Getting ready

"Concentrating on something I have a skill in and trying to figure it out seems to make me gain ranks faster..." you thought to yourself. That's the only explanation as to why your Novice Oral skill had grown so quickly just then, and so slowly before. It also explains why using your Scan skill so much didn't end up ranking it up too quickly – you were just lazily using the skill, and not actually concentrating on trying to get more information or ranking up.

"More effort, for sure, but it seems to pay off pretty quickly." you thought as you put on your clothes, before walking over to the meal left out for you. The broth itself was thick grey gunk. It hardly looked edible. You used Scan on the meal.

Basic Vegetable Broth – Minor Food
Healing: 1pt/min for 5 minutes

Well, the description made it out to be edible, at least but it told you nothing about the taste. You leaned over and gave the broth a smell. You retched. _"There's no way I'm eating that..." _you thought and picked up the bread instead, and spied three green splotches on the bottom.

Mouldy Bread – Minor Food.
Healing: 0pt/min for 30 minutes

Well, you're definitely not eating moulding bread, you think. Your stomach growls angrily at you in protest. You've not eaten in almost a day now if you count in-game hours as well. You can't seem to get out of here just yet, and if that's the case, you need to at least eat something to keep you going.

"I need to know if this is safe to eat." You concentrated again using Scan on the broth, trying to get any more useful information.

Basic Vegetable Broth – Minor Food
Healing: 1pt/min for 5 minutes
Description: A basic broth made in Everest. Practically harmless to eat, the broth passes as sustenance for the lower classes in the Everest residential sector.

Rank up! Scan reached Rank 6.

Fantastic! You jump inside for joy, finding an even quicker way to rank up – you just need to concentrate more, and you'll quickly start to grow in skill. And, after reading the description, you bravely take a taste of the pottage in front of you. Raising the bowl to your mouth and taking a gulp, you start to swallow the thing down – tasteless, bland sludge, but you feel better having some food inside of you.

Finally feeling ready for the day, you go downstairs to meet up with Liza and walk to the Guildhall to find your first job in Everest – and more importantly, try to find some way to log out of this game.