Am I awake? Or is this some fucked up dream? I mean it looks like a void around me, my chest feels insanely cold. Either I'm blind, or this is some weird psychedelic induced dream. No wait -I can't move- definitely a dream. Knew I shouldn't have bought mushrooms from a guy that calls himself Steve the wizard. Might as well kick back, ride this out, then go back to the "wizard" and kick his ass.
(4 hours later)
God I'm hungry, this pitch black nightmare space I'm in is really starting to mess my brain up.
(8 hours later)
Ok
WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
I CAN'T SEE. I CAN'T MOVE. THIS TRIP HAS TAKEN LONGER THAN IT SHOULD HAVE. WORST OF ALL. I DON'T EVEN FEEL HIGH.
WHAT IS HAPPENING.
HELP... ME…
HELP… ME… tab created
HELP…ME… tab doesn't exist. Rerouting to Help tab.
Wha-
Help
Information
Welcome to the system.
Menu tabs can be opened or closed with a thought.
Menu tabs can also expand in size or shrink in size with a thought.
Menu Commands
Status - opens the status menu, a way to view one's own skills, stats, and traits.
Trade - opens the trade menu, a way for two willing participants to trade portions of stat pools.
Customize- opens the customization tab allowing you to set sensitivity, menu window size parameters, and colors.
What? did earth get a system like all those tower manhwas. Bro life just got a whole lot better. I would rather deal with a fantasy apocalypse than the current economic state of the world as is. fuck it c'est la vie let's just check out that status tab.
Status
Name: N/A
Race: Mana Mushroom (mana morchella)
Level: 0
Experience: 0/100
Gender: TBD
Age: 8hrs 30mins
Notoriety/fame: nobody
Strength: 0
Dexterity: 1
Constitution: 8
Intelligence: 10
Wisdom: 6
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Charisma: 0.5
Growth: 10
health: 15/20 (starving)
Mana(15/min): 100/100
Titles
Chem addict: to anyone that previously knew you as a human you are and always will be an addict to them.
Traits
One with Nature: When in naturally forming structures or locations people and creatures are less likely to notice you.
One with Mana: Mana is as important as your health, and naturally flows to you. gain mana 1.5*(int) per minute.
Reincarnated: living a life prior has allowed you to understand things unbeknownst to your species. +2 Intelligence, +1 wisdom, +0.5 charisma.
magically Inclined: being a Mana fungal species allows you to expel mana naturally without the use of a spell formation.
Innate magical hunger: you hunger for magic. 70% of all dietary needs must be met with Mana. 30% must be met with physical nutrients.
Skills
(Novice) %0.0 Mycelium Growth (active): cost 10 mana per minute (MPM). Being a Mana fungal species Allows you to grow faster than your non magical counterpart. Every minute active allows you to grow 0.5 cubic feet.
(Novice) %0.0 mushroom Growth (active): cost 20 mana. Once used produces a fully grown mushroom at a point above your Mycelium within 1 minute. (Mushrooms absorb an additional 1 mana per minute from ambient mana)
Damn it not a tower system. Am I even on earth? Ain't no way I got reincarnated. I wasn't a Saint or anything, I'm not a damn isekai protagonist. How did I even get here though, the last thing I did was eat those mushrooms that dude gave me after work. No one dies from mushrooms… or was I just transported to a different world, too much to think about right now i'm starving. Real quick though, I got a bone to pick with you Mr. System. I wasn't an addict, I was simply a connoisseur of psychedelic mushrooms. There's a difference… I think. On that note I think this is what they meant when they said you are what you eat. EAT. FOOD. Mana as food? HOW?
Concentrating, I feel an energy I’ve never felt before. It almost feels like dust particles are gravitating towards a part of my being, like air slowly going into my lungs. As I focus on my hunger a large amount of these particles condense and feel like food going into my stomach, if i had a stomach that is.
70 mana consumed as food
70 mana! I only have 100 total how am I supposed to live or do anything else if eating takes up almost three fourths of my total mana pool. Hold on growing a mushroom adds 1 additional MPM. I got this! New goal, let's make a mushroom. Straining I feel something akin to an arm starting to grow out of me.
20 mana consumed
Mushroom Growth activated (growth progress %1)
Proficiency with Mushroom Growth has increased to (%5.0)
OOOOOH proficiency increased lets gooo, making progress. Let's grow my mycelium too. I can only do it for a minute but it's better than doing nothing. It's less straining this time and feels like I'm stretching my body. Slowly starting to feel myself grow bigger little by little.
1 mana consumed
Mycelium Growth activated
Proficiency with Mycelium Growth has increased to (%0.1)
1 mana consumed
Alright I'm gonna stop you right there my brains gonna rot if every few seconds I have to read the same thing over and over again.
Customize. Another window pops up. I go to sensitivity and turn it to where it notifies me after I finish using a skill.
8 mana used
You are out of mana.
If you continue to use magical abilities it will start to deplete your health.
Proficiency with Mycelium Growth has increased to (%1)
Mushroom Growth deactivated growth (%100)
Good to know that even if I run out of mana I can still use magic by eating into my health pool. Oh, the mushroom finished growing, nice! It feels like an arm… an arm that I can't move. Well I guess this is my life at the moment. I'll just do this for a while. Better than tripping for days on end only to wake up realizing I'm in a ditch and the dragon I've been riding was actually a homeless man named Rich, ironic I know, true story.
Back from that memory I never wanted to relive. I wonder if I can find a way to see, knowing now that I am a mushroom I'm either on grass wood or like near a rock. food for thought.
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luckily I'm not super hungry as my mana reaches full. Time to expand baby. bigger mycelium colony, means more prime real estate for my little arms to dig themselves out of the ground. wait pause that sounded way weirder than it was supposed to. Back to stretching, have you ever stretched too long? Your muscles stop feeling rejuvenated and start feeling almost sore? That is my constant state of being right now. Stretching for 10 minutes on end for a person like me who never exercised, it’s like my own personal hell. Self induced too. After a few minutes another notification pops up.
100 mana consumed
You are out of mana
Proficiency with Mycelium Growth has increased to (11%)
You are now 5.5 cubic feet.
Mana Spore skill unlocked
(novice) 0.0% Mana spore (passive): As your fruiting bodies start to produce spores the mana they hold slowly coat the ground around. Allowing you to see rudimentary shapes.
VISION.