[You have been Exhausted!]
[-50% Damage, -35% Attack Speed, -35% Movement Speed]
[Duration: 1:00:20]
I must've been quite the sight in the sunlight streets of Vale in the afternoon. Bloody, messy, bloody messy, I garnered a few looks of concern as I trudged through the streets of the city. I had spent the next few hours of my time in this world doing what I thought to be the most viable tactic any displaced human with whose life has just been turned into a video game.
Run at the Grimm and hope I don't die, I said. It'll work wonderfully, I said.
[Euca Vinmoor]
[Level:10]
[Class: Merchant]
[HP:34/127]
[AP:1450]
[STR:15+5]
[VIT:15+4]
[DEX:8+5]
[AGI:8+1]
[INT:8+1]
[LUK:26+2]
[EXP: 40/1000]
[Points:0]
[Lien: 12004]
It worked, well as much as you could classify charging into a Beowolf and battering it with a hammer as 'working'. Granted, there were a few close calls here and there but I guess that's what makes this life in a game difficult.
I found a nice abandoned building in Vale. Creaky floorboards, unhinged doors, broken stairways, cracked windows, all the markers for being unfit for human habitation, normally. It seemed like a building that would not be missed or noticed easily and that was what I was going for. It would look suspicious if a known abandoned building was suddenly home to someone so I had to go for one that was out of the way. I had come to terms that if I did this future customers were not going to notice the shop.
"Open Store."
[You have claimed Abandoned Building as your store!]
[-10000 Lien]
Before my eyes I saw the building shift. The changes were minor, namely the addition of shelves in the first floor, the addition of display windows on the front, and the minor repairs making the building slightly more inhabitable than it was before. I gently nudged the door open and walked inside of what was going to be my home for quite some time.
I noticed a red door at the other end of the floor. It seemed out of place, looking a lot newer compared to the building. I approached it and gingerly touched the door, feeling it unlock.
[You have unlocked Workshop]
[As a Merchant you have the ability to create basic to intermediate items for self-use or for sale. Workshop is a private and safe environment for item crafting. Future class upgrades will add new functions to the Workshop.]
Inside the room beyond the red door were several tables, walls lined with tools hanging from hooks, from the basics such as hammers and screw drivers to the esoteric like...
"What the hell is this thing?" I asked out loud, picking up what looked to be a pyramid stuck to the end of a metal stick with a handle. The pyramid itself sported some engravings that I seemed to move when I wasn't looking. Out of curiosity I used observe on it.
[? Stabiliser]
[Level too low to Observe]
"Well that's new." I commented, carefully putting the tool back into the hook it was on. I turned my attention to the books laying neatly on one of the tables and used Observe on it.
[Skill Book: Break Down]
[Skill Book: Item Crafting]
[Skill Book: ID Create]
[Skill Book: ID Escape]
I picked up the Break Down book.
[Would you like to learn Break Down?]
"Yes please." The book vanished into motes of light that I absorbed.
[You have learned the skill: Break Down]
[Destroy items for their materials. Non-combat only.]
I took out my broken Stone Hammer and used Break Down on it.
[Item Destroyed! You get Stone x3, Stick x2]
I greedily turned to the other books on the table.
[Would you like to learn Item Crafting?]
[Would you like to learn ID Creation?]
[Would you like to learn ID Escape?]
"Yes."
The following headache I got was worth the skills, but I was not going to be doing that again. Next time I learn from Skill Books I was going to do it one by one.
I took out several of the Bone Mask Shards that I got from fighting Beowolves and the sticks I got from the hammer and used Item Crafting on them.
[Bone Cruncher Mace]
[A basic bone weapon made from Bone Mask Shards. +2 STR, -200AP]
[You get 30 XP]
This was the first time that I actually got a weapon with any modifiers. I didn't like that it reduced my Aura by 200 but I did need a weapon and making them would be cheaper than buying them. It was also nice to know that making items gave me XP.
As an experiment I tried using Item Crafting the stones I got from the hammer.
[Bigger Stone]
I didn't know what else I was expecting. I noted that I didn't get any XP.
'I must only get XP when I make something usable.' I realized, putting the now bigger stone back in my Inventory.
I exited the workshop and was about to head upstairs to check on it before I remembered that I should probably close the shop door. I ran back and closed the front door, making sure that it was locked before I went up.
The upstairs seemed to be my sleeping quarters. A bundle of blankets and pillows on the floor, a relatively dirty bathroom to the side, and a single tall lamp in the centre of it all, badly illuminating the room. It wasn't much but I managed to use Item Crafting on the bundle of blankets and pillows and got a sleeping bag for it. I set it down at the edge of the light the lamp was making and crawled into it.
I decided that I was going to see what I could do with the ID Creation tomorrow. Exhausted might go away after some time but with the day I had I was still exhausted.
I let oblivion drag me into a dreamless sleep.
I can't wait for tomorrow.
[Euca Vinmoor]
[Level:10]
[Class: Merchant]
[HP:34/127]
[AP:1450]
[STR:15+5]
[VIT:15+4]
[DEX:8+5]
[AGI:8+1]
[INT:8+1]
[LUK:26+2]
[EXP: 40/1000]
[Points:0]
[Lien: 2004]
[Skills}
[Gamer's Mind MAX]
[Gamer's Body Max]
[Observe Lvl3]
[Sprint Lvl5]
[Open Store Max]
[Hardened Strike Lvl4]
[Equipment]
[Empty]
[Empty]
[Common Shirt]
[Empty]
[Empty][Empty]
[Common Pants]
[Common Shoes]
[Bone Cruncher Mace]
[Treasured Coin]
[Empty]
[Empty]