We have always had legends and myths about God's smiting our kind for one reason or another.

We were once two headed, eight limbed creatures of great power, but the God's feared us, so struck us down. Split us apart from our other halves to weaken us. They condemned us to forever wander in search of our other half, forever separated.

Another story about our kind united in purpose. We constructed a wonderful edifice, the Tower of Babel. We built it high to touch the heavens and shot an arrow to tell the God's We can reach you.

We were struck down for our arrogance. Divided once again, but this time by language and culture.

Over the course of centuries, millenia, we have been Divided again, and again... and again. Religion. Country. Race. Politics. Sports. Family. Everything. Piting us against our neighbors so we can never raise to their level. Always fighting.

But you know what they say. Whatever doesn't kill me...

...Had better start running.

I found myself orbiting around... like a stellar body but... Greater than that. Like the culmination of all consciousness, looking across the infinite gulf that separated me from her. Like I was the male aspect of life itself and she was my counterpart. A picture of wonder and beauty that I longed to touch but such a vast infinity stood between the two of us, and yet... we were the same. We were one divided. Damned to orbit eachother but never touch, and yet... I cannot help but shed a tear at being allowed to bask in the radiant beauty of her. Feel honored at the privilege of being able to witness her every moment of eternity.

A moment that spanned an eon passed, and I was awash with a feeling of rebirth, like I could remember the very instant the seed found the egg and experienced that first spark of life. I was the single infinite. A zero dimension. The only thing in existence and yet the smallest possible thing that could exist.

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I saw my life pass through my minds eye from birth to the end of reality itself.

And then I found myself looking at her again... marveling in her beauty.

I experienced all the stages of grief during these 'loops'... I don't know how long I was here, or if the span of time even mattered.

A moment.

An eternity.

I understood what they meant when they said an entity was timeless.

I felt it all pulling me back to my body and the world spun around me as I staggered over to my bed, feeling like I was going in circles before I fell to my knees and was sick. The smoke in the room was starting to clear and she was at my side.

She helped put me to bed and I slept off the hit I had taken only minutes ago.

Minutes... an eternal lifetime.

For the rest of my days I will never be convinced what i saw and experienced was not real.

~System initilaizing 100%~

I woke up to an alarm and I thought it was my phone for only a second before I saw the text infront of me... and with a surge of panic I realized I couldn't move. Or rather... I had no body /TO/ move. Rather suddenly my mind stilled and went quiet and I wasn't capable of panic.

~Congradulations! Assimilation in to the system is complete.~

What? My first real thought under this enforced calmness was, "Oh fuck. What happened? Did I die? What the hell? It... it was only weed."

~Please select your new class. -Note- Class selection is very basic, and it will evolve and progress based upon your personality, choices and uses as understood by this system. Now, please select between the following.~

*Fighter - A physical combat oriented class

*Caster - A magical power oriented class

*Speaker - A diplomatic oriented class

*Tradesman - A tradeskill oriented class

If not for the that strange calmness I felt, I'd definitely have had an anxiety attack at the very least.

I've always wanted to use magic, so that decision was pretty well clear.

"I choose Caster." I stated calmly, my awareness 'looking'around at the almost sterile nothingness around me.

~Caster selection Confirmed, spawning new player in freshly generated tutorial zone. Good luck!~

No one will ever be able to convince me that I didn't either die, or go absolutely and completely batshit crazy that night.