netslum | un: Mithrun1 | Re: Digital Conference

un: Mithrun1 | Re: Digital Conference

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.

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What if this mystery user is the one that woman in Naval Monte was screaming about? You know, the one with the key?

It's possible. I wonder if it's connected to the poems Vogel has been translating, or to "'His' child" UTA indicated the sprites referenced.

I didn't have an extensive encounter with the rogue NPC, but she was trying to rally the other NPCs to leave, right? It seemed like she was speaking of this person with the key as a sort of savior figure, while being glitched herself.

Maybe she was saying this individual could free them from the confines of being NPCs. No routines, no being anchored to their native Root Towns - that this user could help them obtain a sense of sentience.

If she weren't carrying some kind of sickness with her and therefore likely glitched, though, I'd wonder if she was just part of a story quest. Maybe one related to the Shadowed Man?

To be honest, all I remember her is screaming about "him" and a key. I had a pretty bad day that day, and I think it's because of the sickness she gave me lol. But you could be right. We'll have to keep an ear out for more mentions of this person (these people).

It's weird because there don't seem to be any other story quests in this game. If all this stuff is meant to be some kind of weird sick meta storyline thing, I'm going to be pretty mad lol

Who's the Shadowed Man?

'The shadowed man on the quest for the Twilight dragon.'

'The shadowed man will not come back here in search of the Twilight dragon.'

The song that played in the place I found the statue of the girl talks about him.

Edited 2023-09-20 11:41 (UTC)

So are we going to have to worry about glitch-spreading dragons next?

[ Said partially in jest, but. ]

[ Ba dum tish ]

I wouldn't rule it out at this point. There's tales about stone creatures breaking free from where they had been once sealed and then wreaking havoc, so...