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[h3]~The cavern~[/h3]
[@Lucius Cypher][@Zeroth]- Hunting with Orchid
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Before she could reply to Orchid about the rat, a screen suddenly popped up similar to when she had earned that 'Charisma' skill.

[quote=System:Ash]
LEVEL UP!

Your experiences have culminated into new power. You have earned Skill Points to be distributed as you please.

Unspent Skill Points: 
5

Current Skills:
Stun Fang (1.0)
Poison Spit (1.5)
Overwork I (1.0)
Alchemy I (1.6)
Charisma I (1.0)
<UNUSABLE> Muffle (0.5) <UNUSABLE>
<UNUSABLE> Crafting (0.3) <UNUSABLE>
<UNUSABLE> Alert (0.3) <UNUSABLE>
<UNUSABLE> Venom Shot (0.3) <UNUSABLE>
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Level...up? Wasn't that something used in video games?  Ash looked at the screen in front of her, grimacing as she realized the implications of that. She had never even touched the things in her life - too focused on work and other things. It...couldn't be too hard to adjust to something like this, could it? It was clear the world didn't function as it did on earth, so she'd just need to learn everything. Skill points, though? 

[color=598527]"Ah...thanks."[/color] Ash replied. Might as well eat as much as she could so the food wouldn't go to waste. Not having arms to carry things in was becoming more and more annoying, wasn't it? As Orchid skinned the rat, Ash gorged herself on the meat she could get her claws on. Skills, eh? This seemed like an easy system for anyone with a brain to be able to cheat. Muffle, Crafting, Alert, and Venom shot seemed like the ones she should invest in. The ones she couldn't use yet, but if her assumptions about each skill point spent only added '.1' to the skill, then the only one she'd be able to learn is muffle.

Hmm, she didn't want to spend Skill Points unless she had too, it seemed. If she could learn things simply by doing them, then why would someone waste skill points on it? The names of these skills itself was a huge indication to what she could do with them, and she was fairly certain 'muffle' was related to some sort of silencing effect on something. Alert probably had something to do with Awareness, and crafting was well, related to crafting things likely. The only one that possibly interested her right now, was Venom Shot but she couldn't learn it. Hmm, she could level up Alchemy and Poison Spit too...but they would both become better in time.

Did she have to use them? She wasn't really familiar enough with games to understand how they all worked. However...'Unspent Skillpoints' likely meant she didn't have to use them here. Maybe she could save them until the next 'Level Up'? Or was there a way to use them later? Something she'd think about before going to bed. 

[color=598527]"Hmm...? Plants?"[/color] Ash had been lost in thought like she usually got when distracted with something. She had eaten almost half the rat by herself it seemed and hadn't really been listening to Orchid. [color=598527]"Rope? Oh, rope. Right. Ahem...the only plants I know of are the green herbs growing by the pond, but I wouldn't recommend using them as rope. I could be wrong because I haven't messed with them myself, but I think they may have healing properties if I can make a few mildly educated guesses."[/color] Ash backed away from the pile of meat from the rat, tasting the air with her lizard senses again and seeing if she could pick up any other dire Rat in the area.  [color=598527]"It's getting late, so we should hurry before all the animals scurry off into their nests."[/color]