Systematic Survival

4 - Tutorial Complete

Matt's eyes widened at the new messages that were flying into his view. And they didn't stop.

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[Quests Tab Unlocked]

[Daily Quests Unlocked]

*[New Quests Available]*

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A ton of messages floated in front of him as he stood there trying to understand all of them. There was too much to process, so Matt decided to just read them one by one.

'Tutorial Mode? So now I'm in the real game or something?'

Matt looked down the messages until his eyes landed on one that really caught his attention.

'Skills huh? Well, no time like the present.'

"Stats!"

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||Stats||

Name: Matt Peterson

Age: 18

LVL: 1 [XP 34/100]

HP | 10/10

MP | 0/0

Status Effects: (Sleep Deprivation) [Lesser], (Physical Strain) [Greater]

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||Attributes||

[Str] - 6

[Con] - 8

[Agi] - 9

[Dex] - 11

[Int] - 12

[Luk] - 10

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||Skills|| (NEW)

Inspect [Lv.1], Map [Lv.1]

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'Map seems pretty obvious. That should be useful later. And inspect is a classic, though it's usually called analyze or something.'

Without waiting, Matt shouted, "Inspect!"

'...'

Nothing happened.

Matt felt embarrassed that he just yelled that in public and nothing happened. He actually just realized that he's probably been making a fool of himself by shouting "stats!" every time he opened the menu. Theoretically, he could just think the words, unless the system is picky or something.

With a sigh, he focused again on how to activate his new skill.

'Damn system you could've told me it was a passive skill.'

After that thought, he looked down at his shoes and focused. After a few seconds, something popped up in front of him.

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(White Sneakers) [Equipped]

A pair of shoes.

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Matt smiled when he saw that it worked, but his smile faded when he read the panel.

'Well, thanks I already knew they were shoes. Huh, it's barely giving me any info.'

After closing the menu, he looked around for something else to inspect. Soon he found a pebble on the ground. He held it in his hand and focused on it.

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(Rock)

A small rock.

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'...'

'Yeah, that doesn't help me System! I already know it's a rock!'

Matt threw the rock away and went back to looking at his stat menu.

'There's one more skill called Map. I already know what it does but might as well try it out.'

Matt was about to shout again when he realized that he might only have to focus for it to work. He focused on the skill activating and a square screen opened in front of him.

It contained a section of the sidewalk that he was standing on, as well as a blue glowing dot in the center. Large letters above the dot spelled out "You" and just as someone walked by, a white dot moved quickly across the screen.

'So now, I would say that this was more useful than inspect right now if it wasn't for the fact that the map seems to only show the area right around me. It doesn't seem very useful for navigation.'

Matt sighed again. He was looking forward to checking out his new skills but they both seemed pretty useless until he leveled them up.

But even if he was slightly disappointed, he still kept both of them active so that hopefully they would level up soon.

'I still need to check out the new quests but I should probably head home first before I embarrass myself more.'

With that, he made his way back to his apartment at a not-running speed.

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||Stats||

Name: Matt Peterson

Age: 18

LVL: 1 [XP 34/100] (+10)

HP | 10/10

MP | 0/0

Status Effects: (Sleep Deprivation) [Lesser], (Physical Strain) [Greater]

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||Attributes||

[Str] - 6

[Con] - 8

[Agi] - 9 (+1)

[Dex] - 11

[Int] - 12

[Luk] - 10

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||Skills||

Inspect [Lv.1], Map [Lv.1]

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