Rebirth of True Madness
Chapter 2: Chapter Two - Deals and Dreams, Sorrow and Loss.
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI'm currently in a void of darkness, similar to the one I was in when I died, but I know it's different, because it's a dream.
"Well, finally, lucid dream. Awesome. Time to fix this place up!" The dream shifts around me. Becoming something I know well. The Zone. Specifically Yanov at Yanov Station. "Ah.... I kinda missed this place. While it was difficult to survive. After a while, it just became easy. Lets see if I still have everything in that damn anomalous box" Yeah, that box is a box that is far larger on the outside, than it is on the inside, and I mean FAR larger. For some reason, it worked really well like a bag of holding multiplied by a few hundred thousand. Sans for the fact that it couldn't move at all but that it COULD fit something larger than the opening normally is as it somehow.. 'expands' without said expansion effecting the boxes dimensions and that whenever you went to 'open' it, it had two pieces / stacks of paper appear on top of it, it was just a list of what was in there or multiple pages of it on top of the box and a list of what you're taking out of the box, and by tapping on the paper, you could choose what you wanted as anything you tapped on was put to the 'take out' part of the box, soon as you were done, you touched the 'accept' or 'ok' / ect thing on the 'take out' sheet / stack and only those items would be able to be removed from the box, interestingly, it was also able to show the condition of the stuff that was in the box as well, on top of that they only appear in areas that STALKERS tend to use as a 'hub' of some sort,.
Anyone who tried to move it, even if they pulled the flooring that was beneath it off, they couldn't move it, kinda like Thor's hammer, but not quite as I'll explain. Not every stalker used it, as for some reason, only a select few actually could use it, Strelok, Degtyarev, Deck, Myself, and three other unknown stalkers, one more interesting thing, is that whenever a stalker put something in there, the others that COULD access it cannot take what any other stalker put in, IE: I throw in an AEK, and no one else can take it out other than me. The only time I've ever seen this not apply is after one of the stalkers who CAN use it, die.
One time, I saw a bandit in Yanov who COULD use the box, but I REALLY hate bandits after them nearly constantly trying to get me to fuck them or become a prostitute / attacking and wanting to wound me for a sex slave, so, once the bandit left Yanov, I stalked him for a while, until he got about 150 yards away from Yanov, then put a 44' magnum bullet in the bastard's head. Everyone is told to give opening the boxes a shot, be it the one in the skadovsk in Zaton, this one in yanov, or the one in the laundromat in Pripyat, but not to be surprised if it doesn't work.
The scientists tried to study it, and learn just HOW it does what it does, they failed, as on the outside it's just an ordinary box. Though, as soon as one person who COULDN'T open the box tried to stick their hand into it after someone who COULD opened it, they instantly died, on the spot. Just one moment alive, the next, nothing but ash and their stuff left. Which was sucked into the box and caused the box to look better and become slightly larger. No one tried researching it again after that and just left it alone.
I walk down the stairs on duty's side of the station and find that the room is different, firstly, there is a few heads of mutants lying around, secondly, an actual fucking NICE bed with a nice mattress, sheets, ect, and a mahogany desk with two chairs and a special person in it, death, yet again. They're looking at a gun, specifically, a sniper rifle. Looks like a damn SV-98. A very common, yet insanely powerful gun.
They look up at me and put the gun on the side of the desk. "Greetings again, Catherine, or do you go by your new name now? Chara NightStalker? And yes, I find it rather amusing that your parents named you Chara due to the genocider of a similar name, but it makes sense due to their heritage, well, on your mothers side, at least, as Chara in her oldest language means Happiness. However, that is not what I'm here to talk about." Alright.... my attention is already on him, though.... I wonder...
I look at him with a slight smile "Yeah, I go by Chara Nightstalker now. Would've preferred Night Strider, but eh? I Liked the sound of Night Stalker after a bit, as hey, those damn things in the wasteland were a fucking pain in my ass with their venom. Never could afford enough antivenom to deal with the fucking things."
Death chuckles at that and then proceeds to seemingly get more serious.
"I am here to say that your current... predicament... is due to an unfortunate issue, Branch and storm should've survived until far after you got there and left, but as you can see, that isn't the case. Now, due to this, your times ahead will be a lot harder than I planned and it is far too likely for you to die early, even with the best choice making, so, I'm here to give you a boost, an ability or two, from nearly ANY series of your choosing, of course, which, we'll go with a point system, two points, plain and simple. Certain abilities take up two points as they're quite powerful, and thus, that's all you get, while others only take 1, and you can pick two of those, but they can of course, come with extra abilities that you gain with time, such as Tokyo Ghoul with Kakuja's, for instance. However, if you pick an ability that has extreme negative attributes, such as the aforementioned one due to needing to consume flesh of 'humans' while, in this case, it would be the flesh of anything sentient, and sapient, I will let you pick SOME of the two point costing abilities, but with a rather large restriction, you will still be able to get some of the 2 point cost ones. But only those that I pick out. But, certain ones, such as the one from Prototype, are NOT able to be chosen, as considering what they do to you, I'd rather not have you become a damn monster, you're too good of a person for that. So, take your time and think on it, we have a very large amount of it due to how I've set this up." They bring the gun back up onto the table and look at me, I nod and motion for them to go ahead. They get back to looking at the gun while I think.
"So wait a minute, ANY ability from nearly ANY series? Oh damn.... that's a tough one... so many choices could be SO useful right now... Bending from Avatar could be insanely useful due to Seismic sense, if I perfect that, due to me being immortal, I'd literally be unstoppable after about 100 years as I'd know where ANYONE is on the planet and could literally fight them no matter where I was. But... while Tokyo ghoul's abilities would be insanely hindering at the start, and would easily make me be a monster to everyone sans a few even if my views stayed the same I'd eventually become so insanely strong due to the kakuja I doubt nearly anyone would even be able to harm me at all. Being able to create anything with just a snap of your finger, IE, pure creation capabilities would probably be unavailable due to, well, it's too OP as I could literally use it to make myself far stronger than death in the blink of an eye...... hm.... Bending is positive, but not overwhelmingly strong, while Tokyo ghoul is both positive and negative..... what else? Skyrim Magic? Kinda useless unless you include a whole ton of modded magic and even then I'd want the ability to hold souls and do soul trapping and such without the need for a soul gem along with enchanting with modded enchantments.... ugh.... what do I choose?"
I spent roughly a few hours trying to decide when I'm hit with a fucking PERFECT idea! "EUREKA!" I literally scream and startle death to the point were they yelp and fall out of their chair. "Woops! Sorry!" Yeah, I messed up there.
They get back up quickly and would probably be looking at me with a look of annoyance and expectance if they actually had a face and skin and such."Well, it has been a while since someone has managed to startle me, however, the question is, what have you decided?" They sounded mirthful, oddly, guess it was kinda comedic for them. But... Hehehe.... this is perfect...
I look at them and begin "Are 'The gamers' abilities one of the one, or two pointers or are they unavailable?? Also, am I able to customize said abilities that I get to an extent? As certain ones I'm thinking of would kill me right off the bat right now, but could be useful much later on." That got a very interested look from Death, I can tell by their eyes that they've widened slightly.
They take a few moments contemplating before speaking"Well, since you're probably the nicest person I'll probably ever displace, or do any kind of similar offer to, I suppose I could allow you to customize them to an extent, with a certain price, of course, depending on what it is. Mainly, it'll be by age, or by what you have to do to get it, or some such things. With exceptions. If you make them worse with negative effects, you could lower it from a two point to a 1 point cost or even down to allowing you to get one of the other two point abilities if you make it bad enough, and vice versa, and yes, the gamers abilities ARE available as a two pointer, and no, fate won't try to screw you over like how SOME people have it, and that you can customize some parts of it. Such as the Alarm clock feature, so that it's either off, change what time it activates, change what sound / music is played and at what volume, ect. Or completely turning off the gamers mind and body. No idea why you'd want to do that though. Sans with the gamers mind. In regards to a few of them though, they will NOT be customizable at all, period. Such as ultimate Pyrokinesis, as in, you're able to use fire so damn well, you can NEVER be beaten by anyone in terms of using fire. Not even the best and oldest pyromancer currently existing. You will always win. But if you pick something like that, then that's it, that's what ya get. But I get the feeling that isn't what you're after, is it?" Hit the nail on the damn head, and I know how I can use this system to my advantage.
After thinking on it for a few moments. "Well, I have a proposal, The gamers abilities mixed with becoming a ghoul from Tokyo Ghoul, but with a few main changes to both. Firstly, in regards to becoming a ghoul, I still want to be able to eat normal food and even non sentient nor sapient living things to survive and gain RC cells and increase my power that way. Secondly, I want to have all 4 kakuho type's and I want to choose how many of each kakuho for each type I get and not be forced to use ALL of the kakuho's at once. As in, using two kakuho's for one kakuho type when I have 4 of them or using one bikaku and two koukaku at one time while having a few rinkaku and two more bikaku kakuho's, for a few examples, and that I can completely control how my kagunes mutate and can easily activate and deactivate the mutation at will. Along with being able to change them at will. So, say, changing Koukaku from a shield, to an axe, or sword, ect. So that eliminates the main issues of it or any weaknesses pretty much, right? I also want to be a one eyed ghoul and I want my kakugan to be in my right eye. But it STILL isn't that strong, so I'd be a one pointer at that point, right, so, I have an idea to knock it back down so I can get the gamers abilities as well, can I do that?" They contemplate and a few minutes later they nod and motion for me to continue, a great amount of interest visible in their eyes.
I take a moment to finish planning it out, so it'll work perfectly. "Well, the main downsides would be relatively simple, yet crippling in some regards, and it happens to tie into the gamers abilities rather nicely with a few of them. Simply put, I do not get it right now, I have to wait until I'm 20 to get it for the first downside. Secondly, it comes in a syringe and can only pick one kakuho type at the time being and, when chosen and the syringe is used, have 1/5 of my levels from the gamers abilities and any stats I gained from those levels removed until I gain them back along with a temporary weakness de-buff that halves my stats until I manage to eat about 100 pounds of meat from a sentient and sapient being. Also, the de-buff gets weaker the more I eat until I reach the 100 pound bit, and the same applies to whenever I get another kakuho type but to a lesser extent than at first and when I gain the fourth and final one it's only a 1/10 reduction in stats for the debuff and it only takes 1/50 of my levels. Another thing is that I have to gain a certain amount of levels using the kagunes in order to unlock another one along with a certain amount of RC cells which, half of said RC cells are consumed apon getting another kagune type. One more thing is that I have to use each type I have up until a certain point to get the next one, IE, say, I have Rinkaku and Bikaku, I have to get both to, say, 'level twenty' of use / expertise to get the next kakuho type, which, I could select, or if it's left up to random chance, that'll be a slight downside. Then, I'd have to get all three kakuho types up to 'level 30' in order to get the next one. And have to get a large amount RC cells ALONG with a large amount of levels towards a with a kagune type in order to mutate it and that I'd need a few levels and some RC cells to get more kakuho's as well. But I do get to choose which kagune I get at first. This sound acceptable, so far?" Death is leaning forward in their chair, looking at me with what appears to be a critical eye, I can feel them just about staring at my soul. Then they lean back a bit and appear to contemplate it for a few, and slowly nod their head.
"It is acceptable, and agreeable, but you're starting to tread on thinner ice with this. But so far, you can still have both. However, I have a simpler, much easier system, with fewer loopholes as due to the gamers abilities, and no, unless you bring any monsters you tame outside of the ID's, you won't gain very many RC cells from eating them, you could easily gain all the kakuho's you'd want and then some due to the time being sped up inside the ID's, as yes, that'll be a feature of the ID's that, time will flow 9X faster in the ID's as opposed to the real world. Simply put, 10 seconds in the real world would be 90 seconds in an ID. The way is plain and simple RC cell count. And you have to sacrifice a smaller amount of RC cells to get another Kakuho for a kagune you already have, or a far larger amount to get one for one you don't have. And the more Kakuho's for one type of kagune you have, the more it costs for the next one. And of course, mutating a kagune wouldn't be easy, but you have to choose which one you give the first mutation capability to, as while it won't cost RC cells, it WILL require a LOT of them and for more than one mutation, it'll cost at least 4X as much for the next kakuho's mutation. 10X as much for the 3rd. And 25X as much for the final one. I'll allow the gamers abilities to scan the RC cell content of food / how many RC cells eating a piece of food would give you. However, be warned, this WILL have consequences on the future. Ghouls will appear in the future and could be threats in the future. Due to this, I think I will allow you to pick a kagune now, without any draw backs, but you only get one kagune, and between 1, 2, or 4 kakuho's depending on which one you pick. Now, do you have any more requests?" I nod my head and continue explaining.
"Thanks for being so generous with that, and yes, I do. I don't want to literally have an absolutely perfect digestion system like the ghouls do as I still want to be able to piss and shit for... obvious reasons. Fetishes, you know, and I want the Rinkaku kagune first. Also, I want to have a specific ability from the gamers abilities available at the start, body modification, at level one, of course. That way, once it's leveled up enough, I can change my look, body type, ect and such when I need to or if I want to. Oh, and whenever I invite someone to my 'party' do they to become 'gamers' or is that specifically for me? And if they do, will they stay mortal? Or become ageless / immortal like I am or can they choose?" I'm really hoping they DO become gamers and are not forced to become immortal like I am / ageless. But being able to choose would be great.
They look at me and seem to think about it for a bit. Eventually replying "They'll become gamers, yes, however, they will not easily become ageless and cannot become immortal in the way you are, but agelessness is within their grasp should they know how, which, I'm certain you know or be able to figure it out. Well, agelessness without issues, that is. Such as being undead. And I'll have it so VIA the gamers menu, you can toggle if you have said 'perfect digestion system' on and off at the press of a button while still keeping the body you want. Because of the abyss and what it COULD do, you'll be able to get another perk for these abilities. the Abyss isn't going to be insanely well known. Yet. So I'll be giving you the ability to use what I'll call the 'Chaos auction' which is named in remembrance of someone I know to get things from your inventory / menu. From this, you'll be able to get nearly ANYTHING from any universe / series / ect, even most if not nearly all of your old items from the zone and more. But certain items will be 100% unavailable to you, forever. Unless of course, you find them yourself, which, doing so would... ah... what's that older phrase? Ah, right. 'It would amount to about as much as a fart in a whirlwind' as in, pretty much if not nothing. You'd literally have a better chance at winning the lottery 80 times in a row than finding even one of said items, sans a very few. So, yes, unless it's one of those few, it'll never happen. Now, because of this, there is also one little thing here. Any sort of video game that you complete, you can gain a skill / spell / ability / weapon / magic type / ect from. However, their COULD be conflicts from it. And you can choose to have them altered to fit the gamer, or have the gamer altered to fit them. However, you can have that turned to either choosing, or have it automatically set for altering to fit the gamer, which, I recommend having them altered to fit the gamer, as if you loose it's main power, no take backs, no redo's, ect. Got it? You'll receive the gamers abilities now as well. As you're going to need them with what they'll add to the world very soon. But you will NOT have the Chaos auction available until later and you'll be receiving your Rinkaku Kagune with 4 Kakuho's. Now, is that all?
I nod to them and they hold up a hand that shines with a bright yellow glow. "Very well, you've got a few more hours left in your dream and there is a visitor here. If I do talk to you again, it won't be for a very, very long time." the glow flows into me and I feel different. Then death and all the extra stuff fades away and I'm back to good ol' yanov.
"Well! Time to make the most of this dream! Time to go psuedogiant hunting! Though, I wonder what death meant by visitor?" I walk over to the chest and then check my current equipment, blank slate as in, nothing. So I tap on the stuff and see my heavily modified exo suit and sphere MK12 helmet with my heavily modified PKM machine gun and long barreled and modified Saiga 12 shotgun.
The Exo skeleton / suit is modified with thin lead plating on the inside of a large amount of it to protect from light amounts of radiation better and to allow me to do something only a few people of the zone have ever done. Adding artifacts as pieces of equipment. In the case of this, adding bits and pieces of multiple flame artifacts to create an amazing pattern on my suit. Which, due to the lead around my suit, managed to neutralize all the negative effects of them while at the same time allow nearly any wound I received to close pretty fucking quick. Within about 20 seconds most wounds I took managed to heal. As there have been a few times were I've had a good opening torn access my arm or leg VIA an AP round. They never managed to punch through my breastplate / chestpiece though, as I made it a lot thicker than normal which, while it DID weigh me down a bit more and got a few irritating side comments from almost every other stalker about 'Protecting the ballons I see? Or is that armor so thick you want to make it look like you're huge?', it kept me alive. Did the same with the helmet and upgraded the protection it gave to my neck to level 4 as I couldn't get it any higher. The flame artifacts, once finished being added, had an interesting effect on my exo skeleton / suit. It made the main color black with glowing orangish red bits where I added the flame pattern and to the eyes of the helmet. It made me feared in the zone just due to the armor alone.
My PKM is my one TRUE beauty though. Some bits of the rifling in the barrel has bits and pieces of the gravi artifact in it to boost bullet velocity a whole fucking lot, as I heard someone before the brain scorcher got turned off had modified a shotgun like that. I'm getting the terminal ballistics of a damn 338 lapua magnum round with a low pressure load with this damn gun with standard ammo! Not including that I upgraded the muzzle to have a fairly large muzzle break to deal with recoil and modified my exo suit to be able to have an ammo backpack to fire from and added an integrated green laser sight into it that was charged by 3 UPD's so it'll NEVER run outta charge. Due to the muzzle break and mag modifications it is kinda hard to shoulder but thanks to the exo suit / skeleton I can easily do so, I also had it upgraded further for a slower rate of fire in exchange for a higher reliability and accuracy and a heavily modified mechanism to allow for a single shot firing mode at a cost of some durability and reliability of a few parts. Which I had fixed later on.
All in all, just upgrading my exo ALONE took me a year to get done. Not including my damn PKM. It took me another year and a quarter to get that done, I tended to sit and wait and take out small patrolling squads of bandits, mercs, or duty whenever I could and loot their corpses. And on the off chance I saw loners shooting at duty or freedom outta the blue and managed to survive the ensuring fire fight, I shot them to while they were too busy looting the corpses unless it was freedom. In which case, I got close without them noticing and silently taking them down with the machete I carried around and kept my pistol in my left hand ready to give any fucker hell with it. You can NEVER be TOO careful in the zone.
After grabbing out those I grab out my custom 44 magnum S&W 29 revolver which was modified for durability, reliability, and accuracy and proceed to grab all of the ammo I tended to take with me when out on a hunt. 400 7.62x54mmR standard rounds and 200AP rounds with 50 hunting slugs and about 48 rounds of standard HP ammo for my revolver and 30 rounds of custom AP ammo for my revolver. Those rounds could punch through level 4 body armor at close range easily.
Then after getting those out I load the rounds into the ammo backpack on the exo and then proceed to put the exo on, once that was done, I got my helmet on and grabbed my guns and loaded the PKM and the others and grabbed the rest of my standard kit ( Some gun oils for some quick repairs, some glue, food, hunting kit, and a lot more stuff ) and went to go outside but I see a very tall alicorn mare with hair that is like miasma of night with large furred wings spread wide with eyes similar to thestrals with very light teal sclera and teal iris's with a obviously large amount of fear in them. This must be nightmare moon if what I've heard from my parents is correct. ""WHAT IN MOTHERS NAME ARE YOU?!"
OW! Ok. No. Seriously. OW! That fucking HURT and I thought you couldn't feel pain in dreams, guess what dream 'experts' you're fucking wrong on that front! "Well, much as you'd WANT my explanation, I'd rather NOT give it to the mare that decided to, quite literally, attempt to cause the entire planet to DIE and then, afterward, when she failed, due to some thestral's siding with you...FUCKING START THE DAMN GENOCIDE OF OUR DAMN RACE AFTER ATTEMPTING TO KILL EVERY LIVING THING ON THE PLANET! SERIOUSLY! I UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE HAVE HATRED! I UNDERSTAND THAT! BUT FOR FUCKS SAKE! DOOMING AN ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET AND EVERY LIVING THING ON IT ALONG WITH DOOMING A RACE THAT FOLLOWED YOU DAMN NEAR RELIGIOUSLY DUE TO WHAT YOU DID FOR THEM TO GENOCIDE?! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" FUCK I got a set of pipes! Yeeouch! My ears!
Nightmare moon is looking at me, with obvious fear, but also shame, sadness, ect. "W...w...w...We're....s...s...sorry. W...We... didn't know what had occured from our actions, as we let our anger and hatred fuel us. We went into a 'blind rage' as it hath been called by some. The next we knew, after thinking about how we'd go about getting our ponies to like our night, we had woken up on the moon. By mother... this is horrible.... now our thestrals are being hunted down by our own sister and it's all our fault..."She begins to cry and sob heavily. I cannot believe what I had just fucking heard. She actually lost it due to rage alone, wasn't thinking, and made that decree, and attempted to a coup on her sister? But... looking at it, it makes sense. Blind or Blood rages tend to keep people from making any sense. I hope that is the truth though.
I look at her, skeptically though you couldn't tell since I have my helmet on. "Alright, so say I DO believe you. What then? Am I supposed to forgive your sister for this? Or forgive you for causing it? FYI. I'll forgive you. Since you made the mistake due to a blind rage if what you've said is correct. However, if it isn't and you're lying to me.... I'll find some way to get to the moon, or if you ever escape from it, I'll make sure to do to you something I'd more than likely do to your sister. Rip your damn horn off and shove it up your ass so far, it'll stick out of your chest. Do you understand that?" She looks at me with fear, and actually starts begging me to forgive her sister but not her because she's the one who caused it all. Cause and effect.
I wait for her to start to be unable to speak and is just sobbing before I finish what I was saying. "No, I said I'll forgive you, but not your sister. There is a LARGE difference between a blind rage choice, and a conscious, thought out, choice. The former, was you, and the latter, was your sister. I am NOT forgiving that damn bitch for what she's done. Unless she stops killing the thestrals and leaves them alone now, which, I doubt it, since they're looking for me and will stop at NOTHING to get me. By the time I gain enough power to beat her, I'm going to fucking end her. If she is ACTUALLY sorry for what she did, and IF she is willing to BOTH be banished to her own sun, as I bet she's completely fire proof for 1000 years, and once she gets back have to do 3000 years of helping the thestrals provided they all aren't dead to make up for what she did. THEN I MIGHT forgive her. MIGHT! I take genocide seriously. The thestral's that think eternal night is a good thing? Those idiots are probably already dead. Or will be soon. As they aren't the brightest and quite frankly? I'd be better if they're unable to change and understand why eternal night would be bad, or if they've done irredeemable things IE: Rape, more than 5 accounts of murder of an innocent person, ect. Then it'd be better, for them to die and be reborn in the next life. Look, I know you want to help your sister and educate the thestral's that are too stupid to know any better, but there are issues to it that would take too long to explain. As we've only got an hour or two of dream time and I'd take at least 7 to fully explain and I want to make the most of this dream. Now fuck off." She looks just flat out broken but accepting. Knowing I won't forgive her sister and understanding why and also understanding why I'd kill a thestral that had done those things but couldn't understand why I'd kill a thestral that was insanely stupid and we argued for a moment with me stating 'Idiots only breed more idiots' and leaving it at that.
I start to walk away from her, PKM in hand. She looks towards me "Where are thee going? And what art those things thou hold?" She is looking at me and my weapons.
I look back at her "Weapons, put it simply. Projectile weapons that pack a LOT more punch than a bow or crossbow. Downside is, they're extremely loud. I'm going Psuedogiant hunting. They're ugly, mean, tough, and dangerous as hell. Go ahead and follow if you want, I know I can't stop ya, but you won't be able to kill a psuedogiant with crossbow bolts. Or Blasts of magic unless it has enough power to go through 2 inches of stone in a very tiny area. As these damn things are TOUGH. Afterward, I'm hunting a chimera. A deadly two headed mutant that happens to be one of the most deadly ones in the zone. Only thing I can think of that's more dangerous is a whole pack of 9 snorks or a whole nest of blood suckers. Now THAT'S scary." I continue to walk off and I hear armored hoof steps following me. I walk over to Hawaiian and ask him if he's got any good suit as I sure as fuck am not letting Luna be defenseless. He offers me a Color changed berill-M5. It's Dark blue with black accents. Similar to merc With a helmet that has an opening, must be for a horn. I look over to her with a 'Really?' look and she seems to flinch slightly. After grabbing the armor and 'paying' for it. I give it to nightmare moon and tell her to get it on. She does so within 5 minutes and we walk out and start heading towards the route between yanov and zaton.
After getting close to the duty warehouse I hear a loud roar and know what the hell that was. "Keep down! That was a damn Chimera! Don't let it pounce on you! One hit and you're dead from it either way. It has less armor than the Psuedogiant but is a hell of a lot faster and deadlier. Let me take care of the fucking thing." I start to walk up to the main road ( Tip, never stand on the main roads, more likely to get seen and shot like that, although, it makes it easier to see any mutants coming your way. In my case, the most common mutants are a mere nuisance, sans for boars. But most of the rarer ones such as Psuedogiants, Controllers, Chimera's, and burers can take me down if I'm not careful. Poltergeists are irritating but they only appear in select areas for some reason and the only REAL issue I had was when I went into the Jupiter plant and attempted to go to Pripyat. 7 fucking burers, 4 fucking controllers, and 13 poltergeists with a fucking army of zombified stalkers, zombies, and those see through zombie mutants. Barely got outta that alive. Was out of ammo for my PKM and nearly out for my saiga and Model 29 by the time I finished off most of the poltergeists after killing the zombies, stalkers, burers, and controllers. ) and see the damn thing leap across the road and hear gun fire then 3 seconds later it all goes silent. Damn. I bring out my PKM and walk towards the Chimera's location. Keeping my head on a swivel. I hear a shifting in the bushes to my left and roll. The chimera misses me by mere inches. I spin around and unload at the Chimera. Putting it down in less than 5 seconds due to how well I can control my gun. I walk up to it and start skinning and gutting it with my hunters kit. After about 45 minutes. I finish but can see the dream starting to fade. I look at nightmare moon just as the dream ends. She looks horrified at the mutant and what I've done to it. I smile underneath my helmet and then it all fades to white.
Transition = 10 hours after having fallen asleep-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I wake up to the smell of cooking. A fire. I slowly crack open my eyes and see the fire that Deck is cooking over, smells like some sort of wolf or dog. I hear a 'bing' above me, I look up and see the gamers menu with the alarm function activated. How nice. I manage reach up and tap the turn off button for it and start browsing through the gamers menu. I saw my stats.
(Chara NightStalker)
(The Ghoul Thestral Alicorn Gamer)
Level 1
HP (475/475)
MP (???/???)
STR (65)
VIT (29)
DEX (50)
INT (???)
WIS(???)
LUK(7)
CHA(10)
Perk! Ghoul. You're a ghoul from Tokyo Ghoul. A Modified and one eyed one at that! You gain large increases to your base physical stat and gain 'Ghoul skin' and 'Ghoul Regen' and 'One eyed Ghoul Strength Regen / Gain'
Ghoul Skin. Ghoul Skin. You gain a skin that is harder than steel! Dramatically increases Defense against any sort of Bladed, Piercing, or Magic Attack that attacks your body in nearly all places with a small - medium increase to blunt damage resistance. Any orifice on your body and it's insides are not as resilient to attack as the rest of your body but still gain a large defense increase compared to normal and this does not increase tolerance to mental or spiritual attacks. Ghoul skin feels like normal skin, but when it's in danger of being hurt it hardens if the user has their kagune out or their Kakugan active. If the user is tensed up or upset or angry then ghoul skin can be turned on by those emotions without activating your kagune or kakugan. You can also have it set to always be on, or turn on and off at a mental command or keep it as above.
Ghoul Regen. Regenerates health much faster and are able to take far worse blows before falling unconcious or dying. Can even regenerate limbs that get ripped off sans the head ( For now ). Gets stronger the higher your VIT.
One eyed ghoul strength Regen / Gain. for every point of damage you take, your VIT, STR, and DEX can increase. The more the damage, the higher the chance of one or more of them increasing and the more they will increase if they do! You can also increase your stats with this through normal physical training in addition to what you'd gain from the training normally but depending on the intensity of the training it won't be nearly as fast. IE: A lot of weight lifting gains far more than practicing throwing knives, for example.
Rinkaku ghoul, Take double damage from bikaku kagunes and when hit by them they cut your regen down to 1/4 what it normally is with your perks and gear but can regen far better than a standard ghoul ( Even regenerate having your head chopped off without any negative repercussions without having a higher VIT stat ).
Perfect memory. You remember your past lives and remember all the lessons taught by them. +??? to your base INT and WIS.
Alicorn! You have been born and Alicorn and have higher base physical and magical stats and have a higher starting MP value and slightly higher regen than normal ponies!
Immortal / Ageless. Congratulations! You can live forever so long as you don't die from unnatural causes and most sicknesses / diseases don't affect you at all!
'Huh... damn those are some insanely strong perks. Though, one eyed ghouls are known for becoming tough pretty fucking quick. Why is the INT and WIS stat unable to be read though? I see the skills icon and press it.'
Gamer's Mind (LV MAX, CAN BE TOGGLED ON AND OFF OR MODIFIED IN THE SETTINGS MENU) You can think clearly and calmly and think things through in any situation. However, it can be over powered by a strong enough amount of Stress, Fear, Rage, ect and has the side effect of making it harder to feel regular emotions while it is on. However, this can be so slight it is usually unnoticeable, or can be blatantly obvious to where in order to feel a lot of emotions normally you have to disable it.
'Well, that explains why I'm so calm as well, thanks for the information.
Gamers Body ( LV MAX. CAN BE TOGGLED ON AND OFF OR MODIFIED IN THE SETTINGS MENU) The user is like a video game character. They will take no actual physical damage, but still will feel pain, but will only take damage to their HP,
Modification LV1
With this skill you can modify / change parts of your body or even your body entirely. Currently you can change: Eye Color, Mane and Tail Length, Mane and Tail Color.
I close the menu and look at the crib. 'Alright, thanks. Now... Observe!'
New skill created! Observe LV1
'It's a crude crib made out of crude sticks and moss. It's safe to sleep in, but not quite the most comfortable.' [color#a60000]'Yeah, thanks for the obvious reminder.' I look over at Deck and see he's noticed me awake. I look to my right and see my mother asleep on the moss and stick bed a few feet from me. I look over to the entrance and see a large enough hole to fit a pony through. Then just outside, we hear clashing and slashing of metal.
Deck stops tending the food and immediately rushes outside with my mother waking up and following close behind after drawing a sword out of her backpack. I hear cracks of lightning and screams. Then I see a whole bunch of royal guard being thrown through the opening of the vines while being held down by a telekinetic grip. I hear arguing with things like 'We can't trust that damn thing! I'm surprised you have!' and 'Are you a damn idiot?! It's helped me so far and it's been kind if a little queer.' Then I see something, or should I say, someone, I NEVER thought I would see again.
There he is, my father, cut and beaten badly, and bleeding a good bit. But still standing. I can't fucking help it. I smile widely and just about tip the crib over trying to get to him to hug him. I see my mother walking in and attempts to heal my father, but he pushes her off stating 'It isn't gonna do any good, I've lost enough blood that I'm a dead man walking'
He proceeds to walk over to me, smiles, wipes off his hands and arms and picks me up, getting some blood on my onesie and fur. Hugs me. Then sets me down. He then walks a few feet next to my mothers bed and sits down against the wall. Deck comes back in and my father calls him over. My father seems to look him in the eyes and speaks with a pretty strong tone. "Look, I don't trust you, but you've helped me, and my wife and child. Could you honor a dying man's last request?" Damnit... he isn't gonna make it, for real this time.... FUCK! Here I was hoping that now that he's here, he could've survived!
Deck looks at him with from what I can tell from the very slightly see through mutant with what would be a look of shock but nods. My father grunts a bit before replying "Honor my final request that I want you to do your damnedest to defend my family. My brother, my wife's sister and mother, are all dead due to the guard yesterday. I'm not gonna make it. So PROMISE me that you'll put your damn life on the fucking razor line to save my family." Deck nods firmly and holds his claw out. My father shakes it and then mutters his final words "Thank you.... I hope my family... avoids being killed with me gone.... Nightmare have mercy...." He looks to me with tears in his eyes and there are obviously tears in mine.
"Chara…. My happiness.....Continue for me....Kill that tyrant....I love you...."His eyes fall, and his body stops, he is actually dead now... I cry. I cry for hours on end. Barely eating. Barely caring. My father. Has truly died.
Transition 9 days later-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For the past 9 days. There have only been a few things that have really happened. Firstly, burying my father. Secondly. The few things that have happened, such as a mutant boar trio thought we looked like good snacks, nope, THEY became good snacks. Another was that none of us really spoke much. Other than to ask a question or to do similar things. I've been leveling up observe and have been able to get it to level 4 and have been able to increase my WIT, DEX, and STR via thinking logically and attempting to walk once respectively. Which, I still can't walk yet.
Then, I see Deck come rushing into the cave, with a frantic look on his mutated face, and says the worst possible piece of information you could imagine.
"The Princess is here."