The car drive was silent as Toby paid close attention to the markers that kept reappearing over the road. The car moved on as he sat silent as the markers kept vanishing and appearing guiding him across some train tracks and to the worst part of town.
The night had fully begun and the smell of rain had begun to fill the air. Toby could only clench the steering wheel as he got lost in his own thoughts. His jaw clenched and muscles equally tense as a faint humming filled the car. A byproduct of the power that had infested his mind. The Marker would finally appear over a single house.
Turning off his headlights he would park his car down the street. Carefully sitting there for a few seconds waiting for some objective to appear he would huff, "I want you to know something. I've seen the monsters of this world and not the goblins or Harpies. I studied what atrocities Specials like Leistung, Tyrant and so many others would do when the power got to their head."
"If I know I'm going to lose this battle of wills which I most likely will because of your power and reach. . . I'll make sure all these stats mean nothing and stop myself," His words came out soft. Even as he leaned forward and rested his head against the steering wheel he would keep his eyes closed. All it would take is a simple rope and lots of time no matter how high his VIT or END got.
PLAYERS TERMINATION MEANS PENNY'S AND OTHERS TERMINATION.
STAY ALIVE. SAVE OTHERS.
OBEY. SAVE OTHERS.
FOLLOW THE QUEST. SAVE OTHERS.
QUEST UPDATED!
Grab a weapon. (Optional)
Head inside.
Toby would simply sigh standing up a spike of fear entered him as he looked around the ghetto neighborhood he found himself in. Licking his lips he would step out of the car and head around to his trunk grabbing the tire iron from before. His heart would begin to beat heavily in his chest as he gripped the tire iron and began heading to the house.
Yet halfway there he would stop dead in his tracks a faint humming escaping his lips as he holds back any desire to talk. He would stand there for a few seconds simply staring at the house ahead of him. Whatever came next would hurt him and he knew it with absolute certainty. The smell of rain increased as a cold wind blew in as he strode forward
He keeps walking until he comes to the front porch where he simply stops. His eyes taking in the simple and old wooden door sitting upon its frame. Walking closer to the door his objectives finally change this time no surge of EXP coming to him.
His hands would reach up as he began to knock upon the door. A few seconds new objectives begin to appear as the door creeks in a man's eyes peering through the crack as he says, "Get fucking lost."
NEW OBJECTIVES.
SCARE THE MAN.
Toby would freeze up at that a few seconds passing in silence. The man begins to close the door only for Toby to shove his foot into the doorway reminding himself this was to save a young girl's life. A young girl he just had to help get away from some drug dealer.
Toby had even made a small theory. Maybe it wasn't true or just maybe he would never know the truth but either way it seemed Penny's parents didn't give much of a shit and as he observed the man slamming the door on his foot this became more and more evident. The rotten teeth and skinny frame and the faint stench that flowed from the half-open door brought back painful memories.
-2 HP.
There was no pain in his foot as he whispered, "What did you do to Penny?" The man pauses for a split second looking Toby in the eyes.
The door slides open as the man growls, "What the fuck do you wanna know? Im a good dad what the fuck you trying to say." As Toby stood there a simple memory came to mind. One of his childhood and the many people he had been around.
CHARISMA REQUIREMENTS MET.
Toby brushes the notification to the side as he stands there in silence for a few more seconds. As a child he had seen his step-sisters and blood sisters fathers. When they were at their worst tweaking they had always said that. Always acted like they had done nothing wrong when in reality they were just scumbags.
"Hm. Mind if I come in then take a look around," Toby's words came out calm and focused as he stood there. A small fake smile sitting upon his face.
The man slams the door back on Toby's foot yet his foot remains unmoving as the man begins to slam the door on Toby's foot, "Fuck off before I call the cops!" The shout was clear and the man slammed the door on Toby's foot twice before pausing. The pain had been there yet it had barely registered. -4 HP
OBJECTIVES UPDATED.
Make the man fear you even more.
Toby slammed his shoulder against the door pushing his way in quickly. Penny's father slams his fist into Toby's face yet it does almost no damage. "HP," Toby gently whispers as he takes both punches. He had somewhat flinched for both of them as he made his way in. -2 HP in total.
123/130 HP
The man would take a few steps back and reach into his belt pulling out a snub nose revolver. Toby would pause his body freezing up as fear re-enters his heart. He raises his hands as his eyes would take in the filthy house. He easily spots some needles in the trash can.
QUEST DESCRIPTION UPDATED.
"Quest," He would whisper gently causing the man across from him to tense up. But this is what he wanted wasn't it? For some guy to put him down before he became a threat. Right now wouldn't be a bad time to get shot now wouldn't it?
"Get the fuck out! Get the fuck out now," The man screamed hands on the trigger. Toby knew he was in the wrong without a doubt but as he opened up his quest screen and hovered over A Teacher's wrath he felt his heart pause as he read the quest.
QUEST: A TEACHER'S WRATH.
Objectives: Make the man fear you!
Objective: Resolve both threats to Penny 1/2.
Description: Your student Penny is showing strange behaviors! Now that you paid off her drug dealer she should be fine as long as no more of her money gets stolen. Congratulations, feeder of habits!
Now, you must stop her father before he beats her to death during a drug-fueled Rampage! Make sure he gets the warning
Toby pauses his eyes lingering on the words for a few seconds. A faint memory stirring in the back of his mind as his eyes focus upon the man pointing a gun at him. He takes a step forward only for the gun to ring out with a harsh bang. Yet Toby would simply look down as a simple -10 flashed across his vision.
"O-Oh shit," The man whispers as Toby stands there for a few more seconds just looking at the bullet wound in his chest and the red that stained his clothes. Yet what surprised him the most was the lack of pain as he breaths. His eyes would simply stare at the man that had shot him as a cold rage brewed inside him.
He would take two more shots to the chest as he took a step forward. The man began to shake as Toby stopped only an inch away from the other man's face, "Those aren't going to do anything and anything else you do won't save you."
The man's eyes begin to widen as he takes a step back only for Toby's hand to grip his shoulder. "Listen, I'll warn you once. If I find out you lay a single hand upon Penny- and I will find you no matter where you hide," Toby's voice came out as a soft whisper as he stood slightly taller than the man. Blood slowly welled up from his chest yet his HP would remain steady. A few droplets fell to the floor as he stood there.
"I will take your beloved needles and jam them into your eyes before taking each of your fingers. Do you understand," Toby's tone never raised itself for a split second. A simple calm and silent tone as Toby hides and restrains the desire to beat the man's face in.
The man's eyes never leave the bullet wounds in his chest for a second as he says, "Y-Yes. ..I swear to god I'll do that ya just- Oh god don't kill me." The man's eyes glance to the tire Iron in Toby's hand and as he wheezes out of fear.
Even as he stood there and began to hum Toby could fill such burning hate towards this man. The desire to simply beat him down burns inside him as the man avoids Toby's gaze. A part of the Teacher felt sicken by all of this as he whispered, "Don't call the cops. Don't call other Specially abled and treat your kid right. Do this and I won't make you crippled."
Toby would shiver in rage as he turned around and began to walk out the door. His shirt slowly grows red from blood pouring from his wound yet so little pain fills his body. He would lift up his shirt and glance at the bullet wounds finding them already gone. A healing factor and an Endurance factor? Seems he truly was super and not just crazy.
QUEST COMPLETED!
+5 EXP AWARDED.
+2 FOR OPTIONALS COMPLETED.
35% to level 3!
The pain is washed away and replaced by a deep feeling of pleasure as he walks to his car. Humming uncontrollably as he reaches his car and gets inside. Gently closing the door before sitting there for a few seconds. . .and screaming out of rage and hitting the wheel, "FUCK." A piece of him had wanted to beat the piece of shit's face in and another had been cautious if the system was tricking him.
But he had completed the objective without being violent. Now he just had another quest to deal with. But that was for later. Now he just wanted to get home and take a shower to get this blood off him. Despite the confusing rage pointed in so many directions he sat there with a frown on his face and began heading home.
Yet one question bothered him. Most people gained their powers when close to large populations of Monsters or Natural disasters. . .Yet to his knowledge he had never been close to neither.