Death and Gaslands

[POV Y/N]

It is a wonderful day on the farm for the sun is shining with birds chirping and a field of green law before me it is truly a wonderful day for a harvest.

Me and the boys always get up early for harvest, we drive out the tractors put on our gloves and the hand carts and head out with our guns to deal with vermin, with combined effort we pull up carrots harvest apples yank onions and dig up potatoes and corn and it feels great doing it knowing that i am part of something here.

Though not very organized we have been dealing with the large amount of land we own like this for years, we split it up under managers and we deal with the harvests our own ways and as long as nothing damages our profits anything goes.

I head back to the main house to relax since our shifts are being traded with the washers who are heading to check the quality and clean up the stuff before we box it up for the market place, i head into the main house where me and my bro live to find him already on the couch.

He looks at me with a smile and hands me a soda and asks "What's good homie?" before laying back on the arm rest and so i join him on the couch and crack open my soda.

"Not much man i love days like this but bending my knees so much is a real pain" i down half the soda in a second before pulling out my phone and scrolling my meme gallery while music plays from it , "what about you?" i ask

He looks bored while looking at the news and answers my question "Nothing at all, its always so quiet out here that almost nothing happens besides the occasional snake" he shifts around trying to find a good spot to rest in for a minute before giving up.

We spend a few hours watching tv and memes before he heads off to take some of the stuff to the local market while i check around the house for pests before letting the dogs in and then head off to sleep early.

As i lay there in my own dream land i feel a horrible pain in my chest and a choking feeling and as i wake up to see what's causing this pain i black out and wake up in a room made out of light.

"Now that's a terrible way to go if i have ever seen one" a strange old man said as he stroked his beard that reached the center of his chest and leaned on a golden cane.

"Who are you and why am i here?" i ask looking around only to find that no matter how far i turn he is always directly in front of me which is trippy so i stop trying and just sit there and look at him.

"Well that is a bit unfortunate but it involves two things, first is that you have died and at the age of 45 to boot anyway so you are heading to the afterlife." he said looking slightly upset as he said it which caused me to ask my next question.

"How did i die?" i said to which he had a look of disgust on his face as he looked to mentally prepare himself and he said "That is some nasty trouble, an entire python forced it's way down your throat while you slept while you kicked a nest of spiders that had lived under your bed when your foot drooped down causing them to swarm you."

"That is just... awful and how does that even happen?" he just shrugged as i said that still holding that look on his face that showed genuine revulsion at my fate "I did not even think that it was possible and i don't have the time to watch everyone in the world" he said as he made a table in front of us with two chairs.

"But that is not where the situation ends because you see i made a bet with a friend of mine named Kavbernath that the next person to die on ether of our worlds we control would be sent over into the others reincarnation cycle and we had to give up a personal item." he said he said with grief.

I asked him "How long ago was the deal made and what did you trade?" to which he pulled out a box from nowhere, "i traded my limited edition tea set that i got from Marithin it has a special effect that anything poured inside will cause a burst of joy when poured out and he only made 14" he said with venom as he poured in some dark green liquid that looked like it had stars in it.

"Why would you trade something like that?" i asked confused as he poured me a cup before he drank some and i did the same and then he answered, "Because along with the tea set he made about 40 sets of chinaware which had the same effect but for food but i could not get my hands on any but Kavber got two so i wanted to complete my set with it but your heart stopped a second before one of his but that was that and now its time to send you over" he said as he waved his hand washing off the entire tea set.

"Am i going to be totally unprepared for what i find?" he my answered question as he started to stall for time while packing the tea set up "No you won't, you will keep the clothes on your back including the weapon in your holsters and i am allowed to give you two abilities that were determined when the bet was made them being infinite inventory a simple crafting menu but i cannot give anything else"

"He also said that when you get there you will be given several items that are needed to live in that world but i don't know what they are as nobody is allowed in Kavber's land after the incident back in -45567 but im sure you will be fine now take this and don't drop it"

He handed me the Purple box with a bow on it before he waved his hand and i appeared in a cabin at a lakeside where another old man was standing but he was covered in what looked to be bone plates and reacted as soon as i appeared.

"Damn child could never tell left from yellow should have remembered he could not tell time at all ether, you kid give me my prize before i send you off" without waiting he took the box from me and opened it to count everything inside before he set his table with the tea set and a set of plates that were black as night and had a shifting formation of stars before he started taking pictures of it.

"Um excuse me are you going to send me off?" i ask him as he continues to take pictures before he scream out as he was startled by my presence and looks back at me "What are you still doing here get going." and he claps his hands and i turn into dust before my own eyes.

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I wake up on a cold hard floor with a giant glowing rock and piles of the dead around me and a horrible stench to match it and it hurt to breath, as i rise up to my feet i get a mental message and it says "This is a prerecorded message to give you the basics on your new powers, first to open your inventory just think 'open inventory' and the same goes for your crafting menu just think 'open crafting menu' there is no limit to how much can be held but sorting must be done by hand"

The voice continued after repeating twice "In your inventory to shows all items inside it and to retrieve a item all you need to do is open your inventory and find the item before thinking about bringing it out, if you have the aptitude for it magic can be found on the right side of the mental screen where you can switch to it to find incantations and/or require items to cast the spell."

It once again repeated this message twice before continuing "The crafting menu can be opened directly like the inventory but can also be selected from it by looking left of the mental screen, you acquire blueprints of objects when you find them and have them in your inventory for a minute, all items have two recipes 'accurate' and 'direct' accurate recipes show the exact requirements and produce the product based off of how it should be built but that normally requires advanced items while direct crafting needs raw resources to fuel the creation and can come out defective or low quality but if the input are high quality this can be rendered void."

It repeats and continues "crafting is put into tiers but not by item tier but by skill of the crafter, the more you craft a single item it makes it easier to craft again and quality improves regardless of used method, final note is that your status will not be displayed besides some effects but besides that your on your own, time will resume in two seconds"

And with that time resumes and the fly's start buzzing and moving around again, i open my inventory to check what i have and inside i find two bags that state they are beef rations and two more that contain water rations, i pull one out and it is a crate about the size of a cooler and is filled with ice and has some water skins in it and the beef rations are the same but no ice but packs of solid salted meat so i put them back.

another thing is a patchwork long fur vest with ragged sleeves and a hood but besides that no more clothes, i got my 45 on my hip in my holster and 4 twelve round mags and my hunting knife, the weirdest things i have are a syringe and thing called a filter pipe with 10 jars, and my pendent on my neck, the pendent is metal with runes on it with a glowing blue stone in the center like a smaller version of the one i was laying on its called a ward stone so i decided to keep it on.

Well i guess i should start looting.