(Lily)

I awoke in a forest as a Half-Elf and glanced down at my body well at least I have clothes even if it is just a dress and not something to actually be protective. So I guess the first thing would be to look around and hope my guild mates aren’t far from here. Lets start getting skills first I should probably get the simple skills like {running} and things like that if they exist. So I start running to what should be east and after about 5 min I get a notification

{New skill gained: Running}

{New skill gained: Navigation: Forest}

{New quest gained: have 5 tier 1 skills and 2 tier 2 skills)

So two skills and a quest well right now running isn’t as tiring as it was just a bit ago I think I can keep running for a little bit longer then I'm going to have to stop I wonder why there isn’t a stamina amount listed. I keep running and doing everything else I might need to from climbing a tree to punching the tree hoping for more skills might as well try right even speaking and dancing or singing anything that might help me in anyway in the future. I keep doing this all day in 30-45 minute increments stopping for 5-10 minutes I between to keep my self from being to fatigued to run or fight in an emergency after all of that I got several notifications

{Your skill running has leveled up x9}

{Your skill running is now level 10/10}

{Your skill Navigation: Forest has leveled up x4}

{Your skill Navigation: Forest is now level 5/15}

{New skill gained: climbing}

{Your skill climbing has leveled up x9}

{Your skill climbing is now level 10/10}

{New Skill gained: dancing}

{Your skill dancing has leveled up x3}

{Your skill dancing is now level 4/10}

{New skill gained unarmed fighting}

{New skill gained singing}

{New skill gained English}

{Your skill singing has leveled up x9}

{Your skill singing is now level 10/10}

{Your skill English has leveled up x5}

{Your skill English is now level 6/10}

{Do to repeated exercise you have gained 1 point of endurance}

Do to leveling that many skills I have gained 45 skill points probably way easier then it should be but hell I'm not going to complain as long as it doesn’t get to boring.

I kept doing the same things only including more skills and trying to max all of the ones I unlocked after about 2 days of that I come to a port city that seems to be a human city I walk into the city hoping that they wont try and enslave me cause I don’t have any combat skills quite yet well other then unarmed at level 1 which is probably not good enough and even with a 10 END I probably cant quite out run anyone. As I'm walking in I notice with my perception skill that quite a few people are looking at me with disgust and some seem to be planning some thing, why cant the starting village be nice I mean come on I need money a weapon some armor stuff like that but if I cant get it here and I cant learn how to make it then I'm definitely not going to like this. Well lets just walk into town and make money the same way you always do in the beginning of a game stealing yes I know I'm probably going to have to play the hero latter but cant I just you know do neither or both, oh well I spent forever grinding my {stealth} skill even going as far as to use that to get around combat instead of raising my combat skills so hopefully it was a good choice.

I walk around for a while and disappear into the crowd and start-taking coin pursues because how else do you make money from pickpocketing people without knowing a fence.

{New skill unlocked: pickpocketing}

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Nice that was easy after another 20 minutes I gained another level in it but then I tried to steal from a richer looking guy and he caught me so I did what anyone would do I started running hoping that I can actually out run the law after running for about 20 minutes I get to a bar that seems to be a little less reputable costumers I also gained

{New Skill Unlocked: Navigation: populated areas}

{Do to having 5 tier one skills and 2 tier 2 skills you will gain a new trait the next time you sleep or die the trait will be based on the skills you have acquired}

{New quest received: Gain 5 tier 1 skills and 5 tier 2 skills}

Ok well that’s nice all of that but now I need to gain 10 more skills yeah I guess I just have to keep doing strange things. Looking around I find an open table and go sit down I order a cheap drink and a meal not trying to starve yet but I have {hunger suppression} from being in a forest with no food and working out as much as I could so I don’t need to eat yet, wonder if I can evolve skills? Oh well I hope I'm not a light weight, I take a drink from my pint and surprisingly or not I don’t get drunk so I take another gulp and then another it doesn’t taste bad at least not as bad as I was expecting

{New Skill unlocked: Poison Resistance}

{New Skill Unlocked: Poison Tolerance}

Well that probably helps me not get drunk lets see if we can level it up with out getting drunk so I order a few more and keep drinking while keeping my eye out for someone less the pleased with me being here but don’t find anyone but I hear a few people asking what crew I'm on, while I'm not technically on a crew but if I had to say id just use the guild name Phoenix which thinking about it is probably one of the reasons why we were picked for project Phoenix oh look at that

{Your Skill Poison Resistance has leveled up x3)

{Your Skill Poison Resistance is now level 4/15}

{Your Skill Poison Tolerance has leveled up x3}

{Your Skill Poison Tolerance is now level 4/15}

15 I guess they are tier 2 skills then that’s nice what do they though lets find out

{Poison Resistance Lv 4: it takes a 40% larger does of any poison to affect you}

{Poison tolerance Lv 4: poisons are 20% less effective against you}

ok so I need to drink 40% more to get drunk well lets try to level those up because I need to figure out how to evolve skills or if it can even be done. So I sit there and drink for about 2 hours and somehow don’t get drunk but I'm willing to bet that it has to do with

{Poison Resistance Lv 13: it takes a 130% larger does of any poison to affect you}

And

{Poison Tolerance lv 13: poisons are 65% less effective against you}

Yeah that’s probably it. After another 30 minutes and another skill level a dwarf walks up to me and says “Well girly no clue how but you can drink with ta best of em if ya in needa crew and ye got some skill we’d be willin ta take ya in” I look him over and the first thing I notice is he has a fucking gun!! A FUCKING GUN!! I mean I was not expecting that it seems like an old school one but a gun nonetheless I was decently skilled with one before coming here so hopefully I can keep that skill. Oh shit yeah I should respond “Yeah I think I'm going to be taken you up on that offer, and is that a gun?” he smiles when I accept but seems surprised I know what it is, “well happy ta have ya, but how do ya know what tis is?” Oh I guess I should of thought about that how would I know what one is? “Well you see I'm not from around here and got me some crazy friends from all over and have had a bit of training with them, mind if I give it a shot?” he thinks for a bit and the leads me to behind the bar and he shows me how it works having me watch him fire it the first time then showing me how to reload it he then fires it again and has me reload it which I have very little problem with because back on earth not only was I trained in firearms I was also trained in black powder and musket loading ones, so I manage to load it in 20 seconds but he was still quicker then me getting it done in about 15 but he seemed impressed and after he put a target over on the fence about 30 feet away I fired and actually hit which gave me the notifications

{New Skill Unlocked: Firearms}

{Do to past experience with the skill: Firearms has leveled up x7}

{Your skill Firearms is now level 8/20}

So does that mean it’s a tier 3 skill or something well that’s nice but I still need to get more tier 2 and tier 1 skills but level 8 firearms that’s nice well let’s reload it I reload it and manage to do it in about 10 seconds which is really impressive so I guess these skills really do make a huge difference just level 8 cut my reloading time in half. I look back at the dwarf who just has a look like he’s just seen a ghost, I hand back his gun and ask, “Are you ok?” he just stares off for a few more seconds then he grabs the gun and asks me, “What levels did you says yer firearms skill be?” oh yeah I didn’t actually mention that because I didn’t have it then but might as well tell him “My firearms skill is level 8 right now.” “Well shit you wernt kindin you really did train wit em before.” So I have more skill then him or at least higher-level skill.

We talk well walking over to the ship and when we get close he says that he needs to take me to the captain and see where he wants me on the ship so he takes me into the captains cabin and calls out to him he looks human he has an eye patch over his left eye a sword at his side and wearing what you would expect a pirate to wear, maybe this will be more fun then I thought. “You sure bout this Darlec? Does she even got the skill to do anything on a ship?” the dwarf apparently named Darlec answers almost instantly “Yeah I'm sure she even got lv 8 firearms so at the very least we can through her on deck to shoot the other ships.” The captain just thinks for a little bit then turns to me and asks “You got any other skill on a ship?” “Well I’ve worked on one before and willing to learn what your willing to teach.” He turns back to Darlec and says “Well you brought her on you teach her and show her the ropes.” “Ey captain, well come one girly let’s get you settled in we leaving in the morning and can start your teaching then.” “Ok” so I follow him and he takes me to the crew quarters and gives me an empty bed and tells me to get some sleep before we leave. So I lie down and get some sleep.

{Congratulations for having completed your first quest you get to pick one of the following traits}

{Un limited: you have no limits to what you can learn you gain all skills 100% faster and ignore all limitations other then skill prerequisites}

{Athletic: you learn everything relating to physical activity 300% faster}

{Contact List: you unlock the contact list in your status you can talk with the rest of project phoenix}