That hurt. Like stupidly hurt. If I can avoid that again, I would prefer to.
The group list I picked that off of no longer has a selection for the engine bay. Instead it has a greyed out option for a simulation of some kind. When I looked through everything, it said the option can only be chosen once the engine, suspension, and interior groups were no longer available.
This morning I finished up the frame straightening. There are still things that need attention, as far as integrity goes, but it's straight for now.
I decided to start spending my energy on getting the glass in, and fixing the interior rubber. Being a bit more secure is probably a good idea.
Maggie and Kyle chased off a few people today who managed to get back here. I guess my presence is really noticeable now; or at least word got out about me. So I want to be able to lock the doors, and make it harder to harm me, even though I am still not sure how you could; besides weapons. The me before; well, this; lived in a world without mana, or magic, and now I am a being of magic.
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This morning, I got another congratulations message, another week, its been fourteen days here. In some ways, it doesn't feel real; but I know this is my new life. I've cried about it, I've stressed about it, and I watched Matthew drag someone out of this area twice the last week. people are getting more persistent, about getting close to me. One even touched my hood with a stone that made me feel funny, but Maggie killed him. I don't mean she beat him to a pulp and kicked him out, no. I watched her kill the man. She stabbed a pole through his back, and it came out the front where I knew the heart should be. Anna spent the next day scrubbing the blood off of me, and begged me to not treat her any differently.
Life obviously has different value here than it did where I came from. Matthew even said that if someone got close enough to touch me, he would kill them too. He eluded that I was somehow important to things going on outside of here, but refused to tell me why. I am still surprised at being that close to someone dying, and watching the life fade from their eyes, but I don't know what is normal here. I can't hold these people to the same moral compass I grew up with.
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I have another free upgrade, so I figured I would use it for the interior, and chose the interior named 'Eurosport'. I didn't have any pain this time, and I was able to watch through the cameras, and was constantly asked what color I wanted certain things. black carpets, light grey fabric seats, white lower dash, steering wheel, light grey trim around the doors and windows, all the rubber parts to keep noise down also had color options, I just kept selecting black for them, even though I could choose any color I wanted. When it came time for the windows I chose a very dark color for the back windows, but left the windshield almost clear. I chose white for the headliner, and the interior lights were repaired. The whole thing took about four hours, but was much slower, and didn't have any pain. I am guessing it was because most of the things were already there, they only needed to be altered a little bit.
I felt a pinch when the seats, each piece of glass, and the center console came into being. That was it, a pinch. Upgrading the radio didn't even hurt, and the infotainment center upgrade is now under 100,000 points. The dash has a sporty look, each gauge in it's own pod, and the camera on the steering column facing the dash can see each gauge. it will make it really easy to tell what is going on, even though they are all basic analog controls.
once everything was done, I received a message that the interior was now complete, and my Mana capacity would be increased. The help menu also changed to let me know what the week 3 upgrade would entail, and the groups are not on them. Next week's upgrades will be various forms of Mana-based abilities. I will be allowed to choose from one of ten affinities, and must choose one affinity that I will be incapable of using.
The ten Affinities available will be Mineral, Gasses, Liquid, Combustion, Light, Void, Mass, Time, Life, and Death. it also says I can't discuss an elemental choice with anyone, I can't divulge that I am getting this choice, and I will only be given this opportunity four times; so choose wisely. so I can't discuss the choice with the people who are helping me. The parallels to the fantasy forms of magic in the fiction of my old world are not lost on me, its not that hard to guess that Mineral, Gasses, Liquid, Combustion are literally Earth, Air, Water, Fire. Light is obvious, Void is most likely darkness, I would say space, but Mass feels more like its talking about the space between molecules than density; but it could also be gravity. Time, Life, and Death are pretty obvious what they are.
I have no idea what I will choose when the time comes.