Okay, this thing was actively mocking now.
*Please state your na*
I've already tried a lot of things to make it past this stupid prompt. From shouting at it to even trying to slap it out of existence, nothing seed to be working.
*Please state your na*
"Shut the hell up..."
I shook my head in exasperation as I sat on the relative nothingness of my location. There was just nothing I could do to make it work. Would it even stop? What if I was trapped in this place?
*Please state your na*
The relative novelty of the situation had utterly died in order to make way for anxiety and panic. I was stuck in a place with nothing except this woman asking for my na. No other sound, no other distractions, just a glaring box filled with a damn prompt that kept repeating on and on and on!
*Please state your na*
"For the love of-"
[BZZT!!]
"Woah!"
A shudder. A flash of static so brief I probably wouldn't even have noticed it if it weren't for nothing else existing in this place. It kind of threw for a loop as I felt myself swaying from nausea. What just happened?
*Please state your na, Somatic*
Huh?
Looking at the prompt, I raised an eyebrow at attention as I saw the changes. It was still the sa black-and-white box from before, but the word 'Somatic' was now attached to the end of the sentence. The voice also added the word on her line.
*Please state your na, Somatic*
Sothing changed... Wait... Would it work now?
"Moriya."
For a brief second, nothing happened as the prompt disappeared from view. I already knew it worked since sothing changed, but I didn't know the extent of the changes. Was I finally getting to the ga world? Was I still gonna get that novelty life of being inside a ga?
*To travel the Seams is a dangerous prospect. For this purpose, Somatics make use of their [Manifests] to grant them safety through their journey.*
[Manifests], huh. I've read about this in the ga's description. The ga boasted that it can simulate any kind of power a player might want at the cost of stat points and other negative quirks. It was the one chanic that made want to try the ga in the first place; the ability to make whatever character I wanted was always the first thing I checked for RPGs.
Now that I thought about it, I kinda wish I was a girl now...
*Dear Somatic, while your journey has only begun, your past will inevitably shape the future...*
In an instant, the black void that I was standing on suddenly beca a stark white space, the dark ink receding as far as I could see.
*What are you, Moriya?*
In front of , a podium of sorts erged from the whiteness of the void. It looked like it was made of marble, and there was an open book just waiting for to read it on top of the thing.
Huh... Clearly, I should approach it, seeing as it was the only thing I could even do at the mont.
With an apprehensive step, I made my way to the podium. It was still weird not hearing anything whenever I took a step in this place, but I guess this was still the character creation screen and the devs didn't really care about it too much.
"Let's see here..."
Looking at the book, it clearly designed to be so sort of stat allocation system. There were the usual stats of strength, agility, dexterity, vitality, intelligence, and luck. Pretty standard, all things considered. Well, that was assuming that they all worked in the universal way that these stats usually worked.
"Guess I'll do the usual build..."
[STR: 5]
[AGI: 6]
[DEX: 6]
[VIT: 5]
[INT: 8]
[LUK: 5]
All stats had a base of five while I had another extra five points to spend. Allocating my usual slew of stats in that I specced straight into [INT] with a pinch of [DEX] and [AGI], I flipped a page on the book to see another stat page. This ti, however, it was a blank page with two stats that I had never seen in an RPG before.
[MANIFEST: N/A]
[NTAL FORTITUDE: 0]
[MANIFEST POINTS: 0]
The blank space under the [MANIFEST] was probably the allocated space for to manually describe the power that I wanted. If so, then [NTAL FORTITUDE] and [MANIFEST POINTS] were probably related to the power system, seeing as they were bundled in here. Currently, they were both sitting at zero points, which probably ant they were a rare stat to dump and get. Still didn't know what they did though.
"No tooltips, huh..."
While understandable, it would've still been helpful to know what they were before I dumped my one whopping point on either of these things. I could guess that [NTAL FORTITUDE] probably related to the psychic stuff while the [MANIFEST POINTS] related to skill points depending on what type of power I might want. And speaking of which...
"What do I want to have...."
Having carte-blanche on what power I wanted to have was kind of overwhelming, now that I thought about it. What if my conceptual power was too unwieldy in practice as opposed to what I thought of it on paper? Maybe I should stick to sothing simple instead of going balls to the wall creative here. I didn't have the luxury of saves, right? I gotta have sothing reliable.
Tapping on the empty space, a haptic interface lit up above the book as I began typing in my power. It wanted to specify a na, an item, the power, and its limitations. I guess it was for balance purposes that limitations had to be a thing. Also, from what I've read in the description, a [Manifest] was sothing that granted the Somatic power through items. So it also made sense that it wanted to specify an item that I'd have with at all tis.
"Hmm..." I tapped on my chin as I tried to think of sothing cool and reliable. "Super strength's just boring... Speed, maybe? Or sothing like a packaged Superman deal..."
It would be ridiculously overpowered, but it would secure my safety seeing as this wasn't just a character, it was actually getting into this world. I didn't know what kind of enemies there might be out there, but seeing as this [Manifest System] was advertised as a double-edged system, I should make sothing that won't completely bore , but at the sa ti sothing that wouldn't screw over if push ca to shove. The ga boasted capabilities far too ridiculous for any indie dev to create, but did it really an that I could do anything?
Typing in my [Manifest]'s form, I settled for two desert eagle pistols that won't ever run out of bullets so long as I was using them both at the sa ti. Kind of boring, now that I thought about it, but it'll be reliable for long-ranged combat. I also typed in my mandatory weakness which would be piss poor defense; a logical weakness for sothing that was clearly built for range.
I nodded at my boring creation, "Okay..." This should work, right?
Tapping on the enter key to confirm my [Manifest], I-
*ERROR! NO THE DETECTED!*
I froze up.
What the hell? No the detected?
I tapped on the confirm button again, hoping that it would work if I brute-forced the situation.
*ERROR! NO THE DETECTED!*
"Oookay..." This was gonna be a problem, wasn't it...
Looking at the blaring error screen floating above the pages, I noticed that there was sothing new at the bottom of the ssage. it was written in smaller text, and it looked like it was more of a note than a tooltip of sorts.
"Hmm... [Manifests] must have an overarching the for the system to accept it?" I read aloud as I pondered on its aning. "Theming, huh?"
I sighed as I erased my previous idea. I guess it was a system put in by the devs to avoid players making their own busted power systems. While understandable, it kind of invalidated the advertising point of the ga itself if we're just limited to sticking to a the.
The white background around seed to bristle at my annoyance; the aura of nothingness getting into my nerves and exuding out of amplified by at least twofold. I stared at the blank [MANIFEST] in front of , my brain wracking itself for any sort of ideas that I could use. Maybe sothing from another ga? Sothing that won't completely fail on despite having an obvious drawback?
Licking my lips, I typed in another weapon that I was familiar with. Describing a thin, golden rapier, its power would be equivalent to that of a godlike being at the cost of the rapier losing effectiveness whenever I lose. The power to never lose... That was a the, right?
Tapping confirm on the haptic screen, I waited for the thing to finish loading before-
*ERROR! NO THE DETECTED!*
Huh? But it had a definitive the! The the of absolute victory!
*ERROR! NO THE DETECTED!*
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I felt my brows twitch and furrow as my blood pressure rose to uncomfortable levels. I was getting seriously pissed at this things, and I hate it.
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