"What is this?"

"What is this!?"

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!?!?"

Samantha broke down mentally.

She couldn't feel her own body. It was as if she had become a spirit and was merely viewing the world. However, in front of her was a questionnaire

"Just a few seconds ago I was at my apartment... Ah! I see.. this must be a dream. Yes, there's no doubt. This has to be a dream. There's no way that this could be reality."

Samantha deluded herself.

However, somewhere deep inside herself, subconsciously, she knew that it wasn't a dream.

In a dream, often one is not extremely aware of what is going on around them. It usually doesn't even occur to the person in the dream that they are dreaming. However, there were still lucid dreams. This could very well have been one of those- but everything felt so...

Real.

Samantha once more tried to feel around, to no avail. She was able to think, but had no mouth to speak and no hands to feel.

She looked towards the screen which said [Please answer the following questions]

"What kind of prank is this... somebody say sike right now. Who is doing this!?"

Alas, no words came out. It was as if she was in the vast depths of space where sound could not propagate.

[You see Johnny on the side of the road struggling to carry 54 bottles of dish soap]

[Johnny drops 20 bottles of dish soap, and Ricardo swoops by to steal 15 of the bottles that he dropped]

[In the chaos, the neighbors come outside and begin to yell at Johnny for buying so much dish soap]

[They slap him, before each forcibly taking 1 bottle of free dish soap each]

[If there are 23 neighbors who each stole 1 bottle of dish soap, how many liters of water will the tears that Johnny cries fill up?]

As Samantha read this, a flurry of questions arose in her head, but the predominating emotion she felt was annoyance.

"Who the hell is Johnny!?"

"Why the hell does he have so much dish soap!?"

"Why is he carrying it all in his hands!?"

"Why are the neighbors extorting him out of dish soap!?"

But most importantly

"Why the hell is he a weak little bitch who's gonna cry over some dish soap? Fight back or something! Show them who's dish soap that is! Don't force me to go and help you out! What a good for nothing loser."

[Response is longer than expected. Processing results]

[You're willingness to help others has been identified as negative]

[However, your willingness to look good in front of others exceeds the magnitude of your hatred towards helping others]

[Class assigned: Mage]

[Subclass assigned: Healer]

[Alignment assigned: Neutral Evil]

[You have been granted the skill: Heal (Lvl 1). Costs 2 AP, 5 MP. Heals 4 HP to any member of your party.]

[You have been granted the skill: Seduce (Lvl 1). Convince others of a lower charisma level to do your bidding. Costs 5 AP, 2 MP.]

[Note: The correct answer to the question posed was 380 L. This is because it would require this amount of water to clean the number of dishes that Johnny would have been able to clean, had he not had so much dish soap stolen from him]

[The reason for this is that 38 bottles were stolen. If we assume that 1 bottle can wash 100 dishes, and each dish requires 0.1 L of water to wash, we come at the conclusion of 380 L of tears produced by Johnny]

[Due to your incorrect answer, you are not allowed to put any more than 2 points into intelligence. This question should have been quite trivial, but it seems you lack critical thinking skills]

Samantha was furious as she read this message.

"What the hell!? Am I being insulted by a computer screen!? What kind of answer is that anyways!!?? That has absolutely nothing to do with anything here!!! WHERE AM I ANYWAYS!?!?! AGHHHH!!!"

Samantha released her pent up frustration, however no sound was emitted.

She had no idea what those skills or numbers meant. She was a popular girl, who had no interest in the likes of games or fantasy. She only had ever focused on improving her status in reality- among society.

As a result, she somewhat ignored the skills that were given to her, until the next screen popped up.

[Please allocate your skill points]

[Skill points available: 10]

[Statistics]

[Strength: 0]

[Dexterity: 0]

[Perception: 0]

[Charisma:0]

[Intelligence:0]

Please allocate the following skill points.

Samantha had somewhat calmed down a bit, after releasing her stress. However, she looked blankly at the statistics.

She had never seen anything like this before, and she once again questioned.

"Ugh... what is this? What am I even doing? Where am I? How will I get out of here?"

With a sigh, she accepted that in order to get out she should at least follow the orders that were presented on the screen in front of her.

"Whatever this computer is, it seems to be in control of my situation. Could it be that I am inside some sort of computer simulation right now? That doesn't make sense. I was just in my apartment... how would I have gotten here?"

Either way, she took a look at the statistics and immediately thought something.

"It would be unbecoming of a beautiful girl such as myself to be extremely strong. If possible, I would like to be as charismatic and as intelligent as possible. I could also put on the airheaded personality... but to do that I would need to be relatively perceptive of the preferences of the people around me..."

And with that, the skills were automatically filled in.

[Statistics]

[Strength: 0]

[Dexterity: 0]

[Perception: 3]

[Charisma:5]

[Intelligence:2]

[You have finished character creation]

Name: Samantha

Class: Mage

Subclass: Healer

Stats:

[Statistics:]

[Strength: 0]

[Dexterity: 0]

[Perception: 3]

[Charisma: 5]

[Intelligence: 2]

Skills:

Passive:

[Stupidity: During character creation, you may not allot any more than 2 points to intelligence]

Active:

[Heal (Lvl 1). Costs 2 AP, 5 MP. Heals 4 HP to any member of your party.]

[Seduce (Lvl 1). Convince others of a lower charisma level to do your bidding. Costs 6 AP, 2 MP.]

Possible Actions:

[Attack]-[ Staff bash] Costs 2 AP Requires staff.

[Run]- Uses all remaining Action points for the turn. Requires at least 3 remaining action points.

[Item]- Use an item. Costs 1 AP

[Equipment:]- None

Alignment: Neutral Evil

[All players of the party have finished character creation]

[The world has been generated. Loading players in]

[Quest: Find the other 3 members of the party]

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