Warning: This gamer fic isn't meant to be anything serious. You have been warned.
Also I have no idea what I'm doing send help
Also Disclaimer I own nothing except my ideas.
I have so many questions.
[Unnamed Level 1]
[The Gamer/Money Lover]
I waved my hand through the floating text. I was lucky that I was alone in my room or else I'd have had to explain what I was doing. Thankfully my roommate was gone for the rest of the day.
Number one: What is this thing floating above me? Why is this thing floating above me? Is it mine?
Number two: Why is it Unnamed? I definitely have a name, it's Euca Vinmoor.
Number three: Why is my damn level so low? I mean, I'm level one! I should at least be half of my age or something.
At least it got one thing right.
I really liked money.
No, scratch that, I fucking loved money.
Money meant buying stuff that made me happy, money meant safety and warmth, money will never let me down.
Problems? Money makes them go away!~
[Welcome to The Game! Rejoice! For adventures, loot, and romance await you in the future!]
"You had me at loot." I said, already resigning myself to this newfound existence of a video game character. Well at least I was going to get some good stuff out of this.
[In a few moments, you will be brought to a new world chosen at random but before we go would you like to take the tutorial?]
"Eh sure, I don't see why I shouldn't." The moment that I said that I began to fall in an empty black space as the world around me faded. I screamed as I flailed before landing on a hard surface. I stood up and soothed my aching bottom, which had taken the brunt of the fall.
[Welcome to the tutorial stage! To begin, please say or think 'Menu'!]
"Menu."
[Status]
[Locked]
[Locked]
[Locked]
I raised my eyebrow at the various locked options. Maybe I unlock them later in the tutorial?
[As you can see, other options are locked for now. Let's start with your Status.]
"Status." A green window appeared before me.
[Euca Vinmoor]
[Level:1]
[HP:42]
[STR:7]
[VIT:6]
[DEX:5]
[AGI:5]
[INT:5]
[LUK:8]
[EXP: 0/100]
[Points:0]
I looked at my stats and whistled at how high my LUK was compared to everything else. I had played games before so I knew what my stats meant for me. It meant that I was going to be hitting things with my hands more often than shooting them. I had no complaints, maybe I'll pick up rock throwing as a combat skill.
[Looking good! You have a decent amount of strength so let's get you a strength based weapon...Done, I've put it in your Inventory!]
My status window closed and one of the locked options from earlier was replaced with Inventory. I selected it and found myself looking at various tabs for item categories and mostly empty item slots. Over to the side was a silhouette of a human with a bunch of squares filled with my current attire. I looked in the weapons tab and found what was given to me.
[Wooden Mallet]
[It's Hammer Time! A wooden mallet given during the tutorial, a light heavy weapon perfect for smashing things, pitching tents and playing Backyard Whack-a-mole.]
I equipped the mallet and my hands were immediately occupied by the weapon. I experimentally lifted it up and down, finding that I liked it's weight in my hands.
[Now let's see how skilled you are!]
The window forcefully closed and I opened the new option for Skills.
[Gamer's Mind MAX]
[Gamer's Body MAX]
I wanted to know more about the skills I have and tried looking closely at them.
[Through wanting to learn you have a learned a new Skill!]
[Observe Lvl1]
[The art of knowing things is now under your command! Use this skill to know more about the world around you!]
"Observe." I used the skill on my Skills.
[Gamer's Mind MAX]
[Allows the user to calmly and logically think things through. Allows peaceful state of mind. Immunity to psychological mass effect.]
[Gamer's Body MAX]
[Grants a body that allows for the user to live the real world like a game. Sleeping in a bed restores HP, MP and all mass effects.]
"Ok, pretty cool. Where's the looting?"
[Calm down, calm down, we're getting to that. Check out you quests!]
The Skills window closed by itself and I opened the last unlocked option, Quests.
[Active Quests]
[Tutorial: Finish the tutorial.]
[Rewards: 100XP, Better starter weapon, Gacha Cube]
"What's a Gacha Cube?" I asked loudly as I closed the Quests window.
[You'll see! Now try to survive!]
"Survi-whoa!" I hastily used the hammer to block a sudden stick that appeared out of nowhere to bash my head in.
[Master Of Sticks]
[100HP]
[The tutorial boss blocks your path.]
Master Of Sticks looked like an animated wooden dummy, only one that could would sticks, was ridiculously fast, and made me wish that sticks didn't look terrifying in its hands.
I pushed the stick away and tried to kick the boss but it back flipped away from me and lunged at me again. I swung my mallet upwards and sent the dummy flying through the air and watched it land with a satisfactory thud.
[-11HP]
"Whoo! Come on! Is that all you got!?" I taunted, holding the hammer with both hands.
As it turns out, that wasn't all that its got. The dummy rose, lifeless yet I could sense that it was mad. It charged at me and deflected my swing, landing a very devastating hit to my chest before leaping backwards. I saw my health get cleaved in half with that one attack.
"So that's how you want it?" I grit my teeth in anger.
It charged at me and this time I was ready for it. I held my ground as it approached me at an alarming speed, quickly covering the distance between us. A few meters more and my hands tightened their grip. Just when he was in front of me did I decide to move, meeting his charge with my shoulder and stopping it in exchange for more lost health.
I struck the dummy with the handle and knocked it down before I proceeded to repeatedly bash its head and chest in with several hammer swings.
[Quest Complete!]
[Level Up!]
[Item Get! Stone Hammer, Gacha Cube!]
I spread the new 3 points in VIT, LUK, and STR before grabbing my new hammer out of the Inventory. The design was simple but oddly enough the hammers weighed the same to me. I moved into the Items tab of my Inventory and used Observe on the Gacha Cube.
[Gacha Cube]
[RNG in a box! These little cubes of joy could bring you great luck of misfortune!]
So it was a random item box. That was good to know. What worries me is what this thing might consider as misfortune.
I stared at it intently before deciding to use it and hope for the best. The tiny glowing white cube rotated slowly in my hand before I decided to poke it. The cube spun rapidly as it started blinking. I braced myself for the worst my vision was consumed by light.
[You got lucky! You get a weapon!]
[Treasured Coin]
[A throwing coin that always returns to your pocket and somehow hurts so much. You can pay 1HP to double the amount of coins you currently have for the rest of the fight.]
[+1% Money earned per coin]
I whistled in appreciation at what apparently would become my favourite item.
All around me the black space that was this world was slowly being illuminated white by an unseen light source.
[That concludes the tutorial! Have fun with your new life!]
The world faded into white.
[Euca Vinmoor]
[Level:2]
[HP:48]
[STR:8]
[VIT:7]
[DEX:5]
[AGI:5]
[INT:5]
[LUK:9]
[EXP: 0/200]
[Points:0]
