TE17 Mysterious Montenegro

Thekla Kraußeneck

he had ever tasted before.

“It tastes good, doesn’t it?” asked Octavian. “The thing is: you have never tasted Yokan before. So, in actual fact you shouldn’t be able to taste anything, because the CC will not be able to find any information about it in your memory.”

“But I can taste something,” said Zack.

“That’s right. Because if the CC cannot find anything in your memory fromwhich it can reconstruct an experience, then it will consult another memory. It will search through the memories of all the players that are logged-in until it finds someone who is familiar with Yokan. The CC will then take that experience and reconstruct it for you.”

Zack did not find the story at all credible. More like something that was told to newcomers to inspire them about Cronos.

“I see,” he said shortly.

“In Cronos, all players are connected, without even realizing it. In other words, with fifty million players there is almost no experience, which you can’t experience in Cronos – even if they are not necessarily always good experiences.”

He twisted hiswrist for the third timeand a knifemadeof textured Damascus steel appeared. Octavian threw it up in the air and

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