Silk needs to be nerfed

Walking deeper into the forest offered time for Marcus to practice with his silk. The texture felt like a mix between silly string and putty. While playing, Marcus noticed the difference between the two kinds of silk.

The omni silk, like its name suggested, was for whatever he needed. It was perfect for walking on, and was the stickier type. Marcus was 5'10 and 150 pounds yet the silk had no problem holding his weight.

The hunter silk was extremely sharp. To test how sharp, he rubbed it against a skinny, budding tree. The silk went through the tree with few resistance, like cutting an apple with a dull knife.

After 30 min of wandering north through the forest, Marcus made eye contact with a deer with gray antlers. On earth, it was a herbivore so Marcus assumed that it would run back to its family. He would soon learn that things on earth aren't exactly the same on Moraterra. Instead of running away, the deer started charging!

It was an unfortunate situation but the deer gave Marcus the oppurtunity to try something every weeb would want to do. Loading up on omni silk, he started running away. With the deer closing in on him, Marcus shot a web line to a tree and started to swing. Using the Spiderman hand gesture made the experience even more enjoyable despite the crazy deer still trying to chase him. The web swing gave him a good 5 seconds on the deer as he thought of a plan to deal with the deer on his tail. After landing on the ground between two trees, Marcus squeezed his hand, ejecting hunter silk out both sides of his hand. The silk soundlessly attached to both trees as he jumped over the tripwire. Running at full speed, the deer continued to chase until it fell over on its four stumps.

The hunter silk cleanly cutting through it shins like a veteran surgeon. The deer began to wail and shriek for help or assistance. Not wasting any time for the deer to call for help, Marcus garrotes the deer with the hunter silk for a quick end to its suffering.

[First Kill! Experience gained]

[Ability Tree is now unlocked]

Killing a footless deer had less moral repercussions than Marcus guessed. To survive he had to do many things that would have sent others into an existential spiral. He came to believe a very simple philosophy "Survive at most costs". As long as he wouldn't become a dirtbag piece of trash, he would do whatever he needed to survive.

Looking at the situation through those philosophical lenses, Marcus hurried to wrap the deer in silk to drag it to his home base at the edge of the island. He didn't know if there were any predators nearby and he didn't want to find out.

Getting back to his terrible makeshift camp, Marcus started a fire and was looking for sticks to roast the deer on. He didn't know wildlife culinary arts but cooking deer seemed easy. Going to the sea to wash his hands, Marcus noticed that it was freshwater.

"Am I on an island in the middle of a lake?" Marcus questioned.

There wasn't land in his immediate vision at all, just more and more water. After not checking the water, Marcus wasted a day of thirst which earned himself a facepalm.

He subsequently ended up almost drowning in the water because he drank so much water.

Recuperating after quenching his thirst, he started checking what the system called the [Ability Tree]. After searching through the interface, he found it was just a possible progression of his abilities. He just needed AP which were gained through use of his ability. The preview for the next tier for his silk was that it increased the endurance of the Omni silk or increased the sharpness of the hunter silk. Everything above the preview was greyed out, so it was hard to see what else he may be able to do.

He thought of spamming silk so he could abuse the AP system, but placing stress on the silk was too unbearable. It was not hard to eject the silk but once it was formed, stress placed on the string felt like doing a plank. In the begining it is easy, but after thirty seconds, everything hurts and you hate your life. This fact was doubly true for the hunter silk.

Distracted thinking about how to farm AP, Marcus neglected to check the roasting deer.

Its charred flesh offered a bitter panacea to his hunger as he crunched on his first meal in the new world.