In the outskirts of San Antonio Texas In a small 1 bedroom apartment John was in bed. He had just woken up and was confused as his last memory was of him in an ambulance after collapsing while at work.
He looked around the room and notice somethings seemed to be different. It was his room from 20 years earlier in his life when he had just graduated high school and moved out on his own.
While he was still processing he noticed a screen in the corner of his vision and when he focused on it it came in to view.
[Game Extraction System]
[Host: John Michaels
Stats:
Constitution: 0.8
Stamina: 0.8
Intelligence: 1.5
(Basic human stats are all 1. Host is currently in an unhealthy state due to poor diet and lack of physical activity)
Net worth: $175 (USD)
Assets: none
Inventory: empty
Games: host has not played any games yet]
He was confused at first but quickly realized what was going on. He had been reborn to his younger self from before joining the military and when he still had a poor diet and did not do much other than sleep and work. He also had a system that seems to do something with games but he wasn't sure to what extent the system worked.
Knowing about the system he got out of bed and quickly showered before going to his computer to login to one of his favorite games from both lives, Runescape. When he tried to login it gave him an error message saying that an account did not exist with the information he put in so he created a new character and started the game again.
*ding*
[Detected that the host has connected to a game… retrieving game information… Game: RuneScape… host can take any thing from the game into the real world or take any thing from the real world in to the game.]
Seeing this message a smile appeared on his face. He realized that with this system he would not have to work a regular job again. He could simply play games and take the items from those games to the real world to sell and live off the profits from this.
Once John completed tutorial island he immediately went to purchase membership in the game for $10 per month. In doing so he would be able to take advantage of everything the game offered and remove the restrictions that new players face when trading with others.
Afterwards he went to level his characters woodcutting, fletching, and firemaking skills as he wanted to play one of the minigames that would make a decent amount of money for him to start with. He started by going to the city of Varrok in the game and cutting down the normal trees, for every 2 logs he got he would burn 1 and fletch the other into arrow shafts.
He quickly raised the level of all 3 skills to 15 before switching to cutting oak trees. He repeated this process until level 30 in all skills before he got bored and decided he would train another skill.
He decided to train his fishing skill so he grabbed the small net and teleported back to lumbridge to catch shrimp. He was going to test the systems ability to take items from the game by bringing these shrimp into the real world to cook for his lunch today.
After fishing for a while and getting his level up to 25 he stopped and took 28 shrimp out of the game to have Lunch. After taking them from the game he realized the size of the shrimp were larger than he expected and that he wouldn't be able to finish them all for lunch so he would save part of them for his dinner. After eating his lunch he decided he should go on a walk to help him digest the food.
2 hours later he returned home and decided to take a break from playing the game and watched TV instead. He turned on the news first to get a general understanding of the world he had returned to as he could hardly remember things from his past.
After he finished watching the news he went back to playing RuneScape and continued fishing until he got to level 48 fishing. After that he moved in to training he strength and agility levels to level 15. After he finished doing all of this he decided to have dinner and take another shower before going to bed.