Remnant of a gamer Chapter 1 - New game, a rwby fanfic

Level 1

It was late at night in my house. Or early in the morning depending on whether you cared to think about it. I certainly didn't. I had fallen in love with the story of RWBY and had just found out about the chibi episodes. In the wake of the volume 4 ending I had fallen back into my familiar boredom and needed something to fill the void called free time. Popcorn and humor filled that void fantastically. Fanfictions filled it too but I had read most of the ones I was interested in. Sure there was always more but after a while you get tired of it. All of these factors worked in tandem to lead me to watch the series at 1 in the morning in my bed. Sadly, however "Why am I awake? I have to get up tomorrow." Was in the way of animated adorableness and buttery goodness. Oh wait! All the popcorn's gone. Now there was no excuse. I had to go to bed or sleep till noon again… But then again – NOPE! Time to sleep. And with that thought process I shut off the lights and went to bed.

I woke up groggily on my cold hard bed… Wait, my bed was only moderately hard and certainly not cold. With that my eyes shot open quickly and I saw that I was outside and in a forest. What the hell happened last night?! In a flash I came to several conclusions as I wiped the sleep from my eyes. 1. This was a dream, which was unlikely, as I didn't dream often, 2. I was kidnapped and left in a forest, which was more unlikely since I wasn't very important and nobody I knew was interesting enough to pull off such a large-scale prank, and 3. Something batshit crazy was going on. Option number 3 was proven to be correct as a blue screen popped up in my face.

Welcome to the game, Grady!

Due to your boring as dirt life a certain higher power decided to screw with you! Isn't that fun? You've been transported to the world of Remnant from that show you've watched. It was decided to gift you a power to aid you in your new life as you have nothing to guide you as of now. So you were given the gift of games, also called the gamer.

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" …WHAT THE HELL?!" Was my general thought process as I stared at the window in front of me. "Magical blue windows don't just appear in front of you… lets see where this goes." And with that I tapped the screen.

This gamer ability will be the key to your continued existence in remnant. There is no tutorial, as this follows the rules used in the manga called "The Gamer". Inventory, stats, levels, etc. is all there. They are activated upon voice command or thought command. We kind higher powers have given you this so you may be our soap opera for your continued life.

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The thought that I would be peeped on by stalker gods was EXTREMELY uncomfortable for me to think about so I pushed those concerns into the back of my mind and I instead recalled my memories of the gamer. The general idea was "git gud or die" with the addition of video game powers. I was feeling better about accepting this new life of mine and pressed the page button one more time

You may have concerns about your previous life. Don't worry; a clone of you is continuing your pathetic existence as a measly teenager just as you would. However, the more pressing matter of your survival is at stake. In return for leaving you in forest populated by grimm we have gifted you with two weapons most suited for you and activated your aura (NOTE: The gamer is not your semblance). Follow the quests and head west for a mile or so. Good luck!

END MESSAGE

"I hate and love this" was my first thought after finishing the text box, which automatically disappeared after I read the last word. I hated it because these so-called "Higher powers" were real assholes and were blatantly condescending; yet I was in a world I idolized and had the perfect power for survival. My family wasn't even affected! That is, unless this was all a lie, which was pretty hard to believe at this point. "Time to get to business" I thought. "Stats"

Grady Andrews

Title: The Gamer

Level – 1

HP – 91/91 (+.91/min)

AP – 195/195 (+22.1/min)

STR -5 (+30%)=6.5

VIT -7 (+30%)=9.1

DEX -8 (+30%)=10.4

INT -15 (+30%)=19.5

WIS -17 (+30%) =22.1

LUK -9

CHR -9

POINTS - 0

LIEN – 0

"That's…Really good I think." For a level one that was pretty weak in physical stats but those mental ones were off the charts! The aura also helped. I immediately decided to be a mage class or aura warrior or something based around aura. This was all too good for me. With my semb-I mean, ability, I was able to manipulate spells and such instinctually and learn complex techniques that would require memorization that would take lots of training to use. That and limited aura was the only downfall of relying on your aura. Reliability and aura. With my ability, though, I could pull off any fancy tricks with aura as well as regenerate it pretty fast. I then stopped that train of thought. Using magic or advanced aura techniques was high-level stuff. I wasn't supposed to know that stuff, other than basic fire bolts and such using dust. I needed to blend in with the first years at beacon, which, assuming I'm entertainment for some jackass gods, I will be.

Correctly guessing your divine plan and thinking on how to do it has given you 2 WIS

That helps! And two?! That helps a lot! So anyways, I will be going to beacon and I will need a weapon to blend in and not expose my ability to anyone I don't trust. I'll probably tell my team at beacon so I don't have to hold back while fighting Torchwick or Cinder. Back to the present though, I was in a forest with grimm and my aura was probably going to draw some soon. And with that…"Inventory!"

And with that an inventory screen popped up. There were tabs labeled at the top with things like "Weapons, armor, apparel, and several more unorthodox ones like misc. for what I assumed meant miscellaneous and recent loot, which was reminded me - "Auto loot on" I said out loud. A blue box briefly appeared saying auto loot was turned on and I grinned. Explaining grimm dropping money would be annoying and difficult. I focused on the tabs again and noticed a little one exponent in weapons. Going to that tab I found a spear just sitting in there. I equipped it and found in my hand in a white light, like when an item breaks in the sword art online anime but in reverse. I studied the spear for a moment, going over the design of it when I got a message.

New skill acquired!

Observe

-Cost: Free; Active skill-

Through continuous observation observe object or people to acquire information on the targeted entity. More information available upon higher levels.

Spear – Just an average spear with a metal tip that looks a lot like a triangle. Designed more for stabbing than slicing.

Durability – 300/300 - Base damage - 45

Oh good, I needed that skill. I'm pretty sure that I got more information from a glance at the spear with my own eyes than I did with observe though. Damage probably changed with vital spots and whatnot. Then there was armor and all that so I let the issue go. Then I noticed another little exponent in the inventory screen, this one a two under skill books. My grin from earlier grew wider as the thought of getting free skills and what they would be was like a Christmas present for me. I opened up the tab and used observe on the book.

Skill book – Basic aura attacks by Monty Oum

Aura blast

-Cost: 20 AP; Active skill-

A blast of aura straight from your soul designed more to push an enemy away than to hurt them. Not effective at anything but close combat.

Damage: 25 + Knockback

Aura arrow

-Cost: 10 AP; Active skill-

An arrow made of a bit of Aura and flung at an enemy. Ripped off directly from the manga. These work best at long range.

Damage: 15 (per arrow); Arrows: 2

Aura bolt

-Cost: 35 AP; Active skill-

A lance of aura flung at your opponent at high speed. This bolt has a lot of mass and as such causes a small shockwave upon impact. You should bench-press this and get manly, chicken wings.

Damage: 70 + minor shockwave

I cringed a bit at the chicken arms insult and looked at my skinny arms. Even with aura I was weaker than average Joe. I remembered in my former life my little brother could overpower me. And my classmates. And my underclassmen. And I'm pretty sure my grandma or grandpa. But HA! I'm smart! Look at me now! I'm a badass in the making here! A badass who gets teased by his ability and even enhanced can't match an average guy in arm wrestling.

That the book was written by Monty Oum, one of the leading minds behind RWBY, wrote it was curious, but the need for skills necessary for my survival was more important than who wrote it at the moment. I then absorbed the skill book. The rush of knowledge was almost euphoric. It was like it was a part of me now, which I supposed it was. I flung two arrows at a tree with a wave of my hand as a test and smiled as they dug into a tree a bit. I would NOT want to be hit with one of those. They were easy to aim too. It was like hand – eye coordination but more like focus and it shall happen. I checked the skills screen and saw the exp. meter had risen about 10% on the arrows. Since it was easy to make the arrows and use them I decided to train them along my hike to Vale by flinging them at trees, waiting for my aura to recharge, and flinging some more. I might as well do something on the way. Just hiking on it's own was pretty boring. I learned that on several camping trips with my father. Also, I might as well keep my AP regeneration working. I needed to keep a pool of aura for any grimm that are bound to attack. I checked the sun's position to find west and headed that direction.

Quest acquired!

Follow the yellow brick road

It's dangerous in the woods. Make it to the city and let your adventure really begin.

Objectives

-Make it to Vale

Optional objectives

-Kill a beowolf (500 lien)

Rewards: 500 XP, safety, ?

Time limit: 6 Hours

Failure: Death by grimm

Seems like it's time to go.

1 Hours later

Aura arrows leveled up! Aura arrows leveled up! Aura arrows leveled up! ! Aura arrows leveled up!

Hiking was boring. Even with the satisfaction of the well aimed aura arrows, which now did 23 damage courtesy of the four level ups. I also observed some trees and birds and stuff that I saw, leveling it twice in the process. The ability was free and useful so why not level it? After a while going west I had realized I didn't need to walk since I had boundless stamina and started sprinting through the brush. I got a skill for running and even gained a point in DEX and VIT for jumping over some obstacles and just running in general!

New skill acquired!

Run

-Cost: 5 AP/min; Active/passive skill-

It's as said, which is running. You run. That's it. This does not affect your speed when trying to walk fast or crawl or anything like that.

+5% speed when running passively

+25% speed when actively running

After a few minutes though, more like 10 or 15 if I had to guess, in which I stopped casting aura arrows so often and brought it down to a bit more than once a minute, I tripped on a tree root and fell on my face. I lost some HP and got some dirt on my clothes. I then decided to go at a cautious jog and be a little quieter. I kept the skill and aura arrow training though. My level in the aura skill increased a few times too while casting.

Aura – lv.4

-Passive skill-

To defend against the dark man used the light of their soul to give strength beyond that of the unenlightened.

Effects: +34% STR, DEX, VIT, INT, and WIS

Allows control over body's aura

After a while though I heard something and froze. It was the sound of leaves and twigs breaking, and this time it wasn't me. I listened very carefully and heard a few things. Birds chirping, my own heartbeat, and a sort of panting, although faint. A blue screen appeared but I ignored it for now. I turned towards the panting sound and saw a beowolf crouched as if ready to pounce. It was a scary looking thing. I'd seen the show's animation of it, of course, but seeing it in person was still scary as hell. It was a tall and lanky thing. There wasn't much muscle though as far as I could tell. It wasn't as wolf-like as I'd expected. The limbs were long with smooth inky black fur and claws colored bone-white. There were spines on it's back and a bony exoskeleton around it. I was glad I had a spear since a sword wouldn't be able to cut through that stuff. The mask looked a bit weaker, but I had earned my chicken arms and they wouldn't let me cut through that stuff I'm pretty sure. Observe casted automatically for me while I inspected the beowolf.

Beowolf

Title: none

Level 5

HP: 200/200

Observe leveled up!

I kept my eyes locked with the predator's red lights in it's mask and we both stood at a standstill. The moment was broken as I crouched down a little into what I was pretty sure was a decent combat stance. Two blue screens appeared which I ignored. It was great how I could just dismiss the screens temporarily with a thought. The beowolf also crouched down low. Was it mimicking me or was it just a good combat stance? I was pretty sure it was the latter. Another moment passed as we looked for weaknesses in each other. I don't know what the beowolf saw in my defense, but I thought of several ways to approach this. The first way was to put a few arrows through the gaps in the armor or the legs. Probably the legs because slowing the thing down would help me out a lot. It might piss it off, though, which could be hard to handle. Then I would get in with the spear if I think I'm strong and fast enough, or more arrows if its pissed. The second way was to get in close and personal with the spear. I'd rather not do this but I guess I could if I have to. I should poke the grimm a bit though. No heavy stabs or the spear could get caught. I also had aura blast if things get dicey. The last option was the stupid one. Just hail the thing in a bolt, or more if It's alright. Then I'd lob some arrows at it while it's stunned by the shockwave effect. I decided on option one.

I made the first move, rapidly casting aura arrow twice in a row and hitting three times. the first was a bit off and hit a bit above the knee, and the next two hit it in the thigh. The arrows hissed a bit as they made contact with the flesh of the grimm, probably because the arrows were made of aura, and some black blood spurted out in a few droplets. The grimm was dodging at the second arrow, but, while it was pretty damn fast, it still got grazed by the fourth one, leaving a small cut. The health of the grimm was still pretty high at 142. Base damage was probably based on torso shots or something. I'd debate it after the fight. After the dodge, which was really more like a strafe, the grimm rushed at me in an arc on my right. The grimm made a lunge with a swipe of it's right claw and I dodged to my right. I gained a foothold by digging my shoe's toe into the dirt, surprising myself by my capability, and jabbed at the grimm's exposed neck. My body seemed to help out with this, as I did this instinctually. I felt like I knew the basics of what I was doing as the spearhead dug into the neck. Another spurt of blood came, getting over my clothes a bit. A message came but not in the form of a window, but more like a thought in my head that went "Vital spot hit!" Observe said that hit did a LOT of damage. A quick observe said the grimm was at 54 health now. I didn't think I would do this well! Seriously, I was joking when I thought myself a badass when I joked into the chicken arms thing, but seriously! Even with my pathetic strength I had managed a good hit in. However, after the jab and my happy thoughts the grimm turned quicker than I thought it could and lowered it's head to my leg. I jerked my left leg back to avoid getting bitten and realized what I had done. Without my footing I couldn't land a lethal blow on the grimm. I could, however, use an aura blast on the grimm. I did so and the beowolf went tumbling back. It rolled a little and looked a bit dazed. I hesitated in pressing my advantage, remembering how it almost took my leg as a chew toy, and looked at the grim. It hadn't taken much damage from the tumble. It did, however, seem a bit more hesitant to fight me and it's eyes looked dimmer than before. It approached me slower this time and a bit more carefully than before. "Screw it" I thought, and shot two more aura arrows at the grimm. It wasn't expecting this for whatever reason. Maybe it had thought I wanted to use my spear more, or maybe it only thought the spear was a threat. For whatever reason the arrows hit in the chest. I got another message about a vital hit, most likely the lung, and watched the grimm fall, couch some blood, and stop moving once and for all.

"Wow" was my only thought as I looked at the grimm. The body had become…well, gloopy, I suppose, and had quickly liquefied and emitted a sort of black vapor into the air around it. Thinking back to the fight it had only taken a few seconds. Maybe ten or so in total. It had seemed like much longer than that though. The grimm had now almost entirely vaporized now, leaving a few blotches of black liquid that were also vaporizing. Suddenly a few blue windows appeared in front of me. I started with the first one.

Battle won!

Enemies: 1x beowolf

Loot: 56x lien, beowolf tooth, 126 XP

Level up!

Oh, right. I forgot that enemies dropped money. I don't know what to do with the beowolf tooth so I decided to look at it later. I was surprisingly tired after that fight. Not physically, but mentally. Maybe I could meditate and let some skills run themselves, like an aura shield or elementals, if those existed like in the gamer manga. Now time to check those other windows.

New skill acquired!

Detect

-Cost: free; Active/Passive-

The ability to sense others around you without seeing them visually. If someone has the intent to harm others you will detect their bloodlust. If not hostile to others, people and creatures are harder to sense. This skill is free, but is enhanced with focus on your senses.

+10% Efficiency with sensing others

+35% efficiency when active

Polearm Proficiency

-Passive-

Your general aptitude in polearms. These include halberds, spears, and the like. This also applies to mechashift polearms. The bonuses applied by this skill stack with the bonuses provided by other fighting styles.

+10%STR, VIT, and DEX when wielding a polearm in combat.

Usable moves: Stab, slash, and charge

Stance

-Passive-

Your footwork and coordination with your lower and upper body in making a solid combat stance.

-5% chance to be knocked down by powerful blows

+10% coordination in your body

Aura arrow has leveled up! Aura arrow has leveled up! Aura blast has leveled up! Polearm proficiency has leveled up! Polearm proficiency has leveled up! Stance has leveled up!

Due to Physical strain your STR has increased by 2

Due to coordination in your strikes your DEX has increased by 1

Due to plotting out weak-points and acquiring a strategy your INT has increased by 1

Wow again! I didn't think fighting a single low-level beowolf would be so beneficial. I had a sinking feeling that the skills would get harder to level as they progressed though; the base stats too. That would be too good. Now that I don't feel as exhausted I can check that tooth I got.

Beowolf tooth

-Miscellaneous-

A tooth from a beowolf that can be used for a variety of purposes. Mainly for custom ammunition, medicinal crafting, and other more unorthodox crafts.

That told me quite a lot. Mainly that the tooth was useless to me right now. I'm getting sick of being in the middle of the woods though, and want to meet some other people. Time to set out again!

10 minutes later

Vale is…well…big. I know it can't compare to the bigger cities on earth like New York or Chicago, but there's a big wall just…there. There's a road too. I should get on that and just walk in. I started doing so. The stone road feels weird after the twigs and loose dirt of the forest. Nobody stops me as I walk through an arch to get into the city.

Quest completed!

Follow the yellow brick road

Objectives

-Make it to Vale (Completed)

Optional objectives

-Kill a beowolf (Completed)

Time limit: 6 hours

Rewards: 500 XP, 500 lien, skill book: ID create/escape

Level up!

Quest acquired!

Beefing up

You're pretty weak as of now. Tomorrow you'll need some skills to help out at all. Get to level 10. (Hint: Use the ID's)

Objectives

-Reach level 10

Optional objectives

-Acquire new skills (0/3)

Time limit: 33 hours

Rewards: 1000 XP

Quest acquired!

Gearing up

Basic clothes aren't good armor. That spear could be better too. And pretty much everything else about you. Vale wasn't destroyed in a day, though so the "everything else" will have to wait.

Objectives

-Acquire a spear of your own

-Acquire armor of your own

Optional objectives

-Get a gun of some sort

Time limit: 33 hours

Rewards: 1000 XP, 1000 lien

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED! The level up is nice too, and I'll use some skill points later when I've trained a bit more in my physical stats. My INT and WIS though… If I need an edge in the ID's then I'll spend some points on them. It was also good that I had the rest of today and until 9pm tomorrow. First order of business, though, is to get that new gear. "Map" I thought. In front of me was then a window similar to Google maps. It had the search bar and everything. I searched for a weapon smith in town and found a few. I went with the closest one I could find.

The shop was pretty basic. It reminded me of one from medieval times, but the drills and other electrical tools threw off the feel of it. There was a burly looking man behind the counter playing a game on his scroll, which, if I remember, was like a cellphone but better. "Excuse me?" I asked. "This got the man's attention. "Eh? Oh! Welcome to Arnold's smithy. Are you looking for a weapon?" "Yeah, I'm looking for a mechashift spear with an off-hand shotgun at the point. Can you do that?" The man's eyes seemed interested as I gave my explanation of what I wanted. That is, a spear with a shotgun at the front. "Give the shotgun some knockback too, please." This way when I stab a grimm I can fire the shotgun to get the tip out quickly and do a lot more damage in the process. The man seemed to get the general idea, and he nodded in confirmation. " Got it. And the mechashift?" "A shortsword." The man nodded appreciatively. "I've got plenty of spare parts from old weapons that were commissioned. I'll have it done in maybe an hour and a half. The adjustments come free with the weapon, and you're getting a discount because I'll be using some spare parts, which I assure you are in fine condition. All in all it comes out at… ehm, let's say 480 lien. You won't find a better price around with the kind of quality I have." The price seemed great for what I was getting. Mechashift weapons weren't just found at your local CVS. I was lucky with the spare parts since I only had 556 lien at the moment. "Deal. And could you make the shaft a sky blue, and the tip silver?" "I can do the sky blue, but I'm not going to polish your spear for you. That'll be an extra 50 lien though." It was still a good deal, so I agreed and left the shop. With only 26 lien I doubted I could buy a pair of shoes, much less armor. Before going to the weapons shop I had looked at the prices of mundane things. A burger could go between 5 or 6 lien, a shirt for 20 or 40, and those shoes were maybe 60 or so. All in all, a single lien went for a bit more than a dollar. This meant that the super spear I had bought was maybe 700$, which was really cheap! Maybe the shopkeeper wanted a break from making cameras that make holograms, or stuffing a chain gun into a handbag. I felt a little bad for the guy at that thought. How the hell does that even work, anyways? That was for that poor soul to figure out. Right now I had my own problems. Namely, cash. I could use the create ID skill to get it, and get XP too. So let's do that! I grabbed the skill book I had gotten for arriving in Vale and absorbed it, gaining two skills in the process.

New skill acquired!

Create ID

-Active: 50 AP -

Make a pocket dimension for training against enemies who drop XP, items, and the like, or an empty one for various purposes.

Transports you into a pocket dimension of your choosing

Available ID's: Empty ID, Beowolf ID

Escape ID

-Active: free-

Leave your pocket dimension for the world of Remnant. May only be used in an ID of your or others creation.

Escapes an ID

The skills were as basic as they come. Just make a dimension for training and leave when you're done. I activated the skill and saw everything fade to black around me.

STATS

Grady Andrews

Title: The Gamer

Level – 3

HP – 191/191 (+.91/min)

AP – 395/395 (+22.1/min)

STR -7 (+30%)=9.1

VIT -8 (+30%)=10.4

DEX -10 (+30%)=13

INT -16 (+30%)=20.8

WIS -19 (+30%) =24.7

LUK -9

CHR -9

POINTS - 10

LIEN – 26

SKILLS

Observe –lv.4

- Cost: Free; Active skill -

Through continuous observation observe object or people to acquire information on the targeted entity. More information available upon higher levels.

Aura – lv.6

-Passive skill-

To defend against the dark man used the light of their soul to give strength beyond that of the unenlightened.

Effects: +36% STR, DEX, VIT, INT, and WIS

Allows control over body's aura

Aura blast – lv.1

-Cost: 20 AP; Active skill-

A blast of aura straight from your soul designed more to push an enemy away than to hurt them. Not effective at anything but close combat.

Damage: 30 + Knockback

Aura arrow - lv.5 (50/130)

-Cost: 10 AP; Active skill-

An arrow made of a bit of Aura and flung at an enemy. Ripped off directly from the manga. These work best at long range.

Damage: 23 (per arrow); Arrows: 2

Aura bolt – lv.1

–-Cost: 35 AP; Active skill-

A lance of aura flung at your opponent at high speed. This bolt has a lot of mass and as such causes a small shockwave upon impact. You should bench-press this and get manly, chicken wings.

Damage: 70 + minor shockwave

Run – lv.2

-Cost: 5 AP/min; Active/passive skill-

It's as said, which is running. You run. That's it. This does not affect your speed when trying to walk fast or crawl or anything like that.

+5% speed when running passively

+25% speed when actively running

Detect

-Cost: free; Active/Passive-

+10% Efficiency with sensing others

+35% efficiency when active

Polearm Proficiency

-Passive-

+10%STR, VIT, and DEX when wielding a polearm in combat.

Usable moves: Stab, slash, and charge

Stance

-Passive-

Your footwork and coordination with your lower and upper body in making a solid combat stance.

-5% chance to be knocked down by powerful blows

+10% coordination in your body

Aura arrow has leveled up! Aura arrow has leveled up! Aura blast has leveled up! Polearm proficiency has leveled up! Polearm proficiency has leveled up! Stance has leveled up!

Due to Physical strain your STR has increased by 2

Due to coordination in your strikes your DEX has increased by 1

Due to plotting out weak-points and acquiring a strategy your INT has increased by 1