The phone fall on Annie thighs, I stare right at it, possibilities running through my mind, Annie go wild on it, turn it on and visibly deflate as she whisper "no signal..."
"obviously you don't have any signal, but that's still useful, what do you have downloaded on it?"
I stare at the others
"do see if you still have your phones too, actually check the entierity of your inventory, think about the inventory...and"
My voice trail out, wondering about how their inventory work since mine seems different.
Malfoy thankfully speak out soon. "Do think inventory. A grid shall appear"
Weird but it work and they all start doing it.
Annie go look into her phone first and then a music play in the room, she start moving her head in rhythm "I'm built for this nanananananan where we belong"
She tries to sing. Really she does...but she don't get all the lyrics right, I rub my eyes, feeling the blood on my eyelids.
"that's, useful...." she jump up "Wait really!?" and I answer back, lounging on the backrest of the couch, putting both of my arms behind it and stretching my back on it like a wannabe cat "for sure, I mean, that sounds better than the sounds of fire"
Balrow speak up "I liked the fire"
I look at him "I guess we can alternate from time to time, we need to economise battery anyway"
Malfoy show us his phone "I do have my phone, however it is empty, I doubt of it's usefulness"
Then Jenna speak up "I do too, forty percent, I have my keys too" she jiggle them, the sound is annoying.
A sigh escape me "just, keep them in your inventory, it may be useful in the future depending on what we need to go through" before I can even notice it Annie get up, turn her phone and "Say cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeese"
During all the time she said cheese she must have snapped a dozen of selfies of us all, then malfoy say out loud. "Yes, let's immortalize the day we ripped goblin aparts and almost died doing it, it does sound like a magnificient idea" She turn around toward Matthew and answer "I KNOOOW RIGHT!" Damn, my head hurt now, screaming is no good.
She then look at all the pictures still standing, as Jenna get up and look over her shoulder at the pictures too, letting them to their own little world, I start thinking about what I missed, and what I need to think about in order of importance.
For a first I need to figure out what "next room is" is it really the other room and the tutorial will continue when we enter? Is it a bug? A feature? Something else completly? I think the most obvious answer is that the next room is the white one, or that another door will appear when we enter, the question is:
What to do with this information?
Then I need to figure out how to use those substats, my consultant talked about regeneration, probably will help me heal that quickly.
But if I manage to mess with those stats, is it a good idea to focus on regeneration?
I saw a lot of things in the 50 substats I'm allowed to see, perhaps changing my ratio of muscle fibers is a better idea? How will that change me though? And can I even change it? Wait what am I even talking about?
How the do I even get substats!?
Also I need to mess with the inventory a little more, I need to stock stuff in it, that's an entire inventory for fuck sake.
I need to stock anything and everything in it...need to test that, see if I can use it to survive, or in combat or whatever.
I think that's enough for now, let's figure the next door mystery first "So any id-!"
Annie shove her phone close to my face "Look at it!" looking at it, I see one of the selfies she took, we're all in it.
Annie at the front since she took the picture, and all of us sitting behind, Jenna on the left curiously looking at the camera, malfoy on the far right rolling his eyes while trying to put his sword back in his inventory with only a thought like me, Balrow beside him, looking at me for some reason and in the middle, there was a man.
This man's hair resembled dry corn silk that was left behind on the field after a harvest day.
It was a colossal tangled mess of black straight strands that knotted in blood, this guy hair looked like they never seen water in a thousand day
Blood was splattered on his black T-shirt, making it more red than black.
A trace of vomit was mixing with the blood on his right sleeve, said T shirt had a rip on the side showing a small white and red improvised bandage attached to his body.
Body that was quite impressive, anyone could see that this kid worked out.
His face didn't seems to fit with all the chaos plastered on his body, a gash on the left side of his youthful looking face, just above his left eye, rested dried by time.
His two eyes were bloodshot, as if he did not sleep for 2 weeks straight, no under eyes could be seen though, no hair was resting on his pretty defined chin, the true definition hidden by a layer of baby fat that has not been removed yet.
Hah...who's that?
...I look fucking dead.
And I was wondering why they looked at me like that. I REALLY look like I came out of a horror movie.
+132334 for the not triggering me theory
I blink slowly staring at my figure in the picture.
I look like I could fall down at any moment in exhaustion, or straight up explode and start murdering anyone I see, I look like a litteral murder hobo.
I need a shower, Two of them, perhaps three, is this how they all see me? Well, now I get it why they were suspicious of me before, well, I probably looked better when I appeared in the room at first but still.
"I saw it" I put my hand on annie head and effortlessly push her and her phone away from my face, she's light.
"Anyway, let's figure what to do first" I adress everyone in the room and point toward the open door "do we go, or rest here first?" before anyone talk though, I finish "I'm up to going now, or at least later, why? I don't want to eat goblins, and no one of us have any water, this system stuff doesn't seem to straight up want to kill us. If there is any ressources for us to survive it's by advancing, we're tired and injured for sure."
"But at least we're already ready and primmed, don't know about you all. But if I sleep, I don't know if I'll be able to ready myself for more goblins"
I finish my reasoning, my flawed reasoning.
Sleeping may do malfoy and the others good, even without water or food, but I don't know how much those 4 are ready to move.
If they start thinking that drinking and eating goblins is a great idea, I may just need to advance alone. Don't want to get eaten by them when they realise there isn't any goblin left, and the reason they couldn't eat all and every parts was because I puked on one of them.
I watched too many horror movies I think.
Balrow is the first to speak "I am ready to move, however" he look at malfoy "the boy is injured"
"Boy!?"
the boy say, poor him two nicknames for him already.
Before he can continue however Janna speak up "I, think resting is a good idea" she look at me with those fucking eyes, like some kind of concerned mother, wait? Is this because I look like I'm gonna keel over at any minute now?
"Why?" I challenge
"I just think it's better"
I maintain eye contact, this damn old hag, 30 is old. Fuck you reasoning I wanna call her old "alright"
I don't point my thoughts out loud, and stare at malfoy for three long seconds "I can fight with one arm" three with me, I look at Annie "I mean, it's not like we were really useful in the last fight, you will be the ones in the front fighting, I think that's your call"
I look at us, proven fighters, well proven is a big word.
My gaze pass over matthew, confident, then to balrow, determined.
It's decided then, without any hesitation, I get up.