By exploiting the very forces of chaos, we create several dozen incarnations and throw away the degenerative defects. Several sublime specimens arise above the chaff, and we keep one as the glistening gem it is. All glory to genetic manipulation!
Suddenly, we are ejected from the growth chamber into limbo.
Where am I? ... What is happening?
This strange dream again
I'm... a murderer? Feel the transition.
We enter the gate.
and find ourselves in a dead-end cavern with flares, three corpses, a handgun, and a mysterious tablet embedded in a wall. A quick assessment of our situation: We have a katana in our hands, and we appear to be unharmed (physically, anyway).
Suddenly, a distorted message comes in from our cochlear implant:
Do you copy? Are you alive?
No, leave me alone! I'm tired of talking to myself. You don't exist! This is all a dream!
Shit, this guy's off his rocker. Well, the metastreumatic force has been known to knock people for a loop. Get out of there, quickly! We're sending an extraction team, go go go!
OK, maybe we have some severe mental trauma and amnesia. Did we look too deeply into the prescient? Maybe this is punishment for over-reaching human limits?
We seem to have forgotten ourselves, again.
(Wrong game)
Let's have a leisurely look around, what could go wrong. This is the tutorial level, right? It's not like there are mind-shattering secrets hidden in the very beginning of the game, right? RIGHT?
(wrong)
We pick up the pistol marked clearly on our HUD, and bury three precious bullets into the craniums of the corpses. We cannot detect any body heat or life signs from them, but better safe than sorry.
The tutorial system is nice, and uses embedded videos to show how to do just about anything.
The Marker on the wall contains a drawing of a Gate and some text in ancient writing. This can't be a coincidence.
There is nothing useful here, let's proceed upwards towards the light and life of reason. An obvious path presents itself, then the unexpected happens
A creature, born of nightmares, bursts from the very walls and assaults our divine personage. A single stroke of the blade and the creature crumples into the dust. Something tells us we will climb mountains of these corpses before we are complete. We now possess its corpse, and can conduct the according research into its origin and nature (All in good time, my friends)
The sword has an eye in it. It's watching everything that happens. Creepy. Where did this thing come from?
It looks like this cave is deep underground, there's both a ladder and elevator we can use to reach the surface. Express service, please!
Breaking the fourth dimensional wall, again, but let's take a look at the options screen:
We will play on Normal. When we start grinding we will ramp up the reinforcement rate and difficulty for faster credits and experience (Actually, at some point I will switch over to my level 40 character).
This guy is the first live human we have met. He seems strangely familiar. No matter, how can this
Dutch character be useful to us?
You're in bad shape, brother! At least we finally found you!
Bring me up to speed on the situation, Dutch.
Listen carefully; you have to flee quickly in order to reach our agent at the extraction point!
What are the enemy numbers?
Just a small squad for now, but don't underestimate them. There should also be a strong contingent of looters in the tunnel. You'll need to take them out in order to reach the extraction point.
Thanks, but these pigs don't scare me.
I brought along a mobile armory.
Excuse me?
There are dozens of weapons, have at it! I cannot come with you, I have to go examine the mysterious cave, then seal it for all eternity.
MUAHAHAHAHAHA! Guns!
I have always been partial to the assault rifles. Light armor is pretty useless and makes you super squishy, so let's stick with Heavy armor.
FKO - KA 93 assault rifle.
Features 12.7 KA wall piercing ammo, heavy recoil, semi-auto and full-auto modes, magazine capacity is 30 rounds + 1 in the chamber, it's accurate to 300 yards, fires 3 rounds a second, and has reasonable damage giving it decent armor penetration
The Armed Entity loads its arms with magazines and is now a catastrophe waiting to happen. The enemies of the Secreta will perish by our hand, and light of the universe will become dimmer, but more under our collective control.
There are some information terminals we use briefly to update ourselves on our current situation. We seem to be an EYE agent on a Federation planet.
Our IFF program identifies at least 6 hostiles. Federation soldiers on a seek and destroy mission. There's a dangerous slide here that can kill you unless you know to crouch or go over it slowly. Our eminent PC snipes one from a distance, then takes out another sniper. We slide down and creep over to the side, taking them out with bursts of fire from our trusty FKO.
PC finds a stragler at the other end of the rivulet, and approaches him Jason style, soaking up blasts from his shotgun (Heavy armor ftw). The katana can be used to parry attacks, which consumes stamina instead of health.
PC crawls through some sewers, and takes out a squad of looters. PC almost always uses the targeting scope.
Again, we finish the last one with the katana, blocking his bullets then cutting him down in a perfect attack the likes of which samurai aspire to achieve.
Digging through our available software programs, we find one labelled 'Research'. Intruiging.
There is a pending substance we can research and manufacture. It regenerates both mind and body. This may be useful for fixing our damaged psyche. We order a team of 30 scientists to quickly isolate the compound.
PC is confronted by a locked door. He pulls out his data-jack and
enters the Matrix runs the rootkit. After a little buton mashing he's on his way again. Author's note: Hacking has been modified in the latest release of EYE, you can no longer 'specialize' in it per se, and difficulty has been increased.
On the other side is a dirty
Jian agent. They are a faction of the Secreta who usually opposes our own
Culter Dei faction, for the most part. They are azn.
Thank you for opening the door; I had a devil of a time with it! I hope those bastard loters weren't too hard on you?
You're kidding me, right? Those guys were a joke. I didn't even break a sweat!
I was here to extract you from that situation in the first place, but recent events have forced us to change plans! Our intelligence agents told us that we've been spotted by Federal Special Forces. Those guys are no joke, they are highly advanced cyborgs whose technology almost rivals our own! I will have to create a diversion for you to escape safely.
I'm not going to let you risk your life! Let's take those pigs down!
Shut up, that's not part of the script. You're going to the temple to make your rapturous report to Commander Rimanah.