Chapter 2: Chapter 2: Tutorial
“Yup, still crazy,” I said, an exasperated sigh followed after.
Here was what basically gave me a headache and confusion for the whole day,
STATUS
NAME : Jonathan Frederick Monroe
TITLE : The Gamer
AGE : 18
VOCATION : (+)
LEVEL : 6
HP : 95 (5,4/h)
MP : 110 (4,5/h)
STR : 18
AGL : 15
END : 19
MGP : 22
MNT : 10
CHR : 15
LBD : 15
PERK
-Gamer’s Body
-Gamer’s Spirit
It was an honest-to-goodness video game windows, like, in fucking RPG! It has a blue background, and a more light blue outline. Forgive my language, but if you were in my position, I guarantee you would have at least freaking out like me in the morning. I mean, what would be an appropiate reaction to this, really? I woke up this morning, on my 18th birthday, and instead of a deluge of congratulations from my phone notifications, I was awakened by a distinct bell-like sound in my head, which was in itself a weird experience, but even weirder was when I opened my eyes, the same status screen was waiting for me.
I didn’t pay it much attention in the morning, for one because I was half panicked and excited about the ramification of this status existence, and the other more likely reason, I told my self at that time, because I thought it was just my imagination, which at first I was half convinced because I soon as I ‘will’ it away, the screen immediately disappeared. I just go about my morning routine as usual, and just shove that particular event to the back of my head, the next weird thing happened when I go out on my daily morning run, I was jogging in the neighborhood of my apartment, trying to get familiar with the new environment so to speak, and I decided to go to the nearby park because why not? It’s not that far, and my new school was headed that way too, so might as well check it, I thought to myself.
I slowly covered the rest of the distance to the park, and just when I saw the park entrance in the distance, my vision was interrupted, yet again, by another blue status screen. This time however, instead of showing my statistic itself, it was a different kind of status about a skill.
New Skill!
Running I
Increases speed while running.
Slower stamina decreases while running.
“Whoa,” I stumbled because of the sudden appereance of the screen, almost falling, tripping over my own feet, that was dangerous. At this point I really considered if this was really just an imagination or was it a real thing, cause the status screen was not the only thing that was suprising me, I felt my running speed(well, jogging) was noticibly increased as well, I also(somehow) instinctively adjusted my breathing pattern so I can run without easily tiring my body, that was the second weird thing that happened to me that day. And at that point I began to seriously want to explore this status thing, but I was still on my morning jog, so I decided to continue to go the park, just so I can calmly think this through while not in the middle of the road, and running.
I arrived at the park, saw a vending machine and proceeded to make my way there intending to buy myself a drink first, I greeted the other person there, a guy, looked my age, and imagined my surprise when he answered ‘morning’ in perfect english, I of course instantly gotten curious, because it was rare seeing a japanese fluent in english, and decided to make small conversation with him.
“oh, you can speak english?” I said to the guy, he just raised his eyebrows confusedly like I was asking a weird question, “no, I can’t, english is too hard for me,”
“hah! that’s a good one,” I said, and pointed my index finger at him, with a small laugh following it. The guy just frowned at me and just leave without saying anything more, I was puzzled at his weird reaction, cause at that point I didn’t realized it yet, that my weird game ‘power’ was giving me auto translation, not only that, it also worked both ways, which I discovered after a few more conversation that almost ended the same way as the first one, until my big brain connected the dot later that same day.
So with my drink in hand, I turned around, appreciating the park for the first time. It was a nice place, there’s a big fountain at the center, circled for a few meter by stone floor tiles, 4 rouds in each cardinal directions, surrounded by lush greenery. There’s also a collections of benches in each direction, it was early in the morning so there was only a few people here and there at the park, so I picked an empty bench and sat there, finally relaxing, and a curious energy at the back of my mind about this supposedly new power of mine.
Like last time, I tried to ‘will’ the status to the front of my mind, and it easily once again showed me my statistic, I focused on each word in it,
STATUS
NAME : Jonathan Frederick Monroe
TITLE : The Gamer
AGE : 18
VOCATION : (+)
LEVEL : 6
HP : 95 (5,4/h)
MP : 110 (30/h)
STR : 18
AGL : 15
END : 19
MGP : 22
MNT : 10
CHR : 15
LBD : 15
PERK
-Gamer’s Body
-Gamer’s Spirit
The first thing I noticed was the increase on my END, which I’m pretty sure was a short for Endurance, increased by 1 since this morning, seemed too easy in my opinion if just a 20 minutes run can increase it by 1 point, considering I’ve been running daily in the morning since I was 15, but maybe the appearance of this status of mine make it easier to increase? I didn’t know, need more concrete info.
While I thoroughly checked each of my stats, I also noticed a question mark icon on the top right corner, I mentally selected it, but nothing happened at first, but then when I got my gaze back to the statistic again, it showed the individual description of each of them, “useful,” I murmured to myself in thought.
It was like this,
HP
Health Points, pretty self-explanatory, right?
The Gamer’s Health Points is calculated by END * 5
I frowned at the weird way the system message explained the HP part, but didn’t think much of it.
MP
Mana Points, again, self-explanatory.
The Gamer’s Mana Points is calculated by MGP * 5
STR
Strength determines The Gamer’s bodily capabilities, such as how much weight can The Gamer lift, or how hard can The Gamer hit something with their body. Also help in calculating melee damage on some weapon.
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Strength also determines HP Regeneration calculation by (STR * 0,005)/minute
18 hours, that’s all it will took to bring me back from the brink of death, technically, according to the system, I didn’t know if that was a good or bad thing, in a way it was fast if we consider real life standard, but for a game? 18 hours to full health? That’s too long, but I guess this was real life, huh. So, it’s great? Kind of?
AGL
Agility determines how swift and nimble The Gamer is. Also help in matter of precision and hand coordination. Agility also affect stealth based approach, gives increased awareness to the surrounding area, which will help in detecting traps and general alertness of The Gamer.
END
Endurance directly translates to how much punishment the Gamer can take physically, also affect stamina for increased & prolonged physical activity. Used in calculating total HP.
MGP
Magical Power, self-explanatory, affect general spell effect & power. Used in calculating total MP.
MNT
Mental Fortitude, affect control & finesse over spell, also help in resisting mind altering effect, such magic based fear, compell, etc.
Mental Fortitude also determines MP Regeneration calculation by (MNT * 0,05)/minute
CHR
Charisma helps in ease of communication, such in the case of persuasions, intimidations, and negotiations. Charisma gives The Gamer certain aura that helps toward giving good or bad impression depending on how the user presented them self. Charisma doesn’t directly translate to The Gamer’s looks.
LBD
Libido represent how easy The Gamer enter a state of horniness, also increase sensitivity.
High libido helps reduce refractory period.
That last one was.. unexpected to say the least, didn’t realize my system include some kind of eroge mechanism behind it. Also, did it really just used ‘horniness’? was that even a real word?
It was at this point that I noticed that I could actually mentally select the plus sign next to Vocation, but I decided to hold it cause the park was getting crowded that morning, and I didn’t want people thinking about some weird guy sitting in the park alone while zoning staring into space. So I got up and left for home, and continue with my day, which brought us to now.
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It was evening and I once again contemplated the ramification of my power and the general weirdness of my day so far. Because with how my status was presented, I could not help but think that there’s something to fight out there, that the supernatural was real. That was a big revelation even for me, hell, especially for me, cause I knew and was convinced now that my power is real. It was kind of scary if I thought about it, how strong were those in the supernatural world, really? And if they really did EXIST, how could they hide from the masses? I’ve never even seen any solid evidence of the supernatural, untill now, which really was only myself, and not that great right now with how it looked like. But the point still stand, they exist, somehow, somewhere out there, and I didn’t know jackshit about them, I’m also late to the party, so to speak.
Now that I thought about it, that girl I met before was acting kind of weird, who act that friendly to a random guy, really? Especially one that’s been starring at you creepily, well maybe not creepily. Let me thought back a bit, what was weird about her again? First her friendliness, not really a problem but deserve a mention at least. Second, oh yeah, when I introduced my freakin full name to her when I never even said it to anyone else unless its necessary, was that some kind of magical compulsion? It could be, considering how the system worded the explanation for Mental Fortitude, but was that really some magical compulsion effect though?
How about that tingling I felt when she touched my hand? I really didn’t know, I’m grasping at straw right now, this fear of the unknown is killing me.
I literally broke into cold sweat just thinking about all of this, I’m.. stressed, helpless. Or am I thinking this too much? I didn’t know anymore. For now best just to move forward, and just did what I could.
Besides, I haven’t checked th perks and my vocation, maybe that’ll help ease my situation.
Gamer’s Body
Your body acts like a video game character, which mean any damage done to you will directly translate into reducing your HP, rather than wounding you.
Effect only active inside Barriers(Natural Barrier, Illusion Barrier, Protected Space, or Kingdoms)
Barriers? What’s a Barrier? was that how the supernatural operates? But what was it though, how did they work? Was barrier something you make so you can go to some kind of pocket dimension? Or maybe really was just a barrier over some area? I didn’t know, can I use the help function with this?
Barriers
Barriers is the shadow of the real world. A place of conduct for the supernatural, magical containers which house all manners of Abyssal creatures, away from the real world, separating the mundane and the magical, as the supreme deity’s will.
There’s 3 kind of Barrier,
-Natural Barriers as its name suggest, occurs naturally, usually the birth place of abyssal creatures, and contain various valuable materials in the Abyss.
-Illusion Barriers which is barriers made by Abyssals, used for various purpose, close itself if there’s no abyssal inside it.
-Protected Space, is a barrier made permanent, by some kind of anchor, used for dwellings by many Abyssals.
It was too much, too much new information. But at least I’m that slightly more prepared if anything comes for me. So Barriers, huh, That was how they hide from the real world, or the ‘mundane’ as they call it, a bit rude. But what could I do about it, really.
Okay, next perk.
Gamer’s Spirit
A perk which was jump-started by The Supreme Deity.
Every action The Gamer does will be translated into an equivalent of a video game mechanics.
Such as skills, which can be improved, upgraded, and even evolved whether through practice or achieving some kind of requirements, like a game!
Hm. So I guess Gamer’s Spirit was kind of the core of my power, huh. Good to know.
And there it was again, who was this supreme deity, twice now they were in my system explanation, and also earlier why they wanted the mundane and magical to separate? Hm, certainly some food for thought.
One time Hint!
The Supreme Deity is a SHE. And her name is Gaia.
I involuntary shivered,
Well that’s not creep- I mean, thank you Supreme Deity! Best not anger the boss lady.
Achievement Unlocked!
Now you can earn achievement.
Achievement!
!Boss Lady Approves!
Gain Boss Lady approval.
+2 free stats
Achievement!
!Tutorial!
Get Familiar with your new power within a day.
Now go pick that Vocation already!
+2 to all stats
“Oh wow,” I couldn’t help but said my thought out loud, I didn’t even know I could get achievement! “Oh, do I have inventory, then?” I said to the ceiling excitedly, knowing the supreme deity still watching me. Or maybe not, cause there was no answer at all after I waited at least 5 minutes, oh well.
“Vocation, let’s see,”
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