A humming voice filled the empty endless space of what seemed to be an empty cube with white walls, floor and ceiling. In the middle of this nowhere a girl appeared in a blue energy field. She looked like 15 years old, had a japanese appearance with almond shaped eyes and long black hair. She wore a black mini skirt, a white shirt and black shoes. A red hairband was curled around her left ankle. She took a closer look at the empty space.
"Computer, enable connection to the Yggdrasil system", she said after a second.
With a humming voice a green translucent computer display appeared in the middle of nowhere. In its right upper corner a small symbolic satellite appeared, and in the middle of it was a message displayed
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Attempting to connect with Yggdrasil Computer System... |
After a while a little face appeared on the screen.
"Miyu speaking", the girl in front of the screen said. "Skuld, was this episode supposed to be empty?"
"I am checking the Main Data Core", the woman on the screen replied. "No, this must be a not yet recognized orphaned episode."
"An orphaned episode that early in the story tree?", Miyu asked bewildered. "This must be a survivor of the great flame wars that raged across the AddVenture some time ago. Do we have information about persons who claim to be owner of this episode?"
"No, I do not have any data about this." Skuld shrugged her shoulders. "There are neither any owner recorded for this episode nor are there any running requests for adoption."
"Okay, link this episode to the Yggdrasil VARE system", Miyu nodded. "I will take care of this episode. And send me some datas about the parent episodes, please."
"I will upload them to your terminal, Miyu." Skuld smiled holding up her left thumb. "Make them dance, boss."
The communication collapsed. Miyu cracked her fingers and turned around. The computer screen minimized and kept in the lower left edge of her point of view. A single thought, and it would pop up, but at the moment, she didn't need the aid of the Yggdrasil Master AI.
"Start up CreatorTM." A chriping sound said, that CreatorTM was ready for action. This subroutine of the Yggdrasil VARE System was a powerful tool for fast and easy VR creation. It adopted the user's talent of visualization to write the VR environment. A huge world could be build at the speed of thoughts with this tool. "Load base module Fantasy World. Environment is a green hill with flowers and some single trees." The white faded away as the changes took place. Almost immediately Miyu stood on the top of a small hill covered with green grass and beautiful flowers. "Load modules dark forrest to the east, small medieval city to the west, farm land to the south, and country fair to the north. Add module hero group on adventuring. Add to group one dwarf mine worker archetype, male, one elven rogue archetype female, one human warrior archetype male, and one human sorceress archetype female. Link to Yggdrasil AI system. Load scenario to the VARE System." Every command given by Miyu was accepted by the computer and confirmed with a double beep. "I think, that is all. Return me to the OEAO Center and start the show."
Miyu faded away in a beam of blue light. The same moment the group with the four heroes woke up from their slumber.
"Garrag", the warrior pointed at the dwarf. "Wheren't you supposed to take the last guard?"
"I took, Alvin", the warf responded scratching his head. "I must have passed out."
"I told you not to give a shift to the dwarf", the elven girl said.
"Ah, Merina, be quiet." The dwarf shook his axe. "You haven't even guarded us for an hour."
"Because I had to heal Nadia", the elven girl pointed at the sorceress, "after she was hurt by those skelettons that attacked us just because Mister Dwarf here could not hold back and had to steal the treasure from the cursed mine."
"Stop arguing", Nadia begged. "Let us think about what to do now. At least we have some artifacts to be identified and some money to spend. We might also need some food. And we still haven't finished our main quest concerning this black mage living somewhere behind this forrest."
The group picked up their items and headed...
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