Less than half an hour later, Alan, John, Adrian and Jeannie arrived at the apartment, parking the beat down toyota in front of it and getting out.
"Alright, let's go have some fun." Adrian said with a wide smile on his face as he walked quickly towards the emergency stairs on the side of the building.
Alan raised an eyebrow in confusion though he followed the group. John noticed it and released a soft chuckle.
"We call this my apartment but I dont actually own it. It's just some random apartment that I found was empty and claimed as my own, we dont have the key to the front door so we head up the emergency stairs and then climb in through a window." John explained as the group headed up the stairs, arriving at the fourth floor.
Adrian leaned up and put one foot onto the emergency stairs metal railing and then used that to jump up an put one knee on the window sill and then heading inside.
John and Jeannie quickly followed after him whilst Alan was left on the stairs.
'How the hell…' Alan thought to himself, his mind already wandering back to his three points in strength, doubts already starting to form in his mind.
"Come on, you scared or something? Don't be a baby." Jeannie said with a giggle as she extended her hand towards him.
'Ah fuck it.' Alan thought as he followed their example and put one foot on the railing and then used all his strength to push himself up and grab onto her hand, Jeannie helping him for a moment, but it was long enough for him to put his knee onto the window sill and then simply get inside.
"See, that wasn't that hard, I actually thought you'd struggle a while more." Jeannie said with a slightly surprised tone as she watched Alan stand inside the room and dust down his jeans.
'Right, I almost forgot, Agility matters in stuff like this more than strength does, thankfully.' Alan thought inwardly before he lifted his head and looked around.
There wasn't much of anything in the apartment, an old couch that had clearly seen much better days, beer cans were scattered all around with a random few bottles of liquor here and there aswell.
The smell was overwhelming, spilled drinks and cigarette butts everywhere, it smelled like some back alley and an ashtray at the same time.
"Looks… like somethin that's fore sure." Alan spoke outloud.
"Yeah, we need to clean it sometimes but we usually just get too high and then forget we ever planned to. That's the usual case, and other times, we just can't be bothered." John said as he sat down onto the couch and leaned back.
Adrian meanwhile had already gone to the side of the room and opened a drawer at what appeared to be a small barely useable kitchen.
Turning towards him, Alan saw him pull out a few papers and a grinder aswell before he finally pulled out what Alan had been wanting to see all this time. It was a small green ball wrapped in clear foil and then sealed by torching the ends of the foil bag.
'There… that's what i wanted to see.' Alan thought as he instantly used his skill on it and every other item.
'Observe'
[ Observe Skill has been used ]
[ Name: Weed Grinder ]
[ Age: 3 years and 2 months since production date. ]
[ Description: Used to grind up weed for smoking usage. ]
…
[ Name: Weed wrapping paper ]
[ Age: 3 Months and 12 days since production date. ]
[ Description: Paper used to roll up 'weed joints' ]
…
And then finally… the last observation panel appeared before his eyes as alan walked to one side of the room and leaned against the wall, his eyes quickly moving as he read the observation skill results.
[ Name: Empowered Weed ( Blue Version ) ]
[ Age: 2 months and 14 days since it has been created. ]
[ Description: A magically empowered version of marijuana, usually created by combining magically rich components in the harvesting process. The blue version increases reflexes by fifteen percent. After effects: A majorly increased addiction rate. User's may risk falling into the creators control whilst under the duration of the drug's effects. Drug effect lasts 6 Hours. ]
'This… magically infused? Fuck… a major increase in addiction chance is bad… but thats not even the worst of it, the creator of this shit can actually control you? How would that be possible? It is magic but… god fucking darn it. How do I get them to not smoke it. Yeah there's no way. But I can atleast get the least amount of effect if i simply pretend to smoke it and dont bring it down to my lungs at all, and i stay as close to the window as possible.' Alan thought as his mind instantly whirlled into action.
He knew that there was no way that he could just tell the three of them to throw that shit out, they would likely look at him as if he was a dumbass. At the same time, there was no way he could tell them about the system, they'd similarly not believe him at all and that would make them think that he wasn't just a dumbass but a mentally insane one at that.
Adrian walked back to the couch with the magically infused marijuana and sat down, putting the items on the small wooden table infront of the couch and started grinding up the weed whilst John got the paper and filters ready.
"How many ya'll smoke usually?" Alan asked, his voice slightly stiffer than before.
"Hum? A few a day, we almost ran out of this stock but the dealer told me that I ain't got to worry as he's got plenty left and a decent supplier of it for the long term if we want more." John replied as he grabbe the grinded up weed and started making the joint.
'Ah… fuck. They're already addicted to it.' Alan thought to himself.
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