Ready Player Me (eBook)

Life's a Game. Start Playing.

The Admins' Intern (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
152 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
979-8-3509-8049-3 (ISBN)

Infos

If you're reading this you're a character in the 'Earth' game. When Earth first released to the citizens of the Universe, it was fair. Anyone who joined had an equal chance at leveling up, but as the seasons continued, new Players struggled to crawl their characters out of the beginning stages. The Admins, throughout the recent history of the game, have tried to suppress different 'Cheat Codes' from the majority of the population. A few Players successfully leaked cheat codes in the past to help characters level up. Due to poor communication technology, these characters relied on word of mouth to spread information. I've been working with the Admins long enough as an Intern to earn their trust to gain access to certain files that store cheat codes. If this book successfully reaches the public, it will be the most cheat codes ever released to empower the masses and create a more enjoyable playing experience for the most popular game in the Universe, The Earth game. If you want the Admins to keep my punishment minimal, do NOT read this. If you'd like to help make a difference in the Earth game, open this book and fix the world by leveling up. I wouldn't be mad if you did the latter. Get ready, Player.

This book was written anonymously.

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If you're reading this you're a character in the "e;Earth"e; game. When Earth first released to the citizens of the Universe, it was fair. Anyone who joined had an equal chance at leveling up, but as the seasons continued, new Players struggled to crawl their characters out of the beginning stages. The Admins, throughout the recent history of the game, have tried to suppress different "e;Cheat Codes"e; from the majority of the population. A few Players successfully leaked cheat codes in the past to help characters level up. Due to poor communication technology, these characters relied on word of mouth to spread information. I've been working with the Admins long enough as an Intern to earn their trust to gain access to certain files that store cheat codes. If this book successfully reaches the public, it will be the most cheat codes ever released to empower the masses and create a more enjoyable playing experience for the most popular game in the Universe, The Earth game. If you want the Admins to keep my punishment minimal, do NOT read this. If you'd like to help make a difference in the Earth game, open this book and fix the world by leveling up. I wouldn't be mad if you did the latter. Get ready, Player.

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Introduction

Hello there fellow Players of the Earth game. It’s me, a basic Intern for the Administration and Developers for the most popular game in existence, the “Earth” game. As you already know, the Admins rarely leak information to improve a character’s abilities. Over the millions of seasons, there have only been a handful of Players that were able to successfully find confidential Earth game information and then spread the good news into the live build to uplift the masses. About two thousand seasons ago, one rogue Intern was brave enough to realize that the Admins were withholding important information from the majority which would instantly level up their character. High-level characters, this Intern noticed, continued to grow stronger while low-level characters remained nearly in the noob category even after playing fifty to seventy seasons. The character level gap between the avatars in the game grew so noticeable that this Intern decided to risk his position in the gaming studio and eventually his character’s life.

The rogue Intern two thousand seasons ago decided to go against the Admin and Dev Team’s confidential game information privacy policies and began scavenging through high-level documents that were purposely suppressed from the middle to low-level characters roaming the Earth game. He kept seeing a recurring theme in these secret files called “Cheat Codes”. Quickly he realized these cheat codes were exactly what struggling Players were missing and what high-level characters either found out organically or artificially.

The Intern memorized as many cheat codes as he could handle then instantly logged into the Earth game and began spreading the word. The spread of information in older seasons was mind-numbingly slow. Due to this, the Intern would rely on his Earth game team to help spread the cheat codes through word of mouth. The lack of modern season’s technology prevented the team from sharing all the collected cheat codes with the characters of the game effectively. As a result, the rogue Intern and his team decided to spread the most important cheat codes one city at a time.

The Admin noticed the Intern was missing meetings in the gaming office and according to the log book, he was spending an unhealthy amount of time playing the Earth game. The majority of the Employees for the Earth game spend around seven to eight hours working on the development of the game, but this rogue Intern was spending nearly sixteen hours a day inside the game using his work console.

The Admin grew suspicious of this new Intern and sent characters into the game to spy on him and report back to the Admin. To their disbelief, this promising Employee was spreading confidential cheat codes to every character that he crossed paths with. This leak of high-level information has not happened for around five hundred seasons. Knowing the severity of the situation, the Admin had the Dev team send a group of avatars to persecute the rogue Intern’s in-game character.

The Dev’s group was able to infiltrate the Intern’s team and extract important logistical information from them. The group would attempt to discredit the cheat codes leaked by the Intern. Although, the group was too late. Knowing this, the Admin decided to have the Intern’s character and teammates killed on a public server hoping to scare low-level characters from attempting the cheat codes while sending a strong message to other Earth game Employees that if they try to leak confidential information, they too will be removed from the game.

Instead of stomping out the fire caused by the released cheat codes, the attack the Admin pulled off would end up being the fuel needed to cause a global shift in leveling up. The word-of-mouth technique took hundreds of seasons to spread these cheat codes across the entire map and suppressors took uncountable innocent leakers’ lives. Yet, over time, the cheat codes boosted the levels of characters throughout the game more than any other event to ever happen in the Earth game. In the coming years there would be a few more Employees and Interns of the Earth game that would successfully release cheat codes to the Players, but they would all be executed or silenced before releasing enough to drastically change the dynamic of the game to uplift levels across the board with the same magnitude as the rogue Intern from two thousand seasons ago. That would be the case for numerous seasons, until now. With the recent technological advancements being released in the Earth game, another rogue Intern has the power to steal cheat codes from the Admin’s files and then instantly release them to the entire game population due to the creation of the “Internet”. No more spreading data slowly through the word-of-mouth technique. Information can travel and appear on every character’s dashboard in seconds. I have a funny feeling the next instant level-up for the masses is about to happen.

I don’t remember ever not being around in existence. The realm I and the infinite amount of others reside in does not follow a linear feeling timeline. All the Players that have characters in the Earth game are here in this eternal existence. Also, the Earth game is not the only game that others, like me, enjoy playing. There are unknown amounts of games with completely different realities and rules. Some might have different styles of characters as the main avatars that do not resemble the typical humanoid form. Some game’s characters breathe solids and eat air, others are mechanical avatars that choose to control car-like forms. There are plenty of games out there for beings like me to enjoy, but the main game that has been at the top of the best-sellers charts the longest is the famous, or infamous from some perspectives, Earth game.

I’ve been playing the Earth game off and on for the past eighty thousand seasons. With so many seasons played and deciding to choose a wide array of character styles, the Admins to the game contacted me asking if I would like to become an Intern with some minor roles. My job mainly consists of overseeing the complaints and reporting back to the Dev team if I noticed any repetitive issues that characters would report.

Before starting my new role at the gaming office for the Earth game, I always assumed the difficulties throughout the game were evenly distributed by a benevolent Admin team with the goal of creating difficulties and prosperity fairly for all characters. Thinking highly of the Creators made me a fan of the Earth game which would make me ecstatic to even receive a job offer. But after working with the complaints department for numerous seasons now, I’ve noticed a huge imbalance with difficulties for characters who choose to be born into low leveled areas. Players that choose to join the Earth game for the first time are automatically required to select a low leveled area character and then work their way up the hierarchy from there.

When I started playing the Earth game towards the beginning of its release, leveling up was not too difficult. Once my character’s lifetime expired and I was ready to join the game again, I had a priority to rejoin the Earth game with the choice of high leveled areas. In the earlier seasons, I would often pick characters in low leveled areas for the challenge, but recently I’ve decided to join the game in high-level areas to maximize the experiences that are available in the Earth game. Until starting my internship, I figured those low-level areas were still capable of being solved allowing for characters to level up quickly. Now that I’m in the complaints department, I now see that there has been an issue with the level-up ability for new Players joining the Earth game. Due to this, I raised my concern to the Admin team. Maybe they accidentally allowed this section of code to continue to alter without edits? Apparently, it was on purpose… How do I know? Well, they laughed at me and said “How great is that! We finally can get back at those people that criticized the game when it came out, but now want to play. For whatever reason, they keep playing even though the difficulty for new Players makes it nearly impossible to beat. A few Players noticed what we were doing and infiltrated our files, but thankfully that hasn’t happened in a while.” Their conversation on the topic continued, but unknown to them, my love for the Earth game was crushed.

This conversation might’ve felt like another laughable discussion for the Admin. For me, it was the fuel to my newfound determination to hack the complete database of the Earth game and release them all on the public server. We’ve all heard about a few characters that successfully leaked a couple of highly classified information known as “Cheat Codes”. Leakers during older seasons were restricted to using word of mouth as the main source for spreading information. Thanks to the tech characters in recent seasons, information can spread to every character on the server instantly. From what I can see on my end in the gaming office, the security protocols have not been updated in quite some time. As of this moment, I was able to compile almost eighty cheat codes from the Admin’s locked files. They are in a language native to other beings like me, so I will try my best to translate and explain as many as I can without being discovered. I’ll have my character publish them into the Earth game once I feel like someone in the gaming office is getting suspicious. My character will have the manuscript narrated in the form of an audiobook as well as upload a text file version for the characters of the Earth game to utilize. If I can release at least half of these, it will be the most cheat codes ever leaked, which...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3509-8049-3 / 9798350980493