After another 15 minutes of trying different weapons, I got a list of notifications. The weird thing about these skills so far is that they seem to be catch-all skills. When I got ‘One-Handed sword mastery’ it was level 6. I was 'Dual wielding' two short swords. Then I moved onto a claymore my dad got at a renaissance fair. After getting a skill called Two-Handed sword mastery, I got another level in ‘One-Handed sword mastery.’ It seems that different types of a weapon just fall under that skill or skills similar to it there may be multiple sword skills out there. But at the same time, I can increase the skills level faster if I use different types of swords. There's probably a limit somewhere with how many levels I can get by just swinging different types of swords, axes, or, knives.

  Wait why are the two handed and one handed swords mastery skills different what the hell is with this system. Shaking my head I look at the other interesting thing I found out after going through [form one], so many times with different weapons I got it to 99%. That's not the interesting thing when I tried to figure out what form one did. I found that I needed to say [skill description] then the skill. That took me longer than I want to admit. If I didn't already have a list of skills and windows opening up, I would think I was crazy. Back to [form one] after getting its description I had a moment to wonder if I should have stayed in martial arts.

  Form one gives a boost. The part about ‘only having one hand to hand form active at a time’ makes me think that I could have more than one form active if it was for something else.

  Saying [menu] and choosing [skill list] lead to this happening.

  I've got seven skills out of a question mark; fucking dawn could have made this a little easier on us. I walk out of my dad's room to get ready for school. Rechecking the clock, it shows 7:55 so I'll probably be late for my first day of school. Smiling a little, I'll at least have a good excuse for why I'm late after all it's the end of the world and this time they may even believe me.

  Grabbing a piece of paper and one of the pens lining on the counter I start writing down what I know and what I suspect. To gain a weapon skill you have to use it like a weapon not just swing it around. The system responds to voice commands like [menu], [status], [skill list], [affinity list] and who knows what else. Weapon skills can be leveled by using different types of the weapon. There may be a limit to how many times you can do this. Form skills are passive boosts. At every ten levels of a skill, you get an experience bonus.

  Then what a suspect can be done. More than one form can be active at a time what those forms are, are still unknown. Skills have to be actively used to rediscover or gain. Elemental affinities are discovered by interacting with the element maybe.

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  Next, I write a list of skills I know exist which is eight. I put the pen down an…

  I Star blankly at the blue screen I grabbed the pen again and.

  After 5 notifications I'm wondering if that god wanted to fuck with us more than help us grow.

  Adding to the skill list and then what I know list. I also add a few things to the suspect list like different skills have different rewards. And that god Dawn just wanted something entertaining to watch. Placing the list into my pocket, grabbing my backpack and taking a deep breath I say “fuck you dawn”.

  Taking the keys to my dads sedan I walk out the door into the hallway of the apartment building. It's quiet, no noise or sounds of people moving around it's a bit unnerving.shaking of the feeling I walk to the elevator the hallway is painted a light blue and well a hallway there are doors and an elevator. The elevator leads to the parking lot or the lobby.

  After taking the elevator to the parking lot. I start wondering why there's still a lot of cars here. Walking over to my dads car and unlocking it, would anyone else even actually be at the school when there's a week till things get worse.

  After starting the car and pulling out of the parking lot. I drive into Longmont. Longmont's a nice town small but nice. Driving towards the public library and passing through an intersection I think about what I might find when I get to the school maybe a…

  Stopping in the middle of the intersection I quickly look around I don't see any other cars. I start driving again. Wondering if I can minimize notification while they pop up or something. Because when I get into a fight (there's no way I'm not getting into one in this situation)these fucking windows might honestly get me killed.

  Sighting I say [menu] “ notification minimization, notification stopping, [notification list active].” i Looking at this I have to think that dawn is passively trying to kill us more than he's actively trying to, at least for this week maybe.

  Focusing on my driving and contemplating praying to Dawn so that I can tell him to fucking rot. I pass main street head heading towards the high school, and possibly more information about this fucking apocalyptic game world was being forced into. Maybe I'm just being optimistic on that but hey, optimistic is better than just sitting around waiting for the world to end I hope.