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((1d100 for mining
1-50= 1 unit stone
51-75= 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit stone
76-80= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit stone
81-85= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit quartz, 2 units stone
86-90= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit quartz, 2 unit stone
91-100= 2 unit iron ore, 2 units quartz, 2 units charcoal, 3 units stone))

Stone: 10
Iron Ore: 2
Quartz: 2
Coal: 1

That was probaby the dumbest idea Dagron has ever had in his history of gaming. Or the best. This beta is the most open and free thing he has felt like he's ever done with his life, and he even played the damned beta for WoW 3: Marketing trash sellout fun time.
Maybe that was the charm and merit of this perticular MMO. Hyper realism, perma-death, the fact that noncombat skills can potentially break a game to this extreme of an extent, and Dagron was ready to strap in for the full thing if he could manage to do half of the garbage his mind was attempting to form.

((Roll 1d100 for last mining post))

The Player was no more than an ordinary guy. He lived a fairly ordinary life, had an ordinary job, but made through with massive amounts of creativity and wit. The price of this was his love affair with gaming of all kinds, and when he found an mmo he liked, he usually stuck with it for a while. He returned home from a fairly terrible day at work, sloughing off his work gear into more comfy attire, and grabbing a soda from the pack. He sat down, fired up youtube to random music from his favorites to chill out to and forget the world, when he started nonchalantly sifting through E-mail. Then he saw it. His application to the new gen MMO, ALICE Online, was accepted. He nearly leapt out of his seat, and immediately downloaded the game. It took a few hours, but the plans were all ruminating in his head of what to do.

The time came.

Create Username: Rota
Create Password:************

He was in. The character creator stood before him like a blank canvas from which to craft a masterpiece...and he was drawing a blank. This had never happened before. How was it, that he couldn't think of a single character to make out of his vast library? Then it hit him, and there was only one thing to do. He began making adjustments to his character for what felt like seconds, but moved like hours until the avatar stared at his operator through the other side of the screen with his crimson irises and scarlet pupils. He picked the weapon style he would use, and all that was left was the name.

Rota Emptiet Abyssian (Rota for short) stood at the entrance to Gloomwood, shouldering his two handed straight sword on his right shoulder, his sharp teeth bared in a cocky smirk. He had heard stories in his village about this accursed place, but he believed he could fend off whatever threat lied ahead of him. Rather than explore the village at the safe end of the wood, he decided to take the initiative and forage off into the wood first, deciding to face whatever wildlife decided to rear its ugly head.

((1d100+11 for mining
1-50= 1 unit stone
51-75= 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit stone
76-80= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit stone
81-85= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit quartz, 2 units stone
86-90= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit quartz, 2 unit stone
91-100= 2 unit iron ore, 2 units quartz, 2 units charcoal, 3 units stone))

Wiping the sweat from his brow, he heft the pickaxe back into the stone in front of him. His muscles would normaly be tired by now but it's not like he could really feel anything he did here. Great thing about VR games is that the players could push limits beyond anything they normally are capable of. You would always see media about this stuff, particularly popular ones about death games and no logging out, But this was the real world. No way would anyone be able to get away with doing something so insane and convoluted as that! Let alone the idea of microwaving brains through whatever technology the VR systems used for their controll mechanisms.

((1d100 for mining
1-50= 1 unit stone
51-75= 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit stone
76-80= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit stone
81-85= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit quartz, 2 units stone
86-90= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit quartz, 2 unit stone
91-100= 2 unit iron ore, 2 units quartz, 2 units charcoal, 3 units stone))

Stone:1

More stone! There must be a better place to find charcoal. Maybe Dagron could burn down half the forest and collect the remains of the trees. Make actual charcoal, rather than the coal that existed in the rocks. These stupid RNG's were killing him. How is coal the hardest mineral to find? WHY is it the hardest mineral to find? Clearly the only real option he had was to completely obliterate this cave till his mining skill reached a high enough level to get coal every strike.
Pausing for a moment, Dagron hoped he would have the coal by then, if not he'd have to pick a new profession. Masonry maybe. Trees seem in abundance so woodworking isn't a terrible idea. But this quest needed to be done! He couldn't just pass it by. It would haunt his dreams and torment him, one simple quest, just to gather coal.

((1d100+11 for mining
1-50= 1 unit stone
51-75= 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit stone
76-80= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit stone
81-85= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit quartz, 2 units stone
86-90= 1 unit iron ore, 1 unit charcoal, 1 unit quartz, 2 unit stone
91-100= 2 unit iron ore, 2 units quartz, 2 units charcoal, 3 units stone))

Stone:2
Coal:1

Another piece, slowly crawling to the 5 coal he needed. Tucking the black gold away carefully in the corner of his bag, he returned to the monotonos business at hand. Wouldn't continuing on this mining turn into something glorious though? Maybe he could join up with some other beta testers and produce weapons and armor for them, then set up shop for others, get his name put out there and become a face in the beta. Nobody said this game was all about combat. Clearly with this well hammered out gathering system, the crafting had to be stupendous. Maybe this stupid mining quest would lead to something amazing. With renewed vigor he stuck the rock and awaited the cursed coal.

((loot roll, three boars, with hunting knife

Boar:
1-50: 1d100 Gil (times two the roll, or re-roll the 1d100 and keep the latter result)
51-80: 1d100 Gil + 1 rookie health potion
81-100: 1d100 Gil + 2 rookie health potion ))

Alyx HP: 196
Alyx AP: 8-3=5
thrust
Boar1: 14-36=0
Boar2: 36
Boar3: 50
Boar: A large, wild boar, with razor-sharp tusks and a temper to match
HP: 50
-35 to all combat rolls
1-25 will turn to flee. Requires one round to prepare to flee, during which it will not attack, and a second roll in a row will confirm it leaving combat and escaping.
26-50: defend
51-100: attack (will attack party members at random. 51-100 can be split into as many parts as needed to ensure everyone has an equal chance of getting attacked)

83+35+10=128*1.5=192
0
64-35=29 defense
21=runaway (1/2)

192-29=163/4=40+2=42 damage to boar

And with one final thrust, the boar was impaled and destroyed. As it exploded into a shower of crystal shards, Alyx breathed easily and flicked the imaginary blood off of his blade before sheathing it. As the dialogue opened that he'd been successful in yet another glorious slaughter, another dialogue opened and informed him that he'd received a message. Upon opening it, Alyx' heart soared. Someone had finally used one of his beta keys! One of his old friends had finally decided to try ALICE Online. He sent back a message ~~Of course I'll show you around! I'm out in the woods right now. I'll be back in the encampment in a couple minutes. If you get bored, do a quest or two. I recommend talking to the woman at the forges; the Weaponsmith will help you make a hunting knife, which is one of the best utilities you can get ahold of. I'm on my way.~~