Name: Colton Niscon

Class: Displaced Gamer

Level: LV 07

HP: 213/of/280

MP: 98/of/200

STR:12

VIT:18

DEX:10

INT:20

WIS:10

LUK:15

Point: 4

Money: 58 Cents, 27 Bits

Status; Human. -25% Stamina drain. +25% Stamina Regen. +10% Total HP Regen. +10% Total MP Regen. +1% EXP gain.

Solar Affinity; +5% EXP towards all solar aligned abilities, skills, tricks, spells and otherwise, provided said abilities, skills, tricks, spells and otherwise are performed during a period of daylight.

Title

1-Novice Dogkeeper

-+1% EXP gain to all Canine Companion skills-

2-Unassigned

3-Unassigned

4-Unassigned

5-Unassigned

-Teacher

1-The CMC

2-Hax

3-Unassigned

Displaced; Dimensional magnetism draws other Displaced Tokens to the users dimensional plane.

Homeowner; +5% EXP gain while within the confines of the 'Golden Oaks' library.

Dog Owner; +5% EXP gain to canine companions (Hax) and (Argos). EXP share of (0.30 to 1 EXP) from all actions taken by canine companions (Hax) and (Argos) +1 ATK, +1 DEF, +10% to all base stats of canine companions (Hax) and (Argos).

Celestially Lucky; +5 LUK. All Solar aligned abilities, skills, tricks, spells and otherwise are increased by 5%.

Local Legend; +5 CHA -1 PER.

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Cloth Shirt; Repaired by local seamstress Rarity, there's not much else to note about this article of clothing besides its bland coloring. +1 DEF

Denim Jeans; Bought from a soulless corporate store. They provide more protection than a standard pair of cloth pants, but can't offer anything else beyond that. +1 DEF

Rainbow Dash's Sandals; A pair of particularly pretty petite pumps. They don't provide much defense, but they were never really designed with that purpose in mind. +5 SPD

Well Worn Shovel; A shovel that seems to have had some use. You gonna dig a hole to hide in? 5 ATK [/hr]

I had gained a couple points of strength and dexterity through my various fumbles against the shambling hordes for the past couple hours. I had gained enough experience to go up a level, but I was sick and tired of staring at rotting corpses. Even more so of the stench. According to the manga a boss monster building sized zombro would show up after killing fifty of the normal ones... So I stayed well the hell away from that number.

I could barely beat down a single zombie as is, even with Hax distracting them and rooting them in place. Something for the future, I guess. The FAR future, when I could hopefully shoot giant balls of 'fuck you' out of my hands as well. Hopefully not that far of a future. I wanna be badass, and fire fireballs made of fire so I can set things on fire with fireballs made out of fire.

Going against my previous promise to myself, I used up this levels worth of points rounding out my stats immediately. Raised my dexterity and wisdom to ten, then put a single point into luck. No idea what that would do, but it could only be something good, right?

My HP had gone up, but I wasn't really sure that mathed itself out. As far as I could fathom maybe it was that it started with vitality, multiplied that by ten? Then it added that to dexterity times ten. I think. So far, that was the only thing that made any sense. My MP hadn't increased any, which given the fact that I hadn't increased my wisdom any made that stat pretty easy to puzzle out. The gamer system seemed to like the whole 'multiply by ten' aspect, is all I'm saying.

Due to thinking carefully on a system relating to your now inherent powers, you've gained +1 WIS

Smug asshole game.

Checking back on my screen showed that my MP had indeed risen with that pity payout, increasing to two hundred and ten. Well, the maximum had, anyway. Sadly it seems that managing to increase my HP or MP pools didn't necessarily refill them to full.

My 'hung over' status had long disappeared, only to be replaced by a few dog related things. Both the status and the new title. Dogkeeper. Hax had laughed at that, as if the idea that I was keeping her and not the other way around was something to scoff at. Couldn't really argue that, at least not yet. Kinda sad when your dog is more badass than you are...

Soooo... My dog could talk.

And was a girl. Fancy that.

I mean, I was kinda hoping for the 'talking' bit when I was dumping points into her intelligence, but I hadn't been expecting it out of nowhere. Also, how was I supposed to know she was, well, a she? It wasn't like she had a set of twig and berries, -literally- but how the hell was I realistically supposed to tell? For all I had known, all timberwolves were just genderless tumbles of leafy forestry.

And god does she had a sharp tongue on her. You ever have a friend who just knows what to say in a few words that can shut you down just like that? Well that was her. A scathing and witty retort at the end of every turn.

She reamed into me for not even really thinking of exploring the extents of my gamer power. Something was up with her memories, having access to words and concepts I know I never once muttered in her presence. She seems to think that due to our bond, she's been getting snippets of my memories piecemeal. The names of comic book characters, the smell of certain foods, websites and so much more. At the very least I wouldn't have to worry about saying something she didn't understand.

One thing she told me to do immediately was to check and see if the gamer system had any other accessible screens. 'Menu' 'Start' 'Select' 'Load' and 'Save' hadn't elicited any noticeable reaction, but then I called out the word 'Options'.

->SETTINGS->
->VIDEO->
->MUSIC/SOUND->
->DIFFICULTY->
->MAP->
->SPECIAL->

Virtual Console
Virtual Simulator

"Can you see this?" I asked, grabbing the edges of the floating screen and holding it so that Hax could see it.

"Ooh~" she tittered, "Words.~"

"Ha. Ha."

"Settings isn't opening," I complained, poking at the greyed out text. "Neither is difficulty..." What? You think the first thing I would do upon seeing that I could potentially change how hard fighting monsters and leveling up would be to not hammer on the button? Alas, my easy life would have to be postponed. Until I could figure out how to cheat this game out of whatever difficulty it had started me on.

"Oh no, what ever will we do?" Hax drawled in an amused tone. "Woe is us, for all we have to make our way in this world is overpowered bullshit cheat powers. Truly we are bereft of fair circumstances, and are downtrodden by fate!"

"You done?" I let out.

Clicking on video only revealed two options, 'First Person' and 'Third Person'. Nothing like what I had assumed. Clicking on the second one I was hit by a strange sense of vertigo as I stared down at the back of my head from a disembodied perspective.

"Oh god that's weird," I groaned, turning my head from side to side as my vision trailed along behind me sluggishly. "I honestly can't see how this would ever be useful. Unless I was sneaking around and wanted to see above a counter or around a corner," I joked. Keeping it on for about another minute, I figured out that I could spin the 'camera' around my body independent from my heads motions. Felt super odd, though. It was with a sigh of relief that remote poked my hand into the 'First Person' selection.

"What about music/sound?" Hax asked.

"What about special?" I shot back, bypassing the remaining map option. It dropped down into another menu. Only two selections showed up, with a long line of '?'s underneath them. "Virtual console, and virtual simulation," I spoke aloud for Haxs' benefit, having taken the screen back. I clicked on the first one, a long line of names appearing in a list. "Video games? I think these are video games."

My eyes trailed down the list, noting that each title I saw was one I had personally owned at one point or another. Was it just some kind of 'virtual' emulation or something? Just a way to play games I had already played, without access to the consoles I had left behind?

"Monster Hunter," I read from the list, poking at the title. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, to be specific. A game on the psp I had played for literal hours, before my buddies psp had broken and thus we hadn't been able to play the multiplayer anymore.

A shame that they weren't sorted by system, that was setting my latent OCD off something fierce. At least the titles were alphabetized.

A flash of light coalesced in the palm of my hands, dimming until the unmistakable shape of a psp lay between my palms. I stared at the device, noting the scratches and scuffs on its frame. Exactly the same, down to the trace air bubbles underneath the screen protector. This was my psp. Which seeing as it should have been stuck in a cardboard box with a plethora of my other personal belongings back home on earth in my parents garage, was something to note.

Text flashed on the handheld devices screen.

Unpause?

"Sure, what the fuck ever," I scoffed to myself, hitting the start button.

My vision faded to black, just to as quickly be overtaken by the glaring might of pure sunlight. Surrounding me on all sides, it took several swear laden seconds for my eyes to readjust. Gone were the walls inside my treebrary, replaced by a bright outdoors. Trees, rocks, birds chirping and bugs being loud buzzy assholes.

"The hell?" I muttered to myself, stumbling back and tripping over a raised tree root. "Damn it. Hax?"

I received no spoken response, but I got a verbal one all the same. A deep rumbling growl, piercing through my skin and permeating deep into my bones. My eyes grew wide, tracking the source of the fierce sound. Standing behind me was what looked like a dinosaur. Upright, it towered at least a couple feet over me.

The last quest I had been on when I last played this game. The easiest monster to hunt in the game, a beginner subjugation quest. The Great Jaggi.

A pittance to dispatch with my decently kitted out character I had played for hours, not so much for my currently normal shovel lugging self.

I barely got off the beginning of a scream before it leaped forward, whirling around to crush my chest inwards with its fearsome and heavily muscled tail.

Author's Notes:

*Putters around, directs you to go read some of my more recent stories on
https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/flutters-is-shy.377404/ *
They're not mlp related, but they are still my stories.