Experiments with The Sponge (1)
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The system has noted your activity :
Relationship with Sandy +10
Relationship with Spongebob +30
Relationship with Patrick +35
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'Well, that was the most thrilling half an hour I had' I thought to myself as we headed out of the bathroom to Sandy's living room.
I finally had some room to breathe and started to reflect on what I've just been through. It was weird, this whole experience. More importantly, why was I so relieved over saving strangers within a dream.
Normal dreams were usually different from this. It tends to feel less realistic from what I've just experienced. Could this be, reality?
Just before I could advance my thoughts, Sandy started talking.
"Thanks for savin' my friends. I might've gone a little too rough on you, tying you up on that bed, what's your name?"
I replied to her, "Rai, and..."
before I managed to finish, Spongebob and Patrick excitedly forced their way in the conversation
"Hi, I'm Spongebob!" Spongebob said
"I'm Patrick!" Patrick followed
"Nice to meet you both!" I said, looking at the cartoon characters.
Sandy then looked at me once again, with a slight silent as we glanced at one another, she said "but something makes no sense to me. I'd understand knowin' which was Patrick and which was Spongebob from their name, but I'd never once told you mine. Yet, you still managed to call me Sandy back there."
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This girl is sharp.
"I.. uh..." I didn't know what to say. Should I just tell her the truth?
"I... have magical power..." as I said that, I screamed in my head, what the actual... what was I thinking? I make no sense.
But before Sandy said anything, Spongebob interrupted our conversation, appearing from the bottom of my vision.
"Did you say, magicccccc?" he looked at me with eyes of expectation, his eyes growing bigger and more sparkly. Patrick, on the other hand, well, he was distracted by the carpet on the floor. 'Good Ol' Patrick' I thought before Spongebob asked another question.
"What magic can you do?"
"Is it anything within your Imaaginattionn?" he asked, while a mysterious rainbow appeared following his hand gesture through the air.
'Where did that come from?' I thought as it slowly disappears.
Sandy looked as though she was slightly suspicious of me, but was waiting for me to answer Spongebob.
"Uh.. yeah!" I said, not knowing where I was going with this.
At this point, Patrick started to show interest in this conversation. And he said,
"OH OH, I know, Could you make me into a starfish!?"
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"Um, you already are one Patrick," Sandy replied to him, facepalming herself.
"IT WORKED Spongebob!!!" Patrick said after patting his body all over with the biggest smile I've ever seen in my whole life.
Playing along, Spongebob then said "Do me next!!! I want to shape like a... CIRCLE!!!"
Sandy slightly grinned with the expectation that I couldn't do it.
And that was when I recalled that I have some abilities in this dream. Right then and there, a system log appeared once again
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Rai S.
Category: Inheritor
Title: Author
Skills: Modification, Creation, Delete, Access Data
Details: Fits the minimum age requirement to access this system. Proper procedures have been completed.
The Power to Change the World
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'Woah, that was easy' I thought, though still slightly flinching as I was not used to this sudden system popups.
I checked through the skills, and I speak out the one which is likely to be useful right now.
"Modification," I said out loud, slightly embarrassed. Isn't this what you're supposed to do in those typical animes or wuxia?
Thankfully, the system gave feedback, asking me to please access the data I'd like to modify.
So I followed by saying "Access Data."
At that point, my vision displayed a name on top of every single character and items surrounding me. As I focus over to the yellow sponge in front of me still looking at me with expectations, a confirmation log was displayed
'Confirm to access [Character] Spongebob's data.'
"Yes," I said
And there it was, Spongebob's character log.
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Character : Spongebob
Age: ???
Relationship: +80
Current emotion: Excited
Characteristic: A squared sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea. He is Absorbant,Yellow, and Porous. He works in the Krusty Krabs, cooking burgers. Spongebob is one of the few people who knows about the Krabby Patty's Secret formula. (tap for more details..)
Title: Protagonist of the series
Primary Skills: Regeneration (S), Martial Arts (E), Flexible(A), Cooking Burgers (SSS),
Absorption (A), Laughter (S)
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It took me a while to read it, but afterwards, I instinctively said,
"Modify"
A blue-like holographic keyboard appeared in front of me along with a trackpad exactly below said keyboard. Seeing that it looked relatively straightforward, I started hovering my hand to touch the trackpad. To my surprise, I can feel it, as though it was a real computer.
Using the trackpad, I moved the cursor and hovered it over to the 'characteristic' part of the system. I then deleted the word 'squared' and then replaced it with 'circle'.
'Will this work?' I wondered.
I clicked on save data afterwards, making me slightly nervous. Spongebob was still there looking at me in expectation, whereas Sandy seems confused at what I was doing. Patrick, as usual, was doing the most unique action out of all of us. He was blankly looking at SpongeBob.
The system loaded for a while but it then displayed the following log.
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Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Yes/No
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