Day 17

Board.

I am board.

How board am I?

I’m so board that I decided to use this journal/dairy that Tim left me.

17 days ago I was turned into a NPC at the cost of my real body. Which, considering I was in a hospital and expected to die within a year, wasn’t too bad of a deal for me. And as an added bonus, the game I am going to live in has magic.

But the problems started after I entered the game. I thought that I was going to become one of those NPC’s in the background that gave some side quests. Instead, I’m stuck in this stupid school as the principle for five in game years. The first 6 months of which I’m supposed to spend without students so I can study and get to know the material that will be taught. I guess that’s what I get for signing that contract without reading it.

I would’ve been fine with being alone in the real world. The reason I’m not fine with being alone in this world, is because I can’t use the internet.

I’ve spent the last 2 weeks (weeks are 8 days in this world) reading the textbooks Tim gave me. I’m supposed to give these books to the teachers I hire.

On the 5th day I started mediating to pass the time and build up my magic. Because I had a lot of time to pass. And I mean a LOT. These ********* turned off my basic needs. So I’m spending my days without sleep, food, drinks, or even the need to go to the bathroom. I can’t even leave my office to look around the school.

And now I’m board of writing. Won’t write again until I’m board of being board of writing.

Day 53

Didn’t get board for a long time because I was playing with my magic up to beginner level. I’m not going to explain magic in this journal/diary because then I’d just be copying from the textbook and that’d feel like homework.

My current aura level just reached intermediate level 1 and I’m having trouble choosing which 3 mixtures I should start with.

I mean, this system is super unfair. There are 145 mixtures of magic and I can only choose 3. On the bright side I should still be able to use the other mixtures up to beginner level.

Day 56

After spending hours deciding which three I should choose, I ended up choosing clone, intelligence, and ink.

I choose clone so I’d have someone to talk to. But the results weren’t what I wanted. At beginner rank I could clone parts of my body but couldn’t separate them (ex. give myself 4 arms). And at intermediate rank I could finally make a whole body separate from me. But the clone was disappointing.

Instead of having his own conscience, the clone was more like a puppet. And on top of trying to control him, I still had to control myself. It was like playing a game where I had to control someone with the arrow keys and another with wasd while simultaneously using two mice. Only much harder.

That is why my second choice was intelligence. I learned from a textbook that the intelligence mixture isn’t used to increase mana but has other fun uses. One of the intelligence mixture powers allows parallel thinking. And while I could use parallel thinking before it became intermediate, I couldn’t use them at the same time until they became intermediate.

With these 2 mixtures I created a clone and was able to pretend that he has his own personality. That’s why for the 3rd mixture I choose ink. By taking this mixture I’m able to pretend that my clone is a new teacher that I’ll hire. One of the classes focuses only on the ink mixture and how to create spell circles.

After creating my clone and giving him the textbooks he’ll need, we saluted each other and I had him leave.

As I’ve said before, I can’t leave my office. That doesn’t mean my spells can’t. When I open the door to my office and try to leave there’s an invisible wall that stops me. I got angry one day and tried to throw spells at it to break the wall. But all the spells went through the door without any interference from the wall.

So by creating a clone I can now go outside and explore the school (even my clone wasn’t able to leave the school and enter city). Probably won’t write in here for a while.

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Day 81

After 2 months (months are all 40 days) Tim (the guy who offered me the contract for this new life) told me that I need to make a school plan. As in which classes will be taught when, where, and by whom. He gave me mountains of portfolios so I could look for teachers as well as a list of suggested course with some marked as required.

My skills with the clone and intelligence mixtures have grown so that I can now control 2 clones as well as my own body. I also reached intermediate level 2 with my aura and pick up the enchant mixture. I thought that the writing system would be similar to the one I learned for spell circles.

I was wrong.

The spell circles use Japanese kanji. The enchantments use symbols from the zodiac.

Even the method of using the 2 mixtures is completely different.

On the bright side I only have 4 more months until players enter the game. On the down side I still have 4 ******* months before players come here.

Day 121

My aura reached intermediate level 3 and I picked up the tattoo mixture. But who cares!?

PEOPLE!!

There are ******* people in the school! I’m no longer alone!

Apparently going through the mountain of portfolios was well worth it. Tim had me separate the portfolios into 3 categories promising, possible, and no way. After submitting all 1347 of them Tim told me that those in the promising and possible categories would visit me at my half way mark. And they’re here! I can finally talk to someone other than myself.

…Wow that sounded depressing!

Day 125

I’m starting to think I liked it better alone.

…Well, maybe not alone but with just Me, Myself, I, and Him. These are the temporary names I’ve given my clones, which I’ve gotten better at making.

None of the people I’ve met want to have a normal conversation. When I try to talk to them it goes like this:

Me: “So what’s going on in the real world?”

Them: “This is the real world.” “No idea” “The reasons I should be hired are…”

And to make matters worse they don’t even seem to see me as a person. I’ve disguised my clones and had them mingle with them, but most of the candidates seem too snobbish to talk to.

Thankfully there are hundreds people to choose from so there should be some good apples in this bunch.

On a side note, I’ve decided to hire Me, Myself, I, and Him as teachers.

Day 161

With only 2 months left, I’ve yet to choose all of my teachers.

Turns out some of the snobbish candidates were just over nervous and are good people. On the other hand some people made it very easy to get rid of. I’m now down to 43 candidates and only have 30 different classes planned for the first year. I guess I’ll just hire the extras as substitutes and assistants unless they can think of more classes I should add to the schedule.

Guess I won’t need to hire Me, Myself, I, and Him after all.

Also Tim turned on the basic needs so I have to get used to sleeping and other things again. This will probably cut into my meditation time. It also reminded me that I need to include a cooking class. Can’t believe I forgot what hunger feels like.

Day 162

Some of the candidates didn’t like the idea of being assistants. I’m down to 34.

Day 168

I lost 7 more candidates because they couldn’t teach what they wanted.

Now I’ll have to hire Me, Myself, and I as teachers. I’ll also make Him a janitor so I don’t feel left out.

Day 240

All the teachers have gone over their material and are ready for the students. Most of them even made it to intermediate rank with their auras. I’ve gotten to level 5 and can’t believe I’m going to say write this but…

I’m looking forward to school tomorrow.