A Hardcore Game (Gamer/40K SI)

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"All right mom, I'll pick up the packages on the way back." I said closing the phone call as I waited for the pedestrian traffic light to turn white as I opened up the browser to read the next chapter of the The Gamer. I looked up and noticed that the light was now white and proceeded to cross the street while reading off my cellphone. It was a pretty slow day overall so there was not that much traffic so it was pretty safe to do this like I had many times before.

As I crossed the street I suddenly heard a loud honk from a big wheeler and immediately raised my head up and looked towards the source of the sound and froze like a idiot.

I stared as the giant red colored 18 wheeler smashed into me and everything went black.

As the blackness stretched on and on I had a thought that the moment was stretching forever until I realized, I could count past 3.

I was conscious.

Was I dead? Was I alive?

I wasn't in pain so there was that good news.

But I couldn't feel my body. I couldn't feel any physical sensations.

Moving my eyes I couldn't feel them and I could see no changes in the darkness and I couldn't see my body.

Just floating in this silent was both comfortable and terrifying.

Was I going to be stuck here? Or was this some kind of Isekai situation?

I mean I did get hit by a truck and ended up cognizant after death.

Cause I am pretty sure I couldn't have survived a head on crash with a 18 wheeler.

Soooo....what's going to happen to me?

With nothing else to do I just started going through the various chapters of The Gamer in my mind. Sigh.

By the time I finished going over all the chapters I could remember nothing had changed.

The Darkness was still Dark. The Silence was still Silent.

Dammit all what the hell was going on?

At this point I really started to freak out with the possibility of actually being trapped in this kind of existence being higher than I would like.

Suddenly a streak of light flash past my eyes like a shooting star. I quickly tried to track, follow it, but instantly lost it in less than a second.

'Dammit!' I thought to myself as I desperately tried to find that moving point of light.

Suddenly I see the pinprick of light in front of me rapidly filling my vision before turning my whole view white.

'Ahhhhh!' I said in both fear and as a reaction to the intensely bright light in my face.

The next thing I knew I had the wind knocked out of me as I landed back first on...a dumpster, causing me to spit out saliva as I rolled off from the impact and land on what I recognized to be concrete and gagging as I smelled the area I was in.

I gagged and coughed while also trying to get enough air into my lungs and blinking and rubbing my eyes to be able to see in the light after so long in the dark.

Where the hell was I? Was I alive again? On Earth? Another world? The same timeline?

After I was done coughing my lungs out and readjusted to the realm of the living. I looked around. I was in a normal alleyway as far as I could tell. A empty dirty alleyway like you would see in the back streets of New York.

However, something was off, the traffic noises around me were different, it didn't sound like normal cars. In fact I could swear that I could hear....hymns?

Getting to my feet, I decided to walk towards the noise as I doubt I wanted to see how the local alleyway dwellers are like in this still unknown city.

After walking for close to half an hour I was still in the alleyway. Why the hell was the alleyway so damn long?

Was this city enormous or something? Another hour passes and soon I noticed a end to the alleyway and the sounds being a lot clearer.

Right before I could start to rush over something attracts my attention and stops me in my tracks.

Ding!

HELLO THERE! MY NAME IS TRUCK-KUN JR! I AM REALLY SORRY THAT I HIT YOU AT THAT INTERSECTION! I WAS IN A RUSH TO GET TO THE HERO THAT I WAS SUPPOSE TO DELIVER TO ANOTHER WORLD THAT WAS UNDERGOING A DEMON KING INVASION AND I ACCIDENTALLY OVERSLEPT. I WAS IN SUCH A RUSH THAT I COULD NOT STOP IN TIME! >.< PLEASE DON'T TELL MY DAD! TO MAKE IT UP TO YOU I DECIDED TO GIVE YOU THE POWER THAT WAS ON YOUR MIND IN THE VOID AND SEND YOU TO A NICE FANTASY WORLD SO YOU COULD LIVE OUT YOUR NEW LIFE HOW YOU WANT IT! YOU KNOW THE WORLD AS HARRY POTTER VERSE! I HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT LIFE AND PLEASE DON'T TELL MY DAD! PLEASE! Q_Q

"My death was a accident!? And it wasn't even Truck-Kun himself who did it, but his kid? He's married? How does a truck even have a kid? Is he a fuckin transformer now?" I ground out under my breath quietly anger in my voice even as I processed the full message. So I had The Gamer System now? Where is the notifications then?

Ding!

WELCOME USER! YOU HAVE BEEN GRANTED ACCESS TO THE GAMER SYSTEM WHERE YOUR LIFE IS NOW TREATED LIKE A VIDEO GAME! CERTAIN ASPECTS OF YOUR BODY AND LIFE HAVE NOW BEEN CONVERTED TO VIDEO GAME MECHANICS WHILE OTHERS WILL STILL REMAIN WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF NORMAL REALITY! YOU HAVE GAINED THE SKILLS Gamer's Mind: Allows the user to calmly and logically think things through. Allows peaceful state of mind. Immunity to psychological status effects. Gamer's Body: Grants a body that allows for the user to live the real world like a game. Sleeping in a bed restores HP, MP and all status effects. HERE ARE YOUR CURRENT STATS! TO ACCESS THE CHARACTER SHEET IN THE FUTURE JUST SAY CHARACTER SHEET! FOR MORE COMMANDS SAY HELP MENU! NAME: [UNDECIDED] OCCUPATION: THE GAMER RACE: HUMAN LEVEL: 1 NEXT LEVEL: 0.0% HP: 100 HP REGEN: 1 HP PER MINUTE MP: 100 MP REGEN: 1 MP PER MINUTE STRENGTH: 10 CONSTITUTION: 10 DEXTERITY: 10 INTELLIGENCE: 10 WISDOM: 10 LUCK: 10 STAT POINTS: 0 MONEY: 0

Well looks like everything is there leaving my name aside, but a problem comes to mind, if this is the Harry Potter verse, why does this alleyway seem to go on forever? No city I know of in the world would have a alleyway this long with no side branches or exits besides these closed doors in the sides. Was I in some sort of magical alleyway or something?

Ding!

Ah there we go, probably going to tell me I gained a intelligence or wisdom point for figuring out my location correctly or something. That was how this goes right?

OH NO! I SENT YOU TO THE WRONG UNIVERSE AND I CAN'T GET YOU OUT!

"What?" I yelled before immediately sprinting towards the entrance of the alleyway only to skid to a stop as I tried to stop myself from tipping over a fucking ledge! After regaining my balance I take a good long look at the scenery in front of me with my mouth wide open in shock.

I was in some kind of future setting! Large skyscraper like buildings with vast extended walkways stretching between them with air cars flying in the sky above with spaceships even higher above them. Spaceships that seemed oddly familiar. I was actually a bit excited until my face paled and my gut dropped.

Passing by in front of me was a airship a large red zeppelin like airship.

The problem was the symbol on the side of the ship.

A double headed Aquila with one head blind.

There was only one setting I knew with that symbol and explained why Truck-Kun Jr couldn't get me out.

I was in Warhammer 40K.

Shit!

AN: Whelp, here I go again with another story. Likes and feedbacks please.

Spoiler

1d5 = Ultima Segmentum

1d8 = 2 Civilized World

1d8 = 5 Knight World

1d100 = 65 Local space infested with

1d9 = 4 Human Pirates

1d6 = 6 Modern 40K

 

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Spoiler: Appearance

Character Sheet
NAME: Noman
AGE: 71 (?)
OCCUPATION: THE GAMER
RACE: HUMAN
TITLE: LIVING SAINT

LEVEL: 97
NEXT LEVEL: 78.99%

HP 68480
HP Regen 340,893.44 per minute or 5,681.56 HP per second

MP 815,329.9
MP Regen 68418653.16 per minute or 1,140,310.89 MP per second

Level 97
STRENGTH: 1701 (6804)
CONSTITUTION: 1818 (1818)
DEXTERITY: 1878 (99984)
INTELLIGENCE: 1027 (24545.3)
WISDOM: 843 (7957.92)
LUCK: 355 (355)

STAT POINTS: 485
MONEY: Effectively Infinite

Perks
50 Strength Perk: Herculean Strength - Increase damage from melee attacks by 50%
100 Strength Perk: A Knight's Raiment - Able to wear heavy armor as if they were one weight class lighter.
150 Strength Perk: Armor Bane - Melee based damage ignores 25% of armor reduction and causes 1% of damage to enemy armor
200 Strength Perk: Monstrous Strength - Increases Strength stat by 100%
250 Strength Perk: Mjolnir - Can wield two handed weapons as if one handed
300 Strength Perk: Say Hello To My Little Friend - Can wield non portable vehicle weapons as 2 handed
350 Strength Perk: And his cousin - Can wield non portable vehicle weapons one handed
400 Strength Perk: A King's Raiment all outfits - now do not reduce mobility or speed
450 Strength Perk: Heroic Strength - Increases Melee damage by 200%
500 Strength Perk: Tactile Telekinesis - Holds stuff together so you don't actually destroy it while lifting it.
750 Strength Perk: Demigod's Might - Increase Strength stat by 200%
1000 Strength Perk: Transcedental Body - Increase defense by 500%
1500 Strength Perk: God's Fist - Your physical attacks can now harm the immaterial
50 Constitution Perk: Healthy As A Horse - Gain extra 5 HP per Constitution point
100 Constitution Perk: Titan's Bones - Reduce damage to body by 50%
150 Constitution Perk: Healthy As A Troll - Gain extra 10 HP per Constitution point
200 Constitution Perk: Titan's Skin - Reduces elemental damage by 25%
250 Constitution Perk: Monstrous Vitality - Increase HP Regen by 5%
300 Constitution Perk: Titan's Armor - Reduces magic damage by 25%
350 Constitution Perk: Healthy As A Squat - Gain extra 10 HP per Constitution point
400 Constitution Perk: Aqua Lad - You no longer need to breath
450 Constitution Perk: Trollish Vitality - Increase HP Regen by 5%
500 Constitution Perk: Space Borne - You no longer suffer from exposure to the vacuum of space
750 Constitution Perk: Godly Vitality - Increase HP Regen by 5%
1000 Constitution Perk: Transcedental Recovery - Increase HP regen by 300%
1500 Constitution Perk: Solar Champion - Every 10 minute of solar radiation exposure gives you a minute's worth charge that can double Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution stats. Can double the bonus by halving remaining time. Can be done repeatedly, no limit to amount of charge hold.
50 Dexterity Perk: Cat's Grace - Always land on your feet, keep your balance easily, and reduce fall damage.
100 Dexterity Perk: Hunter's Instinct - Find enemy weak points easier and +50% to critical damage
150 Dexterity Perk: Dagger in the Dark - When undetected increase weapon damage by 100% and critical rate by 75%
200 Dexterity Perk: Spider Sense - Gain split second precognition of attacks directed at you with killer intent
250 Dexterity Perk: Contortionist - Your body can now bend in impossible ways even in full armor
300 Dexterity Perk: Monstrous Speed - All movement speeds increased by 50%
350 Dexterity Perk: A Tree Bends - Reduce physical attack damage by 50%
400 Dexterity Perk: A Slippery Blade - First stealth attack gaurantees critical hit
450 Dexterity Perk: Speed is Strength - Apply Dexterity to melee damage
500 Dexterity Perk: Spartan Time - When in combat speed up your perception of time, causing everything to slow down for you
750 Dexterity Perk: Vital Perception - Be able to see weak points on the enemy and attacks on these points shall deal 100% greater critical damage
1000 Dexterity Perk: Transcedental Reflex - Increase physical speed and skills by 100%
1500 Dexterity Perk: Death's Eye - Grants perfect aim with any ranged weapon within its reach of attack
50 Intelligence Perk: Deep Well - Gain +10 MP from each Intelligence point.
100 Intelligence Perk: Eidetic Memory - Remember things easily and at any moment. +10% Experience Gain
150 Intelligence Perk: Destructive Science - Gain ability to gain blueprints when salvaging functional equipment for no resources
200 Intelligence Perk: Mana Affinity - Gain the ability to sense and manipulate mana 10% increase to MP recovery and 5% increase to total MP.
250 Intelligence Perk: Territory Management - Unlocks territory management functions
300 Intelligence Perk: Strong Mana Affinity - 10% increase to MP recovery and 5% increase to total MP
350 Intelligence Perk: Deep Lake - Gain +10 MP from each Intelligence point.
400 Intelligence Perk: Multicasting - Can cast (Intelligence/100) spells simultaneously
450 Intelligence Perk: Army Management - Unlocks army management functions
500 Intelligence Perk: Legendary Magic Power - Magic effects increased by 100%
750 Intelligence Perk: Mythical Magic Power - Magic effects increase by 200%
1000 Intelligence Perk: Demigod of Magic - Increase magic effects by 300%
Reduce skill MP costs by 99%
50 Wisdom Perk: Perceptive - Increase ability to notice thing around you
100 Wisdom Perk: Common Sense - Increase Exp gain by 10%
150 Wisdom Perk: Insightful - Increase ability to understand what is below the surface
200 Wisdom Perk: Not So Common Sense - Increase Exp gain by 15%
250 Wisdom Perk: Sherlock - Gain greater ability to make intuitive leaps in logic
300 Wisdom Perk: Sage's Wisdom - MP Recovery and Magic Defense increased by 300%
350 Wisdom Perk: Teacher - gain ability to teach skills to students
400 Wisdom Perk: Sage Aura - Those around you share in your Wisdom, increase their Wisdom by 10% of yours
450 Wisdom Perk: World's Teacher - Incrase student's ability to increase skill level by 100% while being taught by you
500 Wisdom Perk: Eye of Odin - Grant short term combat precognition
750 Wisdom Perk: Transcendental Sage's Wisdom - Increase MP recovery and Magic Defense by 600%
50 Luck Perk: Reaper's Presence - Increase chance of a critical strike by 25%
100 Luck Perk: Reaper's Touch - Increase critical damage by 50%
150 Luck Perk: Reaper's Embrace - Decrease chance of suffering a critical strike by 25%
200 Luck Perk: Reaper's Duties - Chance of defeating enemies resotore HP and MP
250 Luck Perk: Bloody Mess - Chance of kills to cause explosions that damage nearby enemies
300 Luck Perk: No Fate- Your Fate defying abilties are so strong that Fate itself is unraveled around you. Prevents accurate use of precognition on you.
350 Luck Perk: Mysterious Stranger - When in a fight, chance of a mysterious stranger in power armor will appear and attack your current target before disappearing
Level 25 Perk: Blood Knight - Recover 10% of damage dealt as Health
Level 50 Perk: WAAAGGGHHH EXPOSURE!!! - Access to Orkish WAAAGGGHHH!!! Field energy to temporarily become a Ork, higher Orkoid forms consume more Wagghhh energy per second to transform into and maintain. Gain access to Ork racial perks and tech tree.
Level 75 Perk: Warp Resistance! - Due to excessive exposure to Warp Energies without being corrupted, your body has been filled past the brim with raw Warp Energy that has effectively formed a shield from other Warp effects. Gain 50% Resistance to Warp based abilities and attacks.
Living Saint Perk: Spark of Godhood (Awakened) - A piece of the God Emperor's soul has been integrated with your soul, granting you access to psychic powers, faith powers, and a measure of protection from Warp based phenomenon. Access to full power of the integrated soul unlocked. May bring Truth Death to Daemons.
Acrobatics Perk: Harlequin's Grace - Acrobatics Passive Dexterity increase now also increase movement speed.
Acrobatics Perk: Falling With Style - Can negate fall damage by rolling
Acrobatics Perk: Tight Squeeze - Can travel through any crawl space or vent as if it were big enough
Acrobatics Perk: Escape Artist - Can escape any physical restraint in time
Acting Perk: I Am You - Auto adjust Body language to whatever character role the Gamer is acting in.
Acting Perk: No You're Me - Increases likelihood of copying others the more time you spend around them.
Acting Perk: Roleplay - Grants intermediate knowledge of the role your acting but goes away when not acting.
Barrier Perk: Barrier Novice - Increase range and number of shields that can be generated without losing strength
Barrier Perk: Barrier Journeyman - Increase range and number of shields that can be generated without losing strength
Barrier Perk: Barrier Master - Increase range and number of shields that can be generated without losing strength
Barrier Perk: Barrier Grandmaster- Increase range and number of shields that can be generated without losing strength
Barter Perk: Silver Tongue - Increase profit by 10%
Berserker Perk: Tranquil Fury - Do not lose control of mind while under skill effect
Berserker Perk: Unstoppable! - Increase Strength by 1% for every minute under Berserker skill effect
Berserker Perk: Invincible! - Increase Health by 1% for every minute under Berserker skill effect
Berserker Perk: Mental Juggernaut! - Increase mental resistance by 1% for every minute under Berserker skill effect
Berserker Perk: Bladestorm - Increase Attack Speed by 1% for every minute under Berserker skill effect
Berserker Perk: Speed Wagon - Increase movement speed by 1% for every minute under Berserker skill effect
Craft Perk: Book Maker - Books made have low chance of becoming a skill book
Craft Perk: Quality - Items crafted are now 1 level higher in quality
Craft Perk: Quailty+ - Items crafter are now 2 levels higher in quality
Craft Perk: Magic Hands - Only require raw resources to craft items instead of parts for certain items
Craft Perk: Industrious - Can craft multiple items at the same time
Craft Perk: Big Worker - Can now make vehicles without construction equipment
Charm Perk: Noble Tongue - Increase REP gain with people
Cipher Perk: Cipher Touch - Can convert books into cipher's you know
Cipher Perk: Cipher Vision - Auto identifies if text are in cipher or if ciphers are present
Cipher Perk: Cipher Touch 2 - Can convert cipher'd books into plain text
Cipher Perk: Double Think - Can passively encrypt thoughts in ciphers
Cleaning Perk: Mr Clean - Access to option to instant auto clean equipment
Cleaning Perk: Increase range of cleaning
Cleaning Perk: Increase ability to clean
Climb Perk: Wall Fingers - When climbing each finger is as if you were using your whole hand to grip
Dancing Perk: Monkey see, Monkey do - Allow for enhanced mimicry of dances after seeing them once.
Dancing Perk: Don't Stop Me Now - Allows for gamer to dance continually without stamina cost.
Dancing Perk: Thriller - When dancing with others, they will instinctevely know the dance routing and sync with you
Dancing Perk: Dance Fight - When dancing with allies, increase all their stats by (Dance Level)%
Deceive Perk: Bavarian Fire Drill - People under you believe you know what you are doing
Detect Bloodlust Perk: Enemy Allies - When enemy detected, also reveal all enemy allies in range
Detect Bloodlust Perk: Enemy Search - Indicates when the enemy is aware of you
Detect Bloodlust Perk: Enemy Retreat- Indicates when the enemy has stopped being alert for you
Detect Bloodlust Perk: Enemy Tracking - Minimap can now show the path traveled by revealed targets for the past hour
Digging Perk: Synergy with Shovel Knight title and Parkour skill to create new perk: Immaterial Shoveling - You are now able to dig into non physical digs, such as the Warp.
Digging Perk: Auto Support - Tunnels dug automatically come with support to prevent collapses
Digging Perk: Ore Sense - Allows for the detection of metal ores in the nearby digging area
Digging Perk: Treasure Sense - Allows for the detection of valuable items and minerals in the nearby digging area
Digging Perk: Soft Like Mud - Material being dug through are weaker than they should be
Disguise Perk: Man with a Thousands Faces - Allows one to physically change his facial looks (Disguise Level) per day.
Disguise Perk: Tran-sexual - gives the gamer the ability to physically change sexual orientations (Disguise Level) per day.
Disguise Perk: Makeup Artist - can physically change the appearance of others (Disguise Level) per day.
Disguise Perk: Fool Me Twice - decrease scrutiny from others until shown proof otherwise.
Demolition Perk: Structural Weakness - See the weakest points for explosive attacks
Demolition Perk: Defuse King - Know how to defuse any type of explosive device
Demolition Perk: Bomb Friend - Do not trigger any explosive via sensors
Eavesdrop Perk: All Hearing Ears - Able to now hear any conversation that is within range of any of your senses
Faith Mastery Perk: Flock Together - All allied worshippers gain resistance to enemy faith energies
Faith Mastery Perk: Ears - Can recieve messages from prayers from any distance
Faith Mastery Perk: No House - Can receive the power of Faith from any distance
Faith Mastery Perk: God Eye - Know when worshippers are being corrupted
Faith Mastery Perk: Close Hand - Can send/activate Miracles at any distance
Hacking Perk: Friend! - Enemy systems hacked will be friendly to you temporarily
Hacking Perk: Au Natural - Enemy systems will not detect you until you trigger a trap
Hacking Perk: Watchdogs - You can now use hacked systems as nodes to remotely hack non connected systems as if you were there in person
Hacking Perk: L33T - Have a chance to instantly hack systems based on how much higher your skill level is compared to the target system
Heal Perk: Chain Healing - Healing now bounces off healed targets to the closest injured target repeatedly till total HP recovery runs out
Heal Perk: Regen - Healed targets now gain temporary regen buff equal to 1% of their HP per minute
Heal Perk: No Borders- Healing skill now works on any target with no debuffs
Heal Perk: Mind Healer - Healing now affects mental damage as well such as trauma or conditions
Heal Perk: Angel of Mercy - Radiate a healing aura that affects all allied forces that heals the same as your Healing skill after casting for 5 minutes
Holy Aura Perk: Aura now grants buffs to allied forces
Holy Aura Perk: Aura now grants even stronger buffs to allied forces
Holy Aura Perk: Aura now grants stronger debuffs to enemy forces
Holy Aura Perk: The Aura's shape can now be controlled, allowing it to be shrunk or extended
Holy Empowerment Perk: Grant empowered weapons random offensive abilities
Holy Empowerment Perk: Grant empowered armor random defensive abiltiies
Holy Empowerment Perk: Can now empower people, grant empowered people a bonuses to stats
Holy Empowerment Perk: Grant empowered people random abilities
Intimidate Perk: Eye of the Tiger - Can now temporarily paralyze a target for 3 seconds with Fear. Can be overcome or ineffective.
Intimidate Perk: Monstrous Strength - Your strength stat now provides bonus to Intimidation skill
Intimidate Perk: Terrifying Visage - You can now generate a aura of fear that will constantly weaken enemies which are intimidated by your aura
Intimidate Perk: Horrifying Visage - Your aura now creates terror among the enemy causing madness in its wake.
Jump Perk: Double jump - You can now jump twice without a surface
Light Foot Perk: Twinkle Toes - You no longer trip pressure based sensors or traps
Medicine Perk: Doctor! - Gain instinctive knowledge on how to treat unknown life forms
Medicine Perk: EMT - Gain instictive knowledge on how to stabilize a lifeform
Medicine Perk: Pharmacist - Can create tailored drugs for specific people
Meditate Perk: One with Nature - Can meditate while moving
Meditate Perk: Shaman - While meditating grants greater connecting to spirits
Meditate Perk: Still Pond - Grant greater control over emotions
Melee Weapon Mastery Perk: PARRY! - Attacks within your perception will automatically be deflected or dodged.
Melee Weapon Mastery Perk: Mastery - Hurt only what you intend to
Melee Weapon Mastery Perk: Grandmastery - Allow melee attacks to be empowered by mana to harm immaterial targets
Melee Weapon Mastery Perk: Predator - Gain attack damage against targets for whose race you have killed before, 0.01% per kill, stacks up to 1000%
Melee Weapon Mastery Perk: Hunter - Gain attack speed against targets for whose race you have killed before, 0.01% per kill, stacks up to 1000%
Might of Heroes Perk: Ancient Wisdom - Increase the decision making of the target
Might of Heroes Perk: Ancient Reflexes - Increase target reaction speed
Might of Heroes Perk: Ancient Parkour - Increase ability to traverse tough terrain
Might of Heroes Perk: Ancient Vigor - Increase resistance to negative status effects
Mind Shield Perk: Mental Stealth - Hide the mind of the user from those not aware of your presence
Mind Shield Perk: Mind Lost - Increases the layers of mental defenses the mind has
Mind Shield Perk: Mind Leech - Converts a portion of the mental attack into mental defenses
Mind Shield Perk: Mind Control - Mind attacks that fail against you have a chance to rebound on the user and instead affect them instead
Mind Shield Perk: Mind Backup - Create a backup of your mind, allows for instant recovery from major mental damages at the cost of recent memories
Navigation Perk: Port in Any Storm - You are now able to find your way out of any navigational hazard.
Null Zone Perk: Null Aura - Can now generate a field of null magic
Null Zone Perk: Null Control - Can now control the aura's shape
Null Zone Perk: Culexus Sight - Can now possibly extinguish souls if aura is focused on a single target
Observe Perk: Scan - Your eyes now reveal the status, emotions, and weaknesses of those you see passively
Observe Perk: Life Story - reveals short history of observed people and items.
Observe Perk: Libra - Shows item drop Info and rates of observed creatures.
Observe Perk: Waypoint - Your eyes now track pinned people or items.
Observe Perk: Finder - Highlights items passively after observing one once.
Pain Tolerance Perk: Stoic - The first strike that would reduce your life to Zero will only reduce your life down to 1, cool down of 24 hours.
Pain Tolerance Perk: Stoic+ - limb damage does not affect you
Pain Tolerance Perk: Stoic the Vast - Can now take on the pain from others in your party
Pain Tolerance Perk: Stoic the Very Vast - Can now take on the pain from others around you
Pain Tolerance Perk: Stoic the Valiant - Take on limb damage from those around you
Parkour Perk: Spatial Awareness - You now have a 360 degree awareness of everything within 10 meters around you.
Physical Resistance Perk: Stalwart - Half of your physical resistance now applies to anything you hold as a defensive tool.
Physical Resistance Perk: Vanguard - Half of your physical resistance now applies to anything you hold as a offensive tool.
Physical Resistance Perk: Sturdy - Half of your physical resistance now applies to anything you wear.
Physical Resistance Perk: Hardy - Half of your physical resistance now applies to those around you
Physical Resistance Perk: Tanky - Half of your physical resistance now applies to anything you drive or pilot
Poison Resistance Perk: Patooie- Can now spit poison
Poison Resistance Perk: Adaptation - Poisons can now be integrated into your blood if within your system long enough
Poison Resistance Perk: Venom - Can now imbue attacks with poison damage
Power Strike Perk: Devastating Strikes - Physical attack skills now do 100% more damage.
Power Strike Perk: Terrifying Strikes - Kills now have a chance to inflict terror on enemy witnesses
Power Strike Perk: Rending Strikes - Power strike attacks can now focus all damage on armor instead of HP
Power Strike Perk: Power strike can now unleash a short range wave of power that deals kinetic damage
Programming Perk: Debug - Instincitvely see the parts of the program causing the issue
Programming Perk: Optimiziation - See ways to improve efficiency and speed of completed functioning programs
Programming Perk: Hardening - Increase program's resistance to chance and infiltration
Programming Perk: Master Control - Grant ability to instantly access any system using your programs through said programs with backdoors built in
Pysker Mastery: Gamma Class - Increase to Psyker powers
Pysker Mastery: Delta Class - Increase to Psyker powers
Pysker Mastery: Beta Class - Increase to Psyker powers
Pysker Mastery: Alpha Class - Increase to Psyker powers
Ranged Weapon Mastery: Death from Afar - Increase range to ranged weapons
Ranged Weapon Mastery: Soft Spot - Ranged attacks now ignore 20% armor, 40% for crits
Ranged Weapon Mastery: Bullet Hog - Ranged weapons now have a chance to not use ammo when firing
Ranged Weapon Mastery: Marked - Targets hit now show up as an outline even when behind objects
Ranged Weapon Mastery: No Cover - Ranged weapons can now deal reduced damage through cover, damage reduced depending on said cover
Repair Perk: Peak Restoration - items repaired are now restored to their original manufactured conditions
Repair Perk: Recycle - can substitute different materials to repair items.
Repair Perk: Macguyver - Do not need appropriate parts to repair items just similar parts
Repair Perk: Magic Fingers - similar parts not required just the base materials are enough to begin repairs
Repair Perk: Percussive Maintenance - reduce the skill requirement to repair an item based on your strength stat
Rip Perk: Rip and Tear! - Rip skill now deals armor damage
Salvage Perk: Scrap Wrecker - Can now salvage small vehicles whole
Salvage Perk: Wreck It Ralph - Can now salvage large vehicles whole
Sense Danger Perk: Where? - Expands minimap to see all enemies on map istantly
Sense Danger Perk: Auto Dodge - For attacks outside perception can now perform a reflex action to dodge it if possible
Sense Danger Perk: Itent - Can now tell what form the danger takes
Singing Perk: Siren's Call - Singing now applies buffs to ally morale and debuff to enemy morale.
Singing Perk: Over Here - Can throw ones voice from (Singing Level) meters away.
Singing Perk: Auto Tune - Gives studio quality changes to ones voice.
Singing Perk: Cheeky Voice - Mimic other voices after hearing them once.
Singing Perk: BGM - You can now control and customize your BGM
Smite Perk: Thunderstruck - Smite now has chance to stun target
Smite Perk: Shield Piercer - Smite now ignores 25% of shield defense
Smite Perk: Thunderclap - Smite now has a chance to inflict knockback on target
Smite Perk: Power! - Smite now ignores 25% of armor defense
Smite Perk: Ragnarok - Smite now unleashes a dozen weaker smites around the target targetting the closest valid target
Sprint Perk: Gotta Go! - You can now run on any surface as if it was flat.
Sprint Perk: Gotta Go Fast! - You can now run on water
Sprint Perk: Sonic X - You can now run faster than the speed of sound without causing a sonic boom
Sprint Perk: Flash - Your speeds will not cause the normal physical damage to your equipment, body, or surroundings
Stasis Perk: Multi Cast - Can now target multiple targets
Stasis Perk: Spatial Cast - Can now target empty space or attacks
Stasis Perk: Mental Trap - Stasis now effects the target's perception of time as well
Stealth Perk: Awareness - Know when you are in visual range of someone
Stealth Perk: Quick Action - Time slows to a crawl and your speed increases by 100% temporarily for a few seconds after being detected
Stealth Perk: Solid Snake - When hiding in cardboard boxes stealth is increased tremendously
Strategy Perk: Father to your men - Increase loyalty of your troops according to their quality of life
Strategy Perk: Men of Honor - Your troops are disciplined and obedient, causing no issues within the ranks
Strategy Perk: Grand Admiral - All ships and crew under your command move under your one will with efficiency, orders are instantly transmitted and obeyed
Strategy Perk: Grand General - All troops under your command move under your one will with efficiency, orders are instantly transmitted and obeyed
Surgical Perk: Hands of God - Can now perform surgery on any organic lifeforms and understand them.
Surgical Perk: Clean Cut - Cuts made during operations are instantly healed once it is over
Surgical Perk: Perfect Donors - Any organ transplants do not suffer rejection
Tactics Perk: Squaddie - Increase unit's morale
Tactics Perk: Squadmate - Increase unit's stats
Tactics Perk: Squad Commander - Increase your units skills
Tactics Perk: Squad Captain - Increase your unit's loyalty
Tech Use (Imperial) Perk: Acolyte of Steel - All Imperial Equipment used are 200% more effective.
Tech Use (Imperial) Perk: Priest of Steel - All Imperial Equipment used are 300% more effective.
Tech Use (Imperial) Perk: Pope of Steel - All Imperial Equipment used are 500% more effective.
Tech Use (Imperial) Perk: Acolyte of Iron - All Imperial Equipment used are 200% more durable.
Tech Use (Imperial) Perk: Priest of Iron - All Imperial Equipment used are 300% more durable.
Tech Use (Imperial) Perk: Pope of Iron - All Imperial Equipment used are 500% more durable.
Technomancy Perk: Man of Steel - You are now able to integrate cybernetics into your body
Technomancy Perk: Old Future - You can now control non electronic technologies
Technomancy Perk: Remote Access - You can now remote control technologies
Technomancy Perk: Overclock - You can now increase the capabilities of technology by 500% at the cost of severe damage to the technology
Technomancy Perk: Xenotech - You can now control alien technology
Technomancy Perk: Herald of the Omnissiah - Gain blueprints of controlled technology and increase technology effectiveness by 1000%
Telekinesis Perk: Finesse - Gain greater control of TK based on Intelligence stat
Telekinesis Perk: Precise Control - Gain even greater control of TK based on Intelligence stat
Telekinesis Perk: Anti Anti TK - TK can now ignore 25% of force used to resist TK
Telekinesis Perk: Unseen Hand - Can now use TK on targets beyond physical sight such as scrying
Telekinesis Perk: Crushing Grip - Deal increased damage to heavily armored target based on degree of physical protection
Telepathy Perk: Encrypt - Increase resistance to being eavesdropped
Telepathy Perk: Hardening - Increase defense to being forcefully cut off by a third party
Telepathy Perk: Alert - Be informed if a unauthorized being is eavesdropping
Telepathy Perk: Hey! - Increase strength of telepathic signal when used for breaching anti telepathic defenses
Telepathy Perk: Listen! - Gain ability to cause damage to mind of opponent to stun them
Teleport Perk: No - Can punch through weak anti teleport measures
Teleport Perk: Chains - Can punch through stanrdard anti teleport measures
Teleport Perk: Hold - Can punch through strong anti teleport measures
Teleport Perk: Me - Can ignore most anti teleport measures
Thunderclap Perk: Shocking - Increase chance of stunning enemies
Thunderclap Perk: Back off - Increase chance of knockback
Thunderclap Perk: God Clap - Increase range of Thunderclap using equipment
Tracking Perk: Warp Hound - You can now track targets through the Warp as long as they have been Observed Before
True Sight Perk: See through optical illusions
True Sight Perk: See through denser material obstructions
True Sight Perk: See through technological illusions
True Sight Perk: See through psychic based illusions
Unarmed Combat Mastery Perk: Way of the Fist - Your unarmed physical attacks now passively deal mana based damage, allowing you to hit intangible beings and deal soul damage at will.
Warp Rift Perk: Nope! - You can now forcefully close warp rifts prematurely more easily
Warp Rift Perk: NOPE! - You can now distrupt warp rifts more easily
Willpower Perk: Iron Will - Your will has been hardened on the anvil of war, provides resistance to forced possessions.
Willpower Perk: Steel Will- Your will has been further hardened on the anvil of war, provides increased resistance to forced possessions. Your soul is immune to some lesser daemons. corruption attempts.
Willpower Perk: Plasteel Will - Your will has been further hardened on the anvil of war, provides increased resistance to forced possessions. Your soul is immune to all lesser daemons corruption attempts.
Willpower Perk: Adamantium Will - Your will has been further hardened on the anvil of war, provides increased resistance to forced possessions. Your soul is immune to some greater daemons corruption attempts.

Titles
Apprentice Ork Killer
Journeyman Ork Killer
Master Ork Killer
Apprentice Daemon Killer
Journeyman Daemon Killer
Master Daemon Killer
Grandmaster Daemon Killer
Shovel Knight
Spiral Warrior
Friend of All Orks
Enemy of Khorne
Enemy of Tzeentch
Enemy of Slannesh
Enemy of Nurgle
Living Saint
Herald of the Omnissiah
Demigod

 

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Inventory
Obsolete

 

[tri2]

Skills
Acrobatics**** Level 68: A technique to make use of users natural flexibility. Passively increases Dexterity and movement speed by 2588%
Acting Level*** 51: A skill that allows for the user to pretend to be something or someone they are not. Effectiveness increased by 11080%. Decreases by 10% for every level the enemy is higher than user.
Barrier**** Level 45: A skill that forms a energy shield around the user to protect against physical attacks. 50 MP cost with 1 MP per minute cost.
Barter* Level 24: A skill that allows for the trading of goods and services for more preferred prices. Increases haggling success chance by 148%
Berserker****** Level 69: A skill that unleashes the users inner violence. Increase attack speed by 267900%, increase damage by 53600%
Craft****** Level 84: A skill to make something. Humanity has advanced their civilization through inventing and creating things. Crafted objects become better as mastery levels rise. Chance of items crafted gaining special ability, trait, or function.
Charm* Level 43: A skill that indicates your ability to positively interact or persuade others.
Ciphers**** Level 23: A passive skill that allows for you to both create and break ciphers. Passively increases intelligence by 1868%
Cleaning*** Level 2: A passive skill that allows you to clean things faster. 6660% to cleaning speed.
Climb* Level 3: A passive skill that allows you to climb things faster. 530% to climbing speed.
Cooking Level 50: A skill to cook food. Humanity has advanced their taste buds through making meals. Cooked food become better as mastery levels rise.
Dancing**** Level 71: A skill that allows for the moving with the rhythm in a visually pleasing way. Increases charisma by 5272% while dancing and passively increases Dexterity by 2636%
Deceive* Level 3: A skill to lie and trick others. Increase chance of success by 1060%. Decreases by 10% for every level the enemy is higher than user.
Detect Bloodlust**** Level 34: Passive, a skill that allows the user to detect bloodlust directed at user within a range of 200KM and reveals location
Digging***** Level 32: A skill that allows you to dig faster. 20620% to digging speed.
Disguise**** Level 61: A skill to look like something or someone else. Increase chance of success by 24,760%. Decreases by 10% for every level the enemy is higher than user.
Demolition*** Level 77: A skill that allows the user to use explosives with familiarity and skill. Increases explosive damage by 6655% Increase chance of defusing explosives by 1391%.
Driving Level 75: A skill that allows for the driving of various vehicles with familiarity and skill. Increases vehicle speed and maneuverability by 385%
Eavesdrop* Level 1: A skill that allows the user to listen in on the conversations of others from a distance. Increases listening distance by 306m
Faith Mastery***** Level 42: A skill that governs the generation, reception, and transmission of Faith based energies as well as the ability to effectively use them. Higher levels increase the amount and quality of energies that can be channeled and the effectiveness of other skills that use Faith energies.
Gamer's Body Level Max: Grants a body that allows for the user to live the real world like a game. Sleeping in a bed restores HP, MP and all status effects.
Gamer's Mind Level Max: Allows the user to calmly and logically think things through. Allows peaceful state of mind. Immunity to psychological status effects.
Hacking**** Level 42: The ability of the user to break into digital systems. Increase ability to recognize digital weaknesses and paths.
Heal***** Level 89: A spell to restore the targets health. Restores 4800 HP. Cost 40 MP per cast. Can now cast on multiple targets at once.
Holy Aura**** Level 53: The user radiates a field of golden energy that pushes back, harms, and weakens those considered morally Evil while increasing the morale of those within and purifying them of corruption. Costs 1 MP per second.
Holy Empowerment**** Level 53: Imbuing energies Anathema to those classified as morally Evil by user to enhance their equipment. Increases equipment capability proportional to amount of empowerment. Increases effectiveness against Evil by 1124%. Costs 1 MP per second.
Interrogation Level 50: The skill to get answers from someone, one way or another. Increase effectiveness by 50%
Intimidate**** Level 51: The ability to terrorize others.
Jump Level* 46: A skill to allow the user to jump higher than before! Passively boosts jumping height by 1920% while actively boosting jumping height by 19200%. 1 MP per jump.
Language (Demonic) Level Max: The skill to allow the user to speak and write in the language of Warp Daemons, fluent understanding.
Language (High Gothic) Level Max: The skill to allow the user to speak and write in the Imperium of Man's High Gothic, fluent understanding.
Language (Low Gothic) Level Max: The skill to allow the user to speak and write in the Imperium of Man's Low Gothic, fluent understanding.
Language (Orks) Level Max: The skill to allow the user to speak and write in the Ork's language, fluent understanding.
Language (Techna Lingua) Level Max: The skill to allow the user to speak and write in the Adeptus Mechanicus' language, fluent understanding.
Language (Sign Language) Level Max: The skill to allow the user to 'speak' sign language, fluent understanding.
Light Foot Level Max: A technique in which to walk or run silently. Passively decreases walking noise by 100% and running noise by 50%.
Lip Reading Level Max: A skill that allows for the user to figure out what sound a being with a mouth is making via it's movements.
Medicine Level*** 76: The ability to recognized and treat wounds, injuries, and diseases. Increase speed and effectiveness by 6540%
Meditate Level*** 52: Enter a state of calm thoughtlessness and recover mana more quickly, increase mana regeneration rate by 5016%
Melee Weapon Mastery***** Level 23: A skill that allows the user to use melee weapons with familiarity and skill. Increases melee weapon damage by 19180% Increase melee weapon speed by 3836%.
Might of Heroes**** Level 22: A spell that grants the target greatly enhanced strength, speed, and durability.
Mind Rip Level 1: A spell that allows the user to mentally drain the knowledge from a target. Higher level allows for targeted draining without harming the target.
Mind Shield***** Level 56: A spell that grants the user increased mental defenses from mental effects and attacks. Mental attacks are reflected to deal reduced damage to the caster. MP cost of 100 MP per second
Navigation Level Max: Grants the ability to navigate when travelling and to plot faster and safer courses using known data.
Null Zone*** Level 24: A spell that strips the target of all mystical protections. Higher levels allowing for the spell to work on stronger spells.
Observe***** Level 44: Through continuous observation, a skill to observe objects, situations, and persons was generated allowing the user to quickly gather information. The higher the skill, the greater the data obtained.
Pain Tolerance***** Level 69: Increases the tolerance to the pain of the user. User can now tolerate 53080% more pain.
Parkour Level* 3: A skill that allows the user to rapidly negotiate obstacles, increases ability to detect and create fastest path through terrain by 330% and boosts Dexterity by 530% when used to travel on created path.
Physical Resistance***** Level 65: The body's durability increases, allowing for less damage taken. 75% reduction in damage taken by physical damage. 75% reduction from armor piercing damage. 75% reduction from heat damage. 75% reduction from electrical damage. 75% reduction from radiation damage.
Piloting Level 75: A skill that allows for the piloting of various aircraft and spacecraft with familiarity and skill. Increases air/spacecraft speed and maneuverability by 385%
Poison Resistance*** Level 33: The body's ability to fight off poison and disease.75% reduction from poison damage. 75% reduction from disease damage. 75% reduction from parasitic damage.
Power Strike**** Level 44: Strikes the target with a strong force. 33060% increase in critical damage. 110200% increase in attack damage. 1 MP per strike.
Programming**** Level 67: The ability to create and design programs. Increases speed of creation by 25720% and effectiveness of created programs by 12935%
Psyker Mastery**** Level 46: Mastery over the Immaterium and the use of it's energies. Increase Psyker powers by 2572% Decreases chance of Warp perils by 90% Increase Warp resistance by 75% Decrease intensity of Warp backlash by 46%
Ranged Weapon Mastery***** Level 12: A skill that allows the user to use ranged weapons with familiarity and accuracy. Increases range weapon damage by 34840%
Repair***** Level 71: Allows the user to repair any item provided they have sufficient skill, parts, and/or resources. Reduces resources required by 75% Increase effectiveness of items repaired 75% for 1 hour, does not stack. Increase durability of items repaired by 75% temporarily does not stack Increase value of items repaired by 75%. 7.1% chance of item gaining special trait.
Rip* Level 1: A skill that rips apart an enemy or an object using a strong force. Increases tearing force by 3000%. 1 MP per rip.
Salvage** Level 35: Through a continuous action a skill that allows for the reclamation of more useful materials from recycled objects. 95% increase in materials gained. 75% chance of uncommon materials gained. 35% chance of rare materials gained
Sense Danger*** Level 12: A natural instinct to detecting danger. Higher level means the user can detect the danger earlier.
Singing***** Level 68: The ability to sing well and in tune. Higher levels increases singing quality. Improves voice. Improves effectiveness of all skills that utilize voice.
Smite***** Level 35: Shoot a stream of psychic warp lightning at the target to blast your foes apart. Attack power increases by INT and Mastery. Cost 1 MP Can now target multiple targets at once. Damage attack increase ratio improved.
Sprint**** Level 1: Increase the speed the user is able to run at the cost of 1 MP per second, increase user speed by 1000000%.
Stasis*** Level 33: A spell that immobilizes the target in space and prevents damage. 500 MP cost per target. Higher level allows for stasis to work on stronger targets.
Stealth*** Level 47: A technique to allow the user to move unnoticed. Increases stealth ability by 3578% Allows for increase in critical chance when attacking from stealth. Increase sneak attack damage.
Strategy**** Level 22: The ability to make plans that span large areas and to react to battlefield changes. Passively increases Intelligence and Wisdom by 211%
Surgical*** Level 1: A skill that allows for the user to perform various forms of surgery efficiently and effectively. Increases surgery speed by 1600% and boosts healing effect by 310%
Swim Level 50: Your ability to move through and underwater. Increase swimming speed by 250%
Tactics**** Level 22: The ability to make plans that span small areas and to react to sudden changes. Passively increases Intelligence and Wisdom by 211%
Tech Use****** (Imperial) Level 65: A skill that lets the user to use, create, and examine the technology of Imperials.
Technomancy****** Level 69: The ability of the user to interface and communicate with machines with their soul. Increases affinity with all machines by 254872%. 1 MP per second. Increase capabilities of machines controlled.
Telekinesis***** Level 57: The ability to move objects with your mind. 50 MP cost per item manipulated. Higher levels increase the amount objects manipulated and the amount of strength exerted on said objects.
Telepathy***** Level 45: The ability to speak mentally to other people across distances. 50 MP cost per person connected, Higher skill level determines range and ability to forcefully connect to target.
Teleport**** Level 11: A spell to instantly transport the user across vast distances. 1000 MP per cast with mana cost multiplying per person or person sized container. Can now teleport to anywhere within line of sight or have previously been.
Thunderclap*** Level 44: A skill that allows for the user to magnify the strength of their clap to the point that it creates a sonic shockwave attack that both damages and stuns those in the surrounding area. 30 MP cost
Tracking* Level 1: A skill that allows for the user to track targets across great distances. Increase tracking range by 11000 meters.
True Sight**** Level 82: Allows for the user to see past illusions and lies. 100 MP per second. Higher levels grant greater vision and ability to see through stronger illusions.
Unarmed Combat Mastery* Level 1: Allows the user to fight skillfully unarmed. 510% increase in attack damage while unarmed. 102% increase in attack speed while unarmed.
Warp Rift** Level 15: A spell to open a stable or unstable portal between the materium and the immaterium. Higher levels granting greater control over all aspects of the portal.
Willpower**** Level 49: Through great mental adversity the user has persevered. Increases the user's focus by 10242%, reduce chance of forcefully breaking focus by 5885%

Crafting Recipes
Almost everything Human made

 

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Relationships
Inquisition: Aware
-Inquisitor Horst: Searching, Aware, Interested, Wary
Adeptus Mechanicus: Searching, Aware, Hostile
Emperor: Watching, Tired, Cautiously Hopeful
CHAOS: Searching, Hostile, Terrified, Angry
????? ?? ???????: Searching, Hostile, Terrified
Gork and Mork: Excited! WAAAGGGHHHH!!!

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Truck-kun has a dad?



Does he have a grand-dad?

 

[tri2]

Truck-kun has a dad?



Does he have a grand-dad?

Truck-Kun Jr has a dad as far as you know.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Truck-Kun Jr has a dad as far as you know.

Hope to see him

Say, I haven’t read The Gamer but any chance there’ll be Fallout-Skills?

Like having a silvertongue to convince a warlord from attacking or being able to jury rig new weapons from scrap?

 

[Emperor Tippy]

So what gaming system are you using, and what are you basing it on?

 

[tri2]

Hope to see him

Say, I haven’t read The Gamer but any chance there’ll be Fallout-Skills?

Like having a silvertongue to convince a warlord from attacking or being able to jury rig new weapons from scrap?

So what gaming system are you using, and what are you basing it on?

Based on the original Korean comic except with some things removed due to different setting and from me 'fixing' some things which just did not make sense to me.

 

[tri2]

I sat on the ledge of the alleyway entrance as I just stared at the city in front, below, and above me.

Go-wait no I shouldn't use that word anymore might call down the wrong sort of attention. Mmhmm.

Dammit all. Yes, that was better. Dammit all to hell of all the places Truck-Kun Jr to mistakenly drop me into did it HAVE to be 40K?

'So, what to do?' I sighed while looking up at the sky above as it was turning a lovely shade of purple as the sun set behind the skyscrapers in the distance, outlining them in a brilliant shade of golden orange.

I get up and started pacing back and forth mumbling to myself out loud as I tried to think of a plan for surviving this Hell hole and what my goal was to be.

"First off main goal is to not die or get caught by the Four, second do not die because of Tyranids, Necrons, Orks, or Dark Eldar. Tau and Eldar are debatable as I might be spared by the two. Second either find someway to revive the Emperor so I can leverage for a favor to hide in the imperial Palace where I would be protected by the layers of heavy defenses or find a planet that will be devoured by the Tyranids and wait till it is consumed before following in the wake to reterraform the planet and live out the rest of my life there."

"Of course that is dependent on what time period I landed in, getting a ship, getting enough supplies to do all that, figuring out a place with no more Nids passing through, and the big one living long enough to reach it. Actually speaking of that, do I even age anymore? Will I ever die of old age? I mean my body is a game character's now and game characters do not really age or die of old age. Well a few gamer characters like the Fable series did allow for aging, but even then not death by old age...."

I stop pacing as a shock fills my body "Am I technically immortal now? I have no real way to test it so I guess I should just assume I am not. If after two decades pass and I am still looking young then I guess that would prove I am immortal...and then I would need to cover my face to avoid being exposed as a immortal. The Inquisition would defiantly not let me go if they heard about me, unless I can get rich enough to have the excuse of using extensive rejuvenation treatments to stay young and then using body doubles to act as my kids until I replace them myself."

"But that would mean actually getting wealthy and powerful, but that would put me on the Inquisitions net. Sigh."

"Ok, before I get even more side tracked what other options do I have? Imperial Guard? Hah! Inquisition? Blam! Space Marines? Am too old and the surgery would hurt like hell." I said shivering at the memories of the space marine creation lore video's description of the surgeries needed to be a space marine.

"Right anything else? Agriworld farmer? Maybe, but no defenses and any working guy with a set address is at risk of the Inquisition and any corrupt nobles of arbites.....wait a minute, can I even speak the language on this planet? Shit!" I start freaking out as I would no doubt draw attention when I could not understand a word people are saying or respond to them. Hell the arbites might just kill me if I can't properly respond to their orders.

Fuck! This meant I can't stay inside proper society till I learned how to speak Low Gothic or whatever variant local language is on this planet. How was I going to do that? I mean with the system I could probably learn it from skill books if I could find it but I had no money or ability to break into shops and one wrong move will have me hunted down by the whole city so that is a no go.

'Be a beggar and eavesdrop till I learn the language? Maybe, but my clothes though...' I thought to myself as I looked down at my nice hoodie and pants, those would make me stand out among the beggars and get me jumped by them and sneered at by the normal people no doubt.

I spoke with resignation "I guess....I guess this means I need to go to the underhive and fight for resources and strength. For all of my goals I am going to need enough strength to defend myself or at least strong enough to run away. Best case scenario would be if I could somehow be a Rogue Trader, but that would be very unlikely. Sigh."

I raised my hand in front of my face before making a fist with it. "Yeah, I definitely need strength, I need more stats, more skills, and gear." I look back into the alleyway I dropped in and noticed that there still was no sign of anyone exiting any of the alleyway doors or even any signs of beggars and I could not hear anyone or anything besides the background noise of the city and hymns.

What part of the city was I in? I looked closer at the alleyway that I was in, specifically at the buildings. They were whitewashed two to three story rectangular buildings all going down a straight line with a curve at the end. There were no windows all along the way as far as I could see and the doors were metal with a small groove on the side. I walk up to the door and took a closer look, it should be a door handle.

I try opening the door but it did not even budge a bit, I could not even shake it. Were all the doors here like that? I try several more doors and even put my ears on some, but I couldn't hear anything. Soundproofing?

I remembered the dumpster I landed on and ran back towards the dumpster.

Ding! Skill Gained! All future notifications will be minimized to be reviewed at User's request!

Oh nice. A quick look showed me I gained the sprint skill which would use up 3 MP/Sec but boost my speed by 10%. I reached the dumpster and immediately opened it up bracing myself for the expected stench of rot and trash. To my surprise however nothing came up and quickly looking down I saw nothing. The whole thing was empty and clean like it was never used before.

Was I in some kind of prop city? Like something a noble would make for fun with his money? Was there even a way out?

I started sprinting down the alleyway, running at full speed for 33 seconds before being forced to jog as I could no longer sprint as my mana bar had apparently depleted even though I exhibited no symptoms of fatigue.

As I walked I looked down at my hands, I didn't feel tired at all and I was not even sweating despite sprinting for half a minute in a hoodie. I really was a game character now wasn't I?

Did I need to eat? Drink? Poop? Pee? Hell do I even need to sleep anymore? Or were all those things just things I could do to satisfy the psychological habit of being a normal human?

I was going to have to test all those things out as I might not even be able to do any of those things if I wanted to if I could not buy or rob what I need.

I ran and ran and ran. I just kept running, then jogging then running again. I went left, I went right, I traveled in a loop, then through twists and turns again.

The alleyway was a mess, the directions made no sense. Who the hell made this kind of alleyway? Why were there no exits!

Ding!

At least I was gaining stat points and skill levels as I could hear them occasionally dinging in my mind. I could sprint increasingly longer after each one. In fact I even started trying to run silently which gave me the light foot skill which reduced my running noise and I had gained the sprint skill earlier during my run to the dumpster. Now I alternated between sprint boosted running and jogging my way down this twisted passage.

The sun was down now and the alleyway was dark. I could barely see anything and had to stop for a while, luckily there was light from the rising moons a few hours later that lit up the alleyway for me to continue moving.

At least I could now confirm, I had no human needs anymore. No fatigue, no hunger, no thirst, no need to relieve myself, no sense of mental tiredness from lack of sleep. Though that last one will have to wait till tomorrow night to be sure.

I kept running and jogging and running and jogging. Endless walls of white buildings passed by me as I got faster and faster, going longer and longer.

As the sun finally rose again I stopped.

Not because I was tired, no, but because I reached the end.

And I was pissed.

In front of me was a fucking white wall building like everything else! IT WAS A DAMN DEAD END!

I ran for what must have been at least 12 hours to get here and there was nothing!

"Damn it!" I yelled throwing a punch at the featureless wall of white, feeling a flash of pain before it disappeared and my HP bar dropping a point.

I just snapped as the rest of the night roared in my mind of the mindless endless walls and my situation coming back to me. Stuck in 40K universe, separated from my family, my mom, my dad, my little sister, my grandparents, everyone.

I snapped and roared as I just kept throwing punches at the white wall in front of me as I vented out all my frustration and fear into it.

Point after point dropped and more dings could be heard, but I ignored it all and just kept punching a red of haze in front of my eyes.

Finally I just suddenly felt tired and stopped. I slumped to my knees looking down at the ground before closing my eyes, tears falling lungs heaving with unneeded air.

Damn it why me. What shitty luck I must have to get something any nerd would want and still have it go so wrong.

As suddenly as my rage hit my current emotional status went 180 and I was calm again, my breathing evening out as I lifted my glasses and wiped my eyes,

I looked up at the wall and saw that I had left patches of blood all over its pristine white surface and looked at the corner of my vision where my HP bar was.

There flashing in red was the bar with the numbers 7/100 underneath it. I broke into a mad laugh.

I had almost literally killed myself on a wall. HahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHA!!

My mad laughter again suddenly cut off as the hysteria left me like a switch was flipped. So I guess the Gamer's Mind counted Hysteria as one of the effects it countered. Why didn't it snap me from my rage then?

Looking through the notifications list on the lower right corner of my vision I saw that I had gained a bunch of skills, one of which was Berserker. Well that explained it then, it did not remove self skill inflicted statuses.

I shakily get back onto my feet and look up at the wall around me. Guess I had to climb out of hear, but there was nothing to climb.

The walls were too smooth and the dumpster that lined the place occasionally were not tall enough to boost me as all the buildings were at least 2 stories.

I would either need to make something to grapple up the sides or jump. The first is out of the question as I lacked the materials and I was not destroying my clothes for rope. So guess I would have to as in the words of a certain time travelling samurai 'Jump Gud' and learn fast.

That last part made me stop however, why DID I have to leave fast? I mean this place was perfect for grinding wasn't it? Empty of people and from what I can tell surveillance, isolated, self contained, plenty of space, I did not need supplies. I could grind as much as I wanted here without fear of being discovered. Hell not a single aircraft was seen in the skies above this place when I was running the whole night.

How should I grind?

Remembering all the previous gamer fics I remembered before I got an idea. I just had to combine everything into one routine to train everything at once.

I had to jog for constitution points, sprint for sprint skill, jump for the skill to get out, twirl for dexterity hopefully, maybe do a few jump skill boosted flips, try to silently run, do math problems in my head for intelligence with increasing complexity and....what? I could not train luck or wisdom as I did not know how or lacked the materials for it, but what about strength?

I look through the notifications again and noticed that I had also gained a passive skill, physical resistance, unarmed fighting, and pain tolerance. That gave me an idea, a stupid one, but I was safe enough to do it here.

I would punch the walls to level up my strength, physical resistance, unarmed fighting, and pain tolerance till my HP was almost gone, then go jogging and sprinting till my HP was back up to full again then repeat it all over again.

If it wasn't for the fact that the pain very quickly disappeared, which did kind of make me wonder why a pain tolerance skill was even made, I would not even consider punching a wall multiple times let alone once. That was mad!

But well, I guess I was in a mad mad world now wasn't I?

I took one look back at the bloody dead end behind me and began grinding, sprinting and twirling down the damn long ass alleyway like a demented ballerina.

Hopefully the planet is not attacked or something while I am here, or worse someone actually sees me grinding.

Please?

 

[Blasterbot]

on the pro gacha side it adds an element of randomness and ideally you roll IRL to determine rarity of what you get out of it and can choose how to implement it in the story. something common could be a useful material for crafting or basic equipment that is still valuable. like basic sturdy cloths that are setting appropriate, a knife or autogun, or a consumable that heals or gives a set amount of XP to a skill. something uncommon might be good equipment actual armor, common military grade weapon, or a consumable that is a small XP booster giving a set amount of XP to your character. rare could be something like a plasma pistol or hot shot las or other specialist weapon, maybe carapace armor, and a larger XP item for either skills or your character. SR could be unique DAOT gear that is comparable to high end space marine gear but requires no augments. skill books could also be included but be sure to tier how good the skill is with how good the roll is. on a percentile SR is 100, R 95+, U 70+, C everything else. no refunds no guarantees on what you get.

 

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I finally stopped as I reached the end of the alleyway again for the fortieth time today making another mark on the bloody wall as the sunset. 21 marks. Three weeks, that was how long I had been training in this long ass alleyway. Three long weeks isolated from people alone with my thoughts and grinding. Taking a few deep breaths to calm myself doing a post exercise ritual of stretches even as they are not needed, letting the wind that occasionally flowed caress my naked body. I had inventoried my clothes and glasses after I started noticing my shoes becoming a bit worn out from the constant running, wanting to preserve my clothes for when I have to be in public with people, and that my glasses didn't actually do anything for me anymore. Plus running barefoot let me train my pain tolerance against the concrete ground. I take a look at the gains I made over the past 3 weeks of nigh constant training.

"Notifications summary" I said reading the screen that popped up summarizing the gains I had made since I started my training.

Notifications Summary Levels Gained: 5 Stat Gains: +25 Strength +33 Constitution +64 Dexterity +76 Intelligence +2 Wisdom +1 Luck Gained Skills: Sprint Level 63 Berserk Level 1 Unarmed Combat Mastery Level 23 Pain Tolerance Level 21 Parkour Level 9 Physical Resistance Level 21 Jump Level 48 Light Foot Level 36 Acrobatics Level 43 Observe Level 6 Power Strike Level 1 Meditate Level 11 Rip Level 18 Craft Level 8 Willpower Level 16 Perks Gained Deep Well - Gain double the increase to MP from each Intelligence point. Cat's Grace - Always land on your feet, keep your balance easily, and reduce fall damage.

Suffice to say I had made quite a lot of progress towards both my skills and stats. The never ending running, jumping, flips, and sadomasochism against the closest wall rapidly leveled up my related skills and stats till they started slowing down past level 15. Then it was just a matter of quantity and perseverance to just keep pushing despite the boredom and common sense in my head telling me how stupid I was to hurt myself like this. That last part was what gave me the Willpower skill which let me focus on a task and not lose the Will to continue a action, perfect for long term isolated grinding. I did take the occasional break to try some new things like meditation which restored my mana, but honestly my Sprint skill's increasing mana efficiency combined with my rapidly increasing intelligence, from just doing successively massive amounts of ridiculously large brute force calculations which gave me more mana, made it inefficient time wise to grind.

I did get to practice some crafting and observation once my combat skills and strength started getting hard enough to break pieces off of the walls which I used to craft crude stone tools. I was not strong enough to rip the lids off the dumpsters yet to make some metal tools, but I was getting there. In fact I gained two new perks from reach the 50 threshold for my intelligence and dexterity stats. Other than that I few lucky moments where I managed to avoid going over the alleyway entrance ledge gave me a luck point and I apparently had a daily quest that gave me 500 experience points for doing enough exercise routines every morning. It was great as the increase in levels increased both my health and mana and restored them instantly when I leveled up, allowing me to increase my grinding efficiency. However, the list of skills should have been higher, I tried out various special moves like the Rokushiki from One Piece only to either get not notifications or a notification stating that my stats were not high enough to acquire certain skills. I even tried to use mana to create the classic mana bolt spell, but failed as I simply could not feel the mana that was suppose to be inside me according to my MP bar. I tried to feel the energy that was supposedly speeding me up during the Sprint skill, but I could not feel anything. The MC's of so many comics and fanfics lied to me, it was not easy at all!

I also tried to create a ID create and of course failed as I could not gather any energy in my hands and because I remembered something very important about Instant Dungeons. I remembered that the MC's green hair'd martial arts friend explaining about how to get in and out of ID spaces. One of the things he said was that Gaia would help them make the spaces. So even if I could gather energy in my hand to release it, would it even make a ID space since I was not on Earth and Gaia might not be real here or would I end up calling a warp entity instead? It never did make sense to me why creating a entire physical illusionary reality would cost no MP to make or any detailed knowledge or training. Just up goes your hand and there you go.

While meditating I debated whether or not to try to gain psyker powers since as a Gamer I should be safe from corruption since I had the Gamer's Mind skill. In the end however, I was just too afraid to walk down that path, I mean look at the strongest psykers in the galaxy like the Emperor and Magnus and all those weaker than them? One is crippled, another is a demon, and the others are either basically on Execution watch by Imperials or at constant risk of being possessed by demons who want to eat your soul. Hell no to that life even if it does seem to grant immense power if the wiki descriptions of beta and alpha level psykers are true. If I had a chance it would probably better for me to become a Blank somehow, or stick strictly to mana only powers as those are not warp based. That little session of thinking actually got me the two Wisdom stat points so I guess I was on the right track?

"Character Sheet" I said as my sheet appeared in front of me. showing me the fruits of my labor.

Character Sheet NAME: [UNDECIDED] OCCUPATION: THE GAMER RACE: HUMAN LEVEL: 6 NEXT LEVEL: 67.18% HP: 680 HP REGEN: 9.52 HP PER MINUTE MP: 1970 MP REGEN: 19.7 MP PER MINUTE STRENGTH: 35 CONSTITUTION: 43 DEXTERITY: 74 INTELLIGENCE: 86 WISDOM: 12 LUCK: 11 STAT POINTS: 25 MONEY: 0

I felt a lot better now with almost 7 times more life than I started with and presumably my dexterity and Sprint combined with Acrobatic should let me dodge most things that weren't las guns...which just happened to be the most common weapon in the Imperium. Sigh. At least I could confidently say I could leave this alleyway at anytime now. My Jump skill passively increased my max jump height by 10% per level with a active boost of 100% per level so now my jump height passively was boosted by 480% while active would bring it to 4,800% which equated to 2.9 ft and 25 ft respectively which was amazing considering I could only jump at most 6 inches before from just standing. I could now reach the top of some of the smaller buildings now and pull myself over, I took a quick look before and all I saw were more of the same houses and alleyways, but no people. I was seriously confused as why was there the equivalent of an entire city's worth of infrastructure left unused yet still be clean with no sign of staff? If it was not for the fact that the end of the alleyway showed a thriving city with ships flying about, I would have thought I was on some xenos or dead world. Which did bring the question to mind of WHY was there no aircraft space or otherwise above this false city?

I lightly hopped on my feet seemingly floating on air as I silently moved from side to side rapidly as a nervous tick that I developed while training even while resting.

Breath in, Breath out. In. Out.

Feel the wind. Be calm.

Feel-wait, somethings wrong. The wind is different today. I was intimately familiar with the smell, strength, and frequency of the wind that flowed down this alleyway, what with being awake 24/7 and being able to remember a lot more due to having higher intelligence stats. The wind carried a stronger smell of something like gasoline, likely promethium, and was choppy like something was interfering with it. Was something flying in the alleyway?

Thinking of people actually being here made me pale as I had left obvious signs of my presence what with the numerous cracked walls and blood all over them up and down the alleyway. No doubt they were going to investigate this area and call for more people.

I had to run! No! Wait, I had to spy on them, maybe I could learn something from them. No! No that is dumb, if they can get here that means they have a flier that means they could just run me down if they chased me. The other path would be to kill them to prevent that, but that would only be required if they discovered me. I was not willing to kill another human being just to satisfy my curiosity, I was not some kind of monster or beast dammit!

Clutching my shaking fists I sighed and quickly put back on my clothes and proceeded to finally leave, before a thought came to me, how was I going to leave this city? From what I recall the sides of the city were a straight drop like a cliff, and I could not be sure the other end of this city of alleyways would be different. Gah! What should I do?

DING!

QUEST CREATED! ESCAPE THE GLORY OF ALKAZERE! A UNKNOWN HAS INTRUDED INTO YOUR TRAINING ALLEYWAY FOR UNKNOWN REASONS. DECIDE THEIR FATE! GOAL: LEAVE OR DEAL WITH THE UNKNOWN REWARD: LEAVE THE GLORY OF ALKAZERE, GAIN ACCESS TO THE WIDER WORLD, 1000 EXP, HIDDEN REWARD PENALTY: STILL IN THE CITY, DISCOVERED BY LOCALS, BE A CRIMINAL, DEATH ACCEPT OR DENY

Well, guess that answers my question. What the hell was a Alkazere though?

I click the Accept button and prepared myself. Breath in and out. I was ready. First I needed the high ground. I activated the Jump skill and using a nearby dumpster leaped onto the top of the closest second story building and then leaping on top of the next door third story building. Another thing I noticed as I ascended was that none of the buildings here had windows, only metal doors. Were they in fact storehouses? Using Observe on them never revealed what was inside so I was left in the dark. Ignoring that train of thought I proceeded to Sprint and Jump my way silently across the rooftops towards the edge of the alleyway. The time required reduced massively as I moved in a straight line instead of following all the twists and turns of the alleyway.

In less than an hour I was within sight of the edge of the city and I could hear something. A kind of thrumming sound like that of a propeller spinning at high speeds, but I did not see any fliers. Laying down on top of a roof I looked carefully over the side and waited. I saw what it was in less minute it was a large propeller powered hovercraft with balloon like cushions on the side like one of those Earth water hovercrafts, big enough to carry four people. There were all wearing the same kind of uniform, gaudy bright blue and gold with a lot of tassels and I could see that they were armed with a pistol and a saber. A nobleman's house guard perhaps? The vehicle was large, almost like a tank with a symbol on the front a sword crossing a gear. Mechanicus aligned perhaps?

As the vehicle passed by me I noticed something, the back of the hovercraft was wide, hidden by the fan on the back, and the air cushions made a good place to perch on, I could possibly hang and hide in the back there when they left. I just had to make sure I was not detected by these people as they got back to wherever they were coming from so I could leave the craft at somewhere along the way back. Maybe I could land on a roof of another of the buildings on the city?

Well it was either this, run away, or knock out/kill the guys, which would end up pretty badly for them as I would most likely have to destroy any communication devices they had, but even then I don't know how to pilot that thing. So guess hitchhiking it is then.

DING! STEALTH SKILL GAINED! EAVESDROPPING SKILL GAINED!

Oh, nice. I focus my ears on trying to hear the people on the hovecraft even I followed behind them stealthily. a few buildings behind, making sure to follow them just out of sight using the buildings for cover. Eventually they stopped at the end of the alleyway and get out. I laid flat on my stomach and watched them from afar yet still within hearing range. They were visibly distressed and afraid, though none seemed to say anything, bravado and position jockeying perhaps? They started speaking to each other in a language I could not recognize and examined all the dried blood prints and smashed cracked walls, luckily I did not leave hand prints when I smashed those walls, just blotches of blood.

I could hear increasingly frantic and fearful whispering with the most fanciful among them barking a order at them most likely to shut up and ordered the one who piloted to most likely leave. The vehicle slowly rotated around after the three got back in and I slowly circled around to the back of the hovercraft and silently dropped down behind the noisy vehicle and carefully climbed slowly onto the rotating vehicle careful to not suddenly disturb the vehicle by placing my weight too quickly on one side and pulled myself completely behind the fan section, and proceeded to grip hard. So here I was now grabbing the sides of a hover crafts fan frame, sitting on a cushion, and waiting for the vehicle to finally take off. Which it did with haste as the floor underneath me rushed past my feet which was only a half feet off the ground. I tried not to grunt as the hovercraft made the twists and turns to exit the alleyway and had to contain as fearful gasp as I saw the floor disappear beneath me and the city far below stretching forever.

The hovercraft tilted as it accelerated downward, causing myself to force myself down lest I float upwards and be revealed to anyone looking at the back of the hovercraft compared to having to look closely. Gripping the cushion as best I could with one leg I swung the other so I could maneuver myself so that I could look under the cushion so I could see how high we were as we moved. We were still pretty high up but I could see us heading towards a pair of high towers that were close together and would pass just above them. I practiced a bit and my high dexterity stat and Acrobatics skill would actually let me jump in between walls like those old Megaman games, so I guess this would be a good a place as any to drop off. Plus I could see heavy foot traffic at the bottom of the towers so I should be able to avoid most detection and hide in the crowd upon landing.

I rapidly did some calculations based on the height of those towers and my own abilities and calculated the optimum landing site that should let me avoid the attention of any looking around or looking out the window. Plan formulated I waited for the hovercraft to enter the optimum position, a couple minute passes and I let go, dropping down, leg still hooked to the cushion and rotated. Upside down now before I fully leave the hover craft I give a light kick off the bottom of the air cushion, just enough to give me enough horizontal velocity to make it to the side of the nearest tower.

Seconds passed as the air rushed past my face, Gamer's Mind keeping my terror in check, right as I am about to hit the side of the building I tuck and roll with the building before contorting my leg to allow for me to kick off the side towards the other tower. Soon I was kicking my way down from tower to tower going faster and faster till I was a blur to most people, unnoticed or dismissed as a figment of their imagination.

With one last kick I land in what looked like ANOTHER alleyway except this one much more dirty! I quickly thought and readied my body and it was ready! Just as I was about to hit the ground I kicked off the ground at a angle to deflect the velocity into rotational energy, leaving me spinning rapidly in the air like a top before I twisted again to land on my feet, sweeping my hands and feet around int a circle to absorb and direct the leftover kinetic energy into punches that I sent into the air, causing small air distortions to form for a split second and leaving my whole body sore but clean. Ow. At least it only lasted a bit till Gamer's Body removed the pain.

I stretched my legs and rotated my arms around to make sure everything was fine, which they were due to the skill, but force of habit and all that.

DING! QUEST COMPLETED! MAP FUNCTION UNLOCKED! 1000 EXP GAINED! HIDDEN REWARD ACQUIRED! GACHA SYSTEM UNLOCKED! YOU MAY NOW GAIN GACHA TICKETS IN PLACE OF QUEST REWARDS! HIGHER DIFFICULTY QUESTS WILL OFFER HIGHER TIER GACHA TICKETS! WARNING! ONCE A GACHA TICKET REWARD HAS BEEN CHOSEN ALL OTHER REWARDS WILL BE LOCKED OUT!

'Sigh, great now I even had a gacha system mechanic too' I thought closing the screen mentally while brushing the dust off my sleeves and tucking at my clothes to make sure they look presentable I proceeded to walk towards the moving crowds at one of the end of the alleyway.

Time to actually begin living in this mad galaxy.

AN: Man figuring out Gamer skill and stat gains suck. Anyways EARLY CHAPTER UPDATE! REJOICE!

Spoiler: Rolls

Target 90
Week 1 1d100 = 4
Week 2 1d100+5 = 40
Week 3 1d100+10 = 98
3rd week discovered
Severity = 52 + 20 = 72

 

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7:23 Aye to nays so a mod of -16 to roll
rolled a 1d100 and got 73 - 16 = 57 so gacha wins

Quest rewards will now include a optional Gacha ticket reward in place of one or more of the rewards offered. The greater the difficulty of the quest completed the higher the tier of the ticket offered.

Low
Mid
High
Rare
Unique
Legendary

 

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As I walked and seamlessly integrated with the stream of Humanity I was bombarded with a stream of information. After being completely alone for 3 weeks I seem to have somehow forgotten just how loud, active, and smelly the environment could be. The footsteps and conversations of thousands washed over me, signs of all kinds advertised their wares to people that seem to have come from all over the place. I could see a man wearing a turban talking to a man looking like a actual medieval knight, while across the street was a dour faced bucket head wearing arbites with a hand on a shock maul watching the crowd stoically. The people all around me were wearing clothing in a vast variety of style, color, and extravagance in some cases which made me inadvertently think of the pink god with a shiver. There were also a bunch of people with cybernetics, and given that I came from modern day Earth I wasn't ashamed to admit I may have stared at them in both fascination and disgust, carefully hidden of course, when I first saw them. To actually have technology implanted into your body with surgery sent shivers down my spine. A lot of them were either wearing red, most likely Adeptus Mechanicus affiliated, or were dressed like fancy nobles with guards in tow, well dressed like nobles in comparison to the rest of the crowd who kept out of their way anyways.

I was certainly in some form of market district, likely one that caters to off world travelers considering the vast contrasting styles of the people in the area. This was great as it made me stand out less, even better was the fact that my eavesdropping skill was earning its keep as it rapidly leveled up as I walked by dozens of stores with people haggling in a variety of languages. This was a nigh ideal place for me to grind a lot of skills such as eavesdropping, stealth, observe, and learning various language skills.

DING!

Though the nigh constant dings from my system was a bit annoying. I gotta say though, no one really ever mentions just how weird it is to just suddenly KNOW things. Like for instance in between language levels I suddenly realized I could curse in 3 different languages in like 12 different ways when I had no idea the second before. It was a bit jarring but I found it helped to just ignore it and just not focus on it at all and let is kind of work like muscle memory after trying out a few innocent phrases like 'I wonder where' or 'Hmmm, that looks useful.'

I just kept walking through the district which was huge. I walked for a good 4 hours and have to reach the end of this market. I did seem to notice that the place is subtly curving though, was this market spanning and entire outer ring of the hive city? Looking up at marveling at the hive spire that went past the clouds I suppose it could very well be. Though it being a long walk was another good thing for me as that meant that anyone I did pass by will no doubt have forgotten me by the time I walk all the way around again preventing any suspicions about a frequently seen man walking by their store buying nothing.

Needless to say with the vast variety available to me, my Observe skill rapidly leveled up to the point that I could get some useful information from it. I looked at random worker #421 and mentally thought/activated 'OBSERVE'

NAME: TOC TIC OCCUPATION: GENDER: MALE JOB: LABORER TITLE: NONE LEVEL: 25 NEXT LEVEL: 23.02% AGE: 25 RACE: HUMAN ATTRIBUTE: NONE STRENGTH: 17 CONSTITUTION: 15 DEXTERITY: 10 INTELLIGENCE: 7 WISDOM: 7 LUCK: 3 STATUS: EXHAUSTED EMOTION: JADED, LISTLESS BACKGROUND: TOC WAS BORN IN THE HIVE CITY OF GOLGOTHA PRIME TO A PAIR OF LOVING PARENTS. TRAGICALLY HE LOST HIS PARENTS TO A ARBITES RAID WHEN THEIR BULLETS PENETRATED THE WALLS AND KILLED HIS PARENTS AS COLLATERAL DAMAGE. HE HAS GROWN UP ALONE AND MAKES A LIVING WORKING AS A MANUAL LABORER TO ANYONE WILLING TO HIRE A PAIR OF HANDS. HE WORKS LONG SHIFTS DOING WORK OTHERS WILL NOT IN ORDER TO MAKE ENOUGH TO SURVIVE THE WEEK AS HE MOVES FROM DISTRICT TO DISTRICT TO AVOID BOTH GANGS AND ARBITES LOOKING FOR WEAK MEAT. NOW HE CURRENTLY WORKS AS A MOVER, LOADING AND UNLOADING GOODS TRANSPORTED TO HIS BOSS' STORE. CURRENTLY ON BREAK.

So far from what I can tell the base stats for normal full grown humans range from 10-20, with those born gifted or trained having stats in the range of 20-30, while those who are both gifted and trained having stats ranging from 30-40. That is of course not taking into account augments and equipment or any other special circumstances which could raise or decrease stats. Like with the guy I examined he most likely didn't have a chance to be educated or have a choice on what he could do or figure a way out of his situation which explained his low intelligence and wisdom stat while his whole life could be summed up by that luck stat. Lastly, their levels seem to correlate with their age, on average people will have a level equal to their age with the people worse off having lower levels while those healthy and strong being of higher levels even if their stats didn't truly accurately reflect what they could do. All of this followed a chain of logic that made sense to me as only I was under the Gamer system where my physics was overwritten to follow video game logic. This meant while I could use the information from observe as a general indicator of the capabilities and threats of other people, I couldn't treat it as gospel, as Humans are always full of surprises.

I kept on walking, making sure to always stay moving with the largest stream of people away from buildings or transport systems. Listening, walking, OBSERVING. As I walked I occasionally took a few breaks hanging out on the wall whenever I saw a shop with something interesting. I cast observe on all of their goods which ranged from anything from food to vehicles, giving me a good standard on which to compare other things down the line to make sure I wasn't being ripped off when I finally had money to buy stuff. Also, some shops had security systems which let me know just what exactly I had to watch out for in terms of surveillance. The cameras reminded me of CCTVs and some even had skulls with red lights in their sockets watching the customers, creepy.

Taking another break on a empty stretch of wall I decided to enter the HELP Menu to see what else I could do with the Gamer System.

'HELP MENU' I thought to myself

I entered the HELP MENU, which gave me access to a list of commands I could use to access the additional functions.

Character Sheet
Inventory
Skills
Relationships
Map
Party
Options
Gacha

I was quite happy to see that the Party function was included as that meant I could possibly train up a squad of space marine level companions if I ever found any that I could actually trust.....which meant that I probably was never going to use that function considering Chaos, psykers, and the Inquisition being a thing. Fuck.

Meanwhile, the map function was much more currently useful as it recorded everything with a 30m radius of me leaving a clear indication of where I had been and what I had passed as it also recorded the name of the stores I passed next to easily identifiable icons. It even had a toggle-able icon legend letting me pick and choose what I could see with a search bar at the top in case I was looking for somewhere specific.

Other than that the Option menu only had a few things in it, mainly sound, notifications, and surprisingly enough Hotkey controls. Seems I could create a custom hotkey, either a gesture, command, or a combination of both to use a skill or spell or even a chain of them. That would be very useful once I had more skills or spells to use as it meant I could rapid fire things one after another without thinking. I could probably do all of Overlord's buffing scene in less than a second. If I went down the wizard route anyway, gotta make sure that doesn't open me up to the Warp.

The sound option funny enough was to control the level of background music and whether or not I had subtitles. Both of them were set to default off and I didn't bother to change them as they would just be a distraction. The background music option had a list of recorded background music from areas I passed through, so at least I would have some sort of entertainment if I ever had to take a long trip or do a stakeout.

The notification option though that had more than just setting how the notifications would act both in and out of combat, it also included how I would control the other functions, mainly if they would be thought, voice, or touch based. I immediately set them all to be thought controlled as I couldn't ever guarantee I would be able to be speak or move should I ever needed to use my system.

I quickly checked through the other functions to see the changes to my stats, skills, and empty Gacha ticket indicator, ignoring the question marked relationships as I lacked the information to figure them out besides just keeping an eye out, before pushing off the wall and continuing my walk in the ocean of Humanity.

For hours I casually walked, witnessing everything from slaves to nobles or noble servants moving around purchasing goods and moving items. I eventually got a notification that I maxed out in LOW GOTHIC, and several other planetary languages. That was going to be very helpful in the future no doubt about that. I also kept an eye out for more alleyways especially those near guards as those should have less criminal elements inhabiting them hopefully.

During my long ass walk I came up with a plan. I needed to acquire some gear, which meant I needed to either make some money or make it myself. My crafting skill was pitiful right now as I lacked sufficient quality materials to make items to level it up quickly. However, my inventory held the solution. It had a recycling function.

I could recycle items in my inventory into raw resources and base components to be used to craft other things though at a last of like 33% if I judged the mass of rocks I recycled from my failed stone daggers right.

The one thing you can count on from a city is that it will generate huge amounts of wastes. All of those wastes could be collected and recycled easily by me. I just had to find out where all those wastes were going and intercept them before they end up in the Underhive where the scavengers and gangers would fight over them. The only reason no one at this level would actually scavenge from here is the guards, and they are not prepared to watch out for someone of my skill level. After all if someone is on this level already they do not need to scavenge for some scrap. It's like expecting a guard watching out for gangers to try to detect a space marine scout infiltrator. Just way out of expectation.

That meant I could circumvent the security forces nearby and access the guarded alleyways and collect the trash. I had already marked several alleyways connected to shops that would most likely have to throw out some inventory or other things and marked alleyways near them that weren't guarded or had guards that needed to patrol multiple areas, leaving it temporarily unguarded.

I resolved to do that after doing the same to every area on my walk, until I either made a full circle, or I reach the point where I could go no further.

That came up a lot sooner than I expected as a couple hours later I looked up a large gothic structure that reminded me distinctly of a train station. Looking inside that looked exactly what it was and more. I could hear various transports leaving and see people entering and exiting large and small elevators. So this was most likely a transport hub to other districts and down the various lower levels.

Turning around I began walking back to the alleyways I marked, in a few more hours it would be around for me about 3-4 AM so most people should be either tired or unobservant from long shifts and there would be less lighting present in the alleyways, though there was not much to begin with anyways.

Reaching the closest unguarded alleyway I entered silently and scanned for any signs of surveillance equipment. The alleyway was dirty and smelly and devoid of people. Perfect. I leaned against the wall and looked back out at the slightly smaller mass of moving people. So many people even at this time of the night. Geez.

After making sure that no one was paying attention to me I looked around the alleyway to make sure there was no one inside and if there was nothing for me to collect. Nope nothing.

Looking up I see that I would need to make 3-4 jumps off the walls to reach the top, I begin heading deeper into the alleyways so no wandering eye would catch my blatantly inhuman feat and raise a fuss.

I soon reached a T junction and looking down the side alleys they also revealed to be absolutely devoid of people and cameras, perfect.

I bent down and JUMP at the wall across from me, then proceeded to kick off the wall to propel myself further upwards and kicked off again and again before landing on the roof of the building. Silently crouching low, listening, in case there was anyone on the roof or someone spotted me below and raised a alarm. A few moments passed before I relaxed and proceeded to scan the rooftops of the other buildings nearby, seeing nothing except various rooftop cooling equipment and towers.

Seeing the coast was clear I began running and roof jumping towards my target alley, easily clearing the space in between buildings like a bird. I quickly reached the marked alleyway and poked my head over the edge of the roof to scan the alleyway. It was a lot cleaner that the one I entered from and the guard at the other end was facing outwards. The other end of the alleyway was devoid of people as well. Even better was that there was a dumpster and from the looks of the partly opened lid, it was full.

Ugh, damn, now for the hard part, actually grabbing and touching the filthy, smelly ass trash. Taking one quick look again at the guard I proceeded to drop over the edge, landing on my feet silently next to the dumpster. I crouched down behind it and opened up my inventory, making sure that it was parallel to the floor so I could easily just drop items in and behind the dumpster so the light from putting in items would not alert the guard. I also stored away my jacket and shirt to keep them clean. I then held my breath (wait do I even need to breath anymore?) and silently lifted the lid hoping that the damn thing was not rusty and squeaky.

Luckily it was not.

DING!

Not now system!

Looking inside I could see a bunch of bags with bugs crawling over them. Steeling myself I quickly grabbed the bags and dumped them into my inventory as fast as possible, ignoring the disgust building up within me. I quickly cleared out most of the trash leaving the ones without bags and looked like they were not worth recycling enough to be touched and leapt towards the roof again.

I proceeded to repeat this twenty more times before calling it a night as the sun began to rise and hid inside a cluster of rooftop equipment which had surprisingly a lot of space.

I looked down in disgust at my arms as they were filthy and I had no real way to clean them. I rubbed them against the roof of the building to scrape as much of the filth as I could but even then it left a of stains on me. *Shudder*

Time to see if the fruits of my labor, opening up the inventory I began using the system to open up the bags of trash which instantly got sorted and added by the inventory system without needing me to take them out and put it back in manually. Nice.

Soon enough I had few pages full of damaged or destroyed materials and began sorting things out between recycle or keep as some items were worth keeping if I could repair them. I found a lamp, a case of a half dozen crumpled field rations, a few chits which were recognized as the system as valid local currency, a couple las packs, a chipped knife, what looked like a intact lasgun except it was actually just a toy model, a actual functioning if slightly scuffed las pistol, seemed like it was accidentally discarded given that it still had a half charged pack, and a few serviceable local style shirts and pants. The best things however were five dataslates that were still functional despite some damage to their casing and screens, even better was the notification that popped up when I touched the last one.

DING! DATASLATE FOR THE SKILL TECH USE (IMPERIAL) DETECTED! WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN THIS SKILL? YES/NO

Jackpot!

AN: Summary of skill/item gains will be provided next chapter. Enjoy people! Likes and Feedbacks Please!

Spoiler: Dumpster Diving Rolls

( 25 + 14 + 10 )

( 23 + 54 + 37 )

( 79 + 16 + 39 )

( 49 + 26 + 70 )

( 50 + 70 + 53 )

( 66 + 1 + 83 )

( 18 + 96 + 58 )

( 4 + 25 + 24 )

( 61 + 60 + 23 )

( 89 + 10 + 52 )

( 6 + 19 + 25 )

( 7 + 72 + 64 )

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[tri2]

As the last of the trash is recycled and I finish going through my training regiemen for the daily quest exp I take a look at my gains.

"Notifications summary" I thought, reading the screen that popped up summarizing the gains I had gained since I left that fake city thing, I found it to be quiet decent for about 12 hours worth of grinding. Eavesdropping and Stealth skills really got advanced from being in a large crowd,

Gained Stats +2 Wisdom +1 Luck Gained Skills Craft Level 1 Eavesdrop Level 20 Language: High Gothic Level 1 Language: Low Gothic Level Max (All future local planetary dialects shall be included for ease of writing) Light Foot Level 3 Observe Level 15 Repair Level 1 Salvage Level 3 Stealth Level 20 Tech Use (Imperial) Level 1 Gained Items Damaged electrical lantern 6 field rations model lasgun laspistol 3 las charge packs Chipped knife 4 Dataslates Two sets of damaged Golgothan style outfits 7 Credits 6 units of rare earth metals 78 units of common metals 52 units of plastics 37 units of cloth

Seems like salvaging items gave me both Crafting and Repairing skill exp so that just gave me even more reason to go dumpster diving.

I look at the language skills I gained, particularly the maxed out Low Gothic skill before taking a look at the dataslates. I wonder if there was anything useful in there? Like if the basic info on this planet or events going on, or even what time it was. Depending on where and when exactly I ended up, things could either turn out ok or I should start blowing my brains out with the laspistol right now.

Taking a breath, wait, I took a breath, I really should see if I need to breath and this is a good as time as any. Taking a deep breath I take out the four dataslates and proceeded to....turn them on. I am ashamed to say that even with the Tech Use skill it took me more than a couple minutes to figure out how to turn them on. Stupid backwards advanced future tech.

Then I had to spend a couple more minutes on figuring out how to actually navigate the damn things. You would think the future equivalent of a digital book reader would be simple to use, but nope, it's actually a bit more complicated then I expected.

At least the date was easy to find as it was clearly labeled on the top right corner of the local equivalent of a digital newspaper. That's right seemed the 4 dataslates I acquired were just newspapers. Seems I was in M41 941 which did not really help me much considering I never really did take the time to remember the years of specific events. So this gave me no real clue what was going to happen in the near future except for the fact that I would be facing Tyranids at some point and that Cadia would fall with Guilliman reviving.

However, the thing that really got my attention was the headline on the latest newspaper edition. In bold text were the words

'MASSIVE BOUNTY OF 10 MILLION THRONES PLACED ON ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE DEFILER OF HIS ROYAL GOVERNOR'S 'THE GLORY OF ALKAZERE!''

Reading through the article I felt a headache starting to form. It seems that the empty 'city' I was in was not a city at all, but was instead a giant fucking vanity project the governor built that was meant to be seen from space. The whole damn city would form a image of the governor in a suitably heroic pose that was highly detailed when looked at from orbit by all those arriving. It seemed that a anonymous report of a weird noise was reported coming from the art installation and a team of the governor's own guard went to search, and found a trail of destruction and blood all across one of the many 'lines' that made up the piece of art.

The governor was understandably furious at what he perceived to be an attack on himself and ordered for a massive manhunt for the rebel heretic that dare destroy his beautiful artwork and use it for a no doubt heretical ritual with all that blood so the local Ecclesiarchy was also up in arms and going on a witch hunt. Joy. Even worse was that things like this attracted any nearby Inquisitors of the Ordos Malleus and Hereticus who most likely have psykers in tow to assist them. I really do not want to try to tangle with them or seeing how my Gamer System would interact with their powers as the interaction might mean it would be easier to track me or not. Better not to take the chance, plus I still don't know if my System is stronger than the Warp and the beings within and I really did not want to take the chance with that particular test.

So that means I needed a place to hide and a background that would not draw attention. No way was I going to hide in the underhive, because while there was no doubt it would be very easy to hide in their, it would also have a very high chance of me fighting gangers, mutants, and worse in there as a fact of life. Fights that could potentially attract attention if I keep winning, and no way was I going to just keep running and let myself get hunted by even more people. So that meant staying here in the middle hive cause the upper hive would no doubt be covered in surveillance and guards normally, not to mention now of all times.

I needed a place out of sight and out of mind that no one would really look. I mean I look young and normal so I had that advantage going for me. I just needed a position of utter normality something to distance me from the idea of a alleyway breaker and bleeder. Something so pathetic and worthless that there was no possible way it could be me. I looked through the areas recorded on my map at the various shops I had passed before stopping on one. It was a restaurant, restaurants were pretty common from what I could see, and every restaurant needed dishwashers. There was easily over a dozen restaurants and surely one of them would be willing to hire a kid willing to work for cheap. The job would also have the benefit of keeping me out of sight in the back and let me build up social skills with my fellow coworkers, multiple birds, one stone.

First however, I needed to get clean. I looked down at myself and curled up my nose at the filth. I haven't showered in weeks, only the fact that I did not really seem to sweat anymore kept me from smelling worse than I was now. So first get clean, then go job hunting. Looking at the map again I marked the closest restroom icon and proceeded to sneak my way off the building, through the crowd, and into the restroom with all the speed and stealth I could muster.

Looking around inside I did not really see anyone, and it did not really look any different than a regular restroom you would find on Earth, though it lacked mirrors, proper lighting, looked a little dirty, and the materials were different but the basics were still the same.

Heading over to the sink I turned on the tap and inspected the water for anything strange before finding nothing and proceeding to first clean my arms of the dumpster gunk. As I was washing my hand I had a idea, could I store water in my inventory without a container? Opening up the inventory screen I placed it in a sink next to me and turned on the tap, watching as the water did disappear into the screen without issue, yes! Now I had a large supply of water if I ever needed it even if I did not actually get thirsty anymore. At least I could now shower or bath anywhere I wanted. As I watched the water from the sink flow into the inventory screen I suddenly had an idea. Could I enlarge the screen?

Looking around the restroom and finding no one, I keep one ear on the entrance and proceed to grip the edge of the inventory screen and pull it while willing the rest of the box to stay still.

My eyes widen in happiness as I see the screen stretch across the rest of the sinks and I proceeded to turn on the rest of the sinks. smiling as all of them dumped their water into my inventory. Yes! This opened up new possibilities for me as it meant that I could also store items larger than I thought was possible.

'I'm going to need to test this out later' I thought to myself as I turned off the sinks and closed my inventory and proceeded to leave the restroom, entering the dark alleyways again. I proceeded to experiment a little more and made myself a makeshift shower by crafting a bathtub out of some plastic and filling it up repeatedly with water. The crafting system was strange. I did not need the recipe to make certain items as it seemed to unlock once my skill is high enough, but items that were at or under my skill level that I discovered were not included in my unlocked recipe list. So to clarify my Craft skill unlocked more recipes as it leveled up, but there are also other recipes not included that I either have to find or make myself before it is recorded. Also, the really strange part of the crafting system is that when I click on the craft button to make the recipe it takes no time, it literally takes less than a second for my hands to blur into motion and the item to appear. I remembered the actions I took, but they make no sense, like the fact that I smashed a bunch of plastics together which proceeded to melt and meld together into a solid piece and my hands then proceeded to instantly shape them into a proper bathtub of uniform thickness.

It was a a bit frightening as I basically had no control for that split second, but amazing as well since it meant I could very quickly make whatever I needed as long as I had enough resources in my inventory, though looking through the recipes showed that some of them did have prerequisites such as tools or equipment which made sense.

Noting down those discoveries for later I went ahead and gave myself a really violent bath as I basically scrubbed off the entire top layer of my skin, making use of my Gamer's Body to basically regenerate a clean new layer of skin. Next was fixing up the clothes I found in the trash as the crafting system had a repair option as, just that some mental math revealed that repairing a item would cost more in materials than jsut simply making a new one, but I did not have the recipe for the current outfits. I was going to need to need to find some way to gain the recipes of items I had like some sort of reverse engineer option. Man, the possibilities of that if I could gain recipes for power armor and power weapons. *Drools*

Wiping the drool away I take a quick look at myself in my repaired clothes and thought I looked good enough.

Time to job hunt.

It actually did not take me that long actually surprisingly enough. I ended up as a dishwasher for a pretty busy restaurant called the Little Golgotha for a particularly successful fat man by the name of Josef Titon, seems that his cleaning servitor broke down so he needed a new hire to take its place. The pay wasn't that good and I had to pull double duty as a janitor and dishwasher, which made me gag in private later on behalf of the people eating, luckily I would keep clean for them. At least I had a Cleaning skill now to make things bearable as it let me finish my work a lot faster, giving me some free time. 12 hour work shift, but that was only from dawn to dusk, so good for me as that kept me out of the day time traffic and searchers, leaving me the night to roam and prowl about to do what I want. Another plus side at least is that I can chat with my fellow dishwashers and waiters that come and go as they appreciate someone willing to lighten their load and keep it a secret.

The biggest benefit of this? I had an alibi for my existence in the middle hive as a worker for the restaurant and could claim to be an orphan from a now defunct orphanage that went under a few years ago that I obtained the information on from a particularly chatty old man who could not stop talking. I also now had a source of income with no expenses. No food, water, or even rent. After using my first payday to purchase a bunch of really cheap damage blank data-slates I immediately headed towards the local equivalent of a library that was open 24 hours for some reason and sat down at a cogitator. My time in the restaurant was paying dividends as interacting with various electronics in the kitchen gave me several more levels of Tech Use (Imperial) which let me actually figure out how to use the cogitators. It was both familiar and strange as the clunky brown box was both extremely advanced yet archaic at the same time and smelled heavily of incense and oil. I could even see some non augmented or slightly augmented people in red robes wandering around.

I accessed the world's version of the internet and proceeded to spend the rest of the time searching and saving various how to equivalent videos and instruction manuals for a wide variety of subjects. I made sure to set them up for experiments to see how the Gamer System interacted with various states of data-slates.

1. One data-slate filled with the theory on how to cook
2. One data-slate filled with how to videos for woodworking
3. One data-slate filled with written instructions on how to mine
4. Four data-slates with a combination of 1 & 2, 2 & 3, 1 & 3, and all of the above for different skills each

All of the other data-slates were filled with both 2 and 3 as the data could be easily transmitted from pad to slate to slate so it was not that big of a deal to move them around once I finished testing the 7 test slates to see what would be the best use of them.

Walking out of library I get out of sight of the tech adepts and find a trashcan with a lid on it, open a inventory inside of the can then drop the stack of data-slates into the can and close the lid before the light could be seen then closed the inventory before leaving for my rooftop home.

As I made sure I am properly hidden by the machines once more I take out the data-slates and begin absorbing the test slates one by one and recording their effects.

1. No prompt to learn skill as expected.
2. Gained skill at level 1, multiple levels gained if more videos are absorbed either all in one slate or multiple, but only of the content is different than what I had absorbed before.
3. Same as 2
4.1 Same amount of level gain as 2 and 3 theory seems to add nothing
4.2 Same amount of level gain as if adding 2 and 3
4.3 Same as 4.1
4.4 Same as 4.2

So in essence theory is worthless to me, and gains from both video and literature are essentially the same as long as the content is new to me. Another thing is that while data-slates with more advanced techniques require me to have a prerequisite in skill level before I can learn it, if I have sufficient lower level content along with it it will allow me to learn it, as the lower level content will level my perquisite skill to either at or higher than the minimum requirements. Also, as long as there is new content in the data-slate then even if there is mostly old one then the whole slate will be consumed, so that means I could just download everything into one slate and absorb it all together instead of absorbing multiple data-slates with me having to only remove any advanced skills I have yet to reach the skill level for or have insufficient skill materials to feed the perquisite skills.

Feeling very happy about the results of my research I quickly transfer everything into a single data-slate and begin removing everything that kept me from just outright eating it, placing them into their own individual data-slates for later. Once all of those were removed I clicked accept and winced a bit at the sheer amount of knowledge that now crowded my head. Ok, maybe there is a good reason not to put everything into one sitting. Ouch.

I massaged my head and for one in over 3 weeks I decided to take a nap hoping my migraine would be gone by the time I woke up. Hopefully, that sleeping in bed removing status effect thing was still a actual thing here.

I crafted a crude bed using cloth and plastic and laid down, closing my eyes and letting myself drift off to sleep.

DING!

My eyes snapped open at a screen that popped up in front of me

YOU HAVE AWOKEN RESTED! HP AND MP ARE RESTORED BY 100% STATUS EFFECTS ARE REMOVED!

Oh hey it worked, and I wasn't attacked last night, even better! I take a look at my System's clock and found that I still an hour before it was time for me to go to work so I started planning. What I needed to do is lay low and get stronger. I could rapidly gain strength without having to train by just simply eating more skill books or skill data-slates to be exact. I however could not just simply download everything from the internet in one sitting nor could I download the stuff that I want for like things like combat without seeming suspicious. So that meant I needed patsies. People willing to do the work for me. My recycling efforts have netted me some rare metals which would be trade-able for a decent amount of credits that I could hire people with, plus I could craft stuff eventually to trade with.

However, first I needed to know who I could hire and if I could trust them, and then I needed a disguise.

So while working I spent one train of thought on my work and chatting away with my coworkers and another of my plan to enter the criminal side of the hive city. I would need to level up my Persuasion, Intimidation, and Observe skills as those would let me control others better and to prevent any backstabs. Plus it would let me actually locate those willing to do work for money on the side. If I really needed to, I could also work as a info broker and smuggler thanks to the Observe skill giving me more info as it levels up, and my inventory letting me sneak entire shipments around unseen. Speaking of which.

I turn to look at my bed, it was a simple 6' x 4', much bigger than the inventory screen, but as I now know I could enlarge and move the screen. So the question is could I just 'scoop' up the bed or does it only work for things I can carry or move?

I stretch out the inventory screen and proceed to move it along the ground to be the bed it just stopped at it, unable to move forward. I took hold of one side of the bed and easily lifted the whole thing off the ground and willed the inventory screen to move forward and watched as it swallowed up the bed.

Well that is good, I can move the inventory screen mentally, but I cannot enlarge it mentally, and it can accept anything as long as I can carry it. Wait what about taking it back out? I immediately close and open up the inventory again seeing that it returned to its default 1.5' x 1' sized box. I tried to take out the bed and it immediately stretched to 4' wide and the bed could come out, putting it back in kept the size the same. Guess there was just one more thing to test, something I didn't dare test before due to lack of materials.

Is the inventory screen visible to other people?


"Hello, can you take just a quick moment of your time?" A man heard a young voice calling out behind him, turning around he saw a young man with glasses and messy but clean hair holding a piece of paper.

"Look kid frak off, I ain't interested in whatever you are selling." He said gruffly, he just got off a long patrol shift and just wanted to get a drink and relax.

"Oh, I am not selling anything, I just wanted to ask you if you could read to me what it says here, my father was very excited last night when he saw it but he didn't tell me what it was before he left the house and now I am trying to find him. I'll even give you these credit chits, it's all that I have." The young man said holding out a fistful of chits. Damn is the kid a idiot, who can't read in the middle hive? Fine whatever, you could use some more drinking money.

The man takes the data-slate from the guy and looks down at the slate, finding it to be a cheap news-slate, it was just the headline about that vandal that messed up the governor's damn money sink and the reason why you had to do the long patrol shifts now. You felt irritated at being reminded of that and toss the slate back at the young man and grab the chits from his hand.

"It's just that stupid news article about the Governor's bounty on the idiot who messed up his property, your dad is probably out their being like all those other idiots trying to find the information to cash in for the bounty. Go home kid and stop wasting your time." He grunted out, with his last words being a bit sympathetic, the kid's dad was most likely going to end up dead when he tangled with the wrong sort of people also looking for that information for that cash. Putting that thought out of mind he stomped into the crowd leaving the kid behind, never seeing the smile that grew on his face like it was Emperor's Day.


I looked at the back of the man leaving with a smile on my face as I looked down at the data-slate in my hands, the data-slate with the inventory screen layered over it. I man had to touch through it to turn the screen on and he did not even notice it. This was glorious news as that opened up a lot more options for using my inventory in public.

Now I could properly plan now that I had knowledge of all my options and tools. First, I gotta get to work, and dashed through the crowd towards the restaurant, gotta keep up my alibi and grind my skills.

*Half A Year Later*

I quickly washed the dishes in the tray in front of me, now long used to the toil and instant cleanliness I could impart to the dishes and other such filth, when I suddenly heard my name called.

"Hey Noman! Go throw out the trash!" The voice of the restaurant owner Josef called out even as he berated the cooks who were preparing the main courses for a special RSVP event tonight.

I had been working hear for 6 months now and the owner has gotten pretty used to having me around and didn't both paying to fix the broken servitor I replaced as I did more work than it and for cheaper too.

While he was not a bad boss per say he really could have stood to pay me a little more and yell a little bit less. If only he knew who exactly he was yelling at. I had made a name for myself as a thief by the name of tri2. Someone that many in the underground wanted found due to the massive bounty placed on my head by the Adeptus Mechanicus for the theft of their data archives and by others for thefts of various miscellaneous items and books. Though to be fair other than the data archive theft the other thefts were not even done by me and more by the people I hired instead. No point in putting myself personally at risk after all when there were people greedy enough to do it for you. That wasn't to say I couldn't have done it myself, I did not slack off in my own personal training a single day the past 6 months.

The night after the discovery that my inventory screen was invisible I immediately took off to find the closest mass waste disposal site and snuck into the facility. The place was not really guarded other than a few automated surveillance which was never really designed to detect superhuman infiltrators. I mean what augmented person would even care about literal crap? I did.

I made full use of my strength and extendable inventory screen to quite literally scoop and lift entire chunks of the waste mountains composed of compressed trash blocks into my inventory. It actually took me significantly more time to sort and recycle it all than to collect the literal hundreds of metric tons of trash. While that very very rarely lead me to acquiring any repairable items, it did however net me metric tons of raw materials, both common and rare. I was not even talking about just rare earth metals but as in rare materials such as plasteel, diamantine, and even slivers of adamantium on rare occasion. In short, it allowed me to have a very sizable and stable source of income to support my more illegal activities.

I spent more than a month grinding away my social skills, gathering trash, training my Tech Use skill, increasing my intelligence, and most importantly of all creating and raising my Hacking skill. Now just why would I need hacking skills? One word. Blueprints.

Every manufactorum in this hive as well as all of their products were either made with a STC blueprint design or had their designs stored in the local Adeptus Mechanicus temple data archive with no hard copies except in the hand of the business owners which would be those in the upper spire. That meant if I wanted to gain access to useful blueprints for things like weapons and armors I would need to loot it from the archive as every Mechanicus temple was connected together on a wireless network. A fact that I brought from what I am pretty much sure was a heretek that was looking for additional funding for his own secret projects.

It took me another two weeks before I was actually ready to hack into the temple and even then it required outside assistance. The reason for the week was because I had to track down and hire the services of dozens of underground hackers, data miners, and hitmen. Now I wasn't go to kill anyone, I strive to make sure no one died in anything I did. I wasn't ready to become a murderer, despite the legality of my actions. I had a operation timed for the end of the week so that every single one of them would be, as they were paid in advance, operating in sync to distract the tech priests. First the hitmen would cause alarms to be raised at various manufactorums that require the presence of tech priests to appear to troubleshoot the problem before non lethally neutralizing them or just occupying them. Shortly afterwards the hackers and data miners would essentially hit several vital system with DDOS attacks and work not to successfully break in, but to divert as much resources towards stopping their intrusion. Meanwhile, I would be using a personally designed rig to subtly infiltrating the network using access codes and security procedures provided to me by the same heretek, with a promise to share all data gained with him which I agreed to.

Of course I made sure the rig was no where near the market district where I was based and that I had a escape route planned.

On the day the operation started it was a total nightmare for the hive city. Digitally at least, on the surface nothing was really happening, no alarms were going off, no fires, no explosions, no outpouring of guards or skitarri. It was a completely different in the digital realm. Viruses crashed against vaccine programs, brute force hacking juggernaut systems tunneled through firewalls only to be met with superior processing powers and programming of dedicated tech priest neural wafers. Infiltration attempts by dozens of throwaway rigs sending out billions of differently generated access attempts were denied and back tracked through various relays that quickly self destructed along with the rigs as they were compromised.

In the thick of it all my months of grinding my intelligence, money, and Hacking skill paid off. I was an equal to any normal mentally augmented tech priest with my intelligence and equipment, but with their own access codes and procedures I could easily predict and circumvent their logical security and bypass their defenses undetected given all the chaff I had prepared.

The plan all hinged on just how long the hackers and data miners could keep the tech priests occupied, which would not be long. Now to steal the entire data archive would most likely fail because of one simple fact, data transfer speeds. There was only so much data a single port could handle without giving anything away. So I did away with the secrecy once I reached the archive in digital space and unlocked its defenses. I sent an order for it to send parts of its data through every single output port to prepared temporary wireless networks and equipment crafted to handle vast instant data transmissions. Then, the networks would cut the connections to delay the trace and the data would proceed to be transferred in the same way again and again multiple times until they all reached a single hidden rig located within the edge of the underhive space, where a very special rig would forcefully eject its 2 custom made high capacity data-slate blocks. Said data blocks would then fall into a inventory screen opened right below it ahead of time a couple of days before the rig itself was built and delivered a week ago. Thus giving myself an alibi from even the flimsiest of time framing from the construction of the rig and my presence in that part of the hive using the elevator, especially with my short time there.

After that operation I laid low, like really low. No going out back to my previous roof home, no going out to raid dumpsters, no outside excursions at all. I immediately went to ground, and then below ground. I hid under the dumpster behind the restaurant where I literally ground away the ferrocrete from beneath the dumpster, with my bare hands to prevent any noise, to create hidden tunnel and a cave to hide in while I was not working. A good thing too as the Adeptus Mechanicus were PISSED, to say it lightly. For their holy relic to be actually broken into and raided, even if none of the data was actually lost, but still stolen, was a Heresy that could not be tolerated by any means. They must have pulled off a lot of favors as entire regiments of PDF, Imperial Guards, alongside skitarri and tech priests were doing pretty much door to door searches of every single damn area that had one of the rigs at the end of the relay network. My heart clenched at the news that several hundred people were either burned or taken away by the Ad Mech for further questioning as I was not sure if that was because they actually found something criminal about them or if the people were just going to suffer for no reason.

Even the market district was searched and that was on purpose with a middle relay network on a random rooftop as it would have been too suspicious for nothing to have been found in a single district. I spread the suspicion out everywhere to dilute the trail with the inventory trick at the end to cut the trail dead stop. I hoped that would have made them eventually stop searching after a month max, I underestimated the rage of the unfeeling machine cult.

Three months later and they were still searching the hive top to bottom like a Inquisitor seeing a cultists waving at him from a window.

That was not the worse part however, at the end of that third month a rumor was going around the underworld grape vine, with said rumor only even reaching me because the one giving the rumor to me had no idea I was tri2. Needless to say with the amount of heat I brought down upon the hive with the sheer size mechanical hornets nest kicked I was pretty much persona non grata with a majority of the criminal underbelly with only my own disguise and refusal to share any information or have a fixed location saving me from them just outright selling me out. That and the fact that they don't any suspicion of having any connection to me reaching the Mechanicus.

The rumor was there was a Inquisitor on the planet. A rumor I believed with all my heart and soul. Why?

A quest had popped up then.

DING! QUEST CREATED! AN INQUISITOR OF THE ORDO MALLEUS HAS ARRIVED ON PLANET! HE SEARCHES FOR BOTH A SUSPECTED CULTIST AND FOR THE THIEF BRAZEN ENOUGH TO STEAL FROM THE ADEPTUS MECHANICUS. FOR WHAT REASON AN INQUISITOR WOULD SEARCH OUT A THIEF? WHO KNOWS, BUT IT IS PROBABLY NOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU. HE WILL NOT GIVE UP UNTIL HIS QUARRIES ARE FOUND AND ASSISTING HIM ARE HIS PERSONAL RETINUE GATHERED AND TRAINED OVER DECADES OF LONG SERVICE. A TEAM THAT EVEN A ROGUE TRADER WOULD BE HARD PRESSED TO OBTAIN. GOAL: ESCAPE OR DEFEAT THE INQUISITOR AND HIS RETINUE! REWARD: FREEDOM, +10 LEVELS, OR RARE TIER GACHA TICKET PENALTY: TORTURE, DEATH, ENSLAVEMENT, WORSE ACCEPT/DENY

Something I noted back then about my Gamer System was that unlike the original Gamer System it was based off of, it does not grant quests for everything. Only for important things related to my survival. So no easy quests for just washing dishes, but a quest for killing the enemy in front of me or completing a mission/operation.

So I became even more careful making sure to either be in the restaurant at all times or underneath the main street when it was busy, and when it was not, well I put my Willpower skill to the test as I used every last inch of my focus to empty my mind to make it as mentally dead as possible to try to have nothing for a psyker to detect. If that was even how he or she would detect me, or if the Gamer's Mind would shield me from detection or if I even had a 'soul' or presence in the warp to even detect. For all I knew I was as psychically attractive as a rock, but I could not take that chance.

Two and a half weeks later and I was still here, doing my routine, hiding in plain site and mundanity, and the Adeptus Mechanicus and Inquisitor were still searching the city. Worryingly so is the fact that the Inquisitor seemed to have tracked something I missed and was slowly investigating the districts that formed a straight line to the market district. He was on the scent somehow and I still had no idea how to escape without the Inquisitor finding out.

'Dammit, I didn't expect the situation to become this troublesome for so long' I thought to myself with a sigh as I grabbed the trash bags piled by the door to the back alleyway. I opened the doors and pretended to drag the bags out before closing the door and just dropping them into the dumpster.

Hearing a sound I look towards the entrance of the alleyway towards the main street and notice two large guys with clubs in their hands. Arbites. Why were they looking at me? I did nothing to raise suspicions did I?

I stayed still just watching them and they proceeded to walk towards me.

Should I stay still? Should I run into the restaurant?

No, that would bring attention to the restaurant and that might raise alarms with someone which could bring disaster to me and my workplace.

Besides I did nothing so there shouldn't be a problem. Maybe they are just here to shake me down for money? I could Act very well now and give them 'all that I have' routine and let them be on their merry way. Nothing to raise a fuss over.

So I kept still looking like a frightened rabbit as the men, and damn were they tall, towered over me.

"Hello-" Before I could even finish my greeting the feeling of the club smacking me in the face hard registered and my mind went into overdrive, bullet time kicking in with the adrenaline as I processed what just happened.

Millions of thoughts and plans went through my mind before a conclusion was reached.

'Play dead and listen' which I immediately did so letting my body go limp and hit the ground as if someone who was knocked out would, my head bouncing audibly from the hard ground.

The two men say nothing before one of them kicked me over hard. I remained limp and breathing shallowly.

"He's out, grab him." I feel large hands gripping me by the waist and tossed over the shoulder like a sack of potatoes and then carried away.

We were moving towards the main street, shit, I could not break free in public, why oh why didn't they just take me deeper into the alleyway to do whatever criminal act they were obviously planning to do?

The sound of the pedestrian traffic didn't even abate when we entered view and my Eavesdrop skill picked up some worrying things.

"Ah another one."

"Shit glad that wasn't me."

"Damn he's young"

"Isn't that the janitor?"

"Hope it's quick for him"

As I am tossed into what feels like a metal box filled with bodies, still pretending to be unconscious, I can hear them say a frightening thing. "Another one for the regiments to Armageddon."

I frightfully keep myself limp even as I wanted to break free from my captors and escape deeper into the hive to escape this fate.

I didn't however, because if I did I would be captured by the Inquisitor who was so tantalizingly close to my trail despite all my efforts. This recruitment was not planned, this was not going to be recorded, the background check would clear me due to my efforts to painstakingly create a false history, my fate would be unknown to all as no one would notice another grunt especially if he showed nothing special. The Warp itself would further hide me as the temporal irregularities from travel would further muddy up my destination.

This would let me lose the Inquisitor for good, being just one among billions, but I would be in the Imperial Guard.

Certain torture and/or death versus most probable death and torture.

I know what I would choose.

But I didn't want to choose either.

'It's not fair! It's not fair! It's not fair! It's not fair!' I ranted in my mind even as I made my choice and let myself get dragged away to join the countless billions fighting and dying in the void against the empty gaze of reality itself just so mankind could live even one more day.

It wasn't fair. With all my superhuman power and intellect I still ended up in a situation with no choice or control.

But that was the point wasn't it?

DING! QUEST COMPLETE! WISDOM +1 LUCK +1

Oh shut up.

AN: And my muse went into Overdrive today allowing me to gift you all with ANOTHER early chapter! REJOICE! Remember to like and critique everyone!

 

[tri2]

All Information Threadmarks have now been updated! Time to actually start the next chapter! *Throws Confetti then starts looking for the broom*

 

[tri2]

A electrical smack could be heard in the distance right before a voice roared down the dirty rusted metal cargo space.

"Shut up you scum! You are here to pay for your crimes against the Imperium and his Most Glorious God Emperor On Terra! Your wicked ways and actions have finally caught up to you! Every last one of you will fight and die in the God Emperor's name against the Enemies of Humanity in the 275th Golgotha Penal Legion! So stop your pathetic mewling and accept your fate and put on your uniforms! No one in this cage will get any food till you all shut up and suit up!" Another electrical zap from a electro whip could be heard again followed by cries of fear and pain.

I sat in a corner of the cage that the pressgangers of the ship tossed me into along with the other unfortunate souls captured. I had laid there on top of the pile of other unconscious victims in the transport cart until we were brought aboard the ship like livestock and the deep vibrations of the transport shuttle jostled others awake. I let myself get shifted around and 'woke up' shortly after, I had to twist a few opportunistic fingers but I got some space without losing anything. We were all then herded from the transport into lines where armored voidsmen clasped explosive collars on us and handed us a set of breathers and a cheap outfit that stank of chemicals before ushering us into cages. Those in my cage were dressed well to do with relatively clean and intact clothes so they were not from the under hive and most likely from the middle hive sections. That was strange as most conscription tend to happen among the lower hives due to the much larger abundance of people and lower lack of status. For them to take even people higher up in the hive either meant they really needed more numbers or the nobility were doing their screwed up games again and purging the populace of people they didn't like. Probably both.

I looked out among the rows and stacks of cages just like ours. From my vantage point I could count at least 12 cages in my row with 3 cages on top based on the fact that the ones across from us were stacked that high, that meant there were at least 2400 men. women, and children in this single aisle alone being transported to Armageddon. Estimating, I guess there to be at least 10 such rows for 12,000 future slave soldiers in this single cargo bay alone. So it was not unlikely to assume there were probably over a hundred thousand conscripts on this ship that were captured and shipped off.

I ignored the mass of frightened Humanity around me as I mentally distracted myself from forming any attachment to them. As most likely all of them will be dead within 10 minutes of us landing on the ground if we were lucky. I tried to remember what I could about Armageddon, all I remembered was that Commissar Yarrick was the main protagonist there, with a ork warboss with a long ass name being his nemesis, and the whole planet was pretty much uninhabitable due to the hive cities pollution contaminating everything to the point of lethality.

Damn it all, I was hoping that I could avoid events like this where I would be put into the line of fire like this and I could just quietly grow stronger. Then again, that Inquisitor and his pet psyker was getting hotter on my trail so this might be for the best. At least I had light years between me and him and a entire war zone to hide in. Not like it would be hard for me to break free and go to ground with my current skill level.

I mentally pulled up all my screens and rechecked my current status.

Character Sheet

NAME: Noman
AGE: 21
OCCUPATION: THE GAMER
RACE: HUMAN

LEVEL: 20
NEXT LEVEL: 0.0%

HP: 2335
HP REGEN: 257 HP PER MINUTE
MP: 9570
MP REGEN: 1531 MP PER MINUTE

STRENGTH: 85
CONSTITUTION: 119
DEXTERITY: 158 (372.88)
INTELLIGENCE: 227 (451.73)
WISDOM: 43 (64.5)
LUCK: 29

STAT POINTS: 100
MONEY: 507 Thrones

Perks
50 Strength Perk: Herculean Strength - Increase damage from melee attacks by 50%
50 Constitution Perk: Healthy As A Horse - Gain extra 5 HP per Constitution point
100 Constitution Perk: Titan's Bones - Reduce damage to body by 50%
50 Dexterity Perk: Cat's Grace - Always land on your feet, keep your balance easily, and reduce fall damage.
100 Dexterity Perk: Hunter's Instinct - Find enemy weak points easier and +50% to critical damage
150 Dexterity Perk: Dagger in the Dark - When undetected increase weapon damage by 100% and critical rate by 75%
50 Intelligence Perk: Deep Well - Gain double the increase to MP from each Intelligence point.
100 Intelligence Perk: Eidetic Memory - Remember things easily and at any moment. +10% Experience Gain
150 Intelligence Perk: Destructive Science - Gain ability to gain blueprints when salvaging functional equipment for no resources
200 Intelligence Perk: Mana Affinity - Gain the ability to sense and manipulate mana 10% increase to MP recovery and 5% increase to total MP.

Inventory

12,960,000 units of plastics
4,320,000 units of common metals
2,160,000 units of cloth
1,296,000 units of chemicals
648,000 units of rare metals
2,160 units of really rare metals

Skills

Acrobatics Level 86: A technique to make use of users natural flexibility. Passively increases Dexterity by 86%
Acting Level 50: A skill that allows for the user to pretend to be something or someone they are not. Effectiveness increased by 500%. Decreases by 10% for every level the enemy is higher than user.
Barter Level 68: A skill that allows for the trading of goods and services for more preferred prices. Increases haggling success chance by 68%
Berserker Level 1: A skill that unleashes the users inner violence. Increase attack speed by 50%, decrease defense by 50%, increase damage by 25%
Craft Level 79: A skill to make something. Humanity has advanced their civilization through inventing and creating things. Crafted objects become better as mastery levels rise. Registered blueprint: 13,568,158.
Charm Level 74: A skill that indicates your ability to positvely interact or persuade others. Increase chance of positevly affecting or convincing people by 740%. Decreases by 10% for person being convinced and every level the enemy is higher than user to minimum of 0%.
Ciphers Level 50: A passive skill that allows for you to both create and break ciphers. Passively increases intelligence by 49%
Cleaning Level 88: A passive skill that allows you to clean things faster. 440% to cleaning speed.
Climb Level 36: A passive skill that allows you to climb things faster. 180% to climbing speed.
Cooking Level 50: A skill to cook food. Humanity has advanced their tastebuds through making meals. Cooked food become better as mastery levels rise.
Dancing Level 50: A skill that allows for the moving with the rhythm in a visually pleasing way. Increases charisma by 100% while dancing and passively increases Dexterity by 50%
Deceive Level 66: A skill to lie and trick others. Increase chance of success by 660%. Decreases by 10% for every level the enemy is higher than user.
Digging Level 50: A skill that allows you to dig faster. 250% to digging speed.
Disguise Level 50: A skill to look like something or someone else. Increase chance of success by 500%. Decreases by 10% for every level the enemy is higher than user.
Demolition Level 50: A skill that allows the user to use explosives with familiarity and skill. Increases explosive damage by 255% Increase chance of defusing explosives by 55%.
Driving Level 50: A skill that allows for the driving of various vehicles with familiarity and skill. Increases vehicle speed and manueverability by 260%
Eavesdrop Level 50: A skill that allows the user to listen in on the conversations of others from a distance. Increases listening distance by 150m
Gamer's Body Level Max: Grants a body that allows for the user to live the real world like a game. Sleeping in a bed restores HP, MP and all status effects.
Gamer's Mind Level Max: Allows the user to calmly and logically think things through. Allows peaceful state of mind. Immunity to psychological status effects.
Hacking Level 69: The ability of the user to break into digital systems. Increase ability to recognize digital weaknesses and paths. Increase chance of success by 69%
Interrogation Level 50: The skill to get answers from someone, one way or another. Increase effectivness by 50%
Intimidate Level 13: The ability to terrorize others. Increase chance of success by 13%
Jump Level 74: A skill to allow the user to jump higher than before! Passively boosts jumping height by 740% while actively boosting jumping height by 7400%. 3 MP per jump.
Language (High Gothic) Level Max: The skill to allow the user to speak and write in the Imperium of Man's High Gothic, fluent understanding.
Language (Low Gothic) Level Max: The skill to allow the user to speak and write in the Imperium of Man's Low Gothic, fluent understanding.
Language (Orks) Level Max: The skill to allow the user to speak and write in the Ork's language, fluent understanding.
Language (Techna Lingua) Level Max: The skill to allow the user to speak and write in the Adeptus Mechanicus' language, fluent understanding.
Language (Sign Language) Level Max: The skill to allow the user to 'speak' sign language, fluent understanding.
Light Foot Level 88: A technique in which to walk or run silently. Passively decreases walking noise by 85% and running noise by 43%.
Lip Reading Level Max: A skill that allows for the user to figure out what sound a being with a mouth is making via it's movements.
Medicine Level 50: The ability to recognized and treat wounds, injureies, and diseases. Increase speed and effectiveness by 250%
Meditate Level 27: Enter a state of calm thoughtlessness and recover mana more quickly, increase mana regeneration rate by 54%
Melee Weapon Mastery Level 50: A skill that allows the user to use melee weapons with familiarity and skill. Increases melee weapon damage by 255% Increase melee weapon speed by 55%.
Navigation Level 50: Grants the ability to navigate when travelling and to plot faster and safer courses using known data.
Observe Level 92: Through continuous observation, a skill to observe objects, situations, and persons was generated allowing the user to quickly gather information. The higher the skill, the greater the data obtained.
Pain Tolerance Level 42: Increases the tolerance to the pain of the user. User can now tolerate 420% more pain.
Parkour Level 76: A skill that allows the user to rapidly negotiate obstacles, increases ability to detect and create fastest path through terrain by 228% and boosts Dexterity by 380% when used to travel on created path.
Physical Resistance Level 42: The body's durability increases, allowing for less damage taken. 42% decrease in damage taken by attacks.
Piloting Level 50: A skill that allows for the piloting of various aircraft and spacecraft with familiarity and skill. Increases air/spacecraft speed and manueverability by 260%
Power Strike Level 25: Strikes the target with a strong force. 375% increase in critical damage. 1250% increase in attack damage. 5 MP per strike.
Programming Level 67: The ability to create and design programs. Increases speed of creation by 670% and effectiveness of created programs by 340%
Ranged Weapon Mastery Level 50: A skill that allows the user to use ranged weapons with familiarity and accuracy. Increases range weapon damage by 500%
Repair Level 65: Allows the user to repair any item provided they have sufficient skill, parts, and/or resources. Reduces resources required by 32.5%
Rip Level 54: A skill that rips apart an enemy or an object using a strong force. Increases tearing force by 1530%. 1 MP per rip.
Salvage Level 95: Through a continuous action a skill that allows for the reclamation of more useful materials from recycled objects. 95% increase in materials gained.
Singing Level 88: The ability to sing well and in tune. Higher levels increases singing quality. Improves voice.
Sprint Level 88: Increase the speed the user is able to run at the cost of 1 MP per second, increase user speed by 880%.
Stealth Level 77: A technique to allow the user to move unnoticed. Increases stealth ability by 77%
Strategy Level 50: The ability to make plans that span large areas and to react to battlefield changes. Passively increases Intelligence and Wisdom by 25%
Surgical Level 50: A skill that allows for the user to perform various forms of surgery efficiently and effectively. Increases surgery speed by 100% and boosts healing effect by 50%
Swim Level 50: Your ability to move through and underwater. Increase swimming speed by 250%
Tactics Level 50: The ability to make plans that span small areas and to react to sudden changes. Passively increases Intelligence and Wisdom by 25%
Tech Use (Imperial) Level 46: A skill that lets the user to use, create, and examine the technology of Imperials.
Technomancy Level 17: The ability of the user to interface and communicate with machines with their soul. Increases affinity with all machines by 17%. 41.5 MP per second.
Tracking Level 50: A skill that allows for the user to track targets across great distances. Increase tracking range by 5000 meters.
Unarmed Combat Mastery Level 75: Allows the user to fight skillfully unarmed. 380% increase in attack damage while unarmed. 80% increase in attack speed while unarmed.
Willpower Level 48: Through great mental adversity the user has persevered. Increases the user's focus by 48%, reduce chance of forcefully breaking focus by 24%

Crafting Recipes

Crafting Recipes
All standard hive civilian products/infrastructure
Juvenant
Cloning Vats

Military Blueprints
Personal Gear

CQC
-combat knife
-bayonet
-chain sword
-power weapons

Ranged Weapons
-lasgun/pistol
-autogun/pistol
-shotgun
-flamer
-meltagun
-boltgun/pistol
-long las
-grenade launcher
-plasmagun/pistol

Ranged Weapons Heavy
-autocannon
-lascannon
-heavy bolter
-heavy flamer
-heavy stubber
-missile launcher
-mortar
-mortar

Explosives
-frak grenades
-krak grenades
-melta bomb
-demolition charge

Equipment
-combat drugs
-dog tags
-grav chute
-chem inhaler
-bionics
-auspex
-vox caster
-refractor field
-conversion field
-medi pack
-camo cloak
-gas mask with filter
-shovel
-uplfiting primer

Armor
-flak armor
-carapace

Imperial Guard Vehicles

Light Vehicles
-Bike
-Centaur
-Cyclops Demolition Vehicle
-Sentinel
-Scylla
-Tauros

Armoured Personnel Carriers
-Chimera
-Chimerax
-Chimedon
-Chimerro
-Slamander Command
-Salamander Scout
-Taurox
-Taurox Prime

Tanks
-Hellhound
-Bane Wolf
-Devil Dog
-Leman Russ
-Leman Russ Annihilator
-Leman Russ Conqueror
-Leman Russ Demolisher
-Leman Russ Exterminator
-Leman Russ Punisher
-Leman Russ Vanquishor

Self Propelled Artillery
-Basilisk
-Colossus Bombard
-Deathstrike Missile Launcher
-Griffon
-Hydra
-Manticor
-Medusa

Heavy Vehicles
-Gorgan Armoured Assault Transport

Super-Heavy Vehicles
-Baneblade
-Leviathan
-Capitol Imperialis

Support
-Atlas
-Trojan
-Sentinel Powerlifter

Imperial Navy Vehicles

Space Small Craft
-Fury Interceptor
-Starhawk

Planetary Small Craft
-Avenger
-Chiropteran
-Marauder Bomber
-Thunderbolt
-Thunderbolt Fury
-Vulture Gunship

Transport
-Aquila Lander
-Arvus Lighter
-Devourer Dropship
-Tetrarch
-Valkyrie
-Vendetta
-Sky Talon
-Angantyr-Class Dropship

Escort Class Freighter and Support Vessels
-Armed Freighter
-Carrack
-Castellan
-Cetaceus
-Constellation
-Defense Monitor
-Escort Carriers
-Fast Clipper
-Fuel Transport
-Orion
-Q-Ship
-Tarask
-Troop Transport
-Heavy Transport
-Universe
-Golgotha

Relationships

Relationships
Lord Alkazere: Searching, Hostile, Wary
Inquisition: Unaware
-Inquisitor Horst: Aware, Interested, Wary
???????: Watching, Tired, Cautiously Hopeful
?????: Watching, Intrigued
????? ?? ???????: Hostile, Determined

Yeah, looking at the very worst of my physical stats I was till two and a half times stronger than even a trained veteran in terms of just strength, of course that does not take into account non baseline humans like skitarri, space marines, ogryns, or just plain gene/cybernetically augmented veterans whose bonuses vary wildly depending on the quality and purpose of the augments. At least however I could overpower and escape any normal Imperial Guard force without even taking into account my speed and skills.

I am so glad I actually did that data raid even if it did cause me and other people a lot of problems. The sheer amount of skills and blueprints gained were insane and some of those skills granted my massive passive boosts to my stats such as the tactics and strategy skills which collectively boosted my Intelligence and Wisdom by 50% each. The blueprints plus my previous garbage raids basically gave me the ability to produce anything and everything I would need in the foreseeable future with the only problem being that some things I make would be too damn heavy for me to put back into my inventory so I had to be careful with those items, like tanks.

The greatest gain from my time on Golgotha however were my stat perks, especially the last 2 intelligence perks. I could now effectively reverse engineer things and possibly use the original Gamer's mana based spells. Well, as soon as I figured it out anyways, still a bit wary of playing around with mana in case it somehow attracted demons or something or, well, whenever I was not about to be in the Warp or have an Inquisitor on my ass. Mana spells would be useful.

I frowned though at the relationships section. The Inquisitor and Lord were those I recognized, but who the hell were the ones in question marks? How the hell are they even watching me and why is one of them even determined? WTF? The two above the last one though, their statuses seem to imply they're on opposite sides potentially. The face that they are watching me even now most likely means psykery. My mind began putting together 2+2 and started getting numbers I was not comfortable with.

'Emperor? Chaos?' I thought with dread building in my gut.

Relationships

Relationships
Lord Alkazere: Searching, Hostile, Wary
Inquisition: Unaware
-Inquisitor Horst: Aware, Interested, Wary
Emperor: Watching, Tired, Cautiously Hopeful, Smug
CHAOS: Watching, Very Intrigued
????? ?? ???????: Hostile, Determined
Josef Titon: Curious, Worried
Jack Filon: Curious, Worried
Tion Numen: Curious, Worried
Liko Rooko: Curious, Worried
...
...

'Fuck!' They are onto me! Also the ship is about to enter the Warp! I am about to go into their territory! Dammit dammit dammit! What should I do? Take over the ship? Then what? I was most likely on a nigh unarmored transport ship so where would I run to? I can't escape without going into the Warp due to like of other FTL methods so that option was out as sublight travel would just see me getting captured by other ships. Without the Warp I was effectively trapped in system with me leaving it just dooming me to thousands of years of isolation and just me potentially getting captured by Warp exiting Chaos raiders. Plus if I stay here I would just end up being captured by the Inquisitor as I had no doubt he would be picking up my trail soon. Better to overestimate than underestimate in this case.

Shit shit shit! Damn it! Fuck, alright, guess all I can do is....no......hope that the Emperor can keep them off me? Oh God Emperor no......I wanted to avoid this kind of scenario!

I kept my face neutral to the outside world even as my emotions raged inside of me before being forcefully calmed down by Gamer's Mind and then raging again over and over. This was basically one of THE worst scenarios that could happen to me, to gain the attention of the gods of this galaxy before I was ready. A minute of that and I finally calmed down and just accepted that there was nothing I could do at this point except hope the Emperor could bail my ass out and has got my back.

I rested my head back on the bars of the cage and thought back to my time at the restaurant and everyone I became familiar with. There was Josef the boss who took me in even if it was initially just for cheap labor I had to thank the man for giving me a place to work and a alibi, most would have just outright ignored someone like me just showing up for a job. Then, there were the chefs Jack, Tion, and Liko who taught me a few things about cooking when things were slow in the kitchen even when they did not have to. Then, there were the serving and cleaning staff who grew quite familiar with me as I helped do their share of the workload without asking for anything, sure they were suspicious of me at first, but a few weeks of doing it without trying to extort or blackmail them to the boss soon won them over. Even if I never actually considered them friends I did at least cared if they were ok or not. I mean I didn't see any of them with me in the cage so they probably were not in here.

A couple hours went by according to my Gamer System provided clock when suddenly the world lurched and I could hear whispers at the edge of my hearing and the air tasted like rock, before things snapped right back into normality.

The cargo bay went silent before the air was filled with chanting and hymns as every single person on the ship prayed to the God Emperor to keep them safe on the journey, even the guards were praying not even attempting to shut us up as they were scared as well. I honestly expected the chanting to stop after like an hour before the captain told the guards to silence us all again and prepare us for whatever slap dash suicide troop training they had in store for us when suddenly reality lurched again and the taste of gold filled the air as four simultaneous cries of anger, laughter, moans, and gibberish echoed through the hold right before reality snapped back to normality again.

Wait, were we out of the Warp already? What? I knew Warp travel could be damn near any duration, but that was not even a minute! Were we even at our destination or were we lost in time and space?

My question was soon answered as the ship's speaker crackled to life.

"Attention all crew! We are currently in orbit above Armaggedon! Prep-"

*BOOM*

The captain was cut off as a large explosion rocked the ship and everything began rattling and shaking causing everybody in the cages to begin screaming even as the guards began to run. The alarms and sirens were blaring around us as normal lighting turned off and the emergency shipboard red lighting kicked in, casting everything in a ominous lighting.

"ABANDON SHIP! SHIP'S ENGINE BEEN DESTROYED AND WE ARE ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH THE PLANET! EVERYONE TO THE SAVIOR PODS! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! I REPEAT NOT A DRILL! MAY THE GOD EMPEROR BE WITH YOU-" The captain was once again cut off as something just tore through the side of the cargo bay across from me. My perception instantly slowed allowing me to see everything. I could see the massive hole in the floor, the sight of the red of re-entry licking the edges, the trajectory of whatever it was that just tore through it as it also tore through the cages full of people, leaving behind a cloud of red mist and flying body parts, and exiting out the ceiling into more sections of the ship.

That was all I saw, my perfect memory recording every detail of the scene and the faces of all those around me and on the intact heads of those who had no idea what just killed them, right before everything sped up again as every cage in the bay got violently sucked out through the rent and my world became chaotic.

My vision span round and round even as my lungs began to burst from lack of pressure even though I felt no discomfort from the lack of unneeded air while my body burned from the flames that ignited my body alongside all those around me. Round and round we went tumbling into the atmosphere of the planet, the screaming becoming louder and louder as the atmosphere became thicker and thicker to better carry the screaming of our bodies travelling at speed through its embrace and the cries of those somehow still alive and suffering.

I needed to get out! I needed to escape the cage before I smashed into the ground with the cage into paste! I reached out and grabbed behind me luckily finding a bar and used it to orient myself even as my regeneration kicked in and restored my vision as it was no longer burning. My HP was down by half but recovering slowly, too slowly for my taste. I grabbed with my other hand another bar and proceeded to pull using all of my strength and activating RIP to boost my ability to tear through these bars. Bars which were thick enough to hold back bears quickly bent under my grips and allowed me to squeeze between.

I immediately let go of the cage, tumbling around a few times before I properly caught the air and proceeded to control my descent by going spread eagle and taking in the view before me.

The sky was yellow with toxins and heavy metals, causing my eyes to tear and my lungs to burn even as I witnessed the sky be filled with burning debris of cages and starship hull. The bulk of which screaming far to the side of me trailing black smoke, it looked like the captain was trying to control the descent of the ship as the ship tried to level out.

An amazing sight, but would be much more amazing if I was not falling to my death. I immediately put my brain into overdrive trying to figure out a way to escape a gory flat death doing millions of vector calculations to try to bleed off the fall momentum as much as possible to roll myself to safety when I had a sudden bout of inspiration and proceeded to smack myself in the head.

A fucking parachute! I could just craft a damn parachute or glider and land that way!

DING! +1 WISDOM POINT!

'Yes thank you I realize I am still dumb!' I thought to myself as I quickly opened the crafting menu, searched for, and crafted myself a glider and a parachute. The vehicle appearing beneath my hands as it instantly formed from the materials in my inventory causing me to drop vertically before I quickly brought it back to level out. Now that I was out of immediate danger I brought my attention to the next immediate danger. The damn poisons in the air as I noticed my HP dropping and rising like a damn seesaw as I gained Poison Resistance skill levels alarmingly rapidly. A quick crafting action had me equipped in advanced chemical warfare gear and a much more effective rebreather.

I then put my attention to the ship now far below me with the captain trying to save his ship somehow. To no avail as it still the ground at a steep angle despite his controlled descent and it went critical. My eyes went blind as the ship exploded, turning my vision white and my HP bar dropping as the shockwave reached me tearing my glider to pieces and sending me falling once more.

It took a few moments before my eyes healed and then a few more for me to rebuild my glider but now I was much closer to the ground. Taking in the terrain below me I could not see much good news for myself. I could literally see green tides that were moving with smoke coming from them, orks, to the west and south of me, while there were jungles to the east and a large hive city to the north with even more smoke coming from that! The ork tides were moving towards the east and the north showing that any resistance left to the west and south were already crushed and they were advancing to the next fight.

I was high enough in the sky that I would not be able to glide my way to the hive city to the north or past the jungles to the east to the other hive city beyond it. If I tried to make a aircraft to reach either than the same thing which shot the ship down or ork fighters will detect me and shoot me down, or the Imperials will shoot me down thinking I was a ork fighter.

So there was one very dumb option left to me as far as I could tell.

Sighing, I proceeded to let go of the glider and let myself drop like a rock even as I kept track of my altitude for minimum height parachute deployment to avoid ork detection.

Plan is to land in the giant ass plains below ahead of the ork armies and try to hide under the ground like a true Minecrafter hiding from mobs. Then get rid of this damn explosive collar, properly gear up, and skill up for a fight.

Steve would be proud.
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AN: Whooo boy! That was a close one! Chaos almost got my ship! Then the orks got to it. Shit.

Ship Travel
Rolling 1d100 + 100
( 58 ) + 100 = 158 Chaos Combined

Rolling 1d100 + 150
( 27 ) + 150 = 177 Emperor + Gellar Field

Rolling 1d100
( 83 ) = 83 Warp Travel Arrives Earlier than you left M41.941.6

Rolling 1d100-15
( 36 ) - 15 = 21 Landing

Rolling 1d10
( 3 ) = 3 Landing Zone: Plain of Anthrand

 

[Fellgar]

Nice to see this story on here.

 

[UberIguana]

This is an interesting idea but suffers badly from telling rather than showing. We've seen pretty much no interaction with other people beyond being told 'and then I did stuff'. His big heist of AdMech archives was almost an afterthought, rather than a big deal. No build up, or planning, or tension as it's being pulled off, just 'here's all the prep I did and it worked'.

Fics need characters and interaction with those characters in order to draw people in. Just dialogue of him talking some of his underlings or patsies through their parts in his plan would have done a lot to give the heist more impact and give us some people to care about.

on the pro gacha side it adds an element of randomness and ideally you roll IRL to determine rarity of what you get out of it and can choose how to implement it in the story. something common could be a useful material for crafting or basic equipment that is still valuable. like basic sturdy cloths that are setting appropriate, a knife or autogun, or a consumable that heals or gives a set amount of XP to a skill. something uncommon might be good equipment actual armor, common military grade weapon, or a consumable that is a small XP booster giving a set amount of XP to your character. rare could be something like a plasma pistol or hot shot las or other specialist weapon, maybe carapace armor, and a larger XP item for either skills or your character. SR could be unique DAOT gear that is comparable to high end space marine gear but requires no augments. skill books could also be included but be sure to tier how good the skill is with how good the roll is. on a percentile SR is 100, R 95+, U 70+, C everything else. no refunds no guarantees on what you get.

Or you could use it to deliberately pick choices that make the story more interesting, rather than fit character optimisation. He's stuck fighting off Orks and has managed to team up with Imperial forces? He wins a customised Astartes plasma pistol. Big, obvious, kills Orks really well and lets him win the fight. Now he has to explain to the Imperials how he came to have it. Or maybe he gets bio-lightning to really make things tense between them.