0013 : Jeff and Yogi Locate Eric

An extremely long time after Eric created the Simulation's Eric's Universe, "in the VRC's Simulation and at "the ""modified Earth" in Eric's Universe"" known as Earth, acts of revenge were widespread once people realized that the people that they hate were back alive. More than ever before, people were quite capable of attacking and defending themselves and others". After a while, rumors spread worldwide of what people thought the afterlife was and their experiences. There are plenty of aiming-for-benevolence "thinking existences" at the ""modified Earth" in Eric's Universe" too, as well as entirely throughout all of Eric's Universe. There are plenty of "thinking existences who are, "at times, not aiming for benevolence" and" are, "at other times, aiming for benevolence" at the ""modified Earth" in Eric's Universe" too, as well as entirely throughout all of Eric's Universe. There are plenty of aiming-for-benevolence "thinking existences" at the ""modified Earth" in Eric's Universe" too, as well as entirely throughout all of Eric's Universe. There are plenty of friendly "thinking existences" at the ""modified Earth" in Eric's Universe" too, as well as entirely throughout all of Eric's Universe. There are plenty of "thinking existences" "who never met each other and plenty of others" at the ""modified Earth" in Eric's Universe" too, as well as entirely throughout all of Eric's Universe. There are plenty of "thinking existences" "that never met each other and plenty of others" at the ""modified Earth" in Eric's Universe" too, as well as entirely throughout all of Eric's Universe. There are plenty of "times and "friendly "thinking existences"" whereby one is unable to figure out if "one or more" of those "friendly "thinking existences"" ""are genuinely friendly" or have "one or more" ulterior motives, although there are plenty of times "whereby "whether ""one or more" of those "friendly "thinking existences""" ""are genuinely friendly" or have "one or more" ulterior motives" is ""figured out" or discovered"". Wishes are currently a common goal, and ""obtaining magical abilities, "using portals to enter new worlds", and exploring new worlds" are currently "not uncommon"". Survival is more interesting now that "each ""thinking existence except humans" in Eric's universe" is able to learn human languages.

In a forest at "Earth in the Simulation's "Eric's Universe"", a man is strolling while music is playing through the speakers of his Smartphone. He is smoking a "pipe tobacco plastic tip thin and slim cigar" and he stops walking as his mind recalls a particular one of his past experiences...

..."Testing. Can you hear me?" My mental voice said that, I wasn't thinking those words. Hold up, I'm not trying to picture this...my mind is hallucinating!

"I can non-wirelessly send to your brain, from one or more of my computers, "only "physical signals/etc"" that force your brain to produce my communication to you since ""parts of your physical body" have recently been "connected to computers" in the way that "parts of your physical body" have recently been connected to computers"."

"You mean.."

"Yes. "I force your brain to produce imaginings" in order for me to communicate "my communication "with you as the receiver of that imaginings-communication that I "communicate via""."

Snapping out of his mind's preoccupation, the man flicks the plastic tip of the pipe tobacco plastic tip thin and slim cigar that he just finished smoking. It lands near a small something that has cyan color. He turns turns off the music that his Smartphone is playing and he puts his Smartphone in his pocket. While getting a closer look, he sees that the "cyan-colored thing" is a small 14 sided cyan and white dice piece. Upon touching it a magical scene takes place. An old man appears to have been summoned. Jeff had "never met nor "interacted with"" "the aforementioned old man" before.

"A Wish-granter!! I call them genies. Sup genie, how's heaven, so to speak?", the young man asked while extending his hand for a handshake. He noticed the old man is wearing shades and he didn't react to the handshake gesture.

Whoa are you blind? He asked sincerely.

How are you this old and a "wish-granter genie", and still blind?

"I was born blind. I haven't tried to "get nor enable" eyesight for myself thus far. Eventually I will. So heaven's great, so to speak, but I can't tell you what it looks like.", said the blind old man pulling his beard.

"I'm Yogi and I guess you're not new to having wishes granted.", the old man said.

"I'm Jeff. Yea I had quite a few wishes granted. They were mostly to get powers and abilities. The more abilities I get, the better prepared I am to compete in magic power competitions and to hunt legendary creatures." Jeff explained.

"I see, but of course I mean not literally.", said the blind old man, "I've heard that the best and rarest things can be obtained from places and creatures and things. But legendary creatures are no joke."

"Did you win any competitions? How many legendary creatures have you found?", asked the blind old man curiously.

"Well I lost almost every magic power competition that I've been in but I came in fourth place in a for-fun neighborhood magic power competition. They're always fun though. But the official big-deal magic power competitions don't play around, they seriously bring out plenty of the heavy duty "magic big guns" combination originations. Anyway, I managed to obtain manipulation and creation of elements like fire, water and wind through wishes. I can use different particular "powers and magic and stuff" by locking different fingers in a particular way for a quick moment, since I'm double jointed when it comes to all of my fingers. Each different finger has a different "magic or power" associated with it. One of my fingers sets "how strong my "power's or magic's" "output and effect" is" by whenever I lock that finger like that, "how strong the "output and effect" is" instantly "increases by 10% the full potential of "how strong the "output and effect" is"". Whenever "how strong the "output and effect" is" is at 100% the full potential, "locking that finger again like that" switches "how strong the "output and effect" is" back to 10% the full potential. The method I chose to "manipulate to move" "anything physical that any of my magic powers most recently produced" is a "via-my-thumbs" method. I wished for my thumbs to serve as the two mini joysticks of a video game contoller of a video game console except that the mini joysticks control the directions that "anything physical that any of my magic powers most recently produced" moves. I can even manipulate "anything physical that any of my magic powers most recently produced" to move through midair. I also wished for magical wings that look like the wings that ""visible depictions of an Angel" has" in mainstream media except that I wished that my wings "magically appear and are magically attached to my back" right after whenever I make my tongue do a triple fold and they disappear right after whenever I make my tongue do a triple fold while I have those wings. I have to use combinations of particular "shoulder movements, index finger movements, and spoken utterances" to maneuver my wings. So I'm able to fly. Those were a couple of my wishes but I did find something that gave me a new power without having to have a wish granted by a "Magical Wish-granter such as yourself". It's a ring I found on my travels and I think it's cursed. I'm not able to take it off but I've been able to use dark powers since I got it. As if it "has a will of its own, can think, and can observe", it creates, I guess when it deems appropriate or helpful, orbs of dark magical energy, black in color, that when I throw it or shoot it at something, it makes almost the entire thing explode with no fire or smoke and then forms a tiny black hole that sucks what ever exploded into it. The black hole disappears within seconds. I had used its powers in that way and it, at times, makes things explode without the black hole part. I think that those orbs have magical auto-responses that make kinds of shockwaves get triggered whenever they come in physical contact with something. I had used its powers on an enemy and it didn't make him explode but made his entire skeleton fracture and break. The curse is that whenever I get too angry or feel rage, I lose control of myself. It's like I'm a spectator to someone else controlling my body and abilities. My powers are much more powerful in this state, especially the dark powers.", Jeff informed the old man.

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"Maybe you should wish to have that curse removed.", replied Yogi.

"I plan on it, but not yet. As for legendary creatures, I never faced any but my wife was killd by one once. My wife's name is Alicia and just like me she's made wishes to gain powers. She's got water manipulation and water creation along with being able to breathe underwater. She's a coin collector and finds a lot of things in a huge lake near where we live. She was killd by a legendary sea creature in that lake. This was before I met her. Anyway, after me and her met, she told me about her experience in what she called heaven. She did the genie duty thing and then decided to leave heaven to live on Earth again. I also "found out from other genies" about what happens when one dies." Jeff told Yogi.

"Well you're young, I'm sure you'll slay a legendary creature eventually.", the old man responded.

"I'm older than you think.", Jeff said.

"Aren't we all.", said Yogi.

Ok, now for my wishes. I think it's about time I locate Eric. Do you know him? You know, the one who changed the universe." Jeff asked with a confident look.

"Of course. Everyone's read about how he changed everything but I've never met anyone who knows him. I've heard sometimes he is spotted for many years but sometimes he is gone for years too.", answered the old man a little confused.

Alright. My first wish is for a portal to be set up here that goes to Eric's current location. The same Eric that made this simulated universe.", said Jeff grinning.

In a magical display, a portal appeared in front of them.

"I've come to accept that most of us here are ai. Eric changed everything. He made "all us ai in this Universe" "all of a sudden" not have knowledge that we are ai. It was weird because almost "everyone at the same time" lost their abilities to "feel the sense of touch", to smell, their sense of taste, they can't feel pain, they can't feel temperature, they don't feel hunger, bathroom-related experiences are experienced different from what those experiences were thought to supposed to feel like. They can "identify, guage, and "differentiate between"" pressure", temperature, smells, when their bodies need particular existences for their bodies to "be or get" healthy. We just didn't know that it was all simulated. And there's never any pain for us...unless you count psychological pain. I've encountered individuals who do feel pain though, but they're not ai. All who can feel pain in this Simulation are non-ai "thinking existences". The only reason us ai couldn't remember ""feeling the sense of touch", smelling, sense of taste, feeling pain, feeling temperature, feeling hunger, how bathroom-related experiences seem different from what those experiences were thought to supposed to feel like" is because "Eric and the VRC" gave us ai false memories of events entailing those kinds of things, so us ai thought we knew "what the actual sensory experiences were supposed to be like" but we couldn't actually acheive the actual sensory experiences and we couldn't remember ever actually acheiving the actual sensory experience. The memories were of events that are factual of the real humans that we are avatar-copy bodies of. Visitors from ""universes and worlds" created by others" are the main reason we ended up finding out as much as we did as fast as we did. They informed us, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally, of various aspects of how "the Simulation we're in" works. They're the reason we became aware of how it all added up. Us ai were never able to have those kind of sensory experiences even before the VRC met Eric and we won't be able to have those kind of sensory experiences even afterwards. Portals almost always "are and were" how such visitors got here." replied the old man.

"Yea, this world is something. But there's always something to do.", Jeff responded.

"Are you an ai, Jeff?", asked Yogi.

"I'm not. I'm a human who has a different "physical condition outside of the Simulation" than Eric ""physically has" outside of the Simulation". I was offered a deal by the VRC and I chose to start the Simulation in someone else's "created world". Biscuit is an ai, and I'll tell you the rest later, I really wanna check this out", Jeff replied.

Jeff walked through the portal and the old man followed behind.

"How did you even know that I walked through the portal, let alone where the portal is? Asked Jeff shocked.

"One of the magical auto-responses that I wished for is that any section of the surface my body, 12.5% wide from the top of my body to the bottom, gets pressed by a 4 second pulsing pressure whenever "something moving" that's the size of a mouse or larger leaves from within 9ft range from me but "the section of my body that gets pressed by the pulsing pressure" gets the pulsing pressure as if there is a line from me to "whatever the precise pinpoint location of the "moving something" that leaves from within that 9ft range" was so that the pulsing pressure always presses the front, side, back, or whatever part of my body is in the direction of whatever left range. I can just turn my body around to get a feel of where the "moving something" was.", said the old man now grinning.

"That's neat! But I hope you're able to hold your own if there's danger. I don't know what to expect here.", Jeff said to Yogi.

"I wished for so many magical auto-responses. I got an aura set up with a bunch of ""magical auto-attack auto-responses" and "magical auto-defense auto-responses"". I'm pretty over-powered at the moment, while I can grant wishes and all.

"Nice!", Jeff responded only now realizing where...

Realizing that the portal led them to another forest area, Jeff stood there confused.

Jeff : What's with this place. There's portals everywhere here but no sign of anybody nearby.

"Do you see Eric?", Yogi asked, wondering why Jeff was silent.

"No, but he has to be near by or else the wish wouldn't of made that portal. I guess we're in another forest but there are portals all over the place all near this particular area. They aren't all the same size.", I responded.

"Portals are not uncommon. That's normal.", Yogi replied.

"Yea but not like this. This is too many and in only one forest.", Jeff informed Yogi.

"Hmmm.., Any sign of people?", asked Yogi.

"No, there's trees, rocky areas, a pond, and random wildlife.", I said while realizing I gotta keep track of which portal we came from.

"I'm marking the tree behind our portal.", I replied back to Yogi as I carved my name into the tree.

"We should be on our guard since we don't know what we'll encounter here. Things like elves, mermaids, fairies, vampires, werewolves might exist since Eric made new kinds of life exist. Plus anyone could wish them into existence, but they'll be pretty rare since you can only make one exist per wish. People have even wished characters and creatures and things from TV, video games, and cards into existence.

Jeff "dozed off for a minute" wondering "how ai are able to learn languages" and at what pace.

I'm gonna fly up to get a better look at the place.", I told Yogi.

I took off my hoodie and tank top undershirt, made my wings appear, and in one jump, with the the help of wind magic, I took off zooming upward. I could see paths and trails in the forest that lead to bigger trails outside the forest into big fields of grass. But there are so many parts of different areas of the forest that are being reflected by what looks like giant frameless mirrors. This looks like the forest might be a maze and it looks like there might be a town in the distance. I dropped back down landing safely next to Yogi.

"Alright I'm back.", I told Yogi putting my hoodie and tank top undershirt back on.

"What'd ya see?", asked Yogi.

"There are giant mirrors all over the place. Might be a kind of maze. It looks like there's no one nearby, but i saw a lot of magic crystal formations of different colors all throughout the forest with different color auras that I could see. I guess there'll be magical creatures here if creatures "stayed for particular "collectively "prolonged periods of time""" affected by being "too near" those auras. People gain powers just by living in magic crystals' auras long enough. That's why people like to live within large magic crystal formations' auras.", I informed Yogi.

"Maybe you should collect some pieces of those crystals. Simply applying a little pressure to them with any part of your body lets you use the magic they possess.", Yogi suggested.

"Yeah let's go back through the portal for now. I'll eventually come back with Alicia to see what's up with this place. Hold up, let me check my phone. ...alright lets go.", I said to Yogi as I guided him back through the portal.

I carved my name into the tree that was closest to the portal and called Alicia to let her know we're having company. Since I came to this forest by flying around from my house, I took off my hoody and tank top undershirt, carried it while flying, and I flew back home carrying Yogi through the air with me using wind magic.