He's had asthma attacks before. Kind of a pain, but a fact of life. Not even that scare, since he has a rescue inhaler.
It's not here. It's probably downstairs, and if Theo weren't in the middle of making breakfast his uncanny Scott- sense would have already kicked in- but instead, he's downstairs, and doesn't notice until Scott has already tumbled down the stairs.
When he hits his head against the wall, Theo is rushing to his side, but he's already gone.
The totem lights up and changes color, from gray to a blue-white scheme that is vaguely wind-like. It glows faintly.
What, no helpful narration?
"Okay, so we have an air totem. I wonder if we can finally do something."
A new bookmark appears in the book, it glows.
It leads to a page titled "Know Your Totems" in elaborate cursive.
The page after that there is a picture of the small totem, under the name "smol air totem" and with the following description:
The weakest air totem, but it can produce a gust of wind that no human could with their lungs. Basic air manipulation. Single use.
"Okay, so we need to find more totems. Pre-totems, whatever. I think this calls for some exploration."
So they walk, Theo carrying his totem and his lantern.
He places the diary in the chest before they go on.
"Quest complete!" Chirps the mental voice. There is a shower of sparkles, they gather in a sphere that appears in front of them and then vanishes.
A new quest shows up.
Goals: find new totems. 0/5
Hint: the mischievous totems-spirits relocate the totems around, if you can't find a totem in one place, try again an hour later. They like to hide slightly out of sight.
Great.
He places the diary in the chest, and they do what they were planning to do anyway.
"It's a game, Scott. There's a way to win, and they're just a minor obstacle."
"Life isn't usually a video game. This is a little weird, but I don't think we can just assume anything."
Shrug.
They walk further from the beach, looking for somewhere totems could be hiding.
Well, there is that one place, that is on that another place.
Scott, might soon realize that the red dots announce the sudden materialization of a totem.
Is there some sort of condition for this one?
Lucky they left the diary behind so it doesn't bother them!
Yup and once he opens the quest page there is more showers of sparkles and the sphere of energy gets full.
Level up!
+1 speed
+1 stamina
+1 magic
+10 health
Extra Health boost from leveling up, doubled health until damaged.
From Scott's perspective a grid of dots in a four by four configuration rises from the ground and "projects" the words in the air. While another grid of red dots rise behind Theo and shoots beams of light that don't appear to have any obvious effect until the second grid turns towards Scott and shoots him. Then the entire light show vanishes.
Scott feels considerable more solid and less transparent than before. Not all the way to normal though.
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