Wiki Diving

After work, I checked the Wiki. As expected, confusion was breeding more confusion.

I mean, the game systems themselves were all over the place…

The scenario examples under the "Story" section had grown quite a bit too.

The death-prone Takurou had apparently started a laid-back slow life with his sixth character (though technically his "first") after surviving some extreme cold weather survival scenario.

The catch was that he was also a cemetery caretaker… a gravedigger, basically, and for some reason human bones kept popping up in his Home's field, so he'd been making graves for them and holding memorial services. Was the Grim Reaper in love with him or something?

While he was at it, he'd apparently made graves for all his previous characters too.

Aruru, who had reported the fastest second character, had apparently hired a fourth one.

Though a follow-up comment clarified that these were "subordinates", and in reality he might still technically be on his "first" player character. Apparently Aruru's subordinates had simple circular halos above their heads.

And if you counted carefully, including "himself" plus "four subordinates", he might actually be on his fifth? Who'd have thought gameplay differences could cause counting discrepancies like this? Turns out he'd had one "subordinate" from the very start.

Someone else with a similar counting method was the horse beastkin racing game guy.

He was a "trainer-cum-racer" and counted his "team members" as his second character, third character, and so on. Apparently they could give instructions during races.

If I'd picked the racing game for my second character, would I be living surrounded by team member girls too? That did sound fun in its own way. Apparently there were other players on rival teams, going at it pretty fiercely.

Races were broadly divided into "Normal Races" without interference and "Destroy Races" where attacks and sabotage were allowed.

Man, they all sounded so fun. Fun, sure, but…

"At this point, they're gonna need separate Wikis for each game system or there'll be no way to keep up."

What an absurd game. Seriously.

… Should I contribute my monster action story too?

Anyone else playing as a monster… nope, no one listed here yet.

Oh right. Wasn't there someone trying to make a world map?

I checked the "Map" section of the Wiki. It had been newly added.

People had posted screenshots of their map displays and were trying to piece them together like a jigsaw puzzle—matching shorelines, shared towns, terrain features, and so on to build a bigger map.

… But it looked pretty rough going.

Just like Coworker said, even when shorelines matched up, towns would be missing, or towns with the same name would be in completely different locations.

There were complaints like "We arranged to meet up but you weren't there!" and questions about whether they were even on the same continent.

In that case, the most useful info would be from that guy trying to create a complete continental map by traveling the shoreline… oh. He died to a monster during Auto Mode and lost his character. Project abandoned. What a shame. Rest in peace.

Speaking of which, was the Majark Republic anywhere on here… oh, there we go.

One of the jigsaw puzzle piece screenshots showed "Majark District" and… District? Not Republic?

Ah, right. This must be the "same name, different place" sort of thing.

Or rather, this was probably just the name generator causing overlap. The place names were probably selected from a specific list through some kind of procedural generation, right?

Then combined with suffixes like Empire, Republic, District, and so on.

If that was the case, name overlap was inevitable.

If terrain was similarly generated from a set of patterns and combinations, that would explain how shorelines could match while towns were missing.

In other words, the map-making difficulty was probably just lazy procedural generation at work.

Nobody seemed to have made this connection yet… so I'd leave a comment about my theory.

Just as one hypothesis, though. I wasn't taking responsibility for whether it was actually right.

Come to think of it, were there any comments about the time distortion? I poked around.

… Hm? Nothing?

Even when I searched for "time", all I got were comments like "time flies" or "there's not enough time" from people enjoying the game.

Oh, there was a comment saying "Not gonna say what, but get to Lv30. It'll change your world. Blows your mind."

That was definitely about VR Mode. The comment had three replies:

• "Lost track of time and was late to work."

• "Sorry, steak turned out to be a god-tier item lol"

• "Whoa whoa, is this even legal? This is amazing."

So there really were other people besides us who'd hit Lv30 and entered that… whatever they were calling VR.

I quietly dropped a like on that comment.

Especially for the guy who'd apparently eaten steak.

I wanted to ask him about it, but I couldn't really ask directly, so I'd just stick with the like.

… But seriously, I really wanted to know what it tasted like…!!

Depending on the answer, I might just blow SP on a steak as a palate cleanser for Miitei-chan!

No, wait. Wait. Calm down.

Don't waste SP. Home. Right, I need to secure safety first, then get Home.

Haah, if only I could deploy Home while playing hide-and-seek in the facility and turn it into a safe zone, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. But that thing needed a decent amount of space to deploy, and it'd stick out like a sore thumb once set up, so I couldn't really use it right now…

There was also a comment confirming that SP was shared with your other characters.

No mention of what to call things from the spirit's perspective, though… but then again, people used handles on the Wiki anyway, so maybe it just wasn't worth bringing up… right.

…

Alright, Wiki check done. Time to go see Miitei-chan.

"Go see" wasn't quite the right phrase, but whatever.