Normally when I wake up in the morning for work I feel like shit, however today is different as this is the day that the game I've been working my hand till they bleed for the last 3 years.
Well 3 and a half due the the production delays but that was to be expected especially since it's such a massive project. Finally I’ll be able to play [Unparalleled Dungeons].
My name is Phil Frankoon, 21 year-old and I’m a “landscape designer” but all I do is work out in a couple fields each day remodeling the landscape the the customers desire. Usually we get asked to construct, ponds, hills or some garden display. As you can guess we only seem to work for the rich, since they're the only one’s stuipi… kind enough to give us work. Recently we’ve been working on making this excessively tall bamboo and vine effigy of the customer holding a sign saying “Fuck you” pointed to his neighbor’s house and its the last day we work on it to.
When I got to work my boss was smiling like the madman he has us working for. We I say mad I mean eccentric since he’s actually paying us with what we want for the job. Jokingly I said “It’d be great to be paid in £100 notes”. Next day I was giving a small wad of £100 notes.
Anyway enough rambling if I ramble i’ll never get to the play [Unparalleled Dungeons] today.
After talking with my boss a bit I immediately got to work with the rest of the crew who were busy trying to chat up our delivery girl and making me look competent with women.
As we worked away the customer brought us some lime-aid since one of my colleagues was “looking thirsty”. The customer also tried to feel up my friends Muscles and strangely only when he was looking at them. Shortly after the neighbour came out and was shouting at the customer for building such a “gaudy piece of crap”. Now I can see why this eccentric loon was willing to pay so much for this thing. That guy’s a huge dick. We went back to work with the sounds of petty yelling in the background.
After we finally finished that unwieldy statue just after 3pm my boss called me and asked if we could do another check of the statue before we call it an early day. When I was walking back to the stature I could still hear the customer and his neighbour shouting at each other and is was getting louder the closer I got to the statue. As I was passing my work mates I called a few of them to help with the final check, then strolled back to the statue. As we got there we could see that the customer was shouting at his neighbour like it make him go away, while that guy simple seemed to get redder and redder with what I hope isn’t rage.
The checks went for the structure will need some maintenance in a few weeks but should hold strong for a while. That's when the I decided to leave but not before I heard the customer and his neighbour yell about the statue.
Neighbour: “I don’t care about this fucking thing or you or what you’ll do i’m going to take this fucking thing down!”
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Customer: “Don’t you fucking touch that! I will sue you if you break the ‘Fuck You Statue’. I will not tolerate you….”
I zoned out the rest and starter to walk away when I heard something break. When I turned around I saw the statue falling, the neighbour being punched repeatedly next to the broken leg of the statue. I don’t know why, but when I was panicking as that thing fell towards me , my legs buckled as I tried to run falling and rolling to the side, landing with my face to the sky. At that moment everything seemed to slow down as I saw the steel sign the statue was holding crash through my chest at an angle that let me see the blood coated sign telling me ‘Fuck you’.
As my vision went black and my lungs supported bloody screams. I heard people running over to me and the customer speak with them voice clearly unchanged and uncaring.
Customer: It’s a shame when the die young.
Once everything was numb and darkness I couldn’t stay awake but as I closed my unseeing eyes for the last time they seemed to spring open almost immediately. I looked at when I was and all I saw what the strange dark blue cobble stone walls, floor and ceiling. With a decrepit wooden door at the end of this strange place and the opposite wall from me.
Just as I was trying to move my hands I found that I couldn’t, I tried my legs and found them gone, panicking I tried looking at my body to find I have non. I then desperately looked around the room finding that I could somehow move but was a lot slower than normal as if I was moving as fast as a baby. Once I moved through the room I found a shard of glass and this glass reflected a small flickering ball of dark blue fire where I was looking and as I was trying to understand what was going on something popped into existence in front of me.
CONGRATULATIONS You have been selected for the [Reincarnation Games] of the greater multiverse.
Your soul was selected because of your gaming addiction and tragic death in front of a god/goddess.
All of your memories will remain intact and you will be given a power randomly from a list of every conceived powers.
Due to your gaming addiction you have been selected to be reincarnated into world with a game like system.
Due to your karma being balanced you've been reincarnated and a random variant race.
With my with my great joy and regret thank you for joining the reincarnation games against your will.
I think i’m having a mental breakdown...