Danny's POV:
Let's re-cap, shall we? First, I woke up at five to surf on the latest gaming articles and did a bit of diddling with my 'whoha' to some girl on girl snuffy films. Second, went to boring work and got smacked by a milf after I asked to sample her lactating jugs. Third, got fired again due to said milfs complaints and went to buy some games to cheer me up but bought some tacky VR headgear instead. Finally I got home and jilled off for the third time today - the second was when that milf was scolding me and her breasts were about come out of her tight shirt and 'scold me' too, she really brought out the masochism in me - then I tried on the headgear expecting to see a pixilized 2D screen of 'astroids' or some other arcade game… boy, was I wrong.
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So here I am, staring at my naked clone. I expected it to jump on my bones by now, like I would have done if I wasn't so shocked at the realism of this game, but then I noticed that the clone was a character creation avatar. Hovering right of the avatar was a green, floating pop-up window.
Hair
Eyes
Face
Body
I chose to change my short, spiked black hair to white messy locks that traveled down my hips in waves. The angular face and feminine jaw don't need adjusting and my complexion already fixed itself except for the light freckles across the bridge of my nose. My disgust for the little dots only goes as far as my own features. freckled redheads are cute, after all. Pressing 'clear', the freckles dispersed leave milky white skin, in contrast to my usual tan that covers it. Apparently tans aren't included on base complexion. Finally, the eyes changed to a vivid purple, my favorite colour, and specks of slate grey and ocean blue were added.
I pressed 'confirm', not caring enough to change my tall athletic frame, nor to get rid of the mole on my left buttcheek. That feature actually convinced me to add one under my left eye too. The final product left a cool beauty staring at me. Just thinking about meeting her in real-life makes me both excited yet abruptly underconfident. Just one look in this avatars eyes that say, 'you have no chance with me, go hang yourselves you plebian trash' and I thought '…perfect'.
The avatar disappears and I noticed it's because my own body changed to it's appearance. Nodding in approval at the alluring features, my attention was once again drawn to the green floating bubble when a *bloop* noise echoed around the endless white room.
Name: ?
Age: ?
Sex: ?
Species: ?
Class:
Sub-class:
Profession:
Stats:
Sp: 450
Hp: o
Mp: o
Sta: o
Str: 2
Spe: 0
Def: 0
Cha: 4
Int: 4
Dex: 1
Wis: .5
Pow: 0
Luck: -6
Traits: n/a
Base Skills:
-Gamer lv50
-lolicon lv10
-Pervert lv98
-milfaholic lv 22
-ladies-girl lv 1
-les-lore #error level not computable
-Bishoujo lv 8
-Couch potato lv 58
-Appraisal lv 37
-Haggle lv 23
-Jester lv 11
-Study lv 16
-Sadism lv 5
-Masochism lv 49
-Manhater lv 55
-Crafting lv 10
Wha-!? What in the blimy fudge is this!? …Okay, I know I have all those suspiciously young girls half-naked as a screensaver at home, but 'lolicon'!? Really!?
Nevermind, it's best not to acknowledge it for now. Let's see… 'pervert level 98'… I'm sorry mom, your only daughter turned out to be a pervert… anyway, let's skip all the weird one's for.
Hmm, 'appraisal' and 'haggle', sounds extremely useful. 'Study' too, but I'm not so sure about 'jester'. I find it strange that these skills relate to my real life. Is this headgear reading my memories? Thats disturbing. 'Appraisal' might work for reading others stats and skills but I wonder if I can use it for my other skills? I'll try selecting 'jester'.
"Appraisal!"
Jester:
Due to comical actions in everyday life, such as being the class clown, or getting turned down when flirting, this skill allows the character to become the butt of the joke and offers an increase in appeal and the 'cha' stat.
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+2 appeal +8 charisma
passive
Mhm, that's interesting. Not too bad. Though kinda depressing, I can still feel all those lady slaps. I rubbed my cheek and pressed 'next'. It brought up a options screen, allowing me to change my name, age, sex, species, stats, and to add some skills. Sex, 'female' obviously. Age, I'll leave blank.
Now for the name. I shouldn't put my real one, nor even a nickname since I have alot of gamer buddies. Ah, they wouldn't know my middle name. 'Van' will do. I'll change it to 'Vanderbelt' just in case. I know it's chuuni but I like and you can do or say will change my mind.
New skill earned:
Stubborn lv 1
…that's kinda harsh. Oh well, now on to species. There's a convenient little list to scroll through.
Human
Dwarve
Elf
Dark elf
Druid
Fairy
Spirit
Succubus
Dryad
Werewolf
Vampire
Beastkin
Aquarius
Reaper
Orc
Oni
Golem
Troll
Orge
Mimic
Demon
Goblin
Slime
Windigo
Snowbeast
Witch
Ghoul
Ghost
Banshee
Wraith
Djinn
Angel
Leprechaun
Siren
Mermaid
Shtriga
Subspecies
I clicked sub-species and it showed a bunch of non-intelligent animals, like 'hellhounds'. I don't want to be an angel or demon considering all the religious problems that go with it. A succubus sounds temping, until you realize it might make suck 'men juices' instead of women's, so that's a no-brainer. An asexual slime is out. Female goblins not attractive, out. A vampire might be sired by some pervy douche, that's also out. Elf or beastkin, slave material. Mermaid, hunted by sailors. A ghost, exorcised. Mimics can't use magic I think. Hmmmm… ahh, a wraith looks good. Maintains sexuality, check. Not hunted by pervy men or exorcists, check. Uses magic, check. Can inconspicuously possess object's, check. Now all I would need is a shapeshifter skill.
It's perfect. I clicked wraith and a notification appeared again in that same monotone voice.
New skill earned:
Possession lv 1
I see they all start out at level 1, huh. No matter, leveling up takes time but I can always grinder up in a dungeon or something. Now onto stats and skills. Normally you would focus on strength and health but when I'm not possessing something, not many can hurt me since I'm a wraith, well unless they have demonic or holy attributes, that is. Strength can be earned through training also. What I need to focus on is 'int', 'wis', 'def', 'luck', 'sta', 'spe', 'pow', and finally 'cha' in that order. Later, I want to wield swords but for now this will do. I can worry about the rest after I get accustomed to it. Now for the skills. Apparently, base skills are the passive ones, the kind that I use without have to think about and the ones I can buy with 'sp' are the active ones, also known as just 'skills' which are a lot more powerful than the one's earned as 'Base skills'. 'Skills' are permanent so I need to be careful.
Now for the skill list. I slide my finger up once and the scroll bar appeared.
"Holy-!?" There has to be atleast thousands here! Theres so many, a search box popped up! I'll have to be thorough here.
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2 hours later
Okay, I think that's everything. After the first hour of scrolling, I got the skill 'nitpicking', Don't ask about it's properties, because I think the game was making fun of me. So here's what I have for 'Skills':
Skills:
Possession
Knowledge
Parallel processing
Perfect memory
Mental fortitude
Nullification
Barrier
Warding
Shapeshifting
Incognito
I picked a bunch of intelligence based skills because I figured that the saying, 'knowledge is power' would hold truth in this senario. The mental fortitude was so no sick bastard with mind control makes me possess a sex doll or something. Ingonito is to hide both my skills/stats and my existence from exorcists. picking more attack based skills would've been something to consider since there was only ten skill slots; but it turns out there were twelve 'subskills' too. Here's what I picked for those:
Sub-skills:
Duel-wield
Full-counter
Mental manipulation
Mana manipulation
Skill steal
Administrator
Teleportation
Electromancy
Telekinesis
Subdue
Holy resistence
Demonic resistence
Bonus skill: deduction
Ufufu, this is such a cheat, 'administrator'. I remember seeing something like it in 'SAO', you know? The cheaty control panel that summoned 'excalibur' and messed with pain inhibitors. Plus, the holy and demonic resistence makes me nearly untouchable, besides exorcisms. 'Skill steal' was examined with appraisal, it's pretty cheaty too:
Skill steal:
This skill allows the user to collect a multitude of skills from opponents they defeated. depending on the users/opponent's level some skills may not be collected. If opponent has skill protect, then said skills cannot be collected.
This skill is dangerous if in the wrong hands, I need to be wary of opponents eith this skill in the future. The 'bonus skill: deduction' was obtained when I selcted knowledge, kind of like an easter egg. Now that all the stats/skills are finished, it's time to select a class and then I'm done. The sub-class and profession I assume are gained in-game. Umm… let's see, what class would suit me?
There's no 'class-list', it's just command bar where you input a class. I tried 'god' but it came up as 'invalid', same with 'Devil' and 'Death god'. What? Don't judge me, the name sounds cool. I guess you can't pick classes that were already chosen or already exist. What would be a powerful class that hasn't been chosen. I don't want the 'hero' or 'chosen one' class because of all the troublesome hero flags and damels in distress that would pop up… the second one is alluring, but I want something less annoying.
Thinking on it, I considered my species and what would fit it's image. Tapping my foot in contemplation. 'Hmm… wraith… wraith, ghostlike… reaper looking in mythology… neither dead nor alive… ah, I know!', an evil smile broke out across my face.
"Fufufufu… I'm evil."
Since there's already a 'death god', there wouldn't be a need for 'Death', would there? *bloop* the sounded of confirmation echoed once again and my grin disappeared at the exploding headache I got. It kept increasing by the second. It was so intensely painful that I threw off the headgear during my unconscious fits of agony. I awoke immediately to the blinding light of my apartment and the drown-out banging on the walls of my neighbors who could hear screams, probably thinking I left my lesbian bondage porn running again.
I crawl to the frontdoor. Just as I touched the top lock though, another blinding light escaped from the headgear this time. Black tendrils mixed with white in a swirling vortex. My body was lift into the air as I grasped the knob for my dear life. But it was in vain as my grip was release and I felt my body painfully dissolving in the black hole. My last memory was my door being broken down before I was sucked in and everything went black.