Safe Room Activities

Turns out Monika had a few screws loose when it came to combat, but she had no actual game sense which is where her American friends came in as they chatted about the Party system, Chat system... all things that would have been useless to her being alone. Along with a lot of other things like instead of sometimes the Dungeon giving her flavor text randomly she could examine most things in the dungeon herself such as.

"Floor: It's what you walk on, currently made of random rocks cobbled together into cobblestone and some adhesive. What else were you expecting?"

The four made it to the safe room and Monika said "Finally!"

"We made pretty good pace" Mark said

"I've got 13 speed and had adjusted to running at 30 mph..."

"Well we can't all win the fucking lottery!"

Clarice said "Calm down you two, we can get something to eat. Our guide told us the first floor allows us to have free food and lodging so let's see what we can get to eat!" They opened the door and then found a lobby that... was Half corporate sushi chain selling moderately good food, half onsen/inn, and half two old geezers making food with love and care and selling it to the community.

"Dwarves: You know those short heavily bearded mountain dwellers who drink beer all day? Sadly I don't believe you have your ID on you to legally get alcoholic beverages... On the bright side if you ask nicely they'll probably give it to you anyways. Whose going to stop them? The Japanese Government?!?"

The Dwarves had random nick nacks all over the place giving it a nice homey feel... Which was also ruined by the corporate sanitized posters and menus... The four adventurers took a whif and decided they'd bathe first... For sure Monika having run anywhere between 20-30 mph for awhile had built up a sweat.

"C'mon Clarice let's go take a bath, I'll show you how the japanese do it!" Monika said happy that they'd both be the same amount of nude together.

Clarice said "Wait Monika!"

"No need to be shy!"

"That's obviously the Men's side!" Clarice blurted

"Wha?" Monika asked then looked up and... It seemed... like... red... purple... pink... blue?... smears? she then blushed a bit and said "I have to confess, I thought that was reddish pink for a second... and... umm... These sunglasses have a detriment..."

Stewart asked "Do they make you an exhibitionist?"

"NO!" Monika said "I accidentally earned them by turning on a torch and fumbling it at a bookcase... this is the Flaming Sunglasses of the Illiterate which does a number of things like gain spell xp when I burn books, but it also makes me illiterate... and apparently I can't even use color clues since those colors seem to be shifting to me."

The 3 looked a bit disturbed and Clarice seemed to cling to Monika a little closer "I didn't think something like that could happen" Mark said

"Well... I'll still wear them, I'll still be illiterate if I take them off. Least it gives me some magic."

With Ame being looked after by the old couple who didn't care about animal hair in the kitchen Clarice and Monika were in the changing room where they were disrobing "So you did this once before?" Monika asked

Clarice taking her clothes off nodded "I wanted to try one, and I was embarrassed at first but if you get in the right mindset it's just relaxing. even with other people around."

Monika nodded as she took off the bunny suit without thinking of the implications like what would happen with the inventory and her breasts. Turns out taking off the bunny suit simply locked her inventory and her breasts shrank back to normal. She cupped her nearly flat chest again feeling a sort of relief. There hadn't been a weight on her chest and yet those large udders had been embarrassing her.

The two ladies went into the washing room and washed up, and helped with each other's backs before soaking in the tub. "So... all that boob wasn't your actual boobs?" Clarice asked after noticing that Monika didn't have very much of a chest. Clarice herself was semi-well endowed. A c-cup and she normally wouldn't talk about her breast size much but... With the insanity of the day and Monika being semi open about her boob problems... It was a small thing.

"Did you notice something weird?" Monika asked

Clarice wondered "What?"

Monika said "I don't think a tourist would be so fluent in japanese, nor have I really studied english. I've noticed lapses in my honorifics and some speech patterns."

"I guess you weren't saying san or chan or whatever."

"I think we've probably all been linked to a singular language and accent of sorts. It's convenient although it feels wrong culturally... Heck I now can't even read... can I write though?" Monika pondered

"Well... The worlds over and we're all trying to survive right? So perhaps we should just focus on getting along and surviving?"

"Maybe... you know fine... Hey may be a little rude in the bath's normally but wanna open your lootboxes with me here?"

"Sounds good. Let me go first" Clarice got her achievement and on the side of the bath popped open a silver chest that had runes carved on it. The box opened and out came a wand.

"Wand of the void: +2 int, Increased mana regeneration depending on how low your mana is"

Clarice scooped it up and put it in her inventory and said "Great. Just what I needed. I fire my spells and then end up being useless for most of combat. Your turn." Monika prayed a bit to the achievement menu and then heard

"Break a Leg: You hit an enemy hard enough your own leg bones broke? Hardcore... Reward: Gold Bloody Hell box" and then out popped a chest that was made out of shattered bone fragments held together with blood.

"That's a little more gruesome than I've thought any of these would be" Clarice said, Monika agreed but opened it up with a prompt as the bones fell apart revealing the item inside

"Wraps of the Masochistic Fighter: +1 constitution, +1 self harm resistance skill" Monika took that into her inventory and groaned

"Looks like this game is making me hurt myself so I don't hurt myself more..."

"Wait what do you mean?"

"I move REALLY fast... If I move too fast and land on an opponent it's like being hit by something going 30 or 40 miles an hour."

"So... when you first hit that goblin"

"I was hitting a wall at 40 miles an hour leg first... My constitution helped but I needed a healing potion real fast. This should make it... better in the long run..." Monika wasn't feeling ready for breaking her leg who knows how many times to get that skill up. Her pyrobolt leveled up twice and at level 3 it was dealing decent damage, but that just meant it dealt a lot of immediate damage and some burning damage which would take out at best moderate level opponents for this floor. "I don't suppose you have any random books you don't mind being burned?" Monika asked

"Wha? all the manga and light novels I got were in the hotel when everything happened. Besides I still have!" Two more bronze chests popped up with insignificant designs "...two more achievements..." Health potions and a few mana potions "...Well I'll be able to cast more spells..." Monika chuckled a bit "Hey! If I was home I'd have a cat in the dungeon and I'd bet I'd get some bonus that makes her shoot lasers and talk!"

"That's ridiculous" Monika said "I do have one more benefit I haven't used. It let's more worship some god named Lupus and be a priestess... Although my trainer Mandome said it was risky... and considering my bunny suit is priestess garb... What kind of god could Lupus really be?"

Monika sighed "May be worth a Hail Mary. If things seem impossible why not at least try?" Monika felt like she had one more achievement and it was

"Boss Killer: you killed a boss, this achievement was given to everyone who participated in the boss fight. Relax it was just a bronze tier boss. Reward: Bronze Boss Box" and opening the bronze box was just some health potions... two dozen which should tide her over for awhile but still...

"Well this'll help when I break my legs every so many times" Monika muttered as she sank deeper into the warm water of the Onsen.

Meanwhile on the boys side

"FIRE AT WILL!!!: You went out of cover and just shot as many arrows as you could despite being hit by projectiles back! Well you deserve something to help even the odds!" Said box contained "Bracer of arrow grabbing: +2 dexterity, +1 auto reload skill"

"CHARGE!!!: You just ran into a small camp of goblins when they are confused! Either you overestimated yourself or you just underestimated the odds! Either way... CHARGE!!!" and that box got Mark "Boots of Initiation!: +2 speed, +2 Strength, +2 CHARGE! skill"

The two men not trying to stare at each other's dicks said "Cool"