The Cast:
Amanda Wong: That's you! You never tell your friends anything. You were a pengawas for two years in secondary school. You're developing Aunty Energies despite being only 18. You're scared of getting ISA'd, but then who isn't? You're currently hiding from Gerak Khas in HMNC in Melaka, because they wrecked your home on 26th December 2019 looking for you.
You're
10_manda_panda_01 on Omima Online, where you've picked up a reputation and a floating banner that says
Aunty 24/7, improved in the recent Omima Online event to sparkle and act as a mini-inventory. Your favourite equipment in Omima Online is The Slipper, a limited-edition weapon that has a small stun and knockback. Your second favourite is the Grounding Ring, a pre-patched item that you somehow obtained through a free roll, which shrinks your hitbox to a preposterously small size. You tend towards a more reckless playstyle on Omima Online.
You also have just bitten the bullet and told Ben, Che Din, Che Mat, and Era about your abilities.
Ben: Has a car and one (1) brain cell. Grab driver in the evenings. He uses TikTok.
Che Din: Che Mat's twin brother. Jobless and seeking work. Follows a lot of girls on Instagram, hoping one of them will be his girlfriend some day.
Che Mat: Che Din's twin brother. Jobless and seeking a sugar mama. Has a kapcai at home that's been spray painted with anime girl fanart. Has a reputation for rempiting. You gave him a bottle of supernatural transmission fluid. He is incredibly impressed.
Era: Has a cousin who just started at Amway. Has a really beefy boyfriend at HMNC, who appears prominently on her Instagram. She is not your mother. You could sell her some useful things. She sleeps too little and studies too much.
Gregory: Mixed blood. Your secondary school crush. He's had a boyfriend for several years.
Isabella: A first-year student in HMNC. Very friendly, she seems deeply interested in you. She wants to care for disabled people, and now thinks you ran to the library to hide from family issues. She's giving you space.
Jeff: Era's beefy boyfriend. He has a car and knows not to ask awkward questions.
Pa: Gone to an ulu kampung for his health. For some reason he calls you from unknown numbers now. He used to be a government civil engineering contractor, and sometimes took you to the sites to see-see.
Ma: Gone to an ulu kampung for her health.
@green18271: The founder of the 1OODB guild (which you're in) on Omima Online. He plays a ridiculously immortal alchemist and enjoys turtling. He almost never crafts offensive alchemical items. He's very good at data analysis and statistics, and nags guild members about their inventories. He has a little fame in the Omima Online subreddit for his extensive guide to farming dungeons.
anemones_lyk_dis: A fellow guild member of 1OODB on Omima Online.
dark_fl4m3m4st3r: A fellow guild member of 1OODB on Omima Online.
la_llorona88: A fellow guild member of 1OODB on Omima Online. She plays a mage. She's very enthusiastic, and she enjoys risky strategies. You're not sure how she and @green18271 can get along at all.
xXOwOXx: A fellow guild member of Omima Online. He plays a rogue.
fsevenutwelve: A player on Omima Online. She plays a barbarian. She's more perceptive than most people.
horrible-goose: A player on Omima Online. He plays a rogue.
irdchampx: A player on Omima Online. He plays a druid. He says acronyms out loud.
The Friendly Food Pandas: A group formed by the Aunties of Taman Orkid to deliver food to the elderly people around. Also functions as a daily gossip chamber. The Head Aunty seems to like you. They think you're too good for Ben.
Sim and Sim Solicitors: A pair of solicitors with an office in KL. You called them up, pretending to have a pink-haired son. They seemed to believe you, and gave you some advice.
Farhana: A NEET conspiracy theorist hoarder who buys weird bargain stuff off the Internet for later resale. She won't eat anything that comes from America, and believes Soros causes unemployment in Malaysia.
Priya: A teacher at SJK All Saints, she is a certified card-diviner and astrologer. She is married to Harinder. She is very soppy at him.
Harinder: A policeman, he is suffering from office politics and manpower shortages. He is lean, hairy, and his arms are veined. He is married to Priya. He is very soppy at her.
The Places:
The park: A park. It has outdoor exercise stuff (vandalised), a pond (overgrown with algae), a gazebo, and a football field. Its public toilets aren't worth using except in emergencies and even then you'd prefer to risk the travel time to the nearby gas station.
Zam Zam: A mamak place, always full of people.
Hospital Melaka Nursing College: Where Era lives and studies, when she's not in Ipoh.
The library: A safe place to sleep at night. Isabella haunts it too.
The Things:
Omima Online: An MMORPG.
Angel Fields: A region of Omima Online where Angels spawn. A good camping ground for defensive potion reagents.
The Spin Mechanics:
Free roll: A Free Roll consumes no items, and produces an item useful to the situation at hand. Amanda does not yet know how to get more Free Rolls.
Spin: A Spin consumes at least three items, and produces one item with a tier based on the items used. Amanda currently gets one Spin a day. There does not seem to be a maximum to Spins "stored".
10-Spin: A 10-Spin consumes at least three items, and produces one ★★★★ or better item. You've found out that your desires can bias the output of the 10-Spin, though not control it.
Rolls: A roll consumes nothing, and produces a
waifu/husbando Stand-like being with behaviour and abilities based on a random person in the cast list. They start out weak and immaterial, but can be improved. Amanda currently gets one Roll at the end of each arc.
10-Roll: A 10-Roll consumes nothing, and allows Amanda to choose which not!Stand she would like to have. There may be other, unknown properties.
★: Low-quality, mundane items. Think a pair of disposable chopsticks, or a ripe banana.
★★: Regular-quality, mundane items. Most regular household items are of this tier.
★★★: High-quality, mundane items. Includes many luxury goods.
★★★★: The pinnacle of mundane quality. These items may have additional special qualities.
★★★★★: High-quality items with supernatural qualities/ abilities.
★★★★★★: ???
The Spins:
★★ Hairbrush + ★★ Hand mirror + ★★ Necktie + 1d100→26 = ★★ Headscarf
★★ Dishcloth + ★★ Laundry detergent + ★★ Coaster + 1d100→39 = ★★ Fabric Softener
★★ Slipper + ★★ Pen + ★★ Paper pocket notebook + 10 ROLL! 1d100→90 = ★★★★ Fountain Pen
★★ Hat + ★★ Umbrella + ★★ Boots + ★★ Raincoat + ★★ Comforter + ★★ Wok + ★★ Value Pack of Instant Noodles + ★★ Microwave + ★★ Kettle + ★★ Flashlight + ★★ Bucket + ★★ Rope (shitty) + ★★ Swiss Army Knife + ★★ Pool Floaties + ★★ Recorder + ★★ Hair Dye? + ★★ Desktop fan +10 ROLL!1d100→62 = ★★★★★ Raincoat
★ Old Digital Pet + ★ Red-blue paper 3D Glasses + ★★ Swimming Goggles + ★★ Scarf + ★★ Sling Bag + ★ Energy Drink + ★★ Pop-Pop "Firecrackers" + ★★ Cili Padi + ★★ Water Bottle + ★★ Dice + ★ Lock of Pink Hair + 10 ROLL!1d100→64 = ★★★★★ Sunglasses
★★ Rubik's Cube + ★★ Beyblade + ★★ Watercolors + ★ Ancient snack bar + ★★ Ruler + ★ Eraser + ★★ Magnifying glass + ★ Costume jewelry bracelet + ★★ Shirt + ★★ Scarf + 10 ROLL!1d100→34 = ★★★★ Brooch
★★ Motorcycle Engine + ★ Skateboard + ★ Bicycle + ★★ Sport shoes + ★★ Roller Skates + ★★ "The Flash" costume + ★ Kite + ★ Red Bull (the drink, not the animal) + ★★ Goggles + ★★ Firework rocket 1 pack+ 10 ROLL!1d100→85 = ★★★★★ Transmission Fluid
A dumpster full of stuff + 10ROLL!1d100→14 = ★★★★★★ The Armies on the Paper
The Inventory:
★★ Headscarf
★★ Fabric Softener
★★★★ Fountain Pen said:
A fountain pen with a transparent body, filled with gold-flecked pink ink. There is a little glass basketball on the tip of the case. Once per day, this pen may be used to autograph any sports equipment. The autographer gains peak human proficiency with that equipment while the autograph lasts. Up to five items may be autographed at a time.
Currently autographed:
Old running shoes (+ peak human running speed)
Computer mouse (+ peak human actions-per-second)
★★★★★ Raincoat said:
A transparent blue raincoat with bright red dice patterns along the edges of the sleeves and hood. The raincoat generates a spherical field entered on itself that strongly repels liquids and weakly repels wind.
★★★★★ Sunglasses said:
A pair of glasses with small oval lenses. The frame is green satin, with smoked blue-gray lenses. The glasses can be activated, enhancing Amanda's sense of temperature for up to an hour with higher sensitivity towards heat. Amanda can prematurely end the activation, which converts sources of heat (°C) in line-of-sight into sources of heat (Scoville) for the remainder of the duration. Once activated, the glasses cannot be reactivated for another two hours.
★★★★ Brooch said:
A brooch of silver and lacquered ceramics. When activated, it broadcasts everything the wearer sees and hears into electronics within ~1km radius. This broadcast lasts while the wearer is awake.
★★★★★★ The Armies on the Paper said:
A masterfully crafted papier-mache figurine, about 16cm tall and disproportionately heavy. The figurine is an armoured female bust of indeterminate age in the act of drawing a bow, though there is no arrow or bow-string. As a six-star item, the Armies on the Paper is indestructible and can be instantly recalled to Amanda's possession at any time and from any distance. The Armies on the Paper is activated whenever the holder comes under threat from a sentient being: the being is paralysed and held in place, while the figurine begins to recite the actions the being would have taken. This effect lasts for an hour, or until dispelled by Amanda.
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