48 Chapter 48
(the kindergarteners)
(Ronan: why do you guys keep changing the name of the group chat)
(Reed: its a fitting name bro)
(Alex: its a good name)
(Callie: how about the kindergarteners and the girls?)
(Juniper: yes u guys r like children)
(Tori: Oh look charlies finally reading the messages)
(Elijah: its mr famous)
'Tori has liked Elijah's message'
'Callie has liked Elijah's message'
'Alex has liked Elijah's message'
'Reed has liked Elijah's message'
'Arlo has liked Elijah's message.
(Charlie: wtf i just turned my phone off for like 4 hours chill)
'Ronan has liked Elijah's message'
'Catherine has liked Elijah's message'
'Macy has liked Elijah's message'
'Elle has liked Elijah's message'
(Elle: More like 10 days)
'Elle has reacted to your message with a thumbs down'
'Natsumi has reacted to your message with a thumbs down'
'Owen has reacted to your message with a thumbs down'
(Arlo: smh)
(Alex: how does it feel to have met the felix)
(Lia: the fukn felix*)
(Charlie: who r u talking about?)
(Callie: brother wdym u dont know felix? U just talked to him and got on a car with him just a few hours ago wtf)
(Aya: did u get his autograph)
(Charlie: ohhh felix yah hes cool)
Let's mess with them a little more.
(Abel: Charlie how do you even know him tho)
(Elle: Yeah what the heck charlie)
(Charlie: dunno they were talking about knife agency something)
(Charlie: dunno what it is tho and they looked sketch so i declined)
(Macy: wat r u srs?)
(Lizbeth: Theyre a rlly big company that makes artists n stuff and Felix has rlly famous songs. Im surprised you dont know them)
(Macy: wait wait wait charlie got an offer and declined?)
'Juniper has sent 1 attachment: emergencymeeting.jpg'
Juniper pasted an Among Us emergency meeting picture and an incoming call came from the phone.
I accepted the call and everyone too joined the call.
[Catherine: "CHARLIE WHAT?!"]
[Abel: "Dude…"]
[Charlie: "I dunno man, they seemed pretty sketch. I mean who names the company Knife Agency? And it looked like they had a knife bro. They probably were going to stab me with it."]
[Macy: "Charlie what did they say?"
[Charlie: "I dunno, just said they'd make me really famous but I mean who does that? Y'know? Pretty sketchy."]
[Tori: "They're legit. They have really big actors and singers."]
I smiled trying to hold in my laughter while they freaked out.
[Arlo: "Hey hey, it's his decision if he wants to or not. Maybe he doesn't want to be famous and it's cool too."]
[Everyone: "Yeah true. Don't worry Charlie."]
My smile slightly turned into a softer expression.
[Charlie: "I was just trying to mess with you but thank you, guys. I did get recruited."
Oh, I wanted to joke with them and now they're coming with these heartwarming lines.
Small warmth came from my stomach.
Aw, I feel a little bad now.
[Natsumi: "Woo! It's okay Charlie! Just do what you love to do."]
[Ronan: "Yeah, just chase your dreams dude. Congratulations!"]
Everyone congratulated me.
Aw man, what's this cheesiness?
Agh, I can't handle the cheese.
[Charlie: "Thanks guys…"]
[Reed: "Of course man…"]
[Elle: "By chasing your dreams he probably means chasing Natsumi since she's your dreams, right? Hohoho~"]
I caught the joking petty tone she had, reminiscing the time I tackled her onto the grass just earlier today.
Ah, she's definitely doing this out of revenge.
Everyone laughed and I heard a few teases over the phone.
I looked at the phone unamusedly.
[Natsumi: "You don't have to dream, Charlie~"]
I coughed and began choking on my spit.
[Ronan: "Haha, that's 1 for Natsumi and 0 for Charlie."]
[Macy: "Since when was the playboy this easy to tease?"]
Hold on, hold on. Her pranks are getting a little too out of hand. Where did the Natsumi that blushed and hid in shame after every prank go?
[Charlie: "Let's chill. And sorry no, I did not get Felix's autograph by the way. I didn't know who he was."]
…
Jessica encouraged me to stream more to keep getting more exposure and just get my face out there. It'll probably help ease my nerves for the Winter Show.
I still can't believe I'm immediately going to be projected to thousands of people. A nice portion is also going to be made of elites and high-end fashionistas.
Though I think it's obvious not everyone will be interested in this, there's no doubt there'll be many people who will be.
I might mess up though, so I'm just going to have to grind the hell out of my modeling skill and maybe get a few charm points up.
I position myself towards the mirror and begin posing a little bit.
[The skill Modeling has gained 1.1 points.]
Every pose earns me a point. If I can manage to get quick at doing these poses I'm going to be leveling up in no time.
[Skill Modeling has gained 1.1 points.]
That lucky egg 10% skill point gain is going to be very useful.
Anyway.
Right now, I'd rather have more points invested into Intelligence but I think it will help my career if my first time showing up in a huge show I look the best I possibly can.
Stat points are getting a little harder to come across, so I'll have to think about this a little more.
Well, it's starting to get into that time of the week where there'll be many people watching. Let's get some followers.
…
[wipL: "Charlie, why are you chasing me around with an axe?"]
[Poodlefluff: "Pffft, Charlie get his head and it'll be 5 diamonds."]
[wipL: "I'll give you 10 diamonds to kill Poodle."]
[Charlie: "Okay, I'll complete this task first and then do your request."]
'Bobohead has slain wipL'
Okay, before you say anything I did not choose this name.
[Rykun: "Haha, is Charlie like the hitman of the town?"]
[wipL: "What the heck Charlie I thought we had a deal."]
[Charlie: "Yup, we do. I'm getting Poodle next. Put the 10 diamonds in the chest outside of my house."]
[Yvettel: "Charlie, I'll give you 10 diamonds if you come for me next."]
[Charlie: ???]
[Chat:
Dmajerfsnfgjrkfwsndj: lol just look at the visible confusion on his face
flowerpotgx: lmaooo]
[Redde: "What? You want to be murdered?"]
[Juliamn: "Seems like it."]
'Yvettellll has slain Bobohead'
…
I finished up my small barn house and fed my seven dogs with cooked steak. Sven #1, Sven #2, Sven #3, Sven #4, Sven #5, Sven #6 and Sven #7. I may or may not have stolen this very original idea of a name. I paused the game and took a sip of my mug to read the chat once again.
This community so far has been pretty friendly. No toxicity, apart from the occasional weird spam which is just strange not toxic.
I learned that making a playlist and letting viewers put songs in there makes the stream a little more interactive and the songs they've been recommending are honestly not bad.
Unsurprisingly, some of them were songs by Felix that sounded really nice. He projected himself to me a little goofily and clumsily, but from his songs, his tone radiates a completely different aura.
I was a little nervous about the caliber of music in this world, but it looks like it hasn't degraded so the songs from the past world should be able to blow up.
It'd be a nice flex to put my songs as background music for my streams. I wouldn't have to deal with getting banned from putting music on my streams.
[Chat:
charlxesimp: all simps unite all simps unite all simps unite all simps unite calling all simps calling all simps calling all simps
simppopo: shut up simp stop spamming the chat
charliyesxmp: all simps unite all simps unite all simps unite
thecraftman: charlie you should make a creeper farm and then get lots of gunpowder and sand and make tnt and blow the entire world up]
I raised my eyebrow at that last comment.
"Don't think I'll be blowing the world up but yeah thanks I'll make a farm."
I checked my follower count and saw the quickly increasing number now approaching the 80,000 mark.
It's been only a week and I've gained such a huge number of followers it's kind of getting crazy.
The numbers of viewers are a little disproportionate too.
I'm consistently getting 7,000 to 12,000 live viewers even with the comparatively small follower count.
I didn't get an achievement for 50,000 followers, so I'm guessing it'll come at 100,000.
Wonder how many achievement points I'll get this time.
System.
[Title: Trending, Hot Topic!
Silver Pearl
Stats:
Luck: * *
Intelligence: 15
Charm: 12
Achievement Points: 1336 → 1723]
Since Wednesday, I've gotten 387 achievement points.
Streaming honestly is just cheating. I get achievement points from streaming and from uploading the highlights, and then I'm also getting views from the piano videos. It was two but today since I performed a few songs in the cafe it'll be three videos now.
Surprisingly, there haven't been any lucky encounters. Not even getting with the agency, or meeting Felix, or getting planned in the Winter Fashion Show has been a lucky encounter.
Or maybe I just have infinite lucky encounters now?
Unlikely.
I really want to see if the lucky encounter will be any different or keep being the same.
I'm abruptly sent out of my thoughts by someone calling my name.
[blacklily: "Charlie, what do you think of my cat's name? Everyone says they don't like her name so you have to say you do."]
"Oh, yeah. Flower. I like her name."
[The skill Modeling has gained 5.5 points.]
I posed a little bit for the camera.
I've noticed that making a good expression in front of the camera to lots of people, rather than to myself in the mirror gives 5x more skill points.
I guess it is because I'm showing my face to thousands of people live and making expressions, which counts as modeling.
[bzoomster: "Oh god Charlie."]
[LoafOfBread: "I'm guessing Charlie was spacing out again and just answered randomly."]
Not far from the truth.
[blacklily: "Thanks Charlie!"]
[The skill Modeling has gained 5.5 points.]
I'm close to getting my first level up.
I think if I keep the pace like this I'm going to be fine for the Winter Fashion.
Even without the skill, my Charm stat would probably carry me and everything would be fine, but having this skill is an additional reassurance.
…
"So how do you say we did?"
"I think we did pretty good."
"Think we can exploit him now?"
"Why did you word it so weirdly?"
"I'm watching this new show and it's called Exploit and I really like using the word now."
"You're something else. If he heard what you're saying we'd both be fired for something so dumb."
"Let me have my own moment where I'm pretending to be the mysterious villain."
"No."
My boss treats me so horribly, I almost cried to myself in misery.
She's always saying I'm going to be fired and all but I'm definitely going to be fired now!
"John, I can tell from here you're thinking 'Oh I'm definitely going to be fired. I'm miserable and incompetent at my job.'"
Even the rookie I brought up hates me.
"John. You're one of our biggest assets, why would we ever fire you?"
Lies! These are all lies!
Jessica brought her hand to her face while reciting mantras to keep her patience.
"Moving on, I think he's a great guy. I can definitely see big things coming from him."
"I find it strange that he didn't think you were weird."
"You can't say anything John. He literally thought you were going to gut him."
I cried in misery.
"Well, what's next in the plan?"
"Hmm. He's going to be motivated for the Winter Fashion Show. We'll temper him a little bit and he should be in good condition."
"I still think it was such a huge move to put him in that grand scale fashion show. I think he'll give good results but we'll see how he does in the training."
"Yeah. By the way, why'd you make the training seem so scary? Even I got spooked out a little bit."
"Just preparing him for the worst. He'll thank me for warning him."
"Well, yeah."
"We need to get him some rapid set-ups with quick ads for some experience. Maybe that one drink ad with Crocodile we've been postponing for a while?"
"Yeah. He seems to fit the 'refreshing' role pretty well so it'll be easy. We'll move on to more difficult things later then."
"It's good he's exposing himself to the public by streaming though. He's been very successful too."
"My niece just asked me to send her a picture of Charlie."
"Hahaha. You have a following of millions and instead she asks for Charlie?"
"Hahaha."
"Sigh… She's a fan of that group of streamers."
[Author Note:
Hi everyone! It's been quite a long wait haha. I apologize very much.
School so far has been a kick in the ass. If I had not stopped writing for a while I might have gotten horrible grades and trashed by my family haha.
I apologize for my incompetence.
It's been quite a while so I had to re-read the entire thing and I can see why everyone complained in the start LOL. The writing was very botched and feels extremely rigid. I also think I wrote some situations horribly so I apologize very much.
I recommend re-reading the book to catch up once again and I hope you're enjoying it so far! :)
Do be prepared to cringe at chapter 1-10, though. They're horrible.
Once again, I apologize and I'll be trying to upload when I can. Thank you all for your supportive comments, they've been invaluable to me ;).
Song recommendations:
Ludovico Einaudi - Experience
Lund - Out of Time]
