'Character Status'
[Name: Ryan]
- Health: 54/60 (regenerate 10% per hourly rest)
- Stamina: 95/120 (regenerate 50% per hourly rest)
- Level: 1
- XP:20/100
• Strength – 4 (-F)
• Constitution – 6 (F)
• Agility – 5 (F)
• Mind – 5 (F)
• Spirit – 0 (0)
[Equipment]
• Chest - Ryan's Jacket
[Weapons]
• Main hand - Knife
'Sub mission' he thought, finally checking the last message.
[Combat Mission – Infected Slayer]
[Difficulty: Progressive]
[You managed to kill an infected, but there seems to be no end of them in the city, luckily, they are perfect enemies for you to train against]
[Beginner: Kill 5 infected - 1 attribute point]
[Easy: Kill 20 infected - 2 attribute point]
[Normal: Kill 50 infected - 3 attribute point]
[Hidden : ?]
[Hidden: ?]
[Hidden: ?]
[Progress: 1]
[Remarks: A way to get stronger]
Just then. it hit him, Ryan remembered that no matter how real it felt, this was a game, a really lifelike game, and in most games, loot was dropped by enemies, the zombies corpse was even releasing a faint white glow like the jacket but as he went over to the zombie's corpse, that was bent over the couch, he realised he wasn't getting any loot box, he was going to have to loot the corpse itself, he breathed in, and resolved his will as he laid his hands on the zombie to place it in a more accessible position, before scavenging through its pockets.
After searching the corpse, he put all the items he found on the table.
[Wrenor money x25]
- Currency
[Remarks: Only usable on Tau-Ren]
[Lighter]
- Item
- Trash
[Remarks: Can be used like normal to start a small flame, can be sold]
[Chocolate bar]
- food
- Effect: Restore 10 HP
[Remarks: A sweet treat]
He made his way out of his apartment, into the hallway, seeing the dead body again, he wasn't affected as bad as the first time and with the experience of looting the Zombie and seeing the glow, went to loot the body with only little discomfort, after only finding a bit more of money on the body, he left, he held his knife in his hand as he slowly went and searched each apartment he could get into, the ones with open doors of course.
He found a backpack that he immediately took, more money, some bread, canned soup and another bottle of water, after putting the water bottle and food he found along in the backpack, he put the back pack on his back whilst looking at its stats.
[Backpack]
- Container: 30% full - food and water bottle
- Special effects: None
[Remarks: A good place to put items]
Suddenly, Ryan heard a scream from one of the apartments at the other end of the building, leaving the apartment he was currently in, Ryan made his way down the hall, quickly reaching the end that split into two, he looked both directions to see one side clear but a zombie attempting to break its way into an apartment the other, he could hear the cries of a young girl on the other side, and knew that it was only a matter of time before the zombie would break in.
Ryan quickly, but stealthily moved closer to the zombie, with its back towards him, Ryan was able to get close and stab the knife into the zombie's head without it even noticing his presence, Ryan could feel the weight of the knife drastically increase, and just knew the zombie was dead as he removed the knife and saw its body drop lifelessly to the ground.
'Battle log'
[You Stabbed the Zombies Head, Fatal Point destroyed (Brain), using 'Knife' dealing 30 damage, Fatal Point destroyed (Brain): Lethal (30 Damage)
[Congrats on killing rank -F Infected, 10XP]
After reading the log, Ryan realised the difference in Health between the two zombies he killed so far, this told him that the infected had different attributes, and some of them may be more dangerous, he quickly checked for a glow but saw nothing this time, enemies did not guarantee drops.
Ryan quickly got up and was about to knock on the door but before he could, he heard moaning behind him, another 2 zombies came stumbling around the hallway corner.
The zombies slowly stumbled forward closer and closer to Ryan, knowing about the fatal point gave Ryan the confidence to take them on like they did it in the walking dead, just patiently wait until you can easily stab them through the eye, showing no fear, when the first reached him, he dodged its first attack before plunging the knife threw its eye and throwing it into the other zombie, in his view, a message appeared, Skill: Sharp Weapon - Dagger, but he quickly ignored it, realising his body was aching and he was feeling exhausted,he needed to finish the fight quickly, he watched as the second fell to the ground along with the corpse of the first and quickly finished it off aswell.
[Congrats on killing rank -F Infected, 10XP]
[Congrats on killing rank F Infected, 20XP]
He quickly checked for any more enemies and went to loot his enemies when he found none, nothing again, zombies were really useless.
'Skill: Sharp Weapon – Dagger' remembering the message
[Player has killed 3 Enemies with 'Knife']
[First World Advantage activated – Beginner players are able to quickly learn common skills]
[Sharp Weapon – Dagger (Basic)]
[Passive Skill: Weapon Proficiency]
[Effect: Your body has grown familiar to fighting with Daggers, while using daggers, Damage increased by 10%]
[Learning requirements: Strength -F, agility F, Mind -F, Requirements met]
[learn]
'Yes,' Ryan thought. After reading the skill, he was interested in how it would work.
Ryan once again felt memories rushing into his brain. The memories contained techniques on how to attack with a dagger, very simple techniques.
'Hmm, it feels different, like the dagger is' Ryan was intrigued as he played with the knife in his hand, at first, he was using the knife like a child would, he stabbed with the point or cut with the blade, but now, it felt natural, like he had trained for months.
He quickly knocked on the door.
"You ok in there" he said softly, he could still hear the sobbing of a young girl inside, the girl stopped crying and a brief time after the door slowly opened, a young girl appeared from the apartment.
'Claire' he thought, he knew this girl from his fake memories, although not well, he often spoke to her mother, Rachel in the elevator on the way to work, although he had little interaction with the girl, she knew who he was.
After the initial fright of seeing the corpses around, she quickly hugged Ryan and started crying her eyes out.
He quickly looked at the young girls' stats while noticing a new sub mission.
[Name: Claire]
- Survivor
- Age:12
- Health: ?
- Stamina: ?
• Strength – ?
• Constitution – ?
• Agility – ?
• Mind – ?
• Spirit – ?
[Side Mission – Save Survivors]
[Difficulty: Beginner]
[You come across a Survivor, each survivor you help survive will give you a reward]
[Remarks: Nothing to say]
"Claire, where your mom?" he said. The girl was still crying, and he was attempting to calm her by asking her questions and distracting her.
"I don't know" she replied after a few seconds after she managed to stop her tears, a few questions later after taking her back inside and Ryan found out that they had no food left here and Clair told her that she was going to go try get enough for them both to survive, Claire having not eaten for hours was hungry and Ryan gave her some of the food he found to her.
"Let's go inside to eat" he said while leading her back into Rachel's apartment, he closed the door, and watched Claire start eating the bread he gave her.
He then started thinking, 'The virus is in the water system', he rationalised that majority of the cities population probably turned at the start of the outbreak due to the water contaminaion or the military wouldnt have so much trouble reclaiming the city, furthermore he theorised that there were probably only a few survivors and that looting possible didn't occur on large scale thus there is a high probability of a large amount of supplies being in local stores, supermarkets and wharehouses.
'Why couldn't Wrenor be like America with the gun laws, you can even grab a gun from a supermarket over there' he thought, gun control was strictly monitored in Wrenor, and only law enforcement and a few with specialised permissions were able to own a firearm, otherwise he could have grabbed a assault rifle and easily completed the combat quest.
Ryan's main mission was vague, simply survive, he thought about the possibilities of how to complete it, 1, he could wait until the military reinforcements to arrive that the mission background stated would arrive in a week, and when the area of the city he was in was retaken, he would have survived, 2, he could escape the cities quarantine, outside the hostile environment, he would technically have survived the event, 3, technically, if he could wipe out all infected, he would have survived the event.
'3 is impossible, Sodrine has a population of five hundred thousand people, a few thousand survivors at maximum, if by chance 20 percent of the cities population were dead instead of turning, that still leaves just under 400k zombies spread all over the city, the mission also stated that people trying to leave are shot on sight, and the govement probably has all points of exit covered, so the only possibility is to find a safe house, and wait for the city to be retaken' he thought
His idea was to secure the apartment building. Once secure, he would leave to find other survivors, kill infected and find supplies, all to maximise his mission rewards until the military came.
"Claire, I need you to stay here, and don't make any noise. I'll be back soon," Ryan said.
"No please dont go" she wailed, Ryan felt his heart ache at her yell but knew he needed to leave.
"Claire, I need to go look for you mom, make sure were safe and find some more food and water for us, I need you to be quiet and stay here till I'm back, here's take this, as a reward" he said while passing over the chocolate bar he got from the zombie earlier.
She nodded while wiping her tears while he started making his way to the door, "remember, no sound, if you hear anything at the door, stay still until you hear my or your moms voice"