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    “Fine, fine, I’ll drink the stupid thing.” Calera instinctively felt around in the small bag on her side, and got a heavy dose of shock when she nearly slipped her entire arm in. Hesitantly fishing around, she could see a sort of…select screen? “Okay, this is just weird.” But that didn’t stop her from ‘choosing’ the potion off of the items box, and nearly immediately holding it in her hand. She would have to keep that screen in mind the next time she wanted an item.

   The soft green liquid nearly seemed to glow in it’s container, and to say Calera was hesitant to drink it now would be an understatement. “Just to let you know, I blame you if I end up dying from this.” And she tipped the bottle up and swallowed a few mouthfuls, before the entire contents just vanished in the air. She couldn’t say what it tasted like. It wasn’t a drink, yet she felt it run down her, but it disappeared as soon as it reached her tongue. What she did feel however, was a rush of energy as her body healed from the injuries she acquired.

   Now she could focus on problems such as fighting. Her staff would be useless if she couldn’t figure out how to use the arts she had learned, and fast. “All I had to do was reach in my bag for an item select screen, so could there be something similar for fighting?”

Allen watched curiously, before sticking his own hand in the small bag on his hip. He saw a selection screen pop up, and grinned.

“This is kind of cool, actually. I always wondered how game inventories would actually work in practice. Its not as fast to use as a controller though, since we dont have hot-keys to instantly use recovery items…” He played around with the screen a few seconds longer before pulling out his new daggers and letting his old ones vanish into the bag.

“Now for fighting…” he muttered, holding the daggers up, but nothing obvious happened. He made a few lame slashes, hoping to engage some sort of ‘combat mode’, but couldn’t figure out how to activate any sorts of skills.

“This might be hard… I dont actually know how to fight with these, it was always just giving a command…” He did remember what the moves looked like as he fought, though, and tried to imitate one of the simpler moves. For a few moments, it seemed as if the daggers glowed, but the light quickly fade.

“I almost had it, I think!” he said, imitating the move a few more times. The daggers would glow when he started, but it kept fading out as he continued.