Lucky Guy

The Grasslands were a luscious place, with tall and overgrown grasses waving in the wind. Small rabbits and rodents scurried in between burrows and parted trees, looking for unsuspecting victims to attack.

I nodded to Giuseppe and drew out my small dagger. In front of me, I saw a small rabbit, about the size of a charge towards me. as it lunged towards me, I hurriedly stabbed my blade into the small rabbit, pushing it back towards the ground. The rabbit squeals in agony and disappeared out of existence, only leaving behind a few Tyles and a leather boot.

[RARE DROP!]

[Scruffy Leather Boots]

+2 Defense

+10 Health

+1 Movement speed

"Man, how lucky am I?" I exclaimed to Giuseppe, staring at the boots that lay in front of me.

"That's some crazy luck, man. What're the chances?" Giuseppe responded.

It was then that I remembered how to view your luck stat. I pulled up my setting menu, and scrolled through the many visual and optimization settings. Near the bottom of the settings menu, existed a single button, listed as "Secret Stats". I'm really not sure how the devs forgot this, but they probably left it there on purpose, for those who want to know a little more about how the game works.

opening my stat menu, it was as if I was seeing a whole new world.

[STATUS]

[USER] ANOTHER

[LEVEL] 1

[CLASS] Assassin

[TITLES]

HP: 100/100 MP: 100/100

EXP: 50/100

STR: 10

DEX: 10

CON: 10

INT: 10

WIS: 10

CHA: 10

[HIDDEN STATISTICS]

LUK: 174 (17.4% Loot Drop Bonus)

CRIT CHANCE: 15%

CRIT DAMAGE: 50%

SPEED: 7

RESISTANCES: Fire

DODGE CHANCE: 15%

[SKILLS] Slash LV1, Sneak LV1

[EQUIPMENT] Tattered Leather Armor, Chipped Wooden Sword, Scruffy Leather Boots, Stew x10, Water x10

"Am-am I seeing this right?" I exclaimed, staring at my status. 174 LUK was equivalent to getting over 150 rare drops! This was an insane amount of luck for someone sow low level, and this was my base? That was completely broken! I was practically the best player on the entire server. But why was my luck so high? Thinking back on it, it was probably when I chose my race. Were those question marks meant to be some kind of LUK modifier? That was most likely the case.

"What's the problem, Terry?" Giuseppe asked, looking over at my status screen. He stood there for a second, staring blankly at the status sheet, before realizing what was wrong. "One-Hundred and Seventy Four LUK? That's astronomical!" Giuseppe exclaimed. Both of us stared in awe at my stat sheet.

"Well, I guess it's a good thing that it's me who has this luck and not someone else, right?"

"Yeah, I guess so," I replied, "well, I guess I should get back to grinding."

I hunted down another creature, this time, a small, normal sized rat. Staring at the rat, I activated Sneak. As I snuck up on to the rat, I was rubberbanded back to my original position, and then again, and again, and again. Eventually, I gave up on using Sneak, as it was broken. I'll make sure to report that to the devs later.

I charged at the rat, stabbing my blade into it. Then, I froze.

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[YOU HAVE TIMED OUT]

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I Sighed, and took a deep breath. "Agh, that's so infuriating! I hope they get some patches out soon to fix how bad the lag is.

After taking a sip of water, and cooling off, I put back on my headset and logged back into Live Universe, hoping I wouldn't crash again.

[LOGGING IN...]

I appeared right where I was logged out, the rat I was slaying gone. I looked around for another one, trying to see if I could find any more mobs, but they were all taken by large guilds from other popular MMOs or 8-year-olds who have 0 Know-how on games. Giuseppe was nowhere to be seen, so I assumed he rage quit after timing out.

After looking for a few minutes, I finally found an enemy to kill, a level 2 Snake. The snake slithered towards me, bearing its venomous fangs. I dodged to the right and stabbed the snake into its core. The snake thrashed back and hit me with its tail.I grabbed the snake's tail and bit into it, like you would a piece of meat. the snake fizzled away in my mouth, and as it dissipated, I felt a metal tang on my tongue.

[RARE DROP!]

[Normal Ring]

+1 to Ring

-1 to Ring

+2 Defense

Another rare drop? I really must be lucky if I keep getting rare drops one after another! All of a sudden, a pop-up appeared at the corner of my screen.

[You feel luckier. Your luck has risen!]

Then, a sequence of alerts appeared.

[YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SKILL]

[YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SKILL]

[YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SKILL]

[YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SKILL]

[YOU HAVE RECEIVED A...