Gaming on the Edge

You know that feeling when you know something is just wrong, but you have just found the perfect position in your sleep and not even god himself will let you wake up? No? Good for you because that is what is happening to me, I had just found what might be the best position I had ever slept in my whole life, but my guts were telling me something was wrong, the last straw that made me realize how fucked I truly was a sudden scream coming from my side.

" GOOOOOD MORNING NIGHT CITY, yesterday we hit a record on the killed, reaching a sweet old 69, most caused by those Grunk of the Maelstorms-"

The rest went through my head, my head reaping the first line over and over, until my brain finally decided to connect the dots, making me realize where the fuck was wrong.

Like a spring I jumped up from my head my eyes opening to a room that wasn't mine.

But just as my mind had started going into panic mode a refreshing feeling sooted my synapses, calming me down before doing something I might have regretted such as punching myself.

'Wait, suddenly calming down before panicking? Where have I seen this trope?... Oh my god, Status'

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Name: Akira

Titles: None

Age: 17 Sex: M

Level: 1 0/1000 XP

HP: 70/70 Hp Regen: 0.7/min

SP: 700/700 SP regen: 70/min

Strength: 6 Increases carrying weight, maximum speed, and physical power

Constitution:5 Increases the hardness, density, and weight of your body

Vitality: 7 Increases health regeneration, and its total.

Endurance: 7 Increases regeneration of stamina, and its total.

Dexterity: 4 Increases ease of movement, flexibility, and reflexes.

Intelligence:11 Increases memory, critical thinking, and information absorption

Charisma:4 Increases likeability, and persuasion, and decreases shop prices.

Perception: 9 Increases the five senses, and awareness.

(Normal humans have 10, in all physical stats, and varying values in mental stats, chipped humans have varying values based on the cyberware type and their quality)

Perks: Gamer's Mind ( Prevents being overwhelmed by emotions, protects others from seeing memories regarding The Gamer powers)

Eddies: 67 €$

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'... ok, I am not as fucked as I might have been, I am missing Gamer's body, so a bullet to the head and I am gone, but at last I have Gamer's Mind, which is not letting me go full cyber psycho, but a question remains, who the fuck am I and why are my stats so fucking low?'

As if I had said the magic words, a train of memories hits me, letting me know I am an orphan living in an abandoned building in Watson, too weak to be a merc and too young to work in any place that could make able to live well, I was forced to scavenge whatever I could from the trash, sometimes selling BD I found and buying the lowest tier food that would last me enough until the next BD, in few words, I am another victim of a Gand War if I don't change something about my life.

After a few seconds, I had regained my bearings, my previous self still present but now mixed with my current one, I am Akira, and I will continue living as Akira till the day I die, which might come sooner than I wish.

'Ok, this system looks different from the normal Gamer System, so let's check what it has, Options.'

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Status ( Already shown)

Skills ( Tracks your progress with your skills while boosting their performance)

Reputation ( Tracks how you are seen by certain factions)

Quest ( You can accept or refuse quests, no mission failure will cause direct harm to the Gamer, they will instead represent what would happen if the Gamer fails it)

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'Not bad, at least the broken skills are still here... WAIT A FUCKING SECOND, WHERE ARE MY MP? I DON'T HAVE MAGIC? FUCK.'

And there goes a way to power right down the drain, now I am forced to become a tech-savvy and monstrous gunner if I wish to survive here, fuck.

Taking a big breath I check my body to see what cyberware I currently head, but apart from the normal ocular implant to see my eddies and my calls, I had nothing else, and a neural link on my right hand, nothing else.

'OK first skills I must grind are hacking, programming, and nothing related to the creation of cyberware if you are good in any of these three then you are a God in this world.'

' I can gain Bartmoss's cyberdeck and all his demons if I can survive the defence he placed of course, what even year are we in?'

" And this is all from your favourite radio, good 20th April of 2076 chooms." The radio I had stopped hearing till now answered my question right on time.

'Talking about timing, so I have one year before V's appearance, and who knows how long till David's death, I have to check on the last cyber psycho to know how far we are in the story, fuck I have so many things to check and prepare for, and I don't even have enough eddies in case I get hurt.'

Gamer's mind subdued the increasing anger and made me return to my current situation, there was no point in getting angry or frustrated, I needed to get up and start moving, or I would die before I could even do something of significance.

*Groooowl

'... Ok, first stop is to get some food.'