What..?
What happened?
Where did everyone go?
Okay. First I have to find out what happened before now. I was on my way to work. Pretty normal day. I got out of bed, brushed my teeth and got dressed, and started to walk to work. I was halfway there, looking around at the beautiful trees and houses of my town, and I immediately got a mind-splitting headache. An image popped into my head. Then I ended up here. I couldn't make sense of it. What was it... Oh. A... snake? What did a snake have to do with my life? Nevermind. First, what happened? Was I shot? Was it a car crash? I don't know, I don't know! I just wish I had some information...
[Prompt: User has asked for information. Install basic knowledge for 1 Skill Point?]
..huh?
What was that?
Is someone there?
Help me, I'm over here!
No good..
[Confirmation: User has answered no. Is this correct?]
NO, IT ISN'T CORRECT!
[Prompt: Would you like to install basic knowledge?]
Yes, YES! Please just tell me what happened!
[Import: Installing basic knowledge...]
[Acquired: Knowledge LV1 installed.]
Knowledge... level 1? What did that mean?
Immediately, searing pain that felt like information being branded onto my mental space coursed over me. I couldn't move, but if I could, I would be writhing in pain right now. It felt so awful, almost like I was being torn to shreds! Please, just stopp!!!
Stolen novel; please report.
And then it did.
Like nothing ever happened, I couldn't feel the pain anymore.
[Acquired: Mind Resistance LV1 gained.]
What's with all these things being acquired?!?!? I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!
..Then I found out. Information flooded into my brain that I didn't know about. So this is the knowledge that took my mental capacity to it's limits just to acquire.
Huh.. So.. I died?
Is this heaven then? Or hell? Purgatory? Even with the things I found out, I was still lacking. Where was I? Was I even existing anymore? HOW did I die? I contemplated for what seemed like an eternity.
Okay, so.. random voice. How do I find out more of the things I want to know?
[Prompt: Do you want to upgrade Knowledge LV1 > Knowledge LV2? This will cost 10 Skill Points.]
..What?
Skill points? Like a game?
Uh.. Yes?
[Failed: Insufficient points.]
What a stark way to put it. How do I know how much points I have?
[Prompt: Do you want to purchase Appraisal LV1? This will cost 1 Skill Point.]
Is this how? Do I have enough points? I mean, I'll try. Yes.
[Success: Purchased Appraisal LV1.]
This time, it felt like my brain was a lit candle, slowly melting. Not painful like the knowledge, but just confusing, like my ideas and questions were disappearing from my mind. Ugh, I wish I knew what it would feel like getting these... things... before I got them. What are they, anyway? I mean, I used skill points to get them, so are they skills? I guess... Whatever! I'll just try to find out once I figure out how to use it.
Uh... like this? Appraisal.
[Status appraised.
Snake (Cycotus) LV1
Name: (unnamed)
HP: 1/1 (Unborn)
MP: 0/0 (No crystal) (Unborn)
STA: 0/0 (Unborn)
Stat Chart
Enhance Points: 2
Skill Points: 0
Enhancements: (none)
Skills: {Knowledge LV1} {Appraisal LV1} {Bite LV1} {Fang LV1} {Constriction LV1}
Appraisal end.]
I gloss over everything and look at my skill points. Huh. If I remember right both of those costed 1 Skill Point. So I started with 2? Well, I can't get anything else right now I guess... I started to look at the rest of my status, but then...
The world suddenly feels like it's shaking. But, the thing is, I feel it. Like actually feel it.
So I do have a body! What am I though? I can't feel my arms or legs, and my body feels like it's touching itself...
Cracks begin to form around me. I see light seeping through. I'm still paying attention to my status.
The form around me is about to break. I reach the top of my status and then...
Crack. I'm filled with dismay. It really had to happen this way, huh?