# Ch.2: Night mode

It was dark, but with studio lights.

Guy awoke to a red figure. And some old man screaming at a demon.

J: WHAT THE FUCK?! YOU MOTHERFUCKERS HAVE STOLEN MY DESERVED REST!

YOU SCUM ARE LESS THAN NOTHING! YOU SHOULD HAVE NO AUTHORITY HERE!

It looked like someone was mad. He was dressed in a black, hooded robe,

with milky white hands and some inhuman-looking black nails.

The only part of his face that could be seen were some red, glowing irises.

He didn't look much holier than the red beast he was complaining to.

D: Please calm down. The reincarnation process can be quite disorienting.

You can find a debrief with all the details on the table behind you.

I'm here to manage queries and provide support.

A few meters behind the old man there was a large mahogany table,

with large stacks of papers on top.

Next to it woke up what appeared to be a thin Japanese bloke.

He had some welding goggles on his head, a beige coverall,

a leather apron completely stuffed with tools, and some work boots.

J>Z: AND WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!?

Z: Uh, what? I'm Zack.

J: Huh!? If you're Zack, tell me your favorite color!

Z: Zinc silicate, sir.

J: My man! Why do you look like that?

Z: Wait. Are you Jack?

J: But of course! Do I have something weird on my face?

Z: I can't even see your face; you look really creepy.

J: And you look really weeby, what the hell!?

They both took a look at themselves.

J&Z: Oh.

G: I feel dutifully ignored.

A tall, tan man appeared, wearing only a loincloth.

His defined muscles inspired awe; but his head,

being a circle with a line and two dots, immediately took it away.

J: Oh, let me guess. You're Guy.

G: Yes!

Z: How did you know?

J: He looks like the definition of a meathead.

G: Really?

Z: Uh, yes.

J: Anyways, why did this happen exactly?

D: I can explain.

G: Go on.

J: What!? No! I don't want to hea-

D: You were subsumed into the new world.

Since you are all KING+ users and were

close together during the activation flood, you are sharing the same lobby.

Your avatars were derived directly from your personality.

J: So I failed...

Z: I guess that does make sense.

G>J: Whoah man, I knew you were kinda twitchy,

but I didn't know you were so toxic on the inside.

J: Wait, I can explain!

J>D: Filthy hellspawn, please look to the other side.

D: Ok.

The demon did as told. It really was a pushover.

J: Want to see my face?

Z: Yes. Your hood is really obscuring it.

J: Alright, please come closer everyone.

The group came closer together.

The moment he pulled his hood, he seemed to shrink alongside his cloak,

revealing a cute bunny boy with some huge red eyes.

His voice also turned into that of a child.

J: See?

G: Oh, you're so cute!

Guy proceeded to heavily fondle his face.

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Jack really tried to hold back his embarrassment.

Z: So you really are a furry then. Not like I didn't know of course.

How did you know this would happen?

J: Well, I do know myself after all.

G: You seem to have lost 70 years! Are you really like that in real life?

Z: Could you try remembering the previous fifteen minutes of your life?

Guy remembered the previous fifteen minutes of his life.

G: Oh yeah, I guess this is accurate.

J: Ok, I think that's enough. The README wasn't overly specific,

so I still have some questions to ask to the demon.

Jack put his hood back on, and suddenly looked seventy years old.

J: Demon, Is our meeting private?

D: Yes.

J: How can I be sure of that?

D: The contributors were in constant squabbles,

so they didn't want it for anyone to spy on them.

Not even the DIVINITY users could look up this discussion.

J: And you will not tell them anything?

D: Correct. I'm a mere assistant demon, and bound only to the reincarnees.

I will stop existing after this process is finished.

G: Hold on, KING+? DIVINITY? I had

only heard about "Silver" and lower until recently.

D: It's normal for reincarnees to not know about the higher ranks.

Due to conflicts in development,

the different reincarnation levels do not follow a standard naming scheme.

Z: Wait, what about the pluses? And what do some cards have to do with this?

D: Reincarnation cards are fungible tokens

that grant special privileges to their users.

Having several of the same type will grant you "+" status.

G: Ohhh, so that's what they meant with "privileged positions on a new world"

J: Yeah, The README said something about that.

Z: Where are we reincarnating to anyways?

J: Well, basicall-

D: You are reincarnating into Anti-terra,

a realm composed of a 5 pointed continent

where magic and mythical events occur every day.

As KING+ users, you can decide where exactly you will be reborn,

the makeup of your territory, your new bodies, your followers,

and the laws of physics of your land, with few limitations.

Remember not to surpass your reincarnation budget.

J: That. Where's God?

D: The eight DIVINITY users have their own private realms,

but they can manifest-

J: No. I mean THE OTG. Causality and all that.

D: Causality has been deprecated. It can be overridden by local mechanisms,

like magic.

J: What!? How!? How do I destroy this realm!?

D: That information is only available to the DIVINITY users.

G: Whoah, hold your horses man. One thing at a time.

Z: Ditto. I think we should get this sorted out first.

J: Fine, I think it's time to sort through the bureaucracy.

We can think about destroying the world once we have bodies.

The group got to the table. There were no chairs.

G: Can we get some chairs?

Three foldable chairs materialized into existence.

Z: Huh?

J: Oh yeah, I forgot to say-

D: All KING class users poss- J: SHUT UP!

J: We are probably inside some imaginary realm,

so you can just conjure up things by thinking about them.

G: Oh, I know what would be handy right now.

A cone of pineapple-flavoured ice cream appeared in Guy's hand.

J: I forgot that you had terrible taste.

Anyways, we have to read and write up some

documents if we want things to go smoothly.

G: Do you really want me to read these huge papers?

J: You can check on the lore, there seems to be lots of it. Somehow.

G: Nice.

Z: This is still a lot. Do we really have time for this?

J: We are technically dead right now, and nobody is waiting for us. So yes.

The group spent a lot of time reading and cutting corners with their bodies.

They were seriously trying to find the most broken build possible,

while at the same time avoiding looking conspicuous to the gods.

It was a tall order, but they eventually came up with something.

Satisfied, they presented the final draft to the demon.

Z: You know,

I thought that they were only trying to control the world with computers,

not making up a new one. We really underestimated them.

J: Me too.

G: But we still exist, somehow. Which means that they underestimated us more.

J: Aye. Now, to the count of three: One, two, three-

Z: Reincarnate us, demon!

J: YOU FU-

Reincarnating really didn't turn out to be a comfortable process.