Chapter 81 Player ID
Chapter 81 Player ID
I gave the cure to Lara, an NPC in this game. This marks the second time I've prioritized her and treated her like a human being. Now, I wasn't just giving up the cure, expecting to die. This was a small consolation, but I was expecting to be rewarded in another way.
I didn't give up the cure just to get this reward, because that would be wrong, but I did expect to get a reward and I was not disappointed. The system notification system dinged, notifying me of incoming messages.
[Sacrifice Recognized]
[300 Karma Points earned]
[Shikasa's Favor increased by 90]
[Lara's Affinity: +300]
Nice! I didn't know what I was going to spend my karma points on or what having that much affinity with Lara would do, but I liked seeing numbers go up. Especially when they went up by that much.
Also, the thing I actually wanted to happen, happened. I got more of Shikasa's Favor. I had a feeling I had unlocked the second tier of blessings, which could be very useful going forward.
And since the only other time that Shikasa's Favor had gone up was when I did a good thing for Lara, I figured I would something good for her again. And since this was a greater sacrifice, I guessed there was a chance I could get significantly more favor with this action. Which I did.
Now to check the Shikasa's Blessings tab. I opened the Shikasa's Blessings tab in the system menu.
[Shikasa's Blessings]
[Favor: 200]
[Blessings threshold unlocked: 2]
[Threshold 1 Blessings] [Blessing of Gold] [Blessing of Protection] [Blessing of the Day]
[Threshold 2 Blessings] [Blessing of Skill] [Blessing of the Night] [Blessing of Aptitude] [Blessing of Learning]
[Threshold 3 Blessings][Locked]
[Click to see more]
I clicked on each Threshold 2 blessing to get a description of what they did.
"Ok, sounds good," she said as she ducked behind a storage unit.
Midas had just been floating along with us for a while. I figured I'd finally let him come out and play. I concentrated and manifested him physically.
"Go on, Midas! Get the bad pirate dudes!" I said.
Midas jumped between the storage units while I climbed over them. We both made it to the pirates around the same time. As soon as the pirates saw us, they fired on us with their guns.
They hit multiple storage units, shattering the glass and killing the people inside. Damn. I didn't expect that. Maybe I should have taken a stealthier approach.
I jumped at the pirates and slashed my sword through the air, cutting three of them in half. Not to be outdone, Midas swallowed an entire pirate whole and then bit the heads off three others. They all got deposited into my inventory.
[Space Pirate (alive) added to your inventory]
Alive? I guess I would need to deal with that later. Not now though. Once we had finished dispatching the pirates, I checked the door to the helm. It was indeed welded shut.
I could try to smash it, but that might damage the airlock and let the space in, for lack of a better way of saying that. Depressurize? Maybe that was the right term. Oh well. It didn't matter.
"Lara! You can come out now!" I said.
Lara made her way up to me and Midas. "Oh I didn't know you had a dog! You should have told me." Lara petted Midas and hugged him. He seemed to like the attention.
"Yeah he's my soul beast. Helps me fight and stuff," I said.
"That's so cool! You must have all kinds of cool things where you come from," she said.
"Where I come from? Never mind that. I wanted to ask you something. How did you know it was me? The same guy who gave you the $1,500,000,000?" I said.
"Oh! Your player ID. Your player ID says 'Player ID - Dylan'." She said.
"My player ID? What is that?" I said.
"Oh, it tells us NPCs which player has logged into the game," she said.
"What?" I said, my mind metaphorically exploding out of the back of my head.
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