Real Cthulhu Running Game

"Grid array? I seem to have heard of it somewhere."

Just as Liu Xing looked around to see who was staring at him, he heard Long San speak, "I seem to have heard of this grid array in other modules, but the grid array they are talking about seems to be a copy in a certain online game! At the beginning, the planner of that game seemed to be planning to design a map similar to a Rubik's Cube. Every once in a while, the Rubik's Cube would be twisted to change the adjacent modules, so that different monsters would appear, or different buffs would be given to the players. However, due to technical limitations, this map changed from a Rubik's Cube to a fixed grid, but the most important grid would still move randomly. . "

"So players don't need to keep going to new grids to find the most important grid. Beating the BOSS inside is considered to be clearing the dungeon. Different grids will also have some different settings. For example, the forest grid we are in now will reduce the hit rate of long-range attacks, and the Gobi Desert will speed up your energy consumption. As for the grassland, you may fall into an invisible pit and be controlled for a few seconds; as for the most important grid, it is the castle where the BOSS lives. There will be a lot of miscellaneous soldiers in it, but these miscellaneous soldiers are used to restore the BOSS's blood, so if the player's speed of clearing the miscellaneous soldiers is not fast enough, then the BOSS will have several tubes of blood. "

"Hmm?"

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows and shook his head, saying, "There should be many games with this kind of setting, right? I remember playing games with similar settings, but they were not so complicated."

Yang De on the side also nodded and said, "Yes, I think this grid array is a bit like the grid in a certain chess game, because chess games with a certain level will design some bonus and debuff effects for the grid to ensure that players can think more when playing the game, instead of mindlessly shooting; so I think this grid array may be a material library in a certain game, that is, all the terrain that can be used in the game is placed here, so there are only different grids here, grids There is nothing else on it. "

Liu Xing agreed with Yang De's idea very much, but he was interrupted by Long San just as he was about to speak, "No, no, no, I thought so at the beginning, but now I suddenly remembered something, that is, the main planner of the game seemed to have disappeared suddenly! You know, this game was quite popular in that parallel world, and the main planner was also very successful at the time. It is said that the company's year-end bonus for him was almost seven figures. As a result, the main planner suddenly disappeared, and the last place he appeared was the elevator on the way home, which means that he should have disappeared while sleeping at home. "

"Dreamland!"

Liu Xing and Yang De said in unison.

"That's right. According to the thinking of us players, this chief planner was most likely sent to the Dreamland! Because according to the setting of the Dreamland, some people with strong thinking ability and strong imagination will be directly pulled into the Dreamland. These are the so-called dreamers. Of course, there are also some dreamers who enter the Dreamland with only their souls like us. So I think this chief planner should also be a dreamer, and he entered the Dreamland intact. However, judging from the fact that he has not returned to the real world so far, this dreamer may be controlled by others, because dreamers are also a strategic resource in the Dreamland."

Long San said seriously: "As far as I know, dreamers can create many things in the fantasy dreamland. It is not a problem to build a city overnight. Therefore, capable dreamers will be popular even if they go to the Moon Beast, and they will be fed with delicious food and drink! After all, in addition to having a strong imagination, dreamers must believe everything in front of them. You must know that this is not just talking nonsense with your eyes closed, because even if you tell lies with your eyes peeled, you know that you are lying, so such people cannot be dreamers. Therefore, real dreamers must believe everything they say, no matter how outrageous this sentence is."

That's true.

Although Liu Xing has never seen a dreamer with his own eyes, he has heard some stories about dreamers. One of them is that a player shared in the forum how he turned a dreamer into an ordinary person, and then he was torn to pieces by the surrounding NPCs.

There is no way. You turned their "god" into a human, so no matter how good your temper is, you will be turned into meat paste.

After all, in a sense, the Dreamland is also a huge Colosseum, so there is only one universal theorem here - the strong prey on the weak, and the fittest survive.

So the forces with the Dream Maker in charge will not be weak no matter what, after all, the Dream Maker in the Dreamland is equivalent to half of the Old Ones, and the best of them can be called gods.

However, such "gods" are still very fragile, because if you want to turn these gods into humans, you just need to make them realize that everything in front of them is unreasonable.

So there are not many dreamers in the fantasy dreamland nowadays. If the dreamer stays in the territory of a certain force, then this force will find ways to protect the dreamer, or to be more precise, let him live in the "dreamland" as much as possible. In short, the dreamer cannot be exposed to any "reality" so that he will not realize that all this is a dream, so he "should not" be able to create these things out of thin air.

It's not that you can't, but that you shouldn't.

So as long as you can make a dreamer accept reality, then he is not a dreamer.

Therefore, Liu Xing also understood what Long San meant, that is, the reason why this grid array suddenly appeared here may be because it was created by the dreamer who was the main planner. Because there is a saying that what you think about during the day, you dream at night, so this dreamer may be thinking about a problem before entering the fantasy dreamland-how to perfect the copy of this grid array, so he conjured this grid array out of thin air.

After all, when the dream makers just entered the dreamland, they probably thought they were dreaming, so their creativity was undoubtedly the strongest at this time, so "wish come true" is a real adjective at this time.

Whatever you think of, you can have it.

If you follow this line of thought, then the ruins left by the ancient civilization mentioned by Yunqi are probably left by the dream maker, because the game he planned must have many copies named after ruins, and in order to allow players to move quickly between large maps, this teleportation array must be indispensable.

As for the steel knife and steel fork, they may be the weapons used by the monsters, and those armors with film and television style may also be prepared for those monsters. After all, the art resources of the game must be given to those bosses and important NPCs, so ordinary monsters only need to have such a meaning, so just find some existing art materials and put them on.

Cold knowledge, in fact, many game engines have their own material stores, which means that you can theoretically piece together a game by buying and buying, but it is easy to have "collision" with other games.

Therefore, you will find that the models of the monsters in the games made by small studios are basically bought, and at most they have undergone some minor modifications, such as the color of the clothes.

So unless it is some powerful game company, it is impossible to work hard on the modeling of the monsters.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, when the dreamer found that he could create large "commodities" such as grid arrays and teleportation arrays, he wanted to try whether he could create small things such as knives, guns, sticks, etc., so he remembered the weapons and armor he had seen in some movies and TV series, so he conjured up so many steel knives, steel forks and armor out of thin air.

Then the question is back, is it possible that Yunqi and others were also created by the dreamer?

In theory, the dreamer can be said to be omnipotent in the dreamland, so there is no problem even if he imitates Nuwa to create people, especially when the dreamer already has a clear character image in his mind.

So again, where is this dreamer now?

According to Long San, this dreamer has disappeared from the real world for a long time, which means that he is either gone or has lived in the fantasy dreamland for a long time and has joined a certain force.

Liu Xing thinks the former is more likely, because many dreamers think they are dreaming at the beginning, so they don’t realize that they have come to a new world, and they may think they are having a clear dream with a high degree of freedom; however, after the passage of time, these dreamers will most likely realize that they are not dreaming, but have traveled to another world. In this way, these dreamers will subconsciously feel that their abilities are a bit wrong, as if they are not in line with common sense, so these dreamers become ordinary people.

As an ordinary person, it is very difficult to gain a foothold in the fantasy dreamland, especially when you appear alone in this deep mountain forest, it is really a pity to cry to the sky and the earth.

Especially when this area is designated as the exclusive activity area of ​​the martial arts module by the Cthulhu game lobby, all living things in this area may die. After all, except for the lucky newcomers, the living things in the fantasy dreamland are more or less capable, so even if the NPCs sent in are also capable, they may be wiped out due to carelessness. Therefore, in order to avoid the situation where players find that all NPCs are gone after entering the activity, this area is still necessary to clear.

However, one possibility cannot be ruled out now, that is, the dreamer may still be alive, and he has not become an ordinary person, but is hiding somewhere for some reason, such as the palace of the Emperor of Update.

Or is this dreamer the current national teacher?

If this is true, then this activity is not as simple as it seems, because many NPCs have two completely different identities.

Doesn't this become a werewolf killing?

And it's a dual identity.

However, if this grid array is created according to the design ideas of the game, then it should bring certain bonuses or debuffs to the players and NPCs who enter it, as Long San said, and these effects should be It can be accumulated, that is, the more grids you pass, the more various effects you will have.

So this can be regarded as a trade-off strategy for players. In short, you can either reach the end of the grid array as soon as possible to leave the grid array, or spend more time adding more effects to yourself, so that when faced with Other players will have an advantage. . . Of course, if you are not very lucky, you will get weaker and weaker as you get more debuffs.

"Dear players, please note that the teleportation arrays in all cities have been activated, so all players participating in the offensive and defensive battles have arrived at the grid array."

"In short, the grid array has only one exit that moves randomly, so when players reach the exit and wait for a certain period of time, they can be teleported directly to the palace of the Emperor of Update. However, there is also a very small probability that the player will be teleported to other areas!"

"In addition, players can get an effect that can be good or bad every time they pass through a grid. These effects can be accumulated or offset each other, and they can also use small things to gain more. For example, the damage can be increased by one and the damage can be reduced by three at most. "

"Finally, and the most important point is that every time you defeat an enemy, whether it is an NPC or a player, you can get a buff from him. There is no limit! So in theory, you can become a hero by going into battle and killing enemies. An invincible existence, but the buffs obtained in this way have a time limit, and the time can be reset by killing the enemy. "

"Finally, the more buffs each player obtains in the grid array, the more likely they are to maintain a certain number of buffs after teleporting out of the grid array, and there may even be a chance to bring the best one out of the area. event!”

"Okay, now all players can make final preparations, because you will be able to move freely soon."

As soon as the male voice finished speaking, he saw Yun Qi walking over with a serious look on his face, "Ajin, we must split up now, because we must find the siege as soon as possible, and then pass through the siege and return to the vicinity of the palace! So we Now we can only work separately, so that we are more likely to find the siege, so if you find the siege, Ajin, just use the thing I just gave you, and we will rush over as soon as we see it. "