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08/01/'21
Gaia Reborn
Gaia Reborn, the hottest MMORPG of the last decade, has seen millions of players experience its unique world - a combination of fantasy and reality. When Gaia Reborn was a game, one goal was to make the game world a one-half scale model of the real world. This pursuit was known as the Half-Gaia Project, and it is one of the aspects which led to Gaia Reborn becoming such a popular virtual world. With regional servers having unique areas, quests, cities, and monsters, it wasn't uncommon for people to create alternate characters on other servers to experience what felt like an entirely new game.
Ten years after the game's launch, millions of players have joined and created countless characters across the many servers. Now, with the release of the latest expansion, Pioneers of Arcadia, many are getting ready to begin new adventures in the new Italian server, exploring the new region corresponding to Italy, known in Gaia as Italia. Characters would have to start from fresh in this new world, but Italy would finally get its own piece of this world.
Countless players created their characters, logged in with excitement fueling their hands as the cursor swept across the screen, and then... darkness... Everything was black, and as their eyes opened, the players found themselves in the streets of an unfamiliar city. Looking around to survey their surroundings, many players realized this city was not so new after all. While desolate and ruined, the architecture conquered by vines and greenery, this city was unmistakably Rome, but at the same time, it was not. Finding themselves in the bodies of their characters, trapped in the world of Gaia Reborn, players are left to adapt to their new reality in this fantasy world.
The laws that govern this world were often really useful : after a few minutes inside the warm inn, Paulette’s clothes and hair dried. The kind inn keeper gave her a drink of water, beside this simple gesture it helped the young adventurer to let down some pressure. Half the mission has been completed and people won’t suffer from the poison damages. According to the botanist’s words, it was a really dangerous powder and she feared that only Olivia would bear it for such a long time because she was an adventurer. The citizens present at the party were threatened by a possibly deadly substance. Now, everybody could access the cure in no time.
Paulette drank the water and thanked the inn keeper. Without his generous help, nothing would have been possible.
Olivia soon recovered from illness and came down to meet them in the large inn room. She rushed to Paulette and they hugged.
Their reunion was happy. Olivia teared up bringing tears to Paulette’s eyes too.
-It’s okay… I’m just glad that you’re fine !
Then the small fox girl quickly befriended the inn keeper in her own way, administering him a nickname. Both of them went to the kitchen to cook the potion, Paulette followed them but didn’t plan to bother their cooking session, she had to talk with her friend
-You were more than right when you guessed you were subject to poison. Said she in a low serious tone. The botanist I found said that the purple powder on your party mask was really venomous. I’m sorry I brought you a contaminated mask… She stopped speaking for a second, thinking about what this would imply “if I had brought her a mask from the other shop stand available maybe it wouldn't have happened… Or all the masks sold were poisoned ? Who could be the origin of all this mess ? Is the stall lady a part of the plot ??” Then she continued: The guy said that the poison and its antidote came from an elite ranked predatory demihuman plant only found in the worst place of the ciminian forest… Again, Paulette stopped. She didn't really know what she was saying as the game mechanics were still really confusing in her mind. She wondered if the little girl currently busy in the kitchen would understand. It means really bad people intentionally poisoned those masks.
Now was the speculation part, all theories from her head, but Paulette was a speaker and had to share her thoughts even if they could be defamatory
-They must be a band, a group of bandits, not an only person could have won against the Alraune plant and spread powder on masks. I have learned that at least three men are very suspicious to be in the plot and that two of them have zaria eyes. I also suspect the stall lady, even if she was really kind to us, because how couldn’t she not see the purple powder all over the mouth part of the masks ? And finally, there is one man that we met but that never helped us tonight, he wears a crying face mask and is either anthropomorphic or suspicious to me.
In resume I have four identifiable suspects : two zaria men, the stall lady and the crying face mask man but maybe the last one is one of the two zaria and hides a third eye behind his mask ? What do you think ? Do you have other ideas and suspicions ? I don’t look to revile anyone, but I’m looking for the culprits.
She drowned her eyes in Olivia's, hoping that the girl could see her pacific will beside her strong words.
Olivia listened to what the goddess had to say ,Putting down her cooking equipment,after she stopped speaking,she looked into Olivia eyes hoping she understood,Olivia smiled and..balm her head tilted forward and now she was magically wearing glasses "well well well looks like we have a mystery to solve dear goddess" Olvias voice had turned into a britsh accent..(oh boy).
Olvia began to write down what the goddess had told her "well it looks like we will have to interview each one of them and ask and see what one get out of them!" Olvia took of the glasses and let out a goofy face "hehe just being silly ill focus now, well the guy you met in the woods the elite ranked predatory demihuman he has helped me alot by going to that end of the woods to get me cures and antidotes he isn't cheap so I rarely go to him for help for ingredients" Olvia thought about what to do next...(mmm maybe the stall lady has somthing to do with this that two face Bi-).
Olivia stood up to face the goddess and held her hands togther with hers "look don't worry about buying the mask with the poison in it for me! I trust u 100% you are very kind" Olivia smiled with passion.
"Ok we will start with the stall lady and try to find the other guys later on for now lets---" Olivia heard thumps of from outside, she quickly ran to the window to see all the people wearing masks falling to the ground "oh crap quickly inn-keeper guy let's give the cure! We also better burn the masks after taking them off be careful not to get any poison in ur eyes or mouth!" Olivia took charge feeling like she could save the world!,Olivia let out her hand to the goddess "come on let's go help these people!"
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Olivia smiled with passion. Paulette kindly smiled back and patted her head, just between the two fox ears. She had held it back since their meeting but at this instant Olivia was too cute to not do it so the purple haired girl softly patted the top of her friend's pink hair.
-You know you can call me Paulette right ? It would be less… embarrassing.
Then she followed Olivia outside and immediately they helped the first victims. People were falling on top of eachother, some of them couldn’t hook on to something and were falling directly on the wet street. Hopefully not every citizen suffered from poisoning, half of the population stood but a wave of panic shook them. Their friends suddenly fainted in general surprise, in the middle of a celebration that was scary !
The two adventurers explained that the inn was a friendly hospice where the persons still awake could carry their sick fellow. Together they picked up the poor ones that hitted the ground and brought them back inside.
Soon the inn was animated and crowdednessed like at the beginning of the evening. The antidote circulated between the patients.
She definitely would remember this evening for a long time, events did not stop happening. Luckily adventurers seemed to be, if not insensitive, at least very resistant to fatigue.
As the situation in the inn started to calm down and regulate, Paulette looked for the stall lady : she wasn’t with everybody in the room or in a bed upstairs. “Looks like we will have to go for a search outside anew” she thought.
Olivia appears to be still at the bedside of someone, the young adventurer reached her and asked :
-I know you are very caring to these people that were poisoned just like you, but the stall lady isn’t in here, she disappeared so I’m going to find her. We have questions to ask her, do you want to come with me ?
Olivia nodded ''Ok i will call you Paulette for now on purple haired lady hehe'' Olivia wink and stuck her tounge out '' ill call u (GODLY LOUD VOICE) GODDESS Paulette!!!!'' Olivia smurked..'I'm kidding Paulette Im sorry for playing around ! and yes lets go find this stall lady who was selling the masks!'' Olivia thought to herself where would we start?,where would she be...? ....did she already get out of town and is in an uknown place?!...Olivia sturggled as she didn't want to let down Paulette. ! ''MMMMMMMMM i don't know where we could start looking for her maybe asking the other stall venders they might know where she ran off too!'' Olivia then smiled and grabbed another cookie from her bag as she was still hungry.
''would u like a cookie Paulette?!''
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Paulette’s eyes shined with greed when Olivia showed her a new cookie.
-Gladly, thank you ! I am amazed by the amount of food you carry with you, this is useful and caring !
The young adventurer started the evening with an empty stomach but she was now satiated. She smiled at Olivia's decision to call her by her name from now on “sometimes kids are like this” she thought.
-Good idea, let’s ask the other sellers ! When I bought it for you, do you remember, there was another mask shop facing the venise one ? Weren't they skull shaped masks ?
Now that she recalled it, she started to notice many memains of the party all around the room : people that were not affected by the poison often kept their mask, sometimes at hand, sometimes pulled up in their hair, others abandoned theirs on tables…
Paulette looked for someone walking with a cute skull mask
-excuse me sir, can you tell me if the seller of your mask is in the inn right now ?
It was a sparrow looking faunri who had feathers as hair and coming down his back and over his arms. Except for his glowing mask his clothes were very dull and from artisanal fabric. The man was probably in his forties and was pacing up and down the room with a worried face. When the Alv approached him he startled and for only responce asked
-Aah ?! Adventurers ?! Is this your work ??! Why is everyone so sick ?! Please tell me my kids will be fine !
Paulette was surprised at first, since the beginning of the night the cohabitation with the panpaidi was going great so she wasn’t prepared for this kind of reaction. But aside from the adventurer/panpaidi division, it was totally normal for a father to be deadly afraid for his children. She showed Olivia and explained with calm
-They will be alright. My friend just here is healed, just make sure they drink the antidote and soon they’ll wake up all fine. We are not the makers of this mess, on the contrary, we are trying to solve it. Can you help us and tell us where the seller of your mask is please ?
The man tranquilized himself and answered quickly “he’s over there, I saw him like five minutes ago” then he gave a last gaze of worry and went upstairs to see his children.
Indeed, as shown by the sparrow faunri, the seller of the skull mask was in a corner of the inn, a drink in hand.
Olivia stood proud with her arms on her hips ''Ah YES! I love to have food on the go as I'm always hungry!'' (Glimmering white glow appears around Olivia), Olivia thought about the skull shaped masks a daydreamed on how cute they were then she quickly snapped back to reality ''I do remember the cute skull masks!'', Paulette then turned to talk to a man.
Olivia grabbed more cookies and nommed on them while watching the goddess do her divine work.
Paulette then turned around and pointed at Olivia and mentioned how Olivia took the antidote and she's fine now, Olivia put saluted at the man and Paulette with a cookie in her mouth ''I do be really healthy now nom nom nom... Thanks to this lovely lady for getting, it for Everyone!'' Olivia bowed and pointed at Paulette.
Olivia watched Paulette turn around and walk towards the man the other man was talking about.
Olivia quickly chomped down her cookie and ran alongside the goddess.
-It is a good initiative. Said she to the cute fox girl about her habit of bringing food (especially cookies)
When they talked to the sparrow faunri, even though Paulette tried her best to be reassuring, she noticed how Olivia was doing way better. Her pretty face and cute ways were truly a blessing for their investigation. “She is a genuine ray of sunshine” she thought while a smile appeared on her face, looking at Olivia when she was talking.
Then, they headed to the skull mask seller
-Excuse me sir, we are adventurers on an investigation and would like to ask you a few questions, if you please ?
The man put down his drink and said
-Ah yes I remember you two
Paulette was surprised
-You remember us ? But we… never spoke before ?
The mask seller smiled and looked directly at Olivia while answering
-Yeah but two adventurers don’t go unnoticed at a panpaidi party. Especially when they shout out
The purple haired girl made an embarrassed smile. She remembered the moment when Olivia asked for her mask and was a bit much noisy. She looked at her friend’s reaction…
Olivia blushed like a tomato ''HEY I DONT SHOU-...crap.'' Olivia ate more cookies in her embarrassment, Olivia mumbled and ask the skull mask seller some questions. (Mumble cookie in mouth nom nom) ''Skull mask guy do you know anything about the poison in the masks You have been selling?'' Olivia ate her cookie fast and hid behind Paulette out of fear the skull guy would get angry.
''Well, this whole poison in the masks has ruined my income but if I knew anything I wouldn't tell a bunch of adventurers...'' he sipped his ale grinning.
Olivia ate the rest of her cookie and proposed something ''If I out drink you right now you have tell us everything about it! and don't worry about paying for the ale ILL USE my Gold!'' Olivia grinned as she loved the ale here an knew she would win...
Olivia then turned to Paulette ''Don't worry I got this! Hehe'' Olivia smiled at Paulette.
Total Word Count: 529+174+206+342+180+121+244 + 233 + 319 +133+166+159 =2786 Tag Paulette
Paulette looked the tiny girl hooped on a seat at the bar and boast of drinking alcohol
-WAIT WHAT ?!
She was outraged
-Oh no you're not, young lady ! How old do you think you are to behave like that ??
She had the tone of an angry parent and wanted to put the fox girl away from the bar as she really thought Olivia didn’t pass the age limit to drink ale.
Olivia saw an angry Pauline behind her giving a judging look ''Ummm...are you ok..Pauline ...goddess?!'' ..Olivia asked the bar man for 10 ales,The barman looked at Olivia ''Young fox girl will you have enough gold to pay for these ales?! it will be 89 gold!'' Olivia looked for gold,It was in her front pocket '' I sure do i have enough! here sir!'' Olivia handed over the gold.
Olivia began downing each ale one by one grinning at the skull masked guy. '' Come on old man out drink me already!!'' the skull masked guy gritted his teeth with anger ''BRING IT ON BRAT! hey bar keep 15 ales right now!'' Olivia was on her 5th ale looking over at the guy, he was on his 7th already...Oliva was in shock ''balls i have to drink even FASTER!'' Olivia gawked down 5 more ales within seconds!.
the skull masked guy was behind by 5 beers now. '' Kid you have gusto but this is over '' the skull masked guy slashed 5 more ales down his throat. But it was too late Olivia was grinning with a drunk smile at him.
''See i told you i had this hehe'' Olivia fell off her chair onto the floor...
Total Word Count: 529+174+206+342+180+121+244 + 233 + 319 +133+166+159+205 =2991 Tag Paulette
Olivia didn’t even take into account Paulette’s threats and engaged in her challenge against the man. Upset, the Alv apostrophize the bar man
-Don’t you have a child policy ? Don’t listen to her, don’t give her alcohol !
But the bold little fox girl paid cash and so the barman served her with a fine smile.
Everyone in the inn room gathered around Olivia’s bet.
The night was advanced, it was so late that within a few hours dawn would come. Outside the windows it was complete darkness as if the inn was lost into an abyss, yet inside the atmosphere was warm and festive.
The party initially started in the streets as a masked celebration this evening, had taken a turn and after being compromised by the poison epidemic, found a second breath inside the wall of this inn, around a boiling confrontation between a small adventurer and a tall panpaidi.
People who were poisoned sooner had drank the antidote and felt better, they came down to see the challenge. The other folks made bets over the winner and ordered ale.
The inn owner, who first showed generosity by offering his beds to sick people was now gaining the fruits of his action by serving enormous amounts of ale around the room.
Olivia was unstoppable, she was like a storm engaged in arm wrestling. When she drank five ales at once people went crazy around her and cheered and bet more money on her. Only Paulette seemed to be horrified at the situation. She put her face in her hand “Children these days are limitless ! Who is this girl anyway ?” She closed her eyes to think “What should I do, I have no right over her, she is free to do whatever she likes to. Plus she is winning people’s trust… but at which cost ?”
As she was prostrate with her face hidden in her hands, she heard snippets of conversation behind her
-We’re leaving... out of control… tell the other to meet at…
The tone was low and severe, which contrasted a lot with the surrounding yellings but the purple haired girl couldn't hear the next part because people suddenly screamed louder : the skull masked man was done.
Paulette crossed Olivia’s look : she had a fiery and proud spark in it as she said “see I told you I had this” then she laughed a little and felt down.
For the third time this night, Paulette received the little fox girl in her arms just before she touched the ground.
-Of course you would, you always give beyond what you have
Then, carrying Olivia, she turned to the crowd and addressed to the owner
-I would like to offer a good rest to this man. Can we have a two separate bed room for the rest of the night ?
The kind manager nodded and two men helped to carry the skull mask seller upstairs.
Olivia was put to bed next to her opponent. They were both plunged into a deep sleep now. Paulette sat on a chair next to her friend and watched over her for the rest of the night.
Little by little, the noise downstairs decreased and when the dawn finally came, there was only the muffled sound of the rain on the roof to be heard.
Early in the morning, as the mask seller and Olivia were still deeply asleep, Paulette stopped her eve and went downstairs to find a breakfast
-we only have slices of berry cake from yesterday. Said the tired owner who had spent all night awake and hadn't time to cook anything
“It’s not cookies but I hope Olivia will like it” thought Paulette
-It’s good thank you
Then she made her quick toilet and went back to the bedroom.
Olivia slept all morning, funny thing : she and the skull mask man awaked at the same time around noon.
Olivia woke up looking at the ceiling with a gaze...she pull herself up from the bedsheets with her arm on her eyes. ''UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH..Regrets..regrets...'' Olivia wiped her eyes and looked over to her left and saw the skull masked guy in a bed across from her. ''Who's this guy??!'' Olivia then wiped her eyes again and saw Paulette sitting on a chair on her right.
Olivia then fell down back to her pillow to think of what is happening and why she was feeling so hungover Outload she said. ''I'm guessing I drunk a lot...Let me think about this'' Olivia thought to herself for a good 10 minutes. ''OOOOO I KNOW NOW I Challenged this guy to who can drink more ale in exchange for information about the poison in the masks!'' Olivia got up from the bed on the left side.. she stretched her body and realized she was wearing the same clothing from last night and the night before.
''Oh I smell'' she said outload with no embarrassment.....
Olivia then began to take her dirty clothing off then realizing she was stripping Infront of a man who could wake up at anytime. She ran to the bathtub area in the inn ''Be right back!'' After having a bath she ran back into the room looking at the Skulled masked guy bed. ''HEY WAKE UP!! RIGHT NOW!'' Olivia shaking the mans body. this didn't work after failing she went to the end of the guys bed and stood on the end preparing to jump on the man to wake him up.
the man woke up to Olivia in slow motion above him about to land on his body....''HEY STOP IAM AWAKE!'' Olivia stopped herself by moving in mid air somehow?!,Olivia then sat down in the chair closest to the skull guys bed.
''Hey skull guy remember last night we made a deal that you would tell me where you got theses masks from!'' Olivia held up a skull mask from the ones he was selling with the poison in them, ''Oh yes right I lost to you little lady. Your a heavy drinker for such a little thing!, Well ill tell you....I got sold to them buy a guy in town with a shady hood and his eyes were dark brown but i couldn't see his face...he said his name was .....Mr. Black...'' Olivia noted this down in her handy little book from her pouch.
''Ok thank you skull masked guy!'' Olivia nodded and then fell on the mans lap saying ''FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD'' At this moment Paulette walked back into the room seeing this...
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She came back into the room at a time where Olivia was begging for food
-Oh I’m right in time !
She said while showing a plate of the berry cake she brought upstairs.
-I’m glad to see your energy come back, you recover really quickly whether it’s from poison or hangover. She handed the ceramic plate full of cake to her fauri friend. Here, It’s the only thing I could get from now, I hope you’ll like it ?
It smelled nice and was a round pastry baked in the oven with a crusty dough and many red, purple and blue berries cooked inside, making the top look like a bubbling slime.
Then she turned to adresse the man on the other bed
-Do you want a part of it ? You didn’t recover as well as my friend, maybe it will help you wake up better ? Also we need the information you know, you said this whole poison issue ruined your incomes so you’d better be on our side.
She learned the content of Olivia’s booknote and watched the girl eat while thinking for herself “What is this mess ?! I hope I didn’t step into something bigger than what I can deal with ?” Needing more information she asked
-Is he known in town ? Do you have any idea why he would want to ruin you or kill the inhabitants ? Was he… She hesitated a second before asking : an adventurer type ??
Her question shocked the man and transformed the atmosphere into something more serious than a breakfast at the inn. This was the right time to explain her theory and the small pieces of information she gathered last night
-I’m sorry Olivia, we have to keep this option in mind even if we don’t like it. Maybe not every former player is as nice and happy as we are, maybe some of us are using our strength and powers to minus villagers. I feel like “Mr. Black” sounds more like a pseudonym than a real name. Also, last night when I went to the botanist house to get the antidote he said that even the bravest adventurer avoided the plant that gave this poison. So the person that collected as much as needed to poison a whole village must be very strong ! It’s probably not a simple panpaidi.
She took a breath and added : “Finally, there is one last thing I would like to clear off : when you two were drinking, I heard people whispering, saying that the situation got out of control and giving a meeting with “the other”, so it might be a gang. She talked directly to the mask seller : Have you heard of some sort of bandit gang roaming around the village ?”
They were progressing, they had a name to look for and a small description. But if Paulette’s assumptions were right, they might get in trouble. The purple haired girl feared to face other players, worse if they were higher leveled than her.
Olivia saw the plate of berry cake in Pauline's hands...Olivia's eyes lit up ''Thank you for the cake goddess!'' '' and yes i seem to recover really fast from things I don't understand it but i guess its comes in handy all the time!'' Olivia left some berry cake for Pauline. Olivia handed over the plate to Pauline for her bit she left her.
Olivia listened to every word Pauline said while stuffing her face..after finishing the berry cake Olivia rushed over and put her hands on Pauline's shoulders ''I think its players who are trying to be hardheads but are in over their in over their heads, BUT (Olivia shouted) Im scared out of my little boots to see who ''Mr black is'' Soooo'' Olivia turned her head to the Masked seller, she grinned...''You will tell me all you know right now'' Olivia evil Grinned changed as soon as she turned back to Pauline...they changed the puppy dog eyes.
The mask seller began to revel what activities He's been seeing around town before the party.
''OK! STOP SMILING AT ME LIKE THAT GEEEZ GIRLY!!...Ok so i saw a group of shady people hanging around my booth of goods 3 days before making deals with another shady group of people...But the main thing i saw from 1 guy he looked very evil looking?! this might be the ''Mr.black'' i was talking about. also some more information for you i saw them run away into some back ally the other day and i can show you where if your willing to let me help you guys?!'' Olivia walked over to him and slapped him on the back.
''YOUR ALRIGHT SURE LETS GOOO AND SEE THIS ALLY IT MIGHT HELP US FIND A LEAD TO FINDING THEM!!!! (Olivia shouted again...) she then turned to Pauline and smiled with a Gleem ''We will be fine as long as im fighting with you ill always feel safe goddess'' Olivia poked Pauline on the nose ''boop''
Total Word Count: 529+174+206+342+180+121+244 + 233 + 319 +133+166+159+205+441+331 =3763 Tag Paulette
Olivia was hungry indeed, she ate the cakes with appetite but left some for Paulette. “What a nice girl” she thought. The pastry looked really good but the young Alv saved it in her bag for later. Listening to the conversation between Olivia and the mask seller, she started to plan the following steps of their investigation.
For now the plan was simple : they needed to track Mr Black and it's crew down the village and its surroundings. They could find a form of authority and explain what happened last night but Paulette would rather avoid this option for now. First : no brigade seemed to supervise the party last night nor came at the inn this morning to seek for the cause of what poisoned half the population. Secondary because, as it seems to slowly loom, this case may be a conflict between Gaia citizens and Adventurers. If adventurers were guilty, then the gaians would lose all the confidence they set on adventurers. It was essential that Paulette and Olivia take over the case before any gaian. Furthermore because it could be a dangerous quest leading in the deep of the forest.
Paulette watched the fox faunri lead the interrogation and smiled “she would make a good cop”. At the end, the mask seller asked to help them, it was perfect.
The purple haired girl ran a hand on her ponytail in a satisfied way. She had the look a first in class had when receiving the highest score on a test.
-we just happened to need a guide downtown! May we know your name ? She asked the mask seller.
The man cringed, with Olivia’s slap on his back and Paulette’s sentence, he knew he didn’t have the choice but to commit to their inquiry.
-my name’s Russell
The two girls made the man walk first out of the bedroom. Then Paulette congratulated Olivia form her achievement
-good, I think he respects you a lot now. Plus, he will help us until we find this Mr Black. I know that bringing a civilian with us can be dangerous but he is a precious witness and I think it’s best even for him if he stays close to us.
Olivia poked her on the nose and Paulette smiled softly
-we’ll be safe together.
The trio got out of the inn and took a deep breath of fresh morning air.
The place was deserted. It was almost difficult to believe that a party took place at this very spot only a few hours ago. The heavy rain of the night had washed off the pavers and everyone was sleeping. Only a hand of chicken and pigeons strolled over the place.
Russell led them through the place, behind a fair hall, down a sloping marchand street, they walked along some decorative garden, crossed a tiny stone bridge and sank in more narrow streets. The sun didn't rise enough yet to brighten these alleys and there were large puddles everywhere.
In front of them, a black cat with yellow eyes stood up, watched them come then flee over a courtyard wall.
In front of of a small dark wooden door, Russell said
-this is it, that’s the place where I saw an evil looking man the other day. He got out of this door.
-Is this a house ? Or maybe just a warehouse ? Asked Paulette
-nobody lives there. Answered the man.
The ally was empty and silent. The young Alv knocked on the door, but nothing answered. Just to check, she activated the handle. The door opened. She looked at Olivia to check her friend’s mood then, she entered the room.
It was a low ceiling room with only a square window on the same wall as the door. At first sight it was definitely a ware room with lots of wood boxes and chests. On the right side was a stairs next to a table covered with papers, and trinkets.
Nobody inside. The group looked for some clues, leaving the door wide open.
A short shadow appeared at the entrance, and Paulette heard a meow. The black cat came back and stood at the door frame, his glowing eyes looking right at Olivia. It meowed again.
-I think he wants to be your friend. Laughed Paulette.
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Name This is the name you'll be adding to your custom profile field dropdown once you've finished coding the mini-profile. Pretty self-explanatory. Make sure this name is unique from every other name you use for your mini-profiles or you'll end up overwriting the earlier ones in the list.
HTML This is the HTML that will go inside your mini-profile. You can use just about any HTML tag here so long as it's appropriate for where the mini-profile is showing on the page. Please refrain from using <style> or <script> tags here. You have the next two sections for that! Also, remember that mini-profiles can show multiple times on the same page, so you shouldn't add ID attributes to any of your elements here. Two elements on the same page cannot have the same ID per HTML standards.
CSS This is where you'll place what would normally go in your forum's style sheet or what would normally be between <style> tags. Try to code your mini-profile's HTML in a way that will allow you to target it specifically with your selectors. For example, you can surround all of the content in your HTML with a <div> element with a class and target that class and its child elements specifically with your CSS. That way you don't accidentally target every mini-profile on the page with CSS that was meant for the one you're building. One more thing: The forum theme's CSS still applies beforehand, so your mini-profile may look right in one theme but not in another. The best way to circumvent this is to define as many styles as you can to override the theme's CSS.
Javascript Anything that normally goes between <script> tags will go here. This one's a bit tricky since you'll obviously want to target the custom mini-profile specifically. Luckily there's an easy way to do that. In your statements you can use the $(this) variable to target the mini-profile if you're coding using jQuery. Otherwise, if you only plan on using standard Javascript you can target $(this)[0] instead.
Once you've finished building your mini-profiles it's finally time to add them to the Edit Profile page for use! To enable selection of custom mini-profiles you'll first need to add two specific custom profile fields in Members > Custom Profile Fields in your forum's admin area:
Mini-Profile Theme
Staff Mini-Profile Theme
Mini-Profile Theme is for mini-profiles that are designed for member use. You can set the Who Can Edit option for this field to Staff With Power if you only want staff to be able to choose mini-profiles for users. Otherwise, if you want members to freely be able to choose their own mini-profiles you can choose Members and Staff With Power.
Staff Mini-Profile Theme is for mini-profiles designed specifically for staff use. This field is completely optional.
Set the type for both of these fields as Drop Down Selection. Click on the (View/Edit) link to add mini-profile names to each of these fields.
If you've just installed this plugin you should have three different mini-profiles already installed by default: Example 1, Example 2, and Example 3. You can add these to your dropdowns to test them out and see the plugin in action.
If you're having trouble getting this plugin to work despite following the instructions in the previous tabs you may want to check that each of your themes meets the prerequisites below in Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile.
First, ensure that opening tag of your mini-profile template includes the $[miniprofile_class] variable in its class. On the default ProBoards theme it should look something like this:
<div class="$[miniprofile_class]">
Next, make sure that the default {foreach} loop for custom fields is present inside your mini-profile. It doesn't need to be visible, so you're free to add it inside a hidden element if you don't plan on displaying it or if it would mess up the appearance of your own custom template.
Beyond that you can do whatever you like to the mini-profile template for the most part and it shouldn't negatively impact the plugin.
The following is a list of available variables for use in the HTML section of the mini-profile creator and their definitions. Adding any of these to a mini-profile will generate the content described in its definition in place of the variable so long as the information that variable outputs is visible to you.
To reference your forum's custom profile fields you can use $[user.customfieldname], substituting "customfieldname" with your custom field's name. You'll need to type the name in all lowercase with no spaces and only use characters A-Z and 0-9.
For example, Mini-Profile Theme becomes $[user.miniprofiletheme]. This will output the value of the custom field. In the case of this example, it'll be the name of the mini-profile theme you've chosen in your profile.
IMPORTANT NOTE: These will only work if you followed the steps in the Installation tab of this window on each of your themes. Any themes that do not include the template code specified there will not have these variables replaced in the mini-profile.
$[user]
User's display name link.
$[user.age]
User's age (if visible to you).
$[user.avatar]
User's current avatar.
$[user.badges]
User's list of badges.
$[user.birthday]
User's date of birth (if visible to you).
$[user.color]
Hex color of user's group. If user is not in a group this will return inherit.
$[user.custom_title]
User's custom title.
$[user.email]
User's email (if visible to you).
$[user.gender.image]
Image associated with the gender selected in the user's profile (if available).
$[user.gender.text]
Name of gender selected in the user's profile (if available).
$[user.group.name]
Name of user's current display group.
$[user.group.stars]
Star images associated with user's current display group.
$[user.id]
User's numerical ID.
$[user.instant_messenger]
User's list of instant messengers specified in their profile (if available).
$[user.invisible]
Returns 1 if a user is invisible. More useful for Javascript.
$[user.ip]
User's IP address (if visible to you).
$[user.is_online]
Returns Member is Online if user is currently online.
$[user.is_staff]
Returns 1 if a user is designated as staff. More useful for Javascript.
$[user.last_online]
Timestamp showing when user was last online.
$[user.likes]
Number of likes this user's posts have received.
$[user.location]
Location specified in user's profile.
$[user.name]
User's display name in plain text.
$[user.personal_text]
User's most recent status.
$[user.posts]
User's post count.
$[user.rank.name]
User's current posting rank.
$[user.rank.stars]
Star images associated with user's current posting rank.
$[user.registered_on]
Timestamp showing the date/time the user registered on the forum.
$[user.registered_on_short]
Condensed version of user's registration date.
$[user.social_network]
User's list of social networks specified in their profile (if available).
$[user.username]
Outputs the user's login username in plain text.
$[user.warning.bar]
User's warning bar (if it exists).
$[user.warning.level]
User's current warning level (if visible to you).
$[user.website]
Website specified in user's profile.
You can utilize the $(this) variable in the Javascript component to target the mini-profile <div> element. For example, if you wanted to add a class to the mini-profile you can use:
$(this).addClass('class-name-here');
Profile variables can also be used in the Javascript component in this plugin. In Javascript the value undefined is used to signify that a value doesn't exist for the variable you've specified. With this in mind you can use profile variables in Javascript conditional statements within the plugin similar to how they're used in the actual layout templates section of the admin area.
if(variable) will only run if the variable you specify has a value.
if(!variable) will only run if the variable you specify has no value.
Example 1 (variable has value):
if(user.group){
$(this).find('.group').show();
}
If the user has their group displayed in their profile the above Javascript would make the HTML below visible if you had it hidden with CSS.