World Seed

Author’s Corner: Hope that everyone had themselves a good Christmas! As always, here is another daily chapter of our story. I wonder how many people have been keeping track of the days? I suspect not many, because it’s a troubling process to do so in a story where the current date isn’t regularly brought up! However, for the sake of randomness, decided to put it up here. The current date is 12/29/3015, which is also Day 34 of his time in game. I totally did not realize when I arbitrarily made the date near Christmas that it would mean that the Seeds would be released on the first day of the new year, but hey! It works, so I can roll with it!

I had two hours until I landed on an unknown world just beyond the edge of wood elf space. So what did I do? Well, first of all I gave myself a last name! Now that I knew I wasn’t able to introduce myself in the game with my real name even if I wanted to, I at least wanted to have the same last name. That way, if need be, I can just call myself Mr. Hulett.

I also took a moment to spend my five points from leveling up on increasing my intelligence again, because I definitely needed more mana if I wanted to pursue the path of a Xeno-Shifter. By my basic estimates, an average animal like a wolf would take just over four hundred mana to transform into. Taking into account the shift in complexity and mana density, a magical beast should take around eight hundred. With the same standard applied again, a monster would need at least a thousand.

The idea that a simple slime would take a thousand mana to turn into annoyed me, but I was probably assuming a bit much. Naturally, some monsters would be less complex than others, such as slimes. That problem was sentient creatures. I had no idea the mana cost necessary to turn into a sentient, as they could technically be evolved forms of either an animal, magical animal, or monster. Either way, this is what my stats looked like now.