Alright I know I've killed enough for a level up. What is going on with this?
Name: Petal
Race: Masquerade Willow Dryad: Level 12 (Rare)
EXP: 1,554
Class: Novice Paladin: Level 9 (Rare)
EXP: 30
Yea I definitely have enough for a level up. And it looks like all my xp went to my race, well I did exclusively use roots to kill the creatures. I don't have any upgrades available, shouldn't until Level 50 anyways. I'm like ninety percent certain this shit is broke. Great just what I need, being inhibited from leveling up. Can I poke it in some way, maybe I need to do something to trigger the level up? No, it didn't need anything like that before. Ghaaaaah!
OK, deep breaths…. Right still in sap. The system I know nothing about has broken and I can't Level up, that's assuming the threshold to level up didn't suddenly jump to the roof. I have no way of fixing it, leaving me dangerously under leveled while just about everything on this damn planet, people included, wants me dead. Did I miss anything? No, cool, I hate this damn planet. I go back to looking around, it turned night during the slaughter of the cratacumbas so now I have nothing better to do than look around and sit with my thumb up my ass.
Maybe I should sleep, it's been a chaotic day. It's not like I can grow any more twiglings, or have anything else to kill. The only things I could do would be maybe building a room around my pod to help keep the cold out. Honestly I don't know if it's worth it since I was only cold the storm, maybe if they occur frequently, but I doubt they do. If they did there would be alot more snow ont the ground than the four feet we currently got. Suddenly a message pops up
Error: 500
Um, what? What is error 500? Is that an error code? I swear to whatever man, god, or polka dotted turtle that runs this shit I will knock somebody's head off if this shit just broke. I try to pull up my status sheet to see if anything is wrong but nothing happens. Status, status, status. I keep thinking the word over and over but nothing happens. Yea, it broke, of course it broke. Just what I need piled onto the ever-growing mountain of issues I have to deal with. All I can hope is that it fixes itself, maybe it will un-jank on maintenance day. Hah, I'm funny.
So, I'm down to no system in a world based on said system. What next….. wait, am I trapped inside my pod without my skills? I frantically sweep out over my network and feel relief when I can still feel and control everything I've built so far, pod and network included. Well sort of control, I can't grow or change anything without the skill but I can still give the twiglings orders. I can still see over my network fine, despite the fact some of the skills effect it. I guess it's intrinsic to me and the system just adds boons.
*Ding* You have leveled up!
*Ding* You have leveled up!
*Ding* You have leveled up!
*Ding* You have leveled up!
Oh here we go, now it fucking works. All that panicking for nothing, at least it fixed itself quickly. Now lets try this again, status.
Name: Petal
Race: Masquerade Willow Dryad: Level 16 (Rare)
EXP: 280
Class: Novice Paladin: Level 9 (Rare)
EXP: 30
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Nutrition: 60/100
Race Traits:
1. Child of Nature
2. Flora Control
3. Blessed life
4. Magical conduit
5. Flora Network
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Age: 0
Skill points: 28
Elements: Light, Life, Spatial.
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Health: 650/650 (784)
Mana: 3248/2598 (3248)
Stamina: 857/663 (868)
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Strength: 66 (+5) (+)
Agility: 26 (+5) (+)
Endurance: 51 (+5) (+)
Magic: 116 (+)
Fortitude: 51 (+5) (+)
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General skills:
* Universal Communication – Level: 1 (Max)
* Blend – Level: 10 (Max)
* Plant Forming – Level: 7(+)
* Mobile Podding – Level: 4(+)
Class Skills:
* Spell List-Life Magic:
* Weak Heal - Level: 2
* Weak Regeneration - Level: 1
* Weak Cleanse Disease - Level: 1
* Weak Cleanse Poison - Level: 1
* Weak Body Reinforcement - Level: 1
* Weak Body Enhancement - Level: 1
* Weak Body Focusing - Level: 1
* Spell List-Light Magic:
* Weak Shield - Level: 1
* Weak Bull’s Strength - Level: 1
* Weak Cat’s Agility - Level: 1
* Weak Bear’s Endurance - Level: 1
* Weak Fei’s Magic - Level: 1
* Weak Dragon’s Fortitude - Level: 1
* Weak Cleanse Curse - Level: 1
* Triage
* Inspire Courage
* Free Casting
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Weak Body Reinforcement: 3652: 45
Weak Body Enhancement: 3652: 43
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Titles: World Walker, Perfect Child
Hmm, everything seems to be in order. That reminds me, I need to see if I can buff the twiglings. I’ll do that later, for now I have twenty eight points to spend, and I know what I’m going to be investing it in. I dump all of them into plant forming and max the skill. After that I still have four points left over but I think I’ll hold onto those for now.
Skill points: 4
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General skills:
* Universal Communication – Level: 1 (Max)
* Blend – Level: 10 (Max)
* Plant Forming – Level: 10 (Max)
* Mobile Podding – Level: 4(+)
Well, I guess I'll sleep til morning. It's not like I have anything else to do. Maybe tomorrow I'll see if I can grow more twiglings once the corpse flowers repair themselves, and I can experiment casting spells on the twiglings. But right now, it's getting cold, so I'm going to head to bed.
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"Did you fix the module yet?"
"Yes it's fixed, I'm waiting on you to restart that glyph chain."
"Right, restarting. It will be up in a second. So how the hell did the system partition for this specific monster crash?"
"It's Fran's pet project, all of this is custom. I didn't think it would level this fast so I used a quick and dirty mana bonding method while I worked something out long term."
"And when it hit the threshold the fail safe kicked in and force stopped the process? Smooth."
"Oh cry me a mountain. All of this is patchwork at best, and a catastrophe waiting to happen at worst. If I was allowed to interact and examine the creature up close even for a minute I could probably make this work seamlessly."
"But we aren't allowed to do that as part of the test."
"Exactly, alright thank you for your help. Everything seems to be in order now. This one should last until the long term solution is worked out."
"Isn't that what you thought last time?"
"Oh go back to monitoring the tectonic plates or something."