Chapter 1
- 31st Ausgust 1991. Number 4th, Privet Drive.
Harry entered his bedroom, or better said Dudley's second bedroom, as Harry was sure that the other boy would take posesion of it as soon as he was gone.
When he aproached his bed, he saw a book over his bed. At first he thought that he might had left one of his Hogwarts' books outside the turck, but when he looked at the tittle he saw that it wasn't. It was a thin book, called "The game of life", with a wizard draw in the front, which meant that it wasn't from any of the Dursleys as anything magic related was forbidden. He flipped the pages looking for a name, or a clue, of were the book came, but the pages were blank.
Suddenly the book bursted into mots of light, and were absorbed into his body.
Wellcome to The Game of Life a floating text box said.
You are one of the lucky selection of individuals that had been choosen to live their lifes as videogames. As we are aware that not everyone has knowledge of the mecanics of videogames a instructions book is given to each fortunated individual. To obtain the instruction manual open the closer bookbag, closet, truck or similar item of your propiety.
Not knowing what was going on, Harry did the only thing that he could, go to his truck, at the bottom of his bed, and opened it. Instead of the things piled without much order inside the truck, he could see a bunch of ordened small boxes, some empty and other filled with miniature books, clothes or other items.
Congratulations!
You had discovered the inventory.
To unlock the instruction manual, and principal menus tap in the box containing the book labeled as Guide of "The Game of Life".
Harry looked carefully and soon found the thin book. He touched its box, the book dissapearing leaving the box empty, and a new message appeared.
Congratulations!
You have unlock the menu. To access the menu think of the word "Menu"
Congratulations!
You had complete your first mision "Find the instructions book".
More information into the matter could be located in the instructions inside the menu.
+50 exp points.
His life was a videogame Harry though, oddly calm. He though "MENU" and a text box with various options appeared: Intructions, Inventory, Character Sheet, Map (greyed out) and Shop.
Instructions taught Harry the basics of the game, he had a level the higher the stronger he was. To level up he had to gatter experience, throught missions or leveling up habilities. Missions were tasks, voluntary or not, given by the game that gave experience at completion. Habilities/Studies where diferent activities of daily life or subjects that you learn, repeating them or studing more difficult material level them up which improved the results obtained. And then there were the stats which were a numerical representation of how strong he was, which could be affected by different status. Finally the instructions could be accesed directly by thinking INSTRUCTIONS.
Inventory was something that Harry had already seen, but the explanation in the ? simbol was wellcomed. Inventory had a max capacity and could be accesed through diferent ways. Its capacity, ways of acces and other features could be improved leveling up or with galleons. For now it couldn't be accesed just thinking INVENTORY, but it could be unlockable in higher levels or paying an absurb amount of galleons. For now he could see the items in the inventory throught the menu, but could only access them through his truck or book bag, and had a total of 50 boxes in his truck (5 per character level) and another 10 in his bag (1 per character level).
Shop was self explaining, there for different amount of money (sometimes in diferent currencies too) you could buy different things, like the improvements for the truck, extra stat points, habilities and objects. It could be accessed directly by thinking SHOP.
The Map was an unlockable feature that showed a map of the surroundings, and places that you had visited in the pass. Sadly it was locked at the moment, but it could be unlocked leveling up (at level 15, the surroundings map) or obtaining maps of the places in other cases. Once unlocked it could be accessed thinking MAP.
And finally, the Character Sheet, as Harry thought that it should be the last one. It showed a drawing of him, fully dressed with his actual clothes, with numbers at its right showing his stats. And at the top his full name, level, tittle, HP and MP available and total.
Name: Harry Potter
Tittle: Non
Level 10 exp 100/1000
HP 496/496 *
MP 489/489 *
STR 8 *
RES 10 *
DEX 8 *
INT 7 *
WIS 9 *
CRE 8 *
The * indicating that there was something that was affecting those stats
At the left of him where boxes despicting his current clothes, and the instructions had said that it was there that he could change his clothes directly and that different clothes had different habilities and stats boost. He quickly equiped his wand and saw the items that he wearing and their effects:
Hat: none
Badly fitted glasses DEX -3
Old dirty shirt (non fitting) DEX -2
Old dirty trouser (non fitting) DEX -2
Old tapped trainer (non fitting) DEX -2
Cloak: none
Weapon 1: Olivander's wand (well fitted)
Weapon 2: none
Jewelery: none
He saw that his current clothes were hindering him, and bow to check his wizard clothes the next morning to see their stats
Finally Harry went to the other tabs available in the character sheet window. On this tab had his name, title, level and experience, and after that a list of titles to change into and his current habilities and studies and their progress, and other status that afected him. With a note that every levels of an hability he was awarded 5 exp and for each levels of a study subject he was awarded 10 exp.
TITLE (One allowed):
The gamer.
Boy who lived. 75% chance of being recogniced in the wizard word while not chosen. 100% when selected.
AFECTED BY:
- Starved: a badly balanced date and not enough meals had put you in this state. Three daily meals a day well balanced lets you remove this state. STR/RES -5, HP/HR/MP/MR -25%
- ??? (Inactive). ?????. When active: ???
- ??? (Pasive). ?????. ???. When active: ???
HABILITIES LV (__%)
- Gamer's Body. MAX
- Gamer's Mind. MAX
- Cooker. Level: 24 (46%). Food provide +1%MP/Lv of cooking hability
- Green tumb. Level 16 (46%). x 1,25 learning rate in herbology
- Runner. Level 20 (60%). +1 dex/res per 10 lv
- Pro cleaner. Level 27 (43%). Cleaning speed +0,035/lv (x1,945) 20% insta clean
- ????. ???. ?????
STUDIES LV (__%)
- Potions. 0 (1%)
- Charms. 0 (2%)
- Transfiguration. 0 (1%)
- Herbology. 0 (30%)
- History of magic. 0 (1%)
- Defence against the Dark Arts (DADA). 0 (1%)
- Astronomy: 0 (1%)
For now he decided to leave the title empty, the gamer sounded cool but he didn't want anybody to potencialy know that he was one. And he wasn't planning to use the other, not wanting to have even more attention on him.
The list of habilities indicated what he already suspected, he was good at cooking, gradering and cleaning because of chores, and running from escaping of Dudley and his gang, Gamer's body and mind were obvious, but the ? were a mistery that he wanted to solve.
On the other hand, his studies could be better.
PING!
New mision.
Discover the misterious habilities.
Rewards:
Knowledge about the habilities.
250 exp
The other showed a list of his current misions, one at the moment, and competed ones.
CURRENT MISIONS (1)
- Discover the misterious habilities. Rewards: Knowledge about the habilities. 250 exp.
COMPLETED MISIONS (1)
- Find the instructions book. Rewards: Unlocks inventory and menus. 50 exp.
After seen the diferent menus and tabs a little bit more, Harry finally went to bed. He was tired and tomorrow was a brand new day, full of exciting things, the day that he would start his wizard studies.
There were so many things that Harry didn't know about, but he was sure that with time he will. First thing was figuring out how his stats were compared to others, wondering if there was a way to know it. Then he would train and study and became better, stronger, more clever, he bowed to made his parents proud of him.