Waking up

John didn’t know where he was. He heard a faint beeping occasionally, a steady noise, that seemed to weave in and out. He couldn’t see anything but the darkness surrounding him. When he tried to move his body, he found that it wouldn’t respond to his commands. He tried to call up his menu, but every time he did, he got the same message.

Error
System is currently offline.

Stuck there, John could only wait for whatever happened next. Sometimes he could swear that he felt his mom nearby, as well as other females, but without being able to see or hear, he was never quite sure that it wasn’t just his imagination.

With no way to tell how much time was passing, he could only lay there. At several points he saw a light flashing into his eyes, bright and all encompassing to him, and this was the only change that he noticed, not that it happened a lot. So immobile was he that he couldn’t even sigh with frustration, which made him want to sigh even more.

Trapped in his own body with nothing to do, he felt like he was going mad. Then a light of hope appeared before him in the form of a brand new style of achievement box, unlike the ones he had seen before.

’That means I get to allocate the stats myself? Is this Gaia’s way of thanking me for my patience?’ John wondered to himself as he lay there. For the first time in he didn’t know how long, John had something to focus on.

When John thought about his character sheet, he found that it pulled up by itself, and he saw that his character sheet had been changed as well, matching the new achievement boxes. But it looked cleaner, at least to his eyes, than it had before. And with darkness, and the occasional blinding light, the darker color was easy on his eyes.

John discovered a problem though, he was unable to move, no matter how much he tried he still couldn’t move his body. ’Is Gaia not giving my powers back until I spend the points,’ John wondered to himself, ’because that would be a catch 22. I can’t get my powers back until I spend my points, and I can’t spend my points until I get my powers back so that I can move.’

John spent an unknown amount of time thinking about this before he tried something new. He focused on the stat that he wanted to increase very hard. It took several moments before he noticed that the stat that he wanted to increase, his intelligence, began to rise.

He kept at it until it was back at 25. The moment he stopped putting the points back into the stat, he felt his mind flood with the information that had been locked behind the lower score. Able to think like he used to, John realised that he must be in a coma at the moment, and would probably remain that way until he spent all of the points.

Now that he was able to think more clearly, he could think about what he planned to do once he was out of this coma. He had some choices ahead of him about what he could do and what he would need to do that. Knowing that he liked being able to sneak up on his enemies, John put ten of his remaining 45 points in his agility so that he would be able to move better while he was sneaking around. And in case that didn’t work, John also placed ten points into his endurance.

John wasn’t surprised to see his hit points go up, but he was surprised by how much they had. And while he never wanted to be a tank, as the thought of getting hit that much never interested him, he was glad to have the larger amount of health.

John wondered what changes those two stats would have on his body, and he sincerly hoped that the changes wouldn’t be immediately noticeable to anyone who was around his comatose body.

John decided against putting more points in his strength just yet, figuring that if he did get into a drawn out fight he would focus more on dodging and waiting for the right time to strike. While thinking about that, John decided that he should split the last 25 points between his wisdom and charisma so he dumped ten points into each of them as well.

Looking over his stats, he frowned in his astral body. Unsure what to spend the last five points on, he thought long and hard. As he was thinking, the image of June, Rowena, Moira, and Moonstone all popped into his head. They were all beauties, and he knew that, if given half the chance, he would sleep with any and all of them. His mind began creating images of various sexual acts that he would like to do, and without realizing it, he placed the last five stat points that he had into his libidio score.

He realised his error with that after the images stopped playing in his head and he couldn’t take the points back. With a mental sigh and shrug, he hoped that placing his points there wouldn’t come back to bite him in the ass.

With nothing else to do at the moment, John thought about his menu closing, and it did.

’Well at least she is back to being sassy,’ John thought to himself with a mental smile, ’hopefully she won’t keep me here until I spend those points as well.’

The more John thought about those new skill levels and stat points, the more John wanted to spend them right away. So he brought his character sheet back up and plugged the points into his agility and the skill levels into his stealthy skills. Satisfied with the outcome, John closed his Character sheet to find a new pop-up.

With all of that out of the way, John finally began to feel his body again. It was hard to do anything, even opening his eyes was a chore, but for the first time in he didn’t know how long, he was able to look around. And what he saw took his breath away.