The room of POWER! Part one the lure of the room...
9:36 pm May-16-2020
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"CK. That sudden notification and these stairs"
The tower interior is completely filled with Books in a large cylinder shape leading so high it goes dark along with the biggest staircase I've seen in a while. If I had to guess the size of the area around me, a wide as a redwood tree. Just an estimate of course.
Any attempt to grab a book is met with flying books, jumping books, teleporting books, and books that turn inside out when I move to open them up making the cover the inside and vice versa when I turn it around.
So the only way is up then... And up and up and on on on and on. Spiraling to the sky.
Looking closely the stairs are made of books too.
"huhhaaa~ here we go!"
Oh, this could be good, my stamina will definitely deplete the higher I go if I run up my speed will increase! Positive thoughts.
"Well are you ready to go up buddy?"
"Buk."
Making sure my grip on the chicken from before is still secure I take a step on the first step I begin to hop up.
And fall down.
*smack
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"Buk."
"Whaaaaaa!"
Waking up to a chicken standing on my head is t the best thing in the world, with my current endurance it using good for my health.
My health that's now at .8! .7 in the entity in the room of stats eating me and up to .8 from passing out from hitting my head on stairs... Why did I fall?
『Dex stat...』
...Really. My mental is fine but my phy- let's not tempt fate.
Picking up the chicken who releases the same deadpan "Buk." as usual, I begin my long trek up the tower, wondering where verse-pose is, what I'm meant to do here, and how long this will take.
A monotonous journey follows filled with rest walk and repeats. Any attempt to converse with the chicken are meet with a predictable "Buk." books along the way still deny my advances despite my attempts to appear like a gentleman strangely all I get from my attempts to talk the books into my hands is a
「CHA not high enough」
OoKaay?
worse still I I'm not even rewarded with a stat from my experience. Seems the glitch from before has been patched. Tsk.
"I was really hoping for some extra points in my stamina ya know?"
Looking at the chicken beside me all it does is stare.
"Well, I'm rested again come ere you."
Some grabbing and ruffled feathers, later we start back on our bore of an adventure to the-
BOOOOTTOOOMMM
Freezing before I put my foot down me and my kinda kidnapped victim slowly turn to each other wide eyes.
BBBOOOOOMM!
"skkkkkraaaa!"
"Buk!"
"lol"
SPPKDOOOM!
I'm sorry to go back to the biredom! I'm not strong enough to tank an explosion anymore stop!! Who said laugh out loud?!
"it's your friendly neighborhood Versepose!"
BOOOTOOOM!
"NOT NOW!"
Covering my head with the bird held over my head I turn in fright to see. Hiiiimm.
"mis-"
"What's happening!!!"
Looking at the supposed god I see a more rugged character design. Sweating, panting, and sitting on the staircase with me, on my level, it looks Like he came running here.
"ah, sorry I was in the middle of something. wait I don't need to apologize to you."
Familiar annoyance builds up in me but I'm interrupted by another loud teeth clenching bombing.
"What's going onnn!" I groan out
"why the hell would I know!" my new company's irritate response.
Apparently, those were the magic words cause just like that the last explosion went off with a long ring.
"...um, well, Welcome to the room of POWER!"
"The room of power?"
"no!"
"...But you just said."
"nonomo this is the room of POWER! See."
...Choosing to ignoring that I continue with "I thought the next room would be the room of skills?"
"😂 you thought I would tell you he order of rooms? you really are naive as you are stupid."
Securing one of the only non-antagonist creatures I've met so far, I walk pass the laughing god realizing how much help he would be.
Catching up it puts a hand on my left shoulder
"hah hah werz, wait I'm here to help!"
Making sure my back to the wall I politely ask him to leave.
"Bugger off you shit, you're acting like a creep, stop following me around."
As I ask him to go I dodge his attempts to grab me only to fail in the end.
"oh come on buddy- I'm only came to help" leaning in he smirks at me like I owe him for this.
"look you want to get hight right?"
"?? I wouldn't put it like that."
"welp"
"!"
Suddenly his grip on my shoulder strengthens before replacing our position, looking down I see we're to far up to see the ground
"bye bye!"
"!!"
Getting pushed of a building isn't fun, nor id being murdered after being lead to believe I had a new lease on life same with losing all the progress me and chicken made-chicken? Chicken?!
Looking up I see verse-pose holding the chicken over the edge!
"it's versepose!" He shouts dropping the innocent farm animal now having to murders on his name.
"Fu-CKT!"
Hitting hard ground much earlier than anticipated I'm unprepared to feel the pain of biting my tongue or the bird falling on my stomach.
"Bak?"
"urrr-arrrGggGG!" Taping out I feels small weight come off my chest
「HP – .7/.8」
Whhhhyyyyyy? I'm at the top. Throwing my upper body up and ignoring the pain I stare up at the golden spires that end at a leak above the top room of the tower, the room shaped like a ballroom, line walls made of yellow/orange-tinted glass the floor is a darker blue than the sand making me think it's made of the same thing.
"Buk."
Pretty but what's the point?
"you're probably wondering what your suppose to do here."
"Gah!" he's behind me!
"whoa you didn't have to punch me like that..." was his disgruntled reply to his unhurt face.
Shaking my bruised hand I look at his strangely emotionless face.
"your time is almost up. Soon you'll be brought back to life."
My confusion rising I feel irrational rage fall through my lips before I can ask what that meant
"Would you just fuck off into a ditch and die?!"
He's gone and now I need to get what I need from this room and go.
zizizizizi zzzzaaaaa~
A brilliant golden light defends from between the spires above shining on a rising pedestal In the center of the room. A white book resting on it. This... Is it. My clue. My goal.
Before I know it I'm testing my forefinger on its softcover, like a luxury blanket, my hands slide down its surface like a river before reaching the bottom right corner.
I pause for just a moment before bouncing the edge on my finger tossing it open. Bight red-colored pages filled with unintelligible blue wording on each and every page.
Flipping through the pages their all the same. What am I looking for? Going to the cover again I open it once more and carefully look at the unreasonable nonsense. Despite not making sense, despite not being a language, understanding. Comprehension comes to me!
I see I see I see, I get it! It's it's this room is! A smirks wider than ever breaks across my face
"This! Is~"
One of my stats begin to grow, evolve!
Energy skill-.1
LCK – .1
Energy skill-.2
LCK – .2
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{Me La Vey}
「weak gamer」
[Level – 0
Exp. (10_20)
Class –
Race – Human
Alignment – ?]
—!Physical stats!—
HP – .8 [.01 regen per minute]
SP – .2 [.01 regen per minute]
STR – .9
END – .9
DEX – .9
AGL – .9
SPEED – .5
STAMINA – 1.
?—mental stats—?
INT – .9
WIS – .9
CHA – .6
*metaphysical*
Energy– .1 [.1 regen per minute]
Energy skill-.2
LCK – .2
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11:29 pm May-17-2020