The Ascendant Soul Framework

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Life was simple for Lily as she worked a nine to five job. Filing papers and interacting with potential customers was a norm for her days and this day was much like any other. Her fingers slid along thin pieces of paper covered in inky text made by constantly malfunctioning printers. Fingers droned over keyboards long into the day and three minutes felt more akin to three hours. 

At the end of her day Lily was utterly exhausted from her menial work day. Walking out of her workplace, an office building in the heart of Brisbane Australia, she was met with the cacophonous wall of car beeping noises and engines. Smog-like exhaust hazed through the walkways as yells and shouts were nowhere to be seen, the heat too extreme to actually lower car windows in an effort to swear at the car ahead of you.

Grasping her laptop bag that hung on her shoulder from a sling she began to walk to where she had parked earlier that day. Her pay was modest and the parking fees almost made the entire effort of coming to work seem meaningless. Hitch that onto rising living costs and constant rental price increases, it was as if the country was calling for her death. With such pains and problems crawling through the crevices of her mind she strode down the side streets of Brisbane. Hills and long stretches of roads unfolded in multiple chaotic directions, the planning of the city being utterly random and inconsistent. 

Heat ripples were evident in the air before her as sweat pooled from her armpits and her nether regions, the Australian Summer sweltering the entire landscape in its hateful rays. Wiping her forehead her vision slowly started to falter, her perception of her surroundings being consumed by the sensation of sweat stinging her eyes and seeping into every nook and cranny. Then a screech resounded from the nearby street, smells of rubber burning transmitting in the few seconds that proceeded the screeching noise. Forcing her eyes open amidst the salty pain of sweat radiating through her senses she soon beheld the mage of the front engine grate of a truck. Adrenaline kicked in as her senses increased to heightened levels, she scrambled as fast as she could to the side at the sight. Turning her head away in her attempt she did not see the last moments of her death, simply feeling the gut-wrenching crunch of her own bones cracking and being defiled by physics.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!"

...

"She won't be able to live for more than a day or two... Every bone in her body is shattered and her ribs have stabbed into her lungs. As it is what we have done is merely a postponing surgery, the blood will flood her lungs and she will drown in it."

Hazy conversation came to Lily's conscious as a drug induced haze fuddled her mind and stole away the sharpness of her own thoughts. Words came, but no meaning was grasped as the mere effort of breathing caused mild panic to stir within her. This seemed to have grabbed some attention as a flurry of worried voices started to radiate from above her head. Consciousness soon morphed into unconsciousness as light slipped from her mind into a well of infinity within her soul, a cord detaching and slipping into the void.

...

PUAH

A sharp inhale blasted out in a small clearing as Lily awoke to the smells of Birchwood, plant life and dampened earth. The haze from before slipped away in an instant as the ferocity of reality's various elements assaulted her five senses. Birds danced and pranced in nearby tree canopies, distant howls from wolves echoed triumphantly from the mountains that pressed up against the side of the forest she was present within. 

The taste of fresh rainfall and the feeling of sloshy grass below her all collapsed down onto her at once. Imposing grey peaks speckled with frigid snow and ice contrasted the primarily green foliage and trees smattering the clearing. Bushes filled with various berries and nuts obviously sat in small outcroppings and folds in the ground.

"Finally... I am out of that job..."

Her voice smattered out through the area as she took a large exhale. A smile slipped onto her face as she leaned back onto both of her hands, her head leaning back to look up at the sky. The sun shone odiously behind the billowing rain clouds, their movements fast amidst the large gusts of winds far above. Looking around she saw no one else other than herself here in this place, animal life being all that was around besides her. A sense of calm and acceptance washed over her.

Having no family in her past life left and very little in the way of friends, her relief was immense. Her memories of her past life, towards the end, were slipping but this was more akin to happiness for her as she would not have to struggle with the remembrance of her life slipping away. All she knew was that she had died and ended up here, where ever here was. 

'Hmm... Is it heaven?'

'Nah, too normal looking for it to be heaven or Eden. Maybe some sort of reincarnation? Hinduism and Buddhism have that I think?'

As her thoughts caressed the ideas of Mythology and Deities from her past world, a board of mildly transparent light emerged into the forefront of her vision. A spinning ball of death unendingly gyroscoping upon itself as a percentage number was listed below it.

` 1% `

` 32% `

` 67% `

` 99% `

` 100% `

The gyroscoping ball of death finished as soon as the percentage reached 100, the screen changing from a grey emotionless dull colour to a deep maroon-red with black borders and filigree. Numbers and various elements were displayed before her in but an instant.

|>Ascendant Soul Framework<|< em>

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Name- Lumin'ara'el | Species- Aasimar

Titles- EMPTY  | Religious Connection- Ao, God of Creation

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Status Sheet-

STRENGTH: 10

DEXTERITY: 10

CONSTITUTION: 10

INTELLIGENCE: 20

WISDOM: 16

CHARISMA: 4

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Unclassified Sections

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My mind was confused at the display before me. Only in Dungeons and Dragons had I ever seen a status sheet and even then it was more more of a guideline for the abilities of a character. This was familiar in some ways, but also foreign in that I had never really bothered to play many videogames, the only one I had played being Baldur's Gate III when it came out. 

First of all my status had a weird name for me, a name that was completely different to my past name. Secondly it said my Religious Connection was with the god of creation a god named Ao... I had no clue who this Ao was but he was certainly a life saver, between being free in nature or stuck at work, I'd chose the former in a heartbeat. Now that I also thought about it, thirdly, there was my species. I was now non-human? An ass-mir? I was relatively new to DND and hadn't even gotten past the second stage of Baldur's Gate III, my brain was already aching as I felt a trickle blood slowly leaking down my nose.

Wiping said nose, I soon looked at my 'status sheet', a section that was mildly concerning for how normal I apparently was despite some of the more unique elements on the screen. Whatever an ass-mir was it was certainly, rather normal. If it was anything like the Tiefling I had played when I first joined in on DND then I'd be instantly unique... but no, I wasn't... The screen provided little to nothing as of this point, the only elements being what I had already inspected. Scratching the back of my head, my black hair draping down the sides of my face, I started walking towards the mountains.

At this stage I had no clue where I was and no idea how far away the nearest city or town was. I needed a vantage point to scout from and the mountain was the closest thing I had. The sun was at its zenith in the sky so I knew vaguely that I had six hours left before the day vanished and the moon slithered up to take its place. Tussling my way through underbrush and varying levels of thickets I soon found the basic clothes I had on my body completely wrecked, numerous cuts and marks staining it. Twenty minutes later though I reached the slope of the mountain range that brushed up against the forest. Massive peaks at least several miles tall and wide stood resolute amidst nature. Rocky crags and jutting ledges of raw stone and basalt could be seen strewn along the entirety of the mountain scape as distant cries of eagles blared from above.

Gulping despite myself I slowly began to traverse upwards, hoping to get up onto one of the higher ledges to overlook the entire forest. The venture was more strenuous than I had first considered, my constitution being rather modest. Some scrapes and cuts graced my knees and hands now but before another ten minutes was up I had reached the precipice of a ledge, the sight of a grey-smattered blue sky unveiling itself to me. Sky and Forest for as far as I could see, only slight deviations in terrain creating rising and sinking pockets of forest amidst the veritable sea of trees.

'What place have I been dropped into?'

The question gnawed at me for a while, but the answers were not forthcoming. No voice, no comfort, no information supplied by the system... It was as if I was merely dropped and abandoned, left to fend for myself.

{ Information Section has been requested }

{Denied... Please choose more sections to add to your Ascendant System}

{Current Choices left- 10/10}

'Oh! So i have to choose what my status screen shows?'

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