Chapter 1 : Use your imagination.

As you read these words, these letters begin to glow & shine off the page. Great thunder is heard to crack & rumble in the skies above, As the air begins to pick up & spiral all around you.

Suddenly, the earth begins to tremble & shake beneath your feet. as bright fluorescent lightning sparks & arks over your head. With a blinding white light you are struck down.

& you find yourself, somewhere else...

The white light, it fades, to reveal soft vibrant green grass rustling beneath your feet. Elaborate twisting trees branch out high surounding you, Vines blowing gently in the breeze.

Then, Behind blurred vision, you spot a sky of flying colours, like streams & rivers, these brilliant colours weeve & coalesce in extravagant patterns of neon & pastel vibrance.

You hear a sound up ahead, like a door being slammed, & with a jolt of startling clarity, you become self aware. your body is still the same, & you still wear the same clothes, yet now there is an energy in you. like, magic? Coursing through your body.

Before your eyes, a thread of golden light blooms out of your chest, & it winds it's way down & along the ground, weeving its way through the trees. It gestures back for you to follow. Then forms a snaking path past the clearing, into the unknown.

Hesitantly you follow it, a Serge of curiosity backing your feet as you step along its illuminated path. Behind the trees that mark your safety, you meet unfamiliar terrain. An alian landscape of unparalleled befuttlement.

Rocks like pulsating gem stones cut sharply out of the earth, shrubbery like living coral dances around your ankles, & these trees like so many vines, intertwine into the skies, as a helix. As you walk, you notice these trees seem to move aside their branches for your passing, & the numerous moss upon the floor lights up with a warm glow where you step upon in.

There, Upon a pearlecent bolder up ahead, you see your first creature, a furry little ball of tangled hair with a face, seems to be sitting & stairing straight at you. no taller then your ankle in height, with stubby little legs, hidden by dirty dreadlock. It grunts at you, & then looks away, dismissing you, as you follow the path around it.

Weeving through these trees, & walking around a few more such bolders, with similar little furry creatures sat upon them, you eventually come to another clearing up ahead.

Surrounded by tree stumps & cleared earth, sits a house of perculuar design. A mesh of tree wood, gem stones & dead coral, held together with some kind of stretchy vines & purple sap.

There's a veranda out the front, & in a chair next to an elaborately designed door, sits a creature like a furry little goblin, reading a book.

The golden path before you seems to lead right to his feet, & the only obstical is a small gate, that dose not have a fence attached, yet seems to intercept your glowing trail regardless.

Resignedly, You follow the path up to the gate & you begin to open it, when the furry little goblin shouts at you. "OY You! What do you want!?" ..."You want my new frying pan don't you!? ... Well you can't have it!?" ..."Unless you have a very nice pot to trade besides!?"

You look confusedly at the creature, & he squints back at you. "OK, You Can Have it!"..,"But, Your Going To Have To Work For It, no Free meals!" Your eyebrow rises, & He sighes. "ok then, Follow me."

He rises from his chair, & places his book down, then beggins waddelling around the porch, continuing around the back of the house, grumbling all the while in inarticulate speach. gesturing for you to follow.

You continue through the gate & follow him around the side of his strange house, & into his back yard, where there stands a pile of chopped lumber like fire wood, as large as the house.

He glanced back at you, with a raised eyebrow & gestures up at the sky. "There's a big mana storm coming.., & I don't wanna waste my wood.., If you can move it inside?" he gestures towards his house, where a back door looking much like the front door swings open. "..,that would be much better then you not doing so.."

Looking through the back door, you see inside a massive Wearhouse area, much bigger then the house should allow, a great flame glistening in the distance off of stone & metal tiles stretching far & wide.

Your eyebrow rises once more, & he turns to face you. "ow come on, it's not that hard.., Just chuck it anywhere inside is fine.., like this." He raises his hand & a group of about 5 logs floats up off the pile. he gestures towards the house & all the logs go flying across & through the door, landing somewhere inside the building with a clatter & a clank.

He shrugs at you smiling "..,can you do that?" then, he looks at you scepticaly "ow come on., give it a go.., just concentrate your mind.., like a bread roll floating in the summer breeze..., it's easy" Then, he glares at you "..,Try it, before you buy it!."

Eyebrows raised, you gaze upon the pile of old chopped wood. & find suprisingly, you feel a connection to it, like the energy you feel in your body, is the same as the energy in these logs. So hesitantly, you concentrate on that connection, & choosing a log that is close to you, you stretch out your arms & this energy, & you try to lift this log, with your mind.

To your suprise the log lifts easily, & you find you can move it around to your will with little to no effort. on a whim you make the log spin & dance around in front of you, before throwing it through the door inside, allowing it to fly, released to the floor, with the sounds of clattering wood.

At that moment, words pop up & appear glowing before your eyes, reading aloud within your mind:

"New Spell learned - Telakanises (level 1) - Lift & move objects with the concentration of your mind. The more you can concentrate, the more you can move. Practice to improve this skill further."

The little furry goblin smiles at you once more. "Gooood, little petite human being.., but, one log at a time is easy.., like chips & buiscuits., see how many you can do, at the same time..., while standing on one leg..!?"

He then stands on one leg, puts one hand over one eye, sticks his tung out & precedes to picks up about twenty logs with a grunt of effort. he throws them all like a train through the door, where they again clatter inside with the sounds of tumbeling timber, slumping over after the effort.

He catches his breath, & then turns to grin at you smuggly with his arms crossed. "Ha!, beat that.., miniscule.., hight challenged, not very big.., Human like creature." He nods & gestures towards the pile with pride.

Eventually, you decide you will try. You gather your energy together once more. & stare at the pile of lumber in concentration. On instinct, You know you will not be able to lift it all at once. because your concentration needs to be more solid for that. It is like, You can only lift what you can actively concentrate on lifting. So you decide to add one log at a time.

Firstly, you lift the log closest to you, then the one next to that, then the one next to that., & holding three logs you notice it starts to get harder, more concentration is required, You add a forth log, then a fifth. & it starts to get difficult.

Pushing, You add a sixth, & a seventh log, & you feel your mind stretching to keep them all in your awareness. the logs you do not concentrate on begin to fall whenever you are not actively concentrating on them. & so the challange becomes, to keep that image of all of them together firmly in your mind.

You lift another log, making eight, & you find a balance, & you realise it is easier to chunk them into groups or patterns. So you lift two more logs, making two groups of 5 logs with your mind.

You find your concentration is stretched & pushed to its limits as you strive to keep both groups aloft. & you are not sure if you can lift any more, but you feel determined to try.

So, You keep adding more & more logs, until you lift as many as you can. & you find you can only lift as many, as you can actively hold in your awareness. So you Push & your awareness, & you Stretch your mind, lifting more & more, until you can hold no more without dropping some.

Then, with great concentration, you balance yourself on one leg, & you continue to guide your logs, like a train through the door, throwing them all inside, with a loud clatter of release, as they smash upon the floor.

Suddenly, a wave of light falls over you making you feel refreshed & energised. & spectacularly, You feel somehow smarter & more aware of your surroundings. it is as though the energy inside you has grown in power, & somehow you can process more information, faster, deeper & clearer then ever before.

As another screen of righting pops up before your vision, reading:

"Congratulations, You have leveled up (Level 1) - Telakanises +1, Intelligence +1, Wisdom +1, Perception +1 - The road to perfection is an endless path. Keep practicing to Improve your skills further. Hard work is rewarded with phenomenal progress."

The furry little goblin creature nods at you with respect. "..,Not bad little tiny human.., but you can do better then that.., Use your Imagination..?," he scoffs at you, rolling his eyes. "..,ok..,keep practicing..., I've got a good book I need to finish reading before this storm hits.., I'll come & get you when I'm done..."

He waddles back around the front of the house, presumably back to his chair where you found him, once again reading his book. & with little else to do, & a golden path before you leading you to these logs. You decide to keep training, to see how many logs you can lift & how quickly you can throw them through the door. To push your concentration & hopefully to expirience this level up once more.

You throw atleast ten such piles of wood, as many as you can, as quickly as you can, before your next wave of energy & clarity hits you, with another boost to your brain power.

....... :

"Congratulations, You have leveled up (Level 2) - Telakanises +1, Intelligence +1, Wisdom +1, Perception +1 - The road to perfection is an endless path. Keep practicing to Improve your skills further. Hard work is rewarded with phenomenal progress."

With a grin, you keep practicing & pushing yourself harder & faster. until eventually, at least 20 piles later, you see yourself getting better, more efficient & fluid. & Then that golden wave of energy hit you once more.

........... :

"Congratulations, You have leveled up (Level 3) - Telakanises +1, Intelligence +1, Wisdom +1, Perception +1 - The road to perfection is an endless path. Keep practicing to Improve your skills further. Hard work is rewarded with phenomenal progress."

& That's, when it starts raining...