My life was like most the gods seem to play with these days, a boring one. Sure I had no real complaints, I had worked three jobs in my life waitress, secretary and finally the one I wanted Games Artist. Sure it was a small time 3rd party operation making foliage but modern games need a lot of foliage and I am happy to make it, even happier to get paid for it. I love art, and I love games so “screw you” to anyone who thinks that this shouldn't have been my end goal.
So it's not that I wasn't happy actually I died after getting paid for my first commission to the game, so I was a little too pleased but that's how it goes some times. You win some, you lose some; all at once in my case. I died the same way how many of these stories start in a car accident. No I wasn't run over by a truck, no I wasn't drunk driving…the other one, you know the one when the driver swerves because they see some stupid creature that for the life of the driver you know they should have just run over but without the swerve there would be no story. No accidental death, no meeting with a deity, just a continuation of what felt like it was going to be a really happy life. Well that's how I died, clique as a fairy tale movie wrote by The Mouse Corp.
“So.”
“So?”
“You died Protecting a…”
“I’m dead?”
“Oh sorry, did not even that compute, now I see why you did go for the programming course even when I spec’d you to become one.”
“B’what?”
“Oh don't give me that you had free will like any other person, I just got bored you’ve played a simulation game before. Tell me you can just watch one of those just play out accepting the automatic responses every single time, it's boring sometimes you have to at least do a character sheet and levelling.Or you find yourself, removing a persons inner thoughts to go to the toilet and hacking there brain to make them forget there are any doors in a room filled with rugs and a fireplace. Sure you can say it's an experiment to see if a humans control of water or the dead rugs chaotic attribute of fire wins but we all no how that «experiment» ends”
“Eh wha.. so I lived my life wrong?and what are you doing to rugs?”
“ No, no. You did great. Don't know why you had to be all heroic and risk your life to save a insignificant hedgehog. Especially when I was looking forward to the finished piece, really I liked your concept art and that one tree you know the one that's to be at the start that grows different depending on your tutorial choices. Yes I was really looking forward to it. But well I don't do disappointment well at all so I'm just going to cheat and use your brain to see how you would want some of the concepts to turn out… I can't get it perfect after all you weren't going to be given that much of it to do but well I can just use your creativity to make it all and the actual one then mishmash, oh if you want to play it a bit more some of the betas are running at the moment choose a copy while I play with your head thanks”
“Huh”
Pushed from the white spaces into a room of screens without having moved I was still a little confused but well that was to be expected it had been only moments for me since I had chosen an ill fated life threatening choice and then told I was dead… But seemingly from what that man/girl…Woman/boy…thing was saying, did it move its mouth. You would think I would notice that being as I like aesthetics so much I would try to take notice of this kind of things more often. Oh well it said I could play the beta while it…does whatever it was doing with me? Let's not think about that. Wasn't the game only in its alpha stages?
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A few hundred playthroughs of well a few hundred more screens of gameplay footage and I had finally started to wonder the long awaited questions, why was everything so clique? where did all the screens appear from and why did they keep appearing out of order as to the completion rate and notes about time of creation? And why am I not getting bored of this? Really I've played God knows how many hours of the same crap and not had and inkling to do anything else, what is wrong with me?
“Sorry I didn't want you wandering off so I stopped you doing so? After all it's really annoying to find an asset in the aspect of my creation space with just the basic view even if it's not wandering about. You understand right? Of course you do I've watched you create stuff, and lose it at a flick of you zoom key as you forget to select your webpage yet think to scroll around it anyway. Yet you've nearly set the record for doing it and you barely lived long enough compared to most artists, of your type.”
“Anywho I'm done with creating my version of the game. I made a new world with it. I hope you enjoy it. I know I will but I'm more a casual gamer going off alerts to tell me when it's reached exciting parts or needs my input. I'm too busy running too many worlds so I can't play full time and worlds need full time commitments unlike games there are no save functions or your death would not have been so early on. Or in fact so disappointing to me. I probably wouldn't of got the world past the dark ages, hell I probably wouldn't of reached past Ancient Rome hehe fun times.”
“E…so you've made a real world out of the game? With the clique demon Lord and the Ragnarok that may or may not be impending. Or close for that matter?”
“Nah the Ragnarok won't be implemented into it…until I'm bored and feel it's going no where fast? And that's unlikely…probably? So at least it's nice for me I don't have to keep the world running indefinitely in my save space do you know how big my cloud is? Not big enough for all the shit I get from Earth 4.1 I tell you”
“4.1?”
“Don’t ask.”
“…”
“So anyway since most the times novels have me do this I or my equivalent entity give the resurrect-e some extra power just think of something while I fill out some roles with other earthlings. This is gonna be fun.”
“Oh yippy…I'm going to be resurrected in a doomed world under attack by monsters a Demon Lord and with a gamer God carrying a kill-switch on the planet. You know Is it too late say I'm an atheists and get my nice boring afterlife of nothingness?...Guess so?”
So what God given cheat to choose for a doomed game-esque world…well away to get out of there when the going gets tough seems a good one, and getting back home wouldn't be a bad idea.
“ I wish for the power to freely walk between planes of existence. And travel to all worlds.”
Congratulations you have obtained:
«Planar Travel» (Rank 1) «unique variant»
Planar Travel maybe used to transport you and your companions up to 6 at rank 1 between destinations you have traveled to on the world gate network.
[cost:0mp]
PS. Nice try but your gonna have to rank it up if you want to travel to other worlds but you got the free part no mana cost for you.
God damn it did I just waste my God created cheat on a free casting fast travel variant? Damn that's a lousy cheat.