Eye Candy - My Superstar System

No Such Records?!?!?

Thursday, 22nd February 2017 0113hrs

“Sue, I am done for today’s work. Could you explain to me more about my status earlier? I mean, could I just view what I wanted to view? I know I do not have the powers to control the system on how it looked like but it was information overload once I view them at a glance. Even the Locales owned, stocks and bonds and share under ~Wealth~ is shown and its nothing there at the moment. If there is such locale in the future, then, of course, I would like to review it once in a while.”

“I am sorry Matthew, there is nothing I could do with the statistics that had been shown in there. What shown there would be extended to the skills that you would add on later in the stages. Like for example, there would be other Basic Skill Books in the market and once it fitted your profile, it would be automatically added to it. It would be up to you to get the book or not for you to learn it.”

I pondered it for a moment as I had my light supper of Chapati with cheese and two pieces with a cup of milk tea would be enough to sustain me till breakfast tomorrow. Besides, eating heavy supper would not make me sleep early but instead makes me turn about on the bare naked bed with just a plyboard as a mattress.

There are 11 Skill Books that I would need to acquire since I need to advance in this stage from Basic to Intermediate. However, 11 books are considered as about £5500 based on the lowest range if the books are purchased right off from the book stores that sell those new books.

However, I began to wonder if there is any other reason why Sue had wanted me to go to Skoob Books and after experiencing some absurd happenings there, I am sure there’s a good catch over there, I suppose.

I headed back towards the shelter after I had changed into my day clothes and greeted Laura who was waiting as usual at the main entrance. “How, did you go and settle your matters already?” Laura asked as I entered the shelter.

“Not yet, Laura. I had discovered something peculiar over there and had informed the bespectacled middle-aged shop proprietor that I would be there once I had done the housekeeping here. I offered to come earlier than the usual opening hours and he agreed to let me in. Besides, its only 9 minutes ride from Knightsbridge to Russell Square Station and costs £1.”

“That’s very good to hear, Matthew. At least your day would be preoccupied with your tasks which leaves you free from 2 am till 7 am in the morning. It would be 5 hours of sleep for you, would that be enough?” Laura was worried that proper sleep deprivation would make me feel unwell or something but I reassured her that I felt fine.

“Yeah, no worries Laura. Thank you for all the help that you had shown me for these past few days.”

I patted Laura’s shoulder and excused myself as I head back to my naked bed frame and now had a 3-inch thin foam mattress rolled on to the sides! A mattress! This is surely an upgrade! “Hey Laura, thanks for the mattress! I really appreciate it.”

The plastic bag that I had tied to the bed frame was still there and the toiletries are still intact. Seems no one would bother by some paltry necessities that are commonly found around the shelter.

I had a few more blessings from the shelter and it was in a form of hand me down clothes that had been laundered and are fit for wear. I looked at the clothes that had been folded and set aside at the foot of the metal bed frame and saw that the sizes are fit to be worn by me. There are 2 t-shirts and 1 polo short sleeve shirt, much like the one I am wearing and there was a pair of shorts and jeans too. I saw three pairs of socks and a pair of used sneakers of my size even.

“Thank you Lady Luck for allowing me to be like a normal person once more.” There was also a small sling bag, enough to carry all the hand me down clothes and sneakers as there was a Mitre brand shoe bag that would be able to fit the shoes that I am wearing right now. A pair of flip flops was also on the side of the bed. Even if the size of the flip flops is one size too large for me, but it was heaven sent and I don’t have to wear my shoes everywhere I go, even to the bathroom!

“Hey, Matthew. Hope these clothes fit you since you only had the red polo shirt I had given you and the blue one that was being hung dry in the laundry room. You needn’t bring your clothes anywhere you go but you can store them in the sling bag and leave it here at the side of the bed. No one would come and take your clothes away, for sure.”

Laura assured me and I felt relieved hearing those words. At least I could have a fresh pair of clothes to wear daily and I immediately took one t-shirt with me as I changed in the restroom. I washed the red polo shirt I was wearing and then I settle down to bed.

Seems I had gained favourable points in this shelter after all even from an NPC. Fortunately, this NPC acted more like a human with compassion rather than a stock figure that greets and feed those who are in dire need.

I slept like a baby that night and I was lulled with dreams of being a popular pop star which I initially was before I came into this virtual world.

How I wished that the progress would pick up slightly so that I would be able to get hold of the Skill Books needed and start reading and comprehending them! As Sue had mentioned, I could practise 5 hours and be levelled up to one star rather than setting it to run autonomously for 5 days before I could gain one star.

And this is only meant for the Basic Skill Books!!!

I had taken down the notes that Sue was mentioning to me the other day about upgrading from Basic to Intermediate, Advanced and then to Professional and I knew that the process would take several months before I could advance further.

In my dreams, I was asking Sue if any supplements would be able to help me reach the proficiency levels needed in this game. I am not sure if I did ask her telepathically but I felt as though I was mumbling in my sleep that night.

“Supplements? Do you mean drugs? Of course, there is, Matthew. But if you take those skills enhancing drugs, you would have side effects if you take them on a long term basis. Furthermore, once you take those skills enhancing drugs, it would show up in your system. You take it casually like having a cup of coffee daily is fine, but users tend to abuse it since when they reached Intermediate level.”

“Its either they take a double dosage of the skills enhancing drugs or look for peddlers to give them the extra boost they needed. Let me give you a piece of advice, Matthew. Once you try them, you will get hooked on how effective it would be on your skills but if you are on long term use, it would deteriorate your performance on stage and would leave you blank in the middle of a song! Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you okay? YOUR REPUTATION WOULD BE FINISHED IF YOU GO BLANK ON STAGE!”

Urgh, the last sentence from Sue made me shudder and I think I would stick to those isotonic drinks available from Tesco such as Shark©, Relentless© or Rockstar©. They would be zero sugar, high in taurine, caffeine, nicotinamide and multivitamins such as B Complex. Just two cans of those would open up one’s mind especially when composing.

Talking about composing, I asked Sue, “Is there a search icon for me to look for international band names like Air Supply or something?”

“Sure, go ahead and bring up the interface and you would be able to see the search bar on top of the first menu. You can look virtually anything there and it is like Google© Search.”

I raised my hands in my dream-like state and entered some band’s name and information and the results came back as negative! There was no Air Supply, Beatles or even the Bee Gees!

W W H H A A T T?!?!?