The not so great escape.
As he held his body together a small dinging noise rang in his mind followed by the appearance of a blue screen that replaced the blank expanse of darkness in front of him.
*Ding!*
[Requirements Fulfilled]
[Quest Created]
[Ranking: Tutorial]
Title: Leave
Description :
As a newly created [ACESS DENIED] you are weak and your surroundings pose a great threat to your continued existence.
Exit the area surrounding your place of creation.
[Rewards:]
Passive body control (low)
Passive area perception (low)
System points (100)
He stared at the screen, dumbfounded. He scanned over the text repeatedly while his lax concentration causing his body to spread across the floor.
Suddenly, a refreshing feeling spread over him, calming him down and allowing him to grasp the important parts of the notice.
' 'Your surroundings pose a great threat to your continued existence.'.... Great! Good! Wonderful! I wake up as a fucking liquid in god knows where, I almost die twice in row and now I...'
While he was peacefully mulling over the phrase another screen appeared before him in the upper-righthand corner of his 'vision'.
[Requirement Fulfilled]
Time_Remaining : <1 minute
[Distance to exit: 0.89 meters]
Reach the exit in under 50 seconds or the threat to your continued existence shall increase tremendously.
The appearance of the message forced him to focus on the matter at hand.
After all, although he hadn't the slightest idea of what constituted a 'tremendous threat to his continued existence', he had no intention of finding out.
And thus he began his escape.
[50 seconds remaining]
[0.89 meters remaining]
He began by attempting to pull his body into a sphere-like shape, he then proceeded to try and 'rotate' it to advance as if it was a wheel.
Due to the nature of his body however this method failed miserably.
It only brought him forward a mere few centimetres before his form collapsed.
While gathering his body he stared at the timer to check his progress.
[45.67 seconds remaining]
[0.92 meters remaining ]
'Are you fucking kidding me!'
Using a few precious seconds to evaluate his previous attempt, he quickly designed a new method that took his body's proprieties into consideration.
Then, after adjusting his orientation, he advanced.
He began pulling his body forward in a manner that would have reminded observers of a flowing liquid, had any been present in the room.
He glanced at the screen.
[37.84 seconds remaining]
[0.87 meters remaining]
He sighed with relief, at least he was heading the right way this time! However he did find the amount of time left very worrying.
Per his calculations, if he could continue at his present speed, he would take roughly 47.50 seconds to reach the exit, a full 9.66 seconds over the rapidly diminishing 37.84 second time limit.
He kept advancing towards the exit while trying to think of a solution.
'A ball, no I've already tried that. Maybe I could...no my body's not strong enough to make appendages.'
'Ugh why didn't I major in something like Hydrophysics, then I might've been able to think of something.'
'Think, think, think! Come on Adam, you can do this. Just think back, how does water move?'
'Alright, water flows, like a river, but I'm not that big...a puddle maybe? Yes, a puddle! How do puddles move....wait, puddles don't move. Accounting for the degree of control I have over my body I should be some sort of slime, a flat slime but a slime nonetheless.'
Though his thoughts were somewhat disordered and disjointed, his mind having picked up the habit of jumping from one train of thought to another seemingly at random Adam still managed to discover a solution.
'So maybe I should move like this? Yep! Like this! To freedom we go!'
Having roughly figured out how to move his new body in a relatively effective manner Adam moved his body towards the goal.
His dark green body moved slowly, folding over, and sometimes through, itself like a mutant slinky.
He advanced towards the hole as fast as he could reaching the supposed goal in twenty seconds, a good time for someone only 12 minutes old.
Adam stopped for a moment feeling around the goal, finding it to be a huge hole, hesitant to jump into a hole of unknown depth Adam checked the timer...
[8.43 seconds remaining]
[0.02 meters remaining]
And flowed into the hole without a second thought as he felt the ground begin trembling as the timer approached zero.
*Ding*
[Requirements Fulfilled]
[Quest Completed]
[Ranking: Tutorial]
[Title: Leave]
Description :
As a newly created [ACESS DENIED] you are weak and your surroundings pose a great threat to your continued existence.
Exit the area surrounding your place of creation.
[Rewards Obtained:]
Passive body control (low)
Passive area perception (low)
System points (100)
[Collect rewards?]