It's been a few hours since I was brought to the garrison and they locked me in a cell. It's quite boring but since there is no windows and they didn't leave a torch I discovered some cool abilities my character has and some that are not so cool.
The first thing I discovered was that my skin and hair glows, actually glows in the dark. It's not that bright but it will definitely make it near impossible to learn stealth skills. On the other hand I don't need a light to see by when it gets dark. Especially in conjunction with the second ability I discovered. Night vision, my eyesight in the dark is much better than my natural eyesight is normally. I can see nearly everything as if the room was brightly lit even though it only had the dim glow from my own body. When looking at the skin on my arms I can see that the coloring is iridescent and mottled in shades of silver, gold, and a creamy tan. I also have a pattern of scales in my skin but rather then actual scales it's more like snake skin. The patterns there but you can't just grab one of them and pull it up or out. When running my fingers over it the sensation is similar to a snakes as well.
Since I can see well enough to read and it didn't seem like they would talk to me anytime soon; I decided to go through all the notifications I had set aside. As I did so I discovered that I gained 2 titles neither of which I like or want although at least I have a way to get rid of negative side effects of the first one. I'll have to find a way to get rid of the other but I'm not sure if it's possible.
The first title I gained is called Rayl The First and it gives me 50,000 fame with any hybrid and 50,000 infamy with every other race. I gained that title because I was the first hybrid in existence. With the title came directions on removing the infamy part, all I have to do is gain 50,000 points of fame with the other races and will decrease with every point of fame I gain. Not to difficult, right? And it shows immediate results. Apparently 10% of the infamy in this title is inherited by every hybrid that comes after me. I didn't know why it was called Rayl the First until after I checked my status but it seems that Son-ja is either illiterate and couldn't spell Royal or just chose not to.
The second title is called Abomination and I recieved it after being called abomination or monster by over 100 individuals in less than five minutes. As the only effect it has is that it increases my infamy by 1,000 I can see no good from it. At least it has little to no effect at the moment but I'm going to try to find a way to remove it before I get rid of all the infamy in my first title.
Now, right after I entered Privada the notifications said I gained a random racial skill and one of the other notifications told me that it was called Absorption and it is a racial skill for Slime's. The skill Absorption allows me to dissolve and absorb a percentage of anything that enters and remains in my body for a length of time. As the skill ability levels I'll be able to absorb a higher percentage of the materials and absorb them faster. Whether I can gain an ability, attribute, stat, or skill from it is contingent on the level and abilities of the thing I'm absorbing and how much of it I can absorb. This seems like a very good skill once it gets leveled so I'm trying to level it by eating the small stones on the floor of my cell. (Not like there's much else to do.)
Once I finished going through all the notifications I decided to look at my status. It looks something like this.
Name: Rayl
Race: Hybrid (!)
Level: 0
Fame: 50,000 (!)
Infamy: 51,000 (!)
HP: 10 (!)
MP: 15 (!)
HP recovery per hour: 7 (!)
MP recovery per hour: 9 (!)
Maximum Attack power: 0 (!)
Maximum Defense power: 0 (!)
Active Stats:
Cha: 1
Int: 1
Luc: 1
Res: 1
Vit: 2
Wis: 1
Affinities:
Light: -50%
Skills:
Absorption: Lvl 0 - 0.00016% exp.
Attributes:
Enhanced Senses: Your senses are enhanced
Natural Light Sensitivity: (!) You are sensitive to natural light. You experience a 50% decrease in all stats when directly exposed to natural light and a 25% decrease in all stats when indirectly exposed to natural light.
Hermaphrodite: You are currently a hermaphrodite and carry both male and female genitalia.
Asexual: You are not currently asexual but can choose to alter your genitalia to become asexual at anytime.
Titles:
Rayl The First: (!)
Abomination: (!)
All the parts of my status that had the (!) mark next to it had more information. For example the fame and infamy split up into hybrid and non hybrid categories and the titles just showed what influence the titles had. The ones around the HP and MP values showed how to calculate them from your stat points. The (!) that I took special note of was the one next to Natural Light Sensitivity. It told me that by natural light meant sunlight not moonlight, starlight, firelight or magelight unless it was made using magic from the affinity of light. And even then it would be considered as indirect light rather than direct light. I was quite relieved and glad to hear it didn't mean all forms of light.
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It's been about 1 day since I was brought to the Guardhouse dungeon. I only know this because of the clock function on the game menu. Another good way to tell the time was the bowl of slop they brought to my cell for dinner. Which reminds me that if it wasn't for the fact that they keep my satiety meter filled and thus keep me from starving I would have stopped eating the pebbles on the floor after I had to shit them out the first time. They don't give much experience and barely dissolve at all. It tore my asshole up and cost me 3 hp. So far I haven't had to re-eat the stones I shit out but I'm starting to run out of new stones to eat and if I don't get out soon I'll have to eat the shit stones. 'Bleh!' The only reason I haven't had to eat the shit stones is because I stopped swallowing them whole and started sucking on them instead. Surprisingly even when sucking on them they still give me experience in absorption and keep my satiety up. They also last for several hours longer than if I swallow them.
I was originally hesitant to eat the slop in case it's poisoned but I've been eating a tiny tiny bit of it at a time. Only as much as I can fit on the tip of my finger. There hasn't been any negative side effects so I plan to increase the amount I eat at a time.
The cell isn't big enough for me to lay down in being about 4 feet by 4 feet wide and about 5 or 6 feet tall. As I'm only 4 feet 3 inches I think it's closer to 6 cause I can't touch the ceiling when I jump with my arms straight up. But since I don't know how high I can jump I can't tell for sure. Being over a foot shorter then I am outside Eadenara takes quite a bit of adjustment. In order to alleviate my boredom I've been doing what exercises I can or singing to drive away the silence.
Thanks to that I've gained several stats and the skills; Jump, Stretch, and Songstress. When I noticed the skills I acquired had different colors I selected them in the menu and found out that there were different ranks. While it doesn't give me all the ranks it did tell me what rank each skill I had was. The skills Jump and Stretch were listed as common and had the color blue while Songstress said professional and was yellow. As for the Absorption skill it was a rare rank skill in red.
The stats I gained was two in flexibility but only one stat in each of the following; agility, intelligence, endurance, and stamina. I recieved the second stat in flexibility when the Stretch skill reached level 1. Since the first stat in flexibility was gained at the same time as the Stretch skill and the stat in agility was gained with the Jump skill in addition to gaining the intelligence stat with the Songstress skill I believe that I'll gain a stat point with every new skill or level up of a skill.
While I didn't recieve any skills with the endurance and stamina stats I did gain them by pushing myself to do as many jumping exercises as I could before I collapsed. In the beginning I could only do about four or five before I was exhausted but I gained the stamina stat when I was able to do ten before exhaustion set in and I gained the endurance stat after doing an additional three jumps after being exhausted. I'm now up to twenty-five jumps then doing about ten minutes of stretching before taking a 15 minute break before more stretching and another twenty-five jumps. After 5 repititions I take an hour break to suck on stones or sing.
I sing nursery rhymes from when I was young in addition to more recent and popular songs although I can rarely remember all the words from those and usually end up making something up partway through.
I've gotten the Absorption skill to - 0.0936%, the Jump skill to - 65.37%, the Stretch skill to level 1 - 4.9%, and the Songstress skill to - 18.52%. The only one I've been able to level up so far is the Stretch skill and I think it means that the different ranks of skill give out different amounts of experience when using each skill.
I had to log out of Eadenara for dinner but logged back in after an hour IRT so I only missed 4 hours IGT. I don't have to be at work till 10 am tomorrow so I can still play for another 58 hours IGT before I have to log out to get ready. That's approximately 2 1/2 days in game so I hope that nothing will happen while I'm working even though I only have a half day tomorrow from 10 am till 2 pm that's still almost a full day in game.
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1 day later
It's been two days now and I've started doing karate chops on the bars of my cell. I can only do about 10 each hour before I have to go back to my squat jumps and stretching because I lose 1 hp point with every chop and I only recover 10 hp per hour. What sucks is I don't even hit it very hard. Just barely hitting with the side of my hand on each swing. I dare not use all 17.5 hp up because I don't know if I'll die when I hit 0 or if it has to go into the negatives in order to kill me.
Since I didn't keep track of how many I did of the other exercises before I got a skill I'm going to count how many chops I do before I get a skill and then do another exercise to see if you get a skill after the same number of times doing it. Currently I'm on the 7th hour and just finished the 70th chop.
After I started eating more of the slop the speed at which my absorption skill gained experience increased so I'm willing to bet that it currently can dissolve and absorb organic material better than inorganic material. It's almost to 1% at 0.926% after eating all the slop left from the first two days.
My Jump skill is very close to leveling up to level 1 if my suppositions are correct I will gain another stat point when it does. I wonder if it will be agility just like when I gained the skill since when stretch leveled up it gained the same stat as the initial one that came with the skill or if it will be a different stat needed for jumping like strength, stamina, or endurance.
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And 1 day after that
Jump leveled to level 1 and I gained a stat in strength so while I gain a stat when a skill levels it's not always the same stat so I can't assume that I'll always get the stat I want or need. But at least so far it's been a stat associated with the skill that was gained or leveled.
I also gained the skill Hand Chop after chopping the bars 200 times. It is an uncommon skill in green and is a subskill for the Unarmed Combat skill. It grants a percentage increase in maximum attack power when using a hand chop. Currently at level 0 the increase is 2.5% of the total maximum attack power. The stat point I got for it is 1 point of the attack stat.
My throat has gotten sore so in place of singing I have started juggling the stones and I am testing my hypothesis on whether repeating an action a certain number of times will grant a skill so I am currently kicking the bars rather than chopping them. It has the same result where I lose 1 hp for each kick, so i'm still limited to ten kicks per hour before I have to switch since I can only regen 10 hp per hour.
Earlier this morning I had gotten bored with the repitition so I tried to do a hand stand push up but my arms couldn't bear my own weight and I fell over getting tangled up with my ass in the air. It took almost half an hour before I was able to completely untangle myself.
In order to get to work on time tomorrow I'll be sleeping in game as I've been doing the last few days. Before going to sleep I go through my status again and notice the asexual attribute. Since it said that I can change to asexual from hermaphrodite I try to do it but it won't let me. Apparently it costs 100 mp for each time the change between the two occurs but I currently only have 16 mp. Looks like it will be a while before I'll be able to get rid of these breasts. I'd rather have no dick and be smooth down there *shiver* than have breasts no matter how small.