1 White Room With a God
"Hmm? where am i?"
Here he was wearing the pajamas he uses to sleep. however he wasn't in his bed not even his room. All he saw was an empty white room, a room completely white, he didn't know if the room was limitless or because the whiteness gave that illusion. He couldn't remember the last thing he did, his memory of the last day was a little vague, but he remember going to sleep.
Looking around he notice some text in the sky, when he thought he couldn't read the text, the text changed to Portuguese, his native language.
The text displayed:
Player: Fernando Moceri
Points: 600
Status: Tutorial part 1
The first thing that came to his mind when he started reading, was that almost no one called him by that name anymore. Right after thinking this, the text changed.
Player: Fox
Points: 600
Status: Tutorial part 1
"Is this a game?" he thought.
"Welcome, to the Infinite Worlds. You can call me..." suddenly he heard a voice, and when he looked around, he saw a golden humanoid silhouette floating.
"God, yes that name will do for now" Continued the silhouette after a pause.
"God?" Asked Fox skeptically.
"You will be participating in a survival test. If you want to live and return to the place you came from you must fight and survive" Said "God".
Right after saying that he disappeared and around 50 meters in front of Fox, something started to materialize, first 2 green hairy feet appeared, then the green legs, the waist with a loincloth, then the abdomen and 2 arms ,one hand was holding a spear, and finally the face, a big nose, 2 big point ears, and a big mouth with lots of teeth .The creature was no higher than 1 meter.
Based on the common game knowledge of earth, Fox believed that the small creature must be a goblin or something alike.
Looking at the spear, Fox thought to himself, "what about my weapon?"
Right after that a screen appeared in front of him blocking his vision, and on the screen a list of weapons that came to his mind the moment he thought that. With a look he notice the weapons ranged from melees like swords to even real firearms he saw like glocks and AKs.
Then he realized he lost sight of the goblin, when he turned his body to look, he notice that the goblin was in the same position he was before as if he was frozen in time.
Making sure the goblin wouldn't attack while he was browsing, he started to look carefully at the menu. After carefully checking he notice he could use those 500 points of his, to buy anything. There where 5 main categories, attributes, abilities, magic, skills and equipment.
In the attributes category there where 4 main attributes and 3 secondary.
Main:
200 points - Strength measures physical power and bulk
400 points - Dexterity measures a combination of agility, coordination, and fine motor ability. It controls the basic ability at most athletic, fighting, and vehicle-operation skills, and at craft skills that call for a delicate touch
400 points - Intelligence broadly measures brainpower, including creativity, intuition, memory, perception, reason, sanity, and willpower
200 points - Health measures energy and vitality. It represents stamina and resistance (to poison, disease, radiation, etc.).
Secondary:
60 points - Lift strength measures the maximum weight that can be carried.
100 points - Perception measures the general alertness.
60 points - Stamina measures the body's "energy supply".
In the abilities category there where almost every ability you could imagine. You could gain the ability to fly for 4000 points, or you could gain the ability to teleport for 10000 points, or you could also get a super regenerative ability that heals most wounds in a few seconds for 10000 points. Every cheat ability was extreme expensive for him now, however there were some like magic talent that cost 100 points for level 0 and after that 200 points for each level from the level 1 onward.
In the magic category, he could see that he could get the same effects of the abilities with magic and magic was a lot more accessible, however most magics had prerequisites and a minimum magic talent to cast. And even after that he had to spend stamina to control the spell.
Flight for example had as prerequisite:
magic talent 2 (500 points)
and 2 other magics.
each skill, been it normal or magic, costs:
20 points to learn(basic)
20 points to improve from basic to intermediary
40 points to improve from intermediary to advanced
80 points to improve from here onward.
So with 560 points he could have the basic of flight magic. The 500 spent in magic talent would be used in other magics too, so the cost was even lower compare to the 4000 points.
In the skills category he could learn every ability he would need to survive, been it a combat one (swordsmanship and firearms) or general one(knowledge of deserts,temperate forests, mountains, etc; medicine, first aid)
In the equipment category he could buy anything from primitive technology to the current earth technology, he could even turn points to real money, 1 points 100 dollars.
He started with the basics, expendable items were cheaper than abilities so he started from there.
He bought:
Assault vest 9
Trauma plates 6
Ballistic leggins 4
Blast boots 4
Sharp-protection gloves 1
Ballistic helm 3
Visor 2
M249 25
2x extra ammunition 5
When he was buying the gun a prompt appeared with the message:
"You have no skills with guns. Would you like to buy skills for LMG(light machine gun)?"
He could select basic, intermediary, advanced and no.
He decided to choose intermediary, since his M249 would be his main weapon during this start. After that, just like in matrix, all the knowledge he need to use the gun was integrated in his memory.
He was felling a little heavy with all that weight(What would you expect carrying a weight a military man train years to carry?)so he decided to buy Lift strenght. He spent 120 points to buy 2 points in it and now he could carry it easily. Having spent 219 of his 600 he thought he was ready for the little guy(Oh really?)
Closing the menu he noticed that the goblin started to move, it looked around, and then he looked at Fox, he tilted his head a little as if trying to understand what he was seeing. Fox noticed that his ears moved a little, as if something was speaking to it. After that the goblin screamed and charged at Fox with his little spear.
Fox aimed his gun at the goblin breathed and fired.
TA TA TA TA
It was his first time shooting a gun, so even though he learned to shoot he had no real experience, and ended holding the trigger a little too much.
His aim was perfect due to the small distance of less than 50m. Taking 4 hits, 3 in the chest, 1 in the leg. the goblin fell in a pool of green liquid that probably was his own blood.
After killing the goblin a message appeared:
"Achievement unlocked: First blood. +50 points"
He noticed that now he had 432 points.381 points from what was left of the initial 600 points, + 50 points from the achievement, and +1 point, from what he tought, looking at the goblin. "Do I get 1 point for every creature I kill?"
When he looked again at the board it showed:
Player: Fox
Points: 432
Status: Tutorial part 1 (complete)
Then it changed again to:
Player: Fox
Points: 432
Status: Tutorial part 2
Congratulations on finishing the first part, on the second part you will have to survive in a dungeon, so be ready.
"What? Was that all the tip I get?"
"A dungeon can be anything, even more with magic. It might not even look like one. How would I know what I need to survive?" he thought.
the text changed again:
Congratulations on finishing the first part, on the second part you will have to survive in a UNDERGROUND dungeon, so be ready.
"Thanks" he said. "Ok, i have 432 points, and I need to survive in a underground dungeon, first of all i need a bag to carry what I need. but now any bag, if this system shows me every item I can think then maybe..."
And then, the item he thought really appeared.
