Jump 146: Jobless In Another World

Jump 146: Jobless In Another World

Location: A Hollowed Out Tree
Age: 22
Identity: Human, Japanese
Drawbacks: [+1000] Bandits, Church Attention, Blessed With Suck, Target of the Demon Lord

[200/2000]  Classes & Jobs
[Free]      Lifestyle Magic
[600/2000]  MP Charge
[800/2000]  System Knowledge
[1100/2000] Future Knowledge
[1700/2000] Limit Breaker
[Free]      Blessing: x20 Experience
[2000/2000] Blessing: 1/20th Experience
[2000/2200] Item Stipend (+200)
[2100/2200] Tit And Tat From Japan
[2200/2200] Rare Medal

The most interesting thing about this world, to be terribly honest, wasn't so much what it had to offer as opposed to getting to see how what it had and what it did interacted with Mimisbrunnr. I could already give out licenses to use it freely, but adding more structure such as this world had? Oh, it fit in quite nicely indeed, and I could already see the benefits paying dividends in the worlds to come.

Speaking of which: while I intended to keep my head down for the most part and enjoy the scenery (and add this, much as the previous couple of worlds, to the list of places NOT being added to the dyson shell), the awkward kludge between the local system and Mimisbrunnr meant that I needed to go to the nearest priest and intone the most ancient and sacred of prayers:

"Oh holy Goddesses, thy names be praised, I would like to file a bug report..."

It sounds tongue in cheek, but it honestly did get results; the local goddesses checked my permissions, found that I did in fact hold a category two license as a god, and so I was taken into their midst and we talked of many things. Of shoes, and ships, and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings.

The answer by the way yes to the last, and it's all because of an excessive buildup of miasma. Including the boiling sea.

I'd arrived in this world not very long after someone else from out-world had gotten a rather impressive power cheat, and thanks to the system's interaction with Mimisbrunnr I was able to duplicate it without much of a hiccup, but... a bit of patching was in order. The miasma was generated by people being ... let us say unpleasant in general, a spiritual pollution of sorts, and unless something changed the system would have to elevate humans' power to keep them in lockstep with the more powerful critters generated by miasma, as it was rather excessive. Too much in excess for the goddesses to cage up in dungeons and purify properly.

"Have you considered altering the system so that people have greater incentives to be pleasant to each other?" I asked them.

"We did. You should have seen how things were a hundred years ago," they answered.

"Kicking the problem down the curb for another world to handle is not actually going to fix it though."

"Have you got a better idea?" they asked.

"As a matter of fact..."

After that point, a few classes got buffed. A few were altered lightly, some heavily. The alterations for the most part were subtle, but... well, there's something to be said for diplomacy and conversation skills scaling up a little smoother than others. Really, it was a patch to the skill system so non-combat skills levelled faster early on than combat skills, at the cost of having a higher cost to max out. But it gave incentive for people to be pleasant to each other, in a sense. It's hard to hold a grudge when your empathy skill indicates that someone's having a bad day. Or your common sense skill tells you that, no, despite acting like it your name is NOT Karen and you DO deserve repercussions for your actions.

I might possibly have also shown the local goddesses the light of the Emperor and shown them the various ways I'd seen in other worlds for fighting against darkness, both obvious and subtle. Sometimes the best way to fight things like their miasma is to try to reduce it globally, rather than fighting it right away in concentrated locations, after all.

It wasn't the silver bullet they wanted, but it was enough to give them a sense of optimism.

And I, myself, got to explore the system and essentially spend the next decade modifying and broadening Mimisbrunnr for future worlds. If only Tyr or Hild had the faintest clue how far their systems could potentially reach... but then, why would they?