May 20th XXXX
Day 1
I was driving home after a mentally draining day at work, when the road ahead of me became shrouded in fog and an azure light flared up in it. I slowed down my car so that I would not get in to an accident but the farther into the fog that I crept in the car stalled and I angled to the side of the road. It was a good choice as the moment that I left the lane the vehicle behind me rushed past and rear-ended a car in front of it. When my car stopped, I got out to see if I could be of any assistance someone in the crash. When I made my way to the first vehicle a truck, I looked in to the driver side window, but as I saw no one, I moved on to the next vehicle and the next. “Hello! Is there any one here?” I shouted and waited for a little while until I gave up seeing that no one responded and returned to my car. In my car, I slumped into a seat and tried to come up with any reason for why the vehicles would die for no apparent reason and why there were no other drivers. Sitting there for a while I decided to check my cell for any reception but when I picked it up I discovered that it was dead also, which was weird as it was charging while I was driving. Sighing I got out of the van and noticed that the fog was dissipating and was revealing a forest surrounding the road in a rough circle. Quickly rushing out and climbing on to the roof I speculated that the circle was about 100 meters in diameter. “Well, I don’t think I’m on the west coast anymore.”
Quickly deciding to search the vehicles around me for any useful items. I set out scavenging searching for the next few hours I found:
- 6 water bottles (4.5 full)
- 2 thermoses (empty)
- A dozen Tupperware containers (empty)
- Box of granola bars (48 pieces)
- 10 cans of tuna
- 5 apples
- 3 oranges
- 7 tomatoes
- 3 cucumbers
- Banana
- Windup wrist watch
- 2 notebooks
- Box of pens
- Box of pencils
- Several changes of clothes
- Pair of steel toe boots
- Tool pouch
- Hamer
- Knife 13" blade, 18" long
- Shovel
- Folding Hand saw
- 3lbs 23.5" Chopping Axe
- Bow and a quiver of arrows (45)
- Compact PROSPECTORS PICK AXE
- Small sledgehammer
- Spool of Twine 150 meters
- 8 survival books
- Box of seeds
- Camping kit with sleeping bag
* Tent
* Compass
* Sleeping bag
* Cast iron campfire tripod
* 3 spoons
* 3 forks
* 4 kitchen knives
* whetstone
- First aid kit:
o bandages
o 3 Medical tape rolls
o 3 bottles of Iodine
Most of the stuff I found in a RV, it seems that the owners were survivalists and I took anything that I could carry looking at the sky I saw that it was becoming dark I decided to pack everything up and use the RV as a place to sleep.
Day 2
When I opened my eyes in the morning I saw a blue translucent rectangle floating in front of me.
"What the hell!" I croaked. "What is this?"
""" New entity found. Synchronizing with the world.
Please input your name.
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"Andros"
Name: Andros
Age: 27
Level: 1, 0%
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Health: 80
Mana: 110
Stamina: 90
Strength: 10
Agility: 9
Dexterity: 10
Constitution: 8
Endurance: 9
Intelligence: 11
Wisdom: 10
Charisma: 10
Luck: 14
Abilities:
Boundless
Skills:
Alignment: Neutral
Language: English (unusable)
“”” Warning Any Items Not Claimed Will Be Purged In 1 Days’ Time.
Please Vacate the Area as Any Thing That Remains in The Area Will Be Removed.”””
Well I was planning on leaving this area, this just makes it that I have to leave earlier then I would have. But first I would have to eat some breakfast. Opening one if the cans of tuna I ate it and drank half of a bottle of water, I grunted as I slung the pack over my shoulders and put on my carpenter’s tool belt and shoving the axe through one of the loops I opened the compass looking at it to see which way was north, but it only spun in circles. Sighing I shoved it in to my pocket and looking up at the sky I turned to the sun and headed in the direction that I thought of as the east. When I neared the tree line, I looked back one last time at all that was left from my world. Walking in to the trees I was happy that this was a temperate broad leaf forest, this meant that I would be able to tell the seasons apart easily as the leaves would change color in the fall and fall off. This also meant that the winters would not be too cold. I sighed in relief and marched on eastward.
Walking for several hours I thought about and what I knew that could help. I was an apprentice carpenter. And an avid gamer, bookworm. I had some clue of how to build a house, how to cook, sew, and farm. And if I did not know something I would just have to learn it. I might be able to survive but it would be a hard-long road to walk on.
I stopped for a little while to rest my back and eat and drink a bit and then walked on. From time to time I would hear animals making noise, but I never saw any as I was making enough noise to wake up half of the forest. As the sky began darkening I heard a burble of water nearby, following the sound I found a stream and filling up the water bottles and drinking my fill after adding a drop of iodine to make sure the water was safe to drink. I decided to walk upstream and see if I could find a lake or a river near which I could set up a camp near it. Following the steam for about half an hour I saw that the sky was becoming darker, so I found a large tree and eased off the pack and sighed in relief as the strain on my back was lifted. The next hour of so I spent searching for wood, dry grass and rocks to make a campfire. Then I spent another half hour setting it up and lighting the grass with flint and steel. It took me far longer to get a decent spark then it should have. I have used flint and steel before in my previous world when I was forced into going on a wilderness adventure with my class in high school. I hated it as I never believed that I would ever need of want to start a fire like that.
After I got the flame going I took out some fruit (apples) and granola bars and ate as much as I could and saved the seeds from the fruit. Then I took out the twine and unspooled about 20 meters so that I could lift the pack on to one of the lower branches of the tree. Folding it up so that the twine was 4 times as thick and only 5 meters long I looped it over the thickest branch that I could reach and tied it to the loops of the pack I hoisted up the up to the branch but then I had to lover it down as I had nowhere to tie the twine to. So, then I had to climb up the tree and hoist it up several more times before I could get it up and tie it to the tree. When I finally dragged myself to the fire so that I could rest in relative comfort I noticed three colored bars on the top left edge of my vision, one below the other: red, blue and green. Red was for hit points, HP; blue was for mana points, MP; and green was for stamina. There were numbers over each one of them.
HP: 85 / 90
MP: 110 / 110
Stamina: 15 / 120
Below them I saw an exclamation mark flashing, mentally poking the exclamation mark I saw that the days’ exertions gave me:
+2 strength
+1 constitution
+3 endurance
I was tired but exited at the prospect that I would see results from my work and not just an empty good feeling. When my stamina was fully restored I got a bottle of water and drank it while adding more wood to the fire and decided that I would be safer if I slept in the tree, climbing back up I found several branches that were interwoven and perching upon them I unspooled some more twine and tied myself to the trunk so that I would not fall out of the tree.
Day 3
Waking up early in the morning I was very sore and I really had to take a leek quickly I untied myself and nearly fell out of the tree as my legs seized up in pain. Grabbing the trunk, I slid down and lost 10% of my HP, on the ground I wobbled my way to the nearest bushes and relieved myself.
I wanted to know what time it was so I rummaged in the pack and retrieved the watch and saw that it was 5:30 in the morning, that probably meant that it was late spring or the start of summer, mostly I believed this as the night was relatively warm and I hoped that it was that time of year. After I saw what time it was I grabbed something to eat some more tuna and granola bars with a banana. Taking apart the campfire so that there would not be any risk of fire, I took down the pack cleaned the scrapes and set out upstream. I was pushing myself hard, as I wanted to improve my stats, the main problem was that as my pace increased so did the rate at which my stamina dropped, I had to stop to rest every 15 minutes to recover. The fact that I had access to fresh water sped up the recovery and I was on my way after 5 minutes. This continued in till noon which was when I decided to rest and eat for half an hour before proceeding further until 6 when I decided to set up camp for the night. His time I decided to sleep on the ground with the knife beside me. I traveled like this for the next 3 days, and earned another:
+3 Strength
+4 Endurance
Day 7
On the fourth day near noon I reached the edge of the forest and saw that the stream flowed in to a lake. Looking around I noticed that there were several more streams/ rivers that flowed into it. I believed that it would be a great idea to make a semi-permanent camp near the lake, and as I only had barely enough food left for the next two days before I would begin to starve. Looking at the landscape around the lake; to the Northeast the lake had a river on the west and a stream to the east, the land was hilly and forested and farther north east there were some high Hills. The land to the east was flat and had two rivers flowing in, it would be a great place to have a settlement and farms, but the fact that the trees were far away would make building homes difficult. The south east also had a stream and a river and similar geography to the east. However, the south west was my favorite as it was relatively flat, had what looked like a sandy beach, and had a decent forest to the south. Looking back to the west and north west I had to correct myself as the stream that i was following so far was not a stream but a small river. Also looking back I was surprised that I never noticed the Mountains, or the fact that I was mostly walking uphill. That all good and well, but for the moment I will have to set up camp in the North west of the lake as it looks like several more days of travel just to get to the place I liked.
Setting up camp this time took far longer as I decided the I would have to be here for at least a week or longer as I had to hunt and forage for food. Five hours later and I had the tent set up and a decent campfire going. When I set up the Cast Iron tripod and unrolled the sleeping bag in the tent, I was surprised with a prompt.
Would you like to Designate this area as a Camp?
Yes / No
I mentally selected Yes and received another Prompt
Would you like to Designate your Camp as a Bind Point?
Yes / No
"What the Hell!" I yelled, "Of course I will." and selected Yes.
I wondered does everyone in this world receive this or am I a unique case. The fact that I had Stat points was great but I ignored it after a while, but the fact this world looked like it was an RPG world went over my head in the beginning. Now that I had a bind point which I think meant that if I die I would be resurrected here? Ok, time to experiment. I focused and thought "Status Page" and I saw a blue translucent rectangle floating in front of me.
Name: Andros
Age: 27
Level: 1, 0%
Health: 90
Mana: 110
Stamina: 160
Strength: 15
Agility: 9
Dexterity: 10
Constitution: 9
Endurance: 16
Intelligence: 11
Wisdom: 10
Charisma: 10
Luck: 14
Abilities:
Boundless
Skills:
Alignment: Neutral
Language: English (unusable)
I really wanted to know what the "Boundless" ability was, and focusing on it, I knew.
Boundless: You are not bound to a path like everyone else, and can surpass any level and learn any skill to its maximum potential.
Holly crap. I thought this is a very Over Powered ability, which I will have to keep to myself, just so that I don’t get hunted down to see how it works.
Looking around and seeing that I should unpack the rest of my gear I unpacked everything in to the tent and went far enough away from the camp to dig a deep hole that I would use as a toilet while I’m staying here. After I was done digging I went out to gather more wood and to see it I could find plants that might be edible. After searching for several hours, I collected enough wood and found several berries that I ate, the only one of note was a blue berry that increased my vision by 0.1 % and tasted sour. I did not receive any cumulative bonuses but I still ate enough to be full. As evening came I added some more wood to the fire and fell asleep.