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// Omake 
// Story: Twilight: The Gamer 
// by ilbgar 
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	Twilight had always been different. She didn't realize it at first, but the game screens that appeared since the day she was born were not normal. Nor was her deep urge to advance and evolve, which was completely unlike the average non-aggressive pony. 
She had figured out how to make her status window appear through trial and error after the first few game windows. She soon discovered her Stats were listed there and their explanations could be viewed simly by tapping said Stats. The Stats were, in order:

'Level. A measure of overall power. Levels are obaine through recieving a set amount of Exp. from Quests and killing monsters. Each Level adds 10 HP and MP, grants 5 Stat points to be spent freely, and at every mutiple of 5, adds an a additional point of HP/MP Regen. 
HP. Hit Points. How much damage you can take without dying. Has a base of 100. Should this reach 0, then you're dead. No secon chances, retries or miraculous revivals.
HP Regen. Hit Point Regeneration. You regain 1% of you maximum HP per minute.
MP. Mana Points. Measures how much mana, chakra, KI, Spiral Power, etc. you possess. It is required to use many abilities.
MP Regen. Mana Point Regeneration. You regain 1% of your maximum MP per minute, though this can be changed with  Wis.
Str. Strength. Your physical strength. Determines your physical attack damage.
Int. Intelligence. Determines cognitive abilities, memorization, magical attack, and adds 10 MP per point.
Agi. Agility. Your speed and flexibilty, as well as your overall dexteriy with your phyical body.
Vit. Vitaliy. Your overall health and physical toughness. Adds 10 HP per point.
Wis. Wisdom. Your logic and problem-solving abilities. Every 10 points adds 1% to your MP Regen and increases your Magic Resistance by 1%.
Lck. Luck. Your overall luckiness in life. Affects everything to some degree, but has the most influence in things in which chance has a large role, such as monster drops and actions such as flipping a coin.'

After she read through each of the Stats, another window appeared.

'It is important to note that Stats can be raised manually in various ways, and that this will grow more difficult as they increase. At each multiple of 10, it will become significantly harder to earn more Stats. By 50, it will be very difficult to do so manually. Good luck!'

After briefly wondering about the sentience of the windows, Twilight se to work experimenting to try and raise her Stats. Her labor bore fruit. Strength rose from llfting weights, Int rose from studying, Agi rose from pushing herself to her maximum speed, Vit increased from exercising for a long period, Wis increased from intelligent decisions and solving puzzles, and Lck increased by winning at games if chance.
Since she was a unicorn, she focused on Int and Wis for their boost to her magic, but worked on the Str, Agi, Vit, and to a lesser degree, Lck since it was harder to train and a less certain thing, because she might be a caster, but that was useless if she got taken out before she could do anything.
Str meant a close-combat situation was not unsalvageable. Agi let her dodge more easily. Vit allowed her to take what hits she couldn't dodge without dying. Lck... well, she was sure it had benefits. She certainly had fewer accidents happen to her after raising it.
Of course, she was immediately pegged as different by the other children, who didn't so much bully her as shun her. She didn't mind. She was making ever less progress with her Stats as it was as her parents tried harder to make her come out of her shell and gave her more responsibility around the house. She needed as much free time a possible.
She would start to feel caged if she was not allowed to try and better herself for an extended period and her ability, as she called it, even had a Status Effect permanently on her because of it.

'Spiral Lifeform. As a member of the Spiral Races, you instinctively seek evolution as the only way to be successful. This is a genetic and psyhological effect, so it can be weakened but never completely removed.'

By the time she was 6, her Level was 3, but her Stats were more than 30 Levels above that.

'Name: Twilight Sparkle
Age: 6.
Class: Gamer/Caster.
Title: None.
Level: 3. 70% to next.
HP:  470/470.
HP Regen: 4.7/min.
MP: 510/510.
MP Regen: 25.5/min.
Str: 32.
Int: 48.
Agi: 35.
Vit: 34.
Wis: 40.
Lck: 27.
15 Stat points unspent.
207 Bits.'

It seemed that each Level required that she obtain the Level number multiplied by 1000 in Exp. to reach the next. Other than that, everything was as she'd understood from the explanation provided by her ability.
Knowing the names, Classes, and Levels of others at a glance was also useful. They simply floated over their owner's head. Although she hadn't been able to see all but the first in the case of Princess Celestia. According to the windows, she couldn't because the princess was more than 50 Levels above her own.
It was at this point that she was presented an acceptance letter to Princess Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns by her parents. The things she could learn there! She thanked her parents enthusiastically, but then found out there was a catch. First she'd have to pass an entrance exam.
As she usually did when faced with he prospect of a test, she panicked for about 10 minues, before studying like the fate of the universe depended on it. She even got a Quest for it.

'Quest Alert!
Pass the Entrance Exam.
Success: 10000 Exp. 1000 Bits. ??? and ???.
Failure: None.'

The massive rewards, as well as the ones she didn't have named, only pushed her to study harder. Although she was curious what the other two were. She had no way of knowing without completing the Quest though.
She passed the theoretical part of the exam easily. The questions weren't even that hard. The reserves test was a laugh as there was some consternation over a girl of 6 having just over 5 times the average adult's reserves. They actually checked the machine to make sure it wasn't broken.
Things went a bit downhill at the final test though. She didn't have the MP to hatch a dragon's egg, and no mater how hard she tried, it wasn't working. She was on the verge of panicking when a rainbow-colored shockwave of magic rushed past. At that point, she got a notification.

'Magical Overload. Your MP is more than twice your maximum. You run serious risk of losing conrol over it.'

She hatched the dragon egg in hopes of both passing the exam and draining enough magic to prevent losing control, but it was more like opening flood gates. Her magic went completely haywire and she found herself a spectator as her parents were turned into plants, the proctors for the exam were stuck 10 feet off he ground, and the baby ragon was insta-grown to adult size, roughly that of a three-story building.

'Magic Surge. Your magic is no longer under your control and will cause random effects until and outside force stops you or your MP hits 0.'

She  was stuck like this for maybe 30 seconds before Princess Celestia herself appeared  in a burst of teleportation and gently removed the excess magic from her system. Twilight started to apologize profusely, but was interrupted when Celestia spoke. "Twilight Sparkle. I've never seen a unicorn with your raw talent, but you need to learn more control. Would you liketo become my student?" she asked.
Twilight was too dumbfounded to speak for a moment, she looked over to her parents, who had returned to normal along with everything else when the magic surge stopped. They nodded eagerly.
Twilight answered with an enthusiastic, "YEEESS!!" before getting ahold of herself and saying it again more quietly and with more than little embarassment. "Ahem, yes I'd love to be your student." she said.

'Quest Complete!
+10000 Exp. +1000 Bits. Obtained the Title Celestia's Student: Boosts MP by 100 when equipped. Obtained cutie mark. +10 Stat points.
Titles are achievements tha can be equipped like items and apply various bonuses after you recieve them.
You have leveled up 3 times!'

She followed the adults to a waiting room where she was supposed to wait while they discussed the arrangements for Twilight studying magic under the Princess. Since Int would boost her efficiency at studying, her maximum output, and slightly increase her MP Regen she ought to increase it now. Besides which, she wouldn't be able to raise int manually very easily. With this line of reasoning, she dumped her 40 Stat points into Int. She also equipped her new Title.
This caused her first new Skill to appear.

'The Skill 'Mana Affinity has been generated due to raising Int above 50.
Mana Affinity. Passive. Lv. Max. This technique allows the user to become more sensitive to mana and handle it more easily.
10% increase in MP Regen.
5% increase in maximum MP.
5% increase in magic attack.
5% increase in magic defense. 
30% increase in the effects of Skills related to MP.'

She checked her Stats over and grinned at what she found.

'Name: Twilight Sparkle.
Age: 6
Class: Gamer/Caster.
Title: Celestia's Student.
Level: 6. 3.07%.
HP: 500/500.
HP Regen: 6/min.
MP: 987/987.
MP Regen: 149.05/min.
Str: 32.
Int: 88.
Agi: 35.
Vit: 34.
Wis: 40.
Lck. 27.
0 Stat points unspent.
1207 Bits.'

She then opened her Inventory to get out a pen and paper to try and decide what types of Skills she ought to create. 
Her Inventory was a feature of the windows that could be easily described as a pocket universe only she could access and had an unlimited number of slots to place items in, though it was possible to stack the same item up to 999. 	
She needed offensive, defensive, and support abilities because as the stuent of the ruler of Equestria she was going to be the object of a great deal of jealousy at minimum, though that hadn't occurred to her until after she'd accepted. She was currently more than three times as strong, fast and tough as a normal person and almost that lucky, and this was ignoring her Int and Wis. Still, her actual combat ability left a lot to be desired.
She was stricken with writer's block due to a lack of practical experience in combat shortly after writing this down and was essentially just staring at the paper. After doing so for about a minute, she got another new Skill.

'Through coninuous observation, you have created the Skill 'Observe.'
Observe. Active/Passive. Lv 1. 0.00%. Grants detailed information about a target and some information at a glance. This decreases rapidly as your target's Level increases. You will not be able to obtain any information on a target more than 50 Levels above your Level plus Observe's. Leveling up Observe will show more detailed information both in active and passive use. '

Since she didn't have any better ideas, she  began spamming Observe on every object around her. Eventually, it reached Level 12, at which point it passively showed the HP bars of those around her. It had started doing so at Level 10. The HP bar was red when full, but became transparent as it went down. As one might expect, they were full for everyone around her.
Her parents finished dicussing things with Princess Celestia before she managed anything else. She was going to live here in the castle so she wouldn't have to walk back and forth between her family's house and the castle. 
She had, after some internal debate, decided to try to convince her new teacher that she possessed an unusual ability. This was partially because she wanted to be as honest as possible with the princess, and partially because if anyone would know what exactly this was, it was the solar monarch. 
Demonstrating her Inventory would probably work, but that could be mistaken for a variant of normal magic, so she'd probably have to use Observe to demonstrate knowledge she should not ordinarily possess.
Right, she'd do that as soon as she could get the princess alone.