AWACS - An American With A Chinese System
Copyright© 2025 by PT Brainum
Chapter 10
I checked out my new stats, and contemplated a new round of upgrading as I finished off my first, and started a second ice cold Corona:
0/11,000 (31) Level
11,030/110,000 positive points
10,723 neutral points
17,179/110,000 negative points
10/11 Active Skills
10 Passive Skills
47,605 Bonus Neutral Points
I spent almost all my positive points, then a chunk of negative points, then paused:
0/13,000 (33) Level
60/130,000 positive points
10,753 neutral points
5179/130,000 negative points
10/12 Active Skills
10/11 Passive Skills
47,605 Bonus Neutral Points
I upgraded mellons the rest of the way, hoping that it would really boost my point generation:
种瓜得瓜 Plant melons get melons (4/4)
- good crop, 50% increase in either positive or negative karmic points generated when performing a karmic act, when both positive and negative points are produced by the same action, only the larger is increased
- great crop, both positive points and negative points increased equally, stacks with above
- bumper crop, get a second 50% increase, stacks with above
- nice melons, get an additional 100% boost if the interaction involves a woman
I suddenly wanted to see Mo again, and give her a bigger tip. 50% + 50% +100% was much more than just a 200% increase. They were compounding.
I called a florist around the corner, and told the lady that answered that I wanted every rose she had in bouquets of a dozen. I gave her my card number, and told her I’d meet her for delivery at the hospital.
I called down to Mike, and let him know I needed to go to the hospital. He was really concerned until I explained that I wanted to drop off presents, and get out of the hotel for a bit.
It took about 30 minutes to get everything arranged. I called my Doc’s office, and told the receptionist I wanted to bring flowers to the staff and possibly to patients, could she have someone from the hospital administration call me back.
The call was funny, because the person didn’t understand what I wanted to do, even after I explained it. Eventually I got passed to someone higher up the food chain.
“Hi, I’m Koby Roberts, I was a patient at your hospital for a number of days, and am now recovering at the hotel next door, as I was taken off a flight while traveling. I’m bored as hell, still not well enough to finish my trip home, and wanted to do something nice. My plan is to have the local florist meet me at the hospital and I’ll deliver bouquets of roses to everyone you think is appropriate.”
“How many bouquets Mr Roberts?” the gentleman asked.
“I have no idea, I’ve bought every rose the place around the corner has. They estimate over a hundred, but I’m not sure.”
“Access to patients is restricted, but I think we can let you do something to brighten the staff’s day.”
“I’ll be happy with that. By the way, the kids in the hospital, have they got any games to play or anything like that?”
“We try to keep them from getting too excited, so generally it’s just movies and books. Why do you ask?”
“I was wondering if it would make sense to get x-boxes or something for the children’s ward?”
“I’d have to ask our nursing staff if they thought that was appropriate, I can check into that for you.”
“Great, I’ll be down front at the entrance in about thirty minutes, the flowers should show up soon after.”
It took a full 30 for me to get myself arranged, and some water to wash away the beer. I was dressed in my best sweat pants and hoodie, as Mike wheeled me across to the entrance.
Mr Blake was waiting when I checked in at the entrance.
“We got a call from the florist, to check that they weren’t being pranked or going to cause trouble. They gave me a total of 143 bouquets of assorted roses, one dozen each.”
“Excellent, did they say when they would be here?”
“The first batch of fifty will be arriving in about 10 minutes. Each additional batch of fifty will arrive about 20 minutes later.”
“Wonderful. Thank you for your help.”
It was only about five minutes before a young man pushed a shopping cart into the hospital entrance, full of roses. I waved at him, and he came over to where Mr Blake was standing, and I was sitting.
Mike had headed back, and a strong orderly was now in charge of pushing me around the hospital.
“Hi, I’m the one who ordered the roses.”
“Hi, I’m Jack, I’ll be the runner bringing them over. I’ve just got 2 carts, so I’ll leave this one here, and hopefully you can empty it before I get back with the second. Then we will just keep going, until we are done.”
“Sounds good Jack.”
“Oh, I have the receipt for you to sign. We gave you a discount for the volume. Usually when we get an order of this magnitude some guy has really screwed the pooch and is looking for forgiveness, or at least something other than a kick in the balls.”
He paused, and realized what he’d said to the people around him who all chuckled as he cringed and blushed.
I signed the receipt, they only charged me $41 per dozen. I don’t know if that was good or bad, but that didn’t matter. Leveling mattered. Just signing and taking the entire stock of roses gave me more than 5000 points.
A second orderly was called, to push the cart of roses, and we started at the information/check in desk. I handed out three bunches to the staff on duty who had been watching, “Remember this is yours, so take them with you when you go home,” I told the ladies.
My grin was bigger than theirs. Each bouquet gave me +2000 positive points. I was guessing that it was just over the 1000 mark, so everything was getting rounded up to the next 1000.
We moved thru the first floor, giving almost all fifty out, the second fifty arrived, and we paused. I took the opportunity to level up, as I was nearing my bank limit. I went up six levels with a hundred thousand points. I had enough points to go all the way to level forty, so I went all the way.
0/50,000 (40) Level
839/500,000 positive points
12,433 neutral points
80/500,000 negative points
10/13 Active Skills
10/14 Passive Skills
47,605 Bonus Neutral Points
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