//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 // Story: The Game Players // by GamePlayer64 //------------------------------// Game Life was in a personal social space hell. Large Harvest & Dark Speed was with him in classes despite Dark Speed was force to be within the sun’s light, Fancy Looks, Sweet Tunes and High I.Q. were following him during and after lunch; even to drink from the water fountain and Sharp Shooter & Tough Exo kept helping him on homework even though he doesn’t need help. He groaned as never got any personal time to himself even in the toilet, “OK, That is enough! I need my space!” School ended Game Life walked away but Fancy Looks stopped him. “Hi Game. Where you going?” “I’m going to find a job.” She smiled “We can help!” Game Life was a bit annoyed but paused when he heard a word that didn’t fit “Wait… WE?!” She nodded as his friends surrounded him “We Gamers need to stay together! “Dark Speed foresees darkness if Game Life is alone.” Game Life looked at him “I thought that was a good thing for you?” “Not darkness that Dark Speed prefer.” Game Life looked annoyed as they passed him work applications that overloaded him with horror as he read some of them which scared him. “THE HAPPY SMILES, NO TECH STORE?! Are you trying to torture me?!” Sweet Tunes snatched it and ripped it up “Whoops! That was my mom’s idea. She thinks that I would give up my boombox if I work there.” Large Harvest gave him a ‘Help Needed’ sign “I could use some extra help as the farm.” Game Life sighed and smile “Thanks guys. I’m going to need my space to fill these out. Maybe Mama Sweet Meds will help me since she’s a professional drug maker and a good reference for the applications.” Stop it anytime you want They praised him as he walked away. He walked towards the park and sat at a bench. When he was away from his friends, he looked depressed “Inventory.” It appeared as he tossed them in as he looked at the sky “What am I going to do? I need to earn some cash for the Switch but I need to level up. I need to rethink my plans.” He looked at his level though the New 3DS camera selfie “ LV16 Game Life. Hmm… let’s see that stats.” Level 16 HP : 720 MP: 280 recover 5% Power: 36 Strength: 30 Intelligence: 42 Wisdom: 28 Luck: 10 Dexterity: 27 Endurance: 32 Charisma: 24 Speed: 37 Perception: 10 Points: 40 “40 points that I earned from leveling up. I should use some of them and saved some. I’ll use 30 points and save the rest. 3 points for each stats.” He pressed the arrow next to the number as they raised a bit HP : 745 MP: 295 recover 5% Power: 39 Strength: 33 Intelligence: 45 Wisdom: 31 Luck: 13 Dexterity: 30 Endurance: 35 Charisma: 27 Speed: 40 Perception: 13 Points: 10 “That’s good.” He smiled and looked around the park to see it’s empty “Oh yeah… some people are working. Than perhaps I can train!” He raised his hand “ID Create.” Everything went quiet as the made his skill screen appeared Making Instant Dungeon (Active) LV 1 EXP: 50%] A Skill to make an instant Dungeon. You can create a more powerful one by increasing your skill level. 1.Empty I.D. - Monsters: None “Interesting… I should practice this skill. Escape.” the sky cracked and shattered “Let’s practice this skill.” 1 hour later Making Instant Dungeon (Active) LV 9 EXP: 10.08%] A Skill to make an instant Dungeon. You can create a more powerful one by increasing your skill level. You can make Various Instant Dungeons and set a difficulty setting of your choosing; Easy, Normal, Hard, Super Hard. Current Available I.D. List: 1.Empty I.D. - Monsters: None 2.Zombie I.D. - Monsters: Zombies 3.Ghost I.D. - Monsters: Ghosts 4.Slime I.D. - Monsters: Slimes 5.Beast I.D. - Monsters: Beasts 6.Goblin I.D. - Monsters: Goblins 7. Combine I.D. - Monsters: Your choice of monsters available on list. [Escape from Instant Dungeon] (Active) LV 9 EXP 20.19%] It aids you in escaping an Instant Dungeon. Which is one of the ‘Protective Spaces’. Game Life was amazed as he was in his new Slime I.D. on a normal setting as he attack some different color globs of goo with levels of 12 to 14 his sword beams. “This is awesome! I can fight more than just zombies.” He slashed one in half as collected 17 small orbs Slime core - The cord is the only solid physical object of a slime. They have the same price of a marble. Feed this to a slime and they would grew a bit and gain some strength. “Feed this to a Slime and it will grow?” Game Life looked annoyed but paused a bit “Wait a sec… I wonder if I can tame some.” Game Life played many games involving taming monsters like Digimon, Lost Magic, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker, Shin Megami Tensei, Monster Rancher, Puzzles and Dragons and Disgaea. He looked at his hands “I wonder… Options!” A screen appeared that had; Help, Game Play, Video, Sound, Difficulty, Setting, Hint, Dungeon Entry. “I can’t believe I have this?” He looked at he has, see the Dungeon Entry and it was on. He was surprised as looked at it “I was on auto?! AAAAAGGGGGGHHHH!!!” He pressed it to off as ‘on’ was change to off. “Now that was demeaning to my pride.” Game Life looked at the ‘Help’ and pressed it as a microphone icon shown on screen “How to Tame Monsters?” The loading whirlpool appeared and it showed a new screen To Tame Monsters; You have to yell ‘Tame’ and unleashed your strength at the target/targets. This will not slay them but see if your powers can control them. Game Life looked around as to see three different color slimes heading towards him; a red one, a blue one and a green one. He smiled a bit “I always love slime monsters the most.” As the slimes attacked him “TAME!” He glowed a bright aura around him as slashed them all in one swipe as the backed away. They froze in place as Game stared at them as a screen appeared Congratulation! You have tame (3) Slime. Game Life spun his machete and jumped in the air. “Perfect, like Quest 64; Hard Game that does a ton of talking but it was the 1990’s. RPG for the N64 didn’t have a lot of games in that genre. New Skill is created through a specific action. [Tame (Active) LV 3 EXP: 2.87%] A skill in taming monsters. The higher the skill’s level, the higher the chance to Tame strong monsters and easier to Tame weaker monsters. The limit of summoned monsters out on field: 5, the higher the level, the more monsters are summoned. New Skill is created by your new skill [Monster Farm (Passive) LV 1 EXP: 0%] This private personal Non-dungeon is where you can store your monsters you tame and only you can open this personal area, anywhere you are. You can send food and training equipment to strengthen your monsters stats and ease their hunger. “Nice!” He looked at his new monsters “Observe. Name: No name Race: Slime Gender: Male Color: Blue LV 10 HP: 120 MP: 10 Power: 10 Strength: 10 Intelligence: 0 Wisdom: 0 Dexterity: 5 Endurance: 5 Speed: 9 Charisma: 0 Perception: 0 Points: 0 Name: No name Race: Slime Gender: Female Color: Red LV 10 HP: 120 MP: 10 Power: 10 Strength: 10 Intelligence: 0 Wisdom: 0 Dexterity: 5 Endurance: 5 Speed: 9 Charisma: 0 Perception: 0 Points: 0 Name: No name Race: Slime Gender: Female Color: Green LV 10 HP: 120 MP: 10 Power: 10 Strength: 10 Intelligence: 0 Wisdom: 0 Dexterity: 5 Endurance: 5 Speed: 9 Charisma: 0 Perception: 0 Points: 0 Game looked disappointed “What the @#$%?! My Slimes are weak!” The 3 slimes slunk in sadness as Game got on his knees “Hey, sorry about what I said. I can tell that you understand me and I got you 3 some snacks~.” The returned to their blob forms as Game open his inventory and pulled out the cores. The smiles bounce excitedly “Now calm down.” The slimes stopped “5 for each of you.” Game dropped 5 cores for each of them as they dissolved in them as a screen appeared in front of Game Life Your (3) Slime has earned 25 points of stats “Whoa…” “Thank you, master!” Game Life looked around “Who said that?” “We all did!” “Thank… you...” Game Life looked at his slimes as they were molding as they made of their own eyes, mouth and stubby pointy arms. The blue one was smiling, the red one had eyelashes on her eyes and one looked sad but was nervous. “My Slimes. (“They’re so cute!!! Maybe I can convince Fancy to sew up some dolls that look like them to earn some cash.”) “We are smart enough to talk to you!” Said the blue slime. “We are strong enough to fight with you!!!” yelled the red slime. “We… can… play… together…” said the green slime. Game Life spread his arms “Come here you three.” They jumped towards him as he hugged them. “We got some training to do but I say we do it in a different dungeon. Monster Farm!” A portal opened to show a beautiful plain field unspoiled by humans “I’ll call you three when I get there.” The 3 slimes jumped in as Game stood up “Exit.” The sky cracked and shattered as Game looked at the time “3:30 PM. I better text Mama Sweet Meds that I’m gonna be late.” He text her about he’ll be late and a new text came with an unset emoji. Game text her that he’s studying in a library. She replied with a happy face and said remember to do your homework. “I will. I.D. Create.” Everything is quiet as the sky was green. “That’s weird.” “So you’re the one who’s creating the Private Spaces!!!” Game turned around to see High Stocks which made him annoyed “Oh great… you again.” Her eyes looked furious “What the hell game otaku!!! You thought I’m an annoyance?!” “No… I thought it would be someone else like Fancy’s old man?” Game looked above High Stocks head to see her level; LV 32, she gain 3 levels since we last meet. High understand what he meant “I can see why. Her father is the frightful but I was told to find the source of the Private Spaces happening in the park and capture or neutralized it.” Game prepare to fight back “But since it’s you and I have told my grandpa that you’re a special case. I’ll let it go if you explain the reason for it.” Game looked relax and place his arm behind his head “I was practicing in creating dungeons and learn I can create new dungeons with new monsters in it.” High widen her eyes “WHAT?! That… is impressive.” “I was going to practice to fight in this Beast Dungeon with my new Slime partners.” High raise her brow “What slimes?” Game smiled “Calling Slimes; Blueberry, Cherry, Honeydew!” A portal opened as 3 cute slimes came out which surprised High Stocks “So… So CUTE!!!” She yelled as she picked them up and rubbed her cheeks on them “These are the cutest slimes, I’ve ever seen!” “Thanks. Now put my slimes down.” She put them down and pouted “How on earth did you get these cuties? The slimes I’ve seen are globs of goo.” “I got them in my Slime Dungeon. They were originally blobs but I feed them these slime cores.” He opened his inventory and pulled a core out. High Stocks grabbed it “I’ve never seen Slimes have these. How can you get these?” Game Life wonder but remember the answer “Simple, I’m the Gamer. My powers from Gaia makes monsters dropped stuff like in RPGs without doing all the disemboweling you do.” High looked at him with twitching eye “YOU CHEATER!!!” Game looked smug “Don’t blame me! Take your complain to Gaia!” She grinned her teeth as they heard a roar, they turned around to see a monstrous wild dog-like beast charging towards them Game looked surprised “Observe!” Wild Beast LV 16 HP: 1200 <1200> MP: 140 A monsterous dog-like beast created from the murderous intentions of canines that were train to kill. It’s movement is fast and lives on blood. “Oh shit!” Game pulled out his machete and fired sword beams at it as it avoid the attacks as attack Game as he grabbed the Wild Beast’s jaw from ripping his throat off “ATTACK MY SLIMES!!!” The 3 slimes unleash their body slams on the beast as High Stocks grabbed it by the neck and lifted it off of Game Life as he got up. “I wonder about your powers? You said that you can earn items by killing the creatures in Private Space right?” Game nodded “So can I earn an item by killing this right?” Game wonder but remember a skill he learns by leveling up “Wait! I can create a party! So… ‘Invite High Stocks’?” A screen appeared in front of her as her eyes widen as the beast went wild in her hand Game Life is inviting you to join his party. Will you join? Yes  No High Stocks looked at him and nodded as the screen changed You are now in Game Life’s ‘The Game Players’ party High looked at him “The Game Players?” Game shrugged his shoulders “Its not to make myself big since ‘Game’ is part of my name. We tried ‘Videogame Players’ but that name was already taken. So I think you can-” High Stocks smiled as she cracked it’s neck which frighten Game and his slimes as it vanished into black smog as a pelt of fur, two leg bones and three large pieces and 3 slabs of meat were on the grass which surprised them “Is that?” “Yes.” “And that’s.” “Meat.” “And-” “Bones.” Game looked at them Wild Beast Pelt - A large pelt of a Wild Beast. This material can be used to create armor or fashionable clothing. Wild Beast Meat - Large pieces of edible meat from the Wild Beast. This meat is consumable and rich in Protein, Iron and Fat-free. Wild Beast Leg Bones - The hind leg bones of the Wild Beast. This can be crafted into a weapon, armor or accessory. It can be used as a club with Strength: 60. Game looked at High “This meat is edible and the bones and fur can be used to create weapons, armors, and accessories.” High looked shocked as she looked at them “I want to but…” “I’ll hold on what you want but I think you should give the slabs to my slimes. For trying to help at least.” High picked up the meat “Okay. Come here little ones. Lunch time.” They turned around to Game as he nodded, the jumped towards her as she dropped them in their mouths as they bounce excitedly “This is delicious!” Said Blueberry “I love fresh meat!” yelled Cherry “Thank… you…” said Honeydew. Your Slimes have earn an 20 HP increase to their health bars High blushes happily as Game picked up the meat and bones and dropped them in his inventory “Do you want the pelt?” “And the Bones. I think that Grandpa wouldn’t like the meat.” “Vegetarian?” “No… I don’t think he wants to be poisoned by monster meat. Even if you vouch for me, I doubt he’ll believe you.” Game rolled his eyes “Let me guess; don’t trust outsiders.” High nodded “But I shall help you a bit since this is interesting. Free stuff without disemboweling monsters.” Game Life and High Stocks marched as his Slimes followed them.