77 Being an ‘Player’ and NPC
All the players suddenly froze in their place as a high levelled NPC respectfully greeted OriginalMagus. Within the crowd, the NPC moved on to greet VidBro as well, who was hidden deep within the crowd.
After this, he looked around for more members of the COD. Seeing no one else, he then turned his attention to the confused and shocked players.
"Attention! Attention! I am here on behalf of our leader, The Sage. He said many of you should have heard of him. Anyway, he sent this message to all of you;"
At this moment, everyone received a notification with the same words that the man was speaking.
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Recruitment Offer
Dear 'Players', I am The Sage, Grand Magician as well as Leader of the Cards of Destiny (COD). I have sent my envoy in order to recruit you to my faction; the COD. It appears you have just arrived from a place far away, unknown to our current civilisation. Information about this world, Gamin continent, as well as the current situation will be made available for free for all new-comers. Please note that 'Player' OriginalMagus [HangedMan], 'Player' VidBro, 'Player' SaintessKatrina [Angel], as well as 'Player' SwordSlasher [HolySword] are part of founding members of this faction. Please also note that 'Player' WeedGod, codename [Link], has betrayed the organisation and is to be hunted down on the spot.
Do you wish to join the Cards of Destiny?
<Y/N>
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Over the past time, Luke had thought about how to refer to the players. Although he could call them that, other NPCs had simply heard that word as complete rubbish.
However, he had remembered a trick from his past like, or future life… well the trick was to create a role or position with the name 'Player' and assign it to the players. This way, he could get the NPCs to brute force their way into calling players 'Players'. To do this, he classified all players under the name 'Player' as a subspecies of humans, 'with the ability to endlessly revive and some other odd features'. This way, all those who had read through the database of his organisation would call players and 'Players'
Seeing the Recruitment Offer, all the players exploded into chatter, while many of them turned to the forums. Rapidly, the highest talked about thread on the Gamin Continent forums became 'Cards of Destiny Recruitment and wanted poster?'
"Huh? The Sage? Isn't he that famous NPC from the Beta testing?"
"Forget the rest of it? All the top professional players who have joined 'Ultimatum' are part of this faction!"
"Except WeedGod!"
"Lol! A wanted poster for him! XDXD"
"LOLOL! What did he do? I can't wait to see his face!"
"XD. Anyway, it appears these 'envoys' of COD have been sent to all players in the Leon kingdom?"
"Yes, I am a beta player from Roland. COD did not come here."
"Tch. Show-off! Being a beta tester is not that much of a benefit."
"It is!! All the levels you gained in the beta testing, all the specialisations, quests, and faction merits all stay with you!! How is that not of much benefit?! I heard OriginalMagus and the other pro-players already got to level 5 and got some incredibly evolution!"
"Damnit! I saw that! It seemed truly powerful, although, it seemed to be linked to The Sage.?"
"Yes, yes! It must be related to The Sage! Imma go join COD now!"
While the players were chatting, Luke was watching the Faction page rapidly refresh as the number rose exponentially.
Time passed, and nearly 20 minutes later, the number of people had stopped skyrocketing, and was now only increasing by one or two per second.
Luke scanned his faction page and smiled. 'Even the system is compensating for the subspecies I named.'
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Faction Interface: The Cards of Destiny
Leader: The Sage
Founding members: 8
Number of Non-Player Members: 9999
Number of workers: 5012
Number of dependent people: 2983
Number of Soldiers: 2004
Number of ��Players': 3013
Total number of members: 13020
Current enemies: WeedGod [Link]
Faction points: Infinite (You are the Leader)
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Luke sat back in his chair with an evil grin plastered on his face.
"Now, the true benefits of being an NPC will shine through!"
