《The Administrator》Chapter 3: //status is terribly formatted
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The grey screen appeared out of thin air, making a beep sound along with it. It floated in front of my face, with the words
‘Console
Please insert command
_’
written on it.
‘What the fu—‘ I said, before falling off the bed. Mary and Edward hurriedly tried to help me up. They asked me how I felt after putting me back on the bed.
‘Yeah. Can you see the screen? Like the one in grey colour?’ I asked the two people in the room, who responded by tilting their heads.
‘What’s a screen?’ Edward asked.
‘Are you sure you’re alright?’ Mary asked.
‘I’m ok, I just need… some time to myself…’ I told the two of them, who were looking at me as if I had lost my mind, ‘Seriously! I don’t have brain damage!’
After convincing them that I was not insane, they finally left the room. By then, the screen had disappeared, and I tried to activate the window again(TN: the word used can mean both window and screen in some contexts). ‘Phone! Game! Console!’ I tried the words that I had said that could have activated the window.
When I said ‘console’, the same window appeared and I tried some command phrases from games and manga. ‘Status! Inventory! Job! Properties!’ When I said ‘status’ and ‘inventory’, a window with the respective titles appeared, but nothing happened for all the other command words. The status window was dark grey and looked similar to the console. It has a picture of me with squares surrounding it, along with lines that connected them to different body parts. Below them were sub-chapters, namely stats, job, skills and nature.
What’s wrong with the formatting and order of subchapters? It should really be in the order of stats, nature, job, and finally skills?
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The stats screen showed my basic statsIt shows my level, my EXP bar, my constitution(Con [TN: Basically Vitality in Western MMOs]), intellect(Int), agility(Agi), dexterity(Dex), and strength(Str).
The job(s) screen listed my job, which was administrator.
Administrator:
-Allows access to console and other job-related skills
-Has higher Int, but everything else is lowered
-Is able to have a second job (limited to production jobs)
-Is unable to have non-job specific skills. Non-job specific skills are changed to commands
The skills screen listed my skills.
Console
-Allows player to use Console. Activate command /consoleTutorial to learn how to use the console and /help to find out which commands are available.
The nature screen shows my (TN: no prizes for guessing) nature, which was written down as ‘Dexterous’. It does exactly what it sounds like it does. It gives me extra dexterity points, while also giving me twice as much Dex points as normal. I don’t know what it does, but from the webnovels and manga that I have read, it has something to do with crafting.
Looking at my skills, a proverbial million questions flashed through my mind. Why was the organisation of topics so unintuitive? Why is my job already picked for me? Why am I here? At that, how am I even here?
Whatever, not like I have a choice other than to accept this new reality. ‘Console.’
Console
Please insert command
_
A virtual keyboard appeared in front of me as I tried to reach out to interact with it. It was a cheap two-dollar keyboard that could be bought from Taobao(TN: Taobao is like amazon but from China). The designer of this system must be a cheapskate to model the virtual keyboard after a two dollar keyboard.
I tried to type on it, and my fingers touched the keyboard as if it was a normal keyboard. I tried typing /consoleTutorial, but what actually came out was ‘/cykryofGlgypuao’. Looking down, I realised that the keyboard layout was different from what I am used to. The first 6 letters spelt out ‘q-w-f-p-g-j’, not q-w-e-r-t-y, like i’m used to.
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God dammit, now I must learn to use an entirely new different keyboard layout. I typed out /consoleTutorial very slowly and making many mistakes, and a massive stack of paper suddenly spawned out of thin air and fell onto my lap, bouncing off and dropping on the floor.
‘What the fuck is this? No video? No introduction? Just a paper?’ I asked. The console closed, and I had no choice but to read the paper. It’s not like a video could just pop up out of nowhere, but the way it appeared and fell onto the ground was just too lame.
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