Day 1

I immediately regret this decision. I wanted to write all of this with a quill, but I suck at handwriting for more than a sentence.

I'm going to find a computer & printer.

I can't believe I actually found one, there aren't usually any printers in The Veil, (yay, italics!).

So... I found this empty tome and decided to keep a journal to gather my thoughts, (my condolences to whoever reads this). I've also found a bed here, so I'm going to sleep one off later, and I'm going to question the fact that there's a bed here tomorrow. I don't think I even need sleep at this point, but at least it will let me clear my head.

But I shouldn't get ahead of myself, I still need to explain everything, after all, I need to clear my thoughts, and I don't know who might read this, or even if they know anything about Sburb. So, here's my story.

I was going to play a computer game with my friends, (are aliens going to read this? Do I need to explain computers?). Never-mind, basically I was just going to kick back and play the newest gaming sensation of the century. I thought that I would be able to have a relaxing time with my friends.

I was wrong.

This "game" could affect reality in ways that it should never be able to. We were shocked, but we couldn't stay shocked for long...

We had a time limit.

One by one, we had been transportilized, (along with our houses, and yes, that is a word), into a place called The Medium, a different dimension for which we all had a planet each, with creatures called consorts, and monsters called Denizens. We had narrowly escaped meteors falling on us, meteors that the game had dropped on us. Building up our houses, we had to battle the underlings that spawned on our planet, so we could use the grist they dropped as building material, and as resources for alchemy, which is used to make better weapons and anything else we needed.

The end goal was to save Skaia, a celestial body that was a well of unlimited creative potential. To do so included a war that was taking place on said body, a war between the light forces of Prospit, and the dark forces of Derse.

This was a war that Derse was destined to win, but it was not a war of futility, for Prospit knew they would lose, but they still needed to buy time for their heroes to be ready, and those heroes were us. When the White King is killed, the Black King calls forth meteors from The Veil, through the Icipisphere, to Skaia in the center, and have it destroyed. But Skaia could provide us with our final seconds by sending the meteors through the Skaian Defense Portals to the only other place it knew, on our planet, back in time. Our job, was to ascend into god-hood and kill the King in those final moments and save Skaia, using it to create an entire new universe.

We had failed.

It's not like we didn't see this coming, or at least I did. My title, as in, what I could do as a god, was the Mage of Void. I could gather information that was obscured, or be the one to obscure it in the first place. Since Time doesn't have as strong a hold in The Medium (or as gods) as it does normally, you shouldn't be surprised to hear that every possible timeline exists, but only the main timeline isn't a doomed one. A doomed timeline is where things go in a way that it wasn't supposed to, and as a Mage of Void, that meant that I could see what was impossible to achieve, like I could actually see the Void.

And every timeline where we win, is a doomed one.

But they wouldn't listen to me, so I just played along. Once it became clear that we were boned, we had one more option. The Denizens weren't just monsters, we could kill them and get lots of grist, but the interesting thing about them, is that even though they will battle with gusto, they are still there to help.

If you talked to yours, he would give you The Choice, (yes, you need the underline). They already know what you are about to pick, The Choice is more of a formality, so when our Prince of Time ignored my plea and went to his, his Denizen already knew what to ask him. The reason why it had to be our Time player, is because we had a second chance, The Scratch. The Scratch was a way to reset our universe, and start the game again with different circumstances, but we would forget everything. His Denizen told him that he could release The Construct for which to Scratch (literally), or he could listen to me. He should've picked the latter, for you see, I had been trying to warn him, but he would have none of my "pessimism".

Every timeline with The Scratch, was doomed also.

While everyone foolishly followed him on the quest of futility, I had another plan in mind. I would escape.

On the outside of every session of the game, is the space between dimensions, The Furthest Ring. Here, the Horror-Terrors lie, their bubbles glubbed (what?) were where the dead would roam. I was successful, I had used my Mage powers to find the nearest session that didn't loop back to my own, seeing as how Time and Space doesn't seem to work very well out there.

I landed on someone else's planet, someone of an alien civilization that had also been victim to the "game". The hero of Time, he spoke to me (in English, wtf?), told me that a future version of myself had told him to bring me back in time. I was no stranger to stable time loops, so I followed him, it'd be a weird thing to say if I wasn't the one to tell him, so I trusted him. He went back to before the session started and found the biggest lab he could find.

The Veil, the ring of meteors in The Medium, have lots of labs on them (don't ask me why), and I have reasoned, that it is possible to live on one, if one wanted to that is. The Hero of Time told me that I had lived there for a while.

After he left, all I could think about is how mentally exhausted I was (since gods can't get physically tired). I found this empty tome and quill and ink, wrote in it, and I found a large room full of computers (not that strange for a Veil lab).

Tomorrow I'll probably explore for a bit.

Day 2

I dreamed last night, but since I no longer have a dream self, (long story) I dreamed in the dream bubbles. The Horror-Terrors - unlike how so many others go crazy just at the sight of them - comforted me with ancient songs as old as Paradox Space itself.

Now I can comprehend the fact that the bed-sheets have the Void symbol on them.

Obviously, I freaked out, big time, not only did the sheets have it, but there were vertical banners along the walls that had it as well, the door had it too. And near the bedroom there was something else I didn't expect, a massive front door, it's not a laboratory, it's a mansion! The doors open towards Skaia, the windows next to it let in it's light.

I wasn't really sure what to think of everything having my aspect symbol on it, so I just went back to the room with the computers. In the center is the transportilizer to use to go in and out. Desks are arranged in lines, computers and chairs at each one. On one end of the room is a massive four panel screen, I remember seeing this kind of thing somewhere, it's called a Fenestrated Wall.

I sit in the back right corner of the room, at the far side from the Wall. It's laid out like a cubicle, a corner desk facing the wrong way, only touching the wall to the left, leaving space to enter on the right. On the desk sits a big four monitor setup arranged in a two by two formation; it sits in the corner of the desk, covering all of the good view I have of the room. The computer tower (the main part) is laid down to the right of the monitors, a printer/scanner to the left.

Under the desk, the back is covered, leaving it a flat surface on the other side. On the right, there is a mini server rack, some extra hard-drives, and a plethora of wires snaking from a hole in the desk, and the equipment to the right, arranged and cable-tied. On the left is various drawers, containing some spare paper, portable hard-drives, and miscellaneous computery stuff.

Oh, and to add to the freak-out counter, what looks like a Sburb Server disk.

Don't worry, I won't put it in, but mostly because it's already installed, and running. But good news, it's not a Server disk (much to my relief), but something called a Host disk.

I don't know what it does, but there are a lot of functions here, most of them grayed out, the tool-tips say that I need to wait until installation/entry. Do I need to wait for other players? Am I playing as well? I have no idea what I'm doing, but there doesn't seem to be anything of importance, so I've just left it alone for now.

I think that the multiverse deserves a point for my "freak-out x3 combo". Paradox Space: 1, Gods: 0.

But lets not forget how I've gone rogue and absconded from my session into a different one. Gods: 1. How bad-ass am I?

On, relative to everything else, a side-note, the moment I tried to access my Sylladex Inventory System™, the entire thing got ejected.

Paradox Space: 2

I'm not worried though, because the reason I did it was because I found a different inventory abstraction on the desk, with a note:

You might need this.

-Yourself

I've also checked, and the system clock on this thing tells me that my overnight nap has, in fact, taken place at night, not that The Medium has a night (when do consorts sleep?).

I'm gonna try out this new system, and maybe try to find out why I needed a different one.