Somewhere on Earth
A Female streamer was playing a rhythm game for quite a bit.
"Alright, let's take a break!"
"I keep failing to get a perfect score!"
["Nice try, streamer"]
["So close!"]
["No worries barbara!"]
["Streamer keeps failing lol"]
[Ventiisthebestwife has doanted $50 "Barbara, you should react to the official release trailer for Hoyoverse new game!"]
"Oh my stars! Venti… really wants me to watch this trailer now? With all your encouragement and, um, donations! I can't say no!" Barbara said as she pumps her arms in the stream as she navigates her computer to watch the video on youtube.
[Official Release Trailer - "Interstellar Journey" | Honkai: Star Rail]
After finding the video, Barbara adjusts her stream layout to be able to watch the video with her videos. She leans forward, adjusts her headset, and opens the recommended video.
Barbara: "Okay, here we go… three, two, one…"
The Hoyoverse logo fades in on the screen and stays there for a few seconds before slowly fading out, as a film grains appear all over the screen.
Followed by cards slowly being shuffled, and suddenly spread on a red velvet glove, as the gloved hands plays with the cards as it slowly zooms out to reveal it was Kafka playing with the cars, which she flicks one card towards the screen.
Scene shifts to show the game title [Honkai: Star Rail] which slowly fades away to reveal Caelus and Stelle has been behind the logo slowly fading in with their backs against each other with their chest glowing golden.
Scene shifts again to now show Himeko flipping through a book in a room and Dan Heng inspecting a maple leaf in the snow as he lets the leaf get carried away by the wind, to March 7th under her peach-colored umbrella with a melancholic look on her face and she turns to look towards the camera, followed by someone singing in the background.
"Get rid of debris from the rusty time ~"
"Those years ~"
"Don't stand in a daze looking for a sign ~"
The scene shifts once again to show all of the astral express from Himeko, Dan heng, March 7th, Welt Yang, and the chest of an unknown character and a female character in the distance with a very long white hair and white doctor's coat, where they were all running in the snow as the scene changes again.
["MOMMY KAFKA!!"]
["Chatter above, your delusional. That's my mom."]
["These chatters above are my children"]
["Himeko~"]
["Ara Ara Himeko~"]
["Daddy Welt!"]
["March is so cute!"]
["I love her so much!"]
["Who's that?"]
["I don't remember seeing this character in the closed beta"]
["I need to know everything about her!"]
["New mommy?"]
["ARF ARF ARF WOOF!!!"]
"Wow, she's so pretty! I really like her design~"
The chat and the stream watch the trailer and as they watch the whole trailer, one aspect caught their attention, it was the very brief appearance of Elena in the Official release trailer.
There were some viewers in Barbara's stream that had beta tested the game and had confirm in chats with other viewers and chatters that this character wasn't in any of the previous beta test or the story line.
Some viewers and chatters also found out that no character trailer was out for this character. Due to how Elena was shown briefly in the trailer along with the astral express crew, they immediately understood one thing.
She was a new member of the Astral Express.
With this revelation the players outside the stream who were talking in the communities were happy with the new addition, but of course some weren't happy with the sudden addition, especially with the release of the game.
Yet the viewers and chatters in Barbara's stream on twitch were happy about new pretty character, especially one that gave off the caring mother vibe. Even Barbara herself found herself liking the character's design and was excitedly downloading the launcher for Honkai: Star Rail and pre-installed the game.
Elena had made her decision not to change the whole trailer, as it would made other changes possible and she thought it didn't really matter all too much at that stage, so she opted to just briefly add herself in one section.
It made sense, as her lore and full companion mission she had set before was only available in Penacony, The Planet of Festivities.
["Player attachment +100 Resonance Points"]
The system's voice cut through my thought as I was tuning my violin. It had been 3 days since I arrived and have fully felt like my body was my own and the discrepancy of unfamiliarity and familiarity with the Astral Express crew and my own room was now gone and fully integrated with my existence and memory.
Placing the violin back on the wall, I remembered the things I have discovered in the past three days. The Astral Express Crew was actually on their way to Herta's Space Station to deliver some items Herta had wanted.
I went outside my room as the transparent system screen pop up in front of me.
This was another one of my discovery, the reason I had not been able to call the system was that while it had been fully integrated into my soul, it had not yet been able to accommodate a new world, it was only used to me and to avoid damaging my soul as it fixed itself with this universe, it had shutdown.
Though despite fully being operational, it had little to now function aside from time, resonance points counter, system shop, character shop, and system upgrades.
Yes, I somehow had to upgrade the system if I wanted more advance functions and options, but it wasn't really the most important function right now, but the Character shop was far more important.
It could update my lore, do minor changes, add personal character events, character pvs, and many more.