//------------------------------// // Tutorial and meeting sandbar // Story: The gamer of Equestria // by Araneae //------------------------------// A girl was sighing as she moved along the sidewalk. She was in a wheelchair a blanket neatly tucked around her legs. Long brown hair draped over the sides of her pale neck as green eyes looked dully a head. Then a flash of light soft and warm wrapped around her. She was gone wheelchair and all. She appeared in a strange blue area with floating orbs of white light. Her hand flew to her chest gripping the white fabric of her shirt. Faye Winters you have been chosen to become a being known as The Gamer. You will soon awake in a new world ;but before that we have a few things to take care of. Faye rose an eyebrow at that. What was The Gamer? She had seen fanfiction with such a thing mentioned in them but never read them. Would you like to proceed with the tutorial. This is recommended for new players. “yes” Faye would like to know just what she's gotten into. Her hands gripped the arms of her chair tightly. Let's start with the commands then. There are two types of commands. Soft commands which allows you to access thing with thought or vocalization. Hard commands which are vocal only. “soft” Faye tilted her head why would anyone with this power use hard commands? It seemed like a bad idea if you asked her. What did someone do with these ‘commands’ as a gamer? For the next part think or say “next” “n-next” there was no one around yet so speaking would be ok right? Now it's time to introduce your menu. To activate it is simply think or say menu as you did with next. “m-menu” Faye nearly jumped when a screen appeared in front of her. Status Skills Inventory Buddies Quest Faye blinked at the buddies option. Why would that be on a game menu? Now please check your status “status” the screen changed a bit showing a well character status sheet though oddly without an image on it. Faye Winters Lvl: 1 HP: 70/70 HP Reg: 1/min Mp: 87 MP Reg: 1/min FP: 0/100 EXP: 0/100 Str: 5 Vit: 5 Int: 7 Wis: 5 Agi: 3 Luck: 5 Money: ? Condition: Normal/chair bound (chair bound is a permanent condition your agility will always be lower than other stats strength based activities involving your legs will not be able to be done) Faye winced at her ‘condition’ it made sense honestly she couldn't do anything with her legs at all so there were bound to be negative effects. Still some of this was unfamiliar to her and she played video games often what was FP? Those stats seem a bit...bland how about 5 more points to switch things up a bit? Faye hummed and decidedly put 1 point in strength, vitality, and wisdom and put 2 points in luck, you never knew how luck could come in handy after all. So now her stats were as followed Str: 6 Vit: 6 Int: 7 Wis: 6 Agi: 3 Luck: 7 Faye nodded at this. The stats were still somewhat bland but shed fix that eventually. Ok good let's return to the menu screen shall we? Faye was quick in going back to the menu. She was fidgeting nervously and couldn't place why. Now let's see your skills “skills” Gamers mind-lvl: max Gamers body-lvl: max Observe-lvl: 1 This is your skills list. While its small now it will grow in time. Would you like to know what each skill does. “yes please.I don't want to go blindly into this more than i already am” Faye sighed a bit. Gamers mind is a skill that lets you stay calm in any situation. Gamers body makes it to where so long as you keep your HP up you won't be in much pain. Observe is your basic observation skill it lets you know about items or people you use it on. People who are more than 50 lvls higher than you plus the skills lvl will only give very limited information. That was good to know. Now she was a bit more prepared still something that basically forces her to stay calm? That sounded like it could be both a blessing and a curse...and bad if some one with the wrong morality got a hold of it. Now let's return to the menu and check your inventory. “Menu” there was a relaxed look on Faye’s face now. “inventory” her inventory when it popped up was completely empty. Your inventory is a pocket space that can hold many things in it! Though yours is a bit...empty how about we fix that? Another screen appeared in front of faye. She blinked at the options A weapon A skill book A cupcake You may choose one of these items. Faye could see how each item could help. In games weapons were often used as offence and defensive items. A new skill could benefit her...and the cupcake was most likely an HP restorative item. Still she had no idea of which skill she could get and most likely she could get cupcakes where she was going so… “a weapon” Faye spoke sitting straight in her chair. In front of her appeared a bladed discus weapon. The Chakram a easily disguised throwing weapon that can be used im hand to hand combat. Simple but effective. With a thought Faye put the weapon away and saw in her inventory there was now a place she could check her equipment. currently she had only her chakrams equipped. She didn't think she needed anything else yet though. So she returned to the menu. Good now let's check your quest! Faye did so and saw she had one. Quest: complete the tutorial (+100 exp) [in progress] Well that was simple. Still what was her buddies option? It currently seemed out of place and FP too. Now there's one last thing to do before your tutorial is complete. With that vague forms appeared around her. She recognized them. Unicorn, pegasus, earth pony, zebra, griffon, changeling, dragon, yak, hippogriff/seapony, kirin...all the races from MLP friendship is magic other than alicorns were there! Buddies must be her friends list and FP probably stands for friendship points it all made sense now! Which form will you choose? Faye hummed at this and looked over them each, as cool as being a pony would be she didn't want to be one of the most common being in equestria...she also didn't want to be any of the young six races as cool as they are. The choices she didn't want disappeared, that still left a lot of options. She closed her eyes and then decided, she wanted to be a Zebra. With that light shown around her. soon she looking down she had hoves and a pale cream yellow coat with black stripes on it. She opened her status screen again and saw that her eye color remained the same but otherwise she was a cream and black pony zebra. Her wheelchair had also changed to be more for her new shape like one you'd see on a dog or other four legged animal without the use of their legs. Quest: complete the tutorial completed Gained 100 exp You are now lvl 2 Gained 100 bits Congratulations you have stat bonuses from doing certain task Int + 2 Wis + 1 With that Faye felt like she was floating for a moment. Then a light gently enveloped her for a third time. She was gone once again. Faye gasped as she opened her eyes. Her head swished around and she saw that she was a bit aways from ponyville, most likely to not cause panic amongst the common ponies there. She took in a breath and looked around real quick. Nopony was around, she almost felt giddy thinking of that phrase “Menu, Status” Faye Winters Lvl: 2 HP: 75/75 HP Reg: 1/min Mp: 95 MP Reg: 1/min FP: 0/100 EXP: 0/200 Str: 7 Vit: 7 Int: 10 Wis: 8 Agi: 3 Luck: 8 Money: 100 bits Condition: Normal/chair bound Stat points: 5 Faye hummed and decided to poke around on her menu see what she could do with it before walking into town, and deciding to deal with her stat points later, it’d be nice to know what was going on a bt more. She ended up accidentally taping on her name which put her in a more indepth screen of things. Name: Faye winters Pony Name: n/a Age: 17 Human: caucasian female Equestrian: Zebra, female Titles: None (Titles are thing that can give you bonuses if you unlock them) “Huh well ok Menu” Faye murmured going to the menu where their was now a help and options menu. She hummed and then dismissed the menu “I guess I should go into town” New Quest New in town: go into ponyville and have a Pinkie Pie party thrown for you! (reward 100 exp 100 Bits Bonus: Have a run in with pinkie pie +?) New Quest Make some friends: Time to get to know a pony or two (reward 100 exp 100 bits Bonus: befriend zecora or Sandbar:+200 bits) Faye nearly jumped when the two new quest popped up. Thankfully at most she just stomped her front hooves a bit. Shaking her head she headed for Ponyville. She thought about the second quest’s bonus as she walked. She understood Zecora, with Zecora being a Zebra and all, but Sandbar? Guess she’d just have to find out. Soon her hooves and wheels were on the dirt path that went through ponyville. Many ponies were staring at her. She wasn't surprised it was similar looks to what she got in school. Curiosity, sympathy, pity, among other things. She idly took notice of the names, levels, and titles hovering above most of their heads even pinpointing some of the more well known ones like Lyra, Bon bon, and Derpy. Then suddenly there was a very pink colored pony in her face. A very familiar professional party pony. “HI I’m Pinkie Pie are you new in town” The wide infectious grin from the bearer of laughter caused Faye to smile even as Pinkie continued on fast enough Faye couldn't catch it. Faye nodded meekly. She noted she could only see pinkie pie’s name floating above her head. That actually made sense Pinkie and her friends had fought how many threats in equestria now? “Im” Faye hesitated she couldn’t use her  real name it’d stick out so she went with a name she thought a Zebra would have “Kalisha” Update: your Equestrian name is now Kalisha The next thing Faye, now Kalisha, knew is that Pinke squealed and ran off. This was probably to throw her a party. Well then she could make friends there! Also probably put some healing items in her inventory. For now she was going to see if there was a bookstore if there wasn't well considering Twilight’s castle was sitting in the middle of town she couldn't go to a library. Thankfully she found one.it was small but it would suite what she needed. She assumed because skill books were a thing she could potentonally find and/or buy them.  She used her observe skill on all the informative books...and found one skill book out of 35 books, her observe lvled twice. She bought the skill book, and winced because it cost 50 bits. That was insane who sold a book for that much? She also bought a daring doo book. She wanted to know if it was as good as rainbow dash made it out to be it was also much cheaper being only 10 bits. She looked at her skill book which was a copy of supernaturals. The skill it would give her was potion making. She’d read through it to get the skill, that was probably only an option because of what world she was in. She may need it later to know which ones she could make. She then put both books in her inventory. Then she paused not sure what to do next other than wait for a hyperactive party pony to get her for her welcome to ponyville party. So she went to the side of the road and got out her daring doo book. … Several hours later… Kalisha was startled from looking at her book when a familiar face popped up. That face being Pinkie who somehow got her to the party without her knowing how. Though it was in sugar cube corner that much she could tell and she forgot how rapidly pinkie could do things. Kalisha soon found herself leaning against a wall emotionally tired from interacting. She figured she'd go over the items from the party she put in her inventory. Cupcake (restores 50 hp) x 10 Chocolate cake (restores 50 mp) x 5 Ballon (a fun item to play with) Hot sauce (causes enemies to gain the burned status do not eat enemies immune to burn will not be affected) “Hey are you alright?” She glanced up to see a green maned light lime colored pony aka sandbar. She dismissed her inventory to talk to him. “Tired I've never been to big parties before so it's been an experience” she saw no reason to lie she really never had most parties shed been to were kept to her small family and maybe one or two family friends. Sandbar still rose a brow but nodded. “I'm Kalisha what is your name?” “Im Sandbar” Sandbar officially introduced himself, not that the Zebra really needed him to, she could see his name title which was turtle caretaker, lvl, 10, hp and mp. Though Sandbar didn't know that “and you get use to them” “that's good to know um why does everyone seem to have a different reason to be excited besides a new person?” she wanted to say she knew why but she didn't. When had she been thrown into the mlp timeline? “Princess Twilight is opening up a friendship school” Sandbar just confirmed what she'd been hoping with a little bit of a hop. She honestly wondered if she'd be able to join it. “Is there a way to apply to go?” Sandbar nodded and Kalisha beamed. “um is it possible you could help me?” “sure” “Thanks” After that the two just talked for a while. …. Later after the party... Quest complete New in town +100 exp +100 bits Bonus objective complete + 1 skill book Quest complete Make some friends +100 exp +100 bits Bonus objective+200 bits You have become lvl 3 Congrats due to not revealing yourself you have gained 2 bunus wis points Well that was something she needed, especially if she was going to get a room at an inn or something similar. So she headed off to find one feeling ...well nothing gamer body thing probably. Still it'd look odd if she was still up after a party like that especially with it being her first big one. ____ Faye Winters/Kalisha Lvl: 3 HP: 80/80 HP Reg: 1/min Mp: 100 MP Reg: 1/min FP: 1/100 EXP: 0/300 Str: 8 Vit: 8 Int: 11 Wis: 11 Agi: 4 Luck: 9 Money: 440 bits Condition: Normal/chair bound Stat points: 10