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  I do not like being alone, I decide.

  I usually like to be alone, it is less stressful. But I also usually have something to do: things to read, games to play, work to work, laundry to wash, things of that sort. Instead I am stuck in a puddle of a pond.

  Perhaps one may tell I am not happy with being here, but it matters not because then I would not be alone. I do not like being alone. I once read that someone used to interacting with others would go insane in solitary.

  I don't want to go insane.

  Initializing.

  What?

  Processing.

  Who?

  Process Complete

  Oh hell no.

  Welcome to SYSTEM

  Your

  Systematic, Yet, Superindividual, Elite, Mechanic

  I was a sleep. This is still a dream.

  Processing Request:

  Action Required

  Permission Granted

  Zap! OW.

  ... Not a dream. Not a Dream at all.

  Beginning Tutorial:

  Open Menus (1,2,3)

  Begin Work

  Complete Task (1,2,3,4)

  We Hope You Enjoy Your New Access!

  Maybe it's a nightmare?

  Processing Request:

  Action Required

  Permission Granted

  Ow!

  "Momma, when is Father coming home?"

  Anna turns to her daughter, "Maybe he got delayed in the city, you know how the guards are."

  Maybel pouts, "He said he would be back before I knew it."

  "Maybe he'll be back in the morning. Go to bed now and I'll be in to read a story once I finish these dishes."

  "Okay mom." Maybel runs toward her room off to the side.

  Anna sighs, "That girl should know not to run inside," she looks to the door and wonders.

  Markus really should be home by now.

  What do you mean "Nameless"? I have a name! It's... it's.. what is my name? I had a name.

  I know I had a name.

  Error: Nameless

  Due to Improper Wizarding Methods

  Causes: Loss of Knowledge (Intermediate)

  What.

  You are an Artificial Core.

  Every Core Changes depending on the Method used in Creation

  Your Creator used:

  Carbon

  Powdered Saphire- treated*, Flawed

  Powdered White Spinel- Flawed

  Powdered Peridot- Highly Flawed

  Powdered Chrysoberyl- Colorless

  Error Due to:

  High Impurities

  Incorrect Spell Formation

  Early Disconnect of Ritual

  Incorrect Alignment

  ... A part of me feels horror at how much this Wizard messed up. I mean; yes, I am horrified that apperently I am an accident of creation closer to a still born. But looking at the line "Early Disconnect of Ritual" and "Incorrect Spell Formation" fill me with dread. As if some cardinal rule was broken and I should shudder at the thought.

  You Should

  You are only getting this Interaction

  So we can check if you were

  Classification: Abomination

  If I could wimper I would.

  Please Complete the Tutorial

  So my 'tutorial' is actually how SYSTEM is judging me?

  After I complete it will the interaction stop? Will I be Alone?

  Failure to Complete Tutorial

  Leads to SYSTEM Disconnect

  Oh....let's start then.

  Menu:Second

  What. Er... Translate that to Layman's terms please?

  That makes things easier. In the future I would like this naming method

  Request Recorded

  Processed

  Request Accepted

  Thank you. Looking over the options I pick the ones that I think I know what it will cover. Part of me is sure that red algea and Wood Ferns covers a lot that I may or may not be able to use.

  I would like the Blueberries and Badger options please.

  Recorded

  Options Refundable until Creation

  Not able to Create until Tutorial Finished

  That's... fair I guess.

  So Menu 1 is my Profile, 2 is my creature and plant options; now onto Menu: 3

  ...In the future if something is unavailable on this please don't show me unless I ask.

  Request Recorded

  Request Accepted

  So what is going on with the rooms?

  To Make a Room a Core must take a Room Schematic

  But couldn't I just, not?

  And Risk a Cave In

  Since You can't reinforce them?

  You will need an Entrance, a Core Room, and a way to connect them

  I gues I will be taking Core, Entrance and 2 exit then.

  Due to Location

  and a Natural Entrance

  Entrance has Lowered Mana Cost

  I already have an entrance? Where.... the hole I dropped through. But it's so small?

  Don't under estimate a shape shifter

  ...I'll take Locks please?

  Take Door to,

  otherwise you have to find something else to Lock

  Okay.

  Now you said I have some tasks?

  [Make a Floor]

  I have very little to no memory because my Creator was an idiot. Explain please

  Make an [Entrance], a [Core Room], and Connect them

  It must be Possible to travel between All Parts.

  Some have tried to be loophole their way out of that, haven't they?

  Yes, Doing so Changes Classification

  Into Abomination

  Why is it so easy to be an Abomination?

  What else is a 'living' thing

  That breaths without Inflow nor Outflow

  That Cuts itself into pieces and Chokes on them

  That eats Itself

  Cutting off the pathway is Cannabalizism?

  For a short time, No

  While you are Construction a Floor, No

  On Accident, No

  In the Long Term, Yes

  Alright then. So, how does one go about making a room?

  ...

  You Can't Feel It?

  What?

  That will make things Harder

  Focus on You

  Breath

  Focus on the Area around You

  Breath

  Claim It

  Breath

  Repeat as needed until You Feel It.

  Feel What?

  A man stands inside her door, wearing city steel, "Are you Anna, wife of Markus?"

  Anna leans on the wall next to her, the wood creaks. Markus said he'd fixed that. "I am," She replied, no use lying, everyone knew her around her and if he asked for directions he'd be coming right back.

  "Ma'am, I am sorry but a local patrol found Markus," That's odd, normally the guards don't mention when they 'detain' people- "If you can come by and identify some of his belongings, we will release the remains into your care to be properly buried." That can't be right, Markus isn't, "Ma'am are you okay?" No of course I am not Okay, you dense metal for brains.

  "You just told me to come pick up my dead husband, and you ask. if I. Am. Okay? I have been waiting on my husband for a week now, and you, a guard from a city not a Day Away, ask me if I am okay?"

  "Ma'am, calm down-"

  "GET OUT!"

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