Ruff..?
A blinding white flash encompassed the land and, a deafening, loud, booming sound came and changed it all.
YOU HAVE GAINED SENTIENCE!
‘Where am I? What am I?... Who am I?’ I thought as woke up in dense ocean of green trees. I could have sworn I was just recently waiting for my master to return. A blue transparent screen was floating only 10 inches from my face. What were these words? I didn’t know what words like sentience was, or “gained” it was a funny word.
I looked around, I was not alone. Some distance away I could hear and smell critters, and possibly other dogs.
RUFF RUFF!
NEW LANGUAGE CREATED: ‘RUFFISH’
Ignoring the screen I ran as fast as my legs could take me for my master, I was …show more content…
getting terribly hungry and could not see any signs that may lead to my home. As I reached towards the source of noise, it became more and more noisy.
A group, or can I say, a large group of dogs were in a circle looking as if they were discussing something. Many different breeds, small, big, thick coated and thin alike sat. As I galloped closer I started to pick up on their conversation.
“We’re smarter than the cats now!” One of the bigger dogs said.
“Yeah!” Followed the crowd, with a welcomed howl.
“How can that be possible!? The cats were always smarter than us!” One small poodle argued.
“No they weren’t! They were just… mean! Yeah! Mean!” The bigger dog replied.
At that moment, one of the dogs asked a question that changed what they were talking about entirely.
“Friends… where are humans?” A pitbull said, curiously.
“The hoomans are just gone for walk, right?” A dachshund replied.
“Who’ll feed me? Who’ll take care of me” A great dane panicked as he started to cry.
“Hooman! Where you at!? We need you to feed us good meat!!!” A doberman shouted.
“Wait guys, what happened if they are just planning a birthday party-” A german shepherd said.
“Again for the last time, no one cares that it's your birthday today!” The doberman shouted, angrily.
“Ahem!” I interrupt them with a short cough, they all look at me with worry in their eyes, quick flashes of fear then finally trust.
“Friends, have you seen my master, I have just woken up from my nap, last thing I remember was the big light.” I continued.
They do not reply only looking at me, the bigger doberman responds finally. “We are also facing the same problems… friend… We all have woken up recently as well.”
“Yes, the light! It was so bright, one thing i know for sure is that my favorite tree is still here” The german shepherd walked over to the tree. It reeked of his piss. “Next to this tree was my house, and my masters home! But here we are standing and no masters home!” he continued rambling.
“I’m scared…” the great dane said as he whined in sadness. If there was one thing I could collect with my newfound “setience” is that where ever our masters are, they are gone.
YOU HAVE GAINED A TITLE: THINKER
None of these made any sense to me, but every time these “statuses” appeared something good would follow. Concentrating on it information of it was displayed.
TITLE:
THINKER
Info: This title grants the user +2 Intelligence and +2 wisdom for thinking the right questions, even if that question doesn’t necessarily have an answer.
Looking around, after the old dobermans words, most of the animals were starting to panic, some whining and others just looking down at the ground. Finding the opportunity, I try to lighten the mood up.
“Friends, now is not the time to be scared, we have a very hard life ahead of us. We may never know how long till we see our masters again! Weeks? Months? Years? Some of us cannot last an hour without getting our ears scratched. We must band together! For our masters!” I said, trying to motivate them, many of the words I used I could remember my master using them. I tried my best to sound like the smartest in this group.
YOU HAVE GAINED A SKILL: INSPIRE I
SKILL: INSPIRE I, IS EFFECTIVE
Quickly the mood of the group changed, this odd group of 16 or so, started a cheer of singing, howling and nonsensical joking. I join them as we sit around the big beech tree, its sprouting limbs gave us shade from the hot summer sun.
“So what do we do now?” Asked the german shepherd, looking at me.
The rest of the dogs also looked at me, puzzled. The speech lightened their mood, but the unknown of what's to come for now and later made them look to me for answers.
NEW MISSION: ASSUME LEADERSHIP
Info: This pack of dogs look toward you for guidance, assume leadership of this pack.
(Y/N)
Reward: Leader title, access to race management
This sounded like something way over my head, I didn't not know what management meant but previous to this event my master made me take some leadership courses and house training, maybe that is what It meant. I look around, most of the dogs were small, the rest where german shepherds, Bull mastiffs, and Dobermans. I was a German Shepherd, my family was breed as the local german police dogs, but my master grew to love me and made me as his pet instead. My stomach growls, and I say.
“For now friends, let us find some food. As the … Leader of this group no one will grow hungry till we find our masters!”
YOU ARE NOW THE LEADER OF THIS GROUP, PLEASE NAME IT
I think for a second, and choose “Hunds”.
YOU ARE NOW THE LEADER OF THIS RACE “HUNDS”. More/
I click on more, looking at it for more information.
Race Status
Name: Hunds (50034th)
DP: 0
(average) Health Points
100
MP:
100
Population:
19
(average)Strength
10
DEX
10
(average)Vitality
10
INT
10
Charisma
10
Agi
10
Racial Traits:
Intelligence I, Loyal
AN/: 10 and 100 are starter points, for example 100 for a tiger is bigger than a 100 for dog because other things play into it like natural skin.
A loud ping suddenly sounded, and everyone looked at their screens.
SYSTEM SCANNING - COMPLETE
EVALUATING RACE SCORE AND STATISTICS
RACE RANKING (TENTATIVE)
1. DRAGONS
2. ELVES
3. DWARVES
4. TROLLS
5. GOBLINS
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54. TIGERS
55. ELEPHANTS
56. BULLS
57. CONSTRICTORS
58. SHARKS
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194. HOGS
195. DEER
196. SHEEP
197. LLAMA
198. CATS
199. DOGS
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555. SEAGULLS
556. MOLES
557. BADGERS
558. OTTERS
559. RATS
.....
….
50034. HUNDS
(AN/: The races as a whole is shown, not specific factions, the mc isn’t the only dog leader. After a while specific factions will be shown as things stabilize.)
SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT SCAN:
1100
RANKING LIMIT FOR THE NEXT SCAN:
500 SPOTS
WARNING:
UNRANKED RACE WILL RECEIVE SENTIENCE REMOVAL
INITIATING REWARDS DISTRIBUTION
REWARDS:
RANK 1-200
+ Racial Trait
+ Patron God
+ Race Mutation (2)
+ Improved acquisitions (Skill and Stat)
RANK 201-500
+ Racial Trait
+ Patron God
+ Race Mutation (1)
RANK 501-1000
+ Racial Trait
+ Patron God
I quickly look through all this information and try to absorb it. A few of the other dogs could understand it while the others were too dull to comprehend any of it.
“For now brethren let us worry about food and shelter, and find more of our kind.” I say while dismissing my screen.