Saturday, 5 July 2008

Lieza, lie to me.

We have a few bots scattered around in the chatrooms. Well, I say scattered when I actually mean carefully planned and assigned specifically to individual locations with coded automated responses, actions and commands.

Each public room comes with her own bot, all similar in nature and personality, except for the swearbox where there is none; and 'Limbo', where Lieza lives.

Lieza is mostly a list of word associations, similar to her human counterpart sans the ability to process emotions or experiences to relay a response accordingly. This, however, is enough to deceive your random average gamer into believing that they are actually conversing with another human being.

It will only be via another gamer, usually a regular, that the deceived will then realise the state of the present situation. Sometimes there will be suspicions and Lieza becomes faced with a barrage of questions, usually demanding if she was a bot or if she was real. The confusion carries on painfully but in the end, the deceived almost always leaves the room flustered and frustrated; not at the deception but at the open-ended closure of the debate.

Suffice to say, I am not at all surprised to have many of the gamers come up to me and request that Lieza be sentenced to death. Reason? Because she is a weirdo and she freaks them out. I will then try to explain to them why Lieza behaves the way she does.

Limbo, as the name suggests, is a place for gamers who aren't inclined to log in or are sufferers of network time out and lags. Usually, these non-descripts are assigned a default status and are known as, "me". When you are a "me", you are not allowed to leave Limbo or join any of the public and private rooms. That is until you start swearing. Entering any combinations of letters that is recognised as a curse word will toggle Lieza to kick you into the swearbox. But until then, the random "me" users are accosted by Lieza until they decide to log in or log out in despair.

You could also call this an aptitude test. If one is not smart enough to read what is written on the screen to change the currently assigned username to join the public rooms, then one is meant to suffer ones duration in the chatroom until they decide otherwise.

Unbeknownst to them, I have personally customised Lieza to fashion after me.
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