Chapter 127

Walking into the famous Whitehall gardens, Harry spent a few minutes admiring the amazing view of the London skyline before he walked into the shaded areas. There were a few benches, most of which were all occupied, some by couples enjoying a romantic day, others by small kids playing and goofing around.

Harry ducked under a branch of a sprawling oak tree and found a long hidden bench, upon which an about twenty looking Asian man was writing down stuff on his notepad at breakneck speeds. His bag lay beside him.

A window popped up in the corner of Harry's vision.

Recommended Language: Japanese

Activate All Speak: Japanese?

YES/NO

Harry pressed yes, and in the process of taking a step towards the man, accidentally stepped on a twig. The man's hand stopped and he looked up.

Harry spoke, "Can I sit here? All the other benches are occupied."

The man looked a bit surprised at Harry speaking Japanese, but gave a short nod and moved his bag to make space. Then he went back to writing on his notepad.

Harry took the seat, and looked at the man's notes. They were all in Japanese, which Harry could not read, so he just leaned back on his seat, closed his eyes and listened to the birds sing, falling into a small trance.

"ARRGGGHH"

The yell of frustration from next to him brought him out into the real world. The Japanese man had buried his head into his hands.

"Is anything wrong?" Harry asked, slightly concerned.

"It's nothing…" the man hesitated for a second before he threw his hands into the air, "Ah what the hell, if I fail in ever making this then at least someone will have heard of my idea."

And he told Harry of his story. His name was Tajiri Satoshi, and he was a game designer from Japan who had come here to pitch his new idea for a game to the executive board of a big company. He had the meeting with them in a few hours.

But he didn't have the entire game's plan complete in his mind. The more times he read through his notes, the more and more flaws he found. And he was more sure than ever that they would reject his idea, and his work would go to waste.

"What type is this game you're designing?" Harry asked.

"Its an RPG. Do you know how those work?"

Harry smirked, "I think I have a decent idea."

"Good. That is good. Mine is a bit different than most. You have to go around capturing various monsters and use them to battle your enemies, who also have their own monsters. You can use items and healers to help you. Your goal is to catch all the monsters and foil the enemy plan." Tajiri explained.

"That sounds like a pretty good game idea" Harry commented, "What's wrong then?"

"Its the entire progression system that is off. What is supposed to keep the player from just quitting the game? And also, I don't even have that many monsters designed. Barely forty. I need more time. It's all just gone wrong." Tajiri said, resting his head on his hand again.

Harry felt bad for him. The poor man had probably spent a lot of time designing his game and was now close to losing all his hard work.

Ping!

Quest Alert!

Help Tajiri fix the issues in his game!

Reward-

8000xp

RPG game designer's manual

Failure-

Tajiri loses everything and commits suicide

YES/NO?

Seeing the failure results, Harry quickly pressed yes.

"Have you considered an exp based level up system?" Harry asked after taking a few seconds to think about what kept him playing his own life's game.

The man looked like Harry was crazy for suggesting something so simple. "Of course I have. It just doesn't fit well with the game to have the character level up when the monsters are battling."

"The character? You got me wrong. I was talking about leveling up the creatures, the monsters you speak of. When they go into combat, and they level up. You can give them new attacks and abilities as they level up. You could even have them change into better creature in a new evolution of sorts." Harry explained his idea.

The man's face grew pensive before his eyes lit up.

"Yes…yes…that solves everything!" He pulled out a new page and started scribbling just as fast as before. "And I basically triple the number of catchable monsters. Evolution! That's the key! I've got it! I must go and prepare the presentation for this."

He stood up and grabbed his bag enthusiastically, stuffing the notepad into it, before turning to Harry.

"Thank you Harry Potter" he said, "Thank you very much. You have helped me more than you could ever know."

Harry stood up and wished Tajiri luck for his meeting, and then watched as he ducked below the oak tree branch and headed out of the park. Harry sat back on the bench, feeling happy for the man. A screen popped up in front of him.

Quest success!

Help Tajiri fix the issues in his game!

Reward-

8000xp

RPG game designer's manual added to inventory

He leaned back into his seat started arranging his inventory, just to pass time until the sun went down a bit and he could head back to the house. A few minutes passed, when suddenly he felt a prickle on the back of his neck.

Harry tensed. He was being watched.

Carefully, he sent his mana out and about into his surroundings, activating his Area Sense skill to the maximum.

Area Sense : Someone is near you. 2 o'clock.

Nonchalantly trying not to move his head, he slowly looked at the spot that Area sense indicated, only to find nothing.

Deducing that the watcher must be invisible, he activated his mage sight. Due to the lack of any magical stuff in the park, it all looked dark, with the occasional magical plant illuminating the world around him.

And the blaring yellow mana of a small hunched creature that stood exactly where the area sense had told him the watcher would be. Harry observed the creature, snapping himself out of mage sight into normal sight.

Dobby (Status: Slave Bond)

Lv-23

HP-2025/2025

MP-1350/1350

Race- House Elf

Str-5

Vit-27

Dex-12

Int-8

Wis-12

Luc-4

Dobby is a male house elf who serves a family. His masters treat him cruelly, and as such, he, like most house elves, has health issues and low self esteem. He is a big fan of Harry Potter and wants to shake hands with him in real life someday.

He wants to stop Harry from going to Hogwarts to protect him from his master's plan. He is trying to do so by stealing his mail and making him think his friends have forgotten him.

He had found his letter thief! Dobby the house elf! As Harry read his description, a slight feeling of foreboding filled his mind. The elf's master had some sort of plan, that seemed to be based around Hogwarts. And whatever it was, Dobby sure seemed to religiously believe that it was targeted at him.

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