Spent the rest of the morning restarting and save loading for all the leisure skills like drawing, singing, dancing, and playing with my dog/cat, the starting weapons skills, home fortification skills, and calling my neighbors...
Pretty solid haul of starter skills, so far none will help me in cyberpunk but still a good start. Go through my daily workout routine and my phone buzzed,
[365 Days until global half merger, partner world goblin]. My app says....
I'm sorry what!?! Global? Half merger? How exactly do you half merger? Are we all gonna become half goblins!?! What the bloody hell!?!
As per usual I get no response, guess it's snarky insults only came the one time I told it no...
Crap so in a year, something will happen, but what?
Clicking through the app I find yet another new option. The Master Gaming Assistant:1000 points: Allows a second copy of this app to be downloaded to display your progress and skills but purchasing options will be unavailable. Every thousand skills earned by an assistant they get rewarded a single skill and get their own simpler system.
After waking up my roommate by beating on her door and data dumping incoherently, I finally calm down her and update her on this mornings discoveries. She agrees to be my assistant so long as she can do a bit her way, I get her to agree to no combat, begrudgingly. We set up my Xbox in the livingroom and she starts grinding on fallout 76, watching her progress on the app, she says her goal will be further enchancing my cooking and handgun perks. Letting her do her thing I head to the farm. Easy labour is calming and lets me cool my head once I'm done with most of it I dig up some worms and grubs, returning the worms to the crops area I take the grubs fishing. After a couple hours without luck I head to work and clean up. Jogging home I keep thinking how I'll need some sorta goblin slaying skills or goblin speech skills? Seriously I don't know if the warning is for an invasion or if well turn into goblins or what. Going inside I find my roommate absolutely giddy.
She shows me her phone grinning ear to ear. HOLY SHIT! She got my fallout NV special skills all up to 2, in fallout 76 she got a ton of scrapping skills to level 1 that I somehow missed but more importantly she somehow got grilling and steeping up to 3!, she also got me intimidate, persuade, and lie in all 3 games.
"You owe me!" She shouts with such excitement and absoluteness that I jump and feel a bit afraid of her look. After a moment she starts to settle than looks excited again "I know what you have to do! I found it!"
"w,w,What?!?"
"Your next game, one like fallout so it'll speed up your learning and it has goblins!"
...."oh, ok, um, show me".
She boots up her laptop and shows me Lionheart Legacy of the Crusader a super old game I used to play in middle school that I thought was by interplay but it was actually obsidian. She shows me some save files she's made and some combat, not the biggest fan of the combat but the skills are just a magic version of fallout which can help a ton. OMG there's tribal spells! If only I used this during my first isekai.
"Holy shit, I could kiss you!"
"Oh right you still need that skill"
..."what?"
"What?"
...
...
"There's kissing and sex in fable"
"Oh right"
"Wait were you wanting?"
"Sorry I just got overwhelmed in the moment, sorry."
....
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I save load to grind up my leisurely reading and jogging skills, she starts save loading for the attributes and all the skills, we call it a night after she gets the last one. She acts goofy and flirty but pretty sure it's meant to be disarming teasing.
Waking up in night city I decide to try things, a bit outside of the box, I kill roaches with the unity using my off hand, pistol whipping them, akimbo, and finally throwing them, fortunately nightcity has plenty of roaches for me to grind with, I get excited thinking of checking my phone when I wake up as I go to bed.
"I got it!" Ashley shouts exhuberantly as she finally slaps me awake. I look up stunned confused and frightened as she startled me and slapped me awake....
"What?!?"
"I got my system!"
"What?" I repeat, although I got what she meant I'm stunned
She shows me her phone, her app is more extensive it looks similar to mine and comes with instructions, she can buy games I've bought with points to earn skills, she can earn skills in those games and IRL, she can only earn achievements points by earning levels for me. Huh. Her first skill was... Luck, and she's since earned....jumping jacks. Wait did she stay up all night grinding for me?
I look at the ecstatic girl, I've never seen her so happy. "Sims 4!". She shouts insanely ecstatic
"What?"
"I earned you so much so next buy Sims 4!"
"The game where you kill people with pools and starvation?"
"It's so much more than that!!!"
This triggers a long rant of game mechanics and creating your own story that I honestly appreciate most of half an hour later she stops and I agree. She then gets off of me and runs off laughing, I'm left confused with abit of a headache from the rude awakening.
Checking my phone I grin, I got the skills I prayed for by getting 10 different unity skills.
Unity: all skills are 0.1% higher level and greater effect per level
Best part of this skill, every unity action gives it experience so it can grow faster than any other. I go through my daily routine, working out, working the farm, doing my short evening shift. Once back home I check the app, Jesus, she's done aton, lotsa perks I don't recognize, all the basic spells skills, picking locks, lying, for avoiding all combat this is amazing. Somehow she's earned enough points, so I buy Sims 4 and head to bed while the exhausted girl starts earning her own skills.