Waking up in a ruined tinker's lair was not common for Tattletale, that is to say, it has never happened before. However, what was even more strange and infuriating was that her power was strangely absent.
When I say absent I do well and truly mean it told her absolutely nothing. After years of constant streams of data about every benign object in the world around her seeing nothing was both a blessing and a curse. No information presented itself about her current situation and she was beginning to become minorly afraid.
She would pull through however, she had faced the mightiest villains and heroes alike and she would not falter in the face of some new Tinker's room. Around her was a ramshackle abandoned Tinkers lair, with multiple incomplete works around the small dark room as well as an aroma of gone off takeaways and piss.
What concerned her most was the weird contraption next to the bed she found herself on. There we no markings or descriptions and without her power, she had absolutely no clear idea of what it was. And her anxious mind kept running through the worst-case scenarios.
While panicking over just now realising the full impact of losing her powers she heard a ping in the back of her head.
Welcome, New Player. Begin Tutorial?
TattleTale immediately paused then frowned at the small green window that popped up in the front of her vision, moving her head did not seem to impact the position of the computer-like popup in front of her.
Hope and panic both began to course through her veins about the possible implications of this before she, in a rush of energy foreign to her normal morning moods, reached out and touched the flashing red begin button.
Your life is now a game! Just kidding it's always been a game, you have been upgraded from useless bystander to minorly important player. Your previous shard-borne powers have been expunged from expunged from existence and will no longer control your threads of fate.
Due to this minor inconvenience we have forced upon your life, we have generously decided to give you the following power, please enjoy and know that you can slowly progress your powers even further by doing quests for us.
ALERT! NEW POWER UNLOCKED!
Abyssal Katana!
You can create a Katana imbued with a specific effect upon striking an enemy.
Effects available: Power Dampening, Thousand Cuts. Shadow Slash.
You will not be hearing from us often, now get out of here alive and you shall be rewarded. Get to work insignificant mortal.
Kind Regards, Bobert
What. The. Fuck. This was the nerdiest possible power she could have been given in the nerdiest format possible. It was as if God himself is personally attacking her by giving her this.
+1 Wisdom for coming to a smart deduction.
It won't be today, it might not be tomorrow, but one day I shall kill the person who made this shitty interface. Wait, she should be freaking out about this why is she so calm?
Gamers Mind is currently suppressing your emotions
Well, that makes sense but had deeply disturbing continuations. Where her thoughts truly her own anymore? Did she have control over her life? Or was this another gun pointed at her head?
A loud crash interrupted her thoughts as she immediately shot up to her feet and subcontiously summoned her new Katana.
Materialising in her right hand is a strikingly sharp blade coated in shadows along the blades length. Looking at the direction the sound originated she cautiously crept the way to the door before sneaking it open.
At the end of the trashed dimly lit corridor sat a blob of green slime that somehow managed to appear sentient.
Green Slime. Lvl 5
Oh, interesting, she still could gain information around her just in a different medium. So did that mean-
-15HP
Reacting upon her trained intuition she immediately slashed her katana at the Slime she had momentarily forgotten about and watched as it spits in half with shadows appearing across the creature.
Critical hit -50HP
The Slime immediately disintegrated into the dust which immediately vanished and in its place was a small green gem that she absentmindedly picked up. Shaking off her clumsiness and the lax in her skills she immediately began running out the door towards what she assumed to be the exit. Stepping into what was obviously a storefront of some kind she legged out if of the exit and made her way back to the undersiders lair.
A/N:
Just something me and a friend decided to write up a concept for, if you think it might be cool to see this kick off feel free to drop a follow or a review. Godly bounty and Assassin will be updated within the week. Ta ta 3 -Val