Several days later, large warehouse sized aquariums full of alien marine life started popping up around various major cities in Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto being the first. The aquariums were built seamlessly overnight. They appeared in construction sites, large parks, and various forest trails. Others were built next to beaches and lakes. The very first ones were built near major Shinto Temples, and thusly, Houin Takeshi (the alien relations ambassador) introduced them as ‘shrines’. The shrines were mostly staffed by the tentacled Cloroepii. The Cloroepii hovered around in floating pyramid shaped fishbowls, mechanical tentacle appendages could be retracted from the hovering pyramids, and were versatile enough to perform various tasks in place of hands.


    Countdown for Humanity: 4 years, three-hundred and sixty-four days.


    Completion Parameters - Beat Alyzia.


    Status: Incomplete.


    Epona: “Before you go in, find one of those bug robots at the shrine. Ask him to help you form a party with me. You’ll have to choose a server to play on, you can only pick one, pic the Persian Empire, I’ll wait for you there!”


    He looked around again, still not seeing any robots. He wondered around for half an hour, circling the entire span of the shrine. It was only one story, and he was certain there weren’t any stairs he missed. Finally, after a brief washroom break and sitting down for a drink, he finally spotted a three legged robot skittering around a corner. They were called ‘factory drones’ and were mass-produced and distributed throughout the Plato empire.


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    “The Antarctic server is very cold, the Rainforest is very hot and there are lots of poisonous bugs and fauna, you will need to spend skill points in character creation on ‘environmental resistance’, in order to not ‘freeze’ as you put it.”


    “As an incentive for new players to choose a region specific server, players will be granted an additional 20 skill points for choosing a region specific server.”