Thalia was dreaming again. This time she was experiencing a game that combined hidden object mechanics and base building witnessing a scene where an object was being crafted to enable hunting - a bow which would unlock a hunt to search. As part of a board game night, giant severed hands chased a father-son and daughter over a map of Australia, if caught their characters would become zombies. She was not sure why they would have taken the risk given it was just supposed to be explaining the difference between the current and previous editions until she realised it was just a nightmare that had her up at four am local time. She tried sleeping again. A third dream, this one having discovered their next door neighbour is a Cannibal, a husband and wife team enter a competition to see who can marinate themselves the best. It's much less distributing even when the rest of the neighbours family discover the plot - the children decides to leave but the wife sticks by him.
During her night terrors Thalia had accidentally issued a quest to slay humans. Rajesh had to manually approve it. The records showed Takamatsu had donned the kamaka leaf set and attempted the quest but died in the attempt and not resumed it. That name meant nothing to either Rajesh or Thalia though research proved it to be the name of a slime drop.
Rajesh was noticing how almost no-one had any mannerisms distinct from his own. Was it really the case that in the three years since the coming of the humans everyone had become just a voice? He thought they'd all started out that way but developed bodies in just a few days. He was thinking he might go back and review past scenes from other points of view if he could work out how.
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Rajesh was struck by the idea to add an arcane construct to a reward pool which got him thinking about whether he wanted skill books in the system and if so how to implement them. His initial inclination was to make them merely mundane descriptions of the skill that could be practiced, whilst that might not be fun in a conventional game this was real life for the people who lived in his multiverse. Then he considered implementing cards for attack, defence and skills but not only was the system too developed, it went against the design philosophy to have them used outside the existing system designed by Sarim. He was struck by a passing fancy to change the system text to pink on red but decided it would be illegible so would leave the default white on blue but look at adding customisation options.
Another image came to Thalia, a melted plastic container with rice inside was placed into a microwave. This did not seem like a good idea to her, who knew what consequences had caused the container to melt? It may even result in the rice becoming poisonous.
A tree of wizard truth was designated outside a temple to a god of wisdom. This was the last coherent thought Rajesh had before the plastic fumes leaked out of Thalia's imagination, causing both of them to collapse to the ground and the universe to tumble around them.
End of first draft.