In 2024, Virtual reality started to take off and become a big hit. People started by playing VR as a form of entertainment; however, advances in technology allowed the VR headsets to evolve to VR Cafes and was essentially the next step after internet gaming. Throughout the years everyone migrated to one popular game based in VR called Champion. Jim was an average streamer who played the game for medical reasons. As he has multiple personality disorder, it started with one personality but soon branched to 9 personalities giving 10 total personalities. Jim always enjoyed exploring new classes and allowing different personalities to present and express themselves through the game and being a streamer allowed him to make extra money to pay the medical bills. Doctors and psychologists told him that expressing these personalities has improved his health and encouraged to play the game for his health.
In the early stages of the game, Jim created and played many separate classes but the game only allowed one character per account. In order to play a new character, he would either have to delete the character or participate in a season only to have the character reset to level 1 at the end of the season. Jim chose to play the seasons and switched every quarter to a different class to try all the classes and allow each personality to enjoy their own playstyle. As ten years went by, Jim was getting more frustrated as nobody wanted to party with him due to his low levels or unoptimized class leading to either having to ride a bus and pay a fee* or play with his friends who only played at the beginning of a season as they had other jobs and duties such as parenting, professional careers, other games… After meeting the conditions to unlock the ninja class, Jim was overjoyed as this class fits him perfectly. The mechanics are interesting as it allows you to have separate clones you can control. However, Jim was able to find out that each personality was able to take charge of a clone independently of his own thoughts allowing partying with himself to be effective. Once word got out about the ninja class, other gamers tried to play the class but failed at effectively controlling their clones as it caused messy movements and ability to control multiple characters were next to impossible. With the discovery of the ninja class, the ninja class option was not popular due to high damage output required difficult mechanics with no one able to fully utilize the class to its potential. Most people preferred to play classes with a lot of auto focused skills where they did not have to control the character as manually as the ninja or other classes which did not have complex controls but still allowed manually aiming. With this, the ninja class was almost forgotten with the developers not patching or fixing the class mechanics as only one person played the game character.
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As time went on, Jim went on to play the ninja subclass every quarter for 10 years as he enjoyed playing the game by himself with his multiple personalities even though some players payed attention to his streams, it never took off and Jim still needed to work a regular job as a delivery driver to make ends meet. In 2035, Jim was able exploring a new dungeon and found priceless treasure (Ancient Time Ring, Tier 10). Jim was flabbergasted to find a tier 10 equipment. The highest he ever found was tier 3 as he never leveled past tier 3 since he always started over every season.
System notification: You have found an ancient relic of a Human god. Do you wish to activate its effect.
Jim was curious and accepted despite not knowing what its effect was. Whatever the effect was, it has to be strong if it’s tier 10. No one ever found a tier 10 equipment or news was never posted. The highest rated item to be posted was tier 6. This would turn the world upside down if news got out, either that or the developers went to far for an April fools joke. Jim couldn’t resist and confirmed “I accept”. Suddenly, he blacked out and was unconscious before waking up to an alarm clock. I could have sworn I was just playing the game right now. He checked his phone why an alarm was set to 7:00am est since he always got up at 6am est. As he went to use the bathroom he noticed he looked like his teenage self at 18 years old. He doubled checked and he almost fell down from shock. This was a huge shock to him and all of his personalities was shocked to see a young version of his future self. This would put him in his freshman year in college. Trying to get more information he checked his phone and computer and confirmed that he was in college as a freshman in the middle of a semester. Knowing what he knows now, Jim decided to use his future knowledge to help push him to the top and answer more questions about the item that brought him back in time. If its possible to go back in time, it should be possible to go forward in time as well. I look forward to seeing all the possibilities in this game and all of his questions from the game. Who made this item? How was I able to travel back in time? Why did the system say a human god created this item. Does that mean that there are others playing this game that are not human? Before anything happens I have to support myself through college, but wait, if money is an issue I can just invest with future knowledge of the game. This should be an easy way to make enough money and not worry about any debt.