'Make a memorable first impression!' These words stuck to Audry's mind like glue, those who were watching him called 'existences' wanted to be entertained, and in exchange he would receive rewards for it. "But is simply doing the quests and getting the rewards all that I have to do? No! It can't be right?" Although Audry had been doing U-Tube videos for a short amount of time back at earth, he knew one thing needed to be known if he was to make a memorable impression to his three viewers, and that is to know his 'Target audience preference.' With such information he could at least know what they wanted to see for them to be entertained.
Surveying the quests, he surmised they would not tell him what to do in order to entertain whoever was watching him, "I don't think just watching me explore the forest would be entertaining for most individuals, and just how did I receive these quests in the first place? I don't remember agreeing to doing them!" Said Audry.
"Must I just experiment with different actions and see if that would get me a subscriber? No! I have a vague feeling that doing that might have the opposite effect and immediately make the 'existences' drop watching me.' He thought.
He realized that if he truly wanted to get their intrigue. Truly wanted to get noticed! He had to play by the rules of those who had put him here. He needed a clue of what actions would prove memorable to his viewers, so like before he sought the interface for any clues to his audience.
His sight scanned it, till he landed on the 'chat feature.' If this was similar to the U-Tube feature back at earth then he would definitely find what he was looking for there.
Chat Feature: ‘Allows communication to be received from 'existences' during a live stream, with occasional donation of power coins received during a stream when tasked with a request.’
"Aha! So it is similar to U-Tube, that means there must be some chat history I can access!" Jovially said Audry, finally feeling as if he was making some progress to his strange situation.
And indeed his conjecture proved to be true, he surveyed the first chats he had seen from his awakening, and tried to find clues to what he could do in-order to entertain the 'existences' watching him.
"SadisticPuppy huh!" Said Audry, intrigued by the fact that even these existences in another world still chose to use ridiculous monikers to hide their identities.
But the reason he was focused on SadisticPuppy was not because of his presumed alias, but what he had said when he had entered his live stream.
Chat feature: history
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{SadisticPuppy🐶: Hey! Are you going to injure yourself for views? I like that. Why don't you punch yourself next, Or better yet! Eat some poison mushroom, and if you survive I will gift you some Power coins😈. Lol got to love the StreamRealming algorithm for this instant recommendation.}
"This being really is sadistic! To want me to eat poison mushrooms just to see if I survive is pretty messed up! And his other buddies are no saints too." Said Audry, in a grim tone.
The one called SurvivalSage was into the poison stunt as well, and there was a pessimistic being that even gambled on him dying before the next morning. "Well, prepare to lose money Gamblerstic because, I'm not planning to die as of yet." Said Audry, his tone carrying the will to live past this ordeal.
Gazing across the other side of the green grass swathe, Audry's gaze was locked onto a gaggle of purplish umbrella shaped mushrooms. He wondered. 'But, should I really eat them?' He wasn't sure if he was ready to be the first Isekai'd Jackass actor by poisoning himself to death, but as he stared intently at the mushrooms contemplating what to do a notification entered his head.
Ting!
You have learned a new general skill; Identify.
You have gained Experience from learning a new Skill.
You have Level up to; level one.
Lurid Fungi Mushroom
'A lethal poison mushroom when ingested, which causes extreme nightmares to the victim till they are driven to death.'
"Huh!? What just happened right now? Did I just know everything about a plant by just looking at it?" Audry was shocked by this new revelation.
It might have been minuscule but he felt a slight warmth intruding into his eyeballs, followed by his eyesight becoming clearer and more well defined.
"This is unbelievable!" Said Audry, at the same time a great newfound fear enveloped his heart towards the beings that had put him here. "So they can also alter my body without even having to do anything, I'm the one that alters it by myself by doing all the work." Said Audry.
"But looks like I really can't eat those purple mushrooms, unless I want to die in the most agonizing way possible."
However as he sat there, the cogwheels to his mind spun for a way to make use of the new information he just acquired to make it easier for him to achieve his goals.
After a brief moment passed he jerked. "Ah! I know!" He said, excitedly, his dark eyes brimmed with the glow of an innovator that has reached a eureka moment.
"But for my idea to work I will have to first do the exploration quest."
And with that Audry steeled his heart, and bravely crept out the foliage, applied more dark, cold, wet mud to his skin, together with attaching more branches to his body till he felt and appeared similar to a walking globule of green leaves with the stench to match. He then headed in the eastward direction, directly opposite from where he heard the monster cry earlier on.
"Time to Explore this damn green hell hole." He said annoyingly while he slinked further into the wild. Along the way he furiously gave flowers, rocks and trees creepy stares as if trying to uncover everything about them. his first phase of his plan to get subscribers had now begun.