This is one of three stories I'm currently writing with a "Gamer" protagonist. All three of these characters are starting as the same personality, but will have different circumstances. Due to such, for the first several chapters there will be a few places where very similar language, actions, and thought processes happen, this should go away the further the three diverge.
Standard Fanfiction disclaimer: I own nothing but the Main Character, I'm just a guy that writes for fun.
Game Data Loading
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Error Loading Module: IDC/IDD
Well, that didn't sound good.
I'm pretty sure I was dead, can't remember exactly how it happened, but I had been looking at that "Game Data Loading" message for awhile now. Just my luck something seems to have gone wrong.
Exception in error handler at line 8086.
Exception overridden by ADMIN
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Game Data Loading
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Huh, I guess someone's in charge of this thing. Hope they let me out of... wherever this is. I would say that I looked around, and I did kind of get the sensation of that happening, only there was nothing but the floating text that followed my vision, I can't even see myself, which I should really be freaking out about more, but I have a bit of a "Zen Calm" thing going on at the moment oddly enough.
Welcome New User.
Loading Interface
Well, something seems to be happening. This UI really needs a progress bar...
Interface Loaded
Beginning Character Creation
Select a Class
[Warrior][Rogue][Cleric][Wizard]
I... What?
Am I... Picking my new life?
Okay, this isn't the worst thing that could happen. Something like this wouldn't fit in where I'm from, so, do I get to know about my new home first?
First World Selection Locked
Guess that's "no" then. Hmmm... hardly want to end up as "the wrong sort" right out the gate, I mean what if it's a setting where everyone normally has magic and I end up as a dumb magicless warrior? Or a setting where "Burn the witch!" is the norm as a spellcaster.
Screw it, I want magic, and I'm not going to kowtow to some god to get it.
[Wizard] Selected
Choose Specialty
[Earth][Fire][Air][Water]
Okay, this is a tough choice. What do I want to do? And more importantly, what's going to be a good choice without knowing the system behind it? Since this system doesn't seem to be very forthcoming with information, I guess I'll just have to draw on my gaming experience. Earth is normally defensive in nature, but tends towards buffs and other odd things, like stone shape. Fire is pretty strait forward, burn things, do damage, but can also be useful for survival and crafting. Air is usually lightning and cold damage, as well as some odd buffs, and sometimes mind control, tempting that. Water usually has the healing spells, as well as body buffs and some useful things like summoning water, good for survival.
If I'm going into some sort of fiat backed adventure for my new life, I'm going to want to make things, I always enjoyed making things, in real life or in games. So Fire or Earth would be best. Tightly controlled fire could let me smelt without fuel, and be useful in a fight. Earth might let me shape things directly, and probably let me survive a fight.
Earth it is.
[Earth] Specialty Selected
[Status]
Name: (locked)
Age: (locked)
Sex: [Select]
Class: Wizard (Earth)
Str: 1
Dex: 1
Con: 1
Int: 1
Wis: 1
Chr: 1
Luk: 1
Available points 63
Okay, pretty strait forward. Um... Game? What's Human Average?
Human Average is 9 or 10 points in every Attribute
So I have just enough points to be high end average in everything... Great...
I can futz with things a little, let's see...
[Status]
Name: (locked)
Age: (locked)
Sex: Male
Class: Wizard (Earth)
Str: 9
Dex: 9
Con: 9
Int: 15
Wis: 9
Chr: 10
Luk: 9
Available points 0
Low end average in everything but Int, because that's normally a caster stat, and high average in Chr, because I want to be likable dammit!
Skills awarded for character completion:
Gamer's Body
Gamer's Mind
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Error Loading Skill
End Skills Load
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Oh great, another error, I hope that doesn't keep happening.
Loading World
Please Wait
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Loading Complete
I wake up already standing, not groggy in the slightest, but a little chilly. I'm standing on a street corner in the dark.
A very run down street corner, and it's dark because most of the streetlights are out, I didn't end up in some post apocalyptic nightmare did I?
New Quest
"Where am I?"
Objective: Search for clues to determine where you are
Rewards: 100 XP, 1 Common Skill.
Huh, guess the text boxes are gonna stay with me, no way to accept or decline, guess this one's mandatory. Man I hate railroading.
Okay let's take stock of things:
1: I'm cold
2: I'm wearing jeans, a black t-shirt, and a green windbreaker that's definitely too light for this weather.
3: There's a light dusting of snow on the ground, so probably early or late winter.
4: This street looks in worse shape than Detroit.
Okay, that's almost everything. If the text boxes are still here, I wonder... 'status'
[Status]
Name: Brian Wells
Age: 15
Sex: Male
Class: Wizard (Earth)
Level: 1 (1)
XP: 0 (0%)
HP: 40/40 (Regen 1 per hour)
MP: 250/250 (Regen 1 per minute)
Str: 9
Dex: 9
Con: 9
Int: 15
Wis: 9
Chr: 10
Luk: 9
Available points 0
Skills:
Gamer's Body
Gamer's Mind
Skill Creation
Stone Toss
Move Earth
Okay, those spells look self explanatory, I'll read them later, for now I reach out and touch Gamer's Body
Gamer's Body:
Allows the user to live life like a video game
Sigh Very helpful, thanks...
Alright, there has to be something around here that can tell me where I am, it looks like a typical American town, if the worst most run down part, boarded up buildings, some of them collapsing, broken street. AH HA! A newspaper box!
Walking closer I try to make out the faded and chipped lettering on the side of the news-box in the low light. It takes me until I'm only a few feet away before I can read it.
Brockton Bay Gazette
Oh.
"Shit."
Author's Note: I hope I correctly fixed all the formatting.