Still, this view into the System’s limits has little short-term value besides proving his path has a chance. Not a small thing, but not a certainty. It will take more testing to actually prove one way or another. Though if Jason was to be honest with himself, it wouldn’t be certain right until he tries it for real. After all, who knows how t...
2021-04-21 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI first met Him on the way home. It was well after night had fallen, but not in some dark alley. In fact, it happened in a well lit convenience store. He was the only other person besides the cashier, so I decided to avoid Him. Apparently that just wasn’t in the cards though, as we both ended up in the fridge section.
I had been looking ...
2021-04-19 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostFinished with the randomness, Doyle turns his attention to creating his first boss. He doesn’t know what to do, but he has a clue. Mainly in the fact that it was displayed in place of his usual random monster choice. ‘[System, I would like to designate my kobold leader as a boss.]’
Of course, while this technically works, it isn’t ...
2021-04-16 10:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing this the much more expensive assassin vine starts to make ever more sense. Not that he plans to use them on this floor. That can come later. For now, he decides on a small wolf pack. Ten dungeon wolves for 500 points, five stone wolves to act as mounts for Her companions for 375, and five wind wolves priced at another 375 for a total of 1...
2021-04-16 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason would have had to worry about his bones as well if it wasn’t for his system granted skeletal system. Though he does make note that he should look into strengthening them, anyway. Especially since he plans to work on his strength during his coming journey.
However, that can wait for later. All the nearby scamps besides the first he ...
2021-04-14 10:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostOut of the well kept shed comes scampering a lizard. Smaller than your average dog, but larger than your average cat. The scales across most of the body are quite fine, but grow in size and roughness up across the back. On those larger scales, the lizard’s special color pattern is much easier to see. Overall, a muddy brown, but across the enti...
2021-04-14 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post{Fifth floor dimensionally anchored
World Energy cap +3000 [Constitution(30) * 100]
Fifth floor spending limit set to 10500 [Previous floor’s limit(7800) + Intelligence(27) * 100]
First boss monster unlocked for use
Monster level cap updated
Quintessence debt paid back by 5}
Doyle nods, ‘Nothing out of the...
2021-04-09 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostReligious questions aside though, Jason had a new thing to do for the day. It wasn’t even lunch yet, and his plans to stay in and rest were down the hole. Instead, it would be a thrilling day of walking around and looking for plants and animals to observe. Though that did bring up the question of if pets would have been infiltrated by the Syst...
2021-04-07 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostNext morning Jason wakes up and shakes his head. ‘I should look into the sleep option. The time ratio between NeoRealm and irl is nice, but doubling it would be better. Though I do wonder how it works. In fact, why haven’t I questioned it before?’
Then he stands up and ignores the question.
Out in the den, a decent breakfast of...
2021-04-07 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs the group leaves the dungeon, Doyle is laughing. For the first time, his monsters provided a real challenge for the group. Sure, other times they would face difficulties. But this was the closest to death any of them had come except for Sammy, and her thing was a fluke. Though the question is why. He turns to Ally, ‘So what’s up with the ...
2021-04-02 10:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostAce claps his hands, “All that aside, we should probably go and check on whatever the first monsters will be on the floor. If it seems troublesome, we are out of here. No questions asked.”
Jack rolls his eyes but stays quiet. No one else wanting to speak up the group goes down the stairs. The portal to the next floor is right where the...
2021-04-02 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostGregor shrugs, “Anyway, this is just the System rewarding you for the quest and providing you an incentive to follow through on the dungeon once you are there.”
Jason raises an eyebrow, “So what I’m reading into this is there is some kind of catch to the dungeon?”
Gregor chuckles, “Why yes, yes, there is a catch. I’m no...
2021-03-31 10:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostJason frowns, “Wait a second. If they can’t tell the level of other monsters, how do they know when one is about to hit the fourth bottleneck?”
Gregor rolls his eyes, “The same way they will be figuring out that you are at the same level of power. The fourth break might not be as big a jump in power as the third, but there is certa...
2021-03-31 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAce sighs, “The only problem with magical mining is the fact that it doubles the difficulty of advancing. Not only do you need to train the mining skill, but your magical skill as well. Though that is for the future. Right now I would really like to learn how many ore deposits there actually are and maybe find out if there is a new floor. With...
2021-03-26 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason nods, “So what are we going to be facing at the end of this journey? Of course a dungeon, but any specifics you want to share?”
Gregor shrugs, “You wanted a bunch of things. None of them are hard on their own, but together it limits us a little. You wanted the monsters to be susceptible to sneak attacks, yet not intelligent. A ...
2021-03-24 10:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostGregor laughs, “I’m glad you have a good head on your shoulders. Way too many travellers seem to think that the trip to 25 is still the early levels. Even with the whole not dying thing you have going on a decent number of you guys can’t manage to beat a true dungeon. Level 25 is a watershed moment for dungeon bosses.”
Jas...
2021-03-24 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAce nods, “Being reckless at this point is stupid. I don’t think we are even at the point of being above pre-system human potential. Maybe as a whole our stats are better than possible, but no one stat is beyond what an Olympic athlete or some such would be capable of. Mind you, that still puts those in our settlement, especially us founders...
2021-03-19 10:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle laughs, ‘Even if for every hundred points of world energy I use on it, I save only a single point that is still better than nothing. It would also give me something to do with the excess regen when my pool is full.’
Ally shakes her head, ‘Yeah, don’t do that. Either spend it on expanding your territory like you’ve been doin...
2021-03-19 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter dinner, Gregor tells the group to stay in the den. “I have a map, but it is currently in my library. As Jason learned earlier today, there is not much space in there at all. Just stick tight and I will bring it out here so I can show you what is up.”
It takes him a minute, but soon enough Gregor is back with a large sheet of vell...
2021-03-17 10:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostSure, the fact that his lines aren’t one solid structure and instead string makes the metaphor a little strained. All that matters though is if it makes sense to Jason. Plus, it isn’t like you can’t braid the roots of a cultivated plant. But what makes up the outer wall? It can’t be Qi because that would turn the Energy into Qi at the fa...
2021-03-17 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe spear dude and the other martial arts guy both stood there stunned that someone in the group had actually died. The lady is taking it better as she had a more realistic view of their abilities from the outset. But it is Mr. Stansible who is taking it the best. While it had changed in his later years, for the first decade of his time as a jud...
2021-03-12 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOf course, the author of the notes didn’t just leave things at that. It is just the needed part to make the information all come together was of course in a different location than what it went with. The author’s method of growing his Energy was treating the process like digging a ditch off of a river. The more that was dug out the more woul...
2021-03-10 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe third example in the book covers an area the size of a town and requires a moderately sized Energy font. It has an effect that is both the simplest and yet at the same time most useful for the people able to afford these things. All the ritual does is keep track of when sapients enter and leave the area it covers.
What raises this abov...
2021-03-10 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMr. Stansible stashes the potion away, “Now let us continue on our way. The next floor is where we might actually start finding new stuff. Though I guess technically this potion thing might be new as well.”
Everyone else in the party is fine with this, and they head through the portal. On the other side Jamie frowns, “I can feel some...
2021-03-05 11:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe visiting delvers stand on the wooden platform just inside of the second floor’s forest room. Mr. Stansible stares long and hard at the plateau across the way before sighing. “While it would be nice to get up there for the herbs that isn’t in the cards today. Plus, we don’t have any method of getting through the cliff. Weird as it sou...
2021-03-05 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a little more back and forth with Gregor, Jason heads back to his room to read the book, Insights into the TriPower Crafting Methods. Not just the section on Energy though, but rather he plans to skim over the first two parts as well. If only to get a feel for how the author likes to write down his knowledge.
Though right fr...
2021-03-03 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostGregor shrugs, “You might be right. It would make some sense if the System couldn’t. If only because I doubt there would be so many examples in history of someone who goes against the System,”
Jason shakes his head, “Past examples, especially if they all come from before travellers started to pop up, aren’t exactly things you can...
2021-03-03 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMr. Stansible stands toward the back of the group as one of the two ladies is field stripping a goat with her kukri. The rest of the goats in the room start to fade away, but the one being worked on sticks around until she has finished with the current cut of meat. She packs the meat into a container. Mr. Stansible nods, “So what is your opini...
2021-02-26 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“In fact!”, Jason laughs, “In fact, the fact so few things use Energy is proof that the System actively works against it. Of course, the System can’t tell people not to use it. Otherwise everyone and their uncle would give Energy a try.”
“Anyway, through that purity I have observed my body as a void. Unless something is activel...
2021-02-24 11:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostGregor shakes his head, “Back to the void, I guess. You have a messed up cultivation method.”
Jason laughs, “I guess we get to use the special magnifying glass.”
Gregor laughs with him but then shakes his head, “That’s actually a regular magnifying glass. It’s just that anytime someone gets to see all my tools laid out,...
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