Hien got hints as to what his real life "profession" is and Matoba likewise has guessed Hien's background but doesn't rly rly know???? They're still guncatting at each other but hornily I guess

I'd like for some of Matoba's overarcing personal plot/goals and lore to start dropping this next month since I was much cagier with it last month, so I'm playing around with a few ways to make that happen! Bodyswap might be an option depending on what's possible with it, and I also had the idea of using the hotsprings for another.... But I gotta do some background plotting for that SO that's TBD. But yeah, that's kinda state of the Matoba!

Seeking:

• Other characters who are also interested in digging up CC Corp's business interests and chatting about that
• CR that have started to get a feel for what Matoba is about starting to confirm some things about him??
• I think I'd like to keep bodyswap plotting to characters he has spicy plot things going on with so tentatively open to this but with the intent of the above possible info double-dipping or loredropping stuff!!!

Offering:
• A DUNGEON PAL!!! I'd like to have Matoba do more dungeon runs with people for the purposes of actually playing/leveling so please, take him along...! I'm open to threading these too!!
• His usual bullying and shading at people, of course; PVP, crafting-related, however you want to throw your character at the stinky man!
• A receiver for YOUR character's lore.... There's quite a few of you he'd like to pick at the edges of and start peeling open :))
• All of your alchemy and trading needs!? Hey Jewelers, trade him a Crystal Ball for a Truth Serum! If there's one thing Matoba's concerned with in this game it's definitely minmaxing so whatever it takes for him to get some cool new strong armor.

Anything else:

[dissimulative]

has matoba thought of his vengeance plot yet against oria yet... i think if he really wanted to be brutal about it, he could like. dig into oria's backstory stuff

anyway oria will also be farming dungeons like mad and he's picked all gathering classes bc he's insane so he'll offer a trade with materials... for whatever matoba will have on him

stares at the hien bullet point

[worldbent]

NOT YET he's waiting to get high level enough to out-DPS him basically LMGHDF BUT I think backstory stuff clueing him in to alternative ways to get back at him... would be interesting... I know some other characters have found stuff out about him already so if you wanna rope someone in that's interested maybe we can figure out a way for that to happen!!

Matoba is happy to trade with him tho, cuz Oria is a good player contact... business is business and personal is personal, he can keep them separate 😊

Hien bullet stares back 😘

[dissimulative]

i'm thinking about the people who know his past shit and unfortunately they're all good people (???? looks at mithrun and him only) but i can always find ways. i think with their interactions that matoba could guess some of oria's... things. i can always supply the info so you know where to contact me

oria 🤝 matoba
business vs personal

things are gonna be wild this patch... hien's gonna hate the floating island root town because the winds will actually get at HIM so if you want hien accidentally blurting something out that he shouldn't be (backstory, not plot) out of rage and mistakenly thinking no one is around him, hmu

[worldbent]

Slams back in here A DUNGEON MAYBE???? Maybe Matoba can get Weird Vibes off of Oria and co and then start doing his usual shady man interrogating thing with them,.,............ smiles at Mithrun in particular who knows what he's fucking doing

oh no Hien........ YES PLEASE let Matoba see his cracks forming, he will be so all over that heheheh

[dissimulative]

just leaving this comment here bc we discussed everything and i didnt want it to look like im leaving kit on read ^^v

[worldbent]

[ominous]

[curvaceous]

oh my god kit...i looked back at my top level from last month and i THOUGHT i had tagged you back in my hotel last week but lmao hotel wifi was a mistake...head in my hands....

if you're still down to continue that thread at the guild i will tag it back today! if not, i would like to make it up to you in this event if it's okay, I AM SO SORRY! I WOULD LOVE MORE OF THEM BEING WEIRD AT EACH OTHER.

[worldbent]

No worries!!! Backtag at your leisure, I can happily still tag that thread! I see Kara has a spicy TL so if you wanna do a thing after that let's see how that thread finishes off to set the scene, rubs hands

[curvaceous]

uho, gotcha! maybe we can wrap up the current thread this weekend and start something on her TL after?

[worldbent]

Works for me!

[trollophoroi]

Dungeon pal? Just two Shadow Warlocks, pew pewing their way through monsters, trying not to get hit?

[worldbent]

YES absolutely... let them talk shit about various aspects of the game while dodging certain death....

Do you wanna have it happen before or after the PVP tourney? And do you have any preferences for keywords/effects to go for, or wanna do a random roll?

[trollophoroi]

It can be before! Maybe they can target mobs they need for ingredients despite having complained about how they shouldn't add crafting classes lmao.

Random is fine, though!

[worldbent]

LMFAO they sure did that, didn't they....... OH WELL, can't fall behind the rest of the game!

OK I'll rando a dungeon for them, let me know what level equipment stuff you want! Matoba's on a run already this week so he doesn't need 'em

[trollophoroi]

I mean, cooking is a legit thing to do in the game since the food is like... good.

No need for gear! I've gotten stuff this week.

[worldbent]

Here we go! When we get the results in lemme know if you wanna do up a starter or if you want me to pop it up somewhere! I haven't decided if I'm making a TL on the main post yet.

[trollophoroi]

Ask and ye shall receive: https://altimit.dreamwidth.org/3956.html?thread=3174004#cmt3174004

[tablescraps]

THEY SHOULD RUN A DUNGEON TOGETHER FOR REALSIES itll be fun and normal, team building

[worldbent]

YES THEY SHOULD I want this month to be dungeon carnival for Matoba, do you want to do it as part of the investigation plot thread, or save it for next week or so after the murder mystery?? I have like 3 dungeons atm so might be better LOL

[tablescraps]

NEXT WEEK WORKS!!!!!!!!! im so behind on threads so i might as well catch up, SEE U THEN HEART EMOJIS

[secondthoughts]

aight so about cc corp. matoba is the only person from japan that hector knows is actually from japan, so he might be reaching out to him in the nearish? future when his attempts to contact the company go nowhere.

he hasn't told anyone yet, but he's seriously disturbed by these "bugs" in the game and the way they're being handled doesn't seem right to him. they could easily start working together if that strikes your fancy 👀

[worldbent]

He's interested! It definitely depends on what Hector can offer him as well- can't go sticking his neck out for no return!

Although, Matoba isn't exactly looking into them out of outrage over the standards of the VR or anything...... :3c

[secondthoughts]

hector might not be in as deep into investigating as matoba but he'll uhh he'll come up with something in return! it's a promise.