For the last couple of months I had kept my distance with my family, or specifically my parents, and they had done the same. In the end it was a simple argument, they wanted me to go to university and get a job as a lawyer, doctor or some other respectable profession. So I could earn a bunch of money that they believed they would have a share to.
My side of the argument was that I didn't care about having a some prestigious job or grand career since I just wanted to get some lousy mid-level job and then spent the rest of my time lazing about.
To be fair I understand that they don't want me to waste my life away, on the other hand I have no ambitions in regards to money or social standing and I would be more than pleased to just spend the rest of my life as some random NPC.
Of course the system changes this, now that I have this mystical power I want to see how far I can go with it, my first step on this path would have been to first get a decent job after redoing the citizen test and then... I don't know, spend the rest of my days lounging around with the system, I hadn't actually thought that far...
Anyways back to family matters, my uncle Dave was standing at the entrance to my apartment(glorified cube), like most people in my mothers family he had blond hair and green eyes. And he was probably here on a "visit" that my mother insisted on him taking.
"Hello there Hes, been a while."
"What does she want"
"Ugh, this is why I never got children, always so rude. Anyways your mother wanted me to come here and sing some sobstory about how she misses you so that you'll come back."
He had never been the most discreet, which was why I liked him the most out of my extended family. A fact my mother seemed to know since whenever we got into arguments he would mysteriously arrive to "talk" with his nephew.
"Really, not even going to try this time?"
"...You know what you and your parents can figure this out on your own, I'm not joining in on yet another little argument of yours."
Smiling to myself as he stomped down the corridor I went back into the apartment and locked the door, this was probably the hundredth time he has said this in the last two years alone. Reconsidering I got my jacket and left to unit for a walk, lunch could wait a few minutes I haven't been outside for almost a week.
It was late October and Ger-Tor was on the northern side of the republic so the wind was rather chilly, even with my rather thick jacket.
After a while I pulled up my status;
Tier : 0
Level : 3 / 10
-Hesmond Dasen-
-Homo Sapiens-
Aspect : Learning : 0 : 10 / 10
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- Facet : Perception : 10 / 10
- Facet : Intuition : 10 / 10
- Facet : Comprehension : 10 / 10
Aspect : Agility : 0 : 0 / 10
- Facet : Light Footed : 0 / 10
- Facet : Feathers Path : 1 / 10
- Facet : Smooth Reflex : 0 / 10
Aspect : Higher Mind
- Facet : Complex Thought : 0 / 10
- Facet : Expanded Mind : 0 / 10
- Facet : Focus : 0 / 10
The experience counter had gone up for Feathers path but other than that there was nothing new.
as I walked around district six and took a roundabout path into district five I took in my surroundings, district five was not that different from district six. The streets were rimmed with one five story apartment building after another painted in different colors. And every two or three blocks or so there would be another Basic Accommodation compound, looking at them from the outside they really did look like prisons.
After another twenty or so minutes I made it into the forest just north of district five, the districts in Ger-Tor were organized in a circular pattern with the first district in the middle and then one district in all the cardinal and ordinal directions, with the second being in the south-west and the rest counting clockwise.
The idea must have sounded nice in the office of whoever planned it all but sadly due to a rather large mountain a little north of the city district five is only a third the size to the others and placed almost to the east side of the mountain. Placing the district where district six was supposed to be.
The mountain in question is rather short at around 900-1100 meters above sea-level and with a mild incline made for a excellent hiking opportunity for the locals.
After walking up the mountain for a few minutes I found a nice rock to sit on and enjoy the nature around me. With perception I could see and hear a lot more of the natural wildlife than I normally could. making for quite the pleasant experience
After a few minutes I got up and walked home again, today had been pretty good. I had filled out my aspects, had fun with my uncle and finished it of with a quality walk...
Shit! I forgot lunch!
Oh well, ill just get some extra dinner.
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Tier : 0
Level : 3 / 10
-Hesmond Dasen-
-Homo Sapiens-
Aspect : Learning : 0 : 10 / 10
- Facet : Perception : 10 / 10
- Facet : Intuition : 10 / 10
- Facet : Comprehension : 10 / 10
Aspect : Agility : 0 : 1 / 10
- Facet : Light Footed : 3 / 10
- Facet : Feathers Path : 2 / 10
- Facet : Smooth Reflex : 0 / 10
Aspect : Higher Mind 1 / 10
- Facet : Complex Thought : 1 / 10
- Facet : Expanded Mind : 1 / 10
- Facet : Focus : 2 / 10
Before I went to bed I checked my status again and the facets were coming along nicely, though I am wondering if they will ever get stronger. When they increase I try to see if there is anything different about them, and I there is no difference in direct performance, at least not to a noticeable degree. However the streams of energy do seem to get a bit sturdier with each level.
Or not sturdy but more like they are finding their place and fitting themselves to me, like the facets are changing to accommodate for my body. To be fair the changes are still minor, but they are noticeable.
This makes me wonder, if each level makes the Facet more "fit" for me and they continue leveling up past level 10, will each level only make the Facet more "fit" for me or will it also eventually strengthen or even simplify the pattern that the Facet forms. And what will happen if I introduce a new Facet or Aspect when my other ones are a really high level, will their level one disrupt the already existing pathways or will they get a level boost when I quite them to be even with the already existing Facets?
Or is it possible that I will be stuck with these three Aspects and nine Facets for the rest of my life?
There is soo much I don't know about the system!
After another hour of silent contemplation of the system I finally fell asleep.