So Chaoroy over here doesn’t talk.
Name: Chaoroy
Age: ??
Swim ??: ??
Fly ??:??
Run ??:??
Power ??:??
Stamina ??:??
Not that I can throw shade, my attempts to converse also came out as mostly incoherent babble, I really should have practiced speaking before searching for others.
Chaoroy seems nice enough though, he/she/genderless child/it is not aggressive and that fact that I can see their menu hopefully means that I have some hidden observe skill that I can level up (although nothing happened when I tried to pull up menus for the trees and rocks) but judging by the way it crawls around the hidden stats are not because I am massively outclassed.
By the time I babble enough to say hello all I get in response is a happy face followed by more babbling. Seeing as communication will be more of a long term goal, I start gathering sticks to cobble together a crude shelter.
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Name: Chaorus
Age: 0
Swim C: 3
Fly E: 5
Run E: 7
Power C: 3
Stamina C: 10
I sleep in a leaf bed with a basic grass weave tarp overhead, but it never rains, there is no wildlife, and Chaoroy sleeps out in the open on the ground despite me making a shelter for it and gesturing that the second shelter is theirs. A couple of other chao have wandered along, they also had ?? for ages and stats, but a few of them had evolved.
Mostly it is boring though, I train, I eat, I play tag (which took SO long to teach the other chao of the concept) I sleep. Conversation is mostly gesturing with some basic words now in the mix (every nearby chao now knows the words for play, rest, me, and you) and a few have taken an interest in wrestling with me once I conveyed the concept (I did not want to start with sparring until we have better communication to avoid hurt feelings and accidents, hurt feelings are a literal matter of life and death for chao and I still haven’t ruled out that there are no unseen caretakers).
Speaking of life and death I have confirmed that one of the older chao reincarnated as an egg after reaching (presumably) age 5. They retained the knowledge of play, rest, me, and you so their memory seemed intact as well. They did start crawling again, so it seems that stat levels are still lost in chao reincarnation.
In the games chao raised stats with animals, crayons, or skill fruit. While a few skill fruit trees are around, most of my stat gains came from exercise which does raise stats here. Skill fruit trees are rare, and exercise is mostly just so I can explore further out before I reach my reincarnation, I have travelled a quarter day walk in every direction and have only found other chao, lakes (with noting inside but seaweed), and more trees.
As far as weaponry goes, I managed to break a rock on another rock, and have crafted a short spear with a stick and bark rope (it keeps falling apart and then I have to retie the rope but it looks mildly intimidating….. sometimes), hopefully once my power is high enough then I can break rocks with my fists and start looking for metals in one of the nearby mountains although I have yet to find a single natural cave, the lakes also have no clay so it is possible that the mountains have no ore. But it at least gives me a goal beyond stat increasing.