Θ PEACEFUL FAMILIAR EVERGREEN

[starr]

Once they gate in, the player will be greeted by perhaps the thickest forest they've ever seen. This forest however, is one of the more peaceful settings in the area, with deep smells of the fresh outdoors and a wide variety of fruits and flowers, most people venture here as an escape from playing or just to hang around. Manly also attempt to climb the trees to view the beautiful sunset the area always has. There are also very weak monsters called Lighter Bugs that are always fluttering around, illuminating the area with the lights on their backs. Deep within the forest however, are said to be some pretty nasty monsters, which apparently guard a small plant known as Lilith's Tear. No one has yet found the plant, but there are plenty of rumors about what it can do from healing any ailment to being ground up into powder and being used to cast very powerful spells. Whatever you believe it does, many people think it's worth the risk of fighting high level monsters to find.

The outer rims of this area are usually peaceful, however if you venture too far in you'll start to see monsters, so be careful!

[starr]

// GATE IN //

Somehow the peaceful greenery of this server had always relaxed Starr. Even if it was just data, somehow the feeling of the leaves of a low shrub between her fingers felt so.. real. It was scary how real [The World] seemed sometimes. Still, Starr found it to be very exciting to venture around and find out more about the unique characteristics of the servers she coded, taking notes of what needs to be fixed and improved, and making this place more enjoyable for it's player. The girl was humming softly to herself, skirt wishing about as she walked, and her tail flickering every once in awhile, ears moving when they picked up a curious sound. She wasn't here for any real reason, but she rather liked the woody-ness of this server. Reminded her of the woods in her grandparent's backyard she use to play in during the summer. Her fingers reached up to push her bangs out of the way as she hopped on to a large log, licking her lips as she smelled the fruits of some tree near by.

Maybe she'd grab some for later..

[malt]

Somewhere in the distance from where she sat with her face in her hands, 04 heard the Chaos Gate system bringing someone into the field. Great, she thought, she was going to have to deal with some moron bothering what little peaceful time she had to think to herself. Still, she didn't move from the broken trunk she sat on, a sigh passing quietly through her lips as she tried to drown out the thoughts inside of her mind.

The foliage of this place reminded her of a time long ago when she had seen something similar to this in the real world, been somewhere as tropical and as majestic as this when she was a kid. There wasn't anything like this where she resided, and something about the way the light from the sun above desperately trying to break through the greenery made her feel at home. It was nice to be there where she was, on a trunk, alone. Wait, was being alone part of what was nice? 04 wasn't too sure anymore.

[starr]

Starr's ears began twitching as she was dragged out of her previous thoughts of food and how hungry she was. "Hm?" she asked, before turning to were her ears were twitching. They were picking up the sounds of someone else near by. Maybe she should go check it out? Why not? She had nothing else to do. So the girl began to follow the delicate sounds before arriving at a tree trunk. "Oh, hey there 04!" she said, a smile forming as her tail began to whip around excitedly. She hadn't been expecting to meet someone else from the Administration Team here. Her eyes glanced around to check to see if anyone else was around, but it was just her and 04. "Oh, I hope I wasn't interrupting anything," she added in a bit of an after thought, having a guilty look suddenly crossed her face. Maybe 04 had come out here to think for a little bit like she had originally.

[malt]

The voice was familiar, she heard it so many times before; they did work together after all. 04 gave a shake of her head without peeling her hands from her face, she simply sat there as she were until she found the strength to peel her face out of her hands with a deep breath. "It's a pleasure, Starr. You weren't interrupting a thing," she lied through her teeth with a plastic smile on her face, her blue eyes adjusting to what little light there was in this place.

The other's vibrant colored avatar was a bit much in 04's eyes, it was very out there to say the least. She didn't understand the whole bit with the tail either, even if it was adorable. Everyone had their niches, she thought to herself. "What about you?" she asked, pretending to care. "What're you doing out here?" It wasn't as if she did not like Starr, she just had too much on her mind all of the time.

[starr]

The smile reappeared on her face, a sigh of relief going on in her head as she hadn't interrupted anything. "Oh you know," she said, letting her attention drift to the sky that peaked through the towering trees. "Just doing a personal check, making sure nothing is out of whack and all the programs are running properly!" Okay she was kind of doing that (not really), but she was determined to appear as the professional Admin that she was. "Plus I really like this place," she babbled on, red eyes glancing back to the other girl "it's really tranquil and serene." Not to mention the quiet sounds of this forest where much more easy on her ears than the loud bustling noises of the office or the loud chat in the Root Towns. She had to wonder why more people didn't travel here.. or if they did they simply were somewhere else in this incredibly dense forest. Her expression went slightly concerned again before saying, "You sure I wasn't interrupting anything? You seemed pretty deep in thought.."

[malt]

Oh, Starr, as caring and sweet as a nice little old school girl raised by a god-fearing family to do no wrong. 04 couldn't help but chuckle at the way the other female seemed to genuinely care about her feelings, as if it really mattered what it was she was thinking about or why. "I'm sure, honest" 04 said, bringing her blue eyes to look into Starr's own as a crooked smirk appeared on her face. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were a girl scout or something" 04 teased, perhaps something to do with the way Starr seemed to love the outdoors and how she used words like 'tranquil' and 'serene' to describe an environment. All 04 saw in this place was quiet, and distant, and far away from other player's minds. If there was one thing 04 really liked it was water, bodies of it; she found that she could become poetic about the ocean, that she would live in it if she could. Did that make her a mermaid?

04 shifted her gaze off to the side then, "I haven't seen anything out of place, I've been here for a little while myself" she sad. "You did a good job," she told Starr, feeling something burn on the inside from praising another individual.

[starr]

Starr's cheeks instantly turned a bright pink as her thoughts became scrambled and she began blurting things out and stumbling over her words. "Ah! W-well I was but I haven't been for a long time! Not since I was really small..." Her voice trailed off and her gaze went to the forest floor as she felt a little embarrassed, scratching the back of her neck with her hand. She was simply a really caring person is all. Others thoughts and feelings came way before her own, and she always worried about others. That and she really liked to over analyze things.. Using words like 'tranquil' and 'serene' was a little goofy huh? But they really were the words she had in mind while coding a place like this.. Sheesh, she got so easily flustered over things that she felt a little silly now, gazing back up at the other girl. "Thanks," she added, turning even redder as she was complimented. It wasn't very often she got one. "I'm really happy to see you're enjoying it, I was really hoping people would." If she could at least make one people a little bit happy, then her job was more than fulfilled in her eyes.

She was also a little bit happy to get the chance to talk to 04. Sure they worked together, but it's not like they ever really talked before about much that didn't relate to work. She always seemed so distant.. maybe this was Starr's chance to get to know her better? "You do a really good job too!" She added, getting flustered again, putting on a lopsided smile.

[malt]

04 wasn't good at taking compliments either, but she didn't get any at all how Starr would. She simply sat there, her crooked smile growing an inch wider; she didn't know how to take compliments because she didn't understand the point to them. It was in moments like this that the two of them were sharing where 04 felt more like a machine than a human being; perhaps that was why she truly loved The World and all it had to offer. "Thanks..." she said with a nod, bringing a hand up to scratch the back of her head with a shrug of her shoulders. She didn't know what else to say, and before the two of them would know it silence would fall over the field once more.

Starr was completely opposite than 04 and 04 knew this well, with the way she was so alive and carefree made 04 wonder how anyone could ever be that way. 04 was reserved, never really said much to anybody, never saw any good in much either. 04 wasn't deluded enough in her own mind to think that she was normal, she didn't think that at all, she only thought that she could not understand Starr and the many others like her. "That means a lot to me," her hand dropped back down to her lap as her eyes looked up towards the branches of the trees that hung over the two of them. "Glad we're just all doing our jobs, you know?"

[starr]

Pushing her awkwardness back, she brought an even bigger smile on her face. "Of course! For the sake of the players, and even ourselves, it's important that we all do our best!" When she was young, Starr had adored [The World]. It was so interesting and exciting, and it had given her the chance to meet so many different people and make so many friends. It had inspired her to become a coder and understand the very numbers that made up the game, and when given the chance to work on [The World] it almost seemed unreal to her. She wanted everyone to experience the kind of world she saw, which meant giving it her very best. "We want to make this the best possible experience for everyone, which means we're included too." A small laugh escaped her lips at the thought as she approached closer to the other girl, grinning. "So maybe we should make a promise, to make this the best game around! Something we all can enjoy and have fun with!" The girl held out her pinkie to 04, tail swishing around excitedly again as it once had before.

To her, a pinkie promise was the most sacred of promises! Something you could never break no matter what!