「Chapter VII (8): But First...」

『𝐅𝐮𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭: "James Holiday's nickname Anorak was a name given by a Female British Exchange Student when he was in High School, this Girl is Kira, Halliday's Crush and Morrow's Wife."』

『𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲: "I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I just didn't know how to connect with people there. I was afraid for all my life, right up until the day I knew my life was ending." - James Halliday (Anorak.)』

『𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐭: "01010000 01110101 01101110 01111001 00100000 01100111 01101111 01100100."』

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『𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟑, ???, ???』

『𝟏𝟑:𝟎𝟎』

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐩 𝐏𝐎𝐕』

𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐝, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐱 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫.

Felix could be seen reading something, to be precise a new Task given to him by the System, which could be seen floating in front of him, he could be seen reading this with a very bored expression, his right hand under his chin.

This time thought their is a little bit of change, perhaps it's because Felix has a broken old rusty like Revolver in his lap, with a small flat screen attached to it.

Or perhaps it's because the change of location Felix is in, yes Felix is sitting on a Grass with the Sun behind him, alongside a few building's.

Weirdly enough they are all empty, no Bystander or NPC on sight could be seen.

If you didn't realise what I'm talking about, then let me tell you about the Tool Gun and gm_construct.

Both are from Gmod, short for Garry's Mod.

First of the Tool Gun, the Tool Gun is something used in Gmod to manipulate a variety of functions and also create variety of thing's, building is just one of them.

Now the gm_construct on the other hand is a map, one of the two default map in Gmod in fact.

「𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "That's nice..."」

Felix mumbled to himself before grabbing and scanning the Tool Gun.

Infront of Felix just like I said earlier, is the Task that the System gave to Felix.

『The Lobby (3)』

『Detail: All your game's need a hub to connect too, create a lobby like place where your Player's could spawn and communicate to other Player's.』

『Reward: 50,000 SGC & System lvl 1.』

『Punishment: -10,000 SGC.』

『Progress: Incomplete.』

『Time Limit: 7 Day's.』

Felix nonchalantly swiped the Task to the side, as the said Window Task evaporates away, blue particles following it until it fully disappeared.

「𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "But first!"」

Felix said to himself with a mischievous grin, his eye's solely focused on the Tool Gun.

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『𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟑, 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝟎, ??? (𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝), ???』

『𝟏𝟔:𝟏𝟑』

Felix could be seen sitting on a golden throne, literal pure gold, so shiny in fact that it's DAZZLING. No seriously it's BLINDING.

In front of Felix are tons of Guns and Corpses of Random NPC's, from Santa Claus too Teletubbies and Mr. Meeseeks.

In the middle one Grinch NPC could be seen standing, alive and also holding a shotgun, his face and body bloodied so much that their is a hole in his chest.

Sadly the NPC wasn't able to live long, because Felix shot him in the head using a Sniper Rifle.

「𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "HEADSHOT!"」

Felix said to himself in a cheerie go lucky tone, he then trew the Sniper Rifle he is holding to the side without care, it's muzzle still smoking, blue particles enveloping it until it disappears completely.

Besides Felix is a table containing a few Lego bricks and the Tool Gun, did I mention before that Felix is in a Roman like Colosseum? And that the NPC's before we're fighting because Felix made them too?

No? We'll I guess you learn new thing's everyday.

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "This is getting boring."』

Felix though to himself reaching out for the Tool Gun, and then caressing it like the love of his life with both of his hands.

Felix then quickly sighted placed down the Tool Gun and stretched his limb's, he then called out for his Assistant Sebastian in the process, using only his inner voice aka his thoughts.

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "Clear all deceased NPC in the perimeter."』

After Felix "said" that a holograph in front of Felix appeared displaying the following text.

『...』

『..』

『.』

『Removed 100 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐏𝐂 from Sector ??? (Playground)』

An highlight replaced the word Deceased NPC, this shows which type and the name of the NPC that was removed.

Unsurprisingly the annoying voice of the sarcastic AI Sebastian wasn't heard, Felix presumably could only hear Sebastian when the AI is talking to him, when the AI itself is in sentient mode is on, moving on.

Instantly all the Blood, Corpse's and Weapon that was scattered around the Roman like Colosseum disappeared, blue particles following it in the process.

Felix who finished stretching grabbed his Tool Gun and pulled out another Window, this one seemingly knew because it displays other location's that Felix could travel with a click.

『Sector 1: Pangea (The Lobby)』

『Sector 0: ??? (Playground)』

『Sector 0: ??? (Twin Tower's)』

『Sector 0: ??? (Eiffel Tower)』

『Sector 0: ??? (Beach)』

Unsurprisingly Felix clicked the first option using his freehand, the other holding his Tool Gun.

A blue portal with cloudy portal fluid resembling Ready Player One appeared in front of Felix seemingly out of nowhere, a floating text with the word Pangea spinning on top of it.

Felix then nonchalantly jumped in it and was instantly teleported somewhere else.

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『𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟑, 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝟏, 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐚 (𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐲), ???』

『𝟏𝟒:𝟏𝟓』

A blue portal with cloudy portal fluid appeared out of nowhere, this one doesn't have a floating text above it, it is afterall a one way portal only accessible to Felix.

Anyways as shortly the portal appeared Felix appeared aswell, him tripping a little bit and feeling a little bit dizzy and tipsy, this caused him to clutched his head a little bit with annoyance.

He looked back at the portal behind him as it disappears, beginning from the outer layer and quickly enveloping the whole portal.

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "Fuck that thing..."』

Our sickly annoyed protagonist thought after the portal completely disappeared, after a few seconds of trying to fix himself, Felix then scanned the surroundings.

His surronding... Is of course empty, except that actually fancy unfinishex futuristic gigantic spawning area behind him, actually Felix didn't teleported there, he teleported somewhere else.

We'll he teleported in the North Pathway not far away from the Spawn, there is 4 pathways leading to... We'll nowhere actually.

North, East, South and West Pathway, the pathway stretches so far that you can't see the end of it.

Besides Felix didn't thought of a name and let his AI Sebastian to name it, his under the weather "kind" sidekick... Best friend? Whatever.

The other building in this Lobby is... Nothing, even the background and the ground still has that White Matrix like color.

Felix just literally built an unfinished futuristic Incomplete spawning area and 4 long ass pathway leading to nowhere and called it a fucking day, respect!

That's a whole new damn form of laziness, and he has been on it for 3 hours and a 15 minute's, and he probably used that 13 minute's on building that spawn area, and used that 2 minute's on that ugly ass pathway.

And spend the rest of his free time reenacting the 9/11, with him driving a plane. Which he has no experience with using, and him having NPC's kill each other.

What a maniac? But really... Can you blame him? I would have done worse, I would have probably tried recreating the whole Harry Potter Universe and insert myself for shit and giggles, I'll make it R18 of course with few bits of change... I'm mad.

Anyways, Felix who finally noticed the bland coloring this place has decided to change thing's a little bit.

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "Sebastian can you hear me? Screw it why the hell am I even asking?"』

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "Of course you can hear me, you see that shit right there? Remove that."』

He then pointed at the White Matrix like background, this caused the System AI to talk in Felix's head and a dialogue box appearing.

『The... Background?』

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "YES! Yes the background replace it with..."』

『With... What?』

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "I-i- can't actually put this into word's, b-but can you make it seems like we are in the clouds? Floating? Not us but the weather..."』

『What??? I'm not... Oh alright...』

Sebastian asked in a very confused voice but it quickly changed into one of understanding and then after that the dialogue box disappeared, being replaced by dots instead.

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『..』

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『Weather Change』

『Type: Cloudy White Sky』

『Price: 1000 SGC』

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "Huh... That's... That's actually cheap as fuck, quick! Buy it."』

Felix said in a very joyful tone, why so? Why so you ask?

For reference how much is 1000 Shop Gold Coins, then let me tell you the price of other thing's in the System's Shop, 20 SGC for Fried Rice Hotdog and Egg combo.

1000 SCG for removing the vomiting effect on GTA V, but weirdly enough it is still applied to Felix even though he isn't in GTA V anymore.

2500 SGC for Adrenaline Rush, this son of a gun skill is OP and Felix got it in a bargain by searching through the Skill Shop in the System.

3500 SGC for the ultra realistic gore and blood and effect in GTA V, 1000 SGC for the lower pain tolerance.

How much money does Felix has overall if he didn't waste his money? 10000 SGC... Yeah shit, who would have thought that when you begin you'll get a fucking gift! Just because your the Protagonist! Got damn! My blood pressure!

Felix got tired of holding on to his Tool Gun and created a bench, the bench looks similar to the one's that people sit on when they go to the park.

The bench being composed of metal and wood, the metal being colored blue similar to those particles that Felix encounters everytime, the wood on the other hand is Honey Maple wood meaning it's light colored.

The bench having an armrest made out of metal it also having the blue color

He then placed down his Tool Gun at the bench and looked at the ground, the Matrix White like flooring to be more specific.

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "Change this too, make it seem like that we're in the air, make it fit with the weather."』

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『Floor Change』

『Type: Mid-level Cloud's』

『Price: 1000 SGC』

Felix immediately clicked it without hesitation and felt something change, no it's not his pocket almost running out of SGC but instead the flooring changing.

Felix which is standing beside the bench he created earlier then looked behind him, and saw the sky.

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "Oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear!"』

He instinctively grabbed the armrest and averted his attention somewhere else, Felix immediately started to sweat and his leg's started shaking.

He couldn't help himself but instinctively sit down on the bench and look up.

He then took deep breathes, deep exhale and inhale all that and all. After that talked to Sebastian.

「𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "Add railings! Metal blue coloring quick."」

Probably because of the haywire thoughts of Felix he decided to talk using his mouth not the thoughts.

He then used his T-shirt and wiped the sweat that accumulated in his neck.

He tried calming dowm his breathing, and finally after a couple of seconds decided to finally pull himself out.

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱: "Pull me out."』

Felix said not before grabbing his Tool Gun as he dissipate into nothing, blue particles following his clothing to his body parts his item's.

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『"01000100 01101001 01100100 00100000 01101001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01100101 00111111 00100000 01000110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101110 01101111 00100000 01101001 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100100 01101110 00100111 01110100 00101100 00100000 01101001 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101100 01101001 01100101 00100001."』

『"01001001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101110 00111111."』

      『🎮𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐝🎮』

『𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐩: [𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭] [𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫] [𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭] [𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐅𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫] [𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡] "Let me out! LET ME OUT!!!"』

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『Not gonna lie with you, I don't like HP Lovecraft's Book's, I mean why the fuck should I give a fuck about omnipotence tentacle fucks that doesn't exist in the Universe I'm staying in? I rather would like to read how to solve my problems or how to not give a fuck about other's opinion, that type of Book's that helps my brain, rather than HP's confusing vocabulary and weird gothic style writing.』

『I have this cough so bad that it can possibly lead to Asthma, luckily the local doctor here warned us about it. And we're trying our best to cure it, I dont even have taste buds because of this Phlegm, in my country it's called Plema. Anyways hopefully I don't get Asthma like my Grandfather and Uncle.』

『Ah shit, I need an inhaler, but I'll call it overpriced air flavored vape. Oh and 1 week off from shool wiiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIiIIIIIIII!』

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