I Don't Own RWBY
Blinking, that's the first thing I did as what I can only assume consciousness returning to me. Though for an instant I didn't even know what the word consciousness meant, really I didn't even know what blinking was either, more over the definition of the word...Wait what does definition mean again? All of what I believe to be everything was confusing me at the moment.
It wasn't my fault, at least I don't think it was my fault since I don't exactly know who I am or where I am not to mention a number of other things I couldn't put into place at the moment. Everything, from all the thoughts and images to the sight of the sky before me were spinning, which I found quite odd since I don't believe I've ever seen a sky before and yet I know what it is already. Like how I know what every word I've thought so far means and yet I'm pretty sure this is all a new thing for me.
After a long moment everything seemed to stop spinning as much, which was good as I hummed softly to myself, not really knowing why but I did which made my throat feel a bit interesting at the vibration. This is all very strange I must say, well think. Thinking is interesting, and yet it's very familiar, everything so far is familiar and yet it's all new, I know it's new because I'm pretty sure I would remember if I've done any of this before. I believe the word is Déjà vu though I'm not fully certain, mostly because I think I just learned that word along with every other word about forty seconds ago.
Hmm, I don't like it. Not being certain, it's a bit distressing to be honest with myself. Thinking of being uncertain though, that does raise back up the point of myself again. I still can't recall who or what I am. Like I said before, I'm finding this all to be a bit distressing, so the only thing I believe I can do in this situation is to move as I don't believe thinking on the matter will help anymore than it already has. I've already figured out how blinking works, so I'm pretty sure all the other body functions shouldn't be to difficult to figure out.
It took a minute, but after that time had passed I had managed to sit up only to blink to myself again, as I was quite good and now familiar with this action so it only seemed right to do so when I saw something that didn't have any recognition in my mind. Sure I knew instantly what the thing I was laying on was, grass, and the things sticking out of the ground were trees but the floating box in front of me was something that didn't register. It was new and unfamiliar, which was new for me. Leaning forwards a bit more I stared at the weird black colored squiggles on the floating box for a moment before I suddenly understood what the words meant.
Welcome User.
I blinked at the sight as I noted what the words meant for a short seconds before noting I now know what languages are and that I ca- No, wait, only one language, there isn't anymore than one... I know that but I had thought about it in the plural form, why? I'm not sure, interesting. I can't seem to find an answer so the only thing I can do is to revisit this topic later, for now, it would seem I'm being greeted by the box and I think it's considered rude to not respond...How do I do that?
"Hi" It wasn't the most creative but I just figured out how to speak, I think at least, so I do believe I can be cut some slack... I'm not sure why those words are used in that order but I believe it means what I think it means. Something called a saying I think. I think about the word think a lot don't I? Oh hey. The text on the screen, screen? I'm calling it a screen now? I think I like box better, I guess it's a synonym anyway so it still works. Anyway, the words changed.
This is a general introduction to the User's semblance.
The Gamer.
To continue please tap the arrow or think 'Next'.
I had a feeling well up in what felt to be my chest area at those words, I wasn't sure why. Some part of my mind that I didn't have access to seemed to remember something more about those words than what I knew about them. And yet I knew something about some of it nonetheless though I wasn't sure what. The words Semblance and Gamer had my attention as something tried to push it's way to the front of my mind.
Focusing on the thoughts though I figured they were more than likely memories even if I'm pretty sure I didn't have any from any time before about three and a half minutes ago. Which was only proven more than accurate as I came up with a blank. So with that I, after a few moments of trying to work how to use my arm, lifted my hand up and tapped the small arrow underneath the text on the screen/box thingy. Just like that more words appeared for me to read.
Commands:
Status
Skills
Inventory
Perks
I blinked at the words for a moment, just to add a bit of familiarity to it as I seem to do the action quite the bit without even noticing, so I found doing it on purpose a bit comforting in a way. Still, how was I suppose to use these Commands? Do I say them out loud, I'm still not sure how good I am at the speaking thing, so maybe I can think them instead, like how I could have thought Next on the last box. Status? Oh! It did a thing.
Name: Ash Kay
Level: 1 (0/50)
Title: The Gamer
Semblance: The Gamer
Hp:80/80
Ap:40/40
STR:3
VIT:3
DEX:3
INT:3
WIS:3
CHR:3
LUC:1
Stat Points:0
Lien:0
My name is Ash Kay? What does Level mean or imply? Why is my Title and Semblance the same thing? I feel like those numbers are really low for some reason and why is LUC at one when the others are at three? Not to mention I have no idea what Lien is. This is all quite confusing and yet in a very strange way almost familiar. The Gamer, it doesn't spark anything but I do know things about video games. I see quite the number of parallels now that I'm looking at this.
If what I'm using as a guide for my thoughts is fact, then those are my stats, what define what I'm physically and mentally capable of... Which doesn't appear to be a lot from the looks of things. Hp is clearly health points though I'm unfamiliar to Ap, I'm not sure what that can stand for. Maybe that's this systems equivalent to energy? But why isn't it something more generalized, like Ep or Mp like other games...Which I should have no idea what those are. Nor can I seem to be able to draw on any examples but I think I'm right about this...This is very confusing for me.
Hmm. Well I guess I've looked at everything I can on this screen I guess, well...I've only looked at the screen, maybe something will happen if I poke it. It worked before. So with that I reached my hand out and tapped my pointer finger against the Ap count and blinked as another smaller box popped up with some helpful information on it.
Ap: Aura Points
Aura is a manifestation of the soul, a life force that runs through every living creature and can be used in a number of ways to enhance ones body.
Huh. Cool. I sat up a bit more properly as I crossed my eyes as I began to tap through all the different things on the screen. Reading through everything after a few minutes I figured out how to close the unimportant ones that I already had a knowledge about from comparing them with my knowledge that I don't think I should be able to recall on. Like what all the three letter words stood for and what they did though some caught my attention. Those being-
VIT: Vitality
Vitality is what determines the User's Hp total and over all health and speed at which they heal.
1 VIT Point = 10 Hp
10 VIT Points = 1% Faster Hp regeneration.
INT: Intelligence
Intelligence is what determines the User's ability to learn, memorize, and problem solve. Along with modifying the User's Aura total.
1 INT Point = 5 Ap
WIS: Wisdom
Wis is what determines the User's ability to make the best decision with the available information. Along with modifying the User's Aura Regeneration.
10 WIS Points = 1% Faster Ap regeneration
Lien: Currency
The world's Currency used for making purchases for goods or services.
It all told me a lot about the system in the way that it worked and while I wasn't the best at the math involved, it would appear that I started with a base fifty Hp and twenty-five Ap before my stats changed there values. I can only guess that the total when I level up will be increased again by those amounts.
For learning more about your Status Menu and deducing a trait of the leveling system, gain 1 INT!
Oh? I can have my stats improved by doing certain tasks then. Clearly problem solving is something that increases the INT score, I guess that's pretty neat. Well, I think I've learned all I can from this Menu, as it's apparently called. I even learned my name! Though I'm not to sure how I feel about it. Ash I feel is a bit of an uncommon name, and Kay is just a letter spelled out. I guess it's just something I'll have to get use to as it's the only name I have and I'm not sure I'd be able to change it even if I came up with a better one.
For understanding that it's futile to disagree with the factual information presented on your windows, gain 1 Wis!
Hey, another one. That's nice, and it would seem that WIS is increased by making correct decisions, or otherwise just being wise in general, I guess which is what the stat name already suggested I do. Anyway, that was a neat distraction but I should move onto the other windows now. I still think I want to call them boxes though to be honest. I'll have to come up with a compromise or something in a bit. But right now I want to look at my Skills. Hey it worked and it's not empty!
(Passive) Gamer's Mind [Maxed]-
Allows the user to calmly and logically think things through.
Allows peaceful state of mind.
Immunity to mental disorder.
(Passive) Gamer's Body [Maxed]-
Grants a body that allows for the user to live the real world like a game.
Sleeping in a bed restores Hp, Ap and all mass effects.
I read over the words on the window boxes for a long moment before reading over them again before humming to myself as I suddenly realized that I haven't really been anything other than clam since all this started. I had noticed before because I have no memory of being anything other than this but I do know what the other emotions mean from knowing there definitions, which means I'm quite certain besides slight interest and mild curiosity, I haven't felt any other emotion like happiness or anger.
After a second on thinking about that information, I just shrugged to myself which shook me a bit as this was this first time I moved my shoulders up and down like that and it had shocked me a bit. Which just proved my own thoughts on the matter. This is all new to me and I'm not really sure what I'm doing which means the other emotions will probably come in time, maybe, and if not then it's not like I actually know what I'm missing out on so I don't think I'll mind any.
Now then, while I am curious about what having a body that lives life like a game in tells I'm not sure I would actually be able to figure it out until I actually do something more challenging than just the slight movements I've done so far...Huh, I wonder how running what be like, no! I should at least get through the rest of these menus before I start playing with my body...I'm not sure why but I don't like those were the correct words to use. Anyway, onto Inventory.
Yeah, it did the thing, and now I'm looking at a big window with a grid laid out in front of me. Well, this one isn't all that difficult to actually work out, I know what an inventory is and I know how it normally works in a game so this is very self explanatory to be honest. Not to mention I don't have anything to store at the moment so I see no reason to continue to look at nothing. So with that I moved onto the last Command, the Perks.
Faunus Blood-
The User is of a race called the faunus, and as such have a few inherent traits.
-The User can see perfectly in the dark
-The User's sense are 10% better than the average human
-Every level the User gain one point in DEX
-The User has a randomly determined animal trait (Fox Ears)
I'm...not human? I'm not sure why but I find that really odd for some reason. It's an interesting emotion to feel, I certainly like it from the distressingness that came from being uncertain but I'm not sure I'll ever find it particularly grand. It's like I have a bit of a squirming feeling in my chest and it's a bit strange to try and understand what it's about. Still, not human, I don't remember being human but clearly my mind is finding this news to be some what shocking. I wonder why...
Still, if I have to come up with a way to make certain of it then I can always just do this. And with that I lifted my hand up and dropped it on top of my head, blinking in wonderment as I felt a slight pressure on my skull for a moment before it dispersed as I felt around before finding what I was looking for. On top of my head, poking out from what felt like slightly curly hair, were a pair of ears, and they most certainly weren't human. This is some what weird for me and I still don't know why.
Though that did make me realize something else, I just realized and prompt had skipped over the fact that I have hair, that I have a body, and I have no idea what I look like. With that in mind, I absently closed all the windows in front of me as I stood up, on slightly shaky legs. It would appear the controls might take a moment to get adjusted to but it was that way with the arms as well so I'll probably be fine. Now then, onto what I look like.
With that I looked down at my chest for a moment and hummed thoughtfully to myself as I noted I was wearing clothing at the moment. It was all quite simple and very plain clothing. A white shirt and brown pants, both looked slightly old and worn which I found confusing since I had only just received my body to my knowledge and yet my clothes were already old and worn.
Moving past that inconsistency, I raised my hands up and looked at them, or more accurately the color as while the fingers were interesting to look at, I was observing myself a bit more closer than that. My skin tone wasn't anything crazy, I wasn't purple or anything, in fact I look in between tan and pale. A bit closer to pale than the other but not by a noticeable amount, I just look like an average guy.
Guy? Yeah guy. I'm a bit aware of anatomy and as I looked down I noticed that I was missing something very clearly needed for me to be considered female. My body might just be a bit under development but one hand reaching to the middle of my legs told me all I needed to know on my gender. Though as I did that I also noted that I wasn't all that tall at the moment, at least in comparison to what I believe to be the average height of a person to be.
From just eyeballing it, I'm about five foot six to seven inches, maybe, I've never measured something before so it was a bit difficult to judge. Still, I'm more than likely a teenager at the moment of some kind, either that or I'm just on the short side of the average height, that I for some reason know about. Thinking about stuff I shouldn't know about, I tilted my head a bit as I wondered just how I knew all this random information, but before I could continue to try and find an answer I was distracted as I felt a bit of my hair fall into my face my my head's movement, letting me see the color of it.
Slightly dark brown, not exactly uncommon but not something I think deserves any form of complaint about though now I am a bit curious about what my eye color is. Though of course I can't exactly know what that color is at the moment for a number of reasons, all which were a bit obvious. Not to mention that from the looks of things, I don't believe I'm going to be finding a mirror in the middle of the forest that I seemed to have woken up in. I wonder why I'm in a forest anywa- Oh a new thing popped up.
Hidden Quest Completed
Introduction.
You've gone through and explored you're available windows and come to a number of conclusions about them.
Rewards:
-Quest System unlocked
-25 Exp
That's a bit random, I mean why did I have to go through a hidden quest to see all my windows to unlock another window. I don't know, I guess it just feels a bit redundant in a way. Well, I guess it might be some form of a tutorial I guess but then why not just say so? Maybe to introduce me to hidden quests? I'm not sure though this also adds to another thought. How do I get other quests to complete.
I mean looking at the rewards, I think this might be the main way I'm suppose to get levels. I was proven right in my assumption as another box popped up letting me know that my deduction gave me another point in WIS so I'm pretty sure that means I was right on the money in this case. Hmm, well even if I'm on the right track I can't really figure this out at the moment just from standing here.
As I don't think staying in the middle of a forest would be the best idea at the moment. As while I'm not sure how different my body is now, I do know know that I don't believe I want to experience something like starving to death, even if I might not be able to starve or even need to eat now since my body is like a game character, that doesn't mean I see a reason as to why I should risk it. Of course to do something about that, I would first have to find somewhere to g- Oh!
Quest Created!
Waking up to Ash!
You've woken up in a strange land with an even more strange ability called The Gamer, but none of that matters if you die on you're first night here from the many of dangers that are around.
Objectives:
-Find a settlement of some kind to spend the night before the Sun goes down.
Rewards:
-A place to sleep for the night
-75 Exp
Accept?
I blinked to myself as I looked at the screen for a long moment, reading everything on the box before thinking it over to myself. I mean there wasn't exactly a down side here as I was already going to do this, only now I can do ti for a reward. Not to mention I do believe I just figured out how this quest system probably works. I want to do something that has something to a challenge in it and my Semblance gives me a quest with an equal reward to it's challenge or maybe it's scaled to level.
Either way, I accepted the quest while noting that apparently there are dangers to watch out for and maybe they become more dangerous at night, maybe. Anyway, I should probably get a move on then, though I'm not entirely sure how walking is going to be. I know the theory so it shouldn't be to difficult as it's just one foot in front of the other over and over again so I'm sure when I get into the rhythm of it, it will be easy. So with that I started to walk.
It was weird in a sort of enjoyable way, feeling my feet walk across the ground with the vibrations coming up through the bones in my legs as I walked on. It was new and yet familiar. Maybe to some it would take away from doing so many things for the first time if it felt like this wasn't actually the first time but for me, well, I was finding it comforting to be honest. Like I wasn't as lost in where and who I was as I actually am.
I decided to move my thoughts away from those thoughts as I looked up at the sun for a long moment, noting with a faint sense of surprise that looking at the burning ball of fire didn't hurt my eyes. Gamer's Body I'm assuming. It was interesting to look at with my own eyes, though I wasn't sure why it had surprised me at all, I had never looked at the Sun before so instead of thinking more about the strangeness of my own mind, I took note of where the Sun was in the sky. It was nearly directly above me, which means that it'll be a few hours before it turns to night fall. Hopefully that'll be enou-
[Skill Created]
Through constant use of analyzing your surroundings and yourself, the User has created the skill: Observe
(Active) Observe [Level 1]-
Through continuous observation, a skill to observe objects, situations, and persons was generated allowing the user to quickly gather information.
The higher the skill, the greater the data obtained.
Oh, interesting. So like the quests, stuff I do and actions I take can give me new Skills based on said actions. I wonder how many skills I can gain then. That will be an interesting thought line to think about more later but for right now I wonder what all this new Skill can do. I wouldn't think much but I might as well use it... Though it says Active not Passive, I figure it would be a skill I have to activate myself but I wonder how...More than likely like everything else it's probably thought activated.
With that in mind I closed the boxes away from my eye sight as I looked around my surrounds as I continued to walk. After a few seconds of thinking about it, I looked over towards a nearby tree I was walking past and thought about using the skill. And like I figured it would, a new box appeared with some slightly disappointing information.
Tree-
It's a normal Tree
Yeah, that isn't as helpful as I hoped it would be but I expected it to be something like that so it isn't to important. Still, it can only improve I guess, as it says it's only level one and tells me it will give me more information at a higher level which I can only assume will happen from me constantly using the skill over and over again. Which since I'm in a forest surrounded by new and interesting things, I don't think me using this skill is going to get old for a while.
Not to mention it's better and more productive I guess than just walking in a straight line for a few hours until I hopefully run into some other people that'll let me stay with them for the night so I can complete this quest of mine. So with that I looked at a small rock and used the skill again and got a very similar message. Dismissing it, I continued on walking as I absently looked up at a tree branch and used the skill again.
Observe has gained one level
Neat.
It had been a few hours now, and I think I've gone past the point in which my legs should have started to hurt and yet I feel just as fine as when I first started walking. Meaning more than likely I just don't feel fatigue, which is another thing I believe is separating me from other people in terms of I still don't exactly have much of an idea of how normal I am in comparison to everyone else as I haven yet to meet another person.
Though that wasn't as important as all the window pop ups that appeared over time. It wasn't anything crazy. In about what I can only guess to be about six hours I've gained nine levels in Observe and because I had spent the entire day only walking I also got two points in DEX as well as a point in VIT which I thought was nice for all my walking to get something a bit more from it but I wasn't really sure why I was bothering.
More than likely it was just because it was something to do while I walked but really I don't see why I should really care about these numbers and levels. Sure they meant I was getting better or stronger or whatever it's effecting but what does that really mean to me? In truth it means next to nothing. I don't even truly know who I am, so why should I care about improving how strong or fast I am? I think it would be better to know more about myself before I move to improve.
I mean, I don't even know what kind of person I am. Everything is new to me, and that includes my own mind. I'm clearly a bit of a thinker, not someone that just pushing on without really thinking about stuff or the details. That can be seen from the fact that I've mostly just pushed my 'Semblance', whatever that means or actually is, mostly to the side while I think about this.
Because really, what's the point in being strong when you have no idea what to do with your strength?..I'm only about six hours old and I'm already having an identity crisis, though I do believe I'm justified to have one. Which is just another thing, what does it say about me that I think it's justified? I'm not sure, just like I'm not really sure about what type of man I am, or rather what type of man I'm going to be. I had used Observe on myself a while ago and it told me my body's age along with a list of my own stats.
My body is the same as a sixteen year old, which just added more questions to me than answers, like how am I so young mentally and yet a lot older psychically. Sure sixteen isn't much in the grand scheme of life but compared to how long I've been around mentally it is a lot more than that. It's all quite confusing, and really I can't see a way to answer those kinds of questions. So I think it might be best to just ignore them.
I mean I didn't need to know about those answers really, nothing about them will more than likely give me information that will give me some grand realization because either way I won't be able to remember it. So I feel like the only thing to do is to focus on what I will remember. No reason to wonder about my past when I could have these new experiences in the future.
Which just really means I've looped back around to the type of person I am. As the only real thing I've figured out about myself is I'm not one to really get lost worrying about things in the past. And that isn't exactly something that can define a personality...Maybe I'm worrying to much, I mean there is no logical way I'm going to fully understand myself in just a few hours. It's something that I'm sure will come in time. No one really fully knows who they are when they're young and I'm most certainly no exception. It'll just come through experience I guess.
For making profound comments on self identity take two WIS points
That was nice I guess, I mean I can't say I don't have any fondness over this system. It's given me something to hold onto but to put all my faith in it and just do nothing but what it suggests sounds like a very bland way to live. Maybe that's the of person I am, one with a lot of free will. Still, what I'm getting at is that I'm not ignoring it either just to focus on me not that I could if I wanted to, it's a part of me after all, not to mention that to learn about myself like I want to, then I'll need to be strong enough to survive as well.
Even if I'm not too sure as to what the danger is, it wouldn't really be good to just ignore a warning especially when it comes from yourself, even if it does come from a weird floating box with text on it. I would have continued on with those thoughts but I was interrupted as I noticed a faint glow of light off in the distance. Walking a bit faster forwards, I looked out at the small group of tents and the fire in front of me for a long moment before a word came to mind. Campers?
Quest Completed
I've written out the following chapters a while ago so don't expect anymore but this was just laying around on my desktop and I figured I should either delete it or post it so here it is. Anyway, yeah, I've recently beinged the entirety of RWBY while I was sick out of my mind so I figured why not write a story about it. Though I also wanted to do something I haven't done in a while and introduced the Gamer system into it as well while making a, in my opinion, quite interesting MC. Speaking of the MC, I don't know really yet if I'm fully on board with the Faunus thing since with this decision it means that an interesting number of stories I have with main characters that aren't human or at least fully human but I decided why not as it'll make it more interesting and so here we are. Anyway, See ya.