Hello Readers! This is the next chapter of my Goku the Gamer story and if you're still here I hope you like it! Something of note is that I've posted a parallel to this story that will quite simply be stats for this story. I'm willing to most of anything you guys want there be it explanations or just chapter-to-chapter character stats. Finally please review and give me your ideas and opinions, I want this story to be the best it can be.
Disclaimer: I neither own nor make profit off of Dragonball or The Gamer.
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Chapter 1 Summary: While on her quest to find the dragonballs girl genius and all around hottie Bulma Briefs runs into a real wild boy who goes by the name of Goku Son. Realizing she can use his absurd strength to her advantage she convinces the boy to come along on her quest, but on the morning of the next day she discovers something even more miraculous: this boy can live his life as a videogame! After joining his "party" Bulma spent the rest of the day figuring out how the power works and how to take advantage of it until she was interrupted by a knock on her front door.
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Chapter 2: Goku Can Learn!
Getting up to answer the loud knock Bulma opened the door find Goku… holding up a big ass turtle as if it was his new best friend. Taking a deep breath to quell her rising anger already twitching eyebrow Bulma began to speak very slowly, just to make sure the monkey boy in front of her understood everything that she said. "Goku? What are you doing with a turtle?"
And to her surprise it was the turtle that responded! "I'm terribly sorry ma'am, but can I bother you for some salt water and a spot of seaweed on the side?"
"Uhhhh, wah-? I mean… ok? Let me see." As she said that Bulma rushed inside and filled up a bucket with water and a good bit of salt. After bringing the bucket back out she said, "I'm sorry but we don't have any seaweed…" Not that it mattered since the moment she had placed the bucket before the turtle he started drinking like a man… err… turtle, possessed.
After he finished he said, "Ah… Thank you! Thank you so much! But I should explain why I'm out here, you see… I'm a turtle.
"And what am I? Blind!?" An irate Bulma yelled. Honestly it seemed as though she had a magnet for idiots.
Simply ignoring her anger and frustration Turtle continued, "I'm a sea turtle, to be precise… but I went gathering mushrooms, don't you know, and… well, dash it all! I took a wrong turn! I've been wandering about for the past year, hoping to find my way back to the sea…"
"Wow." Said Goku giving his valuable input.
Bulma on the other felt a bit a pity for the creature and decided to inform him of his situation. "But you've been going in the exactly wrong direction! And you've gone a long, long way!" Whipping out her trusty map Bulma figured out exactly how far they were from the ocean. "The sea is to the south… about 120 kilometers!
Absolutely flabbergasted Turtle stuttered out a reply, "120…? Oh dear, oh dear…"
Goku, bless his soul, decided to help immediately, "Hey you want us to take you to that "sea" thing?"
Turtle practically lit up, "Would you really? Oh joy!"
At this point Bulma had to interject, she only had 30 days left to find the dragonballs! But her retort died in her throat when a large blue screen appeared.
[Quest Alert]
To the Sea!: A poor, lost sea turtle needs your help to get back home!
Objectives: Bring Turtle to the sea.
Bonus Objectives: ?
Quest Completion Rewards: 1,000 EXP, ?, ?, ?
Bonus Rewards: ?, ?
Quest Failure: 100 EXP, Failure to complete Quest "Hunt for the Dragonballs"
Accept?
[Y/N]
To the confusion of Turtle the pretty young girl suddenly stopped moving as if to read something, then to his left he heard the boy with the tail start yelling at the girl.
"Hey Bulma! Check dis out issa one of those blue screen thingies!"
"Yes, yes Goku I can see it too, remember the thing I asked you to do?"
"Oh… Yeah!" Parties...
Shaking her head at the boy's over simplistic nature she turned back to the sea turtle. "Excuse me Mr. Turtle? Can you give Goku and I a moment to discuss some things?" She then turned to Goku and grabbed one of his stubby arms and dragged him into her hoi-poi capsule house shutting the door behind her and leaving a very confused turtle behind.
Once she got him to sit down Bulma began to explain to Goku what he was seeing. "Ok Goku, can you read what the blue screen says."
"I, uh… I think." He stuttered quite unsure of himself.
"All right so tell me." She commanded.
And he did, rather… he tried. It quickly became evident to Bulma that his vocabulary and general knowledge of the Japanese language needed a lot of attention. 'With his ridiculous strength, vitality, and dexterity stats it will be easy to have him spend whatever stats he gains on intelligence and wisdom.'
"All right Goku, how about you tell me what we're supposed to do now."
"Well, we gotta take the turtle to this "sea" thing…"
"And?" She pushed trying to see if she could train his mind without a level up like she did her strength and vitality.
"And if we do some other stuff we get extra stuff? Whoa!" At that point Bulma noticed a blue screen pop up in front of Goku.
Congratulations!
By thinking things through and trying extra hard to understand your Intelligence and Wisdom have increased by one point!
After reading that Bulma jumped up out of her seat and started to do a silly little jig. "Booya! I was right, I was right, I was right, I was right…" this continued for almost a minute until Goku stopped her.
"Um, about what?"
"Oh Goku don't you see?" Goku stared at her with side, unblinking eyes. "...Ok, dumb question. Goku, this power you have is absolutely amazing, with it you and I, we can get so much stronger, faster, smarter, probably more so than anyone… ever!"
"I can get stronger?" Of course that was all Goku picked up from Bulma's speech.
"Yes Goku you can get stronger, but you can also get smarter!"
"Eh, why would I want to get "smarter"? Is it something you eat?"
Bulma nearly face planted. 'Ok… this is really bad, but since his stats are so low I can probably get them high with only a few nights of studying. He's so strong and probably a fighter, wouldn't it be great if he was a smart fighter?' "No Goku it's not something you eat. Being smarter is very important, wouldn't you like to know about things that you don't understand? Like the word "smarter" or the "sea," you actually seemed a bit confused on that word too. Do you know what it means?"
"…No…" he replied with his head turned down sounding a bit solemn.
"Oh Goku, when you're smart you wont have to feel that way, it's an icky feeling isn't it?"
At this point he had his hands behind his back and was slowly making circles on the ground with his right foot. "Yeah, I don't like it."
Seeing the energetic boy like this almost broke her heart. She couldn't help but bring the chibi into her arms, something he did not struggle against at all; further cementing her belief that this was tearing him up. "It's ok Goku, it's ok. I'm super duper smart and I'll help you be just like me. From now on if you don't know a word or what someone means when they're talking to you just ask me and I'll explain. Hopefully you'll get more screens like the one before and you'll be as smart as me in no time. Let's start with the word "sea." You know what a river is?"
Goku perked up a little recognizing something he was quite familiar with. He turned to Bulma with big watery eyes, "Yeah."
'Aww, he's so cute like this.' "Well a sea is like a really big river that you can't see the other side of. Rivers actually tend to lead to seas… Hmm… You know how there are trees right? So a bunch of trees make a forest. You know what a forest is?
Slightly less teary eyed since he was beginning to understand her Goku answered, "Yeah."
"Good, good. So a lotta trees make a forest right? Just like trees in a forest the sea is a whole bunch of water. So much water that it would take a long time to get to the other side. Make sense?" Now Bulma was a bit nervous, if this worked, things would go so smoothly when it came to molding her future boyfriend. Yes, she's decided. He may be a bit short and a bit younger but if she brought him home? The possibilities were endless. It probably wouldn't take long for him to be as smart as her; she'd finally have someone her age she could call an equal. Not to mention they shared such a huge and intimate secret, something she would make sure he understood as he got older, and hopefully grew. Seriously he's so muscular there's no way he wouldn't get taller.
"Y-yeah… Yeah! I think I do! Thanks a lot Bulma you're the best!" Goku had finally returned to his plucky self and hopped onto the floor and out of Bulma's arms. It was then that several boxes appeared before our heroes.
Congratulations! Through a special action a Utility Skill has been created!
Teaching (Passive) Lvl: 1
This skill represents how well the player can teach someone else. As the level of the skill increases the player will be able to teach even the most complicated of subjects to the dumbest of people.
Various ratios apply but the most basic is the most relevant.
20% chance to teach a moderate difficulty subject to someone with Int 15 or higher.
Congratulations! Through a special action a Utility Skill has been created!
Comforting (Passive) Lvl: 1
This skill represents how well the player is able to comfort someone else. Can be used to bring another character out of the sad state or just make someone feel cared for in general. A successful comforting will tend to increase your reputation with the character you comforted. An unsuccessful comforting will tend to have no negative effect on your reputation with a character but holds the possibility of lowering it. At higher levels the player can even cure the depression ailment.
Various ratios will apply but the most basic is the most relevant.
20% chance to cheer up a moderately sad character.
Congratulations!
Through use of the skills teaching and comforting to help Goku your Charisma has increased by one.
Congratulations!
By helping Goku more than anyone ever has since his grandfather mysteriously died you reputation has increased. You are now Friends with Goku.
'Oh my, this is, this is so much. If I keep helping Goku, and stuff like this keeps happening? Wow… I could be a teacher, a therapist, even a model if my charisma keeps going up! All right, dismiss these to study them further later… and let's see what happened to Goku.' Turning to the boy who was trying to read the screen, without any prompting from her, Bulma smiled. "Ok Goku, what did you get?"
"Um, it says here that by listening to you my int-, intelli-, intelligence has increased by one. Yup." Feeling proud of himself for reading the big word Goku retuned her smile.
'Now that I think about it, I haven't read what the different statistics actually do…' "Good job Goku! Now, do you know what intelligence means? Hmm, I thought so; intelligence shows how smart you are. Why don't you try and press on the word 'intelligence' and see if anything pops up?"
Goku did so and to Bulma's unending joy a new blue screen did appear. Instructing Goku to sit next to her at the table she decide to read it aloud so that things can get going quicker, they still had a quest to go on!
Statistics: What are they?
Strength
Strength, shortened to Str in your character and statistics pages, is a representation of how strong you are. Quite simply the stronger you are the more you can lift. Strength is the statistic used for things like figuring out how hard your punches hit as well as the damage of the various tools and weapons you might use. Strength checks are used to determine whether or not you are successful in certain strength based action such as moving heavy doors. All stats can be used in different checks that specifically apply to them. Checks are never dice rolls.
Vitality
Vitality, shortened to Vit in your character and statistics pages, is a representation of how many hits you can take. Vitality is the stat used to determine how much HP you have, quite simply 20 health points are gained for each point of Vitality you have. Vitality is also the stat used to determine your resistance to physical status ailments such as burn, poison, paralysis, etc. Higher vitality means that these ailments are shortened in duration and low-level ailments may not even take hold. Vitality also directly translates to endurance meaning the more you have the more you can do. For example a character with a high vitality stat could sprint a marathon and finish without being even the slightest bit winded. Finally vitality attributes to a character's longevity and HP regen. Living to the age of 500 while still looking 30 is easily attainable for characters that have vitality stats in the 100+ range.
Dexterity
Dexterity, shortened to Dex in your character and statistics pages, is a representation of how quickly you can react to things as well as how fast you are. A high dexterity is vital for dodging hits and preforming acrobatic feats. Dexterity is also the stat used when determining the damage of certain weapons or skills such as Sneak Attack. Accuracy with ranged weapons uses the dexterity stat as well as unconventially using melee weapons as ranged ones. Dexterity is extremely important to determine how successful a character is when trying to accomplish delicate tasks such as surgery or watch making.
Intelligence
Intelligence, shortened to Int in you character and statistics pages, is a representation how smart you are. Intelligence is used when trying to understand various topics such as mathematics, engineering and knitting. A high intelligence makes you a good student and as such it is very easy to be taught in a classroom. Intelligence directly affects your MP in that 20 mana points are added for each intelligence point. Intelligence also affects the amount Exp that is earned from any source, one point of intelligence equals a 1% experience gain. Intelligence is also the stat used to determine the damage and usefulness of your spells. Some spells even have intelligence prerequisites in order to use them.
Wisdom
Wisdom, shortened to Wis in your character and statistics pages, is a representation of how well you make good decisions. A character with high wisdom will make better choices when faced with a decision or dilemma, which can sometimes be vital to survival. Wisdom is the stat used to determine you MP regen. As with vitality, wisdom is a percent regen, so having one point in wisdom means you regenerate a single percent of mana in an hour; same with vitality. Wisdom is also important for riddle solving and high concept comprehension as well as alternate applications. The spell fireball can also be used to light fire or as a torch in a pinch, these ideas and discoveries come to a player when they have high wisdom.
Luck
Luck, shortened to Luk in your character and statistics pages, is a representation of… well… randomness. Having a high luck stat directly affects your chances of a critical hit or getting the jackpot at a slot machine. A low luck could mean that that bullet you shot ricocheted off the enemy and hit you or an ally instead! Luck also directly affects how much as well as the grade of the loot an enemy drops once defeated. In the great adventure called life things happen that a player has no control over such as floods or meteor showers or even whether or not an enemy has a big sword or a little one! Luck affects all these things, extremely lucky characters will make it so that mobs have badly distributed stats, or whether or not that meteor that fell nearby holds a rare ore or an alien weapon. Luck is the little things, and the big things, and everything in between!
Charisma
Charisma, shortened to Charm in your character and statistics pages, is a representation of how easily you can persuade another character. It also affects things such as physical beauty and the seduction skill. Having a high charisma stat is integral to how nicely a character, especially a stranger will treat you. Basically anything that has to do with social interaction will be made easier with a high charisma stat. Getting people to see your way is very important when gaining allies and supporters. Politicians tend to need very high charisma stats. Skill wise the success of interrogation and seduction rely heavily on having a charisma stat.
Ki
Ki is a resource much like Health and Mana though determining the amount you have is a bit more complicated than it is with the other two. As a simple formula Ki is Vitality + Strength + 1/5(Wisdom+Intelligence) all multiplied by a factor of 10. A simple example would be: a level 14 character has evenly spread out stat points meaning 10 in each stat. So HP would be 200, MP would be 200, and KP would be 240. Ki is kind of like life energy meaning having zero KP means death or entering a death like state. Ki is the resource used for specific attacks much like how mana is used for spells.
"Huuu, that was a lot to read. All right then Goku, what didn't you understand?" It was at that point that Turtle decided to take a nap outside to wait for these humans who may or may not help him, but it's better than wandering lost and alone!
"Not much Bulma…" he began to lower his head and she could imagine the tears welling up in his eyes.
"Don't worry Goku we'll figure out, ok?" And that's what they did. For the next hour or so Bulma diligently filled Goku's head with the knowledge vital to figuring out his powers. Her teaching skill leveled up twice and her reputation went up even more with Goku, she made a mental note to check out the Rel. tab later on. Goku on the other hand gained two more intelligence points; he could practically feel his brain growing! 'Bulma's the best I hope we're friends forever!' were the innocent thoughts of our favorite wild boy.
"Got it all Goku?"
"Yeah I do, I really do Bulma, thank you so much!"
"So, what are you going to do when you level up then? You get skill points for ever level, what will you do with them?"
Thinking long and hard Goku answered after about a minute. "I'm going to put all my points in intelligence so I can be smart like you! I mean, I'm already super strong, I think it would be good to be smarter." Another blue screen appeared before the monkey boy.
Congratulations!
By thinking things through and coming to a smart conclusion your Intelligence and Wisdom have increased by one.
After reading the popup Bulma laughed and clapped her hands. "Good job Goku, you know what? You've been getting a lot of stat points let's see what you character page looks like."
"How do I do that again?"
"Just say: 'UI.'"
"UI. Whoa." This time the blue screen was quite large and seemed to have little tabs along the top with small words in the, or at least they looked like words. 'I think Bulma said these were abbreviations like in the "What are Statistics" page.' The UI was open to the character page as was the default.
Name: Goku Son
Title: Mountain Man
Race: ?
Jobs: NA
Level: 26
HP: 700/700
KP: 834/834
MP: 200/200
Stats:
Str: 45
Vit: 35
Dex: 30
Int: 10
Wis: 7
Luk: 5
Charm: 5
Active Quest: Hunt for the Dragonballs!
Summary: Found and raised by his Grandpa Gohan at a young age all Goku has ever known is Mount Paozu. As such, not until he met Bulma Goku's education had only reached a second grade level; everything else was the martial arts Gohan taught him. One tragic day when Goku was about eight years old he woke up to find Gohan dead in a large footprint. Then all alone Goku continued to survive and train. He doesn't know who his parents are or if he's even human, even now he doesn't understand why he must never look at a full moon. Truly a mysterious boy.
Exp: 5,050/18,800
'Well then that's interesting…' Bulma thought. "Hey Goku, at least now we know for sure that you're not human! Huh? That's good right?..." When she finally looked at him it was easy to tell that he was… unsure. 'I guess doubling his intelligence has really affected his sense of self, and now this?' "Goku listen, you are great and awesome and wonderful no matter what race you are if you're some other sort of human or even an alien, I'll always be your friend ok?"
Hearing those words filled Goku with a happiness he couldn't even describe; it was like a hug from Grandpa Gohan… or Bulma. It was then that Goku practically tackled the girl with a hug.
"Teehee, oh Goku what am I going to do with you?" Practically cradling the small boy as he buried his head in her shoulder Bulma noticed a new screen appear before her.
Congratulations!
You have reached the highest platonic relationship level with Goku: Exalted.
Goku practically worships the ground you walk; he will follow you to the ends of the earth and will do most anything you ask of him without question. Reputation gains are increased by a factor of 10. Unfortunately due to a special debuff Goku will never be able to attain romantic relationship levels with any character or player.
"What?" She shrieked, startling Goku who jumped just a bit. "Oh, sorry Goku. Just give me a minute to figure out what to do." 'Argh this kills so much of my plan what the hell… guess we better look at his perks page.' She focused on the boy on her lap. "Hey Goku, why don't you go to the UI screen and hit the little Skills tab, ok?"
After a second of getting off of her lap and finding the tab, the UI screen changed. 'Hoo boy' was Bulma's first thought.
Combat Moves:
Jan Ken Lvl: 10
A silly but effective martial art move taught to Goku by his Grandpa Gohan that is based of off the game Jan-Ken (Rock paper scissors). Goku will shout out rock, paper, and scissors in whatever order he needs to make the last thing he says the attack he uses. He can use them all in conjunction with each other for absolutely devastating damage.
Rock- A straight punch between the eyes. May cause stun.
10+Str physical damage
Paper- a fast and strong chop. May deal piercing damage.
10+Dex physical damage.
Scissors- A stab to both eyes at the same time using one hand. May cause blindness.
5+Str piercing damage. Easily crits.
When all moves are used at once the final damage is doubled. (Critical damage is always calculated last)
Utility Moves:
NA
Powered Passives:
?- ? Lvl: ?
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'That's almost as bad as mine, though, at least he can fight.' "Well, at least you've got something which is a lot more than my nothing, let's go to the Perks tab ok? Let's see…"
Skills:
Kame Style Martial Arts Lvl: 5
Since Gohan trained under The Great Turtle Hermit and mastered the Kame style it was one of the only things he could impart upon Goku to defend himself.
5% increase to damage when using Kame Style Martial Arts.
Bastardized Bo-Ken Lvl: 10
Having used the power pole for so long Goku has created his own mish mash of Bo staff techniques. It's crude but effective.
5% increase to Bo staff damage.
Blunt Weapon Mastery Lvl: 5
This skill measures the player's mastery with all blunt weapons i.e. poles, bats, hammers, etc.
5% increase to damage dealt by blunt weapons.
Hand-to-Hand Combat Master Level: 10
Measure the player's mastery with hand-to-hand combat.
10% damage increase to damage dealt by hand-to-hand techniques i.e. punches, kicks, head butts, tail smacks, etc.
Perks:
Mountain Man- You are one with nature and nature thinks that's pretty cool.
Increased Awareness while in Nature. Luck is doubled while in Nature.
Hard Headed- You've got thick skull, literally.
Small chance to receive reduced damage from any attack.
Debuffs:
Uneducated [Curable]- Grandpa Gohan loved you but he didn't give you much of an education before he died. You're practically a caveman!
Reduced Intelligence gains
Player will generally have reduced rep. gains from other characters.
Severe Head Trauma [Incurable*]- As a baby you were quite the feisty one, always causing a raucous and breaking things. That is until one day when Grandpa Gohan brought you on a walk and you got out of the carrier! Unfortunately you fell down a deep ravine and, can you believe it? You split your head wide open. It was come and go for a while but you lived and from then on you acted like the most pleasant and agreeable child ever.
Severely reduced Int, Wis, and Charm gains.
Int and Wis stats are halved in the real world. Skills, abilities, moves and his mana pool, regen and bonus experience are unaffected. But, to others his stats are only worth half, so if Goku reaches a Intelligence stat of 40, he will only be as smart as someone with an Intelligence stat of 20, the same goes for Wisdom. This works in the situation of checks as well, if an Intelligence check requires 50 points and Goku has 99 he will fail.
Incapable of romantic love
Will sometimes be incapable of understanding a concept (i.e. love)
Incapable of learning form a Skill Book
Causes 'socially inept' debuff
*All incurable debuffs can be cured through divine intervention
Socially Inept [Curable]- You just don't get people!
All rep gains are halved
Charisma stat is irrelevant to strangers
Persuasion and seduction and all similar skills are impossible to use
Special Perks:
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The Gamer- Your life is a game and that's awesome. The world around you has been warped completely and now only God knows why and how this is all happening.
Gives player passive abilities 'Gamer's Mind' and 'Gamer's Body'
Passives:
Gamer's Mind Lvl: Max
This skill allows the user to calmly and logically think things through, allows peaceful state of mind, and gives immunity to psychological status effects.
Gamer's Body Lvl: Max
Grants a body that allows for the player to live the real world like a game. (They receive no physical damage from attacks only pain for a few seconds). After sleeping in a bed the player restores HP, MP, KP and all status effects.
? Lvl: ?
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?- Lvl: ?
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Just like before Bulma felt a bit lost. On one hand her choice in bodyguard was pretty good given his skills, but on the other hand the walls she would have to climb in order to mold him into the man she wants seem to be growing taller and more precarious. It seemed pretty obvious to her that the only way to cure Goku's Severe Head Trauma debuff was to wish it away with the dragonballs which would be a huge step towards her new goal, but the road will be difficult and Bulma couldn't help but feel that having Goku around would make things even more… interesting. Though whether that was good or bad has yet to be seen. She was brought out her intense musing by the sound of Goku's surprisingly soft voice.
"So that's why I'm like this? All these debuffs? And what about those question marks? We don't even know important things about me!" Goku was on the edge of a meltdown, it was clear that the increase in intelligence was making him a more thoughtful person and now the one thing that could cement his sense of self was giving him dead ends. Bulma knew she needed to use the comforting skill to its fullest. She put a hand on his shoulder, "Look at me Goku." It took a moment, but he did and she could see the tears streaming down his face. "Goku, we are living our lives as if we were in a videogame. And if there is anything you can say about videogames it's that you can learn anything and everything. We will clear up those question marks and learn everything there is to know about you. I'm your friend Goku and I know that together we can overcome these debuffs! I'm already teaching you about life and general knowledge, I wouldn't be surprised if the uneducated debuff goes away soon! And I don't want to brag but I'm a pretty social person. It won't take much to cure that socially inept debuff, just stick with me and you'll be A-OK!" Bulma smiled the biggest smile she could muster because Goku had finally stopped crying. "It's going to be okay Goku."
Rubbing the last of the tears out of his eyes Goku smiled back. "Thank you Bulma, really, thank you. Let's… uh…. Let's look at the quests? I mean Mr. Turtle did give us one and all the screens seem to have gone bye-bye."
A bit surprised Bulma looked around to find Goku statement true. 'Game seems to be a bit smart huh?' "All right why don't you say 'quests' out loud, I imagine that since I'm a party member we automatically share quests."
"Quests! Oh look! It says "To the Sea" pending and it's got a little square next to it."
"That's a mail envelope, you can tell by the upside down triangle. Why don't you click on the quest and hit accept if it comes up."
"Ok… and done. Yay we're going on a quest!"
Bulma shook her head and chuckled, "We were already on a quest Goku."
"Yeah, but this one seems easier… and look at all the mystery rewards!"
Bulma brought up the quest again.
Quest
To the Sea!: A poor, lost sea turtle needs your help to get back home!
Objectives: Bring Turtle to the sea.
Bonus Objectives: ?
Quest Completion Rewards: 1,000 EXP, ?, ?, ?
Bonus Rewards: ?, ?
Quest Failure: 100 EXP, Failure to complete Quest "Hunt for the Dragonballs"
"Oh, wow… didn't expect this to make or break my big summer goal. But that's fine maybe we'll find a dragonball there. All right Goku, let's get packed up, I'm going to throw everything I own into my inventory and hop onto my bike. You're fast right? Just keep up with me and bring the turtle, consider it training. Oh and if you get the chance try to say "observe" while looking at stuff, it should create a useful skill."
Bulma and Goku got packed up and after collapsing her hoi-poi house and waking up the turtle they were ready to set off.
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Hope you guys liked it, as for updates I'll probably keep to a weekly or bi-weekly schedule depending on how hectic my life is. Since I'll be graduating soon you guys can probably expect regular updates over the summer.
I hope I showed Goku getting smarter through the dialogue well. To be quite honest I was hoping to get to the dungeon this chapter but I got going on explaining the game more and more, and then the unexpectedly heavy stuff with Goku realizing he's a dumb-dumb and how shitty his debuffs are.
I spent an excruciating amount of time trying to figure out a balanced leveling system and I was this close to writing a code but that would take more effort and knowledge than I care to search for. But it's on an excel spreadsheet, if anyone is interested it started as taking 100 experience points to get to level two. Then the required experience increased by 100 every level until level five where the experience point increase would be doubled. Basically the experience requirement added would double very five levels. It was going to quintuple every ten levels but that scaled just a bit too high for me.
Oh and obviously abilities, skills and passives will level up but I feel like assigning experience gauges to them would be too much of a pain. They were going to level-up as it is convenient to the story and plot anyway as with Goku and Bulma, but with them I want to have a more concrete way of valuing enemies and quests so a level up feels earned rather than convenient.
If you haven't guessed by now this story will be much like Percy Jackson the Dark Gamer (if you haven't read it you should it's magnificent) in that levels will be getting into the hundreds and the thousands. For example Majin Buu will probably be in the low 10,000s.
Finally I hope you guys like this story and please be critical. I want this story to be the best it can be and I have no beta nor do I have any family that wishes to read this so my releases are a bit… unrefined. Drop a review telling me what you think.
Thx ;)
5/31- Small edit to [Severe Head Trauma] debuff and skill list. I also did some typical grammatical editing. You readers can always write reviews about grammar, I appreciate it.
