Date February 19th, 2251
Four months ter.
"Have sweet dreams, honey." My mom Jane said as she fiug me in.
"Goodnight mom, goodnight dad."
"You have a goodnight too, son. We'll see you in the m." My dad, Robert, followed up before the two of them together exited my room and closed the door softly behind them.
…
Several minutes went by when I used my near super human perception to see if I could hear if either of them was still walking around the house in the general viity of my room.
I don't hear any footsteps, so I should be good.
After listening for a dozen seds or so, I cracked oo check my surroundings further to make absolutely sure that I was good.
Looks like the coast is clear.
With my parents gone and off to bed, I was alright to get up and begin my training that I was unfortunately uo perform earlier thanks to me being brought along to my parents' friend's home, the Uy's governor's residence more specifically.
Alright, time to get up ahat st bit of exp I need.
As I was about to do just that and begin progressing even further, I caught myself and decided to dey my workout for a bit.
Mm, actually cel that for the moment. I want to go over my ret progress first. It has been quite a while since I've st dohat. Plus, these st 4 months have been quite fruitful for me, so let me go over that before I start my workout.
ging my pns slightly for the moment, I got into a fortable position with both hands resting behind my head and began thinking about the det amount ress I've made these st several months since I first explored the house.
Where to start… I suppose I'll start from the beginning.
Over the previous months since my first trip to mom's office, I tinued my usual routine of training my perception and w out my body whenever I was left alone, usually when I was supposed to be sleeping. But besides grinding those two things out on the daily, I also carried on taking nightly trips to my mom's still unused office to tinue learning and gathering as muformation as possible.
Because of all of those trips, I've learned and accumuted a rge amount of knowledge across a plethora of subjects. Although they mainly pertaio bat, engineering, manufacturing, medie, sce, strategy, various fighting teiques, and other such things that I know for a fact would assist me in reag my goals.
As a side effect of all that learning and information gathering, my skills across the board have experienced a sizable jump from 4 months prior. Even my strength and intelligeribute have seen an increase as well, the tter of whicreased surprisingly just st night. The reason for its sudden increase, I tribute to my reading and learning sihat's the only real intelligence based activity I've been doing these st four months other than my regur pnning and reading children's books with mom and occasionally with dad.
Though I have been reading on my own more and more too as of te so there is that. But I don't see how that ret ge would increase my intelligeribute whatsoever when I'm reading about how different energy ons fun and the many manufacturing processes involved with them during the night, therefore that 't be it.
Ohh, that reminds me, I think it's about time I've asked for some more advanced books, the ohat aren't just basically picture books with some small amount of fvor text added in. However, that will have to wait till the m…
Back to the possible causes for my intelligeribute's increase. The only other thing I think of that could've tributed to its increase would be my rapidly growing and developing body. Aside from that, I don't think there are any other factors that could have tributed to its increase... Yeah, I 't really say for sure what the main factor for its increase is with absolute certainty.
However, if I were to bet on what it could be, I would put my money on that it's probably a bination of my nightly knowledge acquisitions and my developing body. Besides those two, I 't e up with anything else.
That about s it up oat front so tinuing onto something else of importance I unicate verbally. Although I keep myself limited to retively basitences, with the inclusion of some more advanced words sprinkled in here and there.
Very advanced and abnormal for my age, but my parents are more than happy. Thus, I'll probably just tinue what I've been doing, slowly expanding my vocabury bit by bit with the increasingly advanced books I get given from time to time. Maybe I should just ask for a diary. I know my mom has one in her office, so I probably just venture off into her office, grab it and e up with some excuse why I want to read it.
Let's see what else… No, that's about all the progress I've made the st several months. The only other thing of note would be that I met the Governor's daughter for the first time today. But only from a distance, since she was being held by her mother the ey of the time, and given how young she is, it's not really a surprise. She probably hasn't even started walki.
Thus, because of that, I was uo try to start building a rapport with her on my first visit to the governor's residence, unfortu it is what it is. That said, I noticed her eyes fog and trag me quite a lot throughout my visit. Hopefully, that's a good thing.
The only other thing I got out of that trip to their home was that I found out her name, which was Alice Lawreeele. And that she was tally born on August 7th 2250, just the day after my own birthday…
Alright, that should be about it. I best start w out so I gain my level and when I'm finished leveling up, I'll take care of my perception training before I head off to mom's office to get some more reading done.
With my ret progress these st 4 months gone over, I ght to it and began w out.
A couple of hours ter.
*Haa…haa…haa…*
That's the st set done. Now I turn that quest in ahat level up I've been grinding for the st several months. However, before I start that, I o get my breathing under trol.
Following the pletion of my st set, I focused oling my breathing aing the mueeded oxygen to my worked muscles. As soon as I had everything under trol, I got into a fortable position with my head resting against my pillow and opened up my status.
The instant, a holographic popped ien front of me and after it made its appearance, I ghrough the various tabs before I navigated to the quest se. When I arrived there, I turned in my daily workout quest ing myself 17 exp instead of my previous 16 exp due to my intelligencreasing, whicreased the amount exp I earn by an additional 5% whe increased.
That's odd, I should've only received 16.5 exp due to my exp gain rate going by what I experienced in the wastender games. Despite that, I didn't, so I'm guessing it's just going to decrease or raise to the full number whenever I don't gain a full exp point.
That's a pretty insignifit ge. I wonder why the system bothered messing with that, but whatever, I'll take another half a point of exp. 't really pin about getting ara exp point every time I turn in my daily quest from now on and seeing how my goal is to quer the wastend, I'm going to need as much of the stuff as I get.
The st bit of exp I needed received, I checked my status one final time sing through all the progress my skills have made over this four-month period.
Very goress for four months' worth of work. Okay, that's enough deying.
With my status gone over, I initiated the level up and the moment the holographic s ged from dispying my stats to the perk sele s with the same perks I hadn't taken in previous level up, plus several new ones.
Level 0 Perks
| Bookworm | Requirements Level 0, Intelligence 4: Your reading speed will double and in addition to that, you'll better uand the knowledge you gain, leading to faster skill gain. +100% to reading speed and +25% to skill gain speed.
Level 2 Perks
| Cat Eyes | Requirements Level 2, Perception 6, Stealth 30: Grants low light vision.
| Dad's Mini-Me | (Ranks 5) Requirements Level 2, Intelligence 4: +5 to both your medie and sce skills. Other than that, your dad will be more receptive to you.
| Growth | (Ranks Unlimited) Requirements Level 2: Gain 1 attribute point to distribute freely.
| Mama's Boy | (Ranks 5) Requirements Level 2, Charisma 4: +5 to both your medie and sce skills. Aside from that, your mom will be more receptive to you.
The level 2 perks aren't too bad, especially Cat Eyes and Growth. Cat Eyes would be of great use to me anytime I'm in a dark enviro aremely useful wheuring about at night. The night is also the best time to attack, so I'll add this perk to the list of perks I would like to acquire before heading out into the wastend.
Growth is anood perk to take if I don't have aer oo take. But since I'm in my period of easy growth, it's kind of terintuitive for me to take right now, so I won't be taking it this time around. As for the other two perks, I don't particurly need either of them right now since my skills in both sd medie are increasing at a very good rate.
Besides that, both mom and dad are very receptive to my wants and needs already, basically making both perks poio take at the moment. That said, they will be of use iure when I start doing things that would be perceived as dangerous by any normal parents, he might be smart to pick them up when I need a bit of extra help ving the both of them.
Okay, I've gohrough the level 2 perks. The only perk that really stands out to me at this current moment would be Bookworm from the level 0 perks, simply for the reason that it will increase the rate at which I read and absorb the knowledge... Yeah, that would be the most useful perk for sed level sihe earlier I get it the more bes it will provide me in the long run.
With my mind made up, I chose Bookworm and finalized my sele. The sed after my choice, the s ged again to the skill distribution window.
[ Skills ]
Skill Points Left: 15
Ballistic ons: 46Energy ons: 46Explosives: 37(T)Heavy ons: 48Leadership: 40Lockpick: 32Medie: 57Melee ons: 39Piloting: 34(T)Repair: 50(T)Sce: 50Speech: 26Stealth: 48Survival: 35Trade: 28Unarmed: 40
What skill do I wish to dump my skill points into, hmm…
As I was in the midst of pting what skill deserved an increase I came up with ahat will better me in the long run quite a lot.
Instead of leveling up ime, I think I'm just going to dey it until years ter so I grow my skills as much as possible through my reading alongside my training when I'm old enough. And wheually reach a point of stagnation, I just use them all in one go for maximum gains…
As I tihinking further about that idea, I liked it more and more. However, after thinking about the extreme pain I'll have to endure for using all those accumuted level ups all at once, a sudden shiver ran down my spine.
Ahh, actually scratch that instead of using them all at once. I think it will be smarter to use them o a time instead. Mm-mm, yeah, let's definitely not use them all at once.
Future crisis averted, the only real issue with this idea is that there could be a perk more worthwhile in the higher level perks… Fuck it, I'm going through with this, the skill point gains I could make from deying my level ups far outweigh what could be possibly obtained.
I could be wrong, but I think hundreds of skill points easily earhrough a ton of reading and other activities that I'm uo perform currently due to my age is the way to go. And wheime to level finally es again, I'll be able to raise my skills to a pretty absurd level before even leaving the safe fines of the uy.
Grinning at the thought of ing out of the uy as basically a boss level entity in the far future I looked through my skills again and decided to just dump the 15 points into speech si seemed to be the skill I'll have the most trouble increasing pared to all the other ones I possessed. Besides that point, the skill also seemed more useful for the pns I had for the future in Uy 7.
ing to a decision, I dumped the 15 avaible skill points into speed pleted my distribution. As soon as I fihe skill allocation portion of my level up, the holographic s ged once again, currently dispying my new and improved stats.
[ Status ]Name: Dom Mason WoodsAge: 0Height: 2 Feet 10 InchesBody Weight: 21 lbsRace: HumanLevel: 2Experience Points: 9/3,000 | Formu: Level# x 1,000Total Experience Points Earned: 3,009Experiee: 165% ? | Formu: 100 + (Intelligence x 5)Health: 720 ? | Formu: 100 + (Endurance x 20) + (Level# x 10) x 2Healing Rate: 0.0533 Health Per Sed/3.2 Health Per Minute | Formu: (0.2 Health Per Minute x Endurance) + 1Stamina: 1,360 | Formu: 100 + ( Endurance x 20) x 4Stamina Regeion: 0.8 Stamina Per Sed/48 Stamina Per Minute | Formu: (1 Stamina Per Minute x Endurance) x 4Carry Weight: 0/250 ? | Formu: 100 + (Strength x 50)Critical ce: 10% | Formu: Luck x 1
[ Effects ]
[ Armor ]Body Damage Threshold 12 | Formu: Endurance x 1
[ Resistances ]Radiatioance: 12 | Formu: Endurance x 1
[ Attributes ]Strength: 3 ?Agility: 1Endurance: 12Intelligence: 13 ?Perception: 10Charisma: 5Luck: 10
[ Skills ]Ballistic ons: 46 ?Energy ons: 46 ?Explosives: 37 ?(T)Heavy ons: 48 ?Leadership: 40 ?Lockpick: 32 ?Medie: 57 ?Melee ons: 39 ?Piloting: 34 ?(T)Repair: 50 ?(T)Sce: 50 ?Speech: 41 ?Stealth: 48 ?Survival: 35 ?Trade: 28 ?Unarmed: 40 ?
Skill Points Gained Per Level Up: 15 ? | Formu: (Intelligence x 1) + 2
[ Traits ]| Gifted | - | Sex Appeal | - | Skilled | - | Take Another Rank 1 |
[ Perks ]Active Perks:
Passive Perks: | Bookworm | - | Champion Level Muscle Geics | - | Human Superputer | - | Monstrous Physique | - | Rare Cardiovascur Geics | - | Talented |
bo Perks:
[ Mutations ]
[ Gear ]ons:
on Magazines:
Armor:
Clothing:
Aid:
Ammo:
Miseous:
Money:
[ Other Stats & Bonuses ]Attribute: +150% to endurance gain, +50% to intelligence gain, +150% tth gainBody: +50% to blood circution, +300% to ligament strength, +300% to ligament growth speed, +100% to muscle growth speed, +100% to muscle density, +300% to tendon strength, +300% to tendon growth speedBrain: +100% to brain processing power, +100% to reading speed, +1 to thought processesHealth: +100% to health, +1 health regeion per minuteSkill: +25% to skill gain speedSleep: Required Sleep 4 HoursStamina: +400% to stamina, +400% to stamina regeionKill ter: 0
[ Items ]ons:
on Magazines:
Armor:
Clothing:
Aid:
Ammo:
Miseous:
Money:
Robots:
Turrets:
Vehicles:
[ Quests ]Ready to turn in: 0
pleted: 0
In progress: 11
(Daily) | Workout | Objectives: plete your daily workout. Reward: 10 exp.
| Area 51 | Objectives: Gain access to Area 51 by any means necessary and explore the site from top to bottom. Rewards: Perk | Alien Researcher |, 40 Repair points, 40 Sce points, 40 Medie points, 450,000 exp.
| Maxigen Improvement | Objectives: Research, improve, and remove the ive side effect of the Maxigen drug. Rewards: Perk | Drug Researcher |, 5 Medie points, 5 Sce points, 2,500 exp.
| Nevada quest | Objectives: Bee the undisputed number one power in Nevada and take trol over the state in its ey. Rewards: Perk | Territory |, 25 attribute points, 250 skill points, 10,000,000 exp.
| Pablo Escobar Jr. | Objectives: Establish drug produ and earn 10,000,000 dolrs from the sale of your products. Rewards: Perk | Drug Kingpin |, 10 Medie points, 30,000 exp.
| Power Surge | Objectives: Witle for Hoover Dam and bee the sole owner of it. Rewards: Perk | Power Surge |, 5 attribute points, 25 Repair points, 250,000 exp.
| Seeker Of Knowledge | Objectives: Find a way to start acquiring this world's knowledge and accumute aire library's worth. Rewards: 3 Intelligence Points and 4,500 exp.
| Suited Up | Objectives: Open up the armories at Fort Kern and acquire a suit of power armor. Rewards: Perk | Mobile Armory |, 5 Lockpick, 75,000 exp.
| Surpass Your Human Limits | Objectives: Reach a value of 11 in every attribute.Rewards: Perk?, 10 attribute points, and 100,000 exp.
| Take Over The Cyberdynamics Robotics Facility | Objectives: Clear out all hostile forces a up shop. Rewards: Perk | Certified Roboticist |, 5 Sce Points, 25,000 exp.
| Wastend queror | Objectives: quer the wastend and take over Earth in its ey. Rewards: ???
That retty worthwhile level up. I increased my health a bit, got a perk that's going to increase my skill progress and knowledge gathering speed quite substantially. Other than that, I received ara skill point to spend thanks to my intelligeribute increasing the previous day.
My level up taken care of, I closed out the system window dispying my stats auro the eversting grind, though this time I was iraining my perception. About an hour of training ter, I was tent, thus I got up and scaled the walls of my crib and snuck ssh escaped off to my mom's office to further my studies and knowledge acquisition. The minute I made it there and took position in mom's chair and began reading, I instantly noticed the difference from before.
Holy shit, that perk makes a huge difference. I definitely made the right decision.
Practically smiling from ear to ear, I got back to it.
