25 points available. A sizable chunk and enough for John to go over his decisions again. Because he wanted a tank, there was a reasonable order of priority he should put the Stats in.
Strength: Traditionally, tanks favoured Endurance or other defensive Stats. The reason why John elevated Strength above Endurance was that this was reality and there was no such thing as a convenient taunt chanic. If Aclysia couldn’t threaten an enemy into engaging with her, she was useless no matter how many punches she could take. Plus, since she would be taking a lot of damage, the Stat that increased HP Regeneration should have its uses.
Endurance: Even if he reasoned that Strength was slightly more important, he did understand that Endurance was still high up there.
Agility: Similar to Strength, this was needed to keep Aclysia relevant for the enemy. If they could just ignore her due to her lack of speed she wouldn’t be able to fulfil her task.
Wisdom: Of the two ntal Stats Wisdom was the one that had more relevance in fighting as it should make her able to retain more fighting experience. Maybe a bit more Wisdom would also increase her social understanding.
Intellect: Aclysia wasn’t supposed to be a caster, so she had no need for the mana. However, Intellect would probably be needed to make intelligent decisions when John couldn’t give her orders. Not that high on the priority list but still sothing to consider.
Charisma: He had no intention of having Aclysia do much in the way of talking, nor did he need her to be particularly interesting for other people to look at.
Libido: He put this last in the ranking of reasonable Stat priorities. Subjectively, he wanted to put this way up there, if only to see what would happen. First, he had to have that talk with Rave though. Plus, he wanted her to develop more of a personality. If even possible, he wanted the decision to sleep with him to be a choice, not a robotic duty. Making her a working tank was more important in any case.
With all that in mind, it was ti to divvy up the Stat Points at hand. Libido, Charisma, and Intellect were skipped out on. Only Intellect was slightly tempting at this ti and he simply had other things to raise. Of the four Stats remaining, Wisdom stuck out because it wasn’t even in the double digits. He alleviated that, pushing it to 10.
“What happened, Creator John?”
The Gar raised his head to inspect Aclysia. She stood there, blank faced as ever. “I raised your Wisdom,” he explained to her. “Do you feel different?”
“…No?” she answered uncertainly. It was the first ti he heard this tone in her voice. Matter of fact, it was the first ti she really sounded like she had any emotion beyond ‘servile’.
‘I guess I crossed another threshold?’ he asked himself. ‘Unsurprising, there should be sothing at 10 for each of these. Would really appreciate it if this ga would co out of Alpha and be consistent in what I get windows for.’
“Creator John, what is wisdom?”
“Ah, this again.” John scratched the back of his head, not knowing how to really answer that. “It’s a difficult concept to summarize.” He looked to the other people in the room for help.
Jimmie responded first. “Basically, it describes how much a person has experienced. A wise person is soone who knows a lot of stuff by heart.”
“Guess experience and kinda, like, knowing the rhythm of life?” Rave explained as poorly as ever.
“Wisdom is to know what must be done in order to preserve what is important,” Victoria presented with certainty.
“Sothing like that,” John agreed.
“I will attempt to comprehend these answers,” Aclysia stated and then fell silent. That was John’s signal to turn back to her Stats.
20 points remained. To raise her Wisdom even higher seed unnecessary, best to let her grow accustod to what sapience she now experienced. That only left her Physical Stats to be raised. Strength was currently the highest and, as per his priority list, it should remain that way. Endurance should supersede Agility though. He decided to go 5 into Strength and Agility, 10 into Endurance.
Huh, that warranted another look at his A2 clone.
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