“Alright! Here you go sir. Thank you for shopping with us today! Also, be sure to stop by Tuesday nights. That’s when we host our game nights and I know for a fact there will be people around willing to teach you how to play Dice Masters”, he cheerfully tells to his customer.
The man thanks him and heads out. Brian lets out a breath and looks around his store and begins to restock some of the shelves. Just as he finishes restocking the front door bells go off. He turns away from the shelf he was working on and see’s the person who just walked in and freezes. The mystery patron turns out to be a woman. A woman who looks so much like someone he knows. Someone he thought he’d never see again.
“K-K-Katie?”, he breathes out slowly as he walks closer to the woman.
With a sad smile on her face the woman answers, “I’m sorry Brian but I am not her.”
His face seems to crumple and a lonely looks enters his eyes as he sighs and he gazes through her for a second. He then shakes his head and smiles a crooked smile at her. He tries not to make it too obvious but he checks her out just to make sure. Same sharp, pixie like face and messy ponytail she loved. This woman had the same birthmark on her left cheek as well. She even had the same curvy body type. The only difference were the eyes. This woman’s eyes were a blood red instead of a honey brown. Her eyes sent a chill down his spine that felt like he got shocked straight down to the soles of his feet.
“Right of course. I apologize you just look so much like her”, he says as he looks her in the eyes.
“Well, except for the eyes right”, she smiles wickedly at him. “Don’t worry I don’t mind you looking at me Brian. In fact, my kind love being looked at. Though, to be fair, we’re normally not trying to make deals with mortals when it happens”, she says with a small chuckle and a smile at me.
Brian looks at this mysterious woman in front of him and can’t even begin to understand what she’s talking about. The more he listens to her the more confused he makes himself trying to decipher what she’s saying and makes sense of it let alone try and figure out why she looks so much like Katie.
“I’m sorry but I’m confused here. Can you please sit down and help me understand?”, he asks of her, while he holds his arm out to the table in the center of the front room.
She smiles and nods her head at him. They both sit at the table and looks at each other. Her with a playful smile and him with a very confused look.
“What do you want me to answer for you first”, she asks leaning back in her chair, and crossing one leg over the other showing off her legs.
Ignoring the purposeful display of skin from her Brian thinks of what he wants an answer to first.
“Alright, I want to know who you are, how you know my name and why you look like someone I dated a long time ago”, he stares straight into her eyes and he demands his answers not letting the unnerving feelings he gets from her eyes get to him.
“Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh my! I must have really shocked you if you are being so aggressive. The profile we put together on you showed you to be rather passive unless you are provoked or someone you care about has been threatened. Which makes me wonder how you’re going to take the news I have for you. Well, we’ll see won’t we”, she says amused.
“ My name is not really pronouncable in your tongue. You can just call me the name you used earlier. Katie was it? Yes, that will do nicely. Now as to how you know your name well that’s because I’m a God’s assistant. A God in my own right. Which is also how I look the way I look. As an assistant to a God I can take any form I wish. My boss believed if I looked like someone you can trust this conversation would go a lot smoother”, she says to him.
He slowly absorbs everything she says. Now normally in this situation he should be extremely skeptical of Katie(?), maybe even believe to be some crazy nutjob excaped from a mental institute. The only problem is that he wants to believe her. If only for his own selfishness.
“Prove to me that you’re a God”, he dares her. He stares at her waiting to see what she does. For her part, Katie looks calm and just smirks at him as if she saw his request coming. Slowly she raises her hands and things begin to shake in the store and start to float in the air. Next she starts to glow. The glow around her starts to get brighter and brighter until finally in a great blinding flash of light everything goes still. Brian closed his eyes and lifted his arms to cover his face to ward off the fierce light. Once he can blink away the black spots and can see properly he stares at the woman in front of him.
She had changed. She was….gorgeous…..beautiful. Godly. Yes that’s the right word. She was a goddess and standing in front of him. Hair black as night and down to her shoulders with a heart-shaped face. She still had a curvy body covered by a long blue dress. Though, her most distinguishable feature where her eyes. They were no longer the color of dried blood but a crimson red that almost shined with an inner glow.
“Is this proof enough mortal”, she asked. Though she spoke in a whisper he heard it as if she was saying it right in his ear.
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“Yes”, he says awestruck. Katie sits down and looks straight at him.
“Now, Brian, I am here for a reason and I need you listen first and wait to ask anymore questions. Deal?”, she asks with an amused smile.
“Deal”, he says
She closes her eyes and begins to wave her hands and he watches as papers start to appear before them. She even conjures up a pen. She opens her eyes and that wicked smile from earlier returns in full force.
“Alright, let’s begin. Brian I am here because the God I’m an assistant to has created a new World System. Think of it as the natural laws that govern a world and all of it’s inhabitants. He has already created a few of these Systems but this new one is different from all the other’s he has ever made. He has taken ideas from other World systems out there and put them into his own. The difference in it from these other systems is that the base for it comes from this world, Earth, and it’s inhabitants. The basis comes from the RPG’s you humans are so fond of. I’m sure I don’t have to explain too much how that works, correct.”, she says as she looks at him waiting for an acknowledgement. He shakes his head up and down to show he understands. If it’s based off rpg’s then it has levels, stats, monsters, etc. Not hard to understand he thinks to himself.
“Good! I’m here because he needs to test out the new system and he decided what better place than the world that gave him the inspiration for it. But, before he can do that he needs people who can help out their fellow man and lead them through the transition. You see, it will be extremely chaotic once the World system is in place and the entire world will be thrown into disarray for a while. So, that’s why he has picked 100 humans who will essentially be alpha testers for the system. The criteria was simple. You won’t be able to say no”, she sarcastically states with a dark look.
“I sort of understand what it is you want but what I don’t understand is what do you mean we won’t be able to say no”, Brian asks her as he tries to make sense of the massive information dump.
“We know how to make you agree. Your weakness in a sense. You, Brian Rosa, have no family. Your entire family line is deceased and you are the only one left. You only have your friends which, to you, are your brothers and sisters. When the new system descends and come online the world WILL be in chaose. There will be riots, theft, murder, loss of inhibitions, rape. You name it and it will happen. Do you want to see your friends suffer. Do you want to watch and see your only family left die brutal and soul crushing deaths”, she whispers as she stares through him as if she’s predicting the future if he doesn’t do what her boss is asking of him. She looks away from him refusing to look him in the eyes.
The second she looks away he explodes. The table is flipped to the side and he takes one giant step towards her. His hands closing around her throat. His breathing is ragged and his eyes seem to be tinged red from the rage coursing through him. Anger sparks in Katie’s eyes as she stares Brian down and a deathly whisper escapes her lips, “You dare lay a finger on me.”
Before he knows it he finds himself spread eagle a deadly force crushing him into the ground. The pressure is so intense he swears he can hear his bones creaking from it. She looks down on him, “Calm yourself. I am simply a messenger. I don’t like this any more than you. It’s not what a God is supposed to do. We don’t play with mortal lives like this. If you want to protect them then take the offer. It’s the only way. ” she says with barely controlled rage. Though, the rage doesn’t seem to aimed at him.
Breathing in ragged breathes Brian begins to calm himself down. He looks at the Goddess in front of him and sees that there is true disgust for what she’s asking him to do and for how she is being made to do it. This calms him further which is just enough for him to look at her and ask to be let up.
“Alright, I’m calm. But, how did you expect me to react. You said you compiled a profile on me. Did it really not tell you that this was what was bound to happen?”, he asks. She releases the pressure from him and he slowly stands up stretching his neck, arms, and legs of any stiffness.
“Yes, well, it seems you’re not the only one with hard to control rage”, she sighs shaking her head side to side.
She raises her head and looks straight at him and asks, “What’s your answer Brian. Yes or No?”
He looks down at his hands and back up at Katie. His rage all but forgotten in the face of this decision. He family is danger and he has a way of protecting them. He finally look at Katie after a long 10 minutes and he see’s her, his Katie, smiling reaching out towards him. Smiling he looks at the Goddess Katie and gives his answer.
“Yes I’ll do it”, he says with a sad smile on his face.
“Good. Now prepare yourself I’ll be sending you to character creation and since it seems you’ll be the first my Boss is giving you some gifts it seems. One of your choosing and one of his. Are you ready”, she asks him as her power builds up around her.
“Yes, and Katie”, he says, looking at her, “I’m sorry for attacking you. You were right. You’re just the messenger and I can see you feel you’re breaking some rules to do this. I know who to go after now and he better watch out. I’ll grow stronger and protect my friends. Then I’ll go after the one who put them in danger. And I will erase him from existence”, he promises with a savage smile on his face.
With a wicked grin she whispers so only he can hear, “I can’t wait to watch you rip his throat out.”
A blind white light flashes and Brian disappears from Earth. Katie looks around and fixes up the mess that was created due to their little talk.
“I sincerely hope you come back stronger. I want to see the look on that smug gods face when you stand in front of him and erase him from existence. No man has ever been able to withstand my bloodlust like you Brian. It was orgasmic to watch you just shake it off not once but twice”, she says as her gaze goes cloudy and her breathing ragged.
“Look at me I’m like a dog in heat. I’ll just have to go start a few wars to satisfy this hunger he caused. Ha ha ha ha ha”, the Goddess of war and lust laughs maniacally disappearing without a trace of her having ever been there.
Brian’s vision goes to black and when he awakes he is in a white space. There is no one around and he realizes he’s naked as the day he was born. Just as he is about to bitch and moan about his frustration with the entire situation a blue screen appears in front of him
Welcome to Character Creation Say Status Screen to begin. It will have all the information you will need to get started.