Black.
That sums up what I'm seeing now, not surprising considering the bullet to the head huh? I should have kept my God damn mouth shut.
Now, where the fuck am I?
Drip* boink*
Somewhere wet. Dark. Other than the constant dripping of water around me into what I assume are volumes of water around me, it's pretty quiet. I can't smell anything for some reason; I can't seem to move either. I can breathe, though.
Hours pass by, and still nothing. I should be panicking, but nothing comes up in my head. Odd. I got a constant itch, though, to hmm, I'd say, get bigger. How exactly do I do that? I think…
It takes a long, hard breath in*
"Ohhhhhhh fuck yeahhhhhh, that's some good shiiiiit man."
As I breathe in, I suddenly got the biggest high of my life; the colors are all kinds of -
CRACK
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK!
IT HURTZZZZZ SO MUCH.
Then, as I scream in so much agony, every inch of what I now can see is a cave come into vision, though not that it matters.
GAAAAAH FUCK HURTS SO MUCH
Then, all of a sudden, the pain stops, and now I feel like I've eaten the entire menu at a Chinese restaurant.
BLURG*
literal rainbows come out of my core.
Core. Core….
As I take a look at myself, I seem to be an almost crystal like obtrusion coming out of the ground kind of like a massive cluster of quartz or amethyst.
For some reason, I can't panic about that. And the rainbows I just vomited turned out to be some brightly colored oily sludge, like oil in the water except instead of black, it's bright and much thicker. I'm not sure how I vomited it out, but it's covering a decent chunk of the room, oh and it immediately hardened and crystallized like Fordite.
Wow, gross but pretty.
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I take a look around me. literally. I seem to be looking at myself from a 360 view.
Oh! I can move. Like the click-and-move mouse on google Earth. If I focus on another point, my viewpoint moves to that location. Zoom zoom zoom.
Hahahaha, this is fantastic!
There's not a lot of cave to look at, but it seems I can focus on a pinpoint, too. The caves are entirely devoid of any life. The pressure is insane down here; I should be deeper than any current mine on earth, probably three to four times that. I think may be 7 miles deep. Wooh, that's something else.
Only things such as deep sea crab-
Poof* plink*
Huh?
I look down at what seems to be a tiny weird-looking and glowing crab below my viewpoint.
CONGRATS.
YOU HAVE CREATED YOUR FIRST CREATURE.
CALCULATING.
CALCULATING.
ERROR. ERROR.
CORE SEEMS TO BE TOO DEEP FOR CURRENT LIFE TO ENTER HALLS.
USER YOUR CURRENT IQ EXCEEDS THE IQ LIMIT, DUE TO THIS YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN LIMITATIONS. YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN A DUNGEON MASTER FOR RESTRAINMENTS. YOUR CORE HAS BEEN MODIFIED.
YOU NOW HAVE LIMITATIONS ON MONSTERS YOU CAN SPAWN DUE TO ENSLAVEMENT
CURRENT MASTER: none.
Error. NO DUNGEON MASTER CAN SURVIVE CURRENT PRESSURES
FINDING SYSTEM PATCH.
PATCH FOUND.
DOWNLOADING.
PATCHING.
USER YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN ADVANCED SYSTEM PACKAGE 21689005.6890.
SYSTEM PACKAGE WILL CONTAIN THE LIMITATIONS AND NECESSARY REALM RULES TO ALLOW COMPLEX LIFE IN YOUR HALLS.
CONGRATS, YOU ARE AN ANOTHER WORLD CORE
YOUR PAST LIFE EXPERIENCE WILL BE RELEVANT.
YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN MONSTER SET: ATY6580975.0008
USER YOUR DUNGEON IS EMPTY PLEASE SELECT YOUR FIRST MONSTER.
Aquatic mer
Rake
Nephilim
Saurian
Sasquatch
Wow, those are some good monsters! If I'm correct, those were cryptids and aliens from my previous life. Hmm, I should choose carefully one move, and I'm stuck with whatever decision I make.
Let's see, can I? Yes, I can. I focus on descriptive context, and a few descriptions pop up,
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Aquatic mer.
A blue humanoid river, lake, and sea-dwelling creature known by the elite few on earth, they are known to be playful at first and then at the last moment use bone spears to pierce their foes and consume their flesh alive. Some tales portray them as beautiful women with fishtails; they are anything but. Blue and smooth body with a rounded tail. They have a hole in the nasal cavity that allows them to use sonar to commune with each other and perform hunting activities with whales.
Rake.
A race of extremely hostile and primitive pale humanoids. They take pleasure in tearing their prey apart. Usually suppressed by government bodies and relocated when possible, they are kept far away from the public to protect humans from their inhuman atrocious behavior.
Nephilim.
A race of human beings who have evolved over time to epic sizes. They were known to prey on other humanoid races and sometimes corroborated with humans to create massive structures that persisted to modern-day earth. They are red-haired and sometimes measured up to 25ft; they were driven into caves due to oppression, climate change, and coastal floods 20,000 years ago.
Saurian.
A race of reptilian humanoids evolved from iguanodons 65 million y.o. They are the third intelligent beings that evolved to concur earth until an invasion drove their civilization underground. Known for kindness towards humans and hostility towards the reptilian and blonde Nordic invaders. Despite their hostility towards the Nordic aliens, they corroborated with them to bring new humanity towards the stars.
Sasquatch.
A race of simi-primitive humanoids, cannibalistic, and filthy, they stink unbelievably horrid. They are supremely unsanitary and smelly. Their coat comes in many colors, and they live in many environments. A certain government body dreads relocation due to its horrendous filth. Stuff them far into caves and preferably away from the system menu les they contaminate me.
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What odd choices, I had always known that governments had hidden things from our views; after all, I wouldn't have died to two bullets in the cranium. I'm pretty sure I remember being a ghost and seeing an article saying it was suicide. I got too deep into one of my investigations about a cave city on the base of Mount Shasta. I exposed too much and attracted too much attention, and the government decided that a dead me would be a better me. Suicide by two bullets at the back of my head. Then somehow, I crawled (dragged) four feet into a laundry chute. But also bygones be bygones.
Alright, then time to pick my first pick. What to choose?