Sorry for the delay. I had to rewrite a few things in this chapter, and that pushed things back a bit. It's currently 0:57 AM; I pulled an all-nighter to finish writing and polishing everything properly.
Well, I won't drag this out — wishing everyone a good night and an enjoyable read!
(P)(A)(T)/CalleumArtori.
[...]---[...]
After we laughed a little and I managed to fool everyone just enough to convince them — or at least make them ignore the topic for the moment — that I didn't actually want to throw that eyeball meat, and maybe even the goblins', onto the grill, and that it was all just a joke, I went back to messing with my phone.
It wasn't a joke.
This time, I opened the stream app.
There wasn't much else in my status that I wanted to check — I already knew everything myself, considering it was all happening to me.
I went to the achievements tab. It had been a while since I last checked it, ever since I created that ink back in Remnant. [PinKreation] was the name of the achievement, if I remember right.
There were six new achievements:
[Achievement unlocked!: The Beginning of Calamities! — Survive the 'first major event'. Reward: [Stream Major Update].
[Achievement unlocked!: The Start of Everything! — Defeat your first 'boss'. Reward: [Addon: Memory Room].
[Achievement unlocked!: Eye on You! — Kill the 'Eye of Cthulhu'. Reward: [Suspicious Looking Eye added to the Addon: Memory Room].
[Achievement unlocked!: Bloodbath! — Survive your first 'Blood Moon'. Reward: [Bloody Tear added to the Addon: Memory Room].
[Achievement unlocked!: Goblin Punter! — Defeat a goblin army (True). Reward: [Goblin Battle Standard added to the Addon: Memory Room].
[Achievement unlocked!: God's Eye — Look at the Moon for the first time. Reward: [The Blank Card].
No Pylon or Mini-Pylon, unfortunately…
"Totally not a threatening name for that first one…" Jinn commented, having returned to massaging the top of my head.
"My stream has Calamity in the name. It makes a certain amount of sense." I hummed as I shifted my gaze between the first two achievements.
"'The Beginning of Calamities' and 'The Start of Everything'. Simon said something like that before he died, didn't he?" I asked rhetorically. "That the Blood Moon was just the start of something worse. Looks like the stream agrees with the Angler."
I looked up at the ceiling for a moment. What a cursed planet…
Then I looked back at my phone.
I had noticed before that there was no achievement for the Goblin Army in Jille or for killing the Deerclops, but I wasn't sure why.
Apparently, even though the stream announced Jille's Goblin Army as a goblin army, it didn't actually count it as one — or at least it was a 'False/Fake' one — since this achievement had a 'True' next to it.
Which made sense: the army that attacked during the Blood Moon was much more of an army than the one that attacked Jille.
The Deerclops case was the confusing one. He was a boss just as much as the Eye, had an "announcement," and had the same minimap icon, but for some reason the stream didn't acknowledge that.
The only somewhat logical conclusion I reached was that the Deerclops wasn't really from Terraria — he was from the Don't Starve collab. Which also didn't make that much sense, considering this wasn't a game, and if I had to put it into perspective, the Eye was just as "non-Terraria," if not more, than the deer…
The way the stream created or decided what did or didn't count as an achievement always confused me and never really made much sense.
They weren't based on the Terraria game, that much I knew.
Some achievements had the same names as the ones in the game, like "Eye on You!", "Bloodbath!" and "Goblin Punter!", while the vast majority didn't. Actually, I think only those three, out of all the achievements I had, shared names — all the others were different.
Which, again, I had absolutely no idea why.
"The Beginning of Calamities!" was the second achievement I'd ever gotten that triggered a stream update. The other one, as far as I remembered, was the thousand-viewers achievement, right after the HOTD mission, and that had only been a "General Update," not a "Major Update" like this one.
I decided to check all the updates later and first look at the new Addon's info.
After a quick read, the [Addon: Memory Room] was basically another version of the Phantom Copy from the Dungeon, but with a few differences.
The first major difference was that I didn't get anything from it. Unlike the Phantom Copy, where I could redo the Dungeon and farm slime gel, the Memory Room was just that: a memory.
I could relive and fight the memory of anything I had faced — whether it was a specific enemy or an event — but I wouldn't get anything besides the "experience" of fighting it again.
Which, on its own, was already great.
Even enemies from before acquiring the Addon were available. There was a Jille Village scenario, another from Whinterhord with the Deerclops, and even a desert one, with the Antlion nest.
But apparently, they were only enemies and "events" from Terraria. At least for now. I had no idea if that would change with future updates, but I wouldn't doubt it. For the moment, there was nothing involving the HOTD zombies or the fight I had against Salem.
The second big difference was that the Memory Room was connected to Reality 4D. Meaning: viewers could also relive those memories and fight them — and with no real danger.
If I didn't have Reality 4D, only I would have access to the Memory Room.
The instant I showed that info, messages started popping up in front of me, letters forming inside little memory bubbles.
[MoonPrincess]
Turn it on real quick so I can blow up that horrid eyeball a few hundred billion times until I stop feeling disgusted just thinking about it. Pretty please?… ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)
[So-Tan]
I wish my Peerage had access to the stream. This is the perfect training mode! At least I'll be able to train myself.
[MagicalGirlSera-Tan]
Do you have the Memory of that deer? I've been wanting to see how my ice would match up against his for a while now. ╰(✿╹◡╹)つ──☆*:・ﾟ
[(MOD)GeniusBillionairePlayboy]
A perfect nuclear testing ground!
(Iron Man emote staring at multiple mushroom-cloud explosions in the distance.)
[AinzOoalGown]
It's basically a training Dungeon with no loot? I'll use it when I've got nothing better to do. I'll test myself against the Eye and the Deerclops.
[AdvocateOfGenderEquality]
Bro, all of you are insane. I'm not going anywhere near that freaky eye or that crazy deer. I'll stay put in Jille and that's it!
Serafall isn't going to stop using that magic-wand emote, is she?…
"You guys don't even know how this works yet. I highly doubt it's free — or did you forget that I even have to pay to turn the stream off?" I said sarcastically, sliding my finger across the screen as I opened the Memory Room settings.
As expected, it wasn't free:
-//-
[Memory Room]
Settings:
Memory Room: Off.
Safety Filter: On (Locked).
Entry Cost (Streamer): 1 million SP per 1 hour (Fixed).
Entry Cost (Viewers): 1 million SP per 1 hour (Minimum 1 million).
Automatic power and energy adjustment between worlds: Off.
Temporal Distortion Filter: Off.
Manual Power Adjustment: Off.
Recording Mode: Off.
(+)…
[Times of Day]:
06:00 — Morning.
12:00 — Afternoon.
15:00 — Mid-Afternoon.
18:00 — Sunset.
22:00 — Night.
03:00 — Dawn.
Customizable schedule.
[Terrains]:
Forest.
Plains.
Shahrabad Desert.
Shahrabad Island.
Snowy Tundra.
Whinterhord County.
Beach (Blueharbor).
Dungeon (Slime).
Terraria Kingdom.
(+)…
[Enemies]:
Slime (Green, Blue, Red, Purple, Yellow, Black, Grey).
Mimic (Dungeon).
Mother Slime (Dungeon).
Direwolves.
Deerclops (Insane Form).
Shadow Creature (Crawling Horror, Terrorbeak, Shadow Watcher…).
Pinky (Dead-form).
Goblins (Peon, Thief, Warrior, Sorcerer, Archer, Warlock).
Antlion (Albino, Charger, Swarmer, Larva, Eggs).
Antlion Queen.
Goblin Army (Jille).
Goblin Army (Blood Moon).
Blood Animal (Rabbit, Wolf, Squirrel, Bird, Bear…).
Zombie.
Blood Zombie.
Demon Eye.
Drippler.
Wandering Eye Fish.
Zombie Merman.
Dreadnautilus.
Blood Squids.
Hemogoblin Shark.
The Angler (Corrupted Form).
'The Eye' — The Eye of the Moon: The Eye That Brings the Bloodied Cloud Beyond the Sea of Stars.
[Events]:
Rain.
Blizzard.
Sandstorm.
Hallucination Storm (Deerclops).
Slime Rain.
Blood Moon — The Crimson Night: All Is Blood.
Starless Sky — The Black Canvas: The Void Outside the World.
The Storm — Gray Clouds: The Night When Eyes Fly.
-//-
[AdvocateOfGenderEquality]
Goddamn it, I hate being poor!
[TohsakaHeiress]
Ugh! So much for training my Magecraft safely… （πーπ）
Pushing the beggars' messages away from my (CHAT), I finished reading the settings.
Honestly, I would've preferred getting SP or something else from achievements. I didn't even get an achievement for killing the Deerclops, and yet he was right there in the settings…
I'll keep the viewer cost at one million SP. It was already expensive — making it even pricier wouldn't make sense. Better to leave it at the minimum so more people can buy it over time and buy it more often.
That would bring in a shitload of SP for me, wouldn't it?…
I got confused for a moment about why there were enemies listed that I hadn't fought myself. Until I realized that, well, I had fought them… or rather: my Nightmares had, or at least they'd helped in the battle.
"Are you in there? Or at least the Shadow Puppet?" Jinn asked, leaning forward to read on the phone.
"No, I looked for myself too." It was one of the first things I checked, actually. If I were there, I'd leave myself disabled, just in case.
Jinn nodded and leaned back.
"I'll turn the Memory Room on later. Let me check the rest of the changes first," I told the camera.
I ignored the irritated comments from the impatient ones. If I was going to leave this Addon on, it would be when I could relax and watch the recordings people would make.
I was sure some gems would come out of that. Serafall and Stark were already starting to organize raffles for one-hour passes for random people in (CHAT).
Those two enjoyed spending money; more than half the people in the (CHAT) were paid in by them during those 'who spends more' contests.
My SP would be grateful. And speaking of SP, I had received a good amount over the past few days.
[Current SP: 673,146,164]
A little over half a billion. Ignoring the time Ainz donated one billion and two hundred million, this was the highest amount of SP I'd ever had.
I had a little over two hundred million before the Blood Moon happened, if I remembered correctly. Which meant I'd earned more SP from the Blood Moon and fifteen thousand viewers than from the millions in Remnant during the Salem fight.
Sure, I didn't earn the full SP from those millions, but apparently a "Major Event," as the stream called it, was really profitable.
I pulled up the info for the Minimap and the VoidBag.
[Living Map LV7: 25,000,000 SP]
[VoidBag LV8: 50,000,000 SP]
I had more than enough SP to upgrade both once, easily. Maybe twice, depending on how much the cost would rise afterward.
Not that I was going to do it now, of course. Maybe later. The current versions were good enough, and I'd need that SP for Analyze: Item on the others.
With that done, I pulled up the 'reward' for the moon-gazing achievement: [The Blank Card].
The moment my fingers touched the item, I felt a connection form. It was similar to the connection I had with the Mini-Pylon, but weaker.
As the name implied, it was a blank card. About the size of a playing card, more or less. Thicker, around half a centimeter, maybe a bit less.
It felt like polished stone and had a pale white color that reminded me of the moon's surface. It was more like a small slab than a card, in my opinion.
The card also gave off a strange sensation, like it was both highlighted and dull at the same time. As if it were something pulled straight out of a cartoon and also too real.
It just felt… wrong.
I stifled a shiver and opened the item description:
-//-
[The Blank Card]
Type: Accessory (Bound).
Rarity: Orange-Devas.
Prefix: Foreigner.
Durability: 10,000,000/10,000,000 (Regenerative)
[..]
Ability — Foreigner:
Upon activating the ability, [The Blank Card] can be filled with information from the surrounding world and altered accordingly, becoming something entirely different.
[..]
Description:
Made from a piece of the Moon, [The Blank Card] is the purest representation of what it means to be a Foreigner.
A blank card, untouched by the world around it. The pure aspect of something Foreign trying to belong to a world that is not its own.
No world is truly its own.
[..]
~ This is not the right world. ~
-//-
"This is made of the moon… I want to throw it away," I grumbled, somewhat childishly.
The only response I got was Jinn's amused laugh and two pats on the cheek from Millia.
I wasn't going to throw the card away, of course. It was probably way too useful for that. But I wanted to, I really did. And I was also a bit pissed realizing I could've gotten this the first time I went to Terraria. Something told me this would've made my life a lot easier.
I spun the card on the tip of my index finger.
"Are you going to use it?" Jinn asked.
"No. I feel like Terraria isn't the best world for it." It was a kind of strange sixth sense, coming from the connection I had with the card.
Terraria was an 'acceptable' world to use the card in — more than acceptable, actually — but it wasn't the best. I could use it here, nothing was stopping me, but the result wouldn't reach the card's full potential, and that would be a waste.
Closing my eye, I counted to three before opening it again. The ceiling of the beach house in the Spirit Realm was the first thing I saw.
I raised my right hand and "grabbed" the air, where the card appeared, held between the fingers of this child-sized body.
"Not here either…" I muttered. The 'compatibility' was even higher than Terraria — almost perfect — but in a way, it also felt much worse.
Using the card in the Spirit Realm would basically be pointless, no matter how 'compatible' it was.
Closing my eyes again, I opened them inside Proto-A.
"Another thing for later…" I tossed the card into the VoidBag. Right next to the A Coin, Nameless Crown, Broken Hero Sword, and a few other things I had that were gathering dust.
I thought the Broken Hero Sword might've had a use during the Blood Moon.
I had planned to use it as a "mold" to outline the "image" of Excalibur over it in the real world. But thanks to the birth of the Shadow Puppet, that wasn't necessary, and I was able to forge Excalibur Asura and pull it straight out of the Spiritual Realm.
The next thing I went to check were the stream updates.
There were a lot. But among all those updates, many were just technical details and overall improvements. Which was honestly surprising, since the stream's quality had somehow gotten even better.
But there were a few updates that actually brought real changes.
First, Reality 4D had been updated — at least temporarily — for the "big event" that was the Blood Moon and the fight against "The Eye."
Because of that, the stream seemed to have given me a discount.
[Hyper Reality 4D (Safe): 8,300,000,000,000 >>> 217,584,616. Temporary promotion valid for 7 days. Time remaining: 3 days, 6 hours and 16 minutes.]
8.3 trillion SP for "only" two hundred million.
Reading a bit more through the update log, this was basically the total SP I had at the moment the stream force-updated Reality 4D, which ended up turning into a temporary promotion.
[(MOD)GeniusBillionairePlayboy]
Buy this shit now! If you need SP later I'll give you some. That's literally a 99.97% discount. It's stupid to even consider NOT buying it!
"I was already going to buy it, you don't need to state the obvious." I huffed.
Even though I didn't really need the updated Reality 4D, it would help long-term. It would improve the stream and, frankly, the discount was so absurd there was no universe where I wasn't buying it.
With one click, my SP dropped by over two hundred million:
[Current SP: 455,561,548]
I still had plenty.
The second update I checked was that my phone could now receive calls from other dimensions and worlds beyond the one I was in.
The moment I showed this info to the camera, the phone started ringing and a number I didn't have saved popped up on the screen.
[AdvocateOfGenderEquality]
Is your ringtone seriously Bad Apple?!
[MoonPrincess]
This song feels strangely familiar…
I ignored both comments and brushed them aside with the back of my hand before answering the call.
The voice that came through was familiar, thanks to the Game Table.
"Would you have a moment to hear the word of our lord and savior—"
I hung up.
"Stark really has way too much free time…" I muttered.
A second later, another number appeared on my phone. I answered again.
"Would you have a moment to hear the word of our Lord and savior—"
I hung up again.
"Was that Serafall?" Jinn asked, clearly amused.
"It was…" I sighed. "How the hell did they get my number?"
"You gave it out in Remnant so the girls could call you with the scrolls, remember?"
"Ah… right. I didn't even think about turning on the filter to hide the numbers."
I hadn't remotely considered that the stream would update to allow literal interdimensional calls.
Another number appeared on the screen. I rubbed my forehead — this was going to be a pain…
I spent the next few minutes setting up and saving the numbers of a few important people. Then I configured the stream to filter any call that wasn't considered important, otherwise my phone would become unusable.
After saving everything, I ran a test: I called one of my friends back home, on Earth.
"This number is currently out of reach. It was not possible to establish a connection with the origin of the call."
As expected… but I can't say I didn't have a tiny bit of hope.
Pushing the thought aside, I wrote in the (CHAT) with Jarvis that I'd read the warning I'd asked him to send. Thirty minutes had already passed.
I turned off the alarm that started ringing on my phone and went back to checking the updates. I ignored Jinn's stare.
The next update I checked was related to missions.
Now, besides the normal missions I could accept every seven days, there was a tab where I could accept "Flash Missions."
Flash Missions were exactly what the name suggested: quick missions, ranging from three hours to at most seven days in another world.
Their rewards were smaller than normal missions, and I also couldn't invite anyone to the stream with a [Paid Invitation], only with an [Invitation Ticket].
I even checked how many of those I still had in my inventory. The answer was six.
Another new feature added to missions was that I could choose an archetype to act out during the mission, earning extra rewards from the stream. The list of archetypes was random, changing from mission to mission, with three to five options to choose from.
For example, if I chose the "Hero" archetype, the more I acted like a hero, the greater the extra rewards would be. I could still behave normally, but the further my actions strayed from the archetype, the fewer rewards I'd receive.
The extra rewards for archetypes included items from the mission's world, SP, or things like health and mana potions and health and mana crystals.
It was honestly a pretty cool idea. The (CHAT) seemed to like it, and Stark suggested I let them choose the archetypes through a poll, which wasn't a bad idea either.
The last change in the missions tab was a "Ticket Exchange Box," where I could place a mission ticket I already had and trade it for something of equal value but in larger quantity, or trade several lower-tier tickets for something of higher quality.
I tested it with an Emergency Mission Ticket, putting it inside the box, which spat out four tickets in return.
Their description read:
-//-
[Emergency Mission Ticket (Automatic)] [4x]
Type: Consumable
Rarity: Amber
Use: An emergency ticket that is automatically used if something happens.
The ticket will then be spent, generating an emergency mission, where "The Streamer" can accept it or ignore it.
Note: If "The Streamer" rejects the mission, the ticket will not be refunded.
Note: Emergency missions may occur outside the world of Terraria; if they do, "The Streamer" will have a time limit of 7 days before being teleported back to Terraria.
Note: Emergency missions will have an unknown difficulty; caution is recommended!
-//-
It was basically the same description as a normal emergency mission ticket, except the one-month time limit was now seven days.
I could even trade one of these seven-day tickets for seven one-day tickets.
I tested merging them back into a one-month ticket and it worked. But since I had two of those, I left one set divided. In the end, I ended up with one one-month emergency mission ticket, three seven-day tickets, and seven one-day tickets.
The one-day limit was absolute — I couldn't split them further.
Jinn suggested trying to trade the generic Rainbow Mission Ticket I had, and the result was a bit different. Instead of spitting out more tickets, the box returned a single ticket with a "Purple" ranking.
Placing the 'Purple' ranking ticket inside, I was given two options: turn it back into a Rainbow Mission Ticket or transform it into three 'Red' ranking tickets.
"'Purple' is equivalent to 'Rainbow', so… what's the difference?" I let the question slip out loud.
The answer I came to after studying both descriptions a bit was that a 'Purple' mission world was the same as the others in terms of rewards — there was one major mission with one major reward, plus a few smaller missions scattered around.
In the case of a Rainbow mission, it was the opposite: there were several small missions, and there might be big missions.
Overall, the total reward was the same; what changed was how you obtained it. 'Purple' was basically everything at once at the end of the mission, while 'Rainbow' rewarded you gradually as you found missions throughout the world.
It was also guaranteed that a 'Purple' mission world would be extremely dangerous, while a Rainbow mission world would be potentially very dangerous.
There was also the fact that I could come and go from the Rainbow world as days passed, but not from a Purple mission world.
In the end, I chose to keep the ticket as Rainbow. It was the better option.
The last two major changes the update brought were: viewers now had a profile they could customize with items — items earned from the other major change: a prize roulette for viewers.
Once per week, anyone who was a member could spin the roulette to earn a random prize.
Most of the prizes were related to the stream. Random emotes, self-made custom emotes, nickname color changes, a nickname change ticket — which I genuinely hoped no one from (CHAT - FATES) would get.
If they did, I'd force them to change it back.
SP to spend on possible future events in the stream, free trips to the Memory Room, a participation ticket for the Game Table. There were even unique medals commemorating events that happened on stream.
There was one medal with a Blood Moon engraving — only a single copy existed in the roulette, with a 0.003% chance of being won.
Besides the medal appearing on the person's profile, they also received a physical copy of it in real life.
There was a lot in that roulette, and the better or rarer the item, the harder it was to drop, since the percentage was tiny and fewer copies existed — like the Blood Moon medal — and they didn't go back into the roulette the following week; those items had (Unique) in the title.
I could also add my own "items" to the roulette if I wanted — for example: "Call Ticket: Have a five-minute conversation with the Streamer."
But I threw that shitty idea out pretty quickly. There were fifteen thousand people; even if the draw was once a week, I'd still end up talking on the phone for at least a few hours.
But (CHAT) insisted on that specific idea, so I set a limit of ten of those tickets per week and a very low chance of them appearing.
I tried adding real items, like a health potion, but that wasn't possible. The roulette could only involve stream-related stuff.
There was also a "Trade Area" on the same page as the roulette, where viewers could negotiate trades of items for other items or sell them for SP to other viewers, with the stream as the mediator and taking 10% of the trade value — meaning my SP was going to skyrocket.
The reaction from (CHAT) was, at the very least… interesting.
[AinzOoalGown]
I have money to spare; anyone willing to sell the unique medals to me, just say the word. Sorry to the rest of you, but I'm collecting them all.
[(MOD)GeniusBillionairePlayboy]
Fuck off, skeleton! You think I'm poor or something? Anything involving Jille is going straight into my hands — don't even dream otherwise!
(Iron Man credit-card swipe emote)
[(MOD)RedHuntressLive]
There's a "Little Red Rescue" medal! That's me! Whoever gets it, please give it to me! I don't have much money, but I can steal Weiss's card!
(Red Riding Hood begging emote)
[TohsakaHeiress]
I found a way to earn SP to train in the Memory Room!
[MagicalGirlSera-Tan]
I want the "Excalibur Asura", "The Orange Eye", and "Divinity Candy" medals. I don't care about the price — if you want SP equal to Japan's GDP, I'll pay!
(Magical girl throwing money emote)
[AsuraLady]
The "Pink-Maned Lion" one is mine. I'm the streamer's wife, deny me and you already know!
[AdvocateOfGenderEquality]
Fuck! Gacha even here. What a miserable existence… What a bad civilization...
"There's a 'Relic of Knowledge' medal with a mini-version of me on it. I want that one." Jinn tapped my phone screen over my shoulder, sounding deadly serious. "If someone gets it, just let me know — I'll buy it. If someone gets it and refuses to sell, I'll ban them."
("I want the 'King Oz' and the 'Immortal Witch'. And remember, one day Devas is going to end up in your world, and I'll be going with him. I have the patience to find you, take as long as you like…") Ozma's voice echoed through the mental mic — low, quiet, and absolutely threatening.
"They went straight to threats…? Seriously?" Shit, even I was surprised by that.
And the funniest part? I hadn't even activated the roulette yet. Most of the updates needed my permission first.
After configuring the roulette a bit — and setting it so no custom emote could contain anything sexual — I activated it for the members. In less than a second, hundreds of messages started flooding the roulette reward (CHAT).
I made this chat specifically to keep my sanity intact.
[RedHuntressLive has received the medal: "Slime (Blue)"!]
[CherryNova has received a Custom Emote!]
[Dirty Beggar has received 10,000 SP!]
[AinzOoalGown has received the medal: "Goblin Warrior"!]
[Neopolitan has received: "Call Ticket (Five minutes)"!]
[AdvocateOfGenderEquality has received a Ticket: "Small-Table Game Participation"!]
[SkyWatcher95 has received the random emote: "HappySlime"!]
[(MOD)JinnOfTheLamp has received the medal: "Demon Eye"!]
[CrystalBloom has received the medal: "Health Potion"!]
[AsuraLady has received the medal: "Zombie (HOTD)"!]
[MagicalGirlSera-Tan has received the medal: "Slime (Red)"!]
[JustAnOrdinaryPeasant has received a Ticket: "Free Entry to the Memory Room"!]
[WinterSchnee has received the medal: "Hallucination (Crawling Horror)"!]
[(MOD)GeniusBillionairePlayboy has received 500,000 SP (Unique-Weekly)!]
[TheWizardOz has received the unique medal: "The Infinite Man (Unique)"!]
I blinked slowly. The corner of my mouth twitched as I fought a laugh.
No fucking way that Neo, of all people, got a call ticket…
I couldn't hold it — I started laughing quietly.
"Tsk… Didn't get anything I wanted." I heard Jinn grumble behind me.
("Am I still cursed…?") Ozma's weary voice echoed. I heard him sigh. ("Well, at least I got something decent.")
I stayed there for a few minutes, reading (CHAT) and everyone's reactions.
Ruby and Serafall traded medals almost instantly. Stark was complaining, saying the last thing he needed was more money, while JustAnOrdinaryPeasant — clearly not Jeanne — thanked everyone for the chance to use the Memory Room.
No one besides Ozma seemed to get anything truly (Unique). Stark came the closest, grabbing that week's unique reward.
After a while, I pulled up the roulette tab to check the prizes. The three rarest rewards still hadn't been claimed by anyone. Well, the top 1 had a ridiculous 0.0000001% chance, so that was… kind of expected.
One in a billion, basically. Top 2 was one in a hundred million, and top 3 was one in ten million.
Ridiculously low odds, but even I couldn't change that in the settings.
Those three items were also the ones that involved me the most. Out of everything, they were the ones that affected me directly. I hadn't shown their descriptions to the CHAT—if someone actually got one, then I'd explain.
Top 3 was a "Stream Participation Ticket." The winner could spend an entire day with me on stream, choosing whether to use a clone-copy in Hyper Reality 4D or their real body.
I had a vague feeling that this ticket only existed because of the Reality 4D update.
It wasn't truly (Unique), since it reset. Not weekly, but monthly. Still, it was something more than one person could get.
Top 2 was a "Mission Request Ticket." Whoever used it would create a mission in their world and send it to the stream, and I could choose to accept it.
This one reset every six months. But considering what it did, I still thought that was too soon—since it was basically an invitation for me to go to the person's world.
But top 1 was what really caught my attention:
-//-
[Pocket Trump Card (Evolutive)]
Type: Accessory
Rarity: Orange–Devas
Prefix: Hallucinogenic Memory
Durability: 10,000,000 / 10,000,000 (Regenerative)
[..]
Ability – Hallucinogenic Memory:
When the ability is activated, the PocketTrumpCardPocket Trump CardPocketTrumpCard melts in the user's hand, revealing an orange eye in the center of the palm that sees crystallized fragments of the "Streamer's" recorded memories.
From these memories, the user can summon a "Memory Image" of the "Streamer" and call them forth.
If "The Streamer" accepts the summons, their real consciousness will inhabit the "Memory Image"; if not, the "Memory Image" will move based on instinct.
The strength, stability, form, and duration of the Image depend on the user's life force, inner power, emotional control, and energy density.
The summon can currently only be used once per week.
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Description:
A completely black card that, when used, reveals the eye that sleeps within the abyss.
The card is thin and light, yet it pulses as if it were breathing.
Created from the shadow of a memory that should never have existed, the PocketTrumpCardPocket Trump CardPocketTrumpCard is a fragment of one who hunts and protects their own kind until the end of days.
Not a being—just a hallucinogenic image.
After all, it's nothing but a memory trying to exist… in a world that doesn't acknowledge it.
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~ You have no idea what you've summoned into your world, do you…? ~
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Ignoring the bizarre description and the last line that makes me sound like some kind of fucking eldritch horror, because—
Because why the hell did this look so much like a damn Pokémon?!
A Pokémon, for fuck's sake! The stream wanted to turn me into a fucking Pokémon!
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Alright, let's break this down:
First, the achievements. I didn't follow the game's achievements because, at the beginning, I had different plans for the story. The plans changed, but the part about not sticking to the achievements exactly stayed the same. They'll show up, but only when something important happens.
Yes, Devas could've picked up [The Blank Card] at any moment. It's an item I'd planned since the very start of the story. It's going to be pretty important in the not-so-distant future.
As for the [Memory Room], well… it's something I created to mimic how the game works — the repeated boss fights. I don't intend to give him extra loot; it's only for experience. It also lets the viewers fight what Devas has already fought and realize just how screwed they'd be in his place.
Reality 4D gives a perspective of what happened in the fight, but nothing compares to literally fighting the things Devas faced to understand how messed up Terraria really is.
Now, about the updates:
Hyper Reality 4D only exists thanks to the stream's "promotion." As Devas said, he didn't need it, but not taking advantage of that promotion would've been stupid.
His phone being able to take calls between worlds is something I've wanted to add for a while. It's going to be more useful later in the story.
Now, the update I wanted to introduce the most: the Flash Missions system and the archetypes. Especially the archetypes — just thinking about writing some of the scenes I have in mind already makes me excited.
The Ticket Exchange Box and the Flash Missions exist so I can create more missions and send Devas to more worlds without needing to waste too many chapters or make huge time skips.
Finally, the roulette: I noticed the stream was missing a few things. This was the way I found to fill in some gaps.
Finally, the [Pocket Trump Card]. This is going to be really important for moving a specific world forward without needing Devas to be physically there messing things up.
Well, I think I've covered everything that happened in the chapter. The next chapter is Devas checking the rewards he received; something's going to happen midway, then a time skip, and then another world!
Have a good night, everyone, and enjoy the read!
PS: Someone asked me how strong "The Moon" is. I answered that in a private message, but there's no harm in saying it here too.
Look up "Eye of Cthulhu RGB keyboard" and see how ridiculous that thing is — that's my answer.
PPS: I'm almost sure I've written the "PS." above before, but I don't remember.
PPPS.: "Orange" won the vote. "or" and "Neon Green" nearly tied. I'll just call it a tie, because counting the votes drains my soul.
Edit: There's a copy-and-paste error in the Pocket Trump Card item that I didn't notice. I'd fix it, but people have already commented and I don't like deleting comments, so I'll just leave it as is. Sorry about that.