Day 22
Urgh, what the hell...
My body feels all kinds of wrong, did sobody hit with a truck?
...
Why do I suddenly feel such an onset of deja vu?
...
Urgh- this headache is killing ... and for god's sake, what is this sll?!
Trying to desperately sort out my hazy mind, I manage to crack open a dreary eye. But what I saw, only raised even more questions for my sleep-addled and weary mind to process. Wet and moist, grey stone bricks stacked on each other surrounded on all sides. Which is also what seed to be the perpetrator of the damp and humid sll invading my nostrils.
Twisting my sore neck from side to side, for a better view, I managed to figure out that I was apparently laying on the cold and wet ground of a stone cell. There was no bedding, no furniture, no windows, the only irregularity being a tal-frad wooden door situated in one of the walls of my rectangular prison of stone.
Propping my back up against the closest wall of the cell, I cringed as the wet and moist moss covering the wall rubbed against my back. Looking down, I see two big tal shackles encapsulating my hands and wrists. In a flood of clarity, everything ca back to .
Right... I was captured...
Once my mind grazed the thought of Mia, my heart raced in worry as I touched upon the connection between us. But to my great relief, my worries were unfounded. Feeling the connection deep within , I knew that she was completely fine and was currently very, very far away. It would seem that my decisive decision was the correct one.
Pulling up my status, I check for any damage done to my body.
-Appraisal!-
[Status]
Na: "???"
Race: Azde (Blood Fiend)
Sex: Male
Rank: F
Level: 16/35
Health: 108/120
Stamina: 49/52
Mana: 5/22
[Attributes]
STR - 12
VIT - 30
AGI - 50
DEX - 2
INT - 24
CHR - 7
WILL - 27
MAG - 30
[Trait, Titles, and Skills].
Skills - 21
Traits - 6
Titles - 2
Skillpoints - 17
[Resistances]
Phy. Resistance - 12
Mag. Resistance - 7
n. Resistance - 12
Looking all around to spot any injuries, I soon realize a heavyweight on my back which had gone unnoticed. It was first now that I actually paid attention to my body I noticed it. Barely able to get a glance at my back with this greater field of vision that I so conveniently have, I notice thick tal bands around the base of both my wings. They effectively tied them together and promised that no flying would be preford in foreseeable future.
Okay, other than that annoyance, it would seem that my body is pretty much all okay. It's just that my head from the injury inflicted by that lumbering ogre was still affecting my groggy mind.
With a grunt of exertion, I got to my feet. I was mostly worried that might've suffered so brain damage, so I made sure to test out my limbs and senses by walking around a bit. Luckily there seed to be no permanent or serious injury; I was just very tired. Inspecting the tal-frad door, I imdiately noticed just how thick the door was. It was shut very tightly, barely leaving any cracks for to peek through.
Other than that, I could easily figure out that with that tal fra and the thickness of the wood, I had no opportunity to break it open with my current level of bodily power. Not ntioning that I'm also still cuffed in so heavy tal shackles. Feeling the onset of another headache assaulting my mind, I rember to use healing surge to top myself off.
Oh- yeah, I've got three advancents that I never managed to get completed.
Pulling up the appropriate prompts, I slumped down one of the cell walls with my back propped against it so I could start with advancing healing surge.
-Skill advancent - Healing Surge!-
[Skill advancent - Healing Surge]
Choose one advancent
-Greater Healing Surge-
Uses a gland to release a potent healing compound within your body. Greatly increased healing effectivity and stored amount of the healing compound.
-Replenishing Surge-
Uses a gland to release a potent replenishing compound within your body that both heals and replenishes mana.
-mbrum nding-
Uses a gland to release a potent healing compound within your body. Greatly increased healing effectivity towards nding organs and limbs.
-Mana nding-
Uses a gland to release a potent healing compound within your body. Can use mana to greatly enhance the effect of the healing compound.
These are so fucking winner advancents. Of course, we have the standard greater version of the skill, which is usually never a bad choice. But other than that, the others really have so potential. The only problem is, what am I gonna pick?
Replenishing Surge is certainly a great choice as I would have access to more mana, which is so I always seem to be in desperate need of.
As for mbrum nding, while it would definitely help if I ever lost so limbs or had so organs destroyed, although I'm not sure it's up to part with the others. Mostly due to my crazy defenses already protecting my limbs to quite a scary degree already. I hadn't yet had to worry about losing limbs even since turning into an Azde.
Lastly, we have Mana nding, a perfect skill for my current set of abilities and traits. We can rule out mbrum nding and Greater Healing Surge as they're not up to par with the remaining two.
And between Mana nding and Replenishing Surge, I think I have to go with Mana nding. My reasoning for this being one crucial problem with Replenishing Surge.
As I keep growing stronger, the more mana I will co to possess. In the far future, I'm worried that Replenishing Surge wouldn't be able to keep up with the vast amount of mana I would be saturating my mana poll, it might even only be a drop in a bucket compared to my mana at the ti.
With Mana nding, it should be able to scale indefinitely. Making it's potential much more obvious. As such, I chose Mana nding.
-Mana nding!-
[Skill - Healing Surge has been advanced to Mana nding!]
[For advancing a skill you receive 2 skill points!]
Good, let's get on with the other two. Since these two are very similar and seem to be of the sa strand of skills, I pulled their advancents up simultaneously
-Skill advancent - Lesser Enhanced Exoskeleton, Lesser Enhanced Organs!-
[Skill advancent - Lesser Enhanced Exoskeleton]
Choose one advancent
-Greater Enhanced Exoskeleton-
Enhances the resistance and toughness of your exoskeleton. Greatly enhanced effects
-Lesser Mana-Infused Exoskeleton-
Enhances the resistance and toughness of your exoskeleton. Can reserve mana to increase all effects.
-Lesser Adaptive Exoskeleton-
Enhances the resistance and toughness of your exoskeleton. Allows for the organs to adapt to gain certain qualities over longer periods of exposure to the origin of the qualities.
-Lesser Temporal Exoskeleton-
Enhances the resistance and toughness of your exoskeleton. Allows the organs to absorb damage and extend it over a certain span of ti.
[Skill advancent - Lesser Enhanced Organs]
Choose one advancent
-Greater Enhanced Organs-
Enhances the resistance, toughness, and improves the effectiveness of your organs. Greatly enhanced effects and applies to all organs
-Lesser Mana-Infused Organs-
Enhances the resistance, toughness, and slightly improves the effectiveness of your inner organs. Can reserve mana to increase all effects.
-Lesser Adaptive Organs-
Enhances the resistance, toughness, and slightly improves the effectiveness of your inner organs. Allows for the organs to adapt to gain certain qualities over longer periods of exposure to the origin of the qualities.
-Lesser Temporal Organs-
Enhances the resistance, toughness, and slightly improves the effectiveness of your inner organs. Allows the organs to absorb damage and extend it over a prolonged span of ti.
Wow, those or so interesting advancents...
Hmm, I wonder if the skill advancent options are given in accordance with my strengths and weaknesses... While I couldn't exactly be sure as to why the system did certain things, I don't think it's far-fetched to guess that it did so with the advancent options.
Looking through the options, it beca quite obvious as to which one suited the best.
First of all, while the greater version for the exoskeleton skill was just like other normal greater versions without much change, the greater version for the organ skill beca quite valuable. The reason being that the enhancent effected now all organs. Currently, it only affects my inner organs, like my heart, lungs, liver, and so on. But the greater version would extend the enhancent to things like my senses, for example, my eyes.
Although that was all fine and dandy, it still wasn't enough for to pick it.
Then we have the lesser temporal versions of the skills. While they could definitely save if I have received a lethal blow to my exoskeleton and organs, I would probably be dead anyway if mana nding wasn't available to heal at the ti.
The lesser adaptive versions were the most interesting ones. I had no idea how such a skill would actually work, or if it would beneficial at all. So with the limited information, choosing this would just be a shot in the dark.
Lastly, we have the Lesser Mana-Infused Exoskeleton, and the Lesser Mana-Infused Organs. As the previous advancent with Mana nding, this was clearly the ones with the most potential hiding in them. Or at least for the direction that my power was headed in.
So without any further ado, I chose them both.
-Lesser Mana-Infused Exoskeleton, Lesser Mana-Infused Organs!-
[Skill - Lesser Enhanced Exoskeleton has been advanced to Lesser Mana-Infused Exoskeleton!]
[For advancing a skill you receive 2 skill points!]
[Skill - Lesser Enhanced Organs has been advanced to Lesser Mana-Infused Organs!]
[For advancing a skill you receive 2 skill points!]
With that done, I got back to my feet. I began inspecting the dark cell that I had found myself in. As there was no light entering the cell from outside, I had no asure of ti to rely on. For all I knew, I had been out for multiple days. I had no idea for how long I might be trapped in here, I don't even know if there's anybody in the vicinity as my presence seems to just hit flat against the stone walls of the cell and the tal-frad wooden door.
Coming up with nothing after a while of searching for any information that might be of use, I slumped against one of the cell walls once again. Pulling up my status, I just stared idly at it with nothing better to do.
Oh- yeah! I have a lot of skill points just laying around. I have about -uhm let's see here, 23 skill points! That's quite an amount, let's see what I can get for it.
I was just about to open the skill shop when sothing interrupted . Faintly, I heard the sound of light footsteps approaching the door. Getting up facing the door, I readied myself by taking a stance as I had no better option. With a loud thump of what sounded like so kind of lock being unlocked, the door slowly opened accompanied by the creaking noise of the door's hinges.
With the faint glow of yellow torchlight spilling into the dark cell, my eyes caught the outline of a tall and thin figure. His skin was pale-grey and his muscles were thin and wiry. But those qualities were even more off-putting as I believed this guy was an orc.
By instinct I appraised him.
-Appraisal!-
[Appraisal: Felendren]
Na: "Felendren"
Race: Orc
Sex: Male
Rank: E
Level: 35/35
Health: 212/212
Stamina: 52/52
Mana: 0/0
[Attributes]
STR - 15
VIT - ???
AGI - 75
DEX - 65
INT - ???
CHR - ???
WILL - ???
MAG - ???
[Trait, Titles, and Skills].
Skills - ???
Traits - ???
Titles - ???
[Resistances]
Phy. Resistance - ???
Mag. Resistance - ???
n. Resistance - ???
Damn, this guy is dangerous...
Not letting my guard down, I locked eyes with this rather abnormal orc. As soon as he spoke, I couldn't help but cringe at the scratchiness and harsh nature of his raspy voice.
"Stop with your posturing boy and follow ..." - Felendren
Without waiting for any response from , he simply turned on his heels and began walking down what looked to be a stone corridor.
I was unsure if I should follow or not. But when the orc, Felendren, didn't hear follow him he turned around with a snarl on that gaunt and pale face of his. Letting a bit of his vile aura seep into his raspy voice he spoke in a commanding tone.
"I wasn't asking - boy. The Mistress awaits." - Felendren
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