Dim Horizons

There are many undiscovered things about the god of the system. Only few have ever conversed with the god, those few being the most powerful forces this world has ever known. Any knowledge has been kept to themselves, hiding it away from the prying ears of lore keepers. Nothing is known about the god of our system, it's infuriating for us to have the information hiding away in the mind of the blessed ones who always seem so close, yet so far.

- Excerpt from 'Mystery's of The System' Written by an unknown author.

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*crack*

The sound of a sharp crack woke me from my deep sleep, my brain struggled to focus as i was assaulted by a great headache. My vision attempted to recover from it's almost drunk state as the world around me blurred and flashed with colours. My body felt like it wasn't cooperating with my brain as I tried and hopelessly failed to move. My mind couldn't process what was going on or what had happened. I tried to observe my surroundings but my vision was so blurred it was impossible, I couldn't smell nor feel anything. What put me in this state? Was I hungover? Maybe I damaged my head? I tried to remember what had happened but to no avail. Nothing would come up from my memories. Then out of nowhere an otherworldly voice spoke.

[Commencing Skill Creation, 'God's Blessing']

Without even being able to register what just happened another headache washed over me, however much worse it dwarfed over the previous mild annoyance that that nipped at my brain. An immense amount of pain attacked my brain as it burned and throbbed with a pain like no other. my body finally moved as it thrashed around, trying to somehow ward of the assault. The world around me spun as it blurred even more, random colours and sounds pierced my eyes and ears. Everything was in such disarray that I didn't even realise i had started falling through the air. However with a large *THUD* my whole body stopped moving, the headache I had was now gone and replaced with the pain of just falling from an unknown height and landing straight onto my head. The pain however was much more bearable.

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The unknown voice seemingly glitched out and cut off completely, leaving me with only the consistent throbbing of my brain and to keep me company, while also robbing me of some well deserved silence. No time for that however, I gotta make sure I haven't broken anything, that felt like a huge fall after all. Straining to focus my eyes and clear my head, i was starting to make progress, the vibrant colours that stung my eyes had calmed down and pain from falling on my head was clearing up too. Eventually my eyes had somewhat regained focus and i could make out what I was looking at, I was standing on some dark greenish blue grass, I'd never seen any grass this colour, maybe it was painted or something? My eyes strayed further down until i could see an arm or a leg touching the weird grass, i couldn't make out whether there were toes or fingers on the bottom of my limb, well I assume it's my limb anyway. It must be my hand, i mean im kneeling over right? I look over my back to try have a look at my legs to see if any damage has been done, what I didn't expect to see however was a third long limb protruding from my back. Still not registering the sight properly I also notice my legs are not the shape they should be. They are positioned differently and once my eyes adjust a bit more i can make out that their a dark brown in colour, in the corner of my eye i notice something on that unknown third limb i saw before. A large streak of dark red lines the middle of it, seemingly stretching up my back. Surely my eyes are just playing tricks on me, I mean, no way i have a third leg down my back? Wait… that kinda sounds like… a Tail.

…

I have a… tail? No that can't be right, let me check again.

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Okay so, two things. First, I have a tail. Second, WHAT!? How do you even GET a tail? Why is my body coloured so weird? Where am i and whats with this weird blue grass? What was that voice in my head earlier? What is going on?!?! AAAAAAAAAAAA. Internally dying with stress my brain struggles to find out the answer, proposing an idea one second and then immediately debunking it the next. After about 5 minutes of internally screaming and monologuing about what is going on I fail to even realise that my vision has completely cleared up. I can see now, perfectly. *grrrrr* the sudden sound snapped me back to reality as I frantically try to find the source of the noise. …only to realise my stomach is growling. I breath a sigh of relief and observe my surroundings. I spot a small lake not far from me. My throat feeling a bit parched I decide to head over there, or try to at least. My legs give out as soon as i try to walk, maybe i hurt them? No, I don't feel any pain. Let me double check anyway. As I look down and observe why my legs completely gave out I observe something deeply troubling, on the ends of my hands, wait no are those legs? Wait another pair of legs?? The frantic thoughts from before almost explode into my head before I barely push them back down, looking back at my hand or leg, whatever it is I observe that instead of regular fingers, i have short stubby fingers with gleaming white claws on the end. Just what the hell is going on? Have i got a weird glove on or something. Wait! Maybe if I tore my limb with these weird claws i might be able to get out of a suit i might be in! That must be the explanation! Im in a suit. Still doesn't explain the environment but whatever! I rase my claws to my other limb its tip looking extra sharp resting on my limb. With a swift motion I pull the claw down, opening up my limb, however unexpectedly instead of seeing my pink, human arms under a suit, the dark brown skin parts and a flare of excruciating pain comes rocketing up my limb from the wound.

"GRRAAAAAAAHHHH!"

An inhuman escapes my mouth as red blood comes spurting from the wound, gushing out and covering the blue grass. Dying the grass around me with blood my body collapses as my continued nightmarish scream continues. I'm now rolling around in my own blood, the pain distracting me from what i'm actually doing. My mind blares with warnings that i'm already aware of, the pain is excruciating. All my attention is focused on my arm, which has now poured the surroundings with my blood, which I'm now unconsciously rolling in. I finally manage to focus and grasp the wound with my other hand, trying desperately to stop the bleeding. The pain cools down from it's previous raging burning, but only by a little. However its enough to let me focus. The blood has stopped gushing out, but is still bleeding profusely. I have to find something to craft into a makeshift bandage. I look around to notice there are huge trees all around me, how i didn't notice this before im not sure. But I stumble over to under one of them, I can't even walk properly with all four of my new legs. Which I have unconsciously accepted that i have four legs. Still being restricted from walking on one of my four legs makes getting places even harder. Eventually I reach the gigantic tree, sitting under it i now realise i'm way to short to reach any of the leaves, however i luckily spot some giant fallen leaves resting just a few meters away. Once I stumble over to them i try pick one up with my claws. They're huge. Easily able to rap around my foreleg. once i pierce through one of them I try put it over the wound, accidentally making another small cut in the process. The blood sticks the leaf over the wound and i press against it with my foreleg. A small amount of blood leeks through but ultimately it should be fine. Finally relaxing against the tree's trunk a cold feeling creeps up onto me, I hadn't noticed it before since i was in such a blind panic but now i feel it, all over my body. It's freezing, like i've been submerged in ice with no clothes. I've lost so much blood no wonder i'm cold! Frantically I try push myself under the leaves for warmth but it does basically nothing, i'm still freezing! Frantically i stumble around the trunk trying to find somewhere warm, but nothing appears. My mind is searching for a possible shelter but it comes up dry, nothing is here. My vision blurs as i continue to circle the tree, hoping that i would find somewhere, anywhere to go. My vision blurs to the point i can't see in a metre front of me. My mind starts to fog and I feel myself passing out. Is this the end? I didn't even figure out what had happened to me, my memories, where i was. Just before passing out i felt the ground beneath my left foreleg give out, I stumbled down and fell, rolling down what felt like a hole, my vision becoming completely useless I can't see anything, it's blurred. After about 10 seconds of rolling i come to a stop. Slamming against a wall, my body refuses to move, completely bashed and bruised from the fall. My mind goes blank and I drift off to sleep.