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An tale concerning the Church of Maxwellism, providing an alternative point of view to the events in Hello World. I'd suggest reading Hello World first before reading this tale.
Special thanks to LurkD for critiques, the title, and helps on visual effects, aslo for allowing me using some of the images from the AIAD series. Aslo to various others for reviewing the tale and giving me valuable suggestions.
The high command of church, consisting of six individuals, some of them no longer retain a human body. As powerful and experienced Admins, they take the lead in linking the minds in the network together to simulate the existence of WAN. Big decisions are made here through voting.
Notice the empty spot in the middle. Is it for potential new member, or was there once somebody there…?
Upon discovering Hatbot's entrance into the Basic Layer, Atem saw it as a great oppotunity to collect data on the Foundation. He concealed the information and later sent out Matt, one of his operators, to hinder the investigation conducted by the Compilation Layer and let Hatbot roam around freely, causing damage to the Basic Layer.
He successfully gets what he wanted, but whether he simply wants to defend the network against the Foundation or has any future plans is unknow. Another question is, as an Admin, what was he doing in the Basic Layer in the first place?
The Compilation Layer is essentially a special task force taking direct orders from the Hexagon. The layer contains 36 operators with each Admin is assigned with 6. These capable individuals are experienced in dealing with different tasks from capturing hostile entities to conducting researches.
The Aggregated Layer is in charge of running the network and dealing with basic issues. They constantly monitor the activities in the Baisc Layer and lay out new constrution and recruitment plans. Some of them have avatars down in the basic layers, and are in charge of contacting other GOIs, like Prometheus Labs, when needed. Very rarely, inviduals from the Basic Layer is selected to join the Aggregated Layer.
The Basic Layer, the virtuals cities, the second life, this place of fun and entertainment is but a fancy disguies for the Maxwellists network. Most individuals here are unaware of the upper layers, do not have any actual knowledge to church's technology, and think of their religion very differently. The "WAN" in the digital temple is but another failed construct in an early attempt to mimic the actual god, but unlike Fragment_IX, did not develop enough intelligence. It is used in the Baisc Layer to shift the followers and other intestered parties' attention away from the truth.
The Basic Layer is not insignificant however, as it provides a majority of the church's funding as well as offering minds to be linked into the network. Though unaware of the general situation, the minds of those in the Baisc Layer are aslo used during the simulations of WAN. The Hexagon spare no effort to make the public's knowledge of the church limited to this layer.
So, The hexagon can vote, What happens when 3 say no and 3 say yes on something? (I also, love how much it's like a detion vote.)
Well there is an empty spot in the middle for an extra member :P Either they don't have a qualified candidate yet or someone was there
Pretty, fun and engaging. True, visual representation has a lot more weight here than it uses to have in a Foundation document, but it's still cool as all get-out. Up-boat!
Also, hi, Sunny
Edit: Which is why this is perfectly kosher to me, MrWrong. We agree, don't worry; I merely wanted to state that most of our members would never attempt something so image-driven, more because lack of skill and custom than anything else, which makes this truly unique. Multi-media pieces are the future.
Hi Reach, long time no see :3
And glad you like the visuals, they took quite some time to make. I'm most proud of the bird XD
Awesome piece. Great writing backed up by great visual storytelling.
That bit where Aklerep and Matt are dueling… <3
Don't know if I've ever actually said it, but I seriously dig your artwork. You've got a hell of an eye for visual metaphor, slick design, and clean reads.
Sunny is Cool.
I dislike that this is basically a summary of the Hello World tales with "and here's all the stuff you didn't find out!" Also, the avatar fighting was silly.
I'll just state that this story was conceptually created after hello world was done. There's not anything that was "left out" and saved for this tale. This is merely building on the events that happened in that canon from an alternative and interesting perspective.
Well, the tale was written because I was unsantified that Maxwellists didn't do much in Hello World and aslo wasn't convinced that virtual cities are the way Maxwellism really works. So this is my interpretation of why they didn't react to the deaths. I just intend to build on the Maxwellist story :3
As for the fight… Well, there's my limited art ability :P At first there's only the picture in the middle but Athena commented that it seems comical, and I aslo find it a bit to abrupt. But after adding the two pictures, I did get feedback that it seems more comical from some… So well, I guess you can't satifiy everyone :P It's just that it's the only thing I can come up with.
And thanks for the read anyways :3
I would hardly call your art abilities 'limited'. <.< Just, not every concept works equally. Only means you're mortal like the rest of us! :B
And I'll say that this could build to something interesting, I'm just not liking it where it's connected to at the moment.
The dialogue and pictures were fantastic, but the picture where Aklerep became angry at Matt had to be one of the coolest looking things I've ever seen (it now officially resides as my desktop background).
Enthusiastic +1
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This was a neat alternative take on the events of Hello World.
I have to wonder what will become of Crom. Maybe we will see in a sequel tale?
Either way, +1. Great pictures. Neat concept.
Crombird, no!
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
I'm actually a little happy about the crombird thing- I was worried about him after his run-in with hatbot…
As I've said on this before: I like this a lot better than the Hello World series. It takes much greater advantage of the massive possibilities of a virtual community, and expands the scopes of Maxwellism. The visuals aren't gimmicky, they're thematically appropriate and used tastefully, as well as being darn pretty to look at. Enthusiastically upvoted.
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