LifeLike: Story of K

A New World

Waking to the sweet smell of flowers carried by a pleasant breeze, K finds herself laying down in her purple pyjamas within the soft long grass of an beautifully green meadow. K stumbles to her feet to take a look at her new surroundings searching for anything familiar. She looks around to find out just how massive this field is, it goes almost as far as the eye can see and then is surrounded by towering woods in all directions obscuring vision of everything beyond. Toward the middle of the clearing there seem to be some people. And there are a large amount of animals around as well, however K cannot recognise a single creature. " What the hell?" K said confused, there was a quiet rustling behind her.
As she turned to see what it was, something lunged on top of her, burying her face into the ground. She tried to struggle, then a grainy but hushed voice says. "Shhh,, keep it down, I'm not here to hurt you. You cant be in here, or they will kill you." K stops struggling and lifts a finger in the direction of the people she saw earlier. "Yes those people." The figure lessens the force he is applying to K's back. K lays face down in the grass for a little longer. "Get up, we need to leave now. My shift is nearly over, you are lucky I found you."

The now noticeably huge figure lifts K by the back of her flannelette pyjama pants and puts her back on the ground. Noticing that the figure is around 9 foot tall, skin being entirely orange and slightly stoney, she is immediately shocked. "What are you? Where am I? Who are you?" She sputters terrified. " My name is Gren, I am a Hulidan, you are in the botanical garden." He replies seemingly confused. K slowly and steady takes a few steps back, Gren immediately grabs K  by the buttoned section of her purple flannel shirt, and begins to drag her into the brush. "There is no need to run, I'm trying to help you. Stop struggling, what are you?" He asks curiously. "I'm K? My name is K, I'm a human. Where am I?" She responds curtly. He looks at her even more confused. " K, thats a strange name. We are in the city of Cadence. Also, I've never heard of a Human. Check your Menu, and tell me your stats." He asked "Menu? Stats? Huh?" K tilts her head as she hears the words. "Just think of a way to see all of your information, it just works" he explains. "Ummmm" She tries it. A small cascading window opens in her view, showing a bunch of numbers on a stat sheet. Gren leans down, taps at her menu and it opens in his field of view as well. "So you are fast then?" He asks. "I used to run track, but I twisted my ankle while training and cant run anymore." She solemnly explains. " How did you get here?" Gren asks, "I was in bed, and then I was suddenly her--" "Ahhh- So you are new? That makes sense. You shouldn't have any of your previous injuries? Is you ankle still injured?" He asks worriedly. "I think so?" She mentions as she tries to stop Gren's hurried walking. Gren stops for a moment, She stretches and moves her ankle. It is surprising fine. " Oh my god, it is fine, I didn't notice" she says excitedly. She then jumps a few times, and is immediately jerked forward by Gren again. " I can walk!" Gren turns to K " I am dragging you so it seems that I caught you so I can take you outside and let you go. Otherwise you may be executed." K immediately gains a much more serious face.

Gren eventually leads to a metal door seemingly standing in the middle of the woods. "Here is the Groundsmen exit, we need to go." K leans to the side to see nothing behind the door. "Uhhhh ok, I guess." Gren opens the door, and inside is a corridor full of garden tools, and high tech computer monitors. "Woah" K looks around the room full of wonder. " We can't be here long, do you have any Modest clothing? The rules here are kind of strict." K looks down at what she is wearing " Have I been wearing this the whole time, Haha. Umm do we have like a inventory or something?" K asks playing with her menu. " Yes, just think of a stash" She does and an inventory window opens up. It contains one item, a pair of eyeglasses. She hovers over them, and then suddenly there is a shimmer infront of K's eyes, and her red glasses appear on her face. "That really isn't what I was thinking of, so no clothing then? Hold on my daughter is your size, I will get her to transfer you some clothing." Gren taps at his own menu. " Transfer clothes? What kind of city is this?." K mumbles.

There is suddenly a menu in her vision, asking K to accept a trade. "Ummmm" She clicks yes, and the menu disappears. She opens her inventory again, and there is now a full set of clothing in there. " Oh thank you, I will step outside and get changed." She says as she starts to walk out of the room. Gren steps in front of her and walks out of the room. "I guess I will get changed here?" She opens her Inventory again, and taps on the new clothes in her inventory. There is a shimmer and her clothes are quickly replaced by a simple red knee length dress, and some large boots. "Ok I am done, you can come back in." Gren walks back in and nods "That is better, although she should have not just sent you cheap old clothes." K interrupts " Its fine these clothes are okay, so what should we be doing?"

Gren taps his menu and summons a small bag of coins and hands them to K. " I will not be accompanying you much further, so take this, and my best wishes. "You will be leaving me? Where should I go, and what should I do? " K asks really nervously. " I'm sorry, but I have sent a message to one of my old friends, they should be able to hook you up with some odd jobs that might help you on your way." Gren replies sternly. " Ok I suppose, thank you. Which way should I go then?" K asks reluctantly. Gren silently walks K over to a door on the other side of the building. " I can give you some more help. Take my speeder, and this knife" Gren passes K a long green glowing knife, and a set of weird keys."That should help you with whatever jobs you are given." " Thank you" K smiles and walks out of the door Gren opened for her, seeing Cadence sprawled out in front of K. She is stricken by the view.