Man school sucks why can't I just have one day without the seniors trying to steal my lunch or forcing me to run around the track all lunch period. Like I mean i guess it could be worse I remember when I tried just not bringing a lunch and eating when I get home. The beating I took was not fun at all. Not to mention my girlfriend sense freshmen year broke up with me because a few of those seniors told her I was cheating on her. Oh well only 2 more weeks and spring break will be here and I can relax for awhile. Kinda sucks that season 4 of RWBY is over tho but it was a good escape while it lasted now I have to wait for season 5. Well i think I'm going to nap for awhile.
Waking up I'm just floating in darkness. And not just darkness like night without any lights just darkness like an overwhelming nothingness surrounding me but I can see myself when i look down clear as day just floating there.
"Welcome to the Heart of the Game." a voice boomed out of no where yet everywhere. "You have been chosen to gain special powers. If you accept to acquire these powers you will be transferred to a world of your choosing BUT you will forget most of the knowledge of future events when you arrive in that world. Before I continue and explain more I need to know do you accept?"
"Wait Heart of the Game? Special powers? What special powers would these be? And why would I have to forget about the events?"
"Everything you are able to know I have told you. Choose do you accept the powers or not?"
"Fuck it why not. I accept." The darkness around me turned into a heavily pixelated room that slowly became clearer and less 8 bit. In the room in front of me was two chairs facing each other about 2 feet apart. One had a doll in it wearing a dress the other empty. The doll's head moved towards me. "Sit now that you have accepted I can give you a temporary guide to walk you through the powers which I can now tell you is the power of The Gamer."
"Wait The Gamer? As in that web comic where a normal guy's life is suddenly an rpg?" The voice didn't respond but the doll did.
"If you come over here and sit I will give you a basic rundown of what powers you have and answer any questions you may have. I will also help you select a few options that will effect the world around you." I swear this doll was becoming closer to the size of a human every time I looked at it again. Sitting down across from the doll I nodded towards it while mentally correcting myself 'It? Her? Which should I choose..? Her it's definitely a her. Actually maybe I should find out if she has a name...
"Before you begin by chance do you have a name I can call you..?" The doll looked at me pondering the question before nodding.
"You can call me Rosella. Now before you ask anymore questions I need to go over a few things and ask a few questions. First this power as you guessed is the power of The Gamer but unlike that web comic it's not just an rpg you can choose what type of game you want it to be or a mix of a few. If you want a demo of each game type you choose ask me and I will put you in a scenario where you can see what it is and how it works. This also includes any combination of types you can think of. After that you can choose things like your name in case you don't want to go by your current name and also your physical appearance including but not limited to gender eye and hair color and skin tone. Finally after making those choices you will tell me what world you wish to go to including your own if you want where you could live like you are now but have the ability to outgrow everyone easily or a random world of our choosing. Note if you choose a random world you'll be awarded a reward before you finish the tutorial and another one upon a set event in that world. And if you do choose a random world the world will be something that fits the genre you choose. For instance if you choose adventure rpg you could end up in a world like Hyrule or Tamriel. If you choose a puzzle game you could find yourself in any world from mundane to extraordinary where common day things like eating or intense things like killing a monster are mini games. I'm sure you get the picture from those examples. Now which type of genre would you like to have or try out?" By this point the doll was about 5 feet 6 inches tall and was quickly becoming less like a doll and more human and was even starting to become cute growing long red hair. Though the dress definitely needed to changed to something bigger if it wasn't a two piece outfit she would be exposed. Though I don't think it would matter much I mean she's a doll right? She couldn't really have the parts needed down there to be a human right...? RIGHT? Ignoring this train of thought with a slight blush I try to continue the tutorial. This is the tutorial right? I have to many questions that shouldn't have to be answered...
"Um can i have an example of an rpg, fps crafting simulation, and uh that's where we'll leave it for now." Still unable to get the thought of Rosella having genitals or not i rambled off a few types.
"Stand up and go through that door over there and you will run through a little demo of those combined." Rosella was pointing to a door that appeared besides us. I decide not to waste any time and go straight through the door and suddenly I'm in a courtyard with a few points of interests. One was a few targets set up down a shooting range with various weaponry ranging from a sling shot all the way up to what looks like a laser pistol. Next to that a few yards down was wooden targets each with a small hp bar above them and displays of basic melee weaponry like daggers all the way up to some glowing high-tech glove. Continuing around the courtyard there was a giant collection of crafting stations. A smelter, a forge, a few looms, a ammo bench, even had an oven and drink mixer. Wondering how the crafting is I walk over to the forge to have a pop up appear in front of me.
Skill Gained. Metallurgy[Lv.1](0%). The process of melting and beating on metal to form objects from anything as simple as a nail to complicated as machine parts. Requires metals to work with. Working metal while following a blueprint will increase the quality of the item being made. Obtain blueprints by finding them in the world or by creating them at a Drafting Bench. Stats that effect Metallurgy: Strength, Dexterity, Vitality, Luck.
Behind me I heard Rosella enter the scene turning around to face her I notice the dress and shirt she had on had ripped revealing that she did indeed have a vagina and not only that but her chest had grown to about a DD size. Blushing I looked away. "Normally you would have to acquire materials yourself but as this is a demo the materials will be provided." Next to me a giant bin of various metal appeared. Looking down the line of different work stations I noticed bins of materials were appearing at each one. I glanced back at Rosella and came to a decision. I am going to make her some clothes she can cover up with. Moving down to the sewing station I have another pop up.
Skill Gained Tailoring[Lv.1](0%) The process of turning different clothes and silks into clothes, bags or other objects. Requires cloth of some sort and thread to work with. Sewing with a blueprint increases the quality of the item made. Stats that effect Tailoring: Dexterity, Luck.
Grabbing a measuring tape of of the table I turn around and noticed she was also blushing now and attempting to cover herself with her hands. "As you can see I have been changing from that doll you saw into an actual human even with emotions." Scratching the back of my head,
"Yeah I noticed that's why we're over here I was going to make some clothing for you I just need some measurements unless you want something baggy..." Looking down at herself with a blush,
"Baggy is fine hurry up please, and stop staring.." Turning back around I set the tape measure back down and grabbed some red cloth and thread and walk over to the machine upon touching it the basic knowledge of what to do was just there and so i began making a simple shirt and blouse when I finished another pop up was there.
Tailoring[Lv.2](85%)
Without turning around I hand her the clothes after a few seconds another set of pop ups came up.
Rosella relationship up!
When you interact with people and factions your standing with them will increase. If you can get enough standing with factions they will help you too low and they will hate you or even try to hunt you down! Like standing with factions having high standing with individual people can grant you gifts from them depending on what their profession is. Could include discounts at shops, ore from mines, fruit or vegetables from farms... etc.
"Well I think I understand the crafting enough with this set lets move on to combat." Walking across I swipe my hand across everything I could on a hunch and suddenly I had a swarm of pop ups appear each going over one of the weapons I just touched. Picking up a assault rifle suddenly a crosshair appeared in the center of my vision. Keeping the rifle at my hip I aimed in different areas with it and the crosshair followed where I was aiming. 'Super fucking convenient right there.' Taking a few hip shots down range and finding that the crosshair isn't totally accurate but shows a general area I'm shooting at with at about 50 yards away only having the bullets stray from the crosshair by about 3 inches from where I aimed. Shouldering the rifle I took more shots without actually looking down the iron sights and the rifle shot dead center of the crosshair even if I wasn't looking at the target. 'That's actually kinda broken...' Setting the rifle down I look over and pick up a scoped hunting rifle and fire it from the hip a few times expecting similar results but it was way different. Instead of each shot being within 3 inches of where I aimed it was dead center each time with a little spread mostly due to having to re chamber it with the bolt. Bringing it to my should I shoot two more shots without looking down the scope seeing them hit dead center but moving the target back more and then one more shot while looking down the scope which had blown the target apart... 'definitely going to try and get a sniper if I go to a world with monsters..'
After setting down the hunting rifle I walk over to the melee weapons and repeat what I did to the guns getting another set of passives for each type. Picking up the glove wondering what it did and out of the back of the hand came a whip glowing the same as the gem that was there. Giving it a test swing at target in front of me I cut it clean in two and make a hole in the ground 2 yards long. 'yea I'm going to put this down before I kill myself...' Picking up a katana I swing it a few times at the target watching the hp barely changing each swing until I really swing hard knocking off half of the targets hp. 'Not bad' Setting the katana down and picking up a greatsword and swinging it at the target and cutting it almost in half. 'yup if melee I need one of these beasts... can't cut myself in half with this as easily as that glove thing... fuck the glove..' turning towards Rosella,
"I think I've seen enough I like this blend of games honestly if I add anything else it's just going to get me in trouble like a dating sim or god forbid a porn genre... anyway what else do we need to do?" Walking towards me she pulled tablet,
"Next is either your appearance or which world you want to be in... I suggest you choose which world first because some worlds could have different features or races. But if you want to go over appearance first we can come back to it again after selecting the world..." Sitting on the ground looking up at her
"No need I've already choose I'm going with random for the world there's a few I do want to go to but anything would be better then the hell hole I was just in." Rosella tapped a few times on the tablet and a wheel popped up full of so many names I could even read them.
"Spin the wheel for how we're going to choose just know you have 3 tries on the wheel so even tho it's random you still can change it to a degree." Spinning the wheel as hard as I can it kept spinning a few times around before landing on Home...
"Home as in my old world? HELL NO" Grabbing the wheel and spinning it again it eventually came all the way around to... Remnant.
"That is actually one of the few I wanted.. alright next is appearance right?" She tapped on her tablet a few more times and a mirror appeared in front of me.
"To change something just tap what you want to change on the mirror and you can change it by searching for style or color, or by sliding a bar that will show up. Note because the world is Remnant you can choose to be a human or a faunus and if you choose a faunus you can choose what you want for animal features." First I swapped my name from Chris to Cyan to get that out of the way. Then I quickly changing myself from human to faunus and flipping through the choices I see that pterodactyl is a choice... 'No my luck I'll have wings that I won't know how to use. Ooo this looks like it could be cool.' Choosing Xenosmilus or better known as saber tooth cat. The mirror showed me now with a set of giant yellow cat ears on the top of my head and a tail whipping back and forth. Quickly changing my hair color from black to cyan with black tips I hit accept and as soon as I did I felt the ears and tail sprout out from my body and I blacked out hitting the floor.
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An: Well that's the first chapter of my first story I've ever published. I know it falls into the whole gamer cliche and I know there is A LOT out there as I've read a decent bit of them. Now before to many people cringe to hard I also know that I suck with structuring a story and knowing when i need line breaks so saying that if anyone wants to beta this or just help me with any of that in general just message me. Thanks folks and have a good one!