When Peter Ericson agrees to try out his weird uncle Leif's invention, he falls into the real world of Quadrugaia where he teams up with a party of Quadraen adventurers in exchange for their help in his getting back to his own reality. Eventually, Bert Thomas and Orion Foxtaur notice the young man's involvement within the world of Quadrutaurian Adventures.
Quadrugaia - Quadrutaurian Adventures
[AWT-05] PE-01 To S'taur in a Party.
By Darrel Vanwinkle (Lord Pouchlaw)
07/10/2020
Chapter 01
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Enterprise, Oregon; Planet Earth
Peter Ericson, age 16, had last seen Bert Thomas (See S'taurrior) on his 14th birthday and it had been two years since the day that the Thomas family moved to Anime World. Peter had short black hair, brown eyes and light brown skin. Bert Thomas often shortened his name to Pete but he didn't mind that. Peter's father had been a local police officer but after a gunning incident at a local restaurant, Peter was moved in with his uncle Leif Ericson, yes and all the jokes to go with the name as well. Leif was a scientist with the NASA division.
One day, Peter came home from an outing with friends and he found a gift box sitting on his bed from his uncle, the professor. "Dear Peter, a colleague of mine sent me plans for a holographic projector which can recreate the holographic view of an screen shot from a video game in any size you wish to make it. I have assembled this device only to find that it only works with DONK.OS which my computer systems at work are not keyed to work with. I recall that your personal system runs DONK.OS. I would like for you to give the device a test run for me and then you make a report on how well it operates. Do this for me and I will see to it that you get vacation money to go visit your childhood friend. Signed, Uncle Leif."
"Kewl!"
Personal reminder, folks: The next time I think something my weird uncle creates for me is cool, feel free to kick my ass!
Opening the box, he found what appeared to be a device that could be attached to a laptop screen monitor. He then hooked it up to his laptop and then he plugged in the USB cable before turning on the DONK.OS laptop computer. After loading, the donkey head popped up and said, "We have detected a questionable new device attached to your laptop. Do you want us to monitor this device or would you like to monitor it yourself?" The two choices were Activate Monitoring (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!) and Self Monitor (Not Recommended.) Peter had the laptop hooked up to the house electricity since he knew the battery power was low. Wanting to play it safe, he clicked on Activate Monitoring. The next message that appeared was, "New Device seems to be some sort of Video Capture device. We cannot find an appropriate driver for this device. We recommend that you disable the device immediately." Now Peter was getting pissed off at DONK.OS for telling him what to do. He then went in and he deactivated Activity Monitoring for the new device. The third message read as, "We have detected that you have deactivated Activity Monitoring. Would you like to make a safe back-up of your laptop's important files before you continue? Not doing this may result in your laptop becoming unresponsive." Peter's verbal response whether the donkey could hear him or not was, "YOU ARE STARTING TO ACT LIKE MACROSOFT! STOP PESTERING ME WITH THESE FUCKING QUESTIONS!"
A small message appeared which read, "Safety backup complete. Please accept our apologies for bothering your legal activity."
Peter panted raggedly for a bit before he activated a game that he had downloaded just before his friends had invited him to join them for a pizza outing. It was Liger Nighthawk Productions new Taur MMO game which was called, Quadrutaurian Adventures. It was a medieval world adventure where the player created four Quadraen adventurers to go on quests within the Quadraen adventure land. He had been waiting for this game to be released mainly because he thought SciFi games were overrated. The rules said that two of the Taurs had to be female, but it was the player's choice which ones got to be this gender. Within NGE_QA, the player controlled four taurs instead of only one. Instead of character slots, a player was designated party slots. Each party slot gave you a glimpse of all four characters in carousel format. A fighter might have his sword and shield at the ready. A thief might be crouched down in a pick the locks pose. A priest might have his or her holy symbol raised. And the wizard might have a paw hand raised with crackling energy around it. This game would see the return of player controlled guilds. There would be four continental starting kingdoms the players could start within. When choosing a starting kingdom, there would be a hover tool-tip box to let players what kind of adventurer traffic was within the starting kingdom in question. This would allow players the opportunity to avoid high traffic kingdoms. All four starting kingdoms had the same level of difficulty. Quests were available at certain levels and stayed available until completed. This game saw the insertion of a tax and tithe feature. Parties were required to donate ten percent of their questing intake to either the church or their king. The choice was up to the players. Players failing to do this ended up on the bounty list. Making the payment donation automatically removed that player from the bounty list. One advantage of being in a guild was that as long as a player was in a guild, only the guild had to pay the tax or tithe once per month. Otherwise, players were paying per quest. Guild creation was available at Level 20. And only the female in your party could register a guild. After registration, any male could run it. If your guild ever removed all of its females, the guild was dissolved instantly and the former guild owner ended up on the bounty list for being a Cad. To remove the Cad title, the player had to selfless help a hundred females throughout the game without any reward at all. Yes, for FREE!
Each class in the game now had a Sub-Study to direct each character within. Fighter Sub-studies included, Knights, Paladins, Barbarians and Champions. For the Thief, their sub-studies included, Robbers, Assassins, Acquirers and Rangers. For the Priests, their sub-studies included, Healers, Bishops, Druids and Archons. The Wizards sub-studies included, Mages, Illusionists, Psionics and Cardinals. The most powerful sub-study was always listed last. The more powerful the sub-study, the more experience was required to level that character.
Tournaments took the place of PVP events. And Tournaments always occurred at an Admin-controlled palace with great prizes available to all participants.
Players were required to create a believable background for each of their party's characters. Backgrounds stating that the universe farted and the character woke up would not be accepted. Players had to explain whom the parents and home village had been before the character chose to go bond with other adventurers to form their initial party. Home villages could be placed anywhere throughout the starting kingdom and players could return to those home villages at any time to get bonus quests.
"Are you tired of only getting to control one character in your favorite games? Have your favorite games eliminated player controlled guilds and made you angry because of the action? Do you feel like running out and slaying the monsters whom made these changes possible? Then we have a game to quench your blood thirst and bring back the classic days of adventure to your weary minds. Welcome to Quadrutaurian Adventures. You now receive party slots instead of character slots and each of your parties may include four characters all under your control. When you reach 20th level, you may opt to craft a guild to show your fellow players just how important you are." A vast sky traveling rush with the continents passing by beneath is then seen by the players as the title screen then appeared in full view in shining gold print with a black and shadowed background. Along the sides of the screen several monsters and dragons then say with evil looks on their faces, "Do you have the courage to challenge us, players? We do not think so! Join us, if you dare!" And then they all laugh as they pull back to allow the title screen to shine beautifully before the players just before the whole view is engulfed in flames and the normal login screen appeared. As Peter saw this opening, he had to clean himself in the bathroom. He then returned wearing his black pajamas as he sat down at the laptop once again. "Damn you, Bert! How many players did you cause to shit themselves with this surprising opening? But you do make great games! Now to make my characters!"
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End of Chapter 01
Quadrugaia - Quadrutaurian Adventures
[AWT-05] PE-01 To S'taur in a Party.
By Darrel Vanwinkle (Lord Pouchlaw)
07/10/2020
Chapter 01
.
Enterprise, Oregon; Planet Earth
Peter Ericson, age 16, had last seen Bert Thomas (See S'taurrior) on his 14th birthday and it had been two years since the day that the Thomas family moved to Anime World. Peter had short black hair, brown eyes and light brown skin. Bert Thomas often shortened his name to Pete but he didn't mind that. Peter's father had been a local police officer but after a gunning incident at a local restaurant, Peter was moved in with his uncle Leif Ericson, yes and all the jokes to go with the name as well. Leif was a scientist with the NASA division.
One day, Peter came home from an outing with friends and he found a gift box sitting on his bed from his uncle, the professor. "Dear Peter, a colleague of mine sent me plans for a holographic projector which can recreate the holographic view of an screen shot from a video game in any size you wish to make it. I have assembled this device only to find that it only works with DONK.OS which my computer systems at work are not keyed to work with. I recall that your personal system runs DONK.OS. I would like for you to give the device a test run for me and then you make a report on how well it operates. Do this for me and I will see to it that you get vacation money to go visit your childhood friend. Signed, Uncle Leif."
"Kewl!"
Personal reminder, folks: The next time I think something my weird uncle creates for me is cool, feel free to kick my ass!
Opening the box, he found what appeared to be a device that could be attached to a laptop screen monitor. He then hooked it up to his laptop and then he plugged in the USB cable before turning on the DONK.OS laptop computer. After loading, the donkey head popped up and said, "We have detected a questionable new device attached to your laptop. Do you want us to monitor this device or would you like to monitor it yourself?" The two choices were Activate Monitoring (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!) and Self Monitor (Not Recommended.) Peter had the laptop hooked up to the house electricity since he knew the battery power was low. Wanting to play it safe, he clicked on Activate Monitoring. The next message that appeared was, "New Device seems to be some sort of Video Capture device. We cannot find an appropriate driver for this device. We recommend that you disable the device immediately." Now Peter was getting pissed off at DONK.OS for telling him what to do. He then went in and he deactivated Activity Monitoring for the new device. The third message read as, "We have detected that you have deactivated Activity Monitoring. Would you like to make a safe back-up of your laptop's important files before you continue? Not doing this may result in your laptop becoming unresponsive." Peter's verbal response whether the donkey could hear him or not was, "YOU ARE STARTING TO ACT LIKE MACROSOFT! STOP PESTERING ME WITH THESE FUCKING QUESTIONS!"
A small message appeared which read, "Safety backup complete. Please accept our apologies for bothering your legal activity."
Peter panted raggedly for a bit before he activated a game that he had downloaded just before his friends had invited him to join them for a pizza outing. It was Liger Nighthawk Productions new Taur MMO game which was called, Quadrutaurian Adventures. It was a medieval world adventure where the player created four Quadraen adventurers to go on quests within the Quadraen adventure land. He had been waiting for this game to be released mainly because he thought SciFi games were overrated. The rules said that two of the Taurs had to be female, but it was the player's choice which ones got to be this gender. Within NGE_QA, the player controlled four taurs instead of only one. Instead of character slots, a player was designated party slots. Each party slot gave you a glimpse of all four characters in carousel format. A fighter might have his sword and shield at the ready. A thief might be crouched down in a pick the locks pose. A priest might have his or her holy symbol raised. And the wizard might have a paw hand raised with crackling energy around it. This game would see the return of player controlled guilds. There would be four continental starting kingdoms the players could start within. When choosing a starting kingdom, there would be a hover tool-tip box to let players what kind of adventurer traffic was within the starting kingdom in question. This would allow players the opportunity to avoid high traffic kingdoms. All four starting kingdoms had the same level of difficulty. Quests were available at certain levels and stayed available until completed. This game saw the insertion of a tax and tithe feature. Parties were required to donate ten percent of their questing intake to either the church or their king. The choice was up to the players. Players failing to do this ended up on the bounty list. Making the payment donation automatically removed that player from the bounty list. One advantage of being in a guild was that as long as a player was in a guild, only the guild had to pay the tax or tithe once per month. Otherwise, players were paying per quest. Guild creation was available at Level 20. And only the female in your party could register a guild. After registration, any male could run it. If your guild ever removed all of its females, the guild was dissolved instantly and the former guild owner ended up on the bounty list for being a Cad. To remove the Cad title, the player had to selfless help a hundred females throughout the game without any reward at all. Yes, for FREE!
Each class in the game now had a Sub-Study to direct each character within. Fighter Sub-studies included, Knights, Paladins, Barbarians and Champions. For the Thief, their sub-studies included, Robbers, Assassins, Acquirers and Rangers. For the Priests, their sub-studies included, Healers, Bishops, Druids and Archons. The Wizards sub-studies included, Mages, Illusionists, Psionics and Cardinals. The most powerful sub-study was always listed last. The more powerful the sub-study, the more experience was required to level that character.
Tournaments took the place of PVP events. And Tournaments always occurred at an Admin-controlled palace with great prizes available to all participants.
Players were required to create a believable background for each of their party's characters. Backgrounds stating that the universe farted and the character woke up would not be accepted. Players had to explain whom the parents and home village had been before the character chose to go bond with other adventurers to form their initial party. Home villages could be placed anywhere throughout the starting kingdom and players could return to those home villages at any time to get bonus quests.
"Are you tired of only getting to control one character in your favorite games? Have your favorite games eliminated player controlled guilds and made you angry because of the action? Do you feel like running out and slaying the monsters whom made these changes possible? Then we have a game to quench your blood thirst and bring back the classic days of adventure to your weary minds. Welcome to Quadrutaurian Adventures. You now receive party slots instead of character slots and each of your parties may include four characters all under your control. When you reach 20th level, you may opt to craft a guild to show your fellow players just how important you are." A vast sky traveling rush with the continents passing by beneath is then seen by the players as the title screen then appeared in full view in shining gold print with a black and shadowed background. Along the sides of the screen several monsters and dragons then say with evil looks on their faces, "Do you have the courage to challenge us, players? We do not think so! Join us, if you dare!" And then they all laugh as they pull back to allow the title screen to shine beautifully before the players just before the whole view is engulfed in flames and the normal login screen appeared. As Peter saw this opening, he had to clean himself in the bathroom. He then returned wearing his black pajamas as he sat down at the laptop once again. "Damn you, Bert! How many players did you cause to shit themselves with this surprising opening? But you do make great games! Now to make my characters!"
.
End of Chapter 01
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