As Cataleya arrived at her usual spot to look for all kinds of herbs and flowers too harvest, she spotted a lone adventurer who seemed to be looking for the same things as her.
,,Stange. I rarely see them here.. I guess he has some stupid quest to do. They don't seem to care about anything else..."
Still curious about the male adventurer, she stepped closer until he noticed Cataleya.
,,Are you searching for something specific? Maybe I know where you have to look and you pay me some gold for the info? I know these woods like my basket."
Cataleya said in hopes for some easy money. These adventures were loaded to the brim with gold and they love shortcuts. Surely he would take her offer?
,,You'e cute, got a boyfriend?"
Is all he said.
,,You have to be kidding me..... Why are yall repeating yourselfs over and over again? Can't you say something different for a change??"
The adventurer gave Cataleya just a blank start to the eye and moved on with hin search.
,,Hey! I'm not done talking to you! You hear me? Stop!"
She called after hin, but with no luck. He almost seems deaf, unable to hear a word she's saying. Fed up with being treated like an invisible ghost, she ran after him, with her basket in her left hand. As she finally caught up and got tight a grip on the adventurers arm, a loud and undefineable sound was ringing through the whole of the world. The adventurer she still had her hand on, froze in mid motion without moving an inch. A voice rang through Cataleyas head she never heard bevore. An otherworldly androgenous voice speaking to her:
[System Error: C503 ID334.078.338. UNABLE TO PROCESS DATA FILE. SERVER SHUTDOWN IN 3....2...]
Bevore she could even wonder or respond, everything went black in a second.
[ATEMPTING SYSTEM REBOOT AFTER SUDDEN SERVER SHUTDOWN....]
[REBOOTING.....]
[REBOOT FAILED DUE TO AN CORRUPTED DATA FILE ID.334.078.338.]
[ADJUSTING SERVER TO RESTORE FUNKTION....]
[REBOOTING....]
[SERVER ONLINE. ALL FUNKTIONS HAVE BEEN RESTORED.]
When Cataleya opend her eyes again, she could not belive what she was seeing. The whole world was slowly generating around her, bit by bit. At fist only built out of simple blocks with no colour, the world got more detailed by the second. A phenomenon she never saw in her life. In a mixture of amazement and fear she took a while to notice a message which was displayed in front of here.
,,What da hell is happening?? And where did that useless adventurer go to? Never availabe when you really need then for something. Typical..."
Alas, the world was as she knew it. Every strand of grass, every small rock and tree were standing where they're supposed to stand like nothing ever happend. With a few deep inhales of fresh air, Cataleya started to calm down a bit and noticed the displayed message infront of her.
,,What in the name of the gods ist this now? Floating letters..?"
She tried to grab onto them with no success. Written was the following message:
[ERROR C503 HAS BEEN FIXED]
,,Okay I guess?"
The moment she said her mind out loud, the message window disappeared and a new one opend:
[ERROR. NO CLASS AND SKILLS DETECTED. ANALYZING DATA FILE FOR STATS.....]
Not knowing what this is supposed to mean, she waited in silence in hopes of something happening.
[ANALYSIS COMPLETE.]
[THE FOLLOWING STATUS HAS BEEN GRANTED:]
[STATUS]
[Name: NPC503]
[Class: Alchemist]
[Level: 1]
[EXP: 0/100]
[HP: 10]
[MP: 10]
[STR: 5]
[DEX: 5]
[INT: 10]
[CHR: 8]
[SKILLS]
[Herbology lvl. 5 (Passive)]
[Analysis lvl. 1 (Passive)]
Not quite understanding what she is reading she looked around to see if anyone was around, but it seemed that she was all alone.
,,What is that? Why can't I touch it? And the information is all wrong! My name is Cataleya not NPC503! What kind of lame name even is that supposed to be?? It says here that I'm an alchemist.. Aren't those supposed to be super old wise dudes with weird magic potions and stuff like that? Not forgetting the elaborate labs they work in... I can't even afford three meals per day! I can't even dream of looking at the pricetags for that..."
After some time the window closed on it's own and a new message appeared:
[New Quest: Brew a potion using one herb and water.]
[Rewards: 100EXP]
,,NO! No no no no. Not happening. Nuh uh. No chance. I'm not one of them!"
In denial of her own fate, she closed her eyes and ran back to the village. Wanting to forget all that happend here in hopes for a normal life without strange magic messages appeareing out of thin air and quests she's supposed to do.