Fmh ~ 24!

Skill page requested. Skills: 2

Fully geared. (T7) Level 9. 477/11,500 to level 10!

Effect 1: You are able to absorb natural weapons and armor (Claws, fangs, scales) by touching them. By absorbing a certain amount of the same type of weapon or armor, you are able to ‘equip’ it on your body. Only one type of weapon can be created at a time, and only one type of armor per slot. Choosing a new type of weapon or armor will replace the previous type once it is complete. Weapons and armor cannot exceed current tier and level.

Bonus 1, at range: You are able to absorb a weapon or armor type within five feet of your body. No longer requires active attempts after the item is selected.

Effect 2: You are now able to absorb weapons or armor created via natural metals. Natural metal weapons and armor cannot exceed current tier and level. Natural weapons can exceed tier, so long as they are within three effective levels.

Bonus 2, Multitarget: You can now select to absorb all weapons or armor of the same type within the range of bonus 1.

Effect 3: You are now able to absorb weapons or armor created via unnatural metals (magical weapons/armor). Weapons and armor cannot exceed current tier and level. Natural metal weapons can exceed tier, so long as they are within three effective levels. Natural weapons can exceed tier, so long as they are within six effective levels.

Bonus 3, AoE: You can resize the weapons and armor you create. An increase of size decreases overall armor or weapon damage, but a size decrease adds increased armor or damage.

Effect 4: Each active weapon or armor slot now costs a flat percentage of your mana pool to maintain! To achieve the exact damage or protection potential, ten percent of your mana must be applied. Each percentage added or subtracted will change the potential by one percent. See bonus 3 for details on adding in additional mana.

I Have Concerns. (T3) Level X. You have gorged yourself on potent hallucinogens and high-ambient mana for years, and they have finally given up. They have thrown in the towel. You win. 

Effect 1: Never again will poison or mana be able to affect you. Your flesh contains potent power and mind-shifting effects. Anything taking a bite out of you should be prepared to feel like unicorns are goring them to death!

Bonus 1, at range:  Poisons in the air, such as toxic fumes, will restore your health and mana over time. Amount regained is based on potency and time spent in the poison. 

Effect 2: You are able to consume concentrated mana to restore health and mana, or hallucinogenic materials to further increase restored health and mana.

This skill cannot be increased via additive Potentia.

“Helpful, but not really. I don’t know what any of this means.” Luke sighed and decided to get on with the next portion. “Alright, ya blinking screen. Calm down. Access.”

Data packet from unknown accessed… updating log with provided data… cross-referencing with Source-cerer protocols… complete! Messages will be displayed in order of creation.

You have entered Unknown world!

You have been exposed to concentrated mana! Damage reduced from 100/second to 0.003/sec. Scanning body… mana channels damaged and blocked to the point of extreme host mana deprivation. Sigil enters low-power mode until mana can be absorbed from host to sustain systems.

You have entered Tutorial zone, Zone one! While in this zone, you may notice a few small creatures! Don’t underestimate them, but do your best to move to the next area quickly to earn a bonus! The longer this zone goes without crossing into the next zone, the more creatures will be generated to ensure that you are being properly tested! This zone will help you to understand your own body and some of the challenges you will face on the lower stretches of Unknown World!

You have slain Battering Ram (level 1). Bonus Etheric Xenograft Potentia granted for slaying a creature of a higher level than yourself! (Battle log condensed, display entire log?)

Concentrated mana ingested! Preparing for death of host. Death not achieved. New effect noted. Health… regenerated? Error. Divide by zero. Impossible situation. Data unavailable.

You have gained a skill pearl (T1) from a Battering Ram! You can either use the pearl right away by swallowing it, or combine fifty pearls to upgrade the skill rarity you can attain! Please note, each type of creature will only allow you to use a single pearl per tier. Example: 1 T1 skill. 1 T2 Skill. T3 or above is possible, but very unlikely due to the massive amounts of pearls that would be required!

World name changed from ‘Unknown’ to ‘Murder World’ by host.

You have combined fifty T1 skill pearls! Congratulations!

You have slain Battering Ram (level 1). Etheric Xenograft Potentia has been reduced for slaying too many of the same creatures! Error. Bonus Etheric Xenograft Potentia granted for slaying a creature of a higher level than yourself! (Battle log condensed. Total of 150,000+ messages over three years aggregated. Display all?)

You have combined fifty T2 skill pearls! Congratulations!

You have combined fifty T3 skill pearls! Congratulations!

Zone one cleared! Congratulations for setting a new record clear time! New record: 26,729.4383 hours! Now people following in your footsteps have something to strive for!

Battering Ram respawn rate has been reset from 886 goats per hour, to 1 goat per twelve hours! Bonus Potentia gained for clearing a Zone: 100. Finish off all enemies to earn another bonus! Feel free to return at any point, but be warned: the creatures will be extra-hostile since you escaped them once!

You have entered Tutorial Zone, Zone two! This Zone is designed to test your Mind! You may find a bush or two in what is otherwise a safe zone. You can either ignore them, or sample the berries to very slightly train your mind through the use of hallucinations! Caution: the berries are slightly toxic and you may suffer some damage!

Zone two cleared! Congratulations for setting a new record clear time! New record: .489 hours! Now people following in your footsteps have something to strive for! Bonus for clearing the zone: 200 Potentia. Hidden achievement: Eat no berries! 100 Potentia gained!

You have entered Tutorial Zone, Zone Three. This zone is guarded by various defenders depending on the time of the day! No matter which route you take in personal progression, you must find a way to clear this zone! Do your best to defeat the guardian and move to the next area quickly, as each defender you destroy will spawn two defenders that are out for revenge!

You have eaten a toxic berry! (total of 200,000+ messages over two years aggregated. Display all?)

You have eaten a Tier four (T4) skill pearl! Starter bonus applied! Skill being generated! Error. Mana channels damaged. Skill use is impossible with this body. Body shutting down due to overload. Death is imminent.

Intervention by Unknown entity. New mana channels carved. Optimized mana channels carved by Unknown. Starter bonus increased by ambient mana levels. Increased by improved channels. Increased by entity! Applied. T4 skill increased to T7.

Characteristics assigned: +7 to Fitness, +1 to Physical Reaction. 

There was nothing else, but still there were tears flowing down Luke’s face as he laughed in pure joy. “It… there was supposed to be a reason for this area? I wasn't abandoned here, this place wasn't a mistake? Then why… why did it all go wrong?”

He remembered the human bones in the pool of the tutorial, and things started to fall into place. “Think… the goats had been spawning at a crazy high amount, which would have started the first time someone arrived here. I drank ‘concentrated mana’, except… I never drank anything but spicy water.”

Luke put his head in his hands. “In other words… that wasn't water? I knew it was different. That was all ‘mana’ somehow, and only the fact that my body was damaged to the point of almost dying whenever mana tried to go through my ‘channels’ somehow allowed me to survive touching it? I’ve been drinking that for years, bathing in it. I used it to craft - ahh! I forgot about Cookie!”

Luke grabbed Cookie, who was shining. He picked up the bone, and it flashed. The bone turned a deeper shade of blue, and he felt something inside him connect to it.

The basic two-handed bone weapon ‘Cookie’ has finished reacting to your skill ‘Fully Geared’. Would you like to start absorbing ‘Cookie’ into a weapon slot? Caution: weapon will be destroyed in the process.

“How dare you threaten Cookie!” Luke’s fist lashed out as he screamed, impacting only air with a *wub*. He jumped to his feet. “What was that… right! I got stronger! I’ll figure this all out later, let’s go try and get that goat zone-clearing bonus, Cookie!”