"The dragon has been slain, but within there are sounds of scratching, what do you do?"
"I blast it with 2 'Tier 7; yar'loit'ap'."
"Thunder cascades, and the heavens split, as an apostrophe of thunder twice as powerful as normal lands on the dead corpse, ruining the quality, and silencing the sounds."
"I carry the dragon carcas with 'Tier 5-space fold'."
"You fail."
"What?! With space fold I should be able to make the space the corpse contains with space fold!"
"This is a dragon, even if a corpse desacrated by lightning, it shall still be resistant to magic."
"Tsk! I sacrifice it to my god."
"Since you've done this so often I'll just skip the process." I cleared my throat "You heard the voice of Yatal within you head, 'Servant, you have done well, I shall grant you void stones of magnificent quality!'."
"What quality!?"
"Tier 6."
"What?! This is a dragon! This should've been a tier 7!"
"The carcass that you defiled with lightning?"
"Ye-!"
"I think you understand."
"Fineeee, how many void stones?"
"Twelve."
"Twelve?"
"Yes, although defiled, it is still a dragon."
She quickly wrote it down on her character sheet, it was mildly entertaining, this game. Why do I bother? Here's the answer;
Basic writing, lvl 4, F+; 411/800 exp. -Causes slight improvements in the act writing sentences and texts.
Basic story-writing, lvl 4, E; 67/800 exp. -Causes slight improvements in the writing of narritives.
Basic story-telling, lvl 4, E; 163/800 exp. -Causes slight improvements in the telling of stories.
Basic improv, lvl 5, E; 432/1600 exp. -Causes slight improvements in the act of improvisation.
Just so you know, this story-telling and improv thing can be used to improve my lying ability, though I don't have a skill for that.
Yet.
"Anias, it seems it's time." I told her.
"Aww.."
I looked at the clock, then the door opened "Anias, it's time to go." Her father said as he called her.
"Okayyy..."
She seemed saddened, she was attached to me since the second time.
I wasn't complaining, it was actually intentional. She was slightly depraved of love, that's normal for a noble child. But her physique gave her a disposition for 'Unhealthy emotions and relationships' by the blessing book, and 'More volotile emotions and a higher chance at violent tendecies.' with the book of blessings.
If you include the fact that you don't get close to 'Acursed' physiques
I waved her away with a smile.
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Name; Able drake Race; Homeo-sapien Contracts; None Essence; 744 Skill points; 0 HP; 30/30 .04/s MP; 267/320 1.8/s Age; 5 cycles Settings STR; 4 AGI; 4 VIT; 4 END; 3 INT; 16 WIS; 18 CHA; 8 LCK; 21 Skills Inspect, lvl 4, E; 8542/10000 exp.
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Primitive QCQ, lvl 2, F; 77/200 exp.
-Primitive QCQ footwork, lvl 3 F+; 98/400 exp.
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Basic gifted-swordsmanship, lvl 4, E; 7284/40000 exp.
-Basic gifted-sword-slash, lvl 2, E+; 357/20000 exp.
--Crude draw-slash, lvl 3, E+; 3469/4000 exp.
-Basic gifted-swordthrust, lvl 1, E+; 6854/10000 exp.
-Basic gifted-swordsmanship footwork, lvl 3, E+; 29907/30000 exp.
-Basic gifted-(Sword)-block, lvl 1, E+; 6233/10000 exp.
-Basic gifted-(Sword)-parry, lvl 1, D; 4746/10000 exp.
-Basic gifted (Sword)-redirect, lvl 1, D; 2123/10000 exp.
-Basic Drakish swordsmanship, lvl 6, D+; 4327/32000 exp.
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Novice animal handling, lvl 3, F; 5733/60000 exp.
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Basic learning, lvl 3, D+; 4720/8000 exp.
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Basic writing, lvl 4, F+; 411/800 exp.
-Basic story-writing, lvl 4, E; 67/800 exp.
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Basic story-telling, lvl 4, E; 163/800 exp.
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Basic improv, lvl 5, E; 432/1600 exp.
The 5th cycle has been entered!
It's time for my beast! Time for the utmost efficiency!
You could tell from the five cages infront of me "Young one, you may have one of the five. One of fire, water, wind, earth or light."
"What of darkness?"
"We do have it, though they're rare, and usually not worth the troubles with the church. They're normally kept by collectors."
"I'd like one."
Osgar was slightly stiffled "Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Do you mind to explain your reasoning?"
"Yes, I do mind."
You never explain your reasoning, the only reason that happens is to keep the reader in the loop. But some people don't realize, that explaining your reasoning is really annoying. And it says 'Readers are stupid' or 'I'm bad at setting up decisions'. So I'll give you what you need; Blessing, church, and personal taste.
After a small amount of time, a small cage with a dark-purple reptilian creature, a drake. And yes, I'm beginning with a drake, high-ranking children often do that.
I opened it slowly, then grasped around the creature's neck and pulled up.
It was honestly kind-of funny to watch it struggle.
I bit my thumb to get some blood, forced the young drake's head, and put bit of blood on it's forehead.
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You have been requested a 'Blood contract'.
Do you accept?
Yes/No
The drake had not been having a nice day, it had been captured, then kept in a cage for the entire day. And then was suddenly picked up, so it was irrateable.
Blood contract refused.
Suddenly the reptile moved suddenly, and his the floor, repeatedly, and violently.
You have been requested a 'Blood contract'.
Do you accept?
Yes/No
Blood contract refused.
It happened again, then the drake heard sounds of cracking and pain assaulting it from it's left front leg.
You have been requested a 'Blood contract'.
Do you accept?
Yes/No
Blood contract refused.
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Guys, I was young and stupid back then. A few seconds ago I didn't have a contracted beast, but now I do and I have gained much experience in that time.
*Snake tears engage*
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*Sniff* Guys, you deserve better *Sniff* And I hope you aren't all unreasonable and dig into the past *Sniff* Like certain people.
It was immature, and I'll try to do better.
...
Are they gone?
...
Now that I'm done making sure there are no animal protection agencies that misunderstand this as animal abuse support and know it's just a joke or a flight of fantasy, back to business.
Name; Erebus Age; 1 cycle. STR; 1 INT; 2 Race; Infantile drake (Darkness) Lvl; 2/5, 12%/100%. Settings AGI; 2 WIS; 1 MP; 10/10 .05/s Titles; None VIT; 2 CHA; 6 HP; 1.7/5 .02/s Traits; Born of darkness (I). END; 1 LCK; 11 Skills Darkness affinity-R1-lvl 2. *Unravel* Masteries Stealth mastery-T1. Claw mastery-T1 *Unravel*
A classic tier 1 creature, but with lower physical and WIS stats than normal, but with a 2 in INT.
That's the focus of the darkness element, intelligence.
It seemed like it didn't like me, but that could be fixed later. It was just an animal anyways.
A, more inteligent, animal. It doesn't know shit about object permanence, you get that at 4 WIS.
"Osgar Necros Drake, do I need to make an appointment to enter any private dungeons?"
"Only for some, Able Necros Drake. Which type do you wish to enter?"
"It doesn't really matter, as long as it has a lot of low level creatures."
"Then it is with ease that I open the way for you, a servant shall guide you at noon the next day."
Osgar walked away calmly, and you may be wondering why I can now call him by his full name. You see, in this house specifically, social status is determined mostly by your beast, specifically the 'Rarity' of it.
'Rarity' is just how powerful the beast type on average, not how rare it is, and no, I don't know why it is like that. Actual rarity is called 'Quality', but now that you all know about it, I'm going to switch the two words, so let's just revert to the previous sentence-
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.to fo 'ytiraR' eth yllacificeps ,tsaeb ruoy yb yltsom denimreted si sutats laicos ,yllacificeps esouh siht ni ,ees uoy .eman lluf sih yb mih llac won nac I yhw gnirednow eb yam uoy dna ,ylmlac yawa deklaw ragsO
After his aswer, Osgar walked out and called a servant to carry the other cages away.
If you're wondering why the two of us used the other's full name; The 'Quality' of our highest quality beasts were equal. And that's what put the Drake family uses as a statistic of social status. Yes, power did make people be nice and sub-servient too. But that's the base rule of the house, making it so those with drakes always adressed with adequate respect and etiquette.
But I would finally be able to get that fast paced growth gained through actual battle/dungeoneering, the one he had been getting wisps of from those small creatures he had terminated.
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{Erebus, &()@((#@%.} I said over the connection created, I was still practicing this.
Blood contracts are weird [*Fear*] At least the beast had the ability to know that death and pain are a thing, and be able to fear it. That's a 2 INT thing.
{Erebus, na$^@&@*...} It started to trail off as I lost control of what I transfered over, and I shut off the connection.
I was trying to tell it what it's name was, kind-off hard when it didn't have a little metaphorical box to contain the concept of the word 'Name' in it's head for easy translation. That's a 7 WIS thing.
So when I try to say the normal word 'Name' I have to transfer all the information that it links too. Think of a word as a web-link, and the actual meaning of the word being the web-page. I needed to send both the link and the page at the same time, wait- That's not that good an analogy.
Another anology is; The word is the encryption key, while the meaning behind it is the encrypted words. No- No- That's not a good enough of an analogy.
A (Maybe?) better analogy is; The word is a blueprint for a house (The meaning of the concepts behind the word), and the concepts behind it being the materials to make a house.
And I have to transfer both things at the same time, when I don't have practice.
There was an idea I had, which was to make the box that a 7 WIS thing had and then transfer it. And then I found out that it was to complicated to give in one burst, which causes the lizard/drake to have a seizure but without lasting effects (That I know of.).
So I made a drip feeding plan, transfer the box, then the concepts contained small concept at a time. But that was hard, because I needed to make sure all the pieces were brought together, so the concept fragments' 'Ends' needed to be like 'Puzzle pieces' so that they actually 'Connected' and made a valid concept, then it also needed to have an 'Identifier' (as the whole concept for my own ease) to get past the 'Bouncer' of the box in the mind.
And that was really hard, and I did do the box after a few hours of trail and error, but then realized that in the time between me putting it in it's head, and the concept fragment had been put in. The box had been 'Lost' (Forgotten).
My first idea to fix this was to brute force it, constantly forcing the box into the being's mind, and then slapping it *Lightly (No animal abuse here. Nu-uh)*. Until, like a human learning not to eat poisonous berries (But a lot slower due to low INT and WIS), would remember that forgetting the box (Eating poisonous berries) would hurt.
And why do I want to have it recognize it's name?? Because I don't want to put in each message a 'Compact concept capsule', a 'Triple-C'/'γ(Gamma(Latin 3))-C'/'3C' as I like to call it, in each message (Which also need a box to keep it compact enough).
Just so you know, I can't even use a 3C, that's for when this thing gets a 3 for either INT or WIS. So I need a more delacate way of refering to it, more infomation dense, but still able to be comprehended by 1 WIS
Fun Fact, negative stats are a thing. a -3 WIS means you don't remember how to walk or balance, a -5 is forgetting how to blink, a -7 is not even knowing how or have the instinct to look around with your head. -10 is no longer realizing you need to breath, but still breathing. -11 is the start of forgetting how to breath, -14 is the moment your hart stops beating from your mind no longer having the knowledge on how to make it do it's thing on an instinctual and concious level, the automatic beating stops partially at -12 and fully at -13. Beyond that is where your immune system and all other organs that use chemicals to communicate stop being able to comprehend what they need to do, even if they're just chemical systems.
Making it pretty much impossible to survive (Except if your entire bodily fuction was being supported by putting everything you need to do into you, and forcing you to breath and your heart to breath.) at -20.
So remember kids; Make sure you don't get into the minus of WIS stats, if you don't want to not be able to do shit, even with an INT in the hundreds. (Note; You can't go into the negatives in physical stats (I think (I'm not really that sure (Since I saw in the Arcae books about warnings not doing the negative physical stats 'Without the proper procedures and making sure you really wish for it').).).).
Did I get off track? What was I talking about?...
-Ah yes! Making that reptile sub-species recognize it's name, yea, I don't want to make a 3C everytime I order Erebus-
Wait, did I talk about why it's called 'Erebus'?
..I can't remember doing that; it's like the name of some realm of darkness in greek mythology, I think it sounds cool.
Back to my evil plans; my last plan 'Make a large chain of concepts which becomes the concept of 'Self' in a capsule, and then say 'You do that'.'
A 'Capsule', if I havent said it yet, is; A box but thrown in with all it's contents (Abridged) and made for temporary use. This makes the amount of information you need to make a capsule a good bit less than a box, and no, all this teminology is all self-made for the ease of my own mind. Because it's always said vaguely, or weirdly
Like; 'An idea temporarily placed within the mind of a (Low WIS) beast through the connection between minds' that's a 'capsule', there's no (Easy on the tongue) consistant terminology for it. A box is 'An idea', there's no difference between the 'Box' or the 'Contents' it's just always 'Part of the idea'. Do you have any clue how dificult it is to seeve through it all and differ what the 'Part/fragment of the idea' actually means!?
This was all done a few months ago, when I realized I was finally going to have a beast of my own. So I thought; 'I probably won't get a beast with a high WIS or INT, so I should know how to order such creatures around.'
This is such a basic thing! Every child needs, needs to learn this officially when they're 7+ (Since that's when non-grand ducal families are allowed to get their beasts contracted). And it's so goddamn confusing, I know this place doesn't have a standard way you explain things, like earth with it's 'Scientific standard' way of putting up formulas and all that. And you know what? Even if I don't know shit, if I read it, I could at least vaguely piece together what they were doing and what I needed to learn to actually understand it (Or be able to read it properly). And you can't do that with this stuff.
I get it, you don't normally learn things without a teacher (If you're not a commoner). And this isn't a problem for commoners, since a good few can't read, and the other part usually don't even touch a proper book with honest information.
But seriously, seriously. Can't you be even a bit more coherent? I felt like I was investigating a thousand year plot, were even the ones who plotted it were mixed up by their own lies and misdirections. A plot that had way to much psuodo-science in it, which makes me overlook vital key words like; 'Mental cycle' or 'Memory frequencies'.
Note; 'Mental cycle' is just how the mind 'Cycles' through short-term memories, deciding if it should be discarded or not. 'Memory frequencies' is just a fancy way of saying 'Thoughts'. Yes, they made a psuedo-science version of 'Thoughts', though more specifically it's; 'Sub-concious mental activity'.
So I now read mental frequencies as 'Instinctual activity', because that's easier to understand.
Just so you know, I've been vetting everything I've been narating to make it less confusing to a reader. That 'Below vacuum state' thing I talked about was actually said as 'Below the mystical principle's natural minimum.' Like, what? The only reason I was able deduce it was talking about a 'Vacuum state' (The state scientists believe is the minimum amount of energy an atom can have) was because it said 'Due to the fact essence is used as a mass to be a catalystic force ('Catalystic force' also needed to be sussed out) for the power within the area being released.'
Again this was also a bit of conjecture, but; Do you want to divine what these things mean from some psuodo-science like terms?
That's an honest question. I hope there's going to be a poll about this (If a poll can even be set-up).
-Sorry, I just went on a tangent/rant.
If you're wondering why I'm not copying what others do, it's because for some reason; There's nothing standardized out there! It's always; 'Here's some information, I'm sure you'll be able to figure out what to do kiddo!'
Wow! It's so strange that so many people can't learn this shit without like a month to actually test what they could possible, what do they learn? That they can't do shit because they learned jack-shit.
The only reason this isn't a serious problem in noble circles is the fact that the teachers there have a teaching skill to substitute for a lack of any understandable information or any other kind of non-garbage teaching material.
-Wait, that was another rant in the making.
I'm really stressed right now, since I need to actually order my beast around if I want to use it. And since I can't do that (Because you don't realize how irratating doing things are when there's nothing about what could be a problem.), it's pretty urgent.
But- but it had finally- {Walk to a
The order had been given, and then the creature walked to one of the corners in the room. You have no idea how happy I was when it happened.
And I find it that I need to explain what that is.
'Directed at
<> means that it's a 'Box', the parenthesis with curly brackets in them make up the contents of the box. Not precisely the base components. I was mostly making use of the fundamental information within it's mind, the 'Boxes' within it as the base of the contents of the 'Box'
That took a quarter. And I need to do this everytime I order it around, and just so you know, this was barely possible due to 2 INT. Anything more complex could fail for whatever reason.
Though most people do it so often it becomes 'Muscle memory' but for transfering orders over the connection.
That was Able drake, and this was my rant.
Applaud my efforts to rummage through the garbage of this world's informative literature, it was a nightmare, figuratively.