A Troubled Breath
With a flash of light Basilis, no, Auro appeared in the small outskirt town he selected. Winds blew strong for 2 mountains where to his left and right. Not many shabby wood houses could be seen at first sight.
But the color green did, bright green grass permeated everything that was not road nor house, trees big enough for wood work could be seen at far. A blue sky like never he has seen before appeared before Auro. A sky so clean that seemed to reflect his peace of mind.
Grassy smell entered his nose while Auro took a deep, deep breath.
“Fuaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Just like my childhood home!”
Behind Auro was a white fountain with clean water. He got near it as he remembered something Oscar told him about the game the proceeded to touch the fountain with his hand.
[Would you like to inscribe this fountain as your spawn point? Y/N]
“Yes, please”
[Grey Wood Fountain saved as spawn point]
Spawn points, places where one revives after dying, without a spawn point players would lose everything they own, since they would be revived only in soul, not body, in a completely random spawn place.
‘Now, let's get to know this place’
Oscar gave him a quick guide on what to do in the beginning of the game, it went like this:
1. Inscribe Spawn Point
2. Get to know the town or city you selected
3. Make smithins stuff
4. ???
5. Profit
It was simple and straightforward, just how Auro likes things. He then noticed he was equipped with some basic necessities, a pair of shoes, trousers, normal white t-shirt and a tool belt. When he opened the tool belt a pop-up suddenly appeared.
[Player Help: Crafter Basic Toolbelt is currently linked to crafters main trait, schrodinger's pocket. You have an interdimensional pocket, you can store items worth their weight into your soul, counts towards your ventilation strain]
Pocket Inventory
Item
Weight
Basic tool kit boon
2
‘Uh, what is this?’ When Auro touched the Basic tool kit boon a present box nothing happened. Another pop-up appeared. Auro frowned, as he was getting really tired of pop-ups.
[Player Help: To take items out of the schrodinger’s pocket player need to put his hand into the linked equipment and drag out the desired object.]
This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.
‘Uh, cool, just like Dororo Cat’ He the dragged a box out of his pocket. It looked like a gift wrapped package.
‘So… how do i open this?’ He tried for a moment to open the boon, but it was sealed tight and the ribbon was clearly harder than steel. So he decided to leave that to another moment and put the box inside the pocket.
He then noticed that he was getting some attention, people were looking at him with odd smiley faces, a big tall muscled man trying to open a pink and yellow gift. ‘This damn game’ Though auro as he left the pond with his ears red.
Afterwards Auro started to aimlessly walk around the small town, not much scouting the town would be needed since it was a small one. While walking he saw an old lady with a basket full of weeds and fruits kind of struggling with it.
“Hello there, can i help you with that?” Auro asked.
The old lady looked at him for a moment then said “Why thank you for your help” with a kind smile. “Here”
Auro then grabbed the simple looking basket, and he was surprised by the heavy basket the old lady was carrying with just a troubled look on her face.
“My name is Medellyn. Lets go, i will walk you to my house and give you some bread i cooked this morning” She the moved towards her home, it seemed to be one of the houses he saw when he appeared, near the fountain.
‘uh, why is she so slow?’ Auro though when he started to follow her.
[Weight is at 300%, player is encumbered(200%)]
“Eh?”
[Player Help: When weight goes over the limit encumbrance player gets the status “Encumbered”. Encumbered status increases the stamina consumption of the action performed equal to the % over the action performed]
[Stamina: 97/100]
‘What?’ Auro saw his stamina bar slowly going down as he walked. ‘how much does this weight?’. Weirdly, when he reached the old granny and started following her in her peace the stamina bar didn't move at all. It stayed 97/100.
In the road towards Medellyn house not much could be seen, a group of childs running to where they came from, a big house with two floors, some rice fields, even a young man walking a cow.
“You saw the two stories house? That’s the elder house, you should go there after helping me.” Said Medellyn while pointing to a big grey wood house.
“Umm, yes i should... But why?” Asked Auro.
“Why What?” Replied Medellyn.
“Why would you say that?” Said Auro this time with a frown on his face.
“Well, well, well, get that frown out of your face bulky fella, your kind is kind of new here so i guess you know nothing of this world and all” Said Medellyn reproaching his frown.
“Eh? You know who i am?” Replied Auro surpised.
“Oh of course not deary, i don't. You should give me your name though”
“My name is Ba- Auro Doxa” Said Auro flustered by almost saying his real name. He remembered the warnings Oscar told him about the penalties for real-world information leakage, they were kinda hard as stated by the guy.
“Ooooh, nice name you have there Auro.” Said Medellyn as he reached an old cottage “Well, don't be surprised but we know of your kind, it was whispered by the breath of the world”
‘Mmm, this is really interesting, making players look like a natural phenomenon, the GGG made a good decision there’ Though basilis as he stopped at the front of the old cottage.
“The breath of the world said that one day his blessed would be coming to the world. People that come from a world really different from ours in some ways, and really alike in others. And here we are, leave the basket here” Explained the old woman.
The temperature felt as it suddenly dropped the moment Medellyn stared at Auros eyes after he dropped the basket. “The breath of the world also said something really interesting”
“The world will change by your kind”
“The children of the breath you will be called”
“The inevitable as boon or blight”
“For allies or enemies we can and will be”
[Achievement unlocked!]
[Coming of the child's recorded]