Takin it to the streets

I hum as I walk out the door to my building.

I see a few girls walking by and instead of saying something I ****. Not literally, though if it were it probably would have helped.

Alright I gotta find my balls. Also not literally. Think about it like this I could go to the gym work my ass off til I’m ready to puke, be barely able to move for the next few days and keep doing it for several months til I start seeing a difference. Or I could just say hi to random people and get stronger by leveling up. Laziness don’t fail me now. The fear wants to do things the hard way with more work!

I may have not found my balls but I found motivation.

Things are going smoothly I say hi to girls walking the opposite direction of me. I’ve even moved up to saying “what’s up?” over 3x the letters twice the words and syllables and a question instead of a random statement that doesn’t require them to respond!

I can barely even recognize myself.

Though I did admittedly say a lot to that one girl at my door this morning, but that was all answering questions. And we don’t talk about that that time.

I also found out I don’t get XP for talking to dudes. Bummer.

I however make a mistake.

I am walking past a couple of girls and start. “What’s up?”

“Uhh, oh, hey. We were just heading to the convenience store to pick up some things. Why? What are you doing?”

It was then I knew, I fucked up. They were going the same direction as me, so saying something then walking off would be too awkward. And it gives them a chance to continue the conversation, which then I would have to continue, which then we would be continuing and stay forever in a conversation, I don’t have enough talking points to take up forever!

Ok, maybe not quite that … ****, but still, I am trapped. Ok… I can do this.

“Uhh not much, just… out for a walk” I respond, I couldn’t think of a location so I followed rule numero uno, If you can’t Lie, TRUTH.

“Oh cool, so is it like a health thing or something?” She asks as she glances at me.

“Well, I mean I was in a good mood, and had extra energy, and yeah I guess a part of it was for my health.” I’m not sure what else there is to talk about, well it is nice weather… NO NEVER talk about the weather! Unless its bizarre or something like.. WAIT you are still in a conversation game face! Not that face! Focus! Do you understand the words coming out of her mouth?!?

“Oh that’s nice. Well, have a good walk.” She says

“Bye” Her friend joins in. as they veer off to the convenience store door. Which luckily for you was at the next corner from when you had caught up to them.

“Bye, Have fun.” You respond. ‘Have fun? In a convenience store? I wonder if they are from around here? I would have thought they’d call it a corner store.’

Well you survived that encounter. You glance… is that the right word? It’s at the corner of your vision no matter where you look, you are just willing yourself to focus on it and you can read it. Hmm I’ll call it focus(ing) now. Though I feel like I’ve been using the word focus a lot recently.

Level 1: 120/1000 Exp (Human)

Hmm, not too bad I mean it’s been like 10 or 15 minutes, so in an hour or 2 you should level up. Ok let’s get back to leveling. Game face.

Stop Game face, never Game face again.

I continue my walk saying Hi to passers by.

...

Another 10 minutes or so goes by until the next unusual thing happens.

Interacting with a Female: +10 Exp!

It happened with a well built woman in a business suit with brown hair. I almost missed it, then I almost trip. I mean I’m not complaining but I’m confused. ‘Why did I get 10 XP this time?’

The stronger they are the more Exp they give!

That’s nice to know. Wait the system will talk to me? ‘What commands can I use?’

…

Well it was worth a shot. Hmm that woman was stronger than normal? I mean she did seem a bit more intimidating now that I think about it, but I was in the zone so I was able to say hi to her like any other lady. I didn’t recognize her so she probably wasn’t a super, but maybe she she was security for some place or had some training of some kind. But if a trained human gives me 10 how much would Wonder Woman be? Or Enchantress? Wait which Enchantress would it be? I pull out my phone and yep, both of them are running around with the same name, well Enchantress and The Enchantress. Interesting.

A quick check shows that I’m at 470 XP. I’m getting there. I’m also getting hungry. So as I continue down the street I start looking for somewhere I feel like eating. Eventually I ask a girl if there are any good sandwich places nearby and she points me towards Mike’s New York Subs. ‘I asked a girl for directions, this morning I started out with baby steps and already I’m Sprinting!’

I get to Mike’s and look at the menu. Hmm, I notice something pretty quickly. Anything with a name of a location is switched to New York. New York cheese steak, The New Yorker, well those I can at least tell what they are supposed to be. I can’t help but chuckle a little. I order and sit down to eat my NY Cheese steak, and think about my plan. I am almost half way to level 2, it has been a half an hour… err or is it 45 minutes? I’m not really sure what time I left. But Maybe I should try to organize a bit, or is there a better way to do this? It is 11:30 now so most of my morning was spent getting adjusted. I have about 5k in my account (minus this sub, which is awesome by the way) no job. But since I still have my bank account my ID and everything should still be good. But in the city That will probably only last me a couple months. So a problem for future me. Now my XP, if I could get it more quickly, or have them come to me that would be good. But how, I don’t have anything to sell, or any impressive skills as a street performer. So that’s out. I could also focus on stronger people. But where would they be, I mean the amount of Supers is kind of doubled but I would still be surprised if it is even 5% of the population. I guess I could go to the gym…. But who wants to talk to some random person while they are working out? Especially if that person isn’t working out themselves.