*PANT, PANT, PANT, PANT*

"This... isn't... working."

100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, in 10 minutes, then 50 minutes of running, drink from the fountain, 10 minutes of lifting weights, then another 50 of running, and repeat. It's been 6 hours since I started and NOTHING, not so much as a single stat point, what am I doing wrong? or does it just take that long?

"Hahhhh... I need to logout and take a break, maybe eat something since I skipped breakfast."

Now how do I logout?

-help

Nothing here.

[Status]

Nothing!

[Journal]

No!

[Map]

NO!

[Glossary]

NO! NO! NO! NO!

"I CAN'T OPEN [Character] EITHER, SHIT! WHERE THE HELL IS THE LOGOUT BUTTON!?"

Shit, am I stuck here... NO! that's insane, what kind of game would keep players trapped, I could starve. I need to think this through... ok, ok, ok, OK... so I can't logout which could mean one of two things, some lunatic could have trapped me here, but that's incredibly unlikely and this game is far to complicated to be some VR prison. The other possibility is that... My streaming contract is with LiveWeb which is owned by... dammit which company was it? Orion Medical! Shit! this is totally something they would pull, weren't they testing out some tech to speed up time perception in game? A feature which is supposed to be supported by their top of the line capsules... which I own... FUCK!

"Welp, at least I'm not gonna die... probably."

Accelerated time doesn't count for overtime pay does it?... they better be recording this shit and give me the footage or I'm gonna be PISSED! Stupid fucking sadistic megacorp, SHIT!

Well, i guess this is experimental tech, might as well enjoy it as best I can.

"I should try focusing on just upping my strength for now."

Now how can I make the best use out of the fountain? From the last few hours I know I can do about 100 lifts in quick succession before I start to really feel it, the recovery effect from the fountain also doesn't seem to truly be one per day either it just dramatically decreases in effectiveness after the first time, so if I use squat lifts to drop my stamina and keep drinking the water to increase it so it always sticks around rock bottom would that work for training my CON? It should right? I'll try it for 12 hours, if I don't get a point by then this is probably just a massive waste of time.

*PANT, PANT, PANT, PANT*

SHIT! how long has it been? dammit this is intense! it must be nearing 12 hours now, how many reps have I done? 21,543, holy shit that's a lot, it was like 30-ish a minute I think, so its been almost 12 hours.

"JUST... *PANT*... A FEW... *PANT*... MORE!"

*BANG*

"DONE!"

Did I get anything? [Notifications]

Good, 1 CON and 1 STR... Athletics 37, did it have a hidden requirement or something? I had to train up a point in an attribute before it showed up didn't I!? But 37, that seems way too fast? Why do skills train up so much faster than stats? Also what does {Athletics} do?

So it decreases stamina use by level/10 and increases training speed by level/2, that's useful but not exactly all that big a benefit, i guess that explains why skills grow so quickly, small buffs that quickly grow bigger as you put more work into them, but is there a cap? I should keep testing this, but for now let's try to get all my physical stats up to 10 so I can complete the first challenge.

Welp, I've made it trough five chapters in a relatively small time-frame which I wasn't expecting but so far I've been enjoying writing this and would love to see whatever feedback you're willing to give.

Maybe it's a bit early for that though, IDK.