Chapter 5: The world outside

Chapter 5: The world outside

I have the skill Eavesdrop!

Yes!

This means that there are other prerequisites to gaining skills. Simply listening feeds into the listening skill but I’m guessing that I was able to listen to people who didn’t realise I was listening in order to gain my new skill. Another difference is the level of experience gained for this skill. I got 200 experience instead of the usual 100, so there must be stages to the skills. Beginner and at least intermediate but I’m still starting out so probably advanced and above too!

Maybe each one of my skills has a tree of skills based on it to level up to. Listening then Eavesdrop what would be next in this tree and what do I need to do to be able to get it? Are there different branches?

Mother is singing again. It sounds nice and is comforting. I’m not alone here even if I can’t respond. I was wondering if I can get smarter by listening to her singing. Fairly sure that was a thing back home people playing Mozart to babies to make them smarter. I remember thinking that seems a bit strange but it’s only got my brain thinking.

Now, I’m listening to the words trying to work them out, well working out what they mean might be impossible. But maybe I can get begin to get the sounds used and understanding what they are. I remember when I first started learning Japanese then it all just sounded like a big blur of sounds. Actually being able to hear the separate sounds took me at least 3 months to work out where one word started and the next ended. I’m guessing I’ll be learning a new language here. Then at least I can get a leg up.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. It isn't so much that the world inside my head is different it's that I simply don't know what anything is. Everything is a guess and the only way to work out what the world might be like is through listening. Eavesdropping on others to make a guesstimate at what I might be expecting.

I’m listening to this house trying to imagine what the world outside looks like and even if I don’t know what the words mean yet, I can start guessing. Maybe I can even learn the songs you don’t need to know what the words mean to sing along. Other than that it is taking me longer and longer to level up the skills I have.

1 hour for the first level

2 hours for the second

4 hours for the third

8 hours for the fourth

Finally, 16 hours for the fifth level of each skill and that skill level isn’t gaining me any more experience than the first. Compounded with the fact that the experience required for my overall level to improve is also going up exponentially. I might have made it to Level 5 for my time sense now but the key to my continued overall growth is going to be getting intermediate skills and hopefully advanced skills as well.

Level: 4 Experience: 200/3200 Age: 14 days

Health: 40/40 Stamina: 13/33 Mana 50/50

Vitality: 4

Endurance: 3

Strength: 3

Dexterity: 3

Senses: 7

Mind: 50

Clarity: 5

Magic: 5

Free Points: 40

Skills: Time sense (LV 5) Listening (LV 4) Meditation (LV 3) Sense Mana (LV 2) Swimming (LV 1) Eavesdrop (LV 1)

My last thought before sleep claims me once more is can babies get claustrophobia?