After getting into his car from a long day of work, Sam was extremely tired. He had to sit through a lot of tedious meetings and got yelled at by his boss for something his coworkers did but pinned on him. All in all it was a rather awful day and he was thankful he didn’t loose his job, as he was very close to already. He started his engine after letting it warm up for a couple minutes and went forth in the winter wonderland that was his city. They tend to get a lot of snow in the winter and quite a bit of ice so the roads get repaved constantly. He got on the highway and was surprised to see an accident on the ramp to the highway, a car nearly tipped over onto the streets below it after trying to get on the mess that is the elevated highway in rush hour. I cruse to the next entrance and get onto the ramp when my car started sliding a lot. I tried to get control back as the car slid on ice and snow but my attempts were futile as I soon felt my car collide with the siding like the other car, but only this time I felt my car go into a free fall. It was a good couple seconds until my car hit the ground and my vision went black.
“John, JOHN WAKE UP!” I quickly wake up to see a young teenage girl with black hair looking at me with a pissed expression, the issue is I don’t remember seeing her in my life before, and she certainly doesn’t look like a doctor, and why is she calling me john?’ “Did you completely forget? Dad wants us up earlier to work on the fields, and I ain’t doing it by myself.” ‘Fields?’ I ponder, until a hoard of memories floods into me at once. I quickly grab my forehead and wince in pain until it slowly fades “Does my voice annoy you that much? This is why I wish I had a sister.” The girl, no, Abby walks out of our room and heads to the first floor. I crawl out of bed and get dressed, still feeling a bit dazed, until a bright blue box appeared in front of my vision.
‘Welcome Traveler’ It said in blue letters, ‘You have been given the authority to use the Traveler Personal Assistant, from now on you can access it by saying or thinking the word “Open PA”. To close the PA simply say “Close PA”’. After I finished reading it, the blue box vanished into thin air and I heard Abby call out “COME ON JOHN” so I quickly rushed downstairs and saw Abby and my, no this bodies father looking at me a bit frustrated but with some concern. “John, you have been forgetting a lot lately. Do you think I should call a priest?” “No father, I should be fine.” I reply quickly.
“Then you have no excuse to not be in the field right now. Go with Abby and quickly! Our harvest deadline is soon!” I watched Abby jog out the door and I joined her to see rows of crop fields, and about three fourths of them actually harvested. “I hope the collector doesn’t get too frustrated. Pa has been having a tough time already with Lily dying” I try to remember who she was talking about “Yeah, that horse was a great one.” I breath a sigh of relief “Don’t tell me your already dozing off again. If you do pa would really get frustrated. Anyway, lets get to work.”
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We head over to an old rickety barn held together by a hand full of rusty nails and grab some tools. I look over and remember there are supposed to be six sets of tools. “The other guy’s must of grabbed theirs already. Come on!” Abby tugs my shirt and yanks me out of the barn and rush to the field and start work. Its a bit mind numbing just swinging a sickle constantly but me and Abby do make a bit of small talk while trying to avoid any sensitive topics that I can’t remember. After about three hours of work based on the sun, we head towards the barn and Abby jumps on a haystack while I sit down on a hay bail trying to make sense of all this. First I died, then I woke up in this body, after memories that weren’t mine flooded into my head, and now I apparently have a Personal Assistant that will help me.
‘Lets at least try using it once to see what it does. Its the only clue I have at the moment.’
‘PA’ I think loudly in my mind, and a bright blue box opens up in front of me. It looks like an old Smartphone but less colorful. There are a bunch of apps on it like: ChatApp, Time, Calculator, System Mail, Maps, and even a camera feature and App Store. It also has an app very similar to what I’ve used before, Boogle. The first thing I tried using was the only thing that I haven’t seen before, ChatApp. After getting used to holding an invisible phone and making sure Abby wasn’t nearby, I press it and see a very retro style of chat application. On the screen were a bunch of icons, on the top a globe and a few others like a fist with flames coming off it and another with a sword and one more with a fireball floating. I try clicking the globe since it was the first one and immediately I was thrown in to a biscord like interface with a glowing back arrow at the top. It had a blinking blue and white box that said “Please select a nickname” in grey, so I put what I always used as a nickname in the games I used to play: Overworked Employee #7 and a chatroom suddenly appeared. The first line said “Overworked Employee #7 has joined for the first time. Please say hi”.