I was walking home from school, I live about a mile from the college cost so much to get a house there, but when your going for a second doctorate you should live close to the school. On the way home I usually go through my neighbors backyard and jump the fence into my backyard to save time from walking another street and turning twice to get home, but today they were in their backyard hanging out so not today. So, I continue walking down the street.
I saw it for only a moment a rock, thrown by the wheels of a car. Slamming straight into my face. it all went black.
Then it wasn’t black? I woke up on the ground, was it ground? It was white, but I could touch it, I looked left then right, and it was all white infinity. In front of me was a pedestal of marble. Huh weird. Then I remembered that I was hit and felt at my forehead. Nothing it was smoother than I remember, did I have a bath? I looked around and saw a floating box come out of the ground float up in front of me, it had words on it.
Box: “Congratulations, you have been chosen to be an Incarnator! Please step up to the podium and have your life be measured! Please change the future of your next life for the better, something went wrong fix it. we will tell you when able. _#Error#_ wants to kill and steal someone from every timeline, please protect them from their early murder, obduction or other.”
Incarnator, sounds like incarnation. Dam I was wrong, I owe Beth thirty bucks! Life didn’t just end, and nothing happened something is happening! Wait, I can still win I might be in the hospital, and this is all in my head. But if not, I won’t be able to pay her anyway so who cares. Why am I not sad, shouldn’t I be? no, it doesn’t matter if I’m sad or not so lets just ignore that. I read the box again and walked up to the marble pedestal and put my hand on the pedestal.
Box: “Calculating your life Accomplishments… you survived twenty-four years! For surviving twenty-three years you get twenty-four points!”
Box: “You took part in being professionally educated in new subjects! For being professionally educated for eighteen years you get nine points!”
Box: “You learned one language and are fluent in one language you earned two points.”
Box: “You created and are known for creating 18 large things, you earned eighteen points.”
Box: “Your total points is: forty-eight points!”
Box: “Your grade in life is F+, you gain no bonuses. If final score is below A, your security in reincarnation is being reviewed.”
I read the different grade that were next to it. Grades are:
F- above 1 point, F above 20 points, F+ above 40 points.
D- above 100 points, D above 150 points, D+ above 200 points.
C- above 300 points, C above 500 points, C+ above 700 points.
B- above 1,000 points, B above 1,500 points, B+ above 2,500 points.
A- above 5,000 points, A above 8,000 points, A+ above 9,999 points.
S- above 25,000 points, S above 50,000 points, S+ above 100,000.
Ouch a bit rude, but ok I did die pretty young, so I can’t have had the best life. Point though those sound fun. Thinking back to the many games I’ve programed. But how the hell am I supposed to get S+ when the age of 24 is F+ and S+ is 2500 times that!
Box: “review was looked through you may still reincarnated.”
Box: “Congratulations Incarnator! You have earned multiple Achievements!”
Box: “for dying for the first time you have gained the “First Run” achievement and have earned five points! You have unlocked Incarnator Menu! For dying quickly for the first time you have gained the “Swift Restart” achievement and have earned two points you have unlocked the defense tab.” 42
Ok, so achievements adding to points so I’m not at F+ I will be higher maybe, and unlocking things, nice. I saw a scroll bar on the side of the box appear as the text went further down than the box. I started sliding it down and reading slowly every work matters in games, and this is like a game. So, I took my time.
Box: “For learning 40+ types of math and science for the first time you have gained the achievements “It Adds Up” “Letters Can Be Numbers Too” “The World Is Made Of Shapes” “How Far Away Is That” “How Big Is That” “Area Of A Curve” “Poly Math” etc.”
Each one when into detail about what I learned, in the end from those I gained 75 points in total. I did love math. I also unlocked the Intelligence tab and options in that tab the science also unlocked the Vitals tab.
Box: “For learning 4 writing achievements “literacy” “Minor Essayist” “Major Essayist” “minor writer” “major writer” “Doctorate in computer science” “Masters in Artificial intelligence” you have earned 46 points twenty for doctorate and ten for masters, and have unlocked the Intelligence tab!”
121 points so far. I look at the side bar and see I have a ton left to go. Man, I wonder what an A life list would look like
Box: “For getting the achievements “Minor Coding” “Major Coding” “First Game” “So Many Types.” “Should I Use Java, Python Or Something Else?” “So Many Bugs Fixed” “minor game developer” “Major game developer” “That’s Art” “It’s Almost Alive!” in creating you earned 47 points and unlocked the Creation, Art, and Builder tab.”
I did make 18 different games with my buddy’s and it’s almost alive is got to be my ai that I was working on for my next game. Sadly, Thea will not be finished, I guess. But the total of 168 points so far is nice.
Box: “for earning 8 reading achievements you get 45 points.”
213 points.
Box: “for getting the achievement “Top 5% Richest People In This Universe” you get 30 points”
Yeah, that checks out, sad though I have so many loans I still needed to pay off. no longer. Now that’s a fun thought I don’t need to pay off my lenders. Hahahaha.
Box: “for getting the achievement “I Owe So Much” you get 5 points and unlock the communications tab.”
203 points heck yeah, I’m now in D+ life. I need more than double my points to get a C though.
Box: “for having less than 50 friends and acquaintances you get “Loner” achievement and gain 2 points. For dying a virgin, you get “Virgin” achievement and get 1 point.”
I quickly scrolled past those two.
Box: “For using lots of high-powered machines and not magic you gained “Technophile” and “tech genius” gain 33 points.”
These achievements were made by either more than one person or at very different times because sometimes they use numbers to say points and sometimes words.
Box: “for dying without using mana you get “Mana less” 5 points.”
Box: “for making many different recipes you got “minor cooking” and” major cooking” “recipe maker minor” “recipe maker major” you get 40 points.”
I do love cooking I made almost all my dinners and breakfasts myself and changed and made my own for those.
Box: “for a total of 283 points. Life updated to D+ for obtaining D+ you can get either 50 extra points or get to decide between four choices in incarnation. Another note you can always decide to stop reincarnating.”
I reached the Bottom of the box, for now. And there was to boxes 50 points, extra choices.
I want the points because numbers make my brain go yes but knowing what world I’m getting into even if its small info will be amazing like what if I put all my point towards magic and the world, I enter doesn’t have magic. I’d could screwing myself over. So, I clicked the extra choices.
Box: “The world you choose will determine what stats are affectable.”
Box: “one, tech less, magicless, dinosaur world with coming ice age.”
Box: “two, magical, tech-ish, hellscape, demon world and angle world.”
Box: “three, dystopian, super advanced almost magical technology, human world.”
Box: “four, magicless, tech less, mostly peaceful, very small, bug world.” Choose one.”
Shit, I sat down on the pure white floor noticing for the first time I was naked. Huh, anyway. I thought through the option. Ice age means I’ll die young probable, and I won’t have tech which is what I’m best at. Demon world sounds bad, I like the others better. I dislike dystopian but the tech sounds awesome. And bugs have short live, ill gain so little points ill fail definitely.
I thought for a moment, but I could have been forever for how much it helped. I chose the dystopian world.
Box: “From now on you will reincarnate in this universe from now on, each live with be a different multiverse of this universe.”
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Box: “Now showing your Incarnator Menu?”
Max Colson: lives lived: 1
point balance: 283 points “after every life you get :121 points: for your gained achievements”
body: 0 (+) “determines raw physical power”
Sub stats body:
Athletics: 0 (+) “determines your durability and speed”
Annihilation: 0 (+) “determines speed and control for large weapons”
Street brawler: 0 (+) “increase speed and control with hand weapons”
Reflexes: 0 (+) “determines evasion and speed”
Sub stats body:
Handguns: 0 (+) “better at reloading and firing faster”
Blades: 0 (+) “quicker and better at handling”
Assault: 0 (+) “better fighting in and around cover”
Technical ability: 0 (+) “represents technical knowledge, and ability to handle cyberware”
Sub stats body:
Crafting: 0 (+) “how to find, use, and make things”
Engineering: 0 (+) “ability to see loot and materials you can use”
Thought speed: 0 (+) “determines Netrunning ability”
Sub stats body:
Breach protocol: 0 (+) “ability to hack people and things, and make hacking daemons”
Quick hacking: 0 (+) “how many and strength of your hacks on people and things”
Cool: 0 (+) “resilience and composure and control over yourself”
Sub stats body:
Stealth: 0 (+) “understanding of how to hide sneak and avoid.”
Cold Blood: 0 (+) “ability to handle killing”
Box: “Each ability can’t be permanently leveled unless you do it here. Your own knowledge may add to these, but you can always forget that with time these will never be forgotten.”
Wow that a lot of info, good to know my achievements aren’t one use though because if they were then after enough time, I could never be able to reach A because I’ve already done all the achievements possible. So, I need to get enough achievements in my six lives to make an A score then I will not get reviewed for it’s worth. Man, this will be hard.
Box: “each ability point costs 40 points. The sub abilities can’t get higher than the main they are under. The sub abilities cost 5 points each. You have many things though your learning you can buy. you can pay for higher in these, but you won’t get the benefits until you get the main high enough to use the sub ability.”
I switched to this the tab it had sections for the unlocks vitality, defense, art, intelligence. I ignored all the crap in the long list of things I could by and focused on the best stuff. Spending what felt like a moment but was probable an eternity looking. Time wasn’t right here.
Box: “ Intelligence: most expensive to least.
5,000 points “remember past” with this you can recall all knowledge you learned in previous lives after a minute of concentration.
600 points “Handywork” ability to make a perfect copy of anything you have physically made in the past.
300 points “constant thinker” you continue thinking while you sleep.”
50 points “debug” see and what is wrong with any writing.
50 points “fast hands” when working you can move your hands at double speed.
Vitality: most to least expensive.
300 points: “surgeons hands” you have complete control over your fingers and hands.
200 points “body remembers” increases your body at its weakest point, your body never losses muscle mass or gets fat.
100 points: “better sleep” you heal faster in your sleep from deadly wounds.
25 points: “adjustment” you can adjust how your body fits together, your body doesn’t get sore from being uncomfortable.
Art: most to least expensive.
500 points: “Handywork” ability to make a perfect copy of anything you have artistically made in the past.
20 points: "remember recipe” remember all cooking recipes you have made.
20 points: “maker” know how to change recipes to fit the stuff you have on hand.
20 points: “artists hands” you have complete control over your fingers and hands.
Defense: most to least expensive.
200 points: “touch muscles” your muscles can tighten to be hard as rock thrown in your face by a car.
100 points: "fast hand” you automatically know where to move your hands to block a knife punch, or sword.
30 points: "numbness” you can control what pain gates are open with your thoughts instead of massaging them.
25 points: "keep pumping” your heart doesn’t stop unless you are braindead or mentally unstable, even if its removed blood will keep flowing through your body. Warning can be painful.
Warning’s
1. these are available with the stats page and can be cheaper, but you don’t know where they are or how much they cost.
2. the ones on this page get cheaper when if your learned them better in your pervious life.”
3. All bought abilities are at level one, currently cant increase above one.
I can already see where I could get some of the abilities in my stats, also with the warning, there is two abilities surgeon's hands and artists hands that are the exact same, but artist is cheaper because I learned to be precise back when I was alive.
Now what to spend on.
Why did this only now come to me… I looked back at all the info about this world and what abilities I could upgrade, and a word got stuck in my throat. A game, I didn’t every play it, called cyberpunk 2077. The stats menu was exactly the same as in the game, I remember looking at their stats page when I was making one of my games. Then I remembered a show I once watched. Cyberpunk edge runners one of my few friends told me to watch it. and I did and I loved it, but it was a long time ago. I scrolled back to the top of the box and reread the first part.
Box: “Please change the future of your next life for the better, something went wrong fix it. we will tell you when able. _#Error#_ wants to kill and steal someone from every timeline, please protect them from their early murder, obduction or other.”
Chosen they want my help that’s why they are reincarnating me, I can do I looked at my world options again the bug one was probable a bugs life, the ice age sounds like the sitcom dinosaurs show that ended with everyone dying because of the ice age and the hell and heaven one sounded like Hazbin hotel which I watched recently, and the world I chose looks and sounds like cyberpunk edge runners.
Would I have still chosen the same option, Hazbin hotel is literally hell, if I live then I will live forever in heaven probable but if not, my lives will dwindle fast. so, I wouldn’t choose that one. the ice age dinosaur one went for a long time, but the end was final no survivors. So, I couldn’t help liking they wanted me to. And a bugs life is still has zero tech so my life would be boring. Id rather have a fun life than a long life.
Me who has gone and got both a master’s degree and a doctorate degree saying I rather have fun sounds wrong but is true I love making games with those degrees. So yes, I would still chose this world. Man, now I want to the skill remember past even more I could remember everything about the show and succeed easily that’s why it’s so expensive.
Ok focus… wait I don’t need to hurry so no I don’t need to focus, but now that I am. What do I remember. I have 283 points. I buy artist hands, keep pumping, numbness. Ok I have 208 points. Buy fast hands, I reread it over and over and its more than just for work, what defines working. Ok 158 points I then buy remember recipe and maker I want to cook as well in this world. now what stats should I get, you can level them normally I bet but these are immediately.
Body can be leveled through hard work, and I am persistent so I can do that ok same with reflexes, i want to level thought speed and its sub classes because it’s something not on earth but that is a risk I don’t know what it is, I want to do cool but that’s for fighting I don’t plan on fighting, I upgrade technical ability, crafting and engineering Totaling fifty points. 68 points left. I like to power level one stat then work with others, so I did it again leveling the same again. 18 points left. I can’t buy anything I could use… I could buy three sub abilities then when I level a main one, I can use it or I could save it. for mt next life. Spender is me. I bought one point in stealth and cold blood then athletic. looked over my stats again after this.
Max Colson: lives lived: 1
point balance: 3 points “after every life you get :121 points: for your gained achievements”
body: 0 (+) “determines raw physical power”
Sub stats body:
Athletics: 0 (1+) “determines your durability and speed”
Annihilation: 0 (+) “determines speed and control for large weapons”
Street brawler: 0 (+) “increase speed and control with hand weapons”
Reflexes: 0 (+) “determines evasion and speed”
Sub stats body:
Handguns: 0 (+) “better at reloading and firing faster”
Blades: 0 (+) “quicker and better at handling”
Assault: 0 (+) “better fighting in and around cover”
Technical ability: 0 (2+) “represents technical knowledge, and ability to handle cyberware”
Sub stats body:
Crafting: 0 (2+) “how to find, use, and make things”
Engineering: 0 (2+) “ability to see loot and materials you can use”
Thought speed: 0 (+) “determines Netrunning ability”
Thought speed: 0 (+) "Represents Netrunning ability and processing speed"
Sub stats:
Breach protocol: 0 (+) “ability to hack people and things, and make hacking daemons”
Quick hacking: 0 (+) “how many and strength of your hacks on people and things”
Cool: 0 (+) “resilience and composure and control over yourself”
Sub stats:
Stealth: 0 (1+) “understanding of how to hide sneak and avoid.”
Cold Blood: 0 (1+) “ability to handle killing”
Bought ability’s:
“Artists hands” you have complete control over your fingers and hands.
"Keep pumping” your heart doesn’t stop unless you are braindead or mentally unstable, even if its removed blood will keep flowing through your body. Warning can be painful.
"Numbness” you can control what pain gates are open with your thoughts instead of massaging them.
“Fast hands” when working you can move your hands at double speed.
"Remember recipe” remember all cooking recipes you have made.
“maker” know how to change recipes to fit the stuff you have on hand.
That’s all the points I could spend and all I could do. I could wait, but I can’t do anything here, so I put my hand on the marble again.
Box: “start new life? You will not be able to spend permanent points anymore.”
Yes.
Box: “Bring good to your new life, the mistakes can be fixed by you, we will send you more detail when available.”
Then everything went black.
End of chapter: One