Origami troubles
11:32 am June-1-2020
Sorry for the lateness see I have this deadly disease called procrastination and that's all ill say about that.
Friday was a panic, opened the app to see I was logged off and was given way to much trouble logging back on. I thought it was all gone...
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『Items! It has dwops!』
I did what?! laying on the ground beneath the spotlight are drops left behind from my impressive battle with the teddy bear (make a note to never tell anyone of this) are a long chain and a grey potato sack?
﹁discern﹂
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「masochist bag」
punching bags are covered with a bag made from a variety of materials.
This is a game. Don't worry about what this one is made of. Lv0
➕1 DEF
DURABILITY 10
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Looking closely the bag isn't as thick as a regular potato bag it's kinda lanky able to fit right over my shoulders and getting stuck on my hips.
More importantly, it gives a full one defense! I have zero as a base, beautiful!
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「masochist's chain」lv0
A 65.6168 foot long chain that is able to hold up to 1102.31 pounds of weight. Lv5
DURABILITY 10
Enc (0)
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masochist's chain has, well first off these numbers are trash, what the FF? Why can't they be simple! Life isn't I guess. Durability I don't know what that does exactly, specifically how durable that is. Level is greyed out along with this new enc thing also lacks the 'glow' that durability shows up with.
『Youw have a titwe』
Oh?
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「title gained!-{> titles-{> group masochist」
|➖Punching Bag➕|
(0/20) *20
➕.1 END
➕.1 DEFENSE
➕0 to all masochist skills/items
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"Um, ok. This is... I'll."
『Ovewwhewmed bossuw?』
I. I... Ok.
I move to the drops putting on the... masochist bag and the title. The chain on the other hand... Is to heavy yo move, grasping at the cold metal links of the chain wondering if I need to pick it up to put it in my magic satchel. I need to do a pocketing motion to put it away.
?
Maybe?
Still holding on to the teddy du bear's drop I turn away leaving my back to it pulling it (I only managing to pull my self to the chain) to my back my hands become empty and I feel a new weight in my magic satchel.
Heck yeah.
Well. That's it. Standing up with a twirl and smacking my hands together I head to the exit.
*smack
I walk into a wall... I drop to the ground and start converting my energy to caster bits, my ass just walked into a trap, I will not be caught at anything less than 100%.
So I need to go further into the cave? Such bs.
「 「mission: find the origami lost pages」
around this gave are colored origami animals. find these to leave
the white Arctic Tern
the grey Humpback Whale
the green Dragonfly
the BW Adélie Penguin
the brown Wildebeest
the Red Christmas Island Crab
rewards: exp,?,?, 1 pp」
Whaaat?? And what is pp??
*phree phrree
!
A scuffling from farther away, past the now dimming light I heard a duck behind a wall coming closer. Just passing by the hall I see a something twattling by.
"Quake quake." a voice sings out "Quake~!"
"A. Penguin?"
!
"The BW adele Penguin!"
Startled by my shout, a small black and white paper penguin jumps up in fright? With a chirping "Quake!" we have a stare-off, both of us surprised to see the other, me thinking to find simple colored paper would be easy cause they don't move, the flightless origami bird seems weirded out to see.
Our staredown changes when the penguin gives the impression of glaring at me, offended by something I said, or just my presence perhaps?
"Qua!" With that plus the sudden raising of its arm- wings. Useless wings, flippers, It makes a ninety degree turn to the right.
Looks like that 'qua' was a signal for the both of us cause I moved as well Running straight under the now almost non-existent light to the previously unseen hallway behind it.
Catching the wall to help me make the sharp turn I see my paper friend already has a bit of distance on me, I should have used reinforcement right when I saw it. Not that it would help, I wasn't given enough time to cast it.
This cave is oddly not cave-like the ground is really easy to step on and it's not all that dark, then again I do have fairly good night vision.
Adele penguin seems to have hit its top speed, but it's not doing a good job with it, guess paper penguin feet don't do well here tripping multiple times. I feel bad watching wenching every time it takes a painful-looking fall.
!
Did it gett hotter? Why am I asking that? It did!
The walls don't look any different but even in the short time I thought that the temperature here has risen to an uncomfortable level even for me, thankfully I've already caught up to Adele once again falling on the ground like a someone from a horror movie.
I would be more forgiven if not for the fact I have yet to fall with my dexterity being a decimal point. Grabbing the now lifeless origami sitting in a puddle.
"Outvh! Fuck!"
Picking up the unfolding paper my fingers touch a hot bit of black liquid, hitting my young in surprise. It isn't tar, it's too liquidy for that, now that I'm paying attention the floor I'm standing on seemed to be a lot softer than before, it has a nice warm feeling to it.
The paper from that penguin shatter into sparkling lights. I'm my mind I see my mission panel come to the forefront absorbing the lights leaving to X marks around the origami I found.
「 「mission: find the origami lost pages」
around this gave are colored origami animals. find these to leave
the white Arctic Tern
the grey Humpback Whale
the green Dragonfly
X the BW Adélie Penguin X
the blue Wildebeest
the Red Christmas Island Crab
rewards: exp,?,?, 1 pp」
One of six then? I'm moving forward to another hall to the left a bit ahead when I catch a flash going pass my head faster than I can process, faster than anything I've seen yet. I don't bother looking back, I see what I could have mistaken as thrown in front of me.
A green origami dragonfly.
"O-oh." tilting my head I give a short wave with what I hope I hope is a none threatening smile "Hey!"
I lunge forward reaching up to grab the paper from the air only to hit a wall. Again... A buzzing sound and a flare of movement are the only indications that anything was there.
That one will be trouble. At least I don't have to worry about finding them, they just find me. Catching them won't be as easy as them walking into my hands.
*bttzzzzzzz
My eyes widen. Looking up above my head is the dragonfly! Putting my legs under me I prepare reinforcement.
The bullet goes in the chamber
I cock the gun
I aim and
Fire
Blood.
﹁reinforcement﹂
Harden webs rip through my body giving my defense, attack, and some physical stats a point one increase. More importantly, my speed goes to one point one. I jump my fingers already forming a cage around the flying green-
*btzzz
I was just hit with the 'boom gone' technique. With that sound, the insect blurred from my fingers to three feet in front of me while I'm still in the air. Tucking my legs beneath me I slane my feet into the wall flying to like an arrow to the green Dragonfly only to be denied again my the silent doge to the right not nearly as fast as the btzz sound but still faster than I can hope to catch.
Taking to onto my hands I twist my torso spinning my legs behind be putting my self into a scorpion position with my toes pointed to my head. Bracing my self, I throw my feet in an arch behind me scraping my feet before I swing them straight down behind my palms giving me a bounce to my jump. Walls blur in my vision, the only thing I'm concentrated on is a greenfly, opening my mouth to compensate for my arms at my side I'm denied again my the sway of the green Dragonfly.
Now in the air without any surface to use in the dragonfly buggers off.
Landing in a spin I don't spot a hint of green in the black rocks of the cave.
"Dammit!"
Swinging my head back and forth, hands balled, teeth grinding, I make a good image of a child throwing a tantrum. No green in sight, just black, black, black, blue!
The Wildebeest!
Running the four-legged beast down I'm almost caught off guard by its an immediate charge that's dodged by a jump over its head. I'm not sure what that was supposed to do? It doesn't come to my knees and it's made of paper. Landing on my toes, back to the beast I spin in place facing the still turning paper animal.
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「perk gained!-{> perk」
[Unnaturally acrobatic]
Despite your low dexterity, you're able to twist and move more than you should.
Despite your low agility, you can move with snappish motions in a small area quickly.
Terrifying, if one were to describe you. It would have to be blessed, a prodigy, a person with the ability on par with a baby that can somehow do starting feats of flexibility and speed.
At this point, this trait can only be achieved by ????. Cost of reinforcement raised and trait locked.
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Trait locked?
"Kha!"
I fall on my side after tripping, from my position I see I'm about to be trampled by paper. Raising my arm the thing gets flung with a simple up movement and it's momentum landing on the ground beside me. Now that I look it has some dull horns. Struggling up it turns to see me towering above it.
"I really could use an easy win after getting handled by the dragonfly."
With the surprisingly rough attempt at escape, I get the feeling the now shattered lights would have given me a paper cut with the tossing it's head around.
Sitting down crisscross applesauce I convert my energy to caster bits when I run out it'll be at a point nine.
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*metaphysical*
Energy – .9 [.1 regen per minute]
Energy skill – 1
Fuel efficiency – /2
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Wait my skill jumped to one! Eyyy! My energy did too!
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*metaphysical*
Energy – 1 [.2 regen per minute]
Energy skill – 1
Fuel efficiency – /2
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"Oh, hoho~ weeelll... Who's next?"
A rumbling. The ground I sit on rumbles rocks, dirt, the walls, beneath me the black ground turns a dark grey.
The humpback!
A sudden jerk up throws me back sending me rolling, of my new trait, wasn't locked to reinforcement only and its cost doubled to compensate.
I was nerfed and I'm only now know how much of a hit one taken! I always hated giant enemies, makes me nervous.
?
Watching the useless flopping of an origami humpback, not able to run or fight makes me disappointed.
Grabbing its tail fin I get swung into the roof.
"Why?!"
The that'd rocky roof of the cave surrounds me like pudding doing no damage. Shopping off falling to a blowhole I stuff my fist in. For a moment both of us wondering why I tried suffocating folded paper.
It turns into unfolded paper fitting in my hand falling apart to moths of lights. I can feel the second hand embarrassment.
Down the hall, I caught sight of a splot of red on the ground... But closer in a side hallway is aht green paper bug on the wall.
"You. You! Bald ape! Get back here!"
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The sound of feet comes closer accompanied by a hopeful feeling blossoming like new love... That is then burned and stomped to oblivion with the shout of "You. You! Bald ape! Get back here!"
A small red crab scuttles from around corner gazing longingly where continuous cursing can be heard.
No Matter how much it uses it's little grabby parts it can't put its dreams back together...
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Running full sprint to the flying fuck I make another attempt to catch the dragonfly. And another. And another, and another, and another, another, another, another failed attempt.
"Whaaa~ why is it so fast?!" I cry out in agony. I give a final "Fuuaaaa!" while banging my hand on the ground.
...
The sound of wind being displaced above me makes me think for a second the dragonfly's back. But the sound and size are off. It's a bird.
A white blur cuts through the air, turning around I spot a paper shaped into a small featured mass aimed at my head.
「combat entered」
The bear didn't count?! It nearly took my head off!
Diving to the side, the second aggressive origami whizzes by my earn smacking to the ground. It uses its wings like hands to pick itself looking back at me with a scrunched up head.
"-Ahm...?"
Doing that little bird jump in place, shifting left and right while it bounces like a boxer. Leaning forward with its wings spread behind it and a glint in its...face.
I take a step back. It takes one forward.
"Woah there."
Another step to me.
"Stop that, you should stop." I say putting my hands in front of my face.
The sound of fluttering paper is accompanied by the flight of the arctic bird whatever flying at me like a bullet.
A bullet coming straight to a purple cube in my hand. A splatter and a paper bird covered in slime turns to particles of light joining the other caught origami animals.
"Dummy!" I say to the light giving my other flying enemy a peace sign and my tongue dangling from my mouth.
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There's that sound again. This time I won't rush in.
Holding my elbow, hand on chin, leaning back, I must strike a 'seriously trying to solve a problem' impression.
I am but I'm trying to catch a paper insect. Turning and walking somewhere I think out loud.
"To be fair it is a dragonfly."
Right as I find my self at the entrance again. I look at the blocked entrance and start my magic.
The bullet goes in the chamber
I cock the gun
I aim and
My ear twitch, I tilt my head looking down the tunnel and strain my ear for the quiet and familiar sound of wings frantically beating the air zooming down to me.
The sounds of flying quickly approach getting louder and more erratic sounding.
A flash comes from around the corner passing me. The sound of beating wings stop, not because there to far but because.
*btzz
At the mouth of the tunnel appears a little green, paper, dragonfly at the same time my bullet hits my target, I imagine green paper ripping apart when my bullet runs through the dragonfly's head.
"﹁reinforcement﹂!"
「spell leveled up...」
Jumping forward I rush to an anticipated blur already moving by the time my hand closes around its previous position.
Even then I was prepared, foot planted in front of myself flinging me back into a backhand slap that missed paper flying just over my hand.
"Of course."
「AGL+DEX fail」
With that thought, I fall to the ground with the green dragonfly swooping over my head, did it come at me?!
Falling to my hands and knees seemed to save me from getting smacked on the face by green paper, glaring at the flying annoyance from my position gives me a moment to think.
What can I do? Skills, traits, a perk that isn't working? Nothing looked like it would help me with this speed demon blurring around the room.
My speed comes out to six mph, twice the average walking speed, a glance at the now previous spot of the dragonfly hints at me that isn't going to cut it.
The sound of air being cut alerts me to the threat zig-zagging to my head, throwing myself to my side a green after faze archs down where my head was previously. Sticking my foot in the ground I try something new, kicking off with a shout of
﹁power strike﹂
I'm flung forward hand outstretched, but again I watch a green blur make a long arc upward.
Dammit! Why did I move, it's paper?! If I just reached my hand out I could have caught em right there! I can take a paper cut if it means this mission is done.
Rolling into a crouch I cast my gaze around the room before I find it at the entrance hovering above the ground. I look down at the unnaturally quick thing just as it slowly moves closer.
It approach becomes faster and faster, quickly going from worrying to blurring in a moment. But this time I'm prepared ill move to the side and it'll fly right into my hand that arc up it made after rushing me screams 'I'm not good at moving after I go!'
Sitting up on my knees I turn my body sideways and position my hand behind my head.
What sounds like an arrow screeching through the air alerts me to the paper shooting at me, when it starts to reach the speed of no return, point, I move my body out of the way green dragonfly wings grazing my ear. And flying into my waiting palm you little punk!
I feel a liquid go down the side of my face.
!
!!
What feels like a waterfall of icy water runs down my back like river, a feeling I haven't been given in years and soon before my death.
Concentrating my all into moving my arm away from the point of impact I'm almost able to escape without damage.
*spurt
"Fffuaaa-shhiiiiiit!"
Throwing my hand behind me brings me spinning back falling onto my side. Grasping and gasping I hold my hand to my chest blood pooling under me from my wrist, palm, and fingers.
"Ghaa-haaa!"
「HP-.2」
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Hp (.7/.9)
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"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck-!"
Dammit, all! That flying green bitch made cabbage Australian horse fly!
I been hit! I've been hurt, by a damn paper dragonfly!
I'm once again hit with the sad realization that I'm not only weaker, so much weaker than I used to be, but I'm just plain weak.
"Gha! -h-ha-hah-."
Pathetic.
Pathetic pathetic. I'm on the ground struggling to look through my vision blurred by tears trying to take note my mangled hand spurting blood. As soon as I'm able to force myself to look at the damage I'm shocked to see my wounds, fade away, like a-
"Game character."
The pour of my life fluid seems to have slowed down but.
*Ztzz ztzz
That one. That one hasn't slowed at all. As a matter of fact, I'm sure its sped up!
Blitzing erratically around the air in elation. I'm able to pick up happiness, excitement radiating off of it like light from a lit match.
Standing with my left hand on my right arm I imagine I strike a good Vegeta. Beaten, bashed, and desperate for a win. Hell, I even cried cause I'm being bullshited.
But I don't have a carrot to go super for me, which may be a good thing now that I think about it.
The high the green one got from hitting me seems to have lowered, as well as its speed, flips, tricks, and spins moving on to be a slower celebration.
I need more, more! But how can I [keep up]?
「reinforcement level up!」______________________________________
﹁reinforcement﹂
2 (0/5) *31
+.1 to applied stats
+.1.1 DEFENSE ➕.1
+.1 ATTACK
COST: .8 caster bits
*1
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Well!
「energy refilled+up
caster bits refilled+up
energy regen=energy skill/2
energy toped up」
Ain't that a thing?
!
*SsssssssTszzz-!
A sound similar to glass breaking is accompanied the mental image of the circuits from my reinforcement snaping, what follows turns my good mood upside down.
「reinforcement broken from caster
bit overflow」
It-it takes to long to do a spell, I would be torn to shreds before I could even start to think about pulling up with another reinforcement
『No, it's! Wait, it's a wie! Gwab onto those pieces, u have one fwee uwse! OwO』
Wait, my marks my veins made with reinforcement haven faded away yet, I connect the snapped bit of my spell, I desperately need that speed]! More than I had previously, I need more [Speed]!
I need to [catch] it.
﹁reinforcement DEX﹂
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{Me La Vey}
「weak gamer」
|➖Punching Bag➕|
[Level – 0
Exp. (11_20)
Class –
Race – Human
Alignment – ?]
Armor 「masochist bag」
(plus 1>defense Plus .1>END)
—!Physical stats!—
HP – .9 [.1 regen per minute]
SP – .3 [.1 regen per minute]
ATTACK .1➡️.2
DEFENSE 1➕➡️1.1
STR – .9
END – 1➕
DEX – .9➡️1.4
AGL – .9
SPEED – 1
STAMINA – 2
?—mental stats—?
INT – .9
WIS – .9
CHA – .6
*metaphysical*
Energy – 1
Energy skill – 1
Fuel efficiency – /2
LCK – .2
(caster bits {1})=X2 energy
pp>
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A very different sort of pain runs into my fucking head! My reaction speed going up, my attack speed going up. Circuits go down my arms a glowing a pretty blue color.
"Rhhaaa! Come and get it bitch!"
Don't I have a bow and-
Oh shit.
The flying green bean zoops at me which a dodge with a 'fwip' I flow under a dive bomb for my chest doing a stunning Neo move.
*paph
"Ah."
I bent back to much, my head is coaching the ground now I'm in an upsetting position.
A buzzing buzz notices my distress and attempts to capitalize on it, unfortunately for it, I remembered I brought a bow with me.
Swinging from an awkward position gives me a nasty feeling in my back plus disappointed with my repeated miss performance. My feint missed.
I stand up to challenge my raised dex stat. If I'm like this will I win? Locking 'eyes' I signal the start of- its gone.
*Btzzzzz
It appeared right by my head. No blur, no warning just danger. Before I can properly process this my fist has already entered range and is rewarded with another disappearing act.
"Oh fuck."
* Btzzzz
* Btzzz
* Btzzzzzz
Its everywhere! Where do I hide? How do I fight?! Stepping back in hit with a sudden pain ripping across my shoulder, blood spraying out.
Holding on to my wound I'm immediately taken by surprise with a tear on my leg opposite my arm wound, dropping me to my knees.
A cut on my cheek trailing blood down my face bring up a heightened panic in me.
When?! How did this happen
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Hp (.3/.9)
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!
"Bitch."
Hand behind me, I pull out my TRUMP CARD. A small black box.
An explosion rocks the cave from the entrance throwing everything into disarray, I slam into the wall turning it red with blood, vision blocked by smoke.
I lay on the ground twitching in pain bleeding out. But~.
Not far from me is a crumbled paper trying and failing to move away from a cost raised above it, but like the dreams of a child, it mercilessly crushed like a parent taking their own suppressed rage for life out on what they see to be the problem.
I take a bit of pleasure grinding the green paper till it turns into particles. I wonder if I was too harsh but then I begin to hack up blood and any feelings of guilt that I was going to get dissipate like what gave me these injuries.
"Ffffuge! I'm done!"
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"?"
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"Please no."
The distinct sound of hard pointed legs on solid ground approachs me. Shot there was a crab too. Looking at my injuries I wonder if I could-
"What the hell!"
Beside my thigh is a red origami crab... That doesn't run or fight.
"..."
The little thing makes scuttle sounds with its feet. It looked like someone rocking on their heels from nerves.
Tentatively stretching both hands to them palms up I get a hop from the can onto my hands. Moving my palms in front of e as the final piece breaks into particles I notice a large crack spiderwebbing down the blocked off escape route...
"Oh bother."
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11:40 pm JUNE-15-2020
Tired, want out fore Monday done, longest chapter to date.
4090
Bye bye.