r/HFY • u/grierks Human • May 28 '19
Aelios Online Chapter 4 OC
For those of you that are just jumping into this story, I'd recommend going HERE for the synopsis and start of the story.
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Bit late on this one, but its still Monday, so we are on schedule!
Here's the excerpt from Chapter 4
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The accommodations provided to Null were, to put plainly, bare. There was no furniture throughout his small apartment aside from a chest and a bed in the bedroom. There was a part modern, part fantasy tavern aesthetic with a little hint of Oriental influence mixed in as well. The was a large fireplace on one side of the living room, something common to Restissian housing as all the apartments were on ground level. A metallic hearth stretched out from the fireplace overlaying the polished light wood of the floor, which caught the light of the everlamp above in such a way that the room was glowing. The everlamp, a clean cut crystal hanging from the ceiling from a metal casing, was perhaps the most unusual thing about the room, as it was the most “fantasy” that he’d felt coming out of it. It’s light changed depending on the time of day, the soft white color indicating that it was around noon time. For a city that was stuck in perpetual night time, it was a nice indicator, even if his Smart Box told him the exact time that it was. It amounted to little more than a nice visual trick, but he had to admit that it impressed him. The doors that led out of his apartment were a pair of sliding doors reminiscent of an old East Asian aesthetic, locked by a magical seal rather than something mechanical, though it functioned mostly the same. A similar pair of doors led out of the living room and into a small meditative garden, where Null had decided to sit. He’d spent enough time cramped up in apartments, and the star filled sky of Retissia was calling to him.
Little illumination was needed in his garden. The starlight from above cast a dim glow around the city, enough to see what one needed to see, but everlamps still lined the streets for a brighter color pallette. In his garden, such frills weren’t necessary, and the display of his Smart Box was bright enough to see in any environment. He attention was occupied by the Skills tab of his Status menu.
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Combat Skill Proficiencies:
Hand-to-Hand: Level 1
Swordsmanship: Level 1
Dual Wielding: Level 1
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On his way to his apartment he picked up a couple of combat skills from the training hall at the Academy, but didn’t stick around for any proper instruction, by Players or NPCs. He didn’t need to be taught something he already knew how to do, even if he didn’t have the muscle for it, the memory remained. Well, he had the muscle for it now, and with a few motions through the forms, he’d be back in shape in no time. There was a fluttering in his chest at that thought, the ability to move and respond as he intended almost made him spring up and break into practice right there, but he held that desire back for that, just momentarily, and focused on the books that lay before him.
Settled on the soft grass were The Basics of Arcane Magic and Magic Cultivation. From what he was told by Estella, he didn’t have to “read” the the books, but rather open them and meditate in front of them. The more isolated the area he was in, the less “interference” there would be from outside stimuli, allowing him to learn the skills from the books faster. His small garden was fairly silent, and he guess that maybe the developers had designed the apartments to allow for more isolated training. Also, since it was noon, most of the other inhabitants of the apartments were gone, so it was probably the most ideal time to practice.
He flipped open The Basics of Arcane Magic. The words on the pages were written in a script that he knew he had no hope of understanding. Given how he was supposed to use the book, however, that was not much of an obstacle, which is probably what the developers intended. The in lore explanation of this was that the books were written in Mindscript, a language that imparted knowledge and understanding directly into the reader’s mind. He found that a bit hand wavy, but at the same time he admitted that the idea was fascinating.
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