A flash followed by a silent explosion lit the void for an instant, a soft glow of blue light refracts the 30-meter ball of gas suddenly existing in that space. Dead center in the gas floats a mangled human body with a severed arm clinging dearly to life, he awakens trying to scream and only gurgling.
Momentarily saved from decompression only by bullet wounds that perforated his torso having already collapsed his lungs. His lungs reinflate as the small amount of air in them expands, and his bleeding stops as his wounds freeze. he enters a weak equilibrium, but he still only has minutes to live.
He hears a pop followed by a low neutral voice "[Stasis]" a yellow light flashes over him and everything freezes instantly even the overwhelming agony that was slowly giving over into cold numbness. Something forces open his left eye, awareness washes over him as his vision comes into focus.
A nondescript figure floats in front of him apparently human but bland, simple, the distilled essence of average so plain that even gender seems unplaceable. Its only notable feature being its outfit, a perfectly tailored yellow zoot suit.
The man leans towards him his bland features warping into an impossibly wide leering smile "Well, Well. What do we have here, Your a long way from home! And you should be dead about ten times over" Its voice assaults him stabbing through his mind and leaving the taste of mustard in his mouth.
"Ah how careless of me, your mind is far too damaged for telepathy it seems, First time I've felt someone taste words. Hmm I like you meatling, new experiences are hard to come by." The words still sound yellow to him but bearable. It steps away then walks back and forth in the void look at him with a look of exaggerated contemplation for several minutes.
While the Yellow Man is occupied he tries to get his thoughts in order but finds little he knows he is from America, Town? Eugene or Springfield, cant remember the state though. His Name? Also no clue.
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His musing is interrupted by the Yellow Man. "Careful don't think too hard, You have a bullet lodged in that cerebrum of yours. Until we get you fixed up it wouldn't be a good idea to test out how good my stasis field is. But onto good news I think I can get you up and kicking again."
The yellow man pauses for a moment then flips the man around "The yellow man points at the massive object in front of them not really a planet more like a massive jagged-edged upsidedown bowl-shaped island, The wounded man didn't know why but he was almost sure it was bigger than earth. " It is" the Yellow Man answered his thought "By many folds"
He flourishes "My name is Alcatraz and Welcome to the infinite plane of JUXT" Alcatraz lets that hang in the air for a moment. Then continues "Seriously you should have landed there I could have connected you to the [[System]] and everything but I don't make the rules so we are going to have to fudge things a bit.
"Hmm might be better this way anyhow would have had to waste any of your trasmigrater boons on fixing that mess anyway" Alcatraz gestures weekly at the man's tattered a body. "So I will give you something that's normally against the rules, a class that doesn't really need the [[System]]".
"Well boyo lets get started". Alcatraz grabs the man and with a yellow flash the suddenly are floating above a forest, he reaches his hand into his jacket then arm then seems to contort impossibly and fold into himself a bit before pulling out a flickering crystallin orb.
"This is Arcane we use it as money, but it is way more than that, it's the distilled essence of what makes up life, be it experiences, skills, abilities, statistics, even classes. To use Arcane just swallow it, You know I really need a name to call you". The sudden change in topic jars the man, he hasn't even had a chance to digest any of this.
"Well sorry boyo we don't have time for you to acclimate. Ridley! That should work! So Ridley here we go" And with no further ado he shoves the orb down Ridley's throat, the Orb melts and rips through Ridley's body like liquid fire, he can feel it changing him on a fundamental level, the bullet wounds close and the bullet in his head is forced out its entry wound before sealing over, the stasis field falters and fails dropping him on the ground and he passes out.