Orange danced across the horizon as the sun set on a fine Monday. A beautiful half-elf stared out at the scenery before a sigh escaped her.
"Boring."
She turned from the city, wishing that Earth too, was like the blood-curling games she played. Thin hands danced across her keyboard.
"Its all so boring."
The screen changed as a character popped up. A cheap, basic status sheet she needed to fill out appeared next to the basic design.
[Strength] [0]
[Dexterity] [0]
[Constitution] [0]
[Intelligence] [0]
[Wisdom] [0]
[Charisma] [0]
(Stat Points: 18)
Her lips curled slightly in disgust.
"Human cheapskate."
Without filling a single thing in, she skipped to the next page, knowing like all games, she would be able to come back. Her lips curled even more.
"Disgusting."
She always saw the same classes, no matter where she looked.
[Soldier]
[Magician]
[Archer]
Cithrel searched for something that she found was lacking. With each new click, the disgust only increased. As she reached the last page she leaned back and stared at the nameless character.
"Even if its a big hit now, it won't last long," Cithrel stated. She looked at the human standing in her doorway, her disgust still there. "And its lacking."
He shifted uncomfortable from standing in his own silence for more then an hour.
"Why?"
Cithrel sighed before she looked back at the screen. "The lore isn't anywhere in the beginning. How is a soldier played? How do the magicians benefit? What is the point of Archers? And why the hell are there three classes? Why go and make gamers put in their own stats?"
She wanted to see how this game encrypted each of those things, before she dived into the beginning. Her petite nose wrinkled. Bloodrim was not her type of game.
"You're always so harsh, Cithrel."
The half-elf nodded. "And you're a push-over, Ievis. But nothing in my words were harsh."
"The disgust your not hiding is."
The human, Ievis, shifted with unease. He looked at the beautiful elf, as if expecting praise and worship instead of what he had gotten. With a few simple looks and words, Cithrel turned the human into a hurt dog.
"Why made it bland?"
"Its not bland."
"Why made it void of lore?"
"What is void of lore?"
"The game, Ievis."
She shook her head, the fool in front of her only giving her a headache. "I don't even need to play it to know that."
"Give it a chance," Ievis begged.
The half-elf fingers flew once more across the keys, knowing that the developer of the game was not hearing her simple words. She had long since learned how stubborn humans could be and how unlike they were of the elf's. As the two lived among each other, in only what was almost harmony, wars still broke out from among other countries.
[DING]
Like anything that could be posted online, reviews of games could not be overlooked so easily. They made and broke them quicker then a kid eating candy.
"I refuse."
She payed no more mind to the human as she returned the computer. Had she cared to see that he was not trust worthy, the half-elf may have decided then, to led him out the door. But instead, she focused on leaving this game and returning to Deities of War.
"You... You!" his sprouting did nothing to draw her attention. "I'll make you pay."
The human words were coated with vinegar as he stalked forward. All sense had left this one man behind, his actions being controlled by another.
"Yes, yes," she muttered, as she focused on killing another player. "With my next allowance I'll pay."
The killing intent grew from behind her, yet she ignored it.
"That's my life. That's my game!"
Cithrel heard nothing, the words barely registering as she dived into her own game. Her world transformed as she moved from using the keyboard and mouse, to the VR chip attached to her temple.
As she fall through the colorful wormhole, her world changed and became dark.
Ievis sweet revenge was taken, but at the cost of a life.
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Cithrel Nightgale
★☆☆☆☆
Bloodrim is easily one of the worse Virtual Games that I have came across. From the name, to the cover, and finally the beginning. Had I seen the lore the game was supposed to be littered with, maybe I would have given it a chance, but instead of saying where in the world you spawned, how the three (THREE!) classes played their own role or connection, we got nothing. Even the basic design of the characters was like those cheapskate humans instead of featuring a beautiful elf or Fairy, we were already given something bland to look at. The stats set up was all over the place, while giving the gamer no answers to how it effected the game play.
The graphic display was already awful and it stopped me from using my VR chip. If a screen couldn't show it clearly, then being able to touch it would do nothing but make me cringe.