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Teyo opened his menu again to check his stats.

Sammich level 2

84/200 exp

Chef

Role - Fill

Health - 17

Attack +4

Defense + 2

Mana 1/3

Gear stats

+3 Defense

Active Skills -

Cook level 1 - Create food, Taste determines an amount of mana, health, and stamina restored by product. 0 mana

Pan Sear level 1-

While holding a pan, heat it's bottom without a fire for a flash sear finish.

Active time 1 minute - 1 mana

Class Passives -

Full stomach - While full you can determine more ingredients when using class skills, as well as Regen 1 health per 2 minutes.

Discern Ingredients - Determine edible ingredients from your surroundings.

" Aww no way I totally spaced it.. Hey! what gives!" Teyo noticed he had only gained 50 experience points. He had only eat about half the taco, considering what was left Reilly should have eaten about 150 worth of experience. He couldn't help but kick himself and shrug it off. Not only was he lost in the food, he had to admit seeing that Reilly ate it so quickly and asked for more he felt a strange satisfaction. Something about making her food that she wanted to eat made him quickly get over it, not to mention she was paying for it now. She lay against the rock beading with sweat and kept inhaling through her teeth as to cool the spice.

Reilly sat forward after a moment the duo were down to their last couple minutes of playtime. Reilly proked through her menu briefly then spoke. " Teyo I gained a level from that! Thank you so much it was so good! That was so spicy I love spicy food! I guess this is goodbye for a day. See you soon."

Teyo nodded his head, as he suspected she would level as he had. Unfortunately he basically just gave her all of the experience he earned. Thinking about it further though he understood that it would be necessary in the following meet up. As Teyo and Reilly watched the last second pass on the timer in front of them they looked at each other one last time.

A moment later Teyo saw his surroundings flash brightly so much so that he closed his eyes, he felt a falling sensation and a whirling rumble in his ears then it just stopped. When he opened his eyes he was sitting on the floor of his Specter space. A moment later Spex rose through the floor a few feet in front of him. " Hello Teyo. How would you rate your experience today? Would you care to take a survey to help with the overall ratings on the app store for Wish Legacy?"

Teyo looked at Spex. After standing up he took a deep breath. " Ya know I really hate when you get asked that.. Maybe later. But also I thought the timer was up I can still sit in the main menu?"

" After using your playtime the specter requires a few moments to perform a quality check and to disconnect your entire consciousness. After which you will be met with another small timer in which the console will shut off. Once everything is off you will feel your real self where you were before entering. There is a internal buffer during this process. You have a few minutes of De-escalation left, you are free to sit and watch your recording or browse the menus." Spex lefted her hand and pointed beside Teyo where a large recliner and Television had appeared. A small coffee table between them with a remote on it. All of the furniture was snow white and the remote was jet black. The entire scene left Teyo intrigued.

Looking at Spex then back to the chair Teyo popped a seat into the recliner and grabbed the remote. Leaning back into it he got comfy and turned on the TV. The screen showed one video and after selecting it a pop-up text appeared.

Show highlights?

Teyo selected yes. Soon after he began to see various moments of battle with the bats, then the slimes, opening his first reward, the fall and more. They were quick snips of the moment's he felt one way or another about. Seeing it all play before him like a movie and in third person made it rather surreal. Just after watching himself work on gutting the bat the screen paused and Spex appeared next to him. With a gentle tug on his shoulder she pulled him further into the recliner and whispered " See you tomorrow" Teyo began to sink into the recliner. As ominous as it was the comfort it gave felt amazing. As his vision tunneled, the pure white landscape began to shrink as his peripheral vision blackened. Realizing what was happening as he sank further and further into the recliner the darkness became all he could see and the weightless feeling of floating washed over him. A moment later he drew a breath not realizing he had closed his eyes, opening them he saw the inside of his helmet. He took it off and sat up.

Teyo felt a strange numb like feeling all over. His entire body felt needles as if it was asleep. That feeling quickly subsided, but Teyo then felt an overwhelming need of sleep. He didn't even bother moving he just closed his eyes and went right to bed.

.....

*BOM BOM BOM*

" Teyo! Wake up! It's one o'clock mom needs you to do your chores and tell her what you want from the grocery store." Teyo sister banged on the door yelling causing him to jolt awake his heart a flutter.

Teyo listened to her with a scornful grimace. " I fuckin hate when you wake me up like that! " He threw his pillow at the door and stood up. He heard her giggle and then run down the stairs.

Standing up Teyo felt a bit off, the brightness blaring through the window was near blinding, he stretched and then got dressed. When he got downstairs his mother was sitting on the couch with a list she look up to him. " Hey sweetie. Why you sleeping in so late? Come here sit."

Teyo raised his brow questioning the situation, his mother was only nice when she had something not in his favor for him, at least that was more common than the random 'sweetie' since he hit puberty. Moving to the couch Teyo thought hard about what it could be." Did I do something? or did I forget something " he wondered. " Ahem* What's up? " he said.

" Oh I made a list of chores for you to do, and I was wondering if you had anything you wanted from the store. Also. I need you to chaperone a date for your sister. Some boy from her school asked her out to the theater." She ripped off a sheet of paper from her notepad and slid it across the table. On it a list of chores as long as the paper were shown. Teyo's jaw dropped

" What the hell I just did some of these chores yesterday! And chaperone wtf are you kidding for a movie date no way that's dumb, what you afraid she's gonna kiss or something! It's gonna happen one way or another and I'd rather not see it." Teyo yelled out clearly upset.

His mother leaned forward and her expression changed from that of a kind woman to a demon like gaze " Firstly you are going, not because I asked because your sister did. Second They Will NOT kiss do you understand me? and Third if you go you won't have to do those chores." She leaned back and then slid a twenty across the table.

Teyo crossed his arms. With a huff he snatched the twenty and got up and walked away. " Rooogue! Where are you!?"

he yelled through the house. Shortly afterwards his sister came in the back door with a soccer ball in hand.

" Yeah? " she said panting and covered in sweat.

" When and who is this kid? "

" Mooom what the heck I said i was gonna ask!" Rogue look over at her mom, clearly dismissive her mom just sat and siped her tea. " Pft.. Well uhm his name's Jace.. And I think the movie starts at six. Will you really go? I just wanted you to go cause it's an R rated movie."

" Mmmph. Sure. What movie? " Teyo said clenching the twenty in his pocket.

" From whence they came."

" Oooh shit that's out already.. I mean sure yeah I'll go. But don't expect me to babysit. Only thing I will step in or say anything about is if he gets handsy or runs his mouth. Also your buying my

food." Teyo looked at his mom " Can I have money for our tickets? "

She looked at him with flat downward curled lips. Then went through her purse and handed him another twenty. " Also tomorrow night I'll cook dinner, get stuff for Taco's." Teyo said then ran back upstairs.

Teyo's first thought was about playing Wish Legacy again. He wanted to badly to get on and play right now. He hated that he had to wait so long. He never had a console restrict his time, the worse bit of it was that outside of the console he had so much more time to wish he was playing. For an organized adult life with a family and career the specter console was a dream come true but for a freshman in college the freedom of time and lack of friends, since most of them moved off to school, Teyo felt sad. Rather than dawdle and mope a moment of clarity hit him. "Preparation" He muttered under his breath and sat in front of his computer.

Teyo began once again to search the internet for information about Wish Legacy. Unfortunately many threads and small clips he could find didn't really contain anything of value. And looking for content on popular video sites was rather difficult. Teyo typed in a bunch of different buzzwords but the hang up of the game's rules about talking about the game seemed to have hampered the overall availability of content folks were able to create. Going back to the official Blackhead thread on Bluezit, he scoured the page for anyone who may have shared any news about the game.

Scrolling through he found that almost every topic were questions about the game many of which had answers that were redacted or deleted by moderators. Some were just large posts billboarding for unofficial guilds. Folks were already asking for specific members and classes to add on friend's lists etc. One of the most popular upvoted blackheads was about the use of the experience gems. The generator of the post was non other than AgentDenial the official moderator and the creator of the /bzWishLegacy page. The post struck Teyo like a lightening bolt.

"Addressing Use of Experience gem's is detailed information and therefore Bannable." The thread then continued on below that header.

"Hey fellow W.L players and Bluezit headers, I'm here with an official announcement that I got in talks to WOTG and Snowstorm about. Many folks are finding it difficult to discuss topics and unfortunately some have stepped the line and are either banned now or suspended. Please for the safety of your account and the user's please refrain from DETAILED discussion. I was given and example from the creators as such to help clear confusion. The following statements are false but therein show the difference.

Specifics--- Non-accepted Terminology

If you use a fire attribute ability to defeat the wolf's on the 4th level, it will be a critical hit because it is their weakness.

Non Specifics ---- Acceptable terminology

While fighting some wolves I used an ability with a elemental attribute. Using it helped me defeat them.

Misinformation will not get you in trouble but being wrong may end up hurting you in the long run. Generalize things, or experience it together and then discuss, learning together is not going to be bannable.

Asking questions is almost always going to lead you into a detailed answer. By not fully disclosing the entirety of an answer but rather supplying hints you can reach an appropriate response. Another great avenue is to see and do. If you know some cool details that your just raving to show your friends do so and play with them in game and show them. "Hey guys I found this cool thing come check it out" ----Does the thing -- " Ohhh whaaat very good to know thanks man" ---- **clap clap clap**

Addressing a loophole folks have also discussed, No Wish Legacy does not monitor your memory, therefore sharing information outside of the game in real life in an unmonitorable situation may take place. However know that in time a majority of the game shall be discovered and at the time that a certain percentage of people reach level 100 The ban on discussion will be lifted anyway. The rule was instated and is only in place so that the world of Wish Legacy continues to awe and intrigue those who have yet to try it. Still any undeniable evidence of such taking place before that happens will ruin your chances at the prize pool. Also, there are a plethora of content creators whom have made qualms about how it is you are able to make video content about the game. Keeping in mind that specific interactions, reactions, information, etc shouldn't be discussed. Showing videos with little context is available, leaving out the level and other details to continue to vague the therein discussion shall be acceptable. Bottom line be creative and spur investigative discovery in your friends and teammates.

Discover the world together, Safe adventures! See you on level 5!

- AgentDenial"

Teyo sat back in his chair. " Really.. Huh it's a gimmicky move but smart because everyone will be showing off the game or speaking in hushed circles so those that aren't involved want to be.. I wonder...It makes you think if they do monitor memory.. And making content in that way... But also who would even watch that... Maybe just a montage of highlights is the way to go. Don't show the level, and use the team for your content. They want to showcase the player with this model.." Teyo grabbed his Specter 3 and plugged it in. He began to transfer over his first session's recording.