[Error detected in Universe %Unnamed%]
[Running Diagnostics]. .. … …. …..
[Aether Tunnel Detected – Requesting Reason]. .. … …. …..
[Reason Acceptable, Condition – Debt to entity Jason]
[Punishment paused until conditions met]
[Admin has been punished according to section 7 part 2]
[Punishment not required; 10-year work agreement accepted (75% energy cut) payment accepted]
[Determining Cause of Error]. .. … …. …..
[Entity Allen has been integrated]
[Running Resolution Diagnostics]. .. … …. …..
[Error Resolved]
Light flashed as Jason became aware of the world, the status panel was no longer there, and his head felt like he had drunk 2 litres of vodka, fallen 10 flights of stairs, and then passed out.
Strangely everything felt quiet, no noise was within his vicinity. Which he thought about for a moment before realising that the bubble that was allowing him to talk and listen, even if only within a 5 or so meter range had vanished. He felt his memories return and with a panicked thought “Admin - room breathable atmosphere” moments later aether started to move inside of his body and struggled to move through his veins with pain and then relief the aether finally finished moving to his palms before evaporating into the room.
He questioned the feeling of relief; in his soul form, he couldn’t feel his body. It was like having plastic sheets wrapped around your soul, yes you could feel the plastic sheets and the “veins” but it wasn’t real it was metaphysical or so he derived from the past “days?” worth of experience. Looking towards his “body” he realised he had gained an actual body, thinking “Admin – Room, 5X5X5 Bedroom” a wall popped up towards the back of the room, or so he guessed. There wasn’t any way to check the directions inside the room. Realising his mistake “Wait a second”. [MAP] Activating the skill a simple map appeared before Jason and realised his bedroom was northwest of the centre of his Admin – Room walking into the bedroom he recognised the place. A large king-size bed lay to his right with the desk, computer, and chair he created earlier that “day?” next to the desk was a stand with a mirror, brush, and many amenities that he could use later. Staring into the mirror he saw his new body.
{Mystical’s Note: I currently have no image I can show so here #00f079 use that to see the star that is Jason’s new eyes. It’s more of a Lime than cyan or green but that’s most likely the closest representation in words I can get.}
Amazement ran through Jason looking from head to toe, it was indescribable. Long flowing black hair with violet and golden streaks, face that was relatively okay compared to his old one but the eyes. They were galaxies, like the aether he had been playing with, there violet rotating spiral galaxies that lead towards the bright cyan mixed with green star that was his pupil. Looking towards his upper chest he realised he had no nipples, “strange, but okay, not like I ever used them.”, Realising that his chest now had lines of violet running across them instead of the blue veins he was used to was different, but he could handle that. Jason slowly looked towards the love making area and realised it was gone. COMPLETELY GONE. “Guess I’m turning to the dark side, time to go eat some worlds till I can afford a new body”. Yes, that was a joke, but he still felt like destroying some things to soothe his mind a tad.
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Knowing the cost would be minimal he created himself some new clothes and trainers. A black hoodie with a galaxy logo across his back started to slowly appear over Jason’s new body hiding away his figure and cloaking his dark hair with a hood that looked like the void had consumed his head, black joggers slowly appeared over his legs with streaks of violet running through the middle and sides, the trainers were like his old world ones, but instead of the normal colours they were black with streaks of violet like his joggers.
Nodding in appreciation Jason turned towards his computer, looking at the screen it showed the solar system. Only just realising he had 11 planets, 4 were like old Earth orbiting closer to the sun than his new planet and the rest were like old Sol looking closer to the representation of the normal solar system but with planets that had been cranked to the maximum in the size aspect, out of the 11, 6 looked habitable with green growing on the surface while the rest were mostly like mars and Venus. The only explanation he had for the green on the 4 other planets with what looked like life was that the aether must have changed them in some way, if this was the same physical laws as his old universe life would perish from the heat alone never mind the radiation and well you get the gist.
With his mouse he selected his planet, noting that he still hadn’t come up with a name. Looking towards the planet on his monitor he thought the words “inspect” remembering the old novels he used to read and how they always got some weird ass cheat that gave them more info than they should have access to.
[%Un-Named%] Please choose a name.
Rank: Mythical
Concepts: Elemental, Life, death, body, mind, aether… (Click for details)
Creatures: 83,137,391
Dungeons: 0
Sentients: 0
Owner: N/A (Not selected)
Development: Primitive (No sentient entities)
Taking a breath Jason sighed, the number of creatures had increased by a fair amount, if it was to go on at the rate it was going sooner, or later sentient “entities” would start to come into being or so he believed. Realising that the [inspect] didn’t cost Aether he wondered why, his best guess was that it was internal and so Aether didn’t need to move like it did for the map, even his clothes require some Aether it just didn’t take more then what he guessed was around 10 ae.
He knew what he was doing, ignoring the obvious but he wanted to keep at it, he didn’t want to go through that fear he felt “days?” ago nor did he want to know how long he had been “asleep” for.
Jason sighed yet again, it was time even if he wanted to go on like nothing happened, he needed help and currently his “guide” was gone and he was … alone the thought of this sent a shiver down his spine, the disconnect he felt from Allen being gone was like having your best friend say they were leaving in an hour and they wouldn’t take their phone, call you, message you, talk to you or any of the normal things a friend would do, Jason’s experience was with coding, games and getting drunk while playing a board game so that was what he went to. His colleagues were his friends, more like family with the number of hours he put in but nevertheless, something was pulling him. The words he heard before passing out. The admin or the entity he came to know at the start helped, hindered then helped again. He was unsure, confused and alone.
The worst kind of combination. He remembered his dog, Teddy the fluffy little cockapoo that always barked when he came home or came to lay with him as he fell asleep on his bed. Or when he was at work and allowed to bring his dog, it lay on his little doggie bed that lay next to his desk. As he was thinking these thoughts his aether pulled at him, making him aware he could create Teddy, but he didn’t want to, pulling a mindless creature that he essentially loved into this whatever you wanted to call it was not the best idea.
Death was all but certain at this current time as the dog would die within a couple of years, he was essentially immortal and the dog wouldn’t be, he could make Teddy immortal, but the aether cost could kill him. He just didn’t have enough information and he was starved for it; his mind was like a book; he remembered the memory vault he created back when he was young. He liked the Sherlock TV show and liked the idea, it worked for the most part helping keep his emotions and memories stored, but as all things faded as he grew older, like dust they vanished leaving an empty shell that could only help with emotions.
He remembered the vault that he had created back then as a young boy he couldn’t remember most of it, but he remembered the feeling and as he did so he felt a tug, his aether was calling, and he picked up the phone.
Violet flashed in his eyes as his brain was the target this time, the picture he remembered, the vault he had thought of had shifted instead of being a vault it turned into a library a new home for his thoughts, feelings, memories and of course images.