《Through The Eyes Of A War Machine》
We makes our own roads
Dark...
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But I probably dont have eyes, so I can cross that out.
Then another light flashes coming towards me getting brighter, but suddenly another light, a grey one, slams into the light soon multiple colors of lights do.
What''s left afterwards is the original light, with weird dots on it. It slowly floats towards me as if its cautious.
It gets a foot away and stops, its body starts expanding to a giant window with three filled in outlines with words above them.
The first selection was living mechanical machine with a hammer and screwdriver as a symbol
The second one was june bug and just a simple out line outline of what looked like a bug to me
The third was lizard, but the symbol was literally a dragon outline that looked strikingly similar to skyrim''s dragon crest.
All the selections had 100 next to them so I guess I can choose one...?
I looked them all over thinking about it for a bit before deciding to chose the living mechanical machine.
Selection Confirmed Y/N?
"Y-yes." I said my voice suddenly returning to me, a bit monotone though.
Another screen pops up with sub type stuff that I can spend points on...
I''ll just tell you what I bought.
Using all my points I bought the research tree, allowing me to improve myself with new technologies.
I bought the advanced set, which gives me access to tough armour types as it says.
I also bought the Multiple gun skill, which just let''s me have another gun, but it severely limited my choices.
I spent a bunch on the rest of the advanced sets.
I ended up buying the creation menu which let''s me add stuff to and shape my self in an ''Editor'' state.
I bought multitasking and uncrewed so I could operate without outside force and actually do what I need to.
With uncrewed came automated allowing me to abandon all crew like things for more armor and stuff.
I bought a radar, which is exactly as it sounds...
The spider legs expansion.
A skin customization system.
The shop and money system.
Loot system.
Fantasy world guarantee.
Low technology world guarentee.
And FINALLY sorry for the long list.
I got perks/stats and magic
I handed 50 sub points left but all I could buy with it was a couple small things I might not need like towing, and RTS edition.
I hit enter and it asks if I''m sure and tells me I cant spend my points any other time.
I guess I could buy this...
Once I finnaly hit enter, everything went dark again.
But sometimes, someones gotta carve it for us.
"The path to a bright future isnt always light at first, in fact it usually starts out dark." -Furby Moon
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Once more blackness and other edgy colors are surrounding me.
I swear to the stars am I destined to be stuck in this empty black prison forever?
Installing...
What?
Installation completed, enjoy the new world partner... Yeehaw.
suddenly I''m assaulted by the brightest white I''ve ever seen, then its black again.
Except there seems to be hud in my vision...
You heard me right, a Hud, a video game mechanic that the US Army has yet to invent...
What have I actually got myself into...
Suddenly my vision is flying over a mountain.
"Welcome to Zandarn one of the few monster infested areas left with human society." My vision passes over a castle surrounded by a small village.
"Due to recent laws monster hunting can only be done in a traditional style, meaning most weapons are variations of medieval weapons." We pass what appears to be knights
"Leaving there development... lacking..." what appears to be a thug using a primitive pistol is robbing someone.
"Though the power in this world is primitive, it is not lacking." We see a ball of fire coming from nowhere and slamming into a line of men.Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions.
"Fantasy and Modren join together in this world, are you ready to play?" Finishes the weird female announcer voice.
a ''map'' of some sort opens up in front of me asking to choose my spawn
Theres different places with varying levels of difficulty between them.
The desert looked fun, and so did the mountain, but I will not start in a hard area with no experience prior.
So that left the forest, swamp, or artic, or urban.
I think my best bet would just be the swamp as it borders most of the spawns.
So I chose it and some dialogue popped up.
The Swamp
Filled with many terrifying creatures it is home to the most deadly as well, the rebellion has also taken up residence in the area.
2.00x EXP for danger Factor
Spawn? Y/N
I quickly checked the other areas and found that they all had different multipliers as well.
But I decided the swamp purely because it''s the only one with an EXP boost.
I tap the Y and everything goes dark again.
Suddenly I can see again... but theres a weird circle in my vision and words scrolling down the right side of my vision.
I try and look around but it seems like I''m stuck looking forward... suddenly the words "Rebooting." Start up in my vision and I can... feel... my body again.
And then theres notifications, I thought I had left these behind...
Research slots open +3
Focus slots open +1
skill points to distribute +10
You have no movement capability, please install Movement Limbs
I swear I felt something twitch as I got annoyed by the research mentioning...
Might as well start it... ''Now I just got to figure out how to open research.''
Suddenly like a cliche, I figured out on my first try that I got to think about it.
A window appears in my face and a notification pops up.
Achievement Rewarded
''This will only take a minute.''
For figuring out how to operate the system you smart boi.
I close that pop up and look over the window.
Theres a lot of choices already and it seems to offer plenty of choices already...
But I start researching movement which branches into different types...
''Looks like this is going to be a wild ride.''
I use my... ''Optics?'' to look around and I can see a couple small fish and then a turtle or two.
"This place doesn''t seem so ba-" then a scaled foot crashed down into the swamp water in front of me and quickly disappeared.
"I take that back." I looked at the focuses that I apparantly have, I currently have access to three... Land-Water Industries, Eyes in the sky, The Panzer line.
The first one gives me access to more movment abilities according to the description...
The second on apparantly puts me on the path to becoming a plane...
And the third gives me a head start on the Tank researcher...