A young disembodied soul finds itself in an empty void. And for the first time since dying learns how to perceive its surroundings. And through it´s perception creates for itself a stable flow of time.
And thus it thought coherently for the first time since ever well just it’s death. “Well. what do I need...? passpord, money, well rather gold. Where is the nearest pawnshop? Computer, batteries for a lifetime.. more like 2, a shelter, tarot cards, crystal ball, schematics of life and death cycles sorted by the number of believers, cultivation manual from Martial god Asura’s prehistoric era... How many chapters it was before he achieved ultimate realm of a true martial god? Telescopic phone, did I say passpord?....”
At this moment a bit of light passed by the void which disrupted the disembodied soul’s solved mortal worries. For a moment at least.
“Hey this looks more like limbo or loading room in y4bit on-line. Where you can play minecraft in never-before seen...”
In this moment the light is no longer visible and another comes, but this time the light shines upon the void and grows with every single second. “Wait this is like the respawn room in world of perception which had that good magic system i tried out like a decade ago. If i am right these should be some kind of taxies to spawn-zone where you create your character...” another light passed at speeds higher than the soul could perceive at a distance mere meters from it and disrupted a portion of its flow of time stretching its time from seconds to months giving the poor soul the needed time to come to terms with it’s current position without further distractions. (By referencing it to all memes, games, objects, people and politicions it ever heard of during it’s long life) Until a moment when it´s memory returned.
In the vast stretches of the multiverse there are uncountable systems of life and death, destruction and recreation, consumption and procreation, orderly chaos and chaotic chaos, Orderly chaotic chaos and Chaotic orderly order. From reincarnation systems where everything what exists can be the soul’s target of incarnation to a soulless universe without a need for a single soul, or even lifeforms. Many different systems exist and in one a new soul from the soulwell known under the number JI9AFB62HG1 of the vigintinal number system was created.
Blob: “Hi I am your future instructor of our Boundless reincarnation system. I would like to inform you that we are sorry for your creation and if you are to at any point during our instruction feel like not existing anymore we would gladly help you achieve non-existance.”
New soul “What is existance? What does it mean to exist?”
Blob “Fourty-two”
And in this moment the soul’s mind expanded. In a single moment it saw the whole multiverse in all of it’s glory and asked itself every single question inducing another question from the experience and answered all of them using the universal truth of all existance in the same moment. Despite the revelations the soul was able to continue the conversation without a gap, or a single visible reaction.
New soul “That makes so much sense thank you. You answered almost all of my current, future and past questions. Now I know almost everything. What is your name?”
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Blob “Sorry for the tricky sentence at the beginning, but it makes it better for both of us in the long run to let me answer you by the sacred truth. Everybody calls me mister miss instructee Blo-blob, but you can call me Blob”
New soul “ Ok. Blob where do I incarnate? Once again thank you so much for your answer. The answer to the multiverse is for-ti-tude. Thank you once again. See you in the next reincarnation!”
Communicated the young soul to Mister miss instructee Bloblob before it incarnated, but because of its lapse in judgement it choosen a newborn in a soulless universe and thus it incarnated only with single gift a status and fate of a messenger from JI9AFB62HG1. (Given to every single soul for its first life to let it adapt to its first life of a mortal and marketing.)
Mister miss instructee Bloblob’s thoughts in reaction to perceiving it’s mistake.
“I don’t want to say that I know that something is wrong here, but i think I have done my job right. Our reincarnation system still doesn’t have any standard procedures for new souls. I think I deserve another title, or at least a change to my current ones for averting another crisis.. What should it be....”
Thus the soul got the answer to the questions of what to do next. From the information decoded from the universal truth of the universe and together with it everything in existence it found some of its options. Currently it is in it’s soulspace a microverse created as a pair with a soul by some kinds of soulwells. The created souls then use them in any way they like between their reincarnations or even during some, if the laws of that universe allow it. The problem is that to make any changes to it souls are required to know and be able to manipulate a law of existence of some universe in the multiverse and slowly and mostly uncountiously use it to build their universe up from scratch using their law masteries. It is the main motivation for reincarnation for these kinds of souls to reincarnate. This reincarnation system has the draw-back that it is hard to create any kind of lifeform in in these microverses which wasn’t just an advanced machine, or an elemental representation without learning and incorporating the laws of soulless universes which are the ultimate deathtrap for a soul without good enough protection. Limiting the number of souls not trying to register at another soulwell and become its “honorary creation” in a few hundred reincarnations mainly for the most often reason “Too boring afterlife. 3/1000 would rather stop existing”. The soul still without a name knew only the most basic of laws and the rare Murphy’s universal law of opportunistic misfortune making the universe unstable, but odly realistic mess without a way out without a few reincarnations of learning laws. His first reincarnation option is to enter his current soulwell and join a official reincarnation there. His second is to go to a casino and try to impress some rich knowledgable souls with his reincarnation. His third option is to stop existing and his last option was to infiltrate a private reincarnation system.
The young soul “Let’s infiltrate some private reincarnation system that sounds like fun”
Thus the soul reincarnated for the first time.
Realizations from universal truth
The custom of non-intervenence.
When you (re)-incarnate into a foreign universe without a known rulebook, or any other known kind of regulation it means that you have just entered a new, or poorly regulated, or private universe. Rules of these kinds of universes work by universal customs.
In these kinds of universes you are expected to act like a native lifeform or at least not bring any memories which are unnatural, law-defying or theme-breaking into your incarnation. Another undesired influence is coming with too many gifts for comprehension, combat abilities, energy manipulation as it again ruins the experience to most souls already living in the universe. Bevare in some of these worlds you can be hunted down by training world protectors and kicked out of the world. In case that you are being hunted down by the protectors even after leaving that universe you must not forget that more than 80% of all souls look the same when they are not incarnated. Use this to your advantage to escape.