As Bryan reads the words on his wrist he trembles. 'Talents... holy mother of god.' Bryan stares at the words for a while trying to decide what to do next. 'If this is like any game I've played, talents are a huge boost in power. Yet, they come with a catch, you can only choose them once and once you have your selected talents you can't change or modify it in any way. I have to make this count.' Bryan clears his throat and utters, "Talents." Once spoken an ink like substance flows under his skin, coming from the upside down "T" to form a list of 3 different talents to chose from.
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1. Child of the farm(gain a 150% boost to all growth of planted herbs, crops, and fruit trees)
2. Bringer of misfortune(people with hostilely towards the host get a 100% drop in the Luck stat)
3. Flame of the soul(attacks using fist gain extra fire damage that harms the opponents soul)
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'Jeez these are op, I mean you can damage the soul with this last one.' Bryan sweats, reading that he can even gain an attack that harms a persons soul. 'Does that mean I can destroy a persons entire being with my fist? That's quite scary, I wouldn't even wish that on the bastard Harris himself. Yet it sounds very powerful and would help me on my way to rule the world. Hmmmmmmm. I don't know what to pick.' Bryan, being naturally indecisive, closes his eyes and chooses randomly. He opens them to find the words changing.
'You have chosen Bringer of Misfortune talent. Talents will be randomized and not based on the hosts origin and life for the next pick."
'Interesting, so these chooses where based off my life, I can understand the first two, but what about the last choice? Well whatever let's hope that this talent was the right choice.'
Meanwhile at the Kruger household....
"Dad that beggar bastard did this to me! I want him arrested for assault!" Harris screams towards his father in an indignant manner.
"I know son, it's just if we arrest him and take it to court some things might come to light that we both don't want."
Just as they were arguing lighting hit the roof of the house, catching it on fire. Not knowing the fire on the roof growing in size Ed commits on the lightning.
"Jeez that lightning was close, damn weather men in this city are terrible, clear sky's my ass. Wait. Harris do you smell that? Somethin' is burning." As if the fire had a mind of its own it spreads down under the room and behind the door, locking them in. Ed goes to open the door as he notices the rising smoke cause him to feel light headed. As he puts his hand on the door handle, it severely burns his hand causing him to stumble back.
"AHHH! Harris we have to get out of here the house is on fire!" They both pound on the door screaming for help, but to no avail, the fire has grown to large and consumed most of the house. They watch as the room they are in gets engulfed in a roaring, bloodthirsty fire.
"Son, just so you know I love you, I always have. This might be the last moment we have together and I wish to part with peace and painlessly. I hope you choose to do the same." Ed pulls a revolver from the desk near him and points it under his chin.
"Dad?" Harris croaks as he watches his father pulls the trigger and slump down to the floor. Half of the back of his head is missing and blood flows out like a river.
"Noooooo! Dad!" Harris cries as he rushes over and cradles the body of his father. The flames rush in closer, almost close enough to burn of the hair of Harris. Harris take the gun from his fathers tightly griped hand and points it to his head, not wishing to be burned alive, also pulls the trigger, ending his life also. The house continues to burn at an outstandingly fast pace, in minutes, completing consuming the house, burning Harris and his father, to ashes.
Back to Bryan.....
Bryan feels the pain in his wrist activate, looking down to the new words being formed while his trying to sleep, he is shocked.
'Bringer of Misfortune activated, killing two hostiles with 100% success. You gain 147 experience. Leveling Bringer of Misfortune to level 2, for every level it increases the percentage for the skill by 1%. Current: 101%.
'I killed two people?! Oh my god! I wonder who it is? Can they find me? I don't wanna go to jail!'
As Bryan is think more, he comes to the conclusion that nobody could prove he did anything, well the whole mystical nature of the mark and his abilities.
'It said "hostiles" so whoever it was, they probably had it coming to them, I'm also guessing that since there is a percentage of success, I won't be as lucky next time and whoever is having hostile thoughts will probably get away. He thinks for a minute more then drifts into sleep, it was quite a long day for Bryan after all.
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Bryan's Current Status
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Status:
Name: Bryan Elis
Race: Human
Title: Lazy Bastard Weakling(Gives a 20% higher chance of being disliked from a first impression)
Strength: 11
Endurance: 4
Vitality: 2
Intelligence: 8
Wisdom: 6
Luck: 1
Lie Fragments: 0
Lie Points: 0
Talents:
Level 2-Bringer of Misfortune(Bringer of misfortune(people with hostilely towards the host get a 101% drop in the Luck stat)