Fantasy Online: Hyperborea by Harmon Cooper

Author:Harmon Cooper [Cooper, Harmon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boycott Books
Published: 2017-06-01T22:00:00+00:00

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Ryuk considers Hajime’s revelation for a moment, then asks, “So none of the attacks originate from other Proxima Worlds?”

“Not a one, oddly enough. Perhaps even more oddly, all of them have been against resetters. Some of the stories are quite horrific.”

“Really?”

“I watched one feed of a man in Boise, Idaho screaming about his arms disintegrating. He was using a kitchen knife as some type of divination object and his family called the police. He continued to scream and brandish the knife, did not comply with the police’s instructions and was subsequently neutralized when he advanced on them. In Singapore, a teen jumped from his apartment building and fell to his death, livestreaming the moment and calling for his pet dragon. It has had cultural affects as well. In Dubai a woman walked out of her apartment building naked and ranting in garbled Thulean. She was killed by her younger brother for shaming the family. There are countless stories like this.”

“Damn, that’s terrible!”

“The Proxima Company has declined to comment publicly on the matter, but that’s to be expected, especially with all the legal protection corporations now have in America from slander, lawsuit, and investigation.” He turns to Ryuk. “And I don’t think this is the end of it, regarding your hallucinations. The Singaporean teen reportedly had several of these digital hallucinations before inadvertently taking his life.”

“So they’ve all come from Tritania, and they’ve all been resetters. This is big, really big. We need, I need, to find Tamana.”

“I don’t know enough about the inner workings of the dreamworld to know who, in the game, in Tritania, would be able to do anything about it. I agree with you that rescuing Tamana is a way forward, but as I said, I can only do so much from my end due to the fact I can’t dive with you.”

“The only people I know who could maybe do something about it would be Empress Thun, who lives on Polynya, the second floating continent, or even better, the Sage of Gotha, Tritania’s NVA seed,” says Ryuk.

“Neuronal visualization algorithmic seed.”

“That’s right, the root of the world, but the Sage is hard to reach. It resides on the third floating continent, Ultima Thule, and I can’t currently travel there.”

“I’m aware of the layout of Tritania. I’ve pored over maps and listened to what you’ve told me.” Hajime’s eyes light up as he asks, “Why do you actually go there?”

“What do you mean?”

“What’s the point of joining a virtual entertainment world aside from entertainment?”

“To escape,” Ryuk says firmly, “I go there less for entertainment and more to just escape.”

“Have you ever thought that maybe you go there for the same reason NPCs are trying to come here? Think about it in terms of today’s lessons.”

Ryuk snaps his fingers. “Maybe they are trying to come here to … um, experience our world.”

“If that’s the case, it seems as if they are going about it the wrong way, though.”

“The wrong way?”

Hajime stares fondly at the pond for a moment. A wind blows up, rippling the top of pond in front of them.

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