Skill Unlocked!
Inventory
Source(s): Dimensional Affinity
Junk Hauler’s Disposition
Inventory
Store items in a pocket dimension connected to you and maintained by ambient mana. If there is not enough ambient mana, your mana or another mana source can be used to maintain it.
Jake ignored the tutorial notification that came along with it and got to testing out his new skill.
Already, he had an inherent inkling of how to use it. He summoned the basket of bug spray from his pocket dimension with a thought, then sent it back.
Both actions only only took a fraction of a second. He also noticed an audible displacement of air as the basket and its contents popped in and out of his current dimension.
Next, he sent his hunting knife to his Inventory, then summoned it back to his hand as he made a stabbing motion. The transfer was seamless and the knife’s handle teleported almost perfectly into his grip.
After sending it back into his Inventory, Jake put his hand close to one of the boards on a shelf. He tried summoning the knife into it, but it ended up appearing on the other side.
Even through the board, he was able to recall his knife to his Inventory, but he couldn’t do that from too far away. His conscious storage range was about a foot and a half or half a meter from one of his extended body parts.
After teleporting his gear into his Inventory and picking the gel cores out of the funeral gel, Jake remembered that he had a tutorial notification and begrudgingly opened it.
Tutorial - Affinities & Dispositions
The affinities that you have will determine what types of skills you can unlock through your dispositions.
The affinities and dispositions you have/can obtain are determined by your preferences and personality. It takes a combination of all of these and mental circumstances to unlock a new skill.
After closing the tutorial message, Jake made his way to the door. With each step he took, he sucked the funeral gel just below his boots into his Inventory to form a dry path.
He, of course, could have gotten out by taking his display shades off again instead of clearing a path.. It's just that he’d prefer not appearing in his guest bathroom feeling dizzy with his head beneath the sink if he didn’t have to.
Once he had stepped out of the room that was supposed to mirror the cabinet under the sink and into the stairwell, he pulled up his general stats to check on his mana.
Mana: 71 / 100
Something around the size of his hunting knife and a can of bug spray looked to have a cost of one mana for a one way trip in or out of his Inventory. The bat and his basket full of bug spray each costed two points and each step of his ‘vacuum step’ had cost him one.
He knew from a tutorial message that he was constantly regenerating health and mana at a rate that would refill both from zero in the span of twenty-four hours. Considering that, it was probably best to be a bit more conservative with his mana from now on.
Jake climbed the stairs up to the long hallway that led to the entrance. If he was going to keep fighting spiders and slimes that were weak against poison sprays, then he thought it would be a good idea to get himself some wasp spray from his grandmother’s hoard before he continued. With a twenty foot range, it’d be plenty enough to keep him from having to get close and personal for every fight.
As soon as he stepped out of the instance, the funeral gel still splattered on his arms and clothes dried out and rapidly faded into dust. Just as the tutorial said, materials from the game instances couldn’t survive in manaless environments like the mundane world.
Jake’s eyes went wide. He’d been happy for a second before coming to a sudden realization. Crap, he thought, my Inventory!
He ducked down, hoping that his items Inventory would have less distance to fall when they popped out of his pocket dimension if he was closer to the ground, but nothing happened. After a few seconds, a tutorial notification popped up in front of his display shades and he decided to open it.
Tutorial - Mana Overflow
Mana from instances overflows into the areas surrounding them. To some extent, this ambient mana allows for the use of skills and stats in the mundane world.
As higher level instances are created, more and more mana will flow into the surrounding environment.
Well that’s convenient, Jake thought, standing up before pausing to think. “Wait a minute,” he said. “So I can still use my skills and stats outside of the instance?”
Heads Up!
In areas with mana to support their usage, that is correct.
“So you're saying I could use my abilities on my grandma?”
Yes
“To hurt her?” he added.
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“But will you actually take actions against users who use the powers that you’ve given them to harm others?”
Note
Whatever actions an individual user thinks should or should not be taken against another user in different circumstances, we are open to hearing it.
Jake had given enough feedback to game companies to know that that was corporate speak for, “All feedback will be forwarded to our spam folder.”
Note
We’d like to remind our users that they have agreed to not take actions that would risk revealing our beta test to the general public.
Moral objections are no valid excuse to ignore what has been agreed upon and we will take appropriate actions when dealing with all breaches of contract.
So, “No we won’t do anything,” and “Yes, we will break your bones if you tell anybody about it,” Jake thought. Not that it mattered. Jake didn’t have any intention of going up against the people who had placed another dimension in his bathroom and given him superpowers to begin with.
That said, he’d still be interested in finding out more about them. If there was anything online, his friend Will would be able to check on if he gave him a set of gear from his Founder’s kit and invited him to the beta.
Putting his questions about the morally ambiguous bathroom dimension spawning corporation aside for the time being, Jake went looking for a few cans of wasps spray to add to his arsenal.
Heads Up!
[Inventory] Storage Capacity has increased!
[Inventory] Transfer Cost has decreased!
After vanishing a couple cans of the stuff into his Inventory, it was straight back to the bathroom with him.
Heading back to the stairwell, he went up instead of down this time. Based on the layout of everything so far, he assumed correctly, that the door at the top would lead to the sink.
He could feel a rush of heat come out of the room as soon as he opened the door. On the other side of it he found a lake.
It was actually just a sink filled almost to the brim with water, but looking to be about two hundred feet wide, it was definitely big enough to be a lake. Even though it was on the verge of flooding over onto the counter, the faucet was still running, shooting out enough water that it sounded like a waterfall.
Atop the sink’s lake, pool, giant puddle, or whatever one wanted to call it, there were clouds of foam floating across the waters like fog and spilling over the counters. Speaking of fog, the huge mirror covering the wall just above the faucet was completely covered in it. The waters of the lake didn’t have much for visibility either, having become clouded by all the soapy chemicals mixed into it.
Jake stepped over to the edge of the counter and stuck his hand into the water. It was lukewarm at this side of the sink, but he could see the steam rising as the waters entered the lake from the faucet on the other side.
Bonus Quest
You’ve found the room the Gel Slime King is planning to establish his slime spawning den in. Shut off the faucet and destroy the king’s dispenser of slimes to thwart his machinations.
Reward
Bonus Level Progression for defeating optional enemy
+200 to Tokens and U.S Dollar rewards
The King’s Dispenser?
From across the pond, Jake spotted a ten-foot tall soap dispenser sitting next to the faucet across the lake. That was the Slime King’s underboss?
As he watched, the head of the soap dispenser pushed down and Jake heard the most aggressive soap dispensing noise possible echo throughout the room. Gel shot out of the dispenser’s head and straight into the waters over the edge of the sink.
Through the gaps in the foam clouds that skirted the lake’s surface, Jake spotted something heading over to him under the soapy white waters. He brought out a can of bug spray from his Inventory in preparation. Better safe than sorry to assume that it was a gel slime.
Like a torpedo, a gel slime came shooting out of the waters towards Jake. It moved faster than any of the slimes he’d met below, but he’d seen it coming from a distance, so he still managed to dodge it.
The slime slammed into the wall behind where Jake had been standing with a splat sending bits of itself all about in every direction. It had pancaked itself so hard that there was barely any gel Jake had to spray through to get to its core.
You took an easy kill on a splattered Gel Slime!
Enemy: Level 2
Can’t deny that, Jake thought. He picked up the slime’s core and pocketed it. The cores didn’t take up that much space that he needed to waste mana on sending them to his Inventory.
The dispenser’s firing sound echoed out in the room again as it sent another slime torpedoing through the water. With no intention of just waiting around for it to actually hit him with one of its slime missiles, Jake started jogging around the sink’s counter towards it. He was in for a bit of a journey with each side of the room being at least the length of two and a half basketball courts..
As he reached the corner of the room closest to the entrance the dispenser’s minion slime came flying out of the water aimed right at him. He didn’t see it change direction to follow him under the foam cloud covered water and he couldn’t hear it until it launched itself out from beneath the surface, but he still managed to dive under it.
The slime slammed into the wall just like the first one and just like the first one as well, he finished this slime off too.
After rounding the counter’s corner, Jake had to run into a cloud of foam that had spilled over from the edge of the lake and was blocking sight of what was ahead. Just as he had imagined, walking into the cloud was like walking into a sea of foam from a bubble bath just without the bath.
While he was in the cloud, he had to walk instead of run. The cloud had slicked the part of the counter it was on with slime, so unless he was going to figure out how to skate on his boot, slow and steady was the way.
He made sure to keep his hand against the wall as he moved forward. The layers of foam bubbles around him were so thick that he could barely even see past his knees. If he didn’t want to risk getting turned around or worse, tripping into the lake, he needed something to ground his position.
As he continued through the cloud, he felt his movements beginning to become heavy. The air began to develop a thickness to it, like humid air during a heatwave. The wall, his clothes, and his skin all started to feel moistened or more accurately in this case, gelled.
Through the foam, he noticed a strong white light shining down from above that was coming closer. He waited for a second, watching. The slimy feeling that was forming around him increased as whatever was producing the light approached him.
A slime? Jake thought. If he assumed that it was a slime core that was controlling the cloud, what was happening to him would make a whole lot more sense.
Before Jake could do anything about it, he heard the sound of the giant soap dispenser launching out another one of its slime spawn. And now that he couldn’t even clearly see five feet in front of him, that was going to be a problem.