Name: (Words) = Thinking (usually reserved for third person perspectives).
Words~ = Sing-song voice.
Words/ = Monotone voice.
*Words* = Sound effects/actions.
Unless noted otherwise, it’s 3rd Person PoV
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Casa de Madre
Mammon and Fortuna still don’t know what happened, and are pretty distracted from asking about it due to their surprise marriage and race change. They spent a nice two hours in silence, contemplating their new situation.
Mammon: “Soooooo [Yggdrasil Archive]?”
Fortuna: “It let’s me keep all of my knowledge, store it into my tree, and let me recall it at any time… Wifi implant?”
Mammon: “Kind of the same thing, but with the internet, I don’t keep the knowledge though…” (Hmmmm I smell an exploit. Yay exploits~!)
Fortuna: “Wha-”
Mammon: “The internet is a global communication network that allows people to share information, entertainment, and other things with other people.”
Fortuna: “How ar-”
Mammon: “I am 1/64th Cherokee Indian, I can listen to the heart of nature.”
Fortuna: “The Cherokee Indian race sounds like a noble people.”
Mammon: *pfffffft*
Title: [Sarcasm? What is that, is it tasty?] Has advanced to level 2!
Please note that that was sarcasm, Titles don't have levels.
Mammon: (Exploit, I’m really close… EUREKA!) “Fortuna! Use [Yggdrasil Archive] and the Wifi implant at the same time! You can copy information from one to the other!”
You do know that you two are sharing your bookmarks right?
Aren't you scared that she'll find your porn?
Fortuna: “Wha-”
Mammon: “Porn is short for Pornography, which is an entertainment medium where one or more people are engaged in sexually exciting activities. People watch it for sexual gratification. Why am I answering this? Also, what porn bookmarks? I’ve been in a coma for five years, where I was hormonally imbalanced enough to fall in love with two trucks… *opens up his own implant and starts searching* Open up the Wifi Implant twice, and try to focus on both, we might acquire a passive or something nice.”
Fortuna does just that, but over achieves, and opens up five“tabs”: an online encyclopedia, cat videos, a web novel site, a manga website, and search engine.
Fortuna: (Search for porn… 700 million results! That’s a lot of information just for sexual gratification…)
Fortuna gets right to “work” acquiring information and training for passives, while Mammon feels a shiver run down his spine.
Mammon: (Why do I feel like I made the biggest mistake in my life? Anywho… [Yggdrasil Archive] search for magical monsters and catalogue abilities!) Mammon starts to search the UI for some sort of note taking app of some sort… “Damnit! Blue Screen, you are elected to take notes! We need a slime for the division ability, Fortuna needs a body to do things, not that I don’t mind sharing one with her, we are married after all. Some sort of animal to hide the fact that we aren’t beastkin, because racism blows. Before you say anything Fortuna, look it up in a search engine.”
Fortuna: (The Cherokee are a fearsome people!)
Mammon: “Why do I feel like laughing? Anyway, Fortuna keeps looking up information, preferably things to do with crafting professions and whatnot. *inspects browsing history* Oi! At least use two tabs for research, you can use the others for personal use! I will practice passives while searching over the UI and [Yggdrasil Archive].”
Meh, don't get snippy with me, it's not my fault they didn't implement useful things!
Don't worry about the animals/racism, the GMs and Gods/AIs will take care of that before you are born.Quest: Practice Makes Perfect! --- Type: Group
Part 1: Mammon is to search [Yggdrasil Archive] and the menu while practicing your passives.
Please note that Mana/Psy emission is disabled until you are born, don't want to kill yourself like your sister...
Success: Research while practicing.
Failure: Sit on your proverbial ass and watch cat videos.
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Part 2: Fortuna is to research information for [Yggdrasil Archive] with the Wifi Implant, while focusing on:
* Tailoring/Leatherworking
* Smithing/Engineering
* Alchemy/Chemistry
Success: Find enough information on the listed subjects.
Failure: Watch too much porn.
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Rewards: Satisfaction, improved skills, +1 Level, +3 Animals for absorption.
Penalties: An annoying title for Mammon --- Fortuna will become a Chuuni Nympho.Speed Reading: You now read faster! Speed is increased by multiples of your level!
Type: Passive --- Level: 04/100Multitasking: You can now do multiple things at once!
Please note that this skill is dependant on Dexterity AND Intellect.
Type: Passive --- Level: 03/100Well kids, I have other things to take care of, and meetings to attend, so I'm off!
Don't worry, the system will still update skills and whatnot, you just won't receive notifications for them.
Before I forget, stat gains can't happen until you're born.
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Mammon’s PoV
Why do I feel a soul wrenching scream every time Blue Screen talks? Anywho- Psychic Meditation is all about circulating Psy through your nervous system, while Magical Meditation is all about circulating Mana through your bloodstream. Hmmmmmm let’s do them separately first, and then try to combine them. Knowing this, it’s probably an ancient skill or something similar. Why do I hear J-Pop, how is it playing, and how do I understand Japanese?
Mammon: “Oi! Why are you wasting your time learning languages from other worlds? They have no use to us here…”
Fortuna: “I’m al-”
Mammon: “Jebus, you have nine tabs open. And you are doing your research. Still doesn’t explain how I’m hearing the music though…”
Fortuna: “There’s a m-”
Mammon: “Oi, there isn’t a goddamned notepad, but we get a freaking media player? It is kind of cool that we share the same media player. At least it isn’t tied into the Wifi implant, that would be kind of annoying to listen to porn while workin-”
Fortuna: “WILL YOU LET ME FINISH MY GODDAMN SENTENCES YOU BASTARD! FUCK!”
Mammon: “I’m sorry, it’s my Cherokee blood, it compel-.”
Fortuna: “SHUT IT! You can’t be Cherokee, they originate from Earth.”
Mammon: “How d-”
Fortuna: “Wikipedia. I’m sorry, it seems like my Navajo blood is kicking in. How’s it feel, sucks doesn’t it?”
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Mammon: “I’m sorry/…”
Oi, what happened to the innocent, cute, shy girl who spoke in monotone? I miss her already, it seems like it was just this morning when we first met. It’s rebellion I tell you, rebellion. Oh! Exploit found!
Mammon: “Honey~”
Fortuna: “Y-yes?”
Mammon: “Check the archive and skill list for some Ancient Meditation skill I just discovered. You should use that while doing your thing. Shared Stats equals shared XP, which means faster skill ups!”
Fortuna: “Isn’t that a little… cheaty?”
Mammon: “Yep! KAH KAH KAH KAH KAH KAH KAH KAH!”
Why do I feel creeped out, and like I owe some hamster something? I hope that didn’t give me a skill. Yep, let’s never check to confirm. Never.
Fortuna: “We just got a new skill.”
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Mammon: “No we didn’t~”
Fortuna: “It’s calle-”
Mammon: “Nooooooope~”
Fortuna: “It’s called [Creative Borrowing].”
Phew… Saaaafe~
Fortuna: “And another one called [Denial]. It’s already at max level.”
Mammon: “Well, I deny it’s existence.”
Fortuna: “I don’t think it works that wa-”
Mammon: “Then the skill will deny my denial, thus creating a paradox. Said paradox will cause massive interference with the system, and the AIs/Gods will have to remove the skill from us to prevent all of existence from ending.”
Fortuna: “... I can’t believe that worked. Was all that true?”
Mammon: “No, I just deleted the skill, you can do that to get rid of conflicting skills and whatnot. You can always relearn it, but you start from scratch.”
Fortuna: “Another skill... It’s called [Professional Bullshitter]... Again, at max level.”
Mammon: “We’re keeping that one.”
Score~ That will be super useful for later, I’m gonna try to go with an assassin-like class! I will be badass too! Shit, Bluescreen isn’t here anymore, no more to-do list… Wait~ There’s in-game mail! I… We need some perception type skills and maybe some body reinforcement… That last one should probably wait. Wouldn’t want to accidentally Shoryuken ourselves out of our own Mother.
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About eight and a half months later - Casa de Madre - Fortuna PoV
So much knowledge~ Knowledge I can actually use! I will use it for hi… to make sure I will not bring disrespect to my ancestors. Engineering and Chemistry seem interesting, if we apply it to Smithing and Alchemy respectively, we could change the world.
Skills are really weird here. Apparently you can get up to level 25 in a skill with just knowledge alone! Weird huh? To get past 25, you have to actually practice the skill, or meet a stat requirement, sometimes both. I asked Mammon about it, but he did that weird laugh again, and then quickly deleted a skill before I could check on it, while saying something mean about hamsters… Research was really hard at first, but once [Speed Reading] got to max level, it evolved into [Eidetic Memory]. And then I was told that I could download the whole repository of websites into the [Yggdrasil Archive]... I’m not proud to say that I lost my temper and yelled at Mammon again. Hopefully it doesn’t scare him off… Oh yeah! Our souls are joined~ He can never leave~ Go away [Personal Title: Undere] your kind ain’t welcome here in these parts! [Denial] can stay though…
I looked into [Dumbest Smartass] that Mammon has, and [Smartest Dumbass] that I have… I can only exert 50% of my Wisdom stat mentally, while Mammon can only exert 50% of his Intelligence stat mentally. It’s ironic, I have all this knowledge at my disposal, but I can’t properly utilize it. While Mammon can’t memorize all of the knowledge, but can fully utilize what he researches.
Designing has been fun, for Mammon, I designed a set of armor i copi… creatively borrowed from the Samurai… and Xianxia novels… and Knights. For me, I made a priestess suit so I can heal his wounds! I told Mammon about this, and he got depressed, saying something like “Don’t wanna be a goddamned Chunni…” and “I wanna be a ninja”. I don’t know what his issue is, Chuunibyou sound cool~.
Mammon kept saying that the [Earth Language] skill will be useless, but I have a feeling about it being otherwise. That, and it’s useful for music~. The other skills have their uses too. Except for that one *blushes* that will have it’s uses later ufufufufufufufu~
Mammon: “Why do I have this ominous feeling? [Ojou-sama Laugh] and [Night ser-] ACK! Ow! HOW?”
Fortuna: “... HURRY UP BLUESCREEN!”
Mammon: “Seriously tell me how you did that, I don’t care about the [Night Ser-] ACK! *cough* *cough* I’ll shut up now.”
Fortuna: “The effects of wisdom show themselves.”
Mammon: “... HURRY UP BLUESCREEN!”
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Casa de Madre
Thanks for the hard work kids!
Please stand by, transferring to your personal space.
Mammon: “Why am I hearing screams of frustration from about a dozen people?”
Fortuna: “Oh! I know what this is! They call this the [Profound Mystery of the Cliffha-] ACK! Ow, that hurt! How did you do that?”
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Author’s Note: Sorry for the cliffhanger again! I said that this will be the growing up chapter, but I got distracted by jokes and references and whatnot. Next chapter will solve the body issue, and do the growing up! Oh, and before you guys start complaining about having Fortuna lay the love on thickly, there are two reasons: A - Going from a shitty situation to a better one, and B - This one will stay hidden, because that’s a few chapters away~.
Oh, and before I forget, here’s the FIXED stats chart, and the skill table.
StatusName:Mammon/FortunaLevel:0Class:---Race:ChimeraTitles:Twin-SoulSarcasm? What is that, is it tasty?I accidentally my whole sisterMale/Female/???Two Souls, One VesselHP:20/20Mana/Psy40/40Resource:---Stamina:20/20PhysicalAgility:2Strength:2DefensiveConstitution:2Endurance:2MentalIntellect:2Wisdom:2OtherDexterity:2Perception:2Spirit:2Luck:MAX
Skill ListAbsorption (Trait)MAXAbsorption (Ability)MAXBody ManipulationMAXMana/Psy Manipulation25/100Ancient Meditation25/100Eidetic MemoryMAXMultitasking25/100Creative BorrowingMAXProfessional BullshitterMAXEarth Language65%Composer25/100Designer25/100Mana/Psy Sensing25/100Smithing/Engineering25/100Tailoring/Leatherworking25/100Cooking25/100Woodscraft25/100Night Service25/100