TWO FIRST CHAPTERS OF THE V-WEB NOVEL!

I gave up many times before reaching this point, and countless ideas faded into the shadows long before I found the one true concept that finally clicked. It is time to stop thinking and start moving forward. With confidence and excitement, I can finally announce the beginning of active development on the gameplay of the NosTalgia server. The PTB is already running, and beta testers are slowly able to try out the new features.

This time, I am presenting the first two chapters of the story: "Spark of Shadow" and "The First Morning." I spent a long time thinking about how should this V-WEB-NOVEL idea work, especially when the story is nonlinear and the main quests will not lead the player by the hand. Eventually, I created a numerical system: ACT A B C D.

A - The number of the Act
B - The Sub-Act, for example 1-1 focuses on the village of NosVille
C - "NosQuest" - like an anime episode or a full story arc, usually ending with a TimeSpace
D - The chapter inside that NosQuest

Right now we are at ACT 1-1-1-1 and ACT 1-1-1-2, and this is what the first chapters look like:

✦ CHAPTER 1 - Spark of Shadow ✦
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The first chapter of NosTalgia was not created to teach the player how to play or to explain the world, but to remind them of something deeper: that every new life, every change, and every adventure begins in the moment when everything else ceases to exist. I wanted to show that an Adventurer does not appear as a ready hero but as someone who must first fall, forget, and feel a void so that something real can be born. NosTalgia is not a world of triumph; it is a world of second chances, but second chances that were never promised. It is a place woven from fragments of dreams, from mistakes, from longing, and from things that should never have happened yet somehow did. It is a space where memory falls silent and emotion speaks for it; where what was lost matters more than what is gained. I wanted this chapter to show people that the beginning of an adventure does not have to be loud and heroic. It can be quiet, fragile, cold, and even painful... and still beautiful. What matters is not where we come from but what we choose to do with the place we arrive in. Our hero wakes in a world that gives him no answers, because answers are not what matters; what matters is the question he carries within himself. NosTalgia begins with defeat so that everyone can feel that true strength is born from weakness and from being lost. This chapter is an invitation: not to save the world but to discover it. To discover oneself. To allow something new to be born precisely where emptiness once existed.

The chapter ends with an imagination-stirring intro that contains my vision of an Adventurer's birth. I can hint that the motif of the hourglass and the crystal sphere will return, and that Adventurers are not all born the same way. The realm of silence, in this case the frozen hourglass, reflects the soul of our main character, the Adventurer. Some Adventurers may be born in ethereal places like a volcano or a cavern with a massive stone measuring time instead of an hourglass.

It is the same with the dreams of Adventurers... each one remembers a flash of something different. Our main character remembers a snowy wasteland, whiteness and ice. It is a memory of NosTalgia from his previous life.

✦ CHAPTER 2 - The First Morning ✦
The birth of an Adventurer is not a heroic moment but a deeply symbolic, almost intimate one. I imagined that an Adventurer does not come into this world in an ordinary way but falls from the sky like a star that has forgotten it once shone. He crashes into the Circle of Hope at the very heart of NosVille, and the villagers have turned this event into a tradition: when the light descends, they run to welcome the new soul. Not out of duty, but out of respect for something greater than themselves. These ordinary people, living on the edge of time space chaos, carry him to the Adventurer's Cottage, a place that remembers every awakening, every transformation, every first glance. It is there that the process of losing the wings takes place. The wings do not fall off violently; they fade slowly, gently, feather by feather, as if the dream that carried the Adventurer into this world were taking back the last fragment of his previous life. Visually the wings disappear, but spiritually they never die; they will return when the time is right. It is a subtle symbol that the soul of the Adventurer does not lose its origins but must rediscover them. In the morning he wakes confused, without memories, without a name, without anything to hold onto. That is why Mimi Mentor greets each of them. She is warm, calm, and speaks softly because she must. She must soothe someone who was light yesterday and is a human today. She explains that this is NosVille, that this is home, that they are safe. And at the same time she does not say too much, because in NosTalgia answers come slowly, not immediately. This dialogue was difficult because it had to balance tenderness, uncertainty, and magic while also naturally introducing the player into a world where logic does not always apply. It was meant to be the first bridge between dream and reality. And I believe I managed to capture the moment of an Adventurer's birth exactly as I intended: as a ritual that is neither the beginning of a life nor its end, but something in between, the first breath of someone who is only just beginning to truly exist.

NosTalgia ACT 1-1-1 - CHAPTER 1 and 2