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An Unlucky Man's Isekai Adventure using Gacha System

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[X] Increase Health Recovery

Gacha will provide for offense relatively easily. The Thief skills I was looking for are all lower rolls.
 
[X] Increase Health Recovery
I'm in favor of recovery over damage dealing. The latter is good for winning but the former is better for living!
 
[x] Increase Health Recovery

Anything that doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. So make ourselves harder to kill and alot of things will make us stronger.

Also, in-universe, Joshua was diagnosed with cancer, lost hope, and died from it. I imagine it would be rather in-character for someone in such a situation to wish for a more durable body that can heal from injuries. As opposed to playing with poisons.

So yeah, he just died and gets a second chance at life. First choice should be to make it harder to die again.
 
[X] Increase Health Recovery

Self care first over limited time damage applicators.
 
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2. An Auspicious Start
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    • [X] Swordsman
    [X] Increase HP recovery

    Swordsman, Mage, Archer, Merchant, Thief. The only thing missing is Acolyte and then all the initial classes of Midgard Online, the famous Korean MMO that is said to have started the MMO boom, would be present. Even the skills present in the gacha are the same!

    Studying the gacha interface, Joshua came to several conclusions. To use gacha world, Joshua has to pick a class and then the gacha would roll what skill from that class would be given to him. Besides that, the skills appear to be segregated into different ranks from rank E to rank C. Rank E skills have 60% chance, Rank D skills have 30% chance and Rank C skills have only 10% chance.

    Joshua immediately eliminated the merchant class from his options. The merchant skill names sound like it has something to do with business. While it might be helpful in the future, judging from the worn clothes Joshua was wearing and the run-down shack where he woke up from he doesn't have much in way of resource.

    Selling items from the gacha would be the way to go but Joshua doesn't know how to get gacha points yet or how stingy the system is. In most gacha, the system is very sparing with its free currency.

    After that, Joshua examined the mage class.

    I can learn magic!

    Sadly, it wasn't meant to be.

    The mage class was either a trap or a huge gamble. It consisted of Rank E: Fire Elemental Knowledge, Rank D: Magelight and Rank C: Firebolt. From what Joshua remembered, Fire Elemental Knowledge was a passive buff toward fire spells while Magelight was a glorified magic flashlight in the game. Firebolt would be awesome to have but that has only 10% chance of happening.

    Only three choices left.

    • Swordsman - Rank E - Sword Mastery, Rank D - Skill Bash, Rank C - Increase Health Recovery
    • Archer - Rank E - Bow Mastery, Rank D - Charge Arrow, Rank C - Owl's Eye
    • Thief - Rank E -Dodging Mastery, Rank D - Steal, Rank C - Envenom
    From those three, Joshua was torn between Swordsman and Thief. While being able to Attack at Range was good, he coveted the Thief's Steal ability and the Swordman's Increase Health Recovery.

    his stomach is rumbling, there's not enough money …

    Hey, Joshua, when are you going to pay your share for the class project?

    Every part of his body ached, He doesn't remember a time when he wasn't in pain. The chemotherapy was supposed to cure him but tit feels more like taking a slow-acting poison.

    He felt that he was dying bit by bit... day by day...

    No.

    Joshua decided.

    Money was important. But, his health, his life was worth more than any amount of money. Resolutely, Joshua picked the swordsman option.

    The wheel started to spin, the choices blurring before his eyes.

    Great Goddess Fortuna, I don't know if you can hear me but please let me have a good start!

    And as if the Goddess answered his wish, when the wheel began to slow, the marker ticked toward the grand prize area, finally stopping at Increase Health Recovery.

    YES!

    Joshua shouted.

    I don't know if you did anything, but thank you, Goddess!

    As soon as Joshua thought that, knowledge regarding the skill - Increase Health Recovery - filled his mind giving him a huge headache. He became aware of an energy that was circulating in his body. An energy that was born from each and every one of his cells. Like a gentle river, it flowed throughout his body, nourishing and allowing him to live.

    Joshua instinctively diverted a few extraneous energy currents toward his brain, increasing the circulation that normally flowed there. The moment he did that the headache began to abate as Joshua sensed his brain consume the extra energy to fuel its repair.

    After a few moments, the headache was gone and Joshua was left feeling a bit hungry.

    "Amazing," Joshua thought.

    After that, he noticed the transparent wheel of fortune didn't fade away and was still in front of him.

    Wait, Is this a permanent feature in my user interface?

    The second Joshua thought that; the wheel of fortune broke into tiny multicolored pieces and flew toward the back of his right hand.

    ​

    An eight-spoke wheel with an asterisk above it was branded with bold black ink.

    message
    Mark of Goddess Fortuna given!
    The Mark that Goddess Fortuna gives to those who won her favor. It is said to luck will come to those marked with it!


    Its a bit conspicuous but considering what the Goddess has done for him, Joshua won't look a gift horse from the mouth.

    Thank you, Goddess.

    I think.

    With that done, he began to examine the familiar -mine- wooden shack.

    Instinctively, he opened the box at the corner of the room.

    A half-eaten loaf of bread there with an apple. Besides that, there are three worn-out shirts and a trouser neatly folded at the bottom of the box.

    Nice. Extra clothes.

    Taking a closer look at the loaf of bread to make sure it doesn't have any mold, Joshua bit it. A bit harder and courser than what Joshua was used to, but beggars can't be choosers. On the other hand, the apple tasted quite sweet so there's that.

    After that, he noticed a scroll lying innocently on the wooden table. Unfurling it, he found that it was some sort of mission scroll.


    X.x.X​
    Request: Potion Testers Needed!
    Rank: No requirement
    Times Issued: #22
    Issuer: Voshkiny Family
    Reward: 1 x Experimental Adventurer's Awakening Potion
    1 silver coin for providing additional information
    Danger: Possible Death or any manner of side-effect due to the potion

    The Voshkiny family needs persons to test a new product of their family - an improved Adventurer's Awakening Potion. On the market, the cheapest Adventurer's Awakening Potion cost 10 gold coins and our improved formula is surely worth more than that. We will be giving it for free.

    If you can provide additional information about the potion effects to the guild we will pay you an additional silver coin.
    ​

    By Sancus name, I, the undersigned, have stated the reward and risk of the task.

    Rino Voshkiny


    By Sancus name, I, the undersigned, know the reward and risk and will do my utmost best to complete the task.

    TRECE


    X.x.X.​


    "Tre-ce," Joshua pronounced slowly, tasting the name, finding it comfortable to say.

    Is that your name?

    Looking at the innocent bottle lying on the dirt floor, Joshua has his own conjecture. Trece must have taken this request and drank the potion resulting in my situation today.

    Joshua wondered what has driven Trece to do that. Even from just reading the mission request, he knew that what Trece did was risky.

    -an urgent trepidation and curiosity -

    "It might be worth it to check this request out," Joshua thought. "The silver coin reward could be nice as well. I don't have any --"

    -Coins glinting along with a leather pouch -

    Without thinking, he stood on the corner opposite of the wooden box and dusted the dirt tile.

    Joshua blinked.

    There cleverly hidden in a shallow hole is a leather pouch. He opened it counting 4 silver coins and 75 bronze coins.

    How did I know that?

    Is it some sort of side-effect of reincarnation? A residual memory of the body?

    "Trece, are you still here?"Joshua asked the thin air.

    Of course, no one answered.

    Exasperated, Joshua looked at the symbol on his right hand.

    I hope you know what you are doing, great goddess.

    Come to think of it, what am I going to do with this thing.

    How common are these marks? I'm not going to hailed as a Goddess Fortuna's chosen one, will I?

    X.x.X.​


    What to do with the goddess mark?

    [ ] Hide it before venturing out
    [ ] Show it in the open.
    [ ] Write in

    Joshua planned to go to collect the silver coin to supplement his income? Pick whatever option you want.

    [ ] Amnesia
    Say that you have amnesia as a side effect of the potion but hide your skill from the guild.

    [ ] Increase Health Recovery
    Say that you gained Increase Health Recovery but hide that you have amnesia. Blend in as much as possible.

    [ ] Claim Amnesia and the Skill Increase Health Recovery
    Say that you've got amnesia and gained the skill Increase Health Recovery.

    [ ] Write in


    X.x.X.
    ​
    Note:
    Yes, Midgard Online is based on Ragnarok Online. ^^
     
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    • [X] Hide it before venturing out.

    Don't be a booker and have a mark out that's easily identifiable

    [X] Claim Amnesia and the Skill Increase Health Recovery

    A classic never fails!
     
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    [X] Hide it before venturing out.
    [X] Claim Amnesia and the Skill Increase Health Recovery

    We might open up a questline if we claim this.
     
    [X] Hide it before venturing out.
    [X] Amnesia

    0 attention, gather information. No idea IC how things could be viewed.
     
    [X] Hide it before venturing out.
    [X] Claim Amnesia and the Skill Increase Health Recovery
     
    [X] Hide it before venturing out.
    [X] Claim Amnesia and the Skill Increase Health Recovery
     
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    • VOTE CALLED​
    Winning Vote:

    [X] Hide it before venturing out. - 8 votes
    Black.Horus, Spectrum, R2Walker. SoixanteZio. Yzarc. veekie. Rossum, Z488411

    [X] Claim Amnesia and the Skill Increase Health Recovery - 5 votes
    SoixanteZio, Yzarc. veekie, Rossum, Z488411

    [X] Amnesia - 3 votes
    Black.Horus, Spectrum, R2Walker


    Thank you for voting guys! "Hiding it" won by a landslide with everyone picking it. The other vote seemed to be a bit more contentious,. The winning vote is for both Claim Amnesia and the Skill - Increase Health Recovery. But, since everyone picked the amnesia option unanimously I'll make it the primary claim with the skill as secondary.

    It also will help sell it IC-wise, I meant if I got no memories that would be my first worry. ^^

    PS. Sorry for the mistake in the last voting tally in the username. Anyway. I retroactively fixed it for better record keeping.

    I'm going to make your update now.
     
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