Nathaniel was standing in a room he shouldn’t be in, talking with a voice he shouldn’t hear, the voice of Siri, claiming to be inside of his brain, where she really shouldn’t be.
He also shouldn’t have quests, but of cores he had.
“Those are the stupidest quests I’ve ever seen”
The quests simply describe his situation, he was in a room that he didn’t know how to get out of, he was naked, he didn’t know where he was, and how he got there.
“Hey Siri”
“Yes”?
“Any idea on how to leave this room”?
“Of cores, you can leave through the door.”
“Hey Siri”
“no”
“Fuck you anyway”
“That is really inappropriate”
He chuckled, and went to examine the door.
It was a massive door, made of brown wood, and it had a big round handle in the middle.
He tried to pull on the handle, it didn’t move.
He tried to push, nothing.
Frustrated, he tried to rotate the handle, and it smoothly rotate half way to the right.
“oh”
When he tried to pull the door, it moved, but not much.
“Damn, this door is heavy”
He pulled the door more and more, until it opened enough for him to pass thru.
He was exhausted, still drunk, and most important, naked.
The wooden door seemed smooth, but he wasn’t going to bet on it against his uncharacteristically unprotected parts.
Carefully he squeezed himself between the door and the door frame.
Quest: locked door.
Objective: find a way out of the room.
Objective complete.
Reward: door handle
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“I... why th… how… where”?
Door handle?
“So, I get reward for completing quests”?
“It it looks like you do.”
“You didn’t know”?
“I did not know”
“So, that leaves me with four questions, what kind of reward is a door handle? Where is it? Where is it coming from, and what are those points?”
“I do not know the answer to the first and the last two questions, the reward is in your inventory.”
“there’s an inventory”?
“yes”
“no”
“Would you like me to pretend that you do not have an inventory”?
“Prove it! Open the inventory”
Three wards appeared in the air in front of him.
Inventory
Door handle
“that’s not an inventory”
“Would you like me to pretend that is not an inventory”?
“How is that an inventory”?
“I do not kn…”
“no. how do I take it out of the inventory”?
“In order to extract items from your inventory, just say or think, extract item”
Extract door handle
The flouting wards transformed to a round door handle, identical to the one on the door, but smaller, it fell to the floor.
Nathaniel picked it up, and examine it, it was heavy.
It was a simple orb, connected to a small shaft and a flat square to nail it to a door.
He was too drunk to be surprised, but he was sure he should freak out.
It’s one thing to hear voices, but physical objects falling out of thin air? It’s too much for sober Nathaniel, so he took a mantal note, to freak out once he sober up.
“how do I put it back”?
“I do not know”
Of cores
I’m stuck with a broken Siri
After some trial and error, the two of them working together, and only one curse ward from Nathaniel. they discovered that he needed to bring the inventory by a thought, and toss the object to the air.
The inventory appeared as a ward in the air.
Inventory
After he returned the door handle to his inventory, he turned to look at his surroundings.
He was in a cavern, in a big natural room, with high ceiling, and a door at the far end of the room.
There was something next to the door, but he couldn’t focus enough with his eyes to see what it was.
The light in the room came from a long bright line in the middle of the ceiling, lightning a wide line from the door he just opened, all the way to other door, leaving the sides of the room in relative darkness.
In the middle of the room, on a wooden box, there was a golden tin tin shaker.
Full of curiosity, he approached the wooden box, and tried to pick up the shaker.
When he almost touched the shaker, a shock of lightning burst from the shaker and blasted his hand away.
He was seating on the floor, still clutching his right hand, and slowly he opened his eyes.
Warning
High level tool, stay clear of the tool.
Would you like to put the tool in your inventory?
“That is very confusing”
He looked at his hand, there was a black mark where the shock hit it, and it was still painful.
“yes”?
The shaker vanished.
“that’s convenient”
The thing next to the door moved.
Nathaniel was suddenly very aware of his nakedness.
He looked at the moving silhouette.
It looked like something between a body builder, and a dog.
More like a dog, with no fur, and a muscular body.
It was brown, thick, and the size of a black bear.
It looked like it was waking up from a good sleep.
Nathaniel’s mind stared racing, he had no doubt, that when this thing notices him, he’ll have very little time before an unscheduled meeting with its teeth.
He tried to think of a weapon, but he was naked and there was only a wooden box near him. he had nothing useful, and the beast suddenly looked at him and growled.
The beast leaped forward, and Nathaniel clenched his fists in an instinctive defensive move, prompting a shock of pain from his right hand.
He didn’t have time to think about the idea that suddenly popped in his head.
Extract shaker
The beast was almost on top of him, when a golden tin tin shaker draped on it out of thin air.
The shaker was apparently supper heavy, because it crushed the beast straight to the floor.
Nathaniel watched as the shaker burned the beast to death with lightning.
After a while, the beast stopped moving, and the lightning stopped with it.
New loot: the flash costume