Chapter 64: Luck be a lady tonight

Chapter 64: Luck be a lady tonight

“There are rules to luck. Not everything is chance to the wise; luck can be helped by skill.”

Baltasar Gracian

I had already had two naps today. So, even though I was tiring quicker than I used to, I was not actually tired when everyone else went to bed. Aleera regaled me with the story of the tortoise and the hare. She had to explain the animals to me first seeing as I had never seen one in this life before. The story itself was the same as the one in my world. There were no last-minute deaths to gain experience. The differences lay in the fact that the tortoise won the race because the hare in the story was imbalanced. They had focused on one attribute alone. Until, they were all speed, no strength, endurance, or vitality. Let’s just say it didn’t end well for the hare.

Regardless, I listened to Aleera fall asleep, then mother, then father, Grandfather had gone for a walk so guess he was walking it off and thinking it out. But that left me with my wheels spinning. More so than usual, as my body still refused to move. I was safe the world had fallen asleep so I left my body to sleep and fell into my own world.

I hadn’t spent much time here recently but my home away from home was all still there. The Rooms waiting for me to return, But I had some limits on what I could do here now.

I needed to avoid adding any more to my mind,

I had to stop supplementing my senses,

I had to avoid adding any more to clarity,

Vitality would be fine to add to but that was the one stat I had never managed to add to within my mind.Ñ00v€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.

Strength also was something that would be a challenge to achieve. It was difficult to build your muscles with your mind alone.

Endurance was pretty much the same. I was not sure where magic would fall in all of this but perhaps it was just best to avoid it as much as I loved it and the potential if offered for the moment.

6 heads to 4 tails.

A minute later,

7 heads to 3 tails.

A minute later,

8 heads to 2 tails.

Was I getting better at getting heads because of luck or simply because I was starting heads up to start off with anyway? I wasn’t sure.

I decided to stop trying to catch the coin and just let it land. That seemed be a fairer way to practice this.

100 throws in I was 60 heads and 40 tails. So 2 points of luck seemed to be working pretty well in my favour. But then I remembered an old statistics lesson about how many times you had to test a variable to have a statistically reliable result.

If I recalled correctly, and I was getting better and better at that, what with the weird and wonderful skills I was gaining, then I needed to be doing a sample size of at least 10,000 to reduce my statistical error to 1% which could very well wipe out any advantage 2 points of luck gave me.

I groaned, I could be here a while. Maybe save the dice rolling for another night.

I whiled away the night while my stamina slowly dropped down to zero. Admittedly it only felt like it was slowly dropping to zero. As with my brain moving quicker inside my head than outside all time was still subjective. Soon in the real world, I was soon sound asleep like the rest of my family.

Only to be rudely awakened by the words, "You're lying."