Chapter 3
You, my son, are perfect. A perfect balance of all the supernatural creatures whose DNA I have absorbed throughout my long life. You have their strengths, my strengths and none of our weaknesses. All that power contained within a human shell. Humanity was the glue that managed to tie the disparate pieces together. However, a human woman's body would be unable to carry you to term if all your powers were available to you as a fetus without any cognizance to control them, thus I was forced to place limits within you to keep both yourself and your mother safe.
The fact that you are reading this message means that one of the conditions to unlock a bloodline within you has been met. I know not which condition it was, but now that you have awakened you will need guidance to gain enough strength to protect yourself. As I have already mentioned, I can not be there to guide you. I managed overcome this obstacle with a little bit of knowledge I have gleaned from the people Triad has disposed up over the years. I have managed to create a Game System, as a way to guide your growth and manage your abilities.
All you need to do now that you're awakened is think the word Menu, with the desire to view a menu screen that will help you on your journey. Hopefully it can provide further answers for you. While I wish for you to help me free myself, I understand that may not be something you are comfortable with. So I leave you with these words, You are loved my son. Grow strong, strong enough to protect yourself and those you love.
With all my love,
Your Father.
Once he finished reading the screen disappeared. He stood up and began pacing all around the dock.
"What the hell was that?!" He said to himself, trying to reconcile the message he just read with everything he had learned about Malivore. He could feel the emotions his Father felt when he penned the letter. The truth of his words was without question. His father had even left him a means to prove his words. All he had to do was think and he would have all the proof he needs.
"Menu" he thought.
Menu
Status | Bestiary | Abilities | Quests | Notes*
"Dad, wasn't kidding when he said he based this off a game. Let's see what this does. Status"
Name: Landon Kirby (Malivore)
Race: ?
Titles: Progenitor
Perks: Reproduction Control | Instinct | Adaptation | Identify
Level: 1
XP till next level
Unlocked Bloodlines: Flames of the Phoenix
Attributes
Body: 10
Strength: 10 Dexterity: 10 Endurance: 10
Mind: 10
Intelligence: 10 Wisdom: 10 Charisma: 10
Abilities
Phoenix Fire | Phoenix Flight | Resurrective Immortality
Skills
Composition – Music | Writing – Lyrics | Musician - Guitar
Unspent Points
Attribute Points: 0 | Ability Points: 0 | Skill Points: 0
*As this is your first time viewing your status screen explanations for concepts will be provided. If at any point in the future you would like clarification on something you are seeing simply direct your thoughts at the portion of the screen you would like elaboration on and think "Help".*
*Name is rather self-explanatory, it is your name. The information to fill this portion in has been gathered from your memories. Malivore is placed in parentheses as it is your true surname, but one you have yet to acknowledge as your own.*
*Race as presented is more akin to species. It has been purposefully left blank, as your father deemed it appropriate that you name it yourself, seeing as you are the first of your kind.*
*Titles are a measure of both your ability and renown. Currently only own the title Progenitor which you have unlocked by being the first of your kind. Unlocking titles will sometimes unlock Perks.*
*Perks are benefits you may receive by accomplishing a wide variety of goals. Perks are generated from bloodlines you have not yet unlocked but have demonstrated a proper aptitude or need of. The most common way to gain perks is by gaining titles. That is however not the only way. For example while your perk of Reproduction Control is derived from your title of Progenitor, your perks of Instinct and Adaptation are derived from your race, and your Identify perk is derived from the Bestiary your father has supplied you with, which contains all the information your father has accumulated about the monsters he has absorbed."
*Level is a measure of how powerful you are. When you kill your enemies you will absorb a portion of their essence into yourself. This essence will be referred to as XP. When you have generated enough you will increase in level. Each level brings with it six attribute points, one skill point per skill you have acquired, and one ability point per ability you have unlocked. Every fifth level you will be given a choice of bloodlines to unlock. Choosing one will not immediately unlock the bloodline, merely provide you with the information needed for you to awaken the bloodline within yourself. The choice of whether to pay the cost is yours and yours alone.*
*Unlocked Bloodlines lists out the bloodlines you have completed an awakening for. Locked bloodlines whose quests for awakening you have been provided will be listed in the Quests portions of the Main Menu.*
*Attributes are a representation of your physical and mental power. Body is the overall state of your physical shape. You will not be able to add attribute points to Body as it will always be represented by an average of your strength, dexterity, and endurance points. Mind is the overall state of your mental strength. You will not be able to add attribute points to Mind as it will always be represented by an average of your intelligence, wisdom, and charisma points. Other than that, if you have a basic understanding of games you should have no difficulty determining what the sub-attributes accomplish and their benefits.*
*Abilities are tied to your bloodlines. You gain new ones by unlocking different bloodlines or by spending ability points to unlock different abilities from the Abilities section of the main menu. Be warned that the abilities you purchase from that menu are not naturally occurring in the bloodlines you have unlocked but were in fact created by your father during centuries of experimenting with different combinations of supernatural powers.*
*Skills are abilities that are not generated from a bloodline. They are things that standard humans can develop with practice. Any such technique that you develop sufficient proficiency for will be denoted in your skills section.*
"Talk about an info dump, Dad." Landon thought to himself, only noticing after the fact that he had called Malivore dad without any trace of sarcasm or hint of derision.
He had to think. Was he losing his mind? Was what he read real? Unlike with the message from his father, he couldn't feel any of the emotions or sincerity from the status page that he had earlier.
"Makes sense though." He thought. "There's no way a game status page is going to carry the same emotional weight as a letter from father to son."
There were only a few questions remaining if he was being honest with himself. Why was there a pulsating asterisk next to the Notes section of his menu, and why was that the one section of his menu that the exposition vomit he was exposed to had not provided any information on?
Bracing himself for another massive wall of text he thought Menu and pressed Notes.
*Notes are where important information that does not fit into any of the other categories is placed*
Notes
-Currently suffering from memory alteration due to Malivore absorption of *UNKNOWN*
-To regain lost memories raise Mind attribute, unlock Bloodline with Mental Resistance, or unlock a Mental Resistance Perk.
"This…. is a problem."
