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[nijistaryume]

greetings from idf hq where it is SUPER BORING
everyone's been out on assignment all the time.....
i'm already done studying, even the stuff i don't really care about!
AND tried to copy azra-nee's axe moves but with a stick i found in the yard
AND tried on all cami-nee's tiaras
AND listened to snori-san talk about how back in their day something something dwarven superior craftsmanship something something get off my lawn
AND fed all the cats
AND used my heraldry notes to design a momo-chan coat of arms
behold


majestic. it even follows all the rules.
but like what else is there to do??
soliciting video links, games, and/or other suggestions
(any creepers get cursed)
(i can totally do that)
(or if i don't do you want to risk it???)

Comments

[boldlydanforth]

find things to do? Spin? Burn coal? work bellows? uhhhh

those are probably handled by magic or perfectly reasonable water power I realize but i'm grasping at straw as much as you are

[nijistaryume]

they also sound really boring.......
is that actually what you would do for fun in another world???

[boldlydanforth]

No. but clothes gotta get made and fires gotta burn hot.

could go find whatever version of throwball or kick ball is available. if neither are, try to reinvent futbol.

[nijistaryume]

i'm pretty sure you need a team for team sports and there aren't any other kids around here
i guess if i go into town?? but that's pretty far and i can just hear the "no you need adult supervision what if bandits." what IF bandits. i bet i could beat them up.
or i COULD if they would let me learn to FIGHT
anyway i guess you do that a lot huh? the sports stuff

[boldlydanforth]

Surprisingly, no. Oh, I've made some efforts to "stay in shape", but other than standing and walking for hours on end, it's been not that much.

[nijistaryume]

huh :o i just thought since this isn't the first time you mentioned it! but maybe it's just popular where you are

[boldlydanforth]

My dad loved watching team sports. a lot.

[nijistaryume]

ig that makes sense
i don't know anything about team sports! wait that's a lie i learned some stuff in like gym
i was p good at track and field i guess but even if there's teams for that you don't really WORK w other people
i mean aside from like the baton pass at the sports festival at school and stuff

[fashionable_yapping]

Creepers, huh? I have to deal with those on my streams. So annoying. I just ban them on sight, though.

As for handling boredom, I dunno, learn a new hobby? Make something?

[nijistaryume]

i guess so
idk what i can make? michael-san started talking about like spinning cloth and stuff but that sounds way boring

[lightnovelexperiences]

didn't you know? all craftdwarfship is of the highest quality.

spinning is boring but don't knock it, imagine giving your besties +2 Scarves of Protection made of the golden fleece or whatever. I am absolutely sure that kind of craftwise bullshit exists in a universe like yours where dwarves and marking your profession as 'adventurer' are things that exist

[nijistaryume]

pretty much only invaders talk about stats actually..... and i think they're full of it, i've never seen anyone's "stat screen"
i mean if i really try i can see MINE but idk what the numbers mean except mine are prob pretty low
some guy said azra-nee had 80 strength once when he was monologuing about how he was way stronger and could never be beaten (except then she cut off his head while he was talking bc he was going on forEVER)
(it was kinda gross but also cool)
and i have like. 5 strength? maybe i should lift weights or smth
so the stat screen's just annoying and i never use it
don't think items that make you stronger are an actual thing unless it's like dwarf runes and snori-san doesn't share that stuff

[lightnovelexperiences]

over here we definitely have character sheets, but how much they mean is a serious topic of debate

I mean, I have 9 - wait, it went up to 9? huh - 9 Vigor and 9 Spirit but I couldn't tell you exactly what that means now that I'm living it

I am stronger than most humans here who aren't also soldiers or warriors of some kind but I'm not sure how much

I wouldn't discount the possibility of it representing something, but Azra kind of proved that stats aren't everything, and depending on stats over tactics and keeping your head is almost good way to lose it

[nijistaryume]

that's what the idf's about!!
that and if invaders cheat you cheat back
i guess it kinda comes to the same thing
still wish they'd let me fight but i guess now i know to try and lift weights
maybe i'd get buff like azra-nee??
wait there's different kinds of strong right

[lightnovelexperiences]

and different kinds of minmaxing

i'm certain that the vigor / agility / spirit / mind / resolve quintfecta doesn't actually apply to you but they're all broken in different ways in AWO

or were, before it stopped being AWO the game and started being Mundus, the world

[nijistaryume]

so you guys plan out being really good at one thing and sucking at everything else bc it makes you stronger, huh...

[lightnovelexperiences]

it looks a lot different on the ground. it's not assigning points anymore, it's waking up and seeing that your doing pushups means your Vigor increased

[nijistaryume]

so... basically if i have this right it was always that way for the ppl who live there (npcs to you)
but now it's like that for you too bc you're not playing a game anymore but you're in actual real life

[lightnovelexperiences]

Mundanes to us. we don't call them NPCs.

the amazing griefers call them that, we don't.

but then they probably called people from home NPCs.

[nijistaryume]

yeah i definitely know THOSE ppl
this is gonna sound really bad but
do you still come back to life

[lightnovelexperiences]

probably but I don't want to find out until after I attune to a local temple

[nijistaryume]

so you don't know if you can just kill these guys too huh