'Not A Villain' Webcomic - Kleya will make Danni a special using the acrobatic talent.

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According to Kleya, if you don't like the conversation, you leave. Solves everything, right?

And I had an awesome weekend because I received two more fan art!! LamePudding depicted all three main girls in her cool style while Ax_colleen did a gorgeous coloring of Kleya. Check them out in the Fan Art page!

For the voting incentive, see what Danni had to say right after Kleya left.

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Hey Aneeka, so this page brought up a question. I get that Kleya want to remain secret, but why cannot Kleya Smith make like video tutorials showing how to make like basic random and stat changing specials? I mean she could simply teach the basic of programming and the basics of programming security. In fact if she pretended to make every new things especially the first stuff sound AWESOME! (insert lolcat) and made a moderate of amount of programming mistakes. I mean Tenka is looking for a paranoid elite hacker who is arrogant, not someone who makes stupid mistakes, laughs about them, answers random people’s questions, and only has her privacy settings so high becuase she does want to be bombarded with ads or have to learn how to use facebook. (In fact they would assume she would know how to use facebook and host videos). To make thing more believable she could actually draw things out instead of making nice presentations.

Rather than a security threat, I think her fans are an opportunity to hide in plain sight.

Lol. That’s a good suggestion. The main problem though is that Kleya doesn’t have the type of personality to pull that off. Maybe if Mina or Danni helped her out, but neither of them have interest in programming.

And Kleya makes a practical point. Do what your are good at.

I must admit how I am amused by the fact that they don’t “open” doors but doors are just tools for leaving the room.

With my amateur video game development, it is easy for me to spot when some interactive environments don’t actually have working doors, often just to save the effort of making a door that actually moves.

I know it’s not the same situation as what would go on in LIFE, but I am still amused by catching the almost subtle detail that they wouldn’t make doors work like doors.

History shows that the best defense is a good offense that also provides defense. The Spartans, the slave-powered Sumerian “tanks”, modern tanks, katana, etc.
Ballet is perfect for this. Pumt AGI so you can move better, and just abuse centripetal force with your spins and such, giving you some powerful kicks and knees.

I don’t post nearly enough as I’d like but know that I try to vote at least daily for NAV.

That said…hmm… I’d like to know more about the stats…
You’ve mentioned them a while back, and every time Kleya hacks we can see the stats changing in the background. Maybe you mentioned it and I just forgot (I’ve been keeping up with the comic almost from the start) but how exactly do the stats in L.i.f.e and The Game work?

I understood that players start out with a certain amount of stats and abilities, but do these affect only The Game or would a high strength player also be stronger in L.i.f.e?
Also, I’d like to know how does one level up and gain new abilities and skills? And is there a limit on specials?

Kleya and Danni are not officially part of The Game yet right? I remember that the really famous guy of The Game was fighting monsters and such. Until they can pass the tournament can they even become stronger and raise their stats or is it only available once playing The Game?

I love NAV and it seems to be building up to a climax, but I would be glad for some more minor details. Something like the incentive with the rules(can’t seem to find it…) listing a bunch of details would be nice.

Thank you for your hard work and dedication!

Yay! Thanks for trying to vote for me every day! I really appreciate it!

Rules and details about stats and leveling will be covered extensively once Kleya gets into the Game. During these Game preliminaries, the highest you can get is a pre-level 10. Pre-level since the leveling up is pretty pathetic and you don’t really get that strong. It’s more like moving from .1 to .2, etc, until finally to level one. You can’t apply for the preliminaries until you reach the pre-level 10, too.

You can only level up your Game avatar. So if you like to game and level up, you gotta get into the Game. L.i.F.e. has no levels or stats. It’s main purpose is to allow interaction and be a marketplace and social place for people. It’s trying to be like normal reality, except in a virtual environment. As to why, the story is getting to that 🙂

Thanks so much for reading!! And commenting!

I see. Never intended to rush you, it’s just so hard to wait for more NAV to come out.

Also, how does one train from pre-level 1 to pre-level 10?
I’m guessing that the black and white training room has something to do with it, but is there another way? And is it possible to change how your avatar looks in The Game whenever you like or once changed it is like starting out a new character?

Oh, I hope I didn’t sound rushed. I was just stating some facts 🙂 Questions don’t bother me as long as people don’t mind me ignoring/avoiding the spoilerific ones.

Leveling up from pre-1 to pre-10 is pretty boring. It requires only time: 10 hours in your Game avatar for each leveling up. And no, you can not wander about L.i.F.e. in your Game avatar since they use different systems and servers. There are multiple of places that you can use, instead, to ‘train’ or play, including that cheap B&W place. More expensive places have more interesting scenarios to while the time away. About a year ago (story time, not our time), fighting other people was allowed which added in a bunch of rules regarding losing and dying and such. The time requirement never went away, though.

As for avatar rules in the Game, that’ll be covered within the story 🙂

As always, thanks for reading!

Yeah, will be interesting to know some of that stuff. We know a few of the stats like perception and speed ala Bandit, and that going monster hunting is likely training for the Game, but not much else.

From the bits and pieces we’ve gathered of the real world, it sounds like some sort of massive ecological disaster rendered the real world near uninhabitable, and there is one or perhaps multiple domed super cities that provide a more livable existence to their inhabitants. Of course, these cities still need food and such, so they charge inhabitants to play on L.i.F.e. and if they can’t pay, they get sent to farms to do menial work required to keep the city running.

Life outside the cities either isn’t quite as bad as people inside the cities think, or they live in very small bio-dome type things of their own. L.i.F.e. doesn’t charge them to pay because a large base of people to interact with is useful for giving the people inside the cities more people to interact with, especially if subscriptions ever drop off.

Of course, farms may also be a term for something a bit more diabolical like the human energy farms from Matrix.

May also be some possibility that the people inside the city are kept in personal pods at all time, thus preventing them from interacting socially, and hence the need for L.i.F.e. Going to the farms may mean death, or it could be that they’re stuck operating farming machinery non stop.

Whatever the truth is, it should be interesting to find out.

Amazing how difficult it is for people to grasp that some people don’t like/want to be famous. Even outside of her particular circumstances, there are plenty of reasons to not want to be watched 24/7.

And some people, like myself, absolutely despise the entire concept of fame. It’s shallow and further traps us in the capitalist cycle.

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 85