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[Aeulheim] is one of the last surviving keyboard-and-mouse MMORPGs in a world dominated by Virtual Reality a.k.a Full-Dive Games. Due to it's last update, the players magically found themselves residing in the bodies of their game avatars.

With Game Moderators being unreachable and log out function being disabled, the players spent their first few days fearfully trapped in a game they once loved as they witnessed the deaths of fellow players. News soon spread that resurrection is possible. Apparently, they only needed to set cathedrals located in major cities as their spawn point. A few days later, this news was confirmed as a dumb/brave man who ventured too far from the safe zones died and revived on the same night

The confirmation of the revival function brought drastic changes. Players soon became relaxed. They continued hunting monsters and amassing gold while others were killing fellow players and and ruling over NPCs.

While others were engrossed in the game, Blake had long thought that the game had hidden some secrets. The NPCs, The Monsters, The Items, The Players. Everything is linked through the Will of Aeulheim, which is technically the game system. Countless Secrets are hidden on plain sight and the clues can be found with a simple call of the "Status" or "Inventory". 

"This is not a simply a game" he said.

Items? Gold? Equipment? Skills? Class? Ranking? Quests? Titles? Soon, most the players will find out that these things are only secondary. They couldn't rely on these things permanently.

Monsters? Bosses? They are nothing compared to fear of changes that came along with the game.

Respawn? Resurrection? Revival? Immortality? Soon, they will despair as they realize that the thing they relied the most on could not even help them against the greatest threat to their very own Existence.

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The Warden of Aeulheim

Hello guys, this is the part where I discuss the abbreviations I used in the game


How these Stats Apply to the game a.k.a. Battle Mechanics.


If probability is greater or equal to 1.0, the attack hits


In the event that the probability is less than 1.0, a random number generator (RNG) will be used. A lower number is a hit while a higher number is a miss. For example, the computed Probability is 0.965, and the RNG results are 0.820 the attack Hits, but the attack misses if the result is 0.971


Part II. Damage Calculation. Temporary names are given to each step for easier discussion.


Step1. Raw Damage.  Most Skills have a Fixed Damage portion and a percentage Based portion, the total of which is called Raw Damage. This includes amplifications from various skills or buffs.


Example: Elemental Ray deals 10+75%MATK as damage. If the player's MATK is 8, the skill will have a raw 16 (10+6) dmg. If the sorcerer has the buff Elemental Affinity which increases Skill Damage by 10%, the raw damage would be 18 (16+1.6) since the damage calculation is always rounded up.


Step2. Penetrating Damage. The Raw Damage is then reduced by the defender's DEF/MDEF. Let's say a Brawler receives the attack. The Brawler's MDEF is 6. The Penetrating Damage would be 12 (18-6).


The CRIT stat is always divided by 1,000. RNG will then be used to check if the attack goes critical or not. If the CRIT stat is 2, the probability would be 0.002. If the RNG returns a higher than 0.002 the damage is kept as it is but for discussion purposes we assume that the RNG miraculously shows a 0.001, then a critical hit is applied dealing 75% bonus damage. The total damage would be 21 (12 + 9).


The damage from Step3 is further reduced by the defender's ABS stat. If a brawler's ABS Stat is 3, the final damage would be 18 (21-3).


Step5. In special cases, some skills have properties that reduce the final damage. An example would be a Brawler (Mage Bane's) passive skill which reduces final magic damage by 15%. In this case, the damage applied would be 15.3 (18-2.7) which would be rounded up to 16. 


Barriers and skills such as block also take effect at this state. In case of confusion, the proper sequence of damage reduction would be:


1.) External Barriers (Such as Mana Shield and Stone Wall)


2.) Aura/spell shields that surround the body (Such as Stone Armor and Flame Guard)


3.) Active Skills that use Shields (Such as Block)


4.) Passive Skills that reduce Damage (Such as Mage Bane's Passive)


These are values that are gained every 3 seconds when out of combat and every 8 seconds when in combat.


Terms and Battle Mechanics