Hunger.
Hunger began to bubble up inside me until it reached my feathers and I immediately soothed it deeply. All this skipping and running that the body went through left it hungry and thirsty. I already miss the sweet taste of the Joyfrost. If he had the same idea.
"Can you check if there's anything on this tree?"
He looked at me with his ugly face as he put his bare wings on what looked like his stomach. This time, I'm with him. I ordered the body to move from branch to branch below us to see if there was anything edible. The distances between them didn't seem particularly small, but I decided to go back to the top, again without any sign of fruit.
The human sat down on the black floor and thought to him, musing to him in a voice that everyone heard him. Especially me:
We don't know if the line of stones is some village, a small colony, or something else entirely.. but then again I am now... trapped inside an overgrown bird"
[I hear you well]
He ignored my tweets, and doesn't understand them at all:
"There was a lot of fruit in the forest, but also a lot of huge rats, and who knows what is hiding there.."
[coward]
"And what about the nearby river? It's also a good place to drink from and who knows, maybe we'll manage to find something to eat. Maybe we'll even manage to catch a fish, but there are no thumbs" he moves something that was on the bare wing.
[You happen to have these follicles that come out what are your wings 'thumbs'?]
"And if we continue to move between the fields and hope for maybe something to eat on the way. I prefer not to risk it. So that leaves us only one place" he stood up and looked at me.
[I don't know what to do with you]
I did tweet this to him, but I kind of agree with his logic this time, just this time. I ordered the body to get off the tree and with it any movement, from its legs full of scales and hard, but delicate of a day-old chick and its wings which surprisingly know how to navigate and anchor itself on the spaces of the tree trunk as it has the experience of whole seasons and its beak in sticking to the tree. It didn't take too long for something to catch my eye. Something crawls gently on the trunk. I was intrigued to see him. A creature that is not particularly small also manages to gently climb a trunk. The human noticed my focus on the creature and looked at me with a startled look for no reason:
"Don't think about it! We're not going to eat that caterpillar"
He moved and grabbed me, looking at me with a penetrating look:
"Whatever you do, but think about it! I don't want to know what a caterpillar tastes like, you overgrown chicken"
I had a slightly naughty idea at that moment. I stopped the climb and commanded the body to move gently towards the caterpillar, which only crawled in its daily life on the trunk of the tree. With each kick of the leg in the trunk we are closer and closer to the slow caterpillar, and with it, the human's face also becomes more and more anxious. He understood straight away that she intended to approach him. What he didn't know was that I wasn't exactly in the mood to eat a caterpillar, especially after the great fruit we ate just earlier.
But it does its job. The human just got scared and became anxious, not wanting to know the taste of the caterpillar. But soon he began to destroy his playfulness when he realized that he had advanced to the wall with the information written on us and clicked on the text "Climb" causing it to fade and with it, the body lost its grip and began to drop to the ground below us.
[You son of a...]
The body has already hit the ground, bounced back up a little, and landed on the soft ground, near the bare root. The human recovered as if he felt something that we had fallen from the tree, as I also did not feel the 'flight failure' that had just happened. He quickly recovered and looked at me:
"On my shift, we're not going to eat nasty insects. Disgusting!"
[I didn't want to eat the caterpillar anyway, and you just made us fall out of the tree. You are very lucky that nothing happened to us. I don't know how, but you're a complete idiot]
He looked at the invisible barrier and saw the area and looked at me and the carved wall, and began to speak:
"Anyway, let's move quickly to the river, I just hope it will be better there"
I sat in place and did not take my eyes off him. Does not tweet anything and does not move my body or the body to what he wants. He quickly understood and moved towards me:
"Okay, I'm sorry, okay? I'm sorry I did that. It was stupid of me"
I looked at him before getting up:
[Good thing you forgave it. I just hope you don't do this again. The next worm I will make the body eat it]
He looked at me while I chirped with a confused look, but I commanded the body to move in the direction the river was. The walk there didn't take too long and with each step, the space was filled with the sounds of roaring water, and with it, a small river flowed to it. All that was left was to go down to the bank and see how the water flowed in a quiet and calm river with a small waterfall not far from where the body was standing. From the sides, except where the water flows to them, no plants grew on the bank larger than eye level, and none of them contained anything resembling fruit.
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The human looked around the invisible barrier, trying to look for something before he nodded:
"It sucks. There are no fish in the river either"
The place was filled with the gurgling noise of the human's stomach:
"I'm really hungry... it's even worse than before"
The pain of hunger attacks me again, only reinforcing what he said. I commanded the body to move gently into the water until his legs were submerged and reached the joint. The current was weak and the river was very shallow. I ordered one thing to do: drink from the water.
And with him, so did the body too. At its source, he brought it to the flowing water and began to sip from it. Even as his head was inclined to the water, the place did not change at all, like a mirror we cannot feel, but the taste and texture of the water was cool and tasteless as it flowed through the tongue of the body and I felt it. This is the favorite type of water I like to drink. He calmed the same sign of satiety as I show.
It didn't take long for his head to rise back up from the river water and the same taste and texture that dominated my tongue was gone.
A moment of silence washed over the room along with the sound of the running water.
But suddenly, the invisible barrier was filled with similar engravings that were on the wall next to it:
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Congratulations!
You saturate all the basic requirements to survive.
Added ability: Info - allows you to get information from the environment.
Healing is complete.
The possibility for a growth option has opened up
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You are lucky to have survived so far.
You have finished the tutorial! The world will no longer be kind to you.
Oh well, good luck!
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What the hell was that supposed to be?! How did I understand that? What does all this mean?
The hunger I felt before, just disappeared as if we were already full from the water we just drank. I looked at the human, but he was just like me, not only did he show his confused face again, which quickly changed to anxiety, and looked back at me, but he didn't act hungry either.
"What exactly did we do?" He quickly floated to the wall with the engravings and I followed his tail. It has changed:
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Name: ----
Title: ----
Species: Raphus cucullatus (Dodo bird)
Age: (2 day) - Hatchling | (20% growth)
HP: 100% | Stamina: 100% | Karma: 0
Abilities: Tweet | Climb | Run | Universal understanding | Info
Growth option path: Unknow
General information:
It is a moderately flightless bird. They are mostly herbivores that eat fruits, seeds, and roots but are also able to eat and crake mollusks, crustaceans, and fish when the opportunity arises.
Their large and powerful beaks are capable of causing quite a bit of damage and are adapted to the food they eat, but they will more often than not choose to flee rather than fight, even though they have no natural fear.
This is a bird that does not exist in this world and should not exist. There is nothing like her in this world.
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[I think my head is melting from all this information]
We stared at this wall for a while, not understanding what exactly happened. What is in the name of the trees "tutorial"? Growth option? karma?! I didn't ask to know all this and I didn't want to be here in the first place?! Especially with this human! This low tree. And it also describes to me what I like to eat. This is madness!
I looked at the human and he's just staring like the idiot he is. I walked backward from the wall until I turned to the invisible barrier and there, strange inscriptions began to appear on everything. Is that what Info does?
{water}
[I know what I see there! It is clear that it is water for the sake of the forest!]
I looked around some more but apart from these things, nothing exactly changed while the body was still in the flowing water. The human advanced next to me and sat in front of me, looking like me at the sights we see:
"I think that just like me, you are also trying to understand where we were thrown. I would be happy not to be here. What exactly is a tutorial? What does it mean that we are done with it? And other words that I don't know - karma, growth option. Let's not talk about the fact that you can't fly. I was so looking forward to being able to fly"
[Is that what you think, that I can fly? I would also like to fly. away from you]
"What's written there.. is that the effect of the "Info"? It's... useless. I know it's water"
[I know, right?]
We simply stared at the flowing water, trying to digest what else was said:
"What was written there, 'The world will no longer be kind to you', everything we've been through so far, even if we didn't encounter anything dangerous, except for the giant rat, was because the world was kind to us? What kind of nonsense is this supposed to be here? We could have been killed at any given moment! "
He stood up and looked at me:
"As I said before and we have experienced this, we can feel pain through it, we feel tired, hungry, and thirsty but at the same time, we can't do anything about it and depend on the body we are trapped in. Death, I don't want to experience you again and I think neither do you. You are annoying, and I'm annoying you, but we have to find a way to escape from here, without killing ourselves. I don't want to find out what's waiting on the other side. Do you think you can agree with me on that?"
[I'd be happy to just find a way to run away from you, but I'll cooperate with you for now]
There was silence between us before the human turned to the invisible barrier and began to speak:
"Because of everything that has happened, it seems that we have returned to exactly how we were when the personality we are imprisoned in hatched from the egg, with more information thrown out of nowhere. We need to reach a decision quickly. If what is written is true, I fear that someone may come who can threaten our lives, the lives of the body. we have to do something"
I looked around at the destination with him and he quickly thought:
"We can advance to the colony, continue to advance with the river, continue from here away from the place, or try to find shelter... there are so many possibilities that we can do."
A voice echoed from outside into the space where we were standing. It sounded like a low roar, but the human stood in panic:
"And you should do it quickly. I'm afraid they don't exactly receive guests"
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Name: ----
Title: ----
Species: Raphus cucullatus (Dodo bird)
Age: (2 day) - Hatchling | (20% growth)
HP: 100% | Stamina: 100% | Karma: 0
Abilities: Tweet | Climb | Run | Universal understanding | Info
Growth option path: Unknow
General information:
It is a moderately flightless bird. They are mostly herbivores that eat fruits, seeds, and roots but are also able to eat and crake mollusks, crustaceans, and fish when the opportunity arises.
Their large and powerful beaks are capable of causing quite a bit of damage and are adapted to the food they eat, but they will more often than not choose to flee rather than fight, even though they have no natural fear.
This is a bird that does not exist in this world and should not exist. There is nothing like her in this world.
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