A nightly stroll under a starlit sky

Skyler's eyes slowly opened after several hours of sleep. He slowly tilted his head left then right before allowing his head to run from right to left along his collarbone to loosen his neck muscles. His bones made a soft crackling sound as the pressure was released. "Ugh, I should try and remember to lean the head of my recliner back some more before sleeping." He looked around carefully, but found no signs of Cleo. He got up to stretch, this sent a tremble through his body as he woke himself up further.

Skyler walked out of his room and into the kitchen, turning to head toward the bathroom when Verona called out to him from in front of her computer. "The cats have been fed. Oh, but I have something I want you to see." He let out a soft yawn, bringing up his right hand to cover his mouth while directing his attention to the computer screen. "What am I looking at?" She smiled. "B.C., it's mostly a visual today." After a moment of scrolling, she had brought up the comic strip B.C. It was indeed a visual type of comic today. It displayed a road, a chicken, and its tracks leading from the other side of the road with a word bubble stating, 'I got my reasons.'

Verona chuckled. "That's one way to restate the question. Why did the chicken cross the road." Skyler nodded and started to turn when she called out to him again. "One more." He sighed softly. "Hm?" This time she brought up a picture of two kittens in bananas. They were laying on their backs asleep within what he assumed were small, banana shaped, beds. He smiled before shaking his head. "Cute, but silly. Now, I need to go to the bathroom." She nodded. "Fine, but expect to see another one when you get out." He let out a sigh. "All right."

After he went to the bathroom, he was ambushed by Cleo. She was waiting for him on top of a paint can near the foot of the door. "What's wrong beautiful? Did I keep you waiting?" She let out a short meow. He was quite used to being around cats. In turn, this familiarity made him certain that she said, "Yes.". Albeit not in English, but a simple, yet firm yes nonetheless. He crouched down to pick her up into his arms and gently kissed the top of her head. "Are you hungry? Or did you want to go outside?"

Although Cleo didn't make a sound, a slight twist of her head in Skyler's direction told him all he needed to know. He ran a hand along her back as he walked back into his bedroom. "I wanted to go for a walk anyway." Surprisingly, Verona didn't stop him to show him whatever it was she wanted to show him previously. He curled his lips inward, over his teeth, and gently clamped them on her left ear. He gently tugged slightly left then right on her ear. This resulted in her softly purring. After which, he let her ear go before kissing the top of her head. "Love you, beautiful."

Shortly after, Skyler set her down upon his bed before sitting down on his computer chair to slip on his blue jean shorts from earlier that were laying upon the floor. As he looked over his pairs of shoes, he thought of something he had forgotten to do. 'Crap. I forgot to repair my shoes and shirt. I should do that now before I forget.' He opened up his inventory and removed his Damaged Grey Sleeveless T-shirt, and Damaged Shoes (Damaged Socks), setting them down upon the floor. He let out a breath before casting Craft upon them. - 5 Mp He had expected to see an options list for improving the items or a cost to repair them. Instead, he received an interesting notification.

It looks like you are trying to simply repair these items.

Would you like to add a shortcut to your inventory's menu to repair such items?

Doing so will also repair these items at the same time.

Current cost to repair these items is as follows:

25 Mp and $35

Accept or Decline?

Skyler blinked twice after reading all of that as he thought. 'Really? So, I can cut out Craft's mana cost and use a shortcut to do such repairs instead? Sign me up.' After he thought that, he mentally hit, 'Accept.'. - 25 Mp, - $35 This resulted in a small hammer icon appearing next to the trash bin symbol in the bottom right corner of his inventory. While this occurred, the items he had placed on the ground started to fill in the areas in which they had been damaged. In a matter of seconds, they were fully restored.

Skyler lifted up his, previously damaged, Grey Sleeveless T-shirt. After looking it over, front to back and top to bottom, he was happy with the results. It was as good as new. Maybe even better than that. The stitching and material looked not only new, but slightly higher quality then it had previously. He scratched the back of his head before folding that shirt to put it away. During this time, Cleo had walked over to the front door, waiting patiently on top of a small brown cabinet occupied by a small paper shredder.

Roughly thirty seconds later, Skyler put on his shoes and socks before heading for the door. Cleo waited for him to unlock and open the door before dashing outside in front of him. With one motion, he stepped outside, locking the door behind him and closed it. He took in a slow and deep breath as he looked up towards the night sky. It was rather nice to see so many stars out this early. As he gazed into the sky, he realized it had been roughly sixteen years since he had gone out for a walk like this. "Man, I've really been unhealthy.."

Skyler gently smacked his own cheeks with both hands before going for a stroll. He wasn't expecting anything interesting to occur. Seriously, nothing ever really happens on this street. Although this had happened about eighteen years ago, there was one small exciting event of note. One night, there had been a car barreling down the street. Not interesting in it of itself, but this was after a speed bump had been put in. He smiled thinking about that moment. Whoever was driving certainly got the message that night. There was a loud screeching of tries followed by a loud thud, but that was about it. He wondered on rare occasion if there had been any real damage done to the vehicle. The sound was loud even from roughly two hundred and fifty feet away.

Luckily for Skyler, this wasn't a normal occurrence. Although this wasn't true at the time, but before he had gotten his powers, his body could not have handled such excitement for too long. He shook his head before focusing on the night air. Hmm, it was truly remarkable how still the night air was. To his fortune, it was slightly cooler than normal. He took out his phone to check what the current temperature was. It was about eighty-two degrees, but the real feel was listed at eighty degrees and expected to drop further.

Skyler walked aimlessly for the next hour without seeing even a single soul. This was not uncommon around here. It was a city with a small town mindset. Most places closed at 11 p.m. or midnight. There were a few exceptions, but even the bars closed at 2 p.m.. He didn't drink, but this knowledge had been presented to him in two ways. First, his brothers had told him about this since they thought it was stupid for bars to close that early. Second, he had witnessed the increase in drunken customers at Ihop around that hour.

As this thought crossed Skyler's mind, he finally saw a couple of ladies standing in front of a house. Sadly, he couldn't discern much about them from this distance. However, the taller of the two seemed to be arguing with a guy that was roughly the same height as her. He began to wonder if he should walk closer to them and listen in? Or should he do what he would normally do and keep his distance?

Name: Skyler Peterson

Title: The Gamer

Lvl: 5 XP 501/1,000

Hp: 119/119

Hp regen: .309 per min

Mp: 150/150

Mp regen: .6 per min

Money: $2,220.41

Build: Overweight

Weight: 215 lbs

Height: 5' 10 ¾"

Dick size: 6 inches

Inventory slots 3/25 (Black Pearl Ring of Enthrallment, Small Living Core, and Vial of Slime x 2)

Unspent skill points: 0

Str: 20 + (0) + (0) End: 19 + (0) + (0)

Int: 18 + (0) + (0) Wis: 30 + (0) + (0)

Agi: 18 + (0) + (0) Cha: 11 + (0) + (0)

Lib: 15 + (0) + (0)

Equipment Slots:

Ring 1:

Ring 2:

Gloves:

Weapon:

Off-hand:

Torso: Bright Orange Baymax Shirt

Legs: Blue Jean Shorts (Black Boxers) (Phone) (Keys) (Wallet)

Feet: Shoes (Socks)

Neck:

Face: Red Tinted Glasses

Head: