The Vale of Three Wolves: A LitRPG Adventure (Elements of Wrath Online Book 2) by J.A. Cipriano & J.B. Garner

Author:J.A. Cipriano & J.B. Garner [Cipriano, J.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-28T22:00:00+00:00

Quote 11

With the potentially invasive nature of NSAF gear, all units are required to be constructed with the full suite of medical and therapeutic functions as per hospital-grade units. Likewise, all deep dive networks and applications are required to maintain enough therapy-enable artificial intelligence nodes to service a full ten percent of the expected community at all times.

From the Safe and Private Policy Act 2218

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Do not panic! While you are experiencing a biodynamic irregularity, this is part of your current quest! To prevent excessive discomfort, your NSAF gear is entering low feedback mode. While you will have full neural input functionality and command functions, the input will be monitored to avoid biological distress or confusion. As soon as this segment of your quest is complete, neural input/output will be normalized and you will re-enter full immersion mode!

That simply added to my problems. With my initial shock at being stuck in Kayla’s shoes (literally), my brain threw a thousand questions and concerns. What the heck kind of quest was this? And was this even legal? This was inches away from being considered brainjacking and the usual boilerplate instructions in this situation would be to immediately jack out. However, my time working with the prototype NSAF gear informed me that a sudden disconnect in the middle of a brainjack would do as much damage as riding the ‘jack’ to its end. Even with this purposeful rerouting of the neural input/output, a sudden log out could be just as dangerous.

The only logical choice was to see this through and sort out the craziness later. It wasn’t like the game was giving me time to figure things out anyway.

The shadowy figures rushed forward with frightening speed as a much larger creature loomed behind them, their silhouettes in the spectral mists giving them a presence much greater than their size, the fear that exuded amplified by the elements of the unknown and the strange situation I was having to deal with.

Fortunately, in low feedback mode, the bizarre and awkward physical sensations that came from being in someone else’s body were minimized on my end. Unfortunately, that same connection made Kayla’s avatar lag behind my intentions by a few microseconds. Though my reaction and control times would be cut down, I could at least function.

I quickly scanned Kayla’s hotbar of equipped Gem spells and abilities. I didn’t have time to take in the full tooltip entries on each, but I had seen most of them in action often enough to understand what I was looking at.

Dimension Door (a fast cast, short range teleport), Ice Spears (good old single target Water nuke), Celestial Comet (big Light/Water AoE bang), Holy Rain (single target Light/Water attack), Flame Column (Fire blast to take advantage of elemental weaknesses), Ice Wall (a physical construct for defense or delaying enemies), Ice Shield (damage absorption shield), Soothing Cascade (Water-based healing), Storm of Shards (Water AoE that didn't suck down as much EP as the Comet), I recognized them all. There were a few wildcards:

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