Chats

My week passed by swiftly with the scene from that old letter bothering me daily until its Saturday again. I did all my chores first early this very morning in order not get nagged by Mom before playing. I tried my best to finish all of my assignments daily from school to dedicate this day for my chores and to my newfound hobby.

I slowly kicked the laundry basket away from my feet while stretching the wet fabric in my hands and hanging it to the clothesline.

Speaking of school, now that I have started playing, I just noticed that there were actually many students who were using AR glasses already and maybe most of them just got the new tool. Teachers must have noticed about it too that's why they added the AR Glasses to the prohibited gadgets inside the classroom.

After organizing the details from Dr. Smint's letter, I created a goal for today's game and that is one, to collect zombie bloods in order to do the second task, that is to create the Zombie Virus then three, to make a Cure or utilize its power. How on earth do I create it? I still don't have an idea even after reading his letter over again.

Thankfully I did not have to watch that horrible scene as the letter gave an option to either replay or just read it.

Hmmm, if I just keep on killing zombies from advance bow tutorial then I think can easily collect them. I pondered while stacking the now empty laundry baskets.

I hurried upstairs while wiping my wet hands to my loose blouse as I just got finished hanging our clothes. 

I removed the glasses from its charger container and wore them. I heard the sound of it indicating its turning on and opened the game The Rulers.

"Hey SAIA, Good Morning!!!" I gleefully greeted the AI.

"Good Morning Rian." 

In my excitement, I did not waste any moment and immediately stated a command. "Open Advance Bow Tutorial." But an error like sound buzzed then SAIA's voice followed.

"Sorry, Advance Bow Tutorial is not available...."

"Huh?" Did I just give a wrong command?

"Open Advance Bow Tutorial." another error like sound buzzed then SAIA's voice followed again.

"Sorry, Advance Bow Tutorial is not available...."

I don't think my command was wrong.

"Hey SAIA."

"Yes Rian?" 

Hmm, but she can still recognize my voice so it's definitely not an error due to the voice, I thought I might have to re-calibrate it. I thought while my finger is touching my chin.

"Hey SAIA."

"Yes Rian?"

"Why is Advance Bow Tutorial not available?, that's what I played last week right?"

"Advance bow tutorial is not available anymore since you have cleared it. If you need more tutorial on how to use a bow, just say the command Open Bow Tutorial…"

"Uhm", I agreed.

".. to open tutorial regarding your profession, just say the command Open Professions' Tutorial."

"Okay, uh-wait, so there are more basic tutorial???" But why did she suggest the advance tutorial first? 

"Yes, this game gives basic tutorial." SAIA answered formally as usual.

"Ah, I see." I hammered my palm after creating a conclusion. Maybe It's because I interrupted the tutorial and directly called on her for convenience.

"Well I guess this happened due to my interruption, okay, Open Bow Tutorial."

A Notification then appeared.

▪️ Welcome to Bow Tutorial.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use your personal weapon…..

So the game gave an overview on how to use bow in the most basic way like how to hold it, what's the proper posture, the breathing techniques and everything about it like doing it in real life, which I find it useful and excellent because I can practice it even when not attending the Archery class, I guess.

But after hitting some targets and other small monsters for some time, I still can't find any Zombies in them.

"Hey SAIA, are there no Zombies on my targets like last time?"

"Sorry, but there are no Zombies in basic tutorials."

"Can't I just replay the advance tutorial?" I know what will be her answers, but I still tried asking, maybe I can trick her.

"Sorry, Advance Bow tutorial is not available anymore since you have cleared it already."

 Okay, she can't be tricked.

Oh so where am I going to find Zombie blood now that there are no more Zombies?

I asked SAIA to exit the tutorial then asked her where can I possibly find Zombie monsters but she refused to say a clue since investigation, exploration and problem solving are part of the game according to her.

"Should I try checking it in the Manual tutorial section?"

As I hover my sight to look for the Question Mark button, I noticed the Message bubble just beside the Question Mark button. It has 99+ mark on it.

I clicked it and a message box appears. There are different tabs on it, the Country and Global tabs respectively in which all of them have countless messages already. There are random questions and conversations in them as the other players are active in answering most of them. So I tried to read and back read the messages to understand their conversations as the messaged kept appearing.

I'd like to ask them too, maybe they know where Zombie type monsters can be found. I started typing my questions and another player sent a message asking the global chat.

DemJ: Y'all got any clue 'bout the 1st major game event yet?

Doogie: Nah, not yet. 

ChkLide: nah..

Chooke: Hi

ChkLide: I don't think anything will happen yet

ChkLide: as long as the countdown's unfinished

UchiN: less than a day left

Chooke: Yes

They're all talking about the major game event. 

Speaking of, I'm not monitoring the countdown. Where do I check it by the way? Ah, I'll check it later.

Since the Global chat was so busy, I decided to raise my question to the local chat or own country's chat.

Rian_S: Hello

Rian_S: Where can I find zombie monster?

KC: ?

KC: ?

KC: ?

KC: Zombies you say?

It took a while before someone responded.

Rian_S: Yes

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Someone's started to type again and sometimes deleting it as the chat ellioses kept on appearing and disappearin.

Abdul_a: Hi

Abdul_a: Any news about the Major game event?

XXX: Zombies? They are only found on newbies' advance tutorial

KC: Zombies and weavers can't be found anywhere.

KC: You can play the newbie Advance weapon tutorial given by SAIA

Rian_S: Yes, I've tried it, but it's not opening anymore

Abdul_a: Hey Rian_s, why look for zombies?

XXX: Could be a bug

KC: Try logging out or restarting your device

Rian_S: You can still open Advance Weapon tutorial?

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….

KC: Yeah, you can always go back there, actually

XXX: Did you try rebooting your device or logging in and out of the game?

Rian_S: not yet, but…

KC:? 

KC: Waht ?

KC: ?

XXX: But?

Abdul_a: Guys!!!!!

Abdul_a: Tried it!!!

Abdul_a: It's not opening

XXX: What?

KC: huh????///

I think everyone's confused too? I just played that tutorial once though.

I tried opening the Global chat and the messages continued to flow that It's hard to back read anymore.

I returned to Local chats and nobody has answered my question yet.

A unique tone sounded and I noticed a different tab showing a message request from PhilC.

PhilC: Maybe you can find the monster you're looking for while doing some quests and unlocking new areas on Maps.

! If you reply from this message, the sender can now see you have read the messages everytime you open them.

Side quests?

I went back to the main interface and found a scroll icon with numbers above it like the message bubble Icon.

Ahh, I need to do tasks and quests.

Rian_S: I see, thank you!

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…..

Seems like the player is about to send another message again.

PhilC: You're welcome. Thought you can't reply to my message.

Rian_S: Why not? 

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Rian_S: I'm thankful you answered my questions

PhilC: Thought you're being bombarded with messages

Rian_S: huh? Why would I though?

PhilC: Your name is being mentioned on the global chat

Rian_S: What????

I selected the global chat and tried to back read.

DemJ: Y'all got any clue 'bout the 1st major game event yet?

Doogie: Nah, not yet. 

ChkLide: nah..

Chooke: Hi

ChkLide: I don't think anything will happen yet

ChkLide: as long as the countdown's unfinished

UchiN: less than a day left

Chooke: Yes

DemJ: Have you seen the Rian_S Player? She's the clue right?

Chooke: yeah, right!

Chooke: She's the one who unlocked the Major Event

Abdul_a: She's online

ChkLide: You friends with her?

Chooke: for real?

Eeep. They know me???? 

 I've heard another unique notification tone just like when PhilC messaged me. XXX, KC and Abdul_a also sent a private message to me and they're all still in the message request tab.

XXX: Is that why you're looking for Zombies? I really can't open the Advance tutorial anymore….

KC: Hey, you're being mentioned on the global chat….

Abdul_a: Heya, no worries, I, stopped messaging in the global chats, thanks for the hint btw.

Chooke: Hi!!!!...

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 It was because my username was included in the World wide server announcement that's why some players have taken note of my name. Sending message in the open may have been a bad idea, I'll just allow PhilC to be my only contact for now.