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Mass Effect SI - The Afterlife

What lies after the edge of life? Serenity? Pandemonium? Or another chance? I guess, the correct answer is - yes.

Serenity_Blades · Video Games
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History lesson

Speech - inner thoughts

'Speech' - talking inside of mind/telepathy

"Speech" - talking outloud 

Speech - narrator

[Initializing complete....]

[Welcome, Gamer...]

'Okay, what the f*bleep*?! THE Gamer, really?'

"Yup, and thank you, I now understand your love of reactions."

'Yeah, sure, have fun, but before you leave me here to go messing with people, just maybe explain why I've been in the Void for only your kind knows how long, oh and please don't forget the source of these windows. I would say 'prepaid thanks', but I'm withholding it, for now.'

"And I thought we were getting close, we're even using our first names. Chris, you meanie!" Pouting divine being, yeah sure, why not. Would really find it cute, good combo considering the suit. Just in serious mode now, kinda. As I think that, I am glaring. Very effective, I know.

"Please stop glaring" Okay, what? Since what time/space continuum bulls*bleep* glaring works?

"You think the Void just gave you time to be sad?" 'Oh, okay, f*bleep*, sorry if I hurt you, didn't even think about that. Still don't know anything about it.'

"*sigh*Nobody really knows, except the Creator. Apology accepted, by the way. But any explanation pertaining you will be reserved for your Player integration, okay?" 'Sure, you're with the knowledge here, will honestly try not to interrupt.'

"Grateful. To understand, you need to learn basics of the Omniverse beginning." Okay, gonna take a while, got ya.

"Maybe, interrupting will help with that." 'Shutting up.' "Good boy. The tale starts, with a man. Not even he knows why, when and where he was born. He just was. After some 'time' existing, he got bored. He wanted something different. And so the man started creating. First creation was Space, so that his existence would be material. Second was Time, so that he could live forever. Yeah, I don't get it either, but elders say, 'with age you become wise, the wiser you are, the closer to understanding you will be'. So I will wait and see"

'Don't know about 'elders', but you can't live forever, if there is no 'ever'. Could be some ramblings of a 'mortal', but I like the phrase, so I'll keep it.'

"Never thought that way, huh. I'll take it too. Consider it the payment for scaring me. Okay, continuing. When he created these two, he was ecstatic. Finally, something new. And so, he spent couple millennia playing with both. As a consequence, multiple galaxies, clusters and planets were created. But soon, he found his life dull again. After some time thinking, he came up with the solution. Create another himself. Little spoiler. There can't be two identical of anything. Even two rocks will be different, that's the rule."

Makes sense, actually. Everything has its own place in the Universe/Multiverse/Omniverse, if there were two perfect copies of something, what will stay, what will perish, kinda scary to consider consequences.

"Not surprising really, considering you experienced one of those." 'Wait, wa-wa-wa-wa-wait a f*bleep*ing second. You mean to tell me, that the Void is the first experiment to create a man?'

"Technically, yeah. Angry?" 'No, not really. Funnily, the Void was quite nice experience, beyond the scary first part. Besides, that was basically his first attempt to create…. a friend, maybe. Being lonely, or thinking you are, sucks.'

"Smart, mature, jester. Good combo, keep it. Now onto the next part. The second being was created, then he became the Void, and the first became sad. Thought that he will be forever alone. Then, he came up with an idea, what if he created two beings at the same time, but not his clones, his children. And that, kid, was the story about how Space and Time became sentient. Goddesses, actually."

"Not interrupting? Thanks. Now, the man became elated, he could create life, but first priority was to deal with the Void. He instructed his firstborns to monitor the Void, so that in case of an anomaly he could deal with it. They're still doing it, actually." 'And you're here, because…. And don't give me the 'I am Space/Time', that will be shameless.'

"Fine, ruin my fun, why not. I will get to it soon. The man, then, returned to the Omniverse and started thinking. As he didn't want another Void, he thought about counter for life. And Life and Death were born. To his surprise, he found that his children were actually better at their aspect, then him. He had a guess with Space/Time, but then he confirmed it. And so, giving his children permission to do what they want, he retreated to the Void while releasing firstborns from that duty."

"Soon, Life started to inhabit planets with creatures of all sorts, Death created the cycle you know. But Space/Time both created something unique. They gifted the ability to affect reality, and reality to affect them. And thus, Fate was born. Fate created Multiverse concept, basically creating universal generator. And then, funny thing happens. Observing living beings, they noticed a pattern. Alpha/pack, master/slaves, boss/employees, they learned the ability to load their job to others, to relieve them from some duty and give them more free time to just observe their work in action. And so they created Minor gods, basically specialized versions of themselves, by the way, I am the goddess of the Dawn, a subordinate of a subordinate."

Wow, well, thank them that master/slave route was not chosen. That would be…. bad.

"No kidding. And we actually reaching the end. Gods soon were bored with just watching the lives of their creations, and so they decided to use the Multiverse concept as their playground. But, as they took their universes with them, they noticed no changes at all. After contemplation, they came up with the solution – the wild card. Let someone unexpected into newly created universes."

"But the choice was the hardest obstacle. They couldn't make a decision they would all be satisfied. And so, they went to the Father. He found the idea intriguing, so after some thinking, he proposed the idea of using the Void as a trial ground." 'Hold on, I will rudely interrupt. So he accidently created the Void, spent a ton of his time overseeing it, and he just 'Hey, let's use a f*bleep*ing wildcard to create more wildcards'. These kinds of decisions basically make alien invasions possible.'

"'Hey, I am omnipotent being that literally created Space/Time/Life/Death, but some guy is actually smarter"

*deadpan*

'Fair. Okay, sorry. Some flashbacks from stupid scientists/explorers.'

"I told you to keep a combo, don't go all emotional and stupid now. Of course he knew everything about the Void. Contrary to your earlier thought, the Void is not a graveyard. There are two types of people: sheep and not. Original, yeah. The point being, crowd guy and unique guy. Crowd guy go straight to respawn, while unique one is special. Being able to remain unique is rare ability, so everyone unique before reincarnation go through the Void. Managed 10 or more seconds, you go to the interview which will decide your next course of action." 'You clearly know what I'm gonna ask, my man's pride is at stake.'

"*suppressed laugh* You had to, didn't you? Fine, you lasted quite a bit of time, actually. 248 years, exactly"

And so, as my mind go numb and I needed a wake up from the, let's say surprise, I decided to go with the flow

'Hah, and that me being the virgin, imagine the consequences of me having sex, the Omniverse itself would be f*bleep*d.'

And my plan clearly worked as I wake up by the most beautiful laugh I ever heard. Well, in my state of mind, calling something beautiful is questionable.