Tutorial

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Overview
The starting level where the player learns how to play. It exists only within the "Guardian's realm," a special place where Guardians can be safe from the corruption. It is even more surreal than the Nether as everything in this space is made of light and air.

Goals:
 * Give a place for the Guardian, express the story visually
 * Give the opportunity for the player to meet Reya
 * Allow for the player to learn the basics without any worries

Characteristics
Player Enemies Background / Setting
 * No soul corrosion.
 * Standard stats
 * None
 * The background is black with the possibility for some stray lights passing by.
 * The ground is brightly colored with blurred, white borders. It is completely square for the most part, but still appears as intangible.

Dialogue
Scene 1.A



Scene 1.A

Reya: “Hero, rise from the ashes of your fallen shell, claim your destiny, and save the world!”

-silence-

Reya: “Um… hero?”

Reya: “Maybe I summoned him wrong… this could be bad.”

Reya: “I hope I didn’t kill him…”

Jay: “Ungggg…..”

Reya: “Oh no, he’s a zombie!”

Reya: “Wait, can there even be zombies here?”

Reya: “What if he tries to eat my brain!”

Jay: -Grunts- “What’s happening?”

Reya: “Um… oh… uh… Hero, rise from the…”

Jay: “I heard you the first time! Where am I? Wait, am I a robot? Is this hell or something?”

Reya: “My land is far better than that dismal place! Come to me, and I’ll explain everything, I think!”

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">Scene 1.B.

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “Wow, that mech works pretty well… I was worried it wouldn’t work at all and your soul would leak into the void!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Jay: “Wait, what?!”

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">Scene 1.C.

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “I definitely didn’t know the mech could do that. It’s probably good though, otherwise I’m not sure what we would have done…”

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">Scene 1.D.

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “In retrospect, I’m not sure why I designed my land like this. It wasn’t a very good idea.”

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">Scene 1.E.

<p class="MsoNormal">Jay: “Okay, I made it past your architectural nightmare of a home, will you send me back to mine now?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “Um, well… I’m afraid that’s impossible, actually. When I sucked your soul into this world and trapped you in that mechanized shell, I did it knowing the only way to escape was by doing exactly what I told you and saving this world.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Jay: “…What?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “Umm… I guess I planned this out really well, see… I needed you, and you had the least to lose, and I figured if I didn’t give you any choice but to help… you would. Was I right?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Jay: “…”

<p class="MsoNormal">Jay: “……….”

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “Um…”

<p class="MsoNormal">Jay: “What the hell do you even need me to do that was so important you sucked me out of my body and into this ethereal hell?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “Oh, that, yeah. Well, you see, this world is being consumed from the inside out. I need you to go through each section of, kill all of the icky things that attack you, steal their souls and miasma, and seal the rift that’s leaking the destruction.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Jay: “….”

<p class="MsoNormal">Jay: “Oh, is that all? Why don’t you do it yourself and get me out of here?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “Well, no… actually, even with your machine, your soul will slowly corrode as soon as you exit my world, and you can only re-energize it by sealing the rifts and killing enemies. And, well, I can’t do it because I would be destroyed instantaneously if I left this area.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “This stuff is really dangerous.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “Super dangerous. Like, anyone trying to fight these rifts would have to be pretty suicidal.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “That’s why I’m forcing you to do it, because nobody would volunteer.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “Ever.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Jay: “So what’s preventing me from just staying here where it’s safe?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Reya: “Well, the only way to get here is by my power… and that’s also the only way to leave. So, if you really won’t go…”

<p class="MsoNormal">-Flash of light, Jay teleported to Stone 1-