Amendment Proposal One:
Meat For Dinner.
Monster corpses will not disappear after 30 minutes, but disappear after 24 hours, or upon a dungeon reset. This will allow monster corpses to be dissected and even eaten. Monster corpses can still be disposed of manually by destroying the head, heart or equivalent.
Voting begins now!
I rush out into the hall and find the rest of the Pathbreakers equally confused and concerned.
“Let's get to the rec room,” I say, which is the only place on an aircraft carrier where we can fit 15 people.
We get in and stand around the ping pong table. The two guys playing ping pong seem miffed that we’re interrupting.
“What exactly do we need to do?” Mercy asks.
Madeline answers. “The Amendment Proposals are already used, so I think that we just vote?”
I close my eyes and vote. More adventurers guild, less military. “Just vote however you feel like. It's not like this is going to be decided if the 15 of us all vote one way or another.” I get some disgruntled looks from that statement.
“He's right,” Jose says. “Just vote.”
We all sit in silence and vote for a few seconds, then everyone considers the ramifications of the amendment.
“Food problems could disappear!”
“Who's going to eat lizardman though?”
“You think the author just wanted to do weird experiments on monsters?”
“Oh, dude, for sure.”
Time's Up! With a staggering 73% for, 22% against and 5% abstaining, the Amendment passes! Good for you, weird Canadian guy!
Next up SHOULD be a pair of proposals about monster spawn rates, but those were deemed as violations of Dracosys priority commander lines! We can't be protecting children! Children are your future and we want to kill your future! So next up is:
Amendment Proposal Four:
Adventurer's Guilds
The actual description of the bylaws of the guilds takes up about seven of the ten minutes we have to vote.
Time's up! With a solid 65% for, 10% against and 25% abstaining, the amendment passes! I know who's going to be one of the first guilds!
The fifth proposal was a little too on the edge for the Admins, so we nixed it. Instead we got a similar, but not as generous-towards-humanity proposal!
Amendment Proposal Six:
Scaling Dungeon Breaks
We're not surprised that our “super awesome backdoor everyone lives” bill got canceled. But even one of these getting through is a win. It passes with overwhelming support. That there’s going to be any limits on dungeon breaks is a win.
Amendment Proposal Seven:
Etheric Elementals
We couldn't put in the description exactly how this would benefit humanity, so after ten minutes we get this message:
Time's up! With 22% for, 51% against and 27% abstaining, the amendment fails!
But I have good news. The Admins have voted and decided to do Etheric Elementals anyways! Yay! That means we'll be able to get up close and personal with you guys. We've never had this opportunity before, so thank you so much!
Amendment Proposal Eight:
The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.
Crafting Classes
Non-combat crafting classes will be added to the classes selectable by humanity, starting with a 1st step class “Crafter” and proceeding to have up to 5th step classes as per usual.
This one gets a resounding 93% for and 3% against. 3% opposed? Who opposes new classes?
Oh, and here's a secret: there's a total of 12 1st Step classes. You've just unlocked the 7th! Collect them all!
What? Well shit, throw me more classes and I'll be a happy dude. That means... Between the 1st and 5th step classes there's a total of 300 classes to play with! Fascinating.
Amendment Proposal Nine:
Inventory Display
Leveled will be able to display a panel to others showing their inventory with the verbal command “display inventory.”
It's an interesting idea. Clearly it's meant to improve security, allowing people at checkpoints to see into inventories. And if you're not leveled, you just say the magic words and nothing happens, thus proving you're clean.
This one passes with only 51% approval. I guess a lot of people didn't want their stacks of porn out in the open. I'm just assuming that's what my brother has in his inventory. Big piles of To Love Ru manga and old Strike Witches dvds. Maybe some Dance In The Vampire Bund as well.
... I know waaay too much about my brother's soft-core anime porn tastes.
Amendment Proposal Ten:
Multiversal Access
Other universes affected by what we call the Dracosys will be connected to this universe.
What? Who wants more nonsense added to our current pot of crazy? The fuck?
Time's up! With 38% for, 25% against and 37% abstaining, the amendment fails! As a reminder, amendments must gain at least a 50.01% majority to pass.
With that this update is finished! I'd like to thank you for your attention and participation! This is my first time running an update, so I'm super thrilled it's gone so well! My name is Admin Endiffer and going forward I'm hoping to get along with all of you as humanity dies off.
We thank you for your participation in the Dracosys, and remember, slay or be slaughtered!
“Well, we avoided anything truly awful from happening,” I say to the room. “And in very good news, we can form a guild and get moving on that front.” I get some nods and a mild enthusiasm from the group. “Also, Jose has agreed to be the guild leader.” There is suddenly much more enthusiasm in the room.
“Oh, hell yeah!”
“Nice on ya, mate!”
“Finally a competent leader.”
“Aw. Now I'm not sleeping with my boss anymore.”
“Good choice, Jun.”
That last one was Madeline, and honestly I think her opinion on this was the one I most needed. Also, I think my girlfriend is a pervert. And she's my pervert.
We all get notifications in our menus inviting us to join the Pathbreakers guild. We accept. Then, still in our menus, there's a one-sided vote for guild leader. Since there has to be at least two options, Madeline puts herself forward. She gets one vote. I'm pretty sure it was from Mercy.
With that, the Pathbreakers guild is underway. I'll talk to Jose about the guild stuff later. For now I want to get into the new classes and see what's there.
1st Step: Crafter
2nd: Smith
3rd: Metalworker
4th: Forge Master
2nd: Tailor
3rd: Seamster
4th: Clothier
2nd: Cook
3rd: Chef
4th: Master Chef
2nd: Woodworker
3rd: Arboreal Artist
4th: Lumber Master
2nd: Mason
3rd: Stone Sculptor
4th: Rocker
2nd: Electrician
3rd: Wirer
4th: Teslaneer
Eh, let's check out Cook and see what these are like.
Cook
Anyone can cook. You just do it imbuing your dishes with Etheric energy so that they grant system bonuses.
A second step class. Three subclasses. One class evolution.
Gain 2 Dexterity and 3 Spirit upon choosing this class. Two basic or advanced food recipes will be granted to you upon choosing this class.
Uses Dexterity and Spirit.
Upon level up two additional random basic or advanced food recipes will be granted, until all basic and advanced food recipes are known. Each level you gain 1 Dexterity, 1 Spirit and 3 free points.
Subclasses
Short Order - Your food cooks 25% faster.
Line - You're 25% better at making large quantities of food.
Improvisor - You have an increased chance of coming up with a new recipe when cooking normal food.
The Improvisor subclass carries a lot of meaning behind it. It indicates that you can get more Dracosys powered “recipes” by doing things normally. That implies anyone with an appropriate class might be able to do the same for the other crafting types. And finally... It might mean that magic could work the same way.
If I continually throw Solar lances, would I possibly get a new, specific spell that shoots off lances? Hrm. And if yes, what's the advantage of that? Having a separate proficiency bonus. Right now the Sol Arms spell is at 1000% proficiency, and that bonus increases the durability of my creations. With a separate spell, I might be able to apply a different proficiency to speed or force.
“Jun,” says Jose.
“Yeah?”
“You ready for your first quest?” asks Jose.
“Yeah.”
I check my menu.
A guild-wide quest has been issued by your guild leader!
Pool Party - You must go to a pool party at Jose Amarillo's house this Saturday, 7/13.
