Chapter 10: Fortress of solitude

Chapter 10: Fortress of solitude

Day 100 of self isolation!

I’ve been locked in here for 100 days without being able to say a single word.

Without pardon or parole the length of my sentence is ambiguous and unclear

Unable to move properly, still gaining control over my limbs.

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I have listened carefully to the world outside waiting for my day to come.

I have faced these blank glowing walls that undulate and I have rebuilt my own world within my mind

I might not be getting out today but today is a good day.

I have new skills!

Skill: Mind fortress

My daydreams have developed a depth, density and permanence to them now. Not so much a dream as an internal world I can escape into.

I know it isn’t a new world but it is real in a way this world somehow recognises.

My fortress is a set of rooms based on the golden spiral idea of the Fibonacci sequence. It is a way for me to build rooms that are sequenced but are structured. A way for me to easily tell the difference between them and I'm still growing it.

The first room of my fortress is my core, my ID, my stats and status. One of the smallest rooms at the center of the spiral. It is a 1 by 1 block that I first daydreamed about with my two self portraits on either side and a wall for my stats at the end.

It seems that after holding this image of a room long enough in my consciousness, as a place to retreat to from the womb, I gained my first level in Mind fortress.

Not only did I gain a new skill but it isn’t a beginner (100 exp), intermediate (200 exp) or even advanced (400exp). It’s even beyond the next level. Not gaining me 800 exp but 1600 experience per level!

Finally I feel I have seized the opportunity to make the most of this new stat system of mine. Who knows? Maybe I can make it to level 10 before my birth day. Especially if I can somehow use my mind fortress to level up some physical skills or continue to level the skills I already have with some form of persistent levelling.

I wonder if I can fall asleep when I am in here?

Going to head to my meditation room, lay out a futon and take a mental nap. Before I tackle the largest challenge yet of getting to level 8.

Level: 7 Experience: 1,100/25,600 Age: 100 days

Health: 120/120 Stamina: 93/93 Mana 160/160

Vitality: 12

Endurance: 8

Strength: 8

Dexterity: 8

Senses: 21

Mind: 77

Clarity: 17

Magic: 16

Free Points: 70

Skills: Time sense (LV 9) Listening (LV 8) Meditation (LV 8) Sense Mana (LV 8) Swimming (LV 5) Eavesdrop (LV 8) Memorisation (LV 8) Echolocation (LV 8) Recall (Lv8) Composition (Lv 6) Mind fortress (Lv 5)

Skill experience: 12,200

Origin experience: 1000