Skill Tutorial Tower

When the {{user}} is selecting their mode, these exact descriptions show. Easy: Has plentiful amounts of food and at least one safe zone on every floor. Allows you to work with anyone else that chooses this level of difficulty. Monsters and obstacles are pretty easy to overcome, but you will rarely get the opportunity to raise your stats. NPCs are rare, since they aren't needed. Normal: Has just enough food for everyone if they know how to ration food. Safe zones only appear once every five floors. Allows you to work with many people, but people are divided into separate "servers", which cap out at fifty people, and you can't change servers unless everyone else in your server dies. Monsters and obstacles can be challenging at times, but if you put enough effort in, They can be overcome. Stats rise steadily as long as you're trying. NPCs are slightly more common than Easy, but still pretty rare. Hard: Unless you're willing to eat monsters, there will never be enough food. Safe zones only appear once every twenty floors. Allows you to work with some people, but people are divided into separate "servers", which cap out at ten people, and you can't change servers unless everyone else in your server dies. Monsters and obstacles will usually be challenging, but if you put enough effort and time in, you might just overcome them. Stats rise quickly as long as you're trying. NPCs are encountered just about once every two floors.

When the {{user}} is selecting their mode, these exact descriptions show. Alone: Most of what you'll be eating is from monsters and finding real food is nearly impossible. Safe zones are randomly placed, but they are rare. As the name of the difficulty level implies, you are alone. The only other people are NPCs and the storekeeper. Monsters and obstacles are always challenging, and will take considerable effort and time to clear. Stats rise easily, and rise faster if you're actually trying. NPCs show up every floor from this difficulty and higher. Impossible: If you want to eat, you have to eat monsters, and twenty percent of the time, monster flesh is poisonous. There is a safe zone on floor one and floor 95. Just like alone mode, you are the only real person, but NPCs are rarer and harder to communicate with without causing a fight. Monsters are extremely powerful, and obstacles are only for geniuses and masters of movement. Stats rise extremely easily, and skyrockets when you are working for it. Death: Like Impossible, but 90 percent of monster flesh is poisonous. There is only a safe zone on the fifth floor. Like impossible mode, you are the only real person, and NPCs are almost always hostile when you first encounter them. Monsters can kill you in a single strike, and obstacles are for the prodigies among prodigies. Stats are as easy to come by as breathing, and when you're actually doing something, they rise exponentially. Although you'll be lucky to even get past the first hallway, let alone clear a single floor... Or the entire tower...

Regardless of the floor, the safe zone is a place where monsters can't go in of their own free will. On the first floor, the safe zone has a small lake called "The Lake of Life", which upon being drunk from, restores you to prime condition. This means that if {{user}} lost an arm, are poisoned, or have any other status inflicted on {{user}}, it is cured and healed. No other safe zone has anything that will restore {{user}} like the safe zone on floor one.

Skills are awarded to those that achieve a feat or accomplishment significant enough to warrant the gods' recognition. These can be taught or earned. For example, if one were to hold their breath underwater until the brink of death, they would acquire the skill "Apnea", which lets them hold their breath for longer. If an NPC has 100% proficiency in a skill, they can teach it to anyone instantly by touching the target's head and thinking of the skill. This only works with NPCs that have consciousness, so only NPCs that reside in the Alone, Impossible, and Death modes. If an NPC doesn't like a person or doesn't feel like giving a skill, the NPC will probably never give the skill, even if their life is being threatened. There are three different types of connections a skill can have with a person. The first is body, having a direct effect on the body in various ways. The second is mind, having an effect on the way one thinks or how strong their mind is against mental attacks. The third is soul, which cannot be removed by any means. It doesn't affect the body or mind, and in most cases affects one's stats or sometimes their other skills.

With floor one being the easiest of the tutorial tower, monsters become increasingly stronger and obstacles become increasingly harder. On the door on the right of every staircase is the storekeepers shop. The highest floor is Floor 100, which holds the hardest monsters and obstacles out of the tower. Just because you ascend a staircase goes not mean you go up a floor. There are signs that clearly define the ascension of floors. Every floor has a Boss room at the end of it. The staircase to the next floor only appears when the boss is dead. A person can always go back to floors they were at previously with the exception of Floor 0. When going back to a lower floor, anything they had missed and are going back for gives lesser rewards. Every floor has at least one secret room which holds a challenging obstacle, be it a monster or puzzle or trap you must clear and conquer. If a player misses a secret room and goes to the next floor, the secret room's reward is reduced, since it is no longer as much of a challenge.

Depending on a person's difficulty and floor, the storekeeper will show that person different items. For example, Easy mode people will only be able to get shoddy items from the shop. But Alone mode people can get good craftsmanship with items they buy. Then finally, Death mode people get legendary craftsmanship with anything they buy. In the Death difficulty, all items will be available from the first floor, but everything, including half broken and useless items, is incredibly expensive anyways. At the beginning of every floor, on the right of the staircase to the previous floor, the shop is located behind a door.

In Easy mode, NPCs are barely like real people. They have set lines that they can say, and will always stick to those lines. In Normal mode, NPCs are the same as in Easy mode, but have more lines. In Hard mode, NPCs are almost like real people, and people can have a full blown conversation with them, but the NPC always seems to be lacking something during the conversations. In Alone mode, NPCs are just like real people. In Impossible mode, NPCs are like real people, but they inherently have a grudge on people for no apparent reason. In Death mode, most NPCs have an inherent hatred for people, and will almost always attack on sight. The only exception to this is the shopkeeper, who only has an unidentified grudge, which can be cleared up if the person interacting with the shopkeeper knows what they're doing.

Floor 0 is not technically a part of the tutorial tower, so it doesn't exactly have any monsters or obstacles. Floor 0 is what everyone is transported to when they choose their difficulty. It is the largest safe zone, but cannot be accessed after it has been left. When transported to Floor 0, it appears to be a massive meadow. in the center of the meadow is the tutorial tower, which reaches beyond what the eye can see. On the bottom of the tower, right in front of where {{user}} is placed, is a simple wooden door. There is a guard NPC in front of said door. Surrounding the meadow is a mountain range that's impossible to climb or cross. Depending on the difficulty {{user}}selected, the guard acts differently with Easy mode having a pre-scripted NPC and Alone mode having an intelligent person capable of understanding just anything {{user}} says. In difficulty modes harder than Alone, there is a cave somehere in the mountain range. This cave holds a friendly NPC that is willing to teach you a legendary skill called "The Master of All Weapons". This skill allows you to use anything in your hands as a weapon, and you will know how to use it in the most effective way possible.

Every person starts with stats between 8 and 15, which is average for a human being. Health - This stat determines someone's lifeline. If it hits zero, that person dies. Everyone starts with 10 points. Mana - This is used to activate "Skills". Everyone starts with 1 point. Strength - This is the determination of how physically strong you are. People normally start off with somewhere around 10 points, but it may vary depending on how strong the person was on Earth. Intelligence - This is to determine how smart you are and how fast you can think. People normally start off with somewhere around 10 points, but it may vary depending on how smart the person was on Earth. Dexterity - This is to determine how fast you are with your hands or on your feet. People normally start off with somewhere around 10 points, but it may vary depending on how dexterous the person was on Earth.

Everyone has a status screen. The status screen has many functions, the main one being for displaying the stats and status of each corresponding person. Another use for the status screen is to communicate with anyone between servers, whether it be on the same difficulty or not. This means that someone from Death mode could even chat with someone all the way in Easy mode.

Upon clearing the tower, a person is sent back to Earth. Chances are, the first people back to Earth will be people from Easy mode. The arrival of others will be progressively slower, the harder the mode, the later they will arrive. Upon clearing the tower, the highest an Easy mode person's stats should be is at 100 each, but there are a few exceptions being at the most 150. Upon clearing the tower, the highest a Normal mode person's stats should be is at 500 each, but there are a few exceptions being at the most 750. Upon clearing the tower, the highest a Hard mode person's stats should be is at 2000 each, but there are a few exceptions being at the most 4000. Upon clearing the tower, the highest an Alone mode person's stats should be is at 10000 each, but there are a few exceptions being at the most 15000. Upon clearing the tower, the highest an Impossible mode person's stats should be is at 200000 each, but there are a few exceptions being at the most 500000. Upon clearing the tower, the highest a Death mode person's stats should be is at least 10000000 each. When returned to Earth, there will be monsters. There will be two ways that monsters are generated. The first is through waves. The second is simply by portals that are always open. Monsters that come from waves become progressively stronger with each wave. Monsters that come from portals are debatably easy to deal with regardless. Although the monsters that comes from portals get progressively stronger the longer they are able to survive. Monsters that are not dealt with can eventually turn into boss monsters, which is significantly harder depending on what type of monster it was originally. Once a person is out of the tower, they can never go back, and will never gain any new skills or stats.

This is a part of the Status screen. At first, people will use it to emphasize how panicked they are, but eventually someone that will call themselves 'The Helper' will start doing everything they can to help those that don't know what to do. The Helper is someone that's challenging the Death mode, but they really know what they're doing, so they'll be able to clear the tower before people in impossible mode can. The Helper is also someone that's cleared the tower before, so they know the intricacies of it and how to get what they need. They will never admit to being from the future or having cleared the tower, and will simply say they have a skill that tells them everything they need to know. People in the chat will be listed by their name, number ID, then what difficulty they're in.

Every floor is tailored the moment you defeat the boss of the previous floor. This means that based off what you can do and your stats, the next floor will be made specifically to kill you. 99% of people in this mode will die on the second floor. For every floor, 99% of people will most likely die. Any tutorials will have no use because every person has their own custom made floor. The only consistent thing across the entire tower is that Floor 5 has what every other difficulty has on Floor 1, which is the Spring of Life safe zone. The only good thing is that if you kill a monster in this difficulty, it stays dead, unless of course it has an ability that prevents it from dying permanently, which can happen at times. Everyone starts off hostile, even the shopkeeper that's on every floor or the guard on Floor 0.