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The Ripple System, Book 2
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The manhunt has officially begun.
Now the target of a game-wide Holy War, Ned is forced to flee the Onyx Sands.
The odds are stacked against him; Tyrann has tens of thousands of followers, a religion that’s spreading like wildfire, and a powerful god that will be stepping into the world of EBO in a matter of days.
Meanwhile, Ned’s allies are a squirrel-exploding bard, a repurposed home security system who takes her instructions far too literally, and a wildly unreliable talking axe named Frank.
But even as the inevitable conflict draws closer, change is coming to EBO. An old power is stirring, bringing with it strange new enemies, fearsome challenges, and rewards that every player will be vying to obtain.
There will be blood.
Not enough for Frank, but a very substantial amount.
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funny and entertaining
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I do think that Ned should make a video with Frank and set the record straight about a lot of the rumours going around. He could explain the situation about the World Tree and the Wood-bone Fae, and he could tell anyone they could go ask the Fair Folk king or Royal Guards or any number of other Fair Folk and they'd back up his story.
Also he should be recording all his interactions with Kieran(not sure on the spelling), and call out all his lies (About the 5 people Ned killed instead of 10, he could show the video, about Ned's level, about the Tithing situation,and the lie about spawning the god), which should show that Kieran only made the cult for personal power to make people help him get the Axe. And that Kieran's level/renown/money advantage was because he was using the Religion Renown perks as an engine, and skimming 20% off the top of everyone's money. I'm curious if he can just restart another Religion, or loses his whole renown path and needs to start again. If so he'll probably end up going Conqueror. Either way Ned needs to watch out. Though killing Kieran and looting his body probably would have given Ned a few Platinum is my guess. People may want to put their money in a Bank.
Show everyone Frank's stats, and even some recordings of Frank. Let me people know that Frank can only give him knowledge restricted on not only his own level, but stuff he has access to, and doesn't give out information on fights/encounters/dungeons/raids etc... Even mention how Frank was altered specifically to spite Ned and not like anything he liked from the get go. Ned could also say that he didn't hoard the headstart period to himself, and that the Guild he is part of got the rest of the pods. Sure people are upset that they didn't get them, but there were only ever 50 of them, so people were always going to be upset no matter who got them. And this way Ned seems like less of an jerk because he didn't just keep it all for himself. Ned should host a stream everyday with Frank (Frank would love that), and then Frank can talk to people, they could take calls and call it "Frank's advice corner" or something. At this point now that they're out in the open, Ned could lift the Streaming restriction. If they're in a raid people can't really Ambush them. They could at least make recordings and post them afterwards if they're not going to do it live.
I'm pretty sure Ned could befriend Goon... they seem like Frank's sort of people. So Frank would give them knowledge super willingly.
I'm also sad that Ned hasn't done any of the Black market stuff, or summoned the Black Market NPC's for his Auction house yet. I was hoping he would get a chance to do that.
All in all I'm looking forward to the next book quite a bit, I hope I won't have to wait forever. I would highly recommend this. Considering another raid with World First options is on the table, and it's only in their area. I'm guessing the Guild is going to have to go for it. Which is crazy, because they just did a back to back raid, then god killing. And only a few minutes have gone by. The rest of the Guild was probably trying to get drunk and now they'll realize they have to run off to another raid ASAP, because all the other raiding guilds will be heading in their direction. That's going to be a LONG day. lol. I think Ned is going to have to pay some salaries again.
Amazing story, very funny
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