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Chapter 29: How do you turn on this healing circle?

“Okay, let’s spend these skill points and get back to safety quickly,” Brian said.

Jack bought: Mana Manipulation: Rank 1

Lucas bought: Mana Generation: Rank 1

“I”ll decide what I get later when we’re safe. I have no idea what to get. And now that these skill points are so much harder to get, I’m not about to waste mine on something stupid like Enlarged Penis: Rank 1,” Brian said.

“Still worth it,” ...

Chapter 28: What do you do when you have to face a 2 meter tall monster with only a machete?

“Finally!” Lucas yelled.

“Yes bitch! Let’s go!” Jack yelled.

“System, I love you baby,” Brian said.

They had no idea why, but the system finally gave them a challenge they could accomplish.

“Maybe it’s because we got this Mexican with us?” Brian said.

“I dunno. Or finally the system decided to just not be a douchebag,” Jack said.

“Who cares. Let’s get it!” Lucas celebrated. “Finally getting my fingers back,” Lucas said.

Chapter 27: What should we do with the hostage?

The team of three hispanic grinders were speaking in Spanish to each other.

“Can’t we just keep one of the crystals for ourselves?” one of them said.

The other three eyed him suspiciously.

“And then you take the crystal and snitch on us and get us killed like that other group?” the other one said.

“I’ll have to report you to Fernando for saying that. I don’t want no trouble. You know he has that ‘truth’ skill,” the other one said.

“Fuck yo...

Chapter 26: What’s better than you with your two homies out in the field grinding achievements?

“So my idea is this: We need to get more achievements. It seems like everyone and their mother in this game have more achievements than us. We saw with the 100 pushups that it isn’t even that hard, you just have to be creative. So I say this. Instead of grinding for silk and crystals, let’s try getting achievements,” Brian said.

“I agree. Let’s do that instead. Lucas is dead weight anyways while grinding,” Jack said.

Lucas pretended to raise a middle finger from his ...

Chapter 25: What do you do when a 40 year old sophisticated man in a suit makes you an offer you can’t refuse?

“You wanna kiss my ass?” Lucas immediately said

“Bro,” Jack said.

“Sorry about that,” Brian said and shrugged.

“What do you mean team up against Fernando?” Jack said.

The stranger sighed. “My name is Steward. I’m the leader of a small group out of the Commercial District. You three boys are kind of a legend back in the plaza. May I ask for your names?” Steward said.

Jack, Lucas and Brian took a closer look at the man. He was about 40 years o...

Chapter 24: How can you tell if she wants you or your money?

I think I’m in love, Jack thought as he stared at Miranda’s cleavage.

“And then it fucking bit my fingers off!” Lucas said.

“No way!!! Oh my god, really? But, there’s no wolves in Greentown?” the cabaret girl next to Miranda said.

Jack saw Miranda give her an annoyed look. The other cabaret girl got the message, and said: “You’re so cool! How did you even survive against it?”

“I just wrestled it on my own. Choked it out,” Lucas said. 2023-09-24 04:49:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 23: How do you convince a nurse to work for you?

“One, two, three, four,” they were chanting while moving the makeshift siege tower into the new zone.

Last time they went into a new zone farther inland it took a long time before they finally ran into a new monster.

“Oh shit! It’s here! Drop the tower now!” Brian yelled.

This time, it only took five steps before a monster came.

“Start shooting!” Jack said, and pulled out his gun and aimed it through the eye slit.

A giant anaconda snake was rapidly ...

Chapter 22: How long does it take to get a healing skill?

“One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four,” Jack and Brian were chanting.

The contraption was heavy, so they needed breaks.

When they were inside the siege tower, they had to crouch.

“One,” Jack and Brian said. They grabbed the top of the siege tower with their hands and supported it on their shoulders.

“Two,” Jack and Brian said. They squatted the siege tower, lifting it up and temporarily exposing their legs while the tower was ...

Chapter 21: You are in a monster forest. You need to build something to defend yourself. What do you build?

They stared at each other after getting the notification.

“I’m too tired for this shit. We can think about it tomorrow. Let’s head back to the Balloon zone and sleep,” Jack said.

“Sounds like a good plan,” Brian said.

Near where they cut down branches for spears they had sort of made a camp.

“It’s my turn. I’ve got first watch. Go get your beauty sleep,” Brian said.

“Go kiss a tree,” Jack said and used his backpack as a pillow.

Brian...

Chapter 20: What kind of skill is related to innovative warfare?

… please choose a skill related to innovative warfare

“Okay, let’s think long and hard about this,” Jack said.

“What’s innovative warfare even?” Brian said.

“I have no idea. But when we ask for shit, let’s be very, very specific. We don’t want a repeat of what happened when you got that shield skill. Do not be vague,” Jack said.

“Okay, okay. But, what do we pick?” Brian said.

They brainstormed for a long while.  And...

Chapter 19: Have you ever went over a new zone to grind, and the loot just ain’t no good?

The air molecules of humans drifted into the Wolf Monster’s nose.

A hormonal cascade started inside its brain and it rushed off in the direction of the smell.

As it came closer, the smell became stronger.

It could see two humans in the distance. So it increased its speed.

Just before it was about to lunge for the one who was slightly crouched, it noticed the spears in the ground and instinctually stopped itself from being impaled.

A loud sound. Coming from the ...

Chapter 18: What can you use the skill Speed Counting for?

“No way Jose,” Jack said.

“Hello oh great system. This is what you would define as, FUCK NO! You tryna get us killed?” Brian said.

“We already have the fucking burritos after us. Now you want another super big gang try to kill us? Fuck you!” Jack said.

“What should we do? We need skill points. We need other challenges than this shit. How come challenges are the only way you can get skill points?” Brian said.

“Maybe it’s not?” Jack said.

“W...

Chapter 17: What’s your first sensory enhancement skill?

Five Hispanic gang members were standing in the middle of the stone plaza.

“This is a waste of time,” one of them said in Spanish.

“We wouldn’t have to do this shit if Rodrigo and Hernandaz weren’t drunk when those white trash left the metal building,” another one said in Spanish.

“What a waste of time. Three rednecks.”

“Those three fuckers keep screwing shit up for us. First they try to take our drug spots. And now they also come into this place and ...

Chapter 16: What would you do if you unlocked a math skill?

“Mhmm… Is that so… Well, I think we won’t do that,” Eugene said.

“The fuck you saying! You want Fernando to hear about this!” the hispanic gang member said.

“Yeah sure, go on ahead. You can tell him. The agreement was neutrality. I don’t see why I should waste my time chasing a bunch of nobodies. I’ve got shiz to do,” Eugene said, with an arrogant smile on his face.

The gang member took a step towards Eugene, trying to intimidate him. Eugene didn’t mo...

Chapter 15: What would you do if you got gangrene?

It looked very ugly. It reminded Jack of a mummy. The way the skin had turned black around where that big wolf bit off Lucas’ fingers.

“Fuck that’s gross,” Jack said. He looked away.

“Okay, we’ve gotta change plans again. Lucas, let’s try what we talked about. Using Jack’s mana to power the blueprint.”

They explained the idea to Jack. Jack then drew the intricate mana circle again. He made it smaller this time. As small as he could while keeping the symbols...

Chapter 14: You’re surrounded by a rival gang. What do you do?

“These mana waves aren’t dense enough. We can’t do anything with them,” Brian said.

“And we can barely control them. Takes forever to even get a little bit into this damn blueprint,” Lucas said.

Lucas thought for a moment.

“Maybe we should try with Jack’s mana. It was way denser than this shit out here,” Lucas said.

“Okay, let’s wait until he comes back then. How is your hand doing?” Brian said.

“Fucking shit. Shit hurts like fire. And m...

Chapter 13: What would you do if you lost all your fingers?

After the adrenaline wore off, the pain kicked in.

After they realized he was missing fingers, they grabbed Lucas and rushed to the safer Balloon Monster territory. Then Jack and Brian quickly used the first aid kit on Lucas’ left hand where he was missing 4 fingers. They disinfected the wounds and wrapped it in gauze. It took a while before the bleeding stopped.

Lucas was sitting on the ground and crying from the pain. But after doing the basic first aid, they got him up again ...

Chapter 12: What would you do if you got a dangerous challenge?

“Let’s think about this first,” Brian said.

“What’s there to think about? We need those skill points,” Jack said.

“It’s too dangerous. We know jack shit about what’s out there,” Brian said.

“Listen, the only way we can get skill points to spend is by completing those challenges. The skill crystals are shit. And even the achievement skills are shit, and that’s even if we manage to get lucky enough to unlock any,” Jack said.

“We could die. Ver...

Chapter 11: You accidentally piss off a gang. What do you do?

Both groups froze for two seconds. Then the dozen gang members rushed towards Jack, Brian and Lucas.

Brian pulled out his gun and shot at the oncoming gang members.

“Run! Run! Pull out your QR codes!” Brian yelled and pushed them back inside the metal building and slammed the door shut behind him.

They ran down the hallway into the nearest VR rooms and Lucas and Jack scanned their QR codes. The hispanic gang was rushing into the building and Brian shot at them.

Jac...

Chapter 10: Which combination of skills do you need to use mana?

And now, it was finally time to unlock mana.

“So I’ve been thinking about this a lot,” Jack said, “the system is kind of tricky. When Brian asked for that defense skill, it just gave him something related to it but not exactly what he wanted. I think we have to be very specific with what we ask for. But I also have another strategy. We have the advantage of trial and error. We don’t all get skills at the same time. I think we should get one skill, experiment with it, and then ...

Chapter 9: Have you ever eaten a grasshopper?

“I hope this one is finally a useful one,” Brian said.

“Please don’t jinx it,” Lucas said.

All three agreed that it was Brian’s turn to get a skill crystal.

“I just squeeze it like this?” Brian said, and squeezed the crystal.

It popped and yellow energy went into his hand.

Right Arm Increased Strength: Rank 1

Brian told them what he got.

“I guess this is useful? Is there some way for me to test this?” Brian said. 2023-09-09 05:36:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 8: You run into 3 gang members with machetes. You only have a knife. What do you do?

The three hispanics heard Brian yell after Jack, and easily spotted Jack running towards them with a knife in his hand.

One of them dropped his backpack and took a stance with a machete. The other two followed his lead, though forgot to drop their backpacks. One of them pulled out a baseball bat. The other one pulled out a golf club.

Jack had no thoughts in his mind, running off of pure anger and adrenaline and sleep-deprivation. Instead of sleeping last night like they all agreed...

Chapter 7: If you could use skill points to learn any language, what would you pick?

The skill crystal cracked, and warm, yellow energy ran up into Jack’s arm.

Python (programming language): Rank 1

“Are you kidding me?” Jack said, and chuckled.

“What? Another useless skill like this shield skill?” Brian said.

“Ehm… I still think that shield skill isn’t useless, but yeah kind of useless. Or not. At least not useful here, unless there’s a computer nearby. But now I know the very basics of object oriented programming and...

Chapter 6: If you could use skill points to change any part of your body, what would you change?

“... which defends me,” Brian said.

This was the first time Brian was getting a skill and he had secretly been jealous of Lucas and Jack already getting skills, so he was excited for this.

Jack and Lucas looked on with excitement as well.

“So what’d you get?” Jack said.

Brian was silent.

“What’s wrong?” Lucas said.

“Fuck! Fuck! Fucking useless!” Brian yelled and kicked a tree.

“Fucking useless! Now I feel like I’ve tra...

Chapter 5: How do you figure out how to activate your new skill?

“We don’t have all day,” Brian said.

“Make something happen, I’m bored,” Jack said.

“Shut the fuck up and let me focus!”

Lucas was crouching next to a line of ants, with his arms out towards them, trying to activate his Insect Movement Control: Rank 1. Five minutes passed, and he was still failing.

“Insect movement control!” Lucas said.

“Insect movement control, rank one!” Lucas screamed.

“Maybe you have to say ins...

Chapter 4: How would you prepare to complete a challenge?

+1 Skill Point

“Oh shit,” Jack said.

“What did you get?” Brian said.

“One skill point.”

The other two finished their challenges as well and also got 1 skill point each.

“Yes! Okay I’ll try to get something now, which skill should I choose?” Lucas said.

“No! We agreed that as soon as we completed the challenge we get the fuck out of here. Let’s leave, now!” Jack said.

“Okay, fucking chill,” Lucas said

...

Chapter 3: What would you do if a monster you just defeated dropped a weird crystal?

Unlike the other times, a small yellow marble dropped.

Challenge: Kill 100 Balloon Monsters. Reward: ?

053/100

When the Balloon Monsters popped, they would leave behind some blue leather sheets only. But this time, there was a small yellow marble — or now that Jack was looking closer at it, a yellow crystal inside the monster?

“What is that?” Brian said.

“I dunno. Maybe some mana thing or reward? I have no idea. But somet...

Chapter 2 - What would you do if you got this skill?

Knife Fighting: Rank 1

Suddenly, his vision and senses were overstimulated. Pure blue filled his eyes and he couldn’t tell up from down and the backside of his body was cold and pressed against something hard.

A warm feeling washed over him, especially his head, and then cooled down. Suddenly, foreign knowledge appeared in his long-term memories, as if they had always been there.

He immediately realized that in all of his knife fights he had been posturing...

Here's the originals of the images I used for advertising.

I used the following prompt on DALL-E to make them: “POV camera angle realistic picture. Foreground: Hand holding knife. Middle ground: Balloon Monster with scary teeth and scary eyes looking at camera. Background: Forest”. 

Afterwards I kept running variations until I got something I liked. And for the final touch I erased the balloon monster itself and added this prompt: “Extremely scary and realistic photo of a Balloon shaped horror m...

Chapter 1 - What would you do if you were trapped inside a room?

We were outside selling drugs to a group of homeless men.

“You should be careful, this is Fernando’s spot and I don’t think he’s gonna be very happy when he finds out you’ve been dealing here,” the homeless junkie said.

Brian looked over at Jack for some kind of confirmation. Jack just shrugged.

How should I know? I’ve never sold drugs…

Lucas looked worried as well.

“Thanks for the heads up,” Brian said to the homeless man.

For ...