un: Mithrun1 | Re: Digital Conference

[tablescraps]

There's a digital conference on September 23rd. We'll be able to ask CC Corp questions about the game and its anomalies.

How clearly they'll answer, I don't know. But it may be worthwhile to pool together everyone's observations, speculations, and complaints here. Different people have seen different things in Fragment, and not a lot of that information is consolidated.

If you've commented on the forums with your observations before, or seen a worthwhile comment, then you can re-link it.

For example, on the topic of the level cap armor:
• UTA's post (in-game NPCs' warning against using it)
• Zelkova's response (indicating the armor was not an intended feature, nor are titles)
• UTA's comment (in-game NPCs claiming only two individuals can "create things")

If you want to talk about something offline for whatever reason, DM me. I don't really mind sharing my number or email.

Edit:

Comments

un ; tylorific

[tylorific]

hey, does seeing your grave count as an observation?

[tablescraps]

Elaborate.

un:vogel

[insinning]

do you think they really meant to put mithrun's avatar corpse in there

before his avatar woke up and logged off?

un:vogel

[insinning]

we should probably collate all the hidden areas that have had negative effects on people

like the areas hani , hector and ganymede visited.

Swallow, Ganymede and I also visited ΔHidden Forbidden Radiation; when we tried to enter the temple, it gave us a headache from this ringing tone and the water left us freezing cold even outside the game.

Winter and I also visited ΘHidden Forbidden Dragonbein; neither of us encountered anything weird except for a riddle and this weird feeling that we needed to run away immediately.

Has anyone found out anything about that man with the key that woman was talking about?

[insinning]

also how many of us have visited the dungeons with 'daydream' as a keyword, and had the same error hit us despite filing reports on it?

un: Mr_Misteaks

[gluttoning]

nobody better have visited the dungeon i said not to visit bceacuse im wondering if it actually did something

[ganymed]

A riddle that said what? Who said it? And where did you find it in that place?

un: faunus

[bleatingedge]

dang stealing my idea right out from under me

jk i don't really care, less work for me!

un: oriade

[dissimulative]

no one found about the person the woman wanted to find huh....

[userunfriendly]

Good thinking.

I'd also like to note where the keywords came from. Both sets I received were anonymous. Whether "dv" is a separate account or only an alias, I don't know.

ΔHidden Forbidden Holy Ground - anonymous
ΘHidden Forbidden Dragonbein - anonymous
ΔHidden Forbidden Radiation - anonymous
ΔHidden Forbidden Dead Wood - anonymous(?)
ΔHidden Forbidden Bulwark - ?
Recursive Fool's Errand - dv

With the exception of "Dragonbein," all the "Hidden Forbidden" entries are ordinary keywords. However, not every "Hidden Forbidden" area is abnormal; I ran "Hidden Forbidden Night Moon" as a test, and it's an ordinary dungeon. I don't believe the keywords from DV are in the standard chaos gate randomizer at all.

un: 0koto

[worldbent]

Θ Hidden Forbidden Hades also caused severe headaches that lasted outside of the game, as well as bearing powerful winds with attributes similar to those in the floating root town.

Howling black winds of the dead, you might say.

[That is to say; don't go there if you don't wanna hear old trauma and familiar voices.]

un: Mr_Misteaks afternoon 9/19

[gluttoning]

i have a complaint

[img attch.]



thanks for reading my complaint

[trashtier]

this x99999999999

[tablescraps]

( help )

Should you be posting right now?

( POT, KETTLE

He'll probably be back to visit again later today, watch out. Cael probably peeled him away from the hospital so he'd get breakfast, fresh air, lunch........... )

@Hector

[secondthoughts]

I just wanna know how they got a hold of EXTREMELY personal information. Stuff that isn't (or shouldn't/can't be) publicly available.

I'm talking about the mirrors and the wind, obviously. And some incidents with the armor, too?

[trashtier]

Gonna dive deep into sci-fi conspiracy theory territory here but fuck it, anything goes at this point.

This game is messing with our IRL bodies, so what if it's getting into our heads too? Not even yakuza-level doxxing is gonna replicate how lifelike the mirror and wind BS was.

un: Ganymede

[ganymed]

Zelkova being pulled into the outer levels of the game by surprise. Those outer levels don't follow the same rules as the normal dungeons here, since elements and levels don't scale properly. Whoever did that was someone who's capable of data manipulation and well beyond the capability of a normal player, since someone like that can't reach those areas so easily.

This person who has been manipulating data probably was responsible for switching bodies around during the avatar bug. And they timed it during your incident.

Not to mention your own avatar moved on its own when it shouldn't have. So obviously these are all connected.

ALSO the fact all of us experienced those out of body effects or whatever while playing the game? They are going to get what's coming to them I swear to GOD.

Especially if they think we're really going to sit around listening to their crap like we're conditioned to stick our thumbs up our asses and sing their praises.

un: Mr_Misteaks

[gluttoning]

this is gonna sound weird and im on pain meds dso maybe don t listen to me

but

maybe its all weird and outof body for a reasonn?

[tablescraps]

Zelkova being pulled into the outer levels of the game by surprise. Those outer levels don't follow the same rules as the normal dungeons here, since elements and levels don't scale properly. Whoever did that was someone who's capable of data manipulation and well beyond the capability of a normal player, since someone like that can't reach those areas so easily.

Can you elaborate on this? I assume this information came from Zelkova?

Not to mention your own avatar moved on its own when it shouldn't have. So obviously these are all connected.

This incident was interesting. I've been told my avatar got up and logged out just as I woke from my coma.

There has been a pattern of glitches and unintended effects. The Area effects that manipulate users' beliefs and behavior (driving an individual to feel love and confess, for example) have existed since the start of the game, but are not intended elements of the game, per Zelkova and Hien.

Also... Hien mentioned that the individual responsible for the level cap armor, as well as the individual responsible for the memories displayed in the mirror, are the same. (My assumption is he inspected the code and found similarities there, but he did not confirm to me how he drew this connection.)

If those two incidents are connected by culprit, it would not be unusual if other incidents are connected in some way by culprit - the same as the armor and mirrors, or another set - as well.

un: Nanashi

[justonezero]

[Hey, this is a new username!]

whoa is this a lore post???

un: oriade

[dissimulative]

um
kinda
are you new

[tablescraps]

I sent you a message. Welcome to the game.

un: hana | POLL

[threatmewted]

So if CC Corp can't give decent answers AND fix the frickin game by the end of the conference can we all agree to just quit all at once y/n?

[dissimulative]

[ looks at everyone posting in the forums while logged in and on the truth plague ]

im only quitting after uni starts

un: fandaniel

[trollophoroi]

[ hi mithrun it's your favorite person~ ]

FlameMane can verify what I have to add if needed but we ended up anonymously receiving the keywords: ΔHideous Someone's Giant. It led to an airship area in the sky with a boss monster.

At least, I must assume it was a boss. FlameMane and I could not even dent its armor, although it may have been glitched. Every monster in the dungeon had some kind of broken green shield around it and none of them save the boss were aggressive.

Zelkova appeared before the dragon could kill us and used something strange to break through the shields before one-shotting it.

[ganymed]

What did the boss monster look like?

un: fuurin (post-conference)

[glassbell]

mithrun1: Thank you for the edit. LMAO.

I'm summarizing it here in text for posterity:

-prior to the conference, we are asked to sign a form saying we'll behave during the conference.
-we are whisked into a white room waiting for the conference to start.
-we got fucking nothing. literally nothing. no one came.
-hours (I think) pass, we're finally free from the white room!
-except not really because we can't log out and live here now.

Did I miss anything? I saw people talking with Hien, who I assume is stuck here too.

un: KaraBear

[curvaceous]

Thanks for this, Furin.

Just adding something: Swallow confirmed that Hien said if we die in this game, we'll die in real life.