CHAPTER 7
+1 Luck for Surviving
-1 INT for purposely antagonizing another when you can't do anything
I haven't seen Blonde in months but I was moved to another orphanage.
I now he is okay because the 'Man in Black' took us to a hospital, or what looked like one, and they knew what the poison was enough to treat it right away. Which I am glad to not have a scar, but I really want to see Blonde again. It's sad how dependent I became on someone that doesn't know me from Eve. Maybe, he reminds me of Blonde Fuzz from Kusa.
+1 Social Awareness
*What is Social Awareness*
It is what unlocks the Reputation trees
You need at least 5 to open
I think my left eye started to twitch. I also think the game is passive aggressive and is unhappy with me.
+1 Social Awareness
... And still creepy.
-1 Social Awareness
And apparently still listening to me.
*Game, do you have a name? *
I am the Game of Life
Which is an unhelpful answer. *Do you mind if I give you one? *
...
If you want
*I shall call you Anakin. *
I have started crawling and it's starting to give the caretakers heart-attacks. No, really. I think I saw one lady start crying when I was on the other side of the room then where she put me; this was when I had moved to get away from the sun in my eyes (she had left me there for hours).
I tried not to move too far after that.
Today I found a way to increase my pacify skill. It is...poking crying children in the forehead and it works like a charm. I think it surprises them, and makes them wonder what I am doing...
Anyway, my skill has gone to level 4 and the place has never been quieter. One caretaker, a black haired one, actually looked worried until her trying to see if child 37 was hurt made him cry.
I think the people here are high-strung.
Back to my crawling. When I think they aren't looking at me I start trying to get close to the window. I still haven't managed it yet.
Now that I think about it, there's a lot that I haven't managed yet, like finding out what I look like-
Tutorial Quest: Find a mirror
Goal: Find out what you look like
Completion reward: Start the Official Tutorial
That's abrupt. I guess the game starts now? I wonder if Anakin got bored...
+1 INT
Wait. *Anakin, where's the Accept/ Deny part*
There is not one
You cannot deny Tutorial Quests
Makes sense. Most games don't allow it...
Where is there a mirror. Bathrooms. That's where mirrors usually are right? Right. Now to find one. Looking around there's only the black-haired woman, and see she is occupied with child 12.
To the door!
Crawling is not the quickest method of travel, but at least the door was open. Turns out the group room is connected to a hallway...with nothing to hide that I am not where I am supposed to be; no chairs, no stands, no nada. Great. But there are doors. So, let's hope I can open them and check for this.
Moving forward, and trying to be quiet, I try the first door on the right. Its closed, but it's one of those sliding doors, so I but my hands on the wood part and try to open it without touching the paper. No movement to be seen, and my hands slide off. I try again but this time I do not think about the paper
RRIIPP...at least the door opened and the hole was small.
Going through, I crawled into what I think was a living room and dining hall mixed. That's what it looked like anyway. But at least I could hide under the tables here. Looking for more doors, I see one across the room and start moving. I get there before I see that this door has an actual handle that I must move... I need a broom or something. And with that thought I go looking for one.
Through repeated action you have created
Sneak
Open Status Menu to view
And I find one in a kitchen area I didn't notice at first. Going back to the door while dragging it was surprisingly difficult, but I got something out of it.
+1 STR
Back to the door. I put bristles up, and started lifting. It wavered, man did it wave back and forth, but when I got it under the handle it worked all the same. I was glad the door opened away from me. And I was in luck, A bathroom with a mirror over the sink and everything. Except I had no way of looking at it since you know, crawling baby here.
... Let's hope this place has stools for the younger children.
Wondering about I find a little hidden spot that has a pile of them. I touch one and it vanishes
What in the nine worlds
You have added 1 stool to your Inventory.
Oh, yeah. I forgot about this.
I crawl back towards the sink, trying not to think about the floor I am crawling on. When I get there, I start wondering how to get to my inventory.
*Anakin, how do I get to my 'inventory'*
You say inventory
And a screen popped up, little things in small see through boxes (sweet). I poked the one that looked kind of like a ladder, and it feel out with a loud clatter. Hurriedly trying to get it upright, it takes a few seconds, and when I manage it I start climbing. Glad at the surprising height of this thing, I get all the way to the counter, then climb on top of that to. There is the mirror. And there is me. My hair is in many colors, like someone couldn't decide what color they wanted. My skin is white, I think the term is 'fair' or maybe 'medium'. And my eyes are a weird almost hazel but made up of reds... I look strange.
Completed 'Find a Mirror'
Reward: a list of tutorials that can be completed
10 g, 100 yen
20 exp.
As I was reading that someone came in. And stopped starting at me. I look back wondering why they are looking at me like that.
Must be the hair.
The kid started walking towards me slowly, like he was expecting me to bite or something. I mean, I have but there is no reason to treat me like I am going to. Besides I don't think this kid is going to pick me up, and make me look at a face that looks like someone I just lost. Yeah, I still haven't let that go.
The child is coming right up by the counter, lifts his arm, and pokes me. takes a step back, waits a moment, then he does it again, like he is expecting something.
I giggle. He looks silly.
And now he looks surprised by something.
BANG!
We both jump, and I am lucky that I am so far from the edge, or I would have fallen. We both look at the door, and see a brunette adult standing there panting. Then he/she walks forward, picks me up, and walks out. I wave to the kid, who is staring, as I am carried out of the room and probably back to the black haired one.
It was fun while it lasted.
At least the person waved back.
I was right. And if I could I would have apologized to her, because since then she always has this 'sad puppy' face when she looks at me. And if people would actually spoke around me maybe I could get her to look normal again.
But I am still kept on the other side of the room from the rest of the kids during group time. At least some of the others have started to crawl, so I can practice my not-hugs (like blonde) on them. Well, I try but usually they get taken away before much can be done. Still have no clue why. But that last for maybe an hour a day so for the rest of the time I am stuck in a crib.
Most of the times this happens I go through the list of tutorials. Some of them make sense from a game point of view, with the basic 'open tab _, and change _, and use _ item.' It's some of the other ones that are a bit strange. Like this one
Find a Rabbit
or this one
Find the cookie
These are the kind of quests I have trouble with since I can't go outside. Rather annoying technicality. Also, what cookie? When I finally managed to sneak away (which got me a lv up in 'sneak') None of the cookies I found worked. I tried the homemade ones, the packaged ones, the ones bill stole from the kid in the corner. None of them worked. It's driving me nuts trying to figure out what this means. I think that next time I get away I will look under the boards. But on the bright side now I have tons of cookies in my inventory. After going looking for cookies, I have like 50 of them, it's insane.
Though when I did the tutorial for the Status menu I got a minor surprise.
Tutorial: Open Menu
*Menu. *
Tomomi Kiku
Gender: Female
Level 1
Title:
Orphan
Lv1. EXP 20
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Stats
STR = 4
CON = 12
DEX = 3
CHA = 3
AGI = 6
INT = 8
WIS = 10
Luck=6
Luck is only able to be increased with use or with quest reward
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Skills
Annoy(active): Lv8- at higher levels this skill makes people react, Be careful f how far your push. People may attack. No cost
Pacify(active): Lv4 -at higher levels this skill calms people. Be careful of overuse. people may become Annoyed. No cost
Eavesdrop(passive): Lv1. 10% -at higher skill levels this skill creates a better chance of going unnoticed when overhearing information, and to hear better information. Stacks with Sneak. No cost
Poison Immunity(passive): lv1- at higher levels will weaken or negate the effects of Poison based skills used against you. Increase is through exposure.
Foretelling (active/passive): Lv2- at higher levels this skill makes one able to see what is likely to happen. Be careful what you say for once spoke the future is Bound. Active use needs 50*n and a cool down time of 5min. n is use per day. Passive is accidental use.
Music (passive): Lv3- at higher levels this skill creates better music. Music can cause side effects.
Sneak (active/passive): Lv2- at higher levels this skill makes one harder to detect. Can be activated for 10 CHAK/min or used through action. If not activated it does not drain CHAK
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Perks
Once of Kusa Orphanage: +1% gain to poison related skills, +.5% gain towards relationship based on/ around Kusa, the Land of Grass, & Allies
They Died: -3% gain to charisma based skills and +10% gain to Survival, & Luck based skills
Meant for Mist: +2% chance for critical with water based skills, able to breath water for 5 minutes at a time
Konoha Orphanage: +1% gain to fire related skills, +.5% gain to relationship with Konoha, Land of Fire, & allies
Allergy-Walnuts: walnuts when eaten by you count as a poison. Exempt from all Poison related skills. Will need an antiallergenic to stop damage
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Titles
Adopted: +.5% gain to family related skills. Must be near guardians to assign this. Gets rid of the Orphan title
Orphan: +.5% gain to skills necessary to basic survival, -1% gain to all other skill sets
Flower Child: +10% gain to all plant based skill, including Jutsu
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Money
10 G, 100 Yen
Well, some of that is new. *Anakin, do you know why the 'status menu' changed? *
You entered the Tutorial Phase
Oh, *Anakin, will this continue to change*
Yes
Well, that's comforting.
Wait. *Why are some of my stats lower!? * that was probably not the best tone to use…
Because your time in that orphanage had lasting effects that you will find out later because of their 'Care"
Now
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Tutorial: Open Menu
Completed
Rewards:
30 EXP, 5 G, 200 yen
and that was the only major change, no new updates, or other effects from fake-face. After that it was more like the end with a listing of rewards so it went something like this:
Tutorial: Crawl
Tutorial Quest Completed
Rewards:
10 EXP, 1 G, 10 Yen
Tutorial: Options Menu
Tutorial Quest Completed
Rewards:
5 EXP
And so, on the only one I was happy about was the tutorial to assign titles. Turns out if it doesn't list a requirement to 'assign' it, all I have to do is click it. Anakin will ask if I am sure and I say yes. I am just glad to get rid of the Orphan title. I was adopted, just because they are dead now doesn't change that (humph).
At the end of the day of doing the basic, I got Lv2, another 90 G, 1000 Yen, and almost half way to Lv3... at least that is what the bar looked like. Yep, for some reason I only see the amount of EXP that I have gained, and it all fits in a bar, that when its full I level. I don't know the amount needed to level though, weird.
When I leveled I got 5 points to do what I wanted, but I wasn't really sure what to do beyond put 2 in CHA...I'll save the rest for later.
I'll probably need it
CHAPTER 8
The days of a child can be boring. With the last few weeks being me trying to do tutorials, or plotting how to get around the Caretakers, it had been boring. I had done five more tutorials which was great as the EXP I got helped me get closer to level 3.
I had started to practice standing when I saw the tutorial for it (got 200 EXP which got me to level 3 with 190EXP left over, 30 G, 400 yen. I decided to leave the stat points for later). So, during crib time I would practice by pulling myself up. I regularly managed to pace the crib (though I would usually fall on my face whenever Black-hair came in). It was surprisingly tiring so during group time I would usually sleep. But I got a +1 AGI while I was practicing so that's spurring me forward.
It was group time and I was about to nap when this popped up
Tutorial: Rescue
There is a secret happening.
You have till group ends to save a life
Goals:
Get out of view
?
Rewards
?
Blonde will be kept healthy
?
Failure:
Blonde will have the first 3 years of his life without regular interaction, and has a large potential to kill him.
I immediately threw a cookie, from my inventory, near Child 1 & 7, they always cried over anything the other had that they didn't. Child 7 got to it first and Child 1 started bawling. I almost felt bad. But Black-hair rushed over to them. While she (I was pretty sure Black-hair was female) was busy, I got up and walked over and out the door.
Through intelligent use of available items, you have created the skill
Diversion
Neat. *So, what's next Anakin*
Tutorial: Rescue
There is a secret happening.
You have till group ends to save a life
Goals:
-Get out of view
Find the basement
?
What would a basement have to do with blonde?
So, I go down the hallway to the large room, manage to open the sliding door without ripping the paper, and walk along the edge of the room. Looking for doors that didn't lead to the bathroom, I find one that leads to another hallway. After deciding to close the door and make sure none of them are stairs and quickly finding that of all six doors don't; I go through this door and going down the hallway if found. I then try to second door on the right. Ooh, lucky stairs
+1 Luck
Huh, anyway. I go down the stairs and there's this door at the bottom of them. Glaring up at the handle I go halfway back up the stairs, turn to face the door, aim for the handle, and leap. I think my luck is the only reason I didn't brain myself on the handle as it turned. Tumbling into the room, I find this dark, humid room. Bloody stereotypes.
Goals:
-Get out of view
-Find the basement
Investigate
It seems this is the basement. I get up. Not one of my best ideas. Deciding I don't need to get up, I crawl around the edges in the room first. Now that I have had a chance to get my air back after that fall (I need to more careful) I use the wall as support to get up. Then I walk close to the middle of the room and see there is a ramp in the floor leading to a door. I decide that taking the ramp walking after only for a week is a bad idea. I crawl instead and am glad because it is surprisingly steep; like I almost started rolling down steep. I get to the door, find it propped open a tiny amount, and walk in. There's a mat on the floor with a bunch of blankets. Going up to the nest, I peer in.
And am furious.
Now I know how the blonde is involved with the basement.
-Get out of view
-Find the basement
-Investigate
-Find 'Blonde'
Get him up to the group room
Alright, let's do this. I roll him onto a blanket. I drag him, using said blanket, to the door. I then clench the corners of the blanket that I have between my teeth as I crawl up that stupidly steep ramp. We fall a few times but I will not let that stop me getting Blonde out of here. After that blasted ramp I drag him to the stairs leading to the main floor.
It takes a minute for me to decide to lay next to Blonde, make a knot around my middle, double checking he is in the middle of the blanket, make a second knot around my throat that I can keep from choking me with my hands. Then I stand and make my way up the stairs with black around my vision by the fourth step, but I won't stop. When we get to the main floor I lay back down, undo the knots and start dragging Blonde back to the group room.
For Constant use, and Perseverance
+2 STR, +1 Con, and a Chrysanthemum flower [Red].
You have created the perk:
Refusal to Submit
This has opened the Perk Points (PP)
Open the Status menu to see
Not really caring right now Anakin. I have a kid to rescue.
I hadn't noticed it till the update but there was a clock going backwards if I looked up and to the right. I would bet that is the time that I have left. Still dragging Blonde behind me, I go through the doors, and am starting to rush. I barely have any time left. Running through the halls, probably making a lot of noise, I barely stop at doors.
I really don't care about the stupid paper, at all.
I practically skid back into the group room. And the clock is still ticking. And they still haven't noticed I am back yet.
-Get out of view
-Find the basement
-Investigate
-Find 'Blonde'
-Get him up to the group room
Refuse to be separated for the next 48 hours.
I bare teeth in a parody of a victory smile. Let them try.
It's been a day and they still haven't noticed the extra kid cuddling in these blankets with me. And really, I wonder how they can be so blind.
Having time to think about finding Blonde in the basement makes me steadily angrier about this situation. The fact a barely walking child had to rescue another is wrong on so, so many levels. Not even mentioning the place he had been in. I mean, who keeps a kid in the basement. Last week the main floor flooded and they still kept him in there.
The fuss I kicked up whenever someone got to close to us made Black hair lose some of her hair. I don't know if she tore it out, or stressed it out, or what but I took satisfaction. After all, she was one of the few adults here. She had to agree to this.
I will never apologize.
For Repeated Reaction
You have created the Skill Tree:
Vengeful.
Congratulations you have unlocked the Morals section.
What in the world is that? *Morals section? *
Morals
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This panel will show how much of a specific action reflects
The more and action is done, the more it does
There are other side effects
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Purposely harming makes it harder to heal
Purposely stealing makes it harder to give
Purposely lying makes it harder to speak truth
The reverse is also true.
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The more harm done will be reflected in the amount of red in your eyes
Stealing will yellow your skin
Lies will grey the white of your hair
The more often you break oaths your hair will pale.
… I am not sure how to take that
Wait, is that why my eyes looked like a red based hazel? But I haven't done that much!
You Haven't done much?
Just drove a woman insane enough to attempt murder
Just threatened to bring down the building where children live
Just sworn never to forgive a worker for a policy that was made by her government.
Not much at all.
Oh, I...
*And it also mentioned a 'skill tree'? * I think weakly. Anakin has never scolded me before.
Yes, Skill trees are Unlocked
They are a mix of Perks, and Skills and can Differ greatly.
What is the skill tree that I 'Unlocked'?
Vengeful:
As more is put into this tree, the better able one can right perceived wrongs
Excessive use Will Blind the User to other Skill Trees
Access to this tree creates the skill Warpath (go to Skills to view)
Vindictive … Spite
Unforgiving...Blood Feud
Martyr...Vengeance
Justice...Make Them Bleed
Wrath
Warpath.
You have 15 Skill Points in this Tree and 2 Allocation Points
To gain the specific Talents, you must have the one directly above it.
(Skill Points open the ability to choose, and Allocation Points allow one to choose.)
*Vindictive? Spite? *
(0/3) Vindictive (perk): Once a person has done you wrong you will Not Let Go
+4 to INT when Undermining the 'One Who Has Done Wrong'
Use an Allocation Point? Yes/No
And
(0/1) Spiteful (perk): The Desire to Hurt, Annoy, or Offend
+7 to Annoy and Cutting Words, +2 INT when using this Mode
Use an Allocation Point? Yes/No
*Cutting Words? *
A Skill you have not found, or created, or been taught yet.
I am not sure how to take this.
My suggestion would be to choose something.
*Thanks Anakin, that helps a lot. *
You are welcome
Sarcasm does not work on Anakin. I must remember that for the future
+1 Social Awareness
I think my eye is starting to twitch...
Any Way. *I can I put a point into 'Vindictive', and then one in 'Unforgiving'? *
You don't have enough points for Unforgiving.
*Then I will hold on to it till later. I don't like the way 'spiteful' reads.
Done
From now on You have a +4 INT when Undermining "Black-Hair"
*Anakin, earlier you said that the policy regarding Blonde was made by the government? *
Yes
*Then I will change my point of anger from Black-hair to the person in government that made that IDIOT decision. *
Very Well
From now on you have a +4 INT when undermining The Civilian Counsel, along with the Hokage's Advisors: Danzo Shimura, Koharu Utatane, and Homura Mitokado
Meep