Chapter 2
William now in a normal civilian clothing starts exploring the place.
William got around pretending to be lost and started asking people where he was.
It didn't take long for William to discover that he's in downtown of... "Brockton Bay" which was located in the east coast.
When William was quite shocked but was quite skeptical as well as perhaps there could really be such a city called "Brockton Bay" in the United States, due to the fact that he lives in the middle of goddamn nowhere and far from the east coast he can't really say for certain that such a place doesn't exist.
It's really quite embarrassing to say that he's an unsociable house cat that has never gone out of his house in years and would be quite lost even in his own neighbourhood.
William recalls having this argument in the internet once saying that it's impossible to give ridiculous names like Crotch Crescent towns.
Yet he was proven wrong, so wrong in fact the guy sent him a whole list of stupid names in England, which made William think that perhaps there could have been a Roman named "Biggus Dickus" with a wife named "Incontinentia... BUTTocks" (Monty Python reference)
William was still quite hesitant until he sees a chick dressed like a super hero flying in the sky.
'Well fuck me' William thought as it seems that his worst fear has come true as it seems he has been transported to a world filled with super heroes.
Suffice to say he to say it would appear that he's been transported to worm-verse.
Now William didn't know a lot about worm-verse as the most he know about is from a few FanFiction he has read and from a few brief Wiki searches, but doesn't change the fact that he's in a world filled individuals with bull crap powers.
Like there was this hot sexy crazy nudist chick that could is both the unstoppable force and immovable object, she can selectively pick and choose what laws of physics apply to her.
'What kind of bull shit shenanigan is this!' William scolded
Saying that so now that he knows what world he's in what he should do now, he obviously doesn't have any identity in this work so how does he plan to integrate into this world?
And William is really not to keen on the idea of turning himself to the government and let them figure something out as he really doesn't have a positive view of the government.
He most definitely can't live a normal life or get a normal job as he has ZERO paperwork.
Well... maybe he could probably get some low skilled jobs by disguising himself as an illegal immigrant.
Yes, with his white hair he could probably disguise himself as some sort of Eastern European immigrant and he just need to nail down his accent.
But William is also not to keen on this idea ether as he doesn't like the idea of doing hard labour that pays dick all.
On the bright side he doesn't need to worry about housing as he has a freaking palace in another dimension.
This still doesn't change the fact that he needs to some way to forge his documents in order to live an ordinary live or alternatively he could just put on a cape and play Batman and Joker with the natives, suffice to say he'll be the Joker in this scenario and he can't choose.
Well... now that William thinks about it how does heroes in worm-verse make money? Is it like a side hobby for the rich? Or is it the whole "Great power comes great responsibility" nonsense?
William really has dug to much into the lore but he most certainly know how the villains make their money, by robbing banks duh.
Alternatively he could go what the natives call Rogue as it seems to be something like a mercenary, doing jobs to make money.
Looking through his choices isn't all that appealing to William as his ideal is to lazy around and spend his time playing video games, reading it is one thing but actually doing it is another.
There's a reason that as to why he doesn't join the military despite he love playing Call Of Duty, he simply doesn't like exercising, he doesn't like being shouted at and treated like crap by the Sergeants, he also doesn't doesn't have the time as his backlog of games to play, novels to read and anime's watch never seems to go down and there's also the chance of him getting killed in some god forsaken wasteland, not to mention veterans are treated like crap.
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Anyway getting side tracked there for a bit but William is not really to keen on this exercise thing, to feel your body over heat as if molten lead has been poured into your veins, to have your body releases hot salt water on the pores of your skin and to have this repugnant smell that comes with it and not to mention the sensation of being out of breath as if your body is being asphyxiated due to the lack of oxygen.
Does anybody actually like feeling that? Does anybody like being stinky enough that everyone around you would feel like throwing up as soon as a whiff of your smell enters their nostrils.
So William doesn't really like the idea of being a cape unless he's really forced to... kinda like now.
William moves back to the hunter's dream as he organised his thoughts on the matter, trying to figure out the best course of action.
William's Dream copy of Palace Versailles, in the hall of Mirrors
After a bit of thinking William eventually came up with a brilliant idea. He could simply assume multiple identities!
As far as he knows there are 3 distinct hunter's build builds or 3 identity he could take.
First, it the standard Hunter's build with trick weapons and primarily focusing on Skill.
Second, he could go with the beast transformation route by basically turning into a werewolf like creature, primarily focusing on Strength.
Third, he could go all Mr White Broccoliman with the Kos parasite route with the tentacles and primarily focusing on Arcane.
And yes William does know that a white broccoli is technically called a cauliflower but he had always called it white broccoli since he was young and that broccoli is the more common veggie.
As William has 9000 in all of his stats he could easily switch between these 3 builds with relatively ease, although he was quite regretful of not setting his stats higher like... some imaginary number like... let's say infinity?
William kinda regretting going for the old meme instead of doing what he had done with the weapons durability.
As bloodborne was based on lovecrafts work with the unstoppable eldritch gods, He should be the one stomping his way through all this.
Like anyone of the old ones in lovecraft's work could have easily destroy earth with a mere thoughts but right now he's nowhere near the top.
Sure he's not the lowest of low but the problem is that HE could have been! If only he had just set his stats to infinity then he would have been going to the capital of every nation right now saying "kneel before Zod"
'It's like throwing the wining lottery ticket into the trash can before you know you actually won!' William going like Darth Vader from that scene yelling "NOooooooooo!"
To be fair he was still quite powerful as the max in any given stat is 99, with him being OVER 9000 in every stat just one of his stat is equivalent to 100 hunters at maxed stat.
That's not to say that even an ordinary hunter's was no laughing matter as he has seen speed run videos of some mad lad speed running through bloodborne barehanded and taking zero hits, that guy just bitch slap bosses to death.
That's to say it's theoretically possible for a hunter to kill a god with nothing more than his bare fist.
That means by default a hunter is still quite powerful as even barehanded it can still kill a god, now it not be a problem it were others people but unfortunately William is not a god level player that can walkthrough bloodborne effortlessly.
Anyway there's no use crying over spilled milk as he make do with what he got and see what he can do with them.
So anyway one of the first thing he has thought about is getting a bunch of disposable phones (probably acquired by a store robbing) as most likely he'll probably be doing a bunch villainous stuff so it's best to keep a bunch of prepaid phones in stock.
Next, he'll need to rob a convenience store to get a bunch of prepaid sim cards and prepaid debit card for shopping.
Then he'll need to rob a supermarket as he and Doll too will probably need to eat as she now has a body that's isn't mechanical. As meat is perishable William will primarily stock up on cans.
Fortunately his palace seems to have electricity and water so he won't need to go through trouble of getting a generator and large tank of water.
Although he does seems to need to get some cooking utensils as he has previously ran into the kitchen and found that it was very bare.
After the daily necessities then he'll finally go for the big boy, he'll try for a bank next.
So now brings us to the topic of which costume he'll use to to all these criminal stuff. Hunter, Doggo (obviously he'll name it were-beast) or Mr White Broccoliman (Kos-Mos maybe? Is that a pun... a pun-su?... ok I'll show myself out)
After along though William finally decided to go with White Broccoliman as it's an arcane build, to cover up transporting his food into his dream he'll disguise it as a magic ability of some sort, suffice to say his theme with this identity is arcane.
So William waited until nighttime before he finally decided to strike.
As for his costume? He went with the student set from bloodborne going for the mad scholar look.
Once he's outside William decided to transform into a little one (Messenger form now I think I'll start referring to the messengers as little ones as it kinda has the whole lovecraft feel to it (example: elder things, Old ones etc ) and not to mention it sounds kinda cute) as normal humans can't see or interact with them.
It didn't take long for him to find one of the smartphone store he has seen earlier, he arrives at the front of the store.
'Here goes nothing' He thought as he passes through the shutters of the shop.
Passes through?
Yes, according to the lore the littles one has the ability to go through dimensions so naturally no mere wall should be able to block his way and thus William messed with the codes a bit to enable him in his little one form to pass through walls.
Of course this ability while lore friendly can easily be used to cheese through the game which is probably why the game developers never even considers giving the players this ability.
Kinda like that match between boxing champ Muhammad Ali vs a mixed martial artist Antonio Inoki, that's what cheeseing players look in real life.
Well... to be totally honest... William doesn't fault Antonio for his behaviour, in fact he thinks that guy is simply BRILLIANT for coming up with that strategy! That guy is a genius for thinking outside the box!
William is pretty sure that there are plenty of people who like using exploits, cheat codes, console commands, bugs and glitches in game. As someone who mods games he naturally won't be all hypocritical about it and judge the guy's actions which was totally with in the rules that both parties agreed upon.
Anyway William goes around the until he finally located where the section that has all the smart phones is at.
Without further ado William quickly undo his disguise, takes out a potato sac and quickly went to work.
He first naturally smashed the casting with his testicles and quickly started stuffing the contents of the glass case into his sac.
As he was doing that he naturally sprung an alarm as an alarm started ringing coupled with red flashes of lights.
William naturally worked faster not caring which brands it was he was taking and just mindlessly started stuffing them into his bag.
As he was finishing up he also nabbed a few other gadgets that caught his eye and oh a cash register before making his hasty retreat back into the dream.
By the time the cops arrived William is already long gone.
William's Dream copy of Palace Versailles
William steps back into the hunter dream into an extravagantly decorated room, William sighs in relief as he this was his first time robbing a store.
William then steadies himself as he looks through the loot he has gotten.
A small pile of Smartphones from a dozen different brands which he doesn't recognise.
A few cameras
A bunch of chargers
A few laptops
A music player
A game game console of some sort
A bunch Speakers
2 tower desktop computers
A cash register which was unfortunately empty much to the frustration of William (you see some companies actually empties their cash register before they close.)
After looking through his loot William sighs as he moves back to reality at another location and proceeded to transform back into his little one form and heads for a Convenience Store.
It didn't take long before he finds one and proceeded to look around a bit making note of the various snacks he should get before he leaves.
After around of looking around and when William finally feels confident enough he decided to take action as he transforms into his broccoliod form and quickly grabs and throw the cashier out the store.
Then he preceded to take out his potato sac and started stuffing it with the cards found at the counter, he didn't makes any distinction whether it's games cards, gift cards, prepaid cards or SIM cards he just stuff them all in.
Once he was done he with that he stretch a tentacle to grab a few packets of potato chips .
With all that done he rips out the cash register before proceeding go back into the hunter's dream.
Once again suffice to say before the cops arrived William is already long gone.
William's Dream copy of Palace Versailles
Once again William arrives at a luxurious room, once he's arrive William unloads his potato sac which was filled with cards and potato chips.
He didn't paid much attention to the pile as he's more interested in the cash register.
Clank
Suffice to say as he has over 9000 in strength stats William easily rips open the cash register and fortunately this time there is cash inside the register.
'While it may not be much but it's enough to use as pocket money' William thought.
Once confirming that there's cash in the register William heads out again for the final strike of the night.
His next target is a supermarket.