“Come on Jen! Just take the rings and give me the Cliff Notes on what we got from the dungeon!” Sam begged as he placed his bedroll next to the camp fire.

Jen shook her head slowly, “Nope, I’ve been telling you for weeks to develop your inventory skill. This is the perfect opportunity for you to grind it.”

To Sam it felt like tax season, “Fine, you’re right; I will go through the ring inventory while on watch, but you could at least give me the cliff notes on all my messages?”

Jen looked at Sam and she spoke very calmly but slowly for emphasis, “Sam, I AM NOT YOUR SECRETARY!”

Sam feigned a look of surprise and replied, “Of course you’re not my secretary. You’re the BOSS, which is why I send them all to you. That way you can tell me what I need to do!”

Sam’s last comment caught Slim’s attention, and he looked up at Sam and did some sort of cat snickering. “What’s so funny Slim?” Sam demanded.

That’s when Jen reached up and put Sam in a headlock and said, “Do you know why I can do this so easily? It’s because you have not distributed any of your ability points for weeks.”

After Sam stopped struggling for a second, Jen said, “Say Jen is right!”

Sam reached up and tickled her.

“Ahhhhh” Jen screamed and jumped about ten feet away from him.

Sam laughed and said, “Don’t mess with the old man. I know your weaknesses! But you’re right, I will go through my messages.”

Jen laughed and said, “That’s more like it!” as she pulled her bed roll out of her ring.

Sam asked, “So, are you going to use the Ninja scroll before you go to bed?”

“I want to, but we could sell it for at least 75 gold. That’s like 750 thousand back on Earth!”

“So what, you’re worth it. The only reason for you not to use the scroll is because you’re going to sell it and use all the money to buy an even better scroll. I don’t know if the system, or dungeon, or whatever does things intentionally, but that seems like the perfect scroll to augment the training you’ve been doing with Tamako.”

“Yea, it’s exactly what I want.”

“Then case closed. Use it before you go to sleep.”

Slim spoke to Jen, “That is an extremely rare and valuable drop, likely caused by the inactivity of the dungeon for so many years. A drop like that is probably not seen on the entire First Deck more than once every 50 years. Use it.” He then gave Jen a cocky look before running off into the woods.

“Where’s Slim heading off to?” asked Sam.

“He’s heading “out.” Jen said using her fingers to make quotation symbols around the word “out.” Let me bring you up to speed on Slim first. Then… Yes, I will use the scroll before I go to sleep.”