This page is a bit different- It feels like everyone isn’t on the same page, which is intentional. Kaylin is struggling to put together what’s going on and dealing with how it doesn’t make sense yet, Nyna is expressing her understanding, and El is expressing his feelings on bringing adventurers back which is basically “Can you only bring back the COOL people and not all the losers?” XD
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Who’s “this person” that is roaming free?
Likely whoever taught that King and his people how to become pseudo adventurers and farm monsters and npcs for gear.
“It feels like everyone isn’t on the same page”
Everyone is their own unreliable narrator.
The lack of information sharing is a common theme in the comic. Most of the questions could have been answered if someone who was continously present from the past to the current time would actually tell Kaylin (and us) what actually happened (at least from their own perspective). This could clear up most of the questions, so it’s unlikely to happen soon.
The disappearance of some adventurers while everyone was online is the smaller question, the bigger one is where did all the regular players went and when? My working theories are one: a server that is left running without players, two: a fork of the process that runs without irl connections or three: where the whole accident happened within a short period of time, that had the server kick players out one by one until noone remained. The 3rd could even mean that for the irl players only a few seconds have passed since a server without player connections can have any time base from much slower through near irl to much faster.
Hm, she can rewrite this world, but its not the only one. The space man was from another. She isn’t the goddess of the other worlds. And it took time for his cybernetics and gear to get adapted.
Worlds are colliding and she has difficulty editing them even after they enter her domain.
Kaylin’s so frustrated she’s not even giving poor Lyrestra a chance to answer her shrill questions, lol
Multiple different threads here indeed! And you can’t blame anyone here, they’ve got a literal goddess in front of them (floating above them? they’re all looking upward) and they want what answers they can get while they have the chance.
Calling the ‘Incident’ that started this series an ‘Accident’ sounds like a deflection to possibly avoid admitting fault – but we also don’t know enough about whatever it was.
Kaylin seems focused on both that these powerful Rime-Aria deities haven’t taken action to fix things until now (we don’t know how long it’s actually been!), as well as the unanswered question of whoever ‘this person’ is that was responsible for teaching Talithar about grinding beings for exp and items.
I suspect the answers to these are related – some as yet unrecognized limit on the Rune-Aria deities’ power, very likely related to Adventurers themselves. If their former function was to keep the world running while Adventurers… literally played around, it is very possible that Rune-Aria deities have a deliberate block where Adventurers are concerned and can only affect them in certain situations; such as after death.
Nyna is actually the most forward-looking out of everyone; asking how monsters can not LOSE what they have gained following the ‘Incident’ while everyone else is talking about how bringing Adventurers back is supposed to ‘fix’ the world’s problems by taking it backward.
And then in the background we have the question of how OTHER game worlds or systems may be involved. Where did Ellisia “acquire” resources to create a Monster afterlife? She was able to supposedly send an old god to another world, but how much power does she have beyond Rune-Aria itself – is she some kind of overarching multi-world GM, or just flexing power from the world she is in?
We were warned this chapter would be an exposition dump at the beginning; but 18 chapters in, I think it’s good to (hopefully) finally get a little more solid lore about the Incident that started it all! And maybe a reveal of the BBEG whose forces have been circling around since the beginning? How much is left of Kevin – maybe even a chance for Kaylin and Kevin to have a ‘face to face’? Lots of possibilities!
Admin AI-s have to function within their environment and only have powers that are given to them by the developers. Even an AI with root access to the whole game environment (even with access to the game code) have no power outside of the game system. An AI however might use high level access to jailbreak their enviornment and access the server underneath which would allow it to affect more than the game envionment. Not that it would know how at the beginning. On the other hand this access could come from an in game shell used by developers, which would be a possible backdoor to the outside world. So far it seems all gods except one are limited to the game system and have no understanding of the world outside of it.
Non native players that come from a different game could be using the same game system just a different instance with a different rule set, which would allow them to function in the Rune-Aria system, especially if their capabilities and equipment are mapped to the world. The worlds colliding could be the containers of the different games running on the same cluster breaking or getting breached or even as simple as someone moving everything into the same container to conserve resources.
A good example is a favourite MMOFPSRPG of mine that launched in 2002 and needed a dedicated server for each sector of the game. Then it was upgraded to a load balancing cluster and after two decades all sector instances were run on a single rented virtual server as the number of players were in the dozens instead of throusands and sector instances without players could be suspended to storage and time fast forwareded on load. Considering it had hundreds of public sectors and many thousands of player ‘owned’ private instances. This computational power saving, advances in computer power in the past 20 years and the low player count meant that the few remaining players could be supported with very little computational resources. In case of Rune-Aria the extra unused power could be used to make time go faster and/or give every npc and mob a full AI personality and life while keeping every instance active. (considering npcs and mobs could travel between locations, everything seems to be running all the time, on an unknown time scale)
too many questions, not enough answers