Strange New World

I remember now I was a ranch hand. The locals called us cowboys because of our job of driving cattle. They stopped me far outside a small town called armadillo by a gang of rustlers. I didn't have time to draw my trusty six shooter before they riddled me with holes. Each wound burned like the fires of hell and at the same time felt ice cold as if I was in a block of ice. It was a very strange type of pain I didn't know I could feel.

I was helpless as i watched the leader of the gang put a pistol to my forehead and pull the trigger. Then I felt as though the devil himself had come to take me to hell. I'm pretty sure I pissed my pants. The next thing I felt was almost indescribable. The best way i could describe it was like the feeling of lying in bed after a day of back-breaking work only one thousand times stronger.

Then I felt like I was fading away and now I've caught up till now. I then heard a voice in my head.

[Welcome carter].

Ah yes my name is Carter. I forgot [you have died] well obviously I got shot twelve times once in the head.

[Be calm. You will soon awaken and experience life in a new world]

Well, this is odd I never thought this would be what would happen when I died, but here I am. I also never thought god would sound so caring and motherly. I always thought he would sound like a booming commander on the battlefield. Not like a father consoling his boy after he got hurt.

[You will be reborn in the world of pangera ]

[Destiny and luck will determine your fate]

well I'm not going to heaven or hell but where's pangera this is all too confusing for me to process

[You will be reborn with the following status]

what do they mean by status?

[Level: 1]

The hell what's that mean level like if a foundation's been built right

[Stats:]

might: 25

toughness: 10

cunning: 30

will: 20

HP: 85

MP: 0

So my new body will be strong, I hope. But a few of the stats I just don't understand. I don't understand what cunning or will mean. HP and MP were also confusing, but i could take a guess that they probably stood for health power and mind power. But if i have a mind power of zero does that mean I'm going to be stupid?

[Skills: quick-draw level 1; chain fire level 1; bite level 2; stealth level 3; poison-immunity; piercing immunity]

these skills made no sense chain fire. It takes more skill to prevent a chain fire than to cause one like what the actual hell I knew a guy who lost most of his arm to a chain fire skill my ass

[Species: Skeleton bandit]

What in the hell? Oh god damn, if I'm no. bandit, if anything I'm the. opposite motherfucker can't really change it, though, I suppose

[You have one Skill point and one Biomass available]

[Go forth and forge your own path]

After the strange conversation, I felt like my head was pounding. It feels like a mule had kicked me in the head. My vision was reeling, and I felt like vomiting. I stayed there on the ground for a while to let my head steady so I could stand up. I flipped on to my side, then to my knees, then to my feet.

It was just as the voice said I was a skeleton with white beached bones, tattered clothes, and an old worn-out hat. i will not lie. I feel sad and alone. This is the worst I've felt in my life. i for once don't know what to do its. Strange I don't have any innards but I'm hungry. I don't know why. i need to calm down and think about this. What's in the pockets of my pants.

Ive got an old rusty pocket watch, a couple of dollars, a pencil, and a notebook. Then on my hip I have an old leather holster with a revolver in it. ok decent amount of items but nothing to eat. After scrutinizing the revolver, I notice it's one of the fancy cartridge ones not like my old cap and ball revolver. How the hell would you chain fire this?

It makes little sense I've gotten ahold of my bearings and I'm in a plains type area. But the sky is made of glowing rock and there are small tunnels all over the "walls" of this place. I spot a run down building or two now and then, but still I've found nothing. No other people, no animals, nothing, but I then heard a sound from behind me like a bison screaming.

I turn around and see what looks like a member of the devil's heard black shiny horns hooves made of steel and a brand still on fire. It then charged at me, slamming me into one of the many pillars the dotted the landscape. Cracking a few of my ribs and sending jolts of pain through my body. I grab my pistol and try to shoot it. But my gun was empty the whole time. In a last moment bit of desperation, I open my jaw and bite at the demon cow. bite after bite left my jaw sore, but eventually it stopped moving and in my head I could hear the man speak.

[You have slain level 1 Daemonium Dolor Vaccam]