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Tutorial Rewrite 19
🕑 Added 2023-01-07 15:52:07 +0000 UTCMy sister stands in front of me. She’s crying. I say something. She cries harder. Mum comes in and hugs her. She doesn’t hug me. It makes me say something else. Mum makes a conflicted face. I don’t say anything after that. My sister says something. I didn’t like it. I raise my hand to her. But mum is in the way. My dad comes in. He screams. At me. At my sister. At mum. I feel horrible. It makes me want to make them feel horrible, too. So I say more things. Even though I didn’t want to. I say the things. None of them like hearing it. I don’t either. But I say it. Because if I don’t say it. Then the silence will be there. And the silence hurts more. The silence is WHITE. But the words are RED. And something is always better than nothing. Even if that something is hate.
<You have learned:
Death Tolerance Lv.1>
I awaken. I’m standing.
There’s a flower clutched in my hand, as colourful as a rainbow. I stare at it as though it’s about to grow a head and arms and face and whatever else humans have.
Hum. I have a feeling that something very strange just happened.
<The Goddess of Want
shows interest in you.>
A message floats in front of my eyes. It feels like it’s always been there, at the same time as how it may have popped up just now. It could have been there for hours or even days and I just… I wouldn’t know. It feels non-linear in time.
But it is there, and I can sense that the time around it simply does not move too much.
It’s there. It was always there.
…The Goddess of Want, is it?
I’m not that greedy, am I?
Silently, I glance down at the flower.
Before I can have another breakdown (the Nth this day/week/month/year), I quickly pocket the little flower and send it into my inventory, where it gets labelled as Mysterious Rainbow Flower. How useful, guys.
…I don’t know how or why, but I think my brain feels more clear now. A bit. A little.
Did I die? Again?
I don’t know. I don’t want to think about it. But I have a feeling that I’ll know it once I actually read the floor description. Which was suspiciously hidden behind a message from a certain goddess of “you’re greedy.” You know, big shocker, but I’m starting to get really irked by these supposed divine beings. Can’t I get noticed by a nice god? Like, The God of War, or The God of Tenacity, or The God of Adventure, or something like that? No? Just the mean Gods? Got it.
<Tutorial stage,
Hell Difficulty Second Floor:
The Rugged Pass>
<[Clear Condition]
Reach the door.>
Another reach this place quest, huh. Well, assuming that it doesn’t want me to literally climb the sides of this cliff, I don’t think I’ll have too much of a difficulty with all of this. When do I get the Kill X amount of Goblins quest? Right now, I really, really, really, really want to do some of that sort of stuff. You know.
But, nooooo. Gotta reach a door. Yeah, because obviously there’s gonna be a door down in this ravine. Just stuck to the side of it. Or something.
…I don’t feel good.
I’m trying to remember what Moleman’s guide said about this stage. Something about vultures? Something about heat? I don’t know. It’s not especially warm here, and the sky is blue, so I don’t get what the issue here is supposed to be. Or, well, I do, but Moleman, being the dumbo he is, didn’t touch on it.
Namely, these pretty ladies. Uh, flowers. I mean, flowers.
The entire path, all the way down the rugged pass, is covered with them. And they’re all both extremely colourful, alongside just plain pretty. But that’s not really the issue. There aren’t just hundreds of thousands of these flowers. They make up a veritable bushage, covering the entire bottom of the ravine, and the variety that they show is to the point where it’s hard to spot two of the same flower. Going by the experience I had just now, I have good reason to believe that a large percentage of these flowers are poisonous to the point where eating them would probably kill me. Not to mention just grazing by them.
Normally, just touching a poisonous plant doesn’t necessarily kill you, but this must be dawn or something, because these ladies are covered with a fine layer of dew. For some reason, I don’t think this will go away anytime soon.
Climbing up the side of the ravine is out of the question—despite my resistances, a fall from that height would still kill me.
Trying to use the cliff to avoid the flowers would also not be possible, as the side isn’t actually entirely perpendicular, but at a slight outwards angle. I’d fall. Simple as that.
My only option in this scenario is to push my way through.
…At least, that is if I want to clear this place as fast as possible. But, you know, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m not exactly an ordinary gamer. For now, resistances and tolerances is all that I have. Well, that, and two protections. Whatever those are.
<[Poison Protection (Lv.1)]
Evolved version of [Poison Resistance]. Grants
powerful protection against poisons and venoms.>
<[Bleeding Protection (Lv.1)]
Evolved version of [Bleeding Resistance]. Grants
powerful protection against bleeding out,
increases speed at which bleeding is stifled,
more blood can be bled before negative effects are incurred.>
Right. With this… I mean, Powerful Protection against poisons? It’s basically a shield against dying by poison! Considering what it took to get it I probably won’t be levelling it up anytime soon, and the same remains true for Bleeding Protection, but that doesn’t mean I can’t make use of them anyways, right? Exactly. I mean, the flower that got me to that point was that—that—rude little lady called WHITE Death, so I doubt any other flower will get me to that point.
This floor is a veritable smörgåsbord of status effect resistances!
Oh, assuming the flower doesn’t override my tawny tolerances and kill me on the spot. Of course.
Since my memory is kind of shit, I suppose I’d do best to keep a log of the ladies just to ensure that I don’t accidentally eat the same deadly flower twice.
Pulling up the Community tab, I get to writing. But just as I check my posts in order to write, I notice something new.
<PrissyKittyPrincess[F2]: MY guide 2 floor 1
(4 pro gamers ONLY)>
<CatBatBarrage[F2]: my dude what are you on>
<ArrowToTheKnee[F6]: Haha, look guys,
new LOLCOW dropped. Hahaha.>
<RadicalMedical[F5]: I’m actually a
former pro-gamer and this is not for me.>
<YourRockSucks[F2]: so this guy
basically waited for the eclipse to complete
and then pretended that the floor was super hard huh>
<BlueEyesWhiteArcher[F6]: You can at least try
to be original in your delusions. Even the Hard Difficulty
only has a Leopard as boss monster. Did you
you forget to take your meds, schkitzo?>
<YourRockSucks[F2]: btw nice username *** lol>
I can feel a tremble take hold of my body.
Fire and brimstone seep into my skull and my fingers flash to the keyboard.
<PrissyKittyPrincess[F2]: **** u **** u **** u
u all r ***** nd im bonking ur mums **** u **** u **** u
eat my ****>
Silently, like a commander killing the final enemy on the battlefield, the only other survivor other than himself, I close down the post. Then, I open another one. My memory of the pretty ladies is pretty fuzzy, but I can remember them well enough to write down a guide for them.
<PrissyKittyPrincess[F2]: guide to ALL DA LADIES
by a PRO-GAMER (ONLY 4 REAL GAMERS!!!!!) fuk U h8trzzz
spotty black shimmery pinklady: she makes u c
stuff das not ther. mayb a little posion
fluffy yellowlady: strong poison prob kill u.
a little paralyse but mayb only in brain
WHITE death: dontt eat this 1 u die
rainbowlady: i dunno wat this 1 does
but a goddess gave it 2 me>
After a few more minutes of writing down the ladies I can remember, I put down the community tab. My best bet is to just not think about all of the haters. They don’t get me, and they never will, and that’s just how it is.
