With a heavy sigh, I began to go over the options my dream was giving me one by one, eventually deciding to take option number one for no other reason than the simple fact that I wanted to be a dragon, at least for the duration of my dream.
What would man in his right mind not want to be a dragon?
I mean, imagine dreaming of being Neltharion from WOW; how badass is that?
"Dragon," I muttered.
Excellent choice! Now let us begin with the automatic customization of your character! Don't worry; this will only take a few moments!
For clarification, we will use your mind to design the ideal character for you, taking into account things like your favorite color, your preferred gender of identification, and other similar details!
So my dream and or nightmare will create the character for me, that's lazy even for me, but whatever takes me out of this void.
Character customization complete! Watch with joy your new self!
Well... I had to admit that the design was rather creative and beautiful, and considering it all came from my head, it was pretty surprising, especially when you consider my total lack of artistic talent.
Now, let's move on to the next step, the stats! You didn't think we were going to let you go without giving you a little help first, did you?
You will start with ten points to use them anywhere you want as a gift!
Well, would you look at that? My dream is being generous; perhaps it's not a nightmare after all.
STR = 15
VIT = 10
DEX = 10
INT = 5
WIS = 2
CHA = 1
LUK = 10STAT POINTS = 10
I looked at the floating block of text in front of me with my supposed stats pondering where to use my points, as it was more than apparent that the dream would not continue until I used them.
Of all my stats, the ones that looked the worst were my intelligence, my wisdom, and my charisma. Especially my charisma, which was at the lowest possible, I assumed.
But of all the stats, raising charisma wouldn't help me at all, I mean; if I thought of this problem as a gamer, which I was, charisma was not exactly a primary stat, so to speak, since it only worked in political situations, in buying or selling items, and when the Bard wanted to fuck someone, beyond that it had little use and had no reason to be maxed.
Also, considering the fact that this was a dream, using the few points I was given in my charisma would be totally useless because for the duration of this dream, I wanted to do things more in the realm of the magical and fantastical, not have the power to fuck someone with my words.
Which left only two options, my wisdom and my intelligence.
Which if I was right, affected my mana and my mana regeneration, respectively; of course, this was just a hypothesis based on the games I had played so far, and considering this was a dream, my dream, to be precise, it had to be based on things I knew, at least I hoped so.
I stared at the floating block of text displaying my stats for a few moments, internally debating how to distribute my stats between my intelligence and my wisdom.
Eventually, deciding to allocate 3 points in wisdom and 7 in intelligence.
Wonderful!
STR = 15
VIT = 10
DEX = 10
INT = 12
WIS = 5
CHA = 1
LUK = 10STAT POINTS = 0
You are now ready to start your new life as the gamer! so please have in mind everything is real... and your life as you knew it's forever out of your reach, so you better adapt, learn and overcome, or perish... anyways, have fun! Toodalo!
With that final ominous message, the dark void that surrounded me began to quake as if an earthquake of staggering proportions was attacking it, and only it, until eventually, everything around me began to crumble like a wall of glass shattering into a million pieces all around me, each broken piece revealing a ray of light behind it.
This continued for a few moments until there was nothing left of the darkness that once enveloped me, leaving me in the middle of nowhere.
"Well, that scared the crap out of me," I muttered, taking on my new surroundings.
Apparently, I had found myself standing in a volcanic zone, which made some sense, considering I had chosen to be a dragon, which leads me to the next question.
What did I look like?
I mean, I already knew what I looked like thanks to the picture that my dream had shown me a few moments ago, but in person? I was eager to see it.
But before that, let's see how immersive my dream was with the gamer thing and all.
"Stats," I thought, and immediately after, my stats appeared in front of me, floating in a big block of blue text.
Name = Magus Adora.
Race = Dragon.
Evolutionary State = Hatchling.
LV = 1
EXP = 0/50STR = 15
VIT = 10
DEX = 10
INT = 12
WIS = 5
CHA = 1
LUK = 10STAT POINTS = 0
So mental commands work, interesting; I'm liking this dream more and more.
"Skills,"
♦Gamer's Mind - Passive - LV MAX = Allows the user to calmly and logically think things through. Allows a peaceful state of mind and immunity to mental disorders.
♦Gamer's Body - Passive - LV MAX = Grants a body that allows for the user to live the real world like a game. Sleeping in a bed restores HP, MP, and all mass effects.
♦Fire Breath - Active - LV 1 = You breathe into your opponents the very essence of your draconic ancestry causing (105% of INT = 13 DMG per second) as Fire damage.
COST = 10 MP/S
COOLDOWN = 5 SECONDS.
♦Fire Resistance - Passive - LV 1 = The body's durability to fire increases, allowing for less damage taken. 2.5% decrease in damage taken by fire-related attacks.
♦Flight - Active/Passive - LV 1 = You can fly, how awesome is that?
Flying Movement Speed = 10MPH/ 17 KMH
Maximum Altitude = 100 Meters / 329 Foot.
Now, where the fuck am I, and where do I get a mirror.
With a sigh, I looked in every direction with a contemplative expression on my face, trying to find a path to take, but no matter where I looked, all I could see around me was burnt rocks and nothing else.
"Well, this doesn't give me many options," I muttered; I mean, left and right looked exactly the same; I guess I have no choice but to take a random path and walk around until I find something interesting.
The next chap will have a poll... so be ready?
Not a bad start have to see where this goes
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Yes, also have in mind he thinks all of this is a dream, so he's in for a rude awakening.
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keep it up~!!
I've never enjoyed a fic in this kind of format, but this seems pretty good so far (minus some grammar mistakes).
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Be sure to point them out, im trying to improve my grammar along the way. Using Grammarly to lower the amount of mistakes and such.
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And by this kind of format? You mean CYOA? Just need clarification, because this won’t be a CYOA in its entirety, more like a semi CYOA, a few polls every now and then.
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What does fingers have to do with it? Even if he has hooves, he still has natural instincts.
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Is a path for the pony characters, they are subraces, meaning you could start as a pegasi, but turn into a bat pony by doing a quest or praying to Luna or something.
Must be suck to edit that font tho..
I mean editing font take more time than write it
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It does take some time, but it looks cool doesn't it?
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Well, yes it is..
Can't lie there..
Honestly great to see your back. I alway thought the way you used pictures and formatted your game system was super cool and interesting.
I gave this advice on another "Gamer" story and I wanted to give it here to.
I like what I see about chapter 1 and 2 in your story.
I've read allot of GAMER fic's of many kinds from many different series. and I wanted to give some advice with what I've read works pretty well.
The GAMER system is a really exciting mechanic that makes a story fun to read. Much like playing games its fun to see the main characters(MC) efforts rewarded for hard work. But here is where ALLOT of GAMER fic's go wrong.
If the MC gets allot of power really fast and with what (to the readers) seems like little effort then people get turned off from reading more.
Its fine to have the MC weak to start with... Hell its fine to keep him weak for a long time and make him have to work his ASS of to get stronger (you'd be surprised how many people prefer a story with a weak MC over a strong one), its all about the struggle, we want an MC that has to fight to get where he wants to go.
Also I recommend NOT to write in the numbers like damage, EXP or mana usage unless the MC specifically goes looking for them (we want to read this story from the MC's point of view), or when its dramatically necessary. As much as people love GAMER fic's, nobody really likes reading every numerical update.
Finally, the GAMER system is supposed to add and support the main story and plot, not the other way around, you should never focus on the system so much that it feels like there is more UI descriptions than actual story going on.
there you go, that's the basics, I hope you do well and make an awesome story!
Getting an editor to help with the grammar even more!
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Fancy meeting you here
I like this story so far Keep it up
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Watch should be capitalized
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Loving this. How do you embed your pictures? It shows through discord but I can't find out how to do it
You ever considered saying map and try it. You got the power of the gamer consider making up a system like map or shop but all com prices to balance the system for map prices whell you need to ask the citizens for map or ask where you are to add it to your map then the shop/store every thing or no you know item is their but you need money and coins the prices is dependent on value of the item. Money or coins thing of system mob drop loots, money, coins and rare items.