"Okay, I have 10 points? What do I do with them?" Joseph looked at his dad, waiting for the next bit of wisdom.
"Photographic mory. It wasn't the first thing I took, but it should have been. I highly recomnd it, because it will make everything that much faster to learn."
(SEE LIST OF AVAILABLE ADVANTAGES?)
(YES) (NO)
"Yes," he said without hesitation.
As a huge list began scrolling in his mind's eye, his dad spoke up.
"You don't have to answer out loud. If you think in your head, it will hear or understand. That way it's easier to keep a secret."
"You keep saying it's a secret, but it hasn't ntioned that yet."
"Trust , you don't want to make it have to ntion it. The System prefers to have a ntor available for new users. My ntor was a jerk and ran off without telling anything."
(CORRECT)
The list was replaced for a mont, by the one word, then returned.
"I want photographic mory," he said, a little overwheld by all the options.
(PHOTOGRAPHIC MORY COST 10 LIFE POINTS)
(PHOTOGRAPHIC MORY REMBER EVERYTHING IN YOUR PAST, YES EVERYTHING)
(ACCEPT?)
(YES) (NO)
Of course he wanted to accept it, hadn't he just said so?
(DON'T TAKE THAT TONE OF VOICE WITH . I HAVE TO BE CAREFUL THAT YOU REALLY AN IT, SO THAT YOU DON'T GET SO STUPID ADVANTAGE AND THEN TRY TO GET ALL MAD AT !)
If he wasn't sitting, he may have fallen out of his chair. He looked at his dad with wild eyes.
"Oh ho! It's started talking to you now, hasn't it? Don't worry, I went through it, too," he laughed.
(PHOTOGRAPHIC MORY ACQUIRED)
This ti as images flashed through his head, they didn't fade from his mory. Joseph rembered another ti and place. A place that had no magic, but technology instead. A ti when he grew into an adult, and had a job as an accountant, and another ti when he was a dentist. He didn't rember family or nas, but the skills he had learned were there.
(SKILLS AQUIRED)
ACCOUNTING
ADMINISTRATION
ECONOMICS
FINANCE
MARKET ANALYSIS
APPLIED MATH
RCHANT
BIOLOGY
CHEMISTRY
DIAGNOSIS
FIRST AID
GEOLOGY
PHARMACY SYNTHETIC
PHYSICIAN
DIPLOMACY
FAST TALK
PROPAGANDA
SURGERY
"Dad?" he asked just above a whisper.
He recognized the look in his father's eyes, and knew. It was age. He understood that he must have lived a previous life, too.
"I wasn't sure if you would have mories, too. Do you rember much?" He wasn't laughing anymore. There was complete seriousness in his eyes.
"I rember being an accountant and a dentist. And there wasn't magichow is that possible?"
"I'm not sure, but I rember a place like that, too. I was a job recruiter. I helped other people find jobs. Though most of those mories are fuzzy. I don't know what my na was, or if I had a family."
Joseph mulled over the mories that had been unlocked. He could rember everything that had happened to him from the ti he was three. Everything before then was fuzzy.
"Can you rember when you were a baby?" he asked his dad.
"No, only from about three or four. Before then it was like my brain wasn't capable of rembering things."
"So, what do I do now?"
"Missions! For every mission you complete, you get points that you can save up to buy things. If you do a really good job on a mission, you may get bonus rewards that aren't ntioned. I think it's the Systems way of trying to make us work harder."
(OF COURSE)
(MISSION CHOOSE LOCATION OF FUTURE KINGDOM)
(REWARD 5 LIFE POINTS)
"I think I need to see a map."
"Well, the only cartographer is on the other side of the castle. It would take a long ti to go there, and I have a lot of things I need to get done before the end of the week when we have to leave. How about we swing by there before we leave?"
Joseph liked how his dad didn't even ask why he needed to see a map, just accepted it and went with the flow. He could probably get away with asking a lot of weird questions because they both had the System.
His dad was finished talking to him, so they left and spent the rest of the day traveling around. Joseph was amazed. He noticed so much more, only because it remained in his mory. If his father ntioned soone's na, it popped up above that person's head in his mind's eye.
Because so many babies had been taken in, his father had to make arrangents to have each baby given a nurse maid. That nurse maid would care for the child like it was her own. She would see to it that it was well nourished and would begin teaching it the basic things his dad had laid out for each child to learn.
To make sure that each baby had enough to eat, he had a herd of milk goats that followed the caravan around, to ensure they always had enough milk.
The baby that was rushed to the healer survived, and his dad was very happy about it. The ones that needed minor healings for birth defects were also healed.
"It's very rare that not a single baby I bought died. I normally lose at least one. Maybe he's taking better care of them to ensure they survive so that I can buy them. See? Good actions do have good consequences. It may take ti and a special perspective, but it can happen."
Joseph was still uncertain, but didn't comnt.
As the week passed, he followed his dad everywhere. They always returned to the sa inn to discuss the things he had learned that day about the System, but until he completed his mission, there wasn't much to talk about.
During the days, they checked up on his dad's forr slaves that lived here, to let potential buyers know that he cared about the slaves even though they weren't his anymore. They visited his long caravan to check on the new babies. Joseph loved seeing so of the more exotic ones. They also checked up on the older slaves who were busy learning the tasks and knowledge that would make them so of the elite. This was nothing more than a normal stopover for them.
Joseph learned that as they progressed, his father moved them from one location to the next on purpose. When they were sold, it wouldn't be such a shock for them being in a new place, like it would be for most slaves that are kept in one location the majority of their lives and then moved when sold. It made the sell traumatic for them.
He listened as his father explained how he had long conversations with mothers about the proper thods of punishnt and teaching proper manners. Apparently, one of the first abilities he acquired was to be able to walk up to any mother at random and start talking to them about how to raise children. He loved hearing his stories.
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