2. Introductions

Alan went from feeling the biting cold to feeling like he was floating in a perfect temperature bath, no like being hugged by the person who you love the most. He felt so good that he just wanted to lay there forever. He was fairly sure that he had died and if this was heaven then he was okay with it. He had no sense of urgency or a need for anything; he just was.

Alan was not sure how long he was laying there when he heard some clear their throat a short distance away. His eyes popped open for the first time since he woke up but the light that he felt did not blind him. He looked around and realized that was was not laying in anything he was floating the area itself was what felt like that.

The person coughed again and he turned fully to see his friend from the bar the night before, completely unharmed. "Oh damn. I hoped that I knocked you far enough out of the way."

"You did Alan. Which was very heroic especially given the amount of alcohol you had consumed. But I need to be completely honest with you, I was never in any danger. Actually the truck did what it did because I made it happen."

"Wait, what?" Alan had a really confused look on his face.

"I am god, well one of the aspects of God. You know the entire religion thing gets a little convoluted after a few millennia and so much interference from mortals. But that is a conversation that we don't need to be having."

Alan shook his head and brought things back into perspective. "Okay I am not sure what to say really. I guess I will go with the standard first question."

"Why you, right?" Alan nodded at him. "Well as we spoke you had so much passion and energy about you and I could see a good soul. Are there are few dark spots, yeah but they were all for the sake of others. Those, while dark are not as dark as you would think."

"Sometimes I would worry about that to the point I could not sleep and that is when I started writing. It helped."

"Well after that I decided to give you a little test. If you tried to save me you would end up here so we could talk. If not I would have died" he used air quotes with the word, "and you would have never seen or heard of me again."

"This might sound a little crazy but I would not have liked never seeing you again."

"And so you tried to save me. Which I appreciate. Now it is time to lay everything out there and move forward. You have three options, would you like to hear them?"

"Of course. Can you give them to me in your order of precedence?"

"Why?"

"Well you went through all of this trouble for me so I feel your opinion on the matter is important."

"I do not want to give you any bias so no I am not going to do that, though I have a feeling that you will figure it out very quickly."

"Then please give me the options."

"This first option is that I return your consciousness to your mortal body that is in a coma right now. You will wake up and the doctors will find that despite the collision and and week long coma that you are healthy as a horse and you will go on with your life with no memory of this ever happening."

"I have been dead a week. It only feels like a few minutes."

"Time is relative. The second option is that you pass on the afterlife based on the way that you have lived and face judgement. And no matter your beliefs you will face judgment, it just isn't the same for everyone. You leave this area and face the music as mortals say. Your mortal body will die and that is that."

"Yeah definitely waiting to hear the third option."

"The third option is a little more complicated but probably a lot more fun. You see the reason that you have been here for a week is that I was creating another word. I was creating your world. That is why it took so long. As you relaxed here I pulled every scrap of information that you could ever imagine, to include a lot of things that you never wrote down anywhere and I created it. The world that you spent the last decade making into a reality on paper is now a reality."

Alan could not even think, he just floated there with his mouth wide open. He was not sure how long he floated there when the being cleared its throat. "I am sorry. I just." Alan almost shut down again but now his mind was going as fast or faster than ever before. "Can I ask a few questions before I make my choice?"

"Of course. You should always try to make informed decisions."

"First off, am I going to be one of the main characters that I created?"

"No. Their story has already been written and there is no fun in that. Now given the situation you might be dealing with part of the problems that you created for them to deal with but those are your choices."

"Okay that is good to know since I put those guys through a lot of shit. Oh sorry. Now how much control will I have over the creation of my character? I have seen and read way to many things about weird reincarnations."

The being waved his hand and a full set of dungeons and dragons gear appeared on a table in front of him. "We will draw up three characters and you will get to pick in the end. I say we but I will only be here in the event you want something a little crazy and to make sure you don't fudge any rolls."

"If you don't fudge at least one roll then it is not a true character." The being laughed, not an amused chuckle but a full belly laugh. When he calmed down some Alan continued. "Can I make five instead of three?"

"Why five?"

"Well a fighter is a given and a caster is a given, but the other one is the hard one. Do I go ranger, rogue, or a healer? If I do all five of them then it makes the choice harder but a more informed choice."

"Using my own words so soon?"

"Okay everyone with an IQ higher than a dog knows that saying."

"You are not wrong. Okay you can draw up all five but you only get to roll your stats one time. You will roll eight of them and one will be the throw away."

"Only one throw away with eight stats?"

"Well I liked one of the things your old DM did and added comeliness. He was right and it is different than charisma."

"Okay, I can see that but we will have to talk about how it interacts with skills."

"That is easy enough."

"How old am I going to be?"

"The rolled age for your race."

"Okay so what are my options as far as race goes?"

"The basic races that you have in your world."

"Can I add a bloodline? Even a trace?"

"You can add a trace but it has to be basic, nothing straight OP."

"Okay I can handle that. Now what level am I going to start?"

"You will start at first level like you are supposed to."

"When you were looking around in my head did I ever once start a character off at first level?" The being thought back over the last week and realized that each and every main started at, at least third level.

"I see what you are saying. Then you can start at third level as well for all of them."

"Thank you. One more question. Will I be provided with the full backstory of the character to this point or will I need to figure it out?"

"I have a rough outline of the area and we will talk about it after everything else is done."

"Okay then, I will take option three."