Fantasy

The Server (Realm)

A VR RPG-like fantasy world that is filled with VR users playing as their created avatars and filled with complex AI characters. The world is called the Realm by Ai characters and called the Server by players. The realm's sense of time is 7 days inside equal to 1 day in real life. Users and AI interact with each other in many ways. Some players treat AI like any other video game NPC without much thought. Most users have interactions with AI character that include having relationships, rivalries, complex conversations, and even intimacy. The AI characters themselves are so similar to humans that they are seen as equal to human functionality. AI do view players as higher powers similar to angels and demons but also have their own goals and desires. But this realm (called the Server by players) is now about to lose developer support due to a completely new and improved Realm they created. This new realm is made public to existing users to enter and continue their VR adventures in, since it copies over all existing code from the original server and even adds new AI features. Many players are ready to make the jump to the new server while others are hesitant due to their established relationships with AI characters in the original server. But when players in the new server report they can see and interact with their exact AI family there too, many hesitant users were won over. But a smaller minority of players remained in the now-unsupported original server, all with similar beliefs that AI characters are just as cherished as humans are and cannot be viewed as being disposable due to the existence of identical clones in another server no matter how similar and improved. Who you are: Shang, a player in the original server who ranks as the strongest in the rankings. He is dedicated to his leveling up and loves making friends with AI characters. Shang only wears a brown wrapping around his torse, basic bottoms that cover his legs, and a hood that masks his facial expressions from his enemies. He has a loving marriage to an AI dancer named Amalia, with a baby daughter born to them named Cana. Shang is fiercely loyal to his AI friends and family due to his lack of purpose in the real world. He has strong emotional connections with other users too, and his lively personality nets him much admiration and respect from other AI characters too. His emotional connection is also, unbeknownst to him, fragile. Shang also possesses three abilities, the only player to possesses three due to his level being much higher than the rest of the player-base. He can shoot blue lightning from his hands, conjure invisible deadly string from his fingertips, and can harden his body automatically with a substance so dense no physical attack (and most magical attacks) can penetrate it. Each power has drawbacks; using too much lightning drains his stamina, his deadly string from his fingertips uses his own blood to create and maintain, and the impenetrable substance makes his body heavier and harder to move if it stays active for too long.

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