Jack walked in. "Hey. You want to see my character sheet? And talk, I guess?" He asked, standing there awkwardly until she waved him to the seat.

"That's right. I also want to talk to you about your impressions of the whole situation, and your duties going forwards." Miria replied.

"Fair enough. Here's my character sheet. Did you have anything in mind for me for duties? Or should I just keep on as I have been, helping Maxim in the workshop and taking people around to help them grind some essence?" Jack said, sharing his character sheet.

*Name*:
- Jack White

*Classes*:
- Human, Level 4 [81%]

*Resources*:
- 13/13 HP, 13 Regen per week.
- 36/36 FP, 36 Regen per day.
- 22/22 CP, 22 Regen per day.
- 33/33 MP, 33 Regen per day.
- 35 Essence.

*Stats*:
- Strength 5 [24%]
- Dexterity 5 [38%]
- Persistence 4 [35%]
- Intelligence 4 [67%]
- Wisdom 5 [25%]
- Charisma 5 [27%]
- Spirit 4 [19%]

*Abilities*:
- Human Physiology 3 [46%]
-- Human Metabolism 2 [23%]
-- Human Physique 4 [34%]
-- Stubborn Persistence 4 [23%]
- Human Mentality 4 [6%]
- Spirit of Endurance 4 [13%]

*Skills*:
- Melee Combat 3 [49%]
- Junkwrighting 2 [11%]

Persistence
- Uncommon Stat (2 Star)
- +2 FP per level.
- +2 FP Regen per day per level.
- Can go into negative FP up to 5 per level, which applies a penalty of up to 100% reduction in stats, based on how far negative you are.
- +0.5% reduced injury and exertion per level, multiplicative.

Human Physiology
- Uncommon Ability (2 Star)
- Sub-Abilities:
- Human Metabolism
- Human Physique
- Stubborn Persistence

Human Physiology - Human Metabolism
- Uncommon Sub-Ability (2 Star)
- +2% ability to adapt to new environments per level.
- +1% increased FP regeneration per level.

Human Physiology - Human Physique
- Uncommon Sub-Ability (2 Star)
- +1% physical strength per level.
- +0.5% reduced physical exertion per level, multiplicative.

Human Physiology - Stubborn Persistence
- Uncommon Sub-Ability (2 Star)
- +2% negative cap for all resources.
- +2% regen for all resources while negative.

Human Mentality
- Common Ability (1 Star)
- Adaptive
- Persistent
- Curious

Spirit of Endurance
- Uncommon Ability (2 Star)
- Costs 1 MP per second, and each second gives the user 2 points divided between any two of HP, FP, or CP.
- +2 MP per level.
- +2 MP Regen per day per level.

 

Junkwrighting

- Uncommon Skill (2 Star)

- +up to 5% ability to craft when using inferior tools & materials, depending on their quality.

- +1 CP per level.

- +1 CP Regen per day per level.

Miria looked it over. "I think we saw your 'Spirit of Endurance' ability on the servitor - I got a dialog for it, after I put the egg in Claire."

Jack nodded. "Yeah I'm not entirely sure what to make of it. I need to be burning two different resources besides MP to really make use of it... And I don't want to be burning health, which leaves FP and CP. I can burn FP easy enough, but CP is spent mainly on 'thinking hard', which is usually not done at the same time I'm burning FP..."

"Hmm. I see what you mean. But it looks like you have lots of FP, and can go pretty far negative in it too if you need too. So, you can burn FP pretty freely, and then just use Spirit of Endurance to top of any other resource expenditure... Damn, humans are pretty strong actually. HP is kinda low though. Wonder if you can get a dodge skill? Burning FP to avoid getting hit sounds like a really good deal. Or maybe you can wear really heavy armor...?" Miria pursed her lips.

"Armor would be a longer term thing, but I could go for a dodge skill. Maybe see if I can get one tomorrow?" Jack said, shrugging.

Miria grinned. "Hell yeah, lets do it. I'll help you, it'll be great."

Jack raised his eyebrows. "Uh oh. Am I in trouble?"

Joey walked in and took a seat nervously. "Uh, hello Miss."

Miria waved her hand dismissively. "You can just call me Miria, I'm not a stickler for formality. So how're you managing? Everything alright?"

Joey sighed. "I'm fine. I'm a little worried about my mom - she was back at the Grocery. Was human, I told her to keep her head down after I saw Grace and Joshua get killed. Wish I'd thought to try and rescue her during our breakout, but I didn't even think of it. Just went along with everyone else..."

Miria grit her teeth. "Shit, I hadn't even considered that. Ugh, okay. I'll see if I can put together a rescue mission, maybe? Or something..." She sighed. "Well, we'll figure it out. For now, can I see your character sheet?"

*Name*:
- Joey Devonian

*Classes*:
- Tiefling (Flame Devil), Level 1 [37%]

*Resources*:
- 16/16 HP, 16 Regen per week.
- 7/7 FP, 7 Regen per day.
- 5/5 CP, 5 Regen per day.
- 25/25 MP, 25 Regen per day.
- 14 Essence.

*Stats*:
- Strength 1 [24%]
- Dexterity 1 [26%]
- Constitution 2 [3%]
- Intelligence 2 [2%]
- Perception 2 [6%]
- Charisma 1 [15%]
- Spirit 2 [12%]

*Abilities*:
- Tiefling Physiology (Flame Devil) 1 [17%]
-- Tiefling Metabolism 1 [12%]
-- Tiefling Physique 1 [16%]
-- Fire Adaptation 1 [2%]
- Tiefling Mentality (Flame Devil) 1 [11%]
- Fire Magic 2 [8%]

*Spells*:
- Fire Bolt
- Lesser Sense Flammability

Tiefling Physiology (Flame Devil)
- Uncommon Ability (2 Star)
- Sub-Abilities:
- Tiefling Metabolism
- Tiefling Physique
- Fire Adaptation

Tiefling Physiology (Flame Devil) - Tiefling Metabolism
- Uncommon Sub-Ability (2 Star)
- +20% increased caloric requirements.
- +20% reduced need for water.
- +0.5% reduced need for water per level, multiplicative.

Tiefling Physiology (Flame Devil) - Tiefling Physique
- Uncommon Sub-Ability (2 Star)
- +1% increased physical strength per level.
- +1% increased physical toughness per level.
- +1% increased physical speed per level.

Tiefling Physiology (Flame Devil) - Fire Adaptation
- Rare Sub-Ability (3 Star)
- +5% resistance to fire.
- +5% resistance to smoke.
- Has nictating membranes for handling smoke.

Tiefling Mentality (Flame Devil)
- Common Ability (1 Star)
- Aggressive
- Shorter Time Horizon
- Impulsive

Fire Magic
- Rare Ability (3 Star)
- Can cast fire aligned magic.
- +5 MP per level.
- +5 MP Regen per day per level.
- +5% spell effect per level.
- Can learn up to 3 spells per level.
- Can learn spells from other practitioners with moderate difficulty.
- Can create new spells with significant difficulty.
- Automatically learn one random fire spell every level.

Miria cocked her head after she read it over. "Huh. Has the mentality been affecting you? You don't really seem like it..."

Joey shrugged. "I dunno, a little? I was pretty far from that before, so. On the whole it's balanced me out a little, I used to be super indecisive, now I'm only a little indecisive..."

"Hah! Okay, well, glad to hear it, I guess. I'll talk to Claire about the mental effects, see if she has any insights? I think she might, hard to be sure." She chewed on her lip for a moment. "For now, good work leveling up your fire magic. Keep working with Sarah and Claire to develop it further, talk to Jack to get essence... I might take you essence grinding too sometimes, we'll see. Do you know about skills?" She asked him.

He shook his head. "No Ma'am."

She nodded. "They're like abilities, you can earn them with practice... Actually, hold on." She said, and sent the system a mental query.

Skills
- Skills provide a number of benefits to a users basal reality and other system mechanics, scaling with their level.
- Unlike abilities, skills can be obtained through conventional effort. The more skills an entity has, the harder it is for them to acquire new ones.
- Use will gain them experience, expressed as a percentage increase towards the next level, and when they reach 100%, they will increase in level.
- They can also be levelled up with essence, costing an amount depending on their rarity and their level, discounted by the percentage experience they have.
- Like all traits, raising skills that are above your class level takes 5 times as much experience / essence.
- At every fifth level, the user can choose a milestone to modify the skill with.

"I have a couple. Maybe talk to Claire about her Meditation skill, it seems pretty good for mages?" She said, showing him the dialogs for the skills she'd seen, including Claire's Meditation skill. "She's the one with actual practical experience with it, though. Any other questions you have for me?"

He swallowed nervously and dithered for a moment. "Uh, well, I saw your ability can take, uh 'Intrinsic Quintessences'? Does that, like, hurt the donor...?" He blurted out, and she laughed softly.

"No, it certainly doesn't hurt... But like, you know what it means by 'Direct Insemination'?" She said, and he nodded, face burning. "So, yeah, I'm pretty sure you're like, sixteen, right?" She asked, and he nodded again.

"Yeah... That a problem? There's nobody to enforce any laws on us, right? And you make the rules around here anyway." He said uncertainly.

Miria laughed again softly. "Well, pretty sure we're supposed to all make the rules together... I see your point though. And I'm, like, twenty-three, so maybe I shouldn't make too much of a fuss about it. I dunno though, I'd like to take some time to think it over? Hell, you should take that time too."

He sighed. "Yeah, okay, fair enough."