《Dagon - Rebirth》 Chappy 1 Rebirth of Dagon ( Prologue i) ¡°Dagon, world of infinite possibilities. Built with a revolutionary full dive system, everything your 5 senses and more would not tell the difference once you step into it. Coupled with other companies, highly realistic AI system is set in place, you will not be able to tell that you are not talking to another person. Try now at our nearest outlet to experience this new world with me.¡± A lone man stood a the side of the street looking up at the big billboard running this advertisement at prime time slot. His lips couldn¡¯t help but form a bitter smile. A slight vibration came from his pocket. He pulled out a cellphone to take a look, and on it was his boss, or soon to be ex-boss¡­ or so he thought. After he picked up, the other side was silent for a moment before finally making a sound; a faint female voice captivating enough to driving any man into the wildest dream could be heard. ¡°Is this Nash Backwaters? ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°The CEO would like to extend his heartfelt congratulations on gaining the Greatest Manager Award. He would like to invite you to the Dinner and Dance Party organized for the board of...¡± ¡°No. I am fine as it is.¡± ¡°But Mr Nash, it would bring great honor if you attended the party...¡± ¡°Do you know how many people were fired to get me that award?¡± ¡°Mr Nash, your actions have brought a great deal of advancement in profits this quarter and improved the efficiency of the company by 20%¡± He smiled and stated vaguely, but not because he was intoxicated by her voice. ¡°Miss Eliza Casey, age 26, top of the class in business degree from harvard. No noticeable talents except the noteworthy ability to delegate a given task to the right people. Personal motto: There is always the right people for the right job. I know everything about you. Do you need me to list anything else?¡± ¡°How and what did you know about me?¡± ¡°In my 1st draft for the people to fire, you were in it. 2739 people and 30% of the people I chose were in the management level of the company. In my 2nd draft you were still in it. 5345 people and 8% of the the numbers were in the management level. For every managerial level staff kept I had to fire at least 4 more. You are overpaid and underqualified for your role in the company. The things you do to keep your place in the company, do you need me to say it?¡± ¡°I neither deny nor confirm what you have said or accuse me of. My conscience is clear as day. However sir, I highly recommend that you join the party.¡± ¡°From where I stand, the sky is as dark as can be and I¡¯ve made up my mind! In fact, while I am at it, I tender my resignation.¡± Just as Nash was about to put down the call, a thought came up before him and he lifted up the phone once more. ¡°Just sweet talk the bosses like you usually do and you should be fine. You have been doing a very good job at it before this. This should not be difficult for you.¡± He puts his hand down once again, cuts the call and blocked off the number. He was going to get rid of it soon but for now he still needed a phone. His plans simply slightly moved forward in time. Somewhere on the other side of the phone, a lady could only panic on hearing those words of resignations. Sometime later in a packed outlet A young beautiful lady who looks to be about in her early 20s steps up upon seeing Nash¡¯s entry. ¡°Hello there, how can I help you?¡± ¡°I heard I can try Dagon over here.¡± Upon hearing that, a business smile came back upon her. ¡°Why yes! You can try the game over here. However, as you can see, everyone here is also wanting to do the same, did you make an appointment?¡± Nash could not help but frown. ¡°No I did not make an appointment. I can just join the queue. How long do I need to wait if I were to wait?¡± Opening her tablet, she checks the charts she has in her hands, she began scrolling through the pages. ¡°By current estimate, tomorrow morning would be fastest if you were to make the appointment here and now. We have 15 machines in this outlet and 30 minutes of in game time to each person. You can however, in the meantime do the full body scan so that we can base it off your true self. You may choose to use the basic template but that will give you little to no bonus.¡± ¡°Bonus?¡± ¡°Yes bonus. An extra incentive for those who adopt an image similar to their true self. The idea of the incentive is there to make sure that there is a bigger variety of people and faces you will see in the game.¡± ¡°How much for the wait on that?¡± She scrolls her tablet further to check. ¡°Another 20 minutes before the queue is freed up. I recommend registering now for it.¡± ¡°I guess I will do that.¡± ¡°Great! If you are happy with my service, would you like to let me be your guide in the game?¡± ¡°Ingame guide? not only do you work at the outlet you also work ingame?¡± ¡°Why yes! All of us who work here has a chance to be a guide when we are off counter duty. Think of it as a perk for being in the company. The only thing is that we only hold the basic models. The game come with 3 models. Basic, advanced and elite. Each of them have different set of realism. From 50% in the basic model, 70% in the advanced model and 90% in the elite model. I heard there is the 99% realism model as well but as far as the general public is concerned, that model does not exist.¡±This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. ¡°If it does not exist, why did you tell me that? And how did you know of that model? Are you trying to say that you are able to gain access to that 99% model and I can get it through you?¡± Just as Nash was about to continue asking, he realized he had gone back to his old work habit to question everything. Sigh. Some habits are going to be hard to drop. ¡°Nevermind those question. Old habits die hard. My last job made me question everything these recent weeks. It would not be going away anytime soon.¡± With that Nash gave a shrug before continuing. ¡°You want to be my ingame guide? Sure. Where do I sign up? What details do I need to give to do so?¡± ¡°It is very simple, take this. This is my scan code. Later when you do your full body scan, take this card and put it on the retina scanner and it will register me as your guide.¡± ¡°That''s it?¡± ¡°That is it. Simple is it not? Even if i am offline, you still can contact me and i will see and hear you from my tablet.¡± *Waves the tablet* ¡°If you have me as your ingame guide, you will be also getting a discount on the different models that we have for sale, me and my other coworkers have different discount on different models and different accessories. We have a full coverage systems that includes basic security, account binding, real world-in game phone connections and various stuff listed in the packages listed in the brochure. Do note that like daily quest, every day, the promotions will be different. For today right now, the best offer for different models is with me, and the best accessories package is with Anna right at the corner with the longest queue. She has all the safety features pre installed in the system as long as you buy from her.¡± ¡°Why are you promoting her if you are also selling those stuff?¡± Sigh. ¡°Company policy. Best salesperson of the month makes the entire outlet have extra bonus. Because of that, most of the sales need to be diverted to her. Since her perks for the day is the best, we are directing all sales to her.¡± ¡°Corporate Pigs at their best. Competition that benefits their wallets more than the people at the bottom. The numbers looks good and even better when there is more dirty dealings to get better numbers if you get what i mean. Just think about it. Was she even walking straight today? Or even walk? I am pretty sure she has been sitting there the whole day.¡± ¡°That¡­ I can¡¯t say. With this many people today, she barely needed to move¡­¡± A brief moment of pause while her face paled a little ¡°What am I saying and thinking! Let''s change topic. Can I interesting you in anything else that is not related to her?¡± Nash smiled in amusement. ¡°Sure, if that is what you want. Tell me about the full dive system and the AI system.¡± ¡°That is no problem. I have it here with me.¡± She points at her head. ¡°The full dive system is a system that bridges the gap between your conscious and your subconscious area of thought. By bridging the 2 areas, you are able to relate to thing better. Think of it this way, your conscious thoughts are big gears, they direct where things go. Your subconscious thoughts are the smaller and intricate gears that connects your big thoughts together. You know about 6th sense? It is the ability to take the small cues around you and piece them together to give you what is the critical information to protect you. The full dive system intercepts these pathways in your brain and allow you to touch without touching, see without looking and smell without actually sniffing. You remember fruit loops? What does the purple one taste like?¡± ¡°Grapes?¡± ¡°The orange one?¡± ¡°Orange? Why did you ask that?¡± ¡°Actually, they taste the same. Our brain cues the taste based off the colors, giving the illusion of different flavours. Another concept they used is the mirror neurons. When you see another person raising an arm, your mind would create an image of yourself raising your arm. Similarly, you would drool when you see another person eating good food. Just by viewing, your body would react accordingly. The full dive system makes use of these concepts to work around and drop the need of controllers. All you need to do is sit there and sleep. The game would runs in parallel to reality so it is 24 hours here and 24 hours in there too. We spend 8 hours of our day sleeping and now we get to do stuff during these 8 hours. For those who work in reality, the game has in-game clock and alarm to remind you to wake up.¡± Nash crossed his arms in annoyance. He does not need to be reminded of work. ¡°So tell me about the full dive system. You only explained the game features to me and make the long story short. I do not need to hear the science of it. Tell it to me in 1 line if possible.¡± ¡°But I was just getting to the good¡­ part¡­...¡± She stuttered and stopped as she finally realized that there is a death stare before her. ¡°Fine. Very long story short, the full dive system takes over all your senses and overrides them with game information so that it will feel real.¡± ¡°Very good. Short and concise. Which is what I would prefer. What about the AI system? One sentence as well.¡± She stood there for about 15 seconds thinking how to shorten the aspect of the AI system before replying. ¡°The AI system is the result of putting the reaction of 10000 people of all ages together into various AI templates to suit different needs.¡± Nash looked at her with a brow raised. ¡°I am impressed. I am pretty sure the conversation about the AI system would be much much longer and you managed to summarize it very well. Impressive. Ten points to you.¡± ¡°Why, thank you. The notes we were given on the systems were pages long. They understood that the waiting time between each person until they are able to use any of the machines would be long and so they made an extremely long introduction for use to remember.¡± ¡°So how did they fill it up? You have gotten me curious about it.¡± ¡°Examples, metaphors, ways to go off topic and back and more example. Just like to one about fruit loops, there are 10 more of such examples with me. That is just me, everyone has different examples so that if we run out of stuff we can always direct to others who can tell a difference type of example.¡± ¡°Big effort for a big game like this but a little too excessive i would say.¡± ¡°Not really, this game involved scientists, military funding and so on. In fact for what is going on, the back room gossips suggest that the governments have come togethers on this game before it is released. Just think about it, such a big game and simultaneous release all over the world? What kind of gaming company must it have been to work into neural controllers, scientist of various fields and so on.¡± Looking at her, Nash paused for over 10 seconds and then a smile crept up his face. ¡°That was part of the notes that you have right? Conspiracy off topic conversation.¡± With a cheeky smile she could not help but nod. Nash froze for a second, the smile was like a breath of fresh air after a storm. *Cough* She realized that Nash seem to have wandered off to his own world. However, the awkward silence left her unsettled. Her job was to engage people and sell the product. In this place full of people, silence is a very very awkward thing to have. ¡°Ahh¡­ Sorry, my bad. My mind wandered off for a moment.¡± Nash scratches his head trying to think of a way to ease the situation. Ironically, his mind seem to have shorted out for the moment. ¡°Why don¡¯t we¡­¡± ¡°How about we¡­ ¡° The words of the two clashed and neither could understand each other. ¡°Ladies first.¡± ¡°How about we talk about the different models?¡± ¡°Ok that is fine by me. I was thinking along a similar lines.¡± ¡°Good. then I shall talk about the 3 models available in the market. The first model is the cheapest of the 3 priced at 5999.00, it is 50% realism. The sensitivity and level of detail ingame is not as high the other 2 models but it allows you access the game without breaking too hard into the bank. The price is a little high for a basic model but if you think about it, an extra 8 hours everyday to have fun and do other stuff. It is a good deal.¡± ¡°That i cannot deny. For 5999 you get 8 more hours of life everyday is a fair deal.¡± ¡°For the advanced model, it is priced at 9999. At 70% realism, there is more details that is available to view and feel. At 50% when you hold sand, you know you are holding sand but you cannot tell the texture as clearly as 70%. Not only that the device is warmed so that you can rest most comfortably. It is akin to resting after drinking warm milk. Except that warmth stays all the way until you wake up. From 5999 to 9999, you are paying for the comfort. Not only that the number of sensor used on 9999 is much more than 5999. It is more than double of 5999.¡± ¡°For 4000 more I get a device that has higher density of sensor and better comfort. however, what am I to know, I am technically asleep when it is all that comfortable. Not only that with the increase in number of sensor and that warmth, the electricity bill will only sky rocket. Is it a good trade off? I am not too sure.¡± ¡°Maybe so. If you think about it, if you wake up feeling all comfortable as to waking up to lying on a normal couch chair, which one would you start off the day feeling better?¡± ¡°That i cannot deny, but 4000 more might be a little too steep for most to think about. Even me.¡± That may be so but i would recommend spending more to get the elite model. Priced at 19999, that is 10000 more than the advanced model but the specs are phenomenal. 8 times the sensor density of the advanced model, not 8 times in amount but 8 times in density. With the increased density, it is close to reality in as many ways as possible.the 90% realism is no joke. Not only that, this model also regulates your body, doing full body maintenance. Based on different body builders and body types, it will help you exercise your body without you needing to move from your seat. literally.¡± ¡°Then what about the rumoured 99%?¡± ¡°From what I heard, the 99% would not be release because of its high realism. Because it is so real, people would think that reality is the one that is fake. They also fear that people would do things that they do in game in reality thinking that they are in game. There were many realistic games such as GTA V that created those results so there is no denying that such could pose a problem. Later in the future it might come out but who knows, right now 90% is the best that we have. What i just said came from the note that we were given anyway.¡± ¡°All those note and how much time to remember them?¡± ¡°Enough time. Those that did not pass the exam are still stuck studying the notes.¡± Nash could not help but give a slight chuckle. ¡°Well there is always that.¡± Chappy 2 - The Unusual Test (Prologue ii) ¡°Come to think of it, I have not gotten your name.¡± ¡°Angeloe with an e, but pronounced ung-loup. Silent e and extra p.¡± ¡°Interesting name. You must have not been an angel to your parent for your name to be read as ung-loup instead of angelo.¡± ¡°Not really, it was derived from french. Ange could mean angel or devil and loe or loup means shewolf. I got my name from my great grandmother. I was born late in the night and there were wolves howling at that hour. Oh and call me Angie.¡± ¡°Wolves?¡± ¡°She was staying in her retirement home near yellowstone park. The grey wolves did do well there ever since the reintroduction in 1995. According to my parents, we have a bit of the native american blood in us from her branch of the family. She believes in that mystical aspect and so came the naming issue. It was something that goes both ways and after much deliberations my parents and her managed to finalize it to Angeloe.¡± ¡°Interesting story for an interesting name. So tell me, why tell me the story? You could just tell me the name everyone calls you by and we could be done with it. We would have saved all that chatter.¡± ¡°I am not too sure myself. It was more of a ¡®why not¡¯ kind of feeling for me.when you asked me for my name. Now that you know mine, how about you share with me yours? ¡°Nash. Something about ash tree. That is all i remember about my name. Never really bothered.¡± Angie could only pout upon hearing Nash¡¯s reply. Most people she knew would know the history of their name quite well and Nash just brushed it off like it was not a thing that mattered. It was his name. Something personal and yet he does not even bother to find about about it. There was nothing she could do about it. It was not her name to remember. ¡°So, which model do you think you are getting? I have discounts for all 3 models but the most value for money would be getting the elite model from me. At 22222 adding an addition 2223 would grant you the full package that would usually cost 5000. House security, proximity sensor, bio locks, the list goes on. My package is best for the elite package. You have spent nearly 20000 on a device, adding another 2000 is not really changing the results. You are already breaking the bank to buy the device. It would not hurt to be on the safe side and buy all the accessories to maximise it.¡± ¡°While Anna¡¯s package come free with purchase, her package only includes basic security. Proximity sensors seems good but just think about it. Where are you installing the device? In a room in your house right? The proximity sensor is limited to the room itself. Who is going to be walking around in that room after you close the door? I would not deny that the deal is still a good deal since it is free. The rest of the items that i have in my package she has them too but only at 10% discount. People like the words free and discount. Buying from her would have both elements. I only have 1 package for promotion.¡± ¡°What makes you think I would even buy the elite model with your package?¡± ¡°The look in your eyes. You did not have the same look as the others that I have served after I said the price of the different models. The other people would frown or grimace upon hearing it but you did not even bat an eyelid.¡± ¡°Sold. With that good speech, whoever that already has half a mind to buy would buy from you. Of course, if you have better incentives, I would be even happier to buy from you.¡± ¡°What incentives are you talking about?¡± ¡°Oh you know, that kind.¡± looks over at Anna. ¡°Which kind?¡± Angeloe looks over her shoulders with puzzlement in her eyes. It did not take long before it shifted over to a look of disdain. ¡°No. That is absolutely not going to happen.¡± ¡°Well, it was worth a try asking.¡± ¡°And give me back my scan code!¡± ¡°Nope. no can do. What is given is a gift and gifts are not meant to be taken back.¡± ¡°It is not a gift. You tricked me for it.¡± ¡°Think carefully when did I ask for your scan code? I did not even know of its existence until you handed it to me. Check the cameras. I am pretty sure that the camera would have captured everything that has happened so far. I am also pretty sure that I broke no law with what I did.¡± The corners of Nash¡¯s lips curled up as he watched the face of Angie changed colors and shades. ¡°Thats ¡­ thats¡­¡± An awkward silence passed. *Sigh* *facepalm* ¡°There is nothing¡­¡± *pfft* ¡°hehehe hahaha¡± ¡°Ok¡­ *pfft* I will stop fooling around. If you actually *pfft* agreed i would not have *pfft* bought from you.*pfft* give me a moment.¡± Taking a couple of deep breath¡­ Nash¡¯s laughing fits finally settled down. ¡°Ahh¡­ That fixed my bad mood. My apologies for teasing you. I threw the bait and you fell for it hook, line and sinker. The thing is, I just lost my job the first place that I headed to was here. The first person that I talk to here is you. Teasing you is out of the line, I do understand that but just as you have said, I have over 2 hours of time to pass. Some jokes to break the ice is always good.¡± Rolling her eyes, ¡°Still, that is not a good way to break ice. I will not forgive you for that.¡± ¡°I would not be too worried about that With the ice being broken, Nash and Angie continued conversing over various topics related to Dagon. 2 hour plus later¡­ ¡°Nash, just like how you said it, think of it as a super psych evaluation¡±game against a machine.you can¡¯t beat it but you have to try hard.¡± ¡°Yes yes, just an all-encompassing ultimate chess ai, with chessboard being the world and objects of the world as chess pieces.¡± With that, he initiated the eye scan and the scan code. Agent 2187 registered. User¡¯s retina scan waiting ¡­ Nash stick his head over to register his retina pattern. User¡¯s retina scan Registered and Confirmed. *Pishh* the cabin opens Settling into the seat that was provided, Nash found it comfortable and soothing surprisingly. A screen in the cabin lowered as the door closed Welcome to the Initiator Model A221 #00002053 Are you ready for the initiation. Y/N ¡°For this test, you just need to relax and think of your answer.¡± ¡°Angie? Ah I forgot. She said earlier that the scan code would change the voice in the machine to her voice.¡± Settling his mind, Nash began the test. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Y. Tingling sensation covered Nash with the start of the test. It was an uncomfortable situation but it could not be helped. It was a necessary step to get the physical test going. Each prick is a test¡­ Just that millions of pricks at the same time becomes a little uncomfortable. Physical testing complete. Percentile rank - 77% Pain tolerance rank - 68% Current overall rank - 73% How is imitation like a plateau? He remember this from somewhere he read before¡­ think it was : They are the highest form of flattery What do you call a cheap circumcision? A rip off. Which side of the zebra has the most stripes? The outside What is it called when batman skips out on church? He remembered this one as well. Christian Bale What''s the best thing about living in Switzerland? Pass. pretty sure that there is a lame joke in it some where too. Seriously? Why jokes and lame jokes at that? What happened to the chess that Angie mentioned? At first it was nothing then a timer appeared at the side. After answering 1 question another would appear and the timer grew shorter and shorter. Next H know, the questions were just flashing before me and all the time i had was to give an impression of it in my head before i was think about the next one. After answering that many lame jokes at a go ¡­ What do you think of the name Angeloe? Pretty, cute, interesting name, wolf, angel... Ah wait what was he thinking¡­ but what and why would her name come up. It must have been the card. After that question, the questions stopped. However, images appeared. The color red. The color blue. The color green. The color yellow. An image of a bird. An image of an apple. Image of meat. Ah wait that is beef i think. After i thought of an answer a new one would appear. As he answered, it got faster and faster. After a while everything became a blur. It was like watching a 60fps scene squeezed into a 24fps limit. A show of 2 or more frames stacking together in the same moment . If memory served him right, it was what would be called subconscious processing. And so, he let the thoughts flowed on. Images flashed by with time, occasionally he would see things like chess and pieces of jigsaw flash by where he may or may not pay more attention to. With each passing moment he could feel his head getting heavier and heavier. The sensory load was getting to him. Just as his mind was about to cloud over, a beep sounded to say that that was the end of the test. Mental stress tolerance rank - 82% Mental function capacity - 80% Overall mental ability rank - 84% Final Overall rank - 85% User¡¯s physical and mental condition - Near peak perfect. Game character class recommended - Dual class and above Stats bonus in - Int, Wis, Str, End Advanced starting races unlocked Advanced starting classes unlocked Advance starting jobs unlocked. Overall rank bonus- Other classes jobs unlocked. Advance modules unlocked. User assist is now optional from the start. 85% of the game material¡¯s information have been release to you from the start. Generating Grade A ID now. Please collect it from the slot outside of this device. *pishhhh* the cabin opened up and a cool breeze washed in. Fresh air? Maybe. As Nash stepped out of the cabin, he felt that something was different. The world felt different. Maybe it was just too colorful because he just got out of a dark cabin but he was not sure. Around him was more of those cabins. All closed with blinking lights all over the place just like the one he was in moments ago. Then something felt odd to him, where is everyone? ¡°Angie?¡± ¡°Hellooo?¡± ¡°Anyone around? It felt creepy. Other than the whirling fans and the electronics buzzing in the background, there was no other noise. Not knowing what else to do, he began exploring the room. As he did, he counted the number of cabins that were around. 42. If there were that many here, someone must have placed them here. As he moved around the room, he noticed many things out of place Wait a minute. Nash began wondering. Was he still in a simulation? When in a conversation with angie, they talked about the world being chess piece¡­ could this be a locked room test? Since there was no one around, there was no way anyone could confirm or deny his thinking. Little did he know he was right. The only issue was that this test was set as a group test. However, with a high score that he has, there was no one else with score close enough as his to pair with him for the test. That made him have to handle this test on his own. Nash assumed he was right and began taking note of things. Paper, pen, trinkets. Anything that was movable he took them down. What better way to solve a puzzle then to take all the puzzle pieces together and solve them. Slowly but steadily the mystery behind the room was uncovered. He realized how painful the answer was. A painfully stupid answer. Yes he solved the riddle. But he also really did not need to solve the riddle. This test was idiot proof. For the smart people it is a riddle. For the lucky ones it becomes a test of luck. For luck is also an ability. As he looked through the pile of items that he collected, he found what he wanted. The Grade A ID. He walks back to the device that he ¡®spawned¡¯ from and inserted the ID into the slot labeled ID and stepped back into the cabin to be seated down. The screen lowers itself once again. Number of participants - 1/5 Number of participants that gave up - 0 Average percentile rank - 85% Items collected - 43/43 Time taken - 02:05:23:84 Total manhours - 02:05:23:84 Luck factor - Highly Unlikely Judgement - Elite Initiating next test ... ¡­ ... With a flash of light the world changed. Before him was a tabletop type of game setup similar to dungeons and dragons. An translucent screen floats before him explaining to him how to play the game. After a minute or 2 he understood the game and began building up the board. After setting up the board, with all the pieces in place, the game began the countdown. For the first battle, it was a RTS game where he had to manage resources and stay alive for 10 minutes. It was a strategic defence set up where he had to prevent the treasure from being taken. He suffered some losses but manage to survive the 10 minutes. For the second battle, it was still a RTS game but this time he was the attacking side. Ironically enough, he felt as if he was fighting himself based on the was the AI was defending from his attack. As he felt that way, he made use of his knowledge from prior game to formulate his attack. It surprisingly went well. Timed assault, FPS, tower defence and many other types came about after. It took at least another hour before he completed all the games in this test. Congratulations to completing the games test. User recommendations : Taskmaster, Tamer(all subclasses), Summoner Logical classes unlocked Management classes unlocked Management jobs unlocked Management modules unlocked All test complete. Total elapsed time - 01:42:24:66 Generating Grade A ID now. Please collect it from the slot outside of this device. Do not forget to bring it back with you. If you enter the game without having to insert the card during your first time, you will not be able to have all the stated bonuses. *pishhhh* the cabin opened up revealing the world to him once again. Ahh¡­ the stink of the city. So that is what felt different. With the air choked full of pollutants, how could there have been the smell of fresh air like just now. Stepping out of the cabin, he felt well rested. Must have been the way he was placed in REM sleep. With nothing else to do but to leave, Nash took his card and looked at it. It was a 3D hologram card of himself. Front and back. ¡°Holy mother of foils! It me!¡± he could clearly tell it was him. He felt that if he squinted, he might actually be able to see the individual strands of hair of himself off the hologram. Just as he was leaving the room, something bugged him. He looked at the time again. It felt as it over three hours have passed in the cabin but apparently, that was not the case, only an hour and 45 minutes or so have passed since he entered the cabin. That stopped Nash in his tracks. If he was right, the game is running at two times the speed of the normal clock. That might pose some interesting issues but it would be just great if it happens. *growwl* But first food. It has been a long day. Following the signs out, he got back to the main hall. Along the way there were light refreshments left by the side which he readily took to ease that hunger. After getting back to the main hall, he looked around. Anna still at her corner, pretty sure she is stuck there for more than one reason. Few other sales assistants standing around engaging the different potential customers. Oddly, Angeloe was nowhere in sight. It was a pity, he would not have minded buying from her. With nothing else to do, he approached a sales assistant that just freed herself up. ¡°Hi. can you tell me where is Angeloe? I just got out of the testing and now I am trying to look for here.¡± The sales assistant looked back with a puzzled face. ¡°Angeloe? We do not have anyone named Angeloe working here.¡± This got Nash confused. If there was no one working here by the name Angelou, who was it that he talked to earlier? ¡°What about Angie? She calls herself that.¡± ¡°Nope that does not ring a bell.¡± ¡°That was really odd. Did I talk to a ghost?¡± ¡°Sir, if there is nothing else i would like to attend to others. I am not the information counter. The information counter is down the aisle on the right. Feel free to ask questions not related to the purchase of the devices and the accessories.¡± There was nothing much he could do so he headed over to the information counter. ¡°Hello, this is the information counter. How may i assist you? ¡°I am looking for this person called Angeloe. I think she is known as Angie around here.¡± ¡°One moment let me check our staff list.¡± After a short moment¡­ ¡°I am sorry sir but apparently we do not have anyone working here by that name. However, we do have over 10 people under the name Angie and over 10 people by the name of Angeloe as well within the company. These however is restricted access and so i am unable to release those information to you.¡± ¡°How about this?¡± Nash hands over the scan code. The staff behind the counter looks at the card. ¡°Sir, with this scan code you do not need to meet the person to make a purchase, you can choose to purchase everything that the person has offered as stated on the card through anyone at the sales department. If you want to do it here it is fine too. I passed the exam as well but got stuck to information counter duty. Talk about the luck of draw.¡± Nash look at the counter staff, he looked like a normal guy. Just anyone you meet on the street and would forget when you turn around. He could not help but pity him. He was too forgettable. ¡°Since you are able to do it, help me make the purchase from here. I see no harm in doing so. It would also save me the trouble to find another person to make a purchase.¡± ¡°Great! What model are you looking for. We have 3 models available with multiple support packages.¡± ¡°I would like to have the 90% model with the package listed in the scan code that has everything covered priced at 2223.¡± ¡°Everything covered? I am not sure if we have that but I will check for you.¡± After saying so, he looks down back on his screen and begins looking for the one I mentioned. ¡°Ah yes. i have found it. I am not sure why but that package you mentioned is available on this scan code. I must say, the one whom this card belongs to, must have been someone rather important. I see so many packages not available at this branch and some I have never even heard of before.¡± ¡°I see.¡± Now this got Nash thinking. Just who could this Angeloe be. Clearly she must be someone important or special to provide such a scan code. ¡°.....Sir¡­ SIR!¡± ¡°Ah yes?¡± ¡°If you do not mind, please key in you detail so that we can deliver and install your items.¡± A while later¡­ ¡°Thank you for making a purchase with us. Your items will be delivered at the estimated time of 5pm tomorrow. Please make yourself available at that time and thank you once again.¡±