Emily begins walking around in a spiralling motion, covering wider and wider, almost circles as she moves to see at what point her view expands beyond this little space.

Everyone sees as the woman known as Emily begins to walk around in a strange, spiral motion.

Whatever their opinion of her antics, she keeps up with it for quite a while, all in order to know what lays beyond this disc.

Eventually, she finds herself walking along the edge of the disc, to the northwest. Belatedly, she realizes she had not begun from the true center of the landmass, and was actually positioned slightly northwest to start.

Eventually, her clockwise motion, which is extremely accurate due to her graceful movements, has her staring over her left shoulder, directly over the edge of the world.

Unless she breaks her perfect spiral motion, the next step will send her over the edge.

What choice shall she make?

Otto regarded whatever had appeared with a wry, somewhat toothy grin, as if he found it all both amazing and amusing.

Eventually he gave a sort of exasperated laugh and threw up his hands. "Well alright, fair enough." he seemed to say to the System.

"Did, ah, you guys get a Class?" He asked, skipping past the far, farmore difficult questions like. How did this happen? Or How do we get out of here? This one at least seemed straightforward.

Still thinking to himself, Vladislav watches the lady walk, but does not comprehend what reason she might have for this spiraling path.

When Emily has gotten most of the way to the edge, he speaks. "System?" Vladislav asks the air respectfully, "help magic."

The existence of the Mystic stat seemed to him to be a clear clue that some form of magic system was available in this game world. And having it so high suggested to him that he might be wise to learn to use magic as early as possible. Thus, trying to get the help files on the subject.

Unfortunately, there is no response to Vladislav's polite request.

The Russian frowned, crossing his arms over his chest.

No help files? Hmm. Hmm.

"Nyet," he answered Otto. "No class. Just... enn slash ay."

"Yeah, same with me. That means Not Applicable, but, ya know, given the circumstances is seems pretty applicable to me." he replied to the other bearded man and paced a little, no longer rooted to where he had arrived after he saw the woman walking what seemed to laps to his eye.

After a few moments he spoke up again. "I've had some pretty wild dreams before, but man, this is the best by far." he said with a smile.

Vladislav kept quiet that he knew what it meant. He'd had to translate it from the Russian abbreviation for the term to one that an American would understand, after all. But did not care to share that with the other man.

"If not have class, why does class appear on status? Must exist in game. How to play if not having help file learn rules?"

He considered the idea of trying to do something from other games he knew, and seeing what worked. But where to begin? That he did not have a clue about. Well, make of a fool of himself trying to cast a spell without knowing the system? Perhaps. He thought some more, watching the other three while doing so.

Emily stopped spiralling and instead moved slowly around the edge of the disc, saying as she does so. "We're all on a disc. I plan to walk around and see whether there's a bridge or something or whether we just have to step off the edge and hope we don't die."

Emily completes her circuit of the disc without noticing anything beyond the edge.

Otto watched the woman for a few moments and the looked up and around as he spoke. "Well, what do you do in a video game when you are lost or wondering what you are supposed to do?" He asked nobody in particular.

"System...Journal?" He tried with a hint of hope on his voice.

Dmitri generates a list of commands that others have used successfully: Menu, Expanded Status, Character Sheet. There are other "commands" that he wants to try, but first, he goes through each of the "known" commands in the order listed above:
"Menu"
"Expanded Status"
"Character Sheet"

Once the information from these known commands is obtained, he tries another, "Map"

Another window appears in front of Dmitri, after he tests for that command.

OOC: See Game Map :)

Dmitri adds "Map" to the list of "Approved Actions" he is working on. He tries another: "Rename World Urlan"

There is no response.

"So I don't get to fully rename things. Oh well. Let's try this: Designate Urlan as alternate name for World."

There is no response.

If the World doesn't want to be renamed, even just for me, I will respect that for now. But time for another attempt.

"Attach Node to World."

After his own attempt has seemingly failed, Otto was silent for a time as Dmitri tried his rapid fire commands with more luck.

"Uh...alright. System quests? System objectives?" he tried and kind of gave a shrug to the others.

At Dmitri's continued probing of the system, his third remark finally results in something, after a fairly short gap.

DING


Unlike Dmitri, Otto's first attempt results in a success.

DING


Furthermore, an additional window pops up after a brief few moments of pause...

DING

"What have you got guys?" Asks Emily before re-examining her own status to try to get some idea of her capabilities.  "Hmm, mean just over 3.5 and SD just under 1.5 with a spread of 1.5, those look pretty random to me.  My highest are 'sense', 'intelligence' and 'vital' and my lowest 'mystic' and 'resistance'  Has anyone seen an explanation of the stats because most of those don't really make sense to me?"

After a pause she tried. "Help Stats"

In reply to Emily Khorashandi (msg # 49):

(Presuming that Emily is back close by when she asked that)

"High stats mine 'стойкость,' 'выносливость' and 'мистический,'" the Russian man answered Emily.

"Notice range quite narrow. Umm... 1d4+1 looking like. Not seeing any file game mechanics on yet. If like stories system about, am expecting some form point buy system of for advance skills, maybe advance stats."


OOC: Presumably translated by that max interpretation skill, the stats would be "stamina," "endurance," and "mystic" in that order.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 12:43, Wed 12 Jan 2022.

Suddenly Otto looked a little excited, he perked up and smiled and moved a few steps towards Dmitri. "Oh! Hey, Dmitri right? Did you get that Quest?" He asked excitedly and reached out to try to put a hand on his shoulder in a friendly way.

"This thing says that the first person to discover and activate all the System commands gets a title!" The First Archivist of System" he explained.

"So that box that says Title on our sheets? I bet you could get that one...saw you kind of repeating them over here. Also says that it causes a little penalty with the God of Order, so, yeah, cool." he nodded up at the screen as if they were finally making progress, talking all the while loudly enough for the others to easily hear.

"Says it expires in 24 hours though. Not really my thing, being known as the Archivist" he explained off hand with a grin and a shrug.

Noticing the others talking about their own Sheets, and Emily's general question about what the others had, he made his way a little closer to them.

"You have low Mystic you said? Me too, and Sense...and Speed" he admitted without seeming too concerned about that fact. "Strength and Luck though, I'm your man." He grinned and then seemed to remember himself. "I'm Otto by the way...isn't this wild? I mean...wow." he looked up and around again, obviously excited.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:40, Wed 12 Jan 2022.

Dmitri'a expression is a cross between excitement and confusion. He sees that Otto has responded to his overtures and switches into helpful mode.

"I didn't get the quest log, but that's probably because I haven't asked for it yet. I did get the map, and have apparently created a Node, but my Map still doesn't have it attached to the World yet. I guess the word "Attach" does not compute with this parser.

"Rather than have you try to relate the quests to us all, I will ask for it in a bit. But first, I want to know how this Node I created relates to where we are now."


Dmitri now looks vaguely upward, toward where he sees these display screens, and says, "Display Node on Map"

Emily checks her status once more and nods to Otto. "Do you remember how it felt to be you before you came here?  Do you feel the same?"

She smiles, "Let's see what we know." Then she begins systematically going through commands.  "View Simple Status... View Expanded Status... Link Node to System... Map... Quests... classes... define stats..."

She gives the system time to respond or not to respond to her commands one after another.

"Have I missed anything we've tried already?" she asks.