Chapter 6
New Ga.
I used to play video gas when I was younger. Simple things usually. Single player gas, magic and fantasy elents. I enjoyed them, I knew my fair share of goob-lore, but... I think I've been thrown in a bit too deep.
I've heard of a [New Ga Plus] but this is sothing else.
A [New Ga Minus]
Advanced and skilled players only. Starting over again, but highly disadvantaged. A more difficult play through.
That kind of vibe.
But... y'know, that's really not such a great option for soone who didn't even make it to middle-aged in his last life.
Much as I liked gas, I'm not going to claim I was really very good at them, and life was more or less in a similar boat.
Hiss...
So... what? This is hard mode?
Make it more difficult, take away arms and legs. Take everything away and make them a snake, and put them in a cave filled with things that might eat them.
That sounds super fair to .
Really, this is great.
Just great.
NO! This is freaking rigged! This ga is rigged! This is bullshi-
Hissssss!
[CHOOSE STARTING ABILITY]
The words are still there, hanging on clearly here in my mind's eye.
They're not a projection exactly, but a hallucination maybe? A haunting that sort of follows no matter where I want to look.
[CHOOSE STARTING ABILITY]
Oppressive and demanding.
So... this is a ga?
No... it doesn't seem much like a ga, I feel very much alive and serpent-like.
This is real, I think.
Real life: The toughest ga of all.
Maybe I've cracked under the pressure and I'm having one of those DMT experiences I read about online.
It's not like I've ever claid to be the toughest when it ca to ntal fortitude. I couldn't even put up with cold showers.
Death is probably a lot worse than a cold shower.
[CHOOSE STARTING ABILITY]
Geez. It's aggressive.
It's like a microwave that beeps until soone opens it.
[CHOOSE STARTING ABILITY]
Irritating and unrelenting.
I wonder what I'm supposed to do, exactly? Touch the image with my tail? Reach out with my mind? No... that's not working.
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So my tail then? It's not like I have any hands-
[UNLOCKABLE BRANCHES:]
[Venom][Consumption][Massive][Magic essence]
Oh. It worked. Who would have thought it?
Hissssssss...
Not . This is all rather bizarre, but I suppose this is sothing to be grateful for. It's a chance. They sound like useful abilities: Things that keep a tiny little snake like myself from getting eaten by giant centipedes or whatever else is hiding in the cave.
Still...
[Venom][Consumption][Massive][Magic essence]
Well, there are so interesting choices here. But I can't be exactly certain I'm doing, or exactly what they an. A more detailed description would be nice.
Hissssss...ssss?
Hmm. Nope, Nothing. It was worth a shot, at the very least. Doesn't hurt to ask. Using the forces of deductive reasoning will have to compensate for ignorance at the mont.
[Venom]
Well... That's probably poison of so kind. Snakes have poison sotis, makes perfect sense. Human-side is helpful here.
[Consumption]
Hmm... either so disease, or maybe sothing to do with eating things. Not entirely sure.
[Massive]
Makes bigger? Maybe... Maybe... Would it kill to have so details be included? I an, this could an anything.
[Magic essence]
Well.
Hissssss...
Well, well, well... Magic. No matter how long I stare at this, that word isn't changed. It clearly is reading Magic.
Giving off a very RPG style vibe all of a sudden.
It's got that horribly difficult and unpleasant [Praise the sun] kind of vibe, but still a vibe.
The sensation of a rope thrown to a drowning serpent, surrounded by hungry-hungry predators.
Options, options, options... as if I even really have a choice.
[Magic essence: Selected]Mana unlocked.[No Spells unlocked.]No spells available[Ten Skill points to allocate]
Hissss... Point based? Really? Is that number a lot, or a little? I need so answers here, the suspense is killing .
[Available Skills][Basic Heal: Level I] Cost: 5 pointsUnlocks future Healing magics.[Fla elent: Level I] Cost: 5 pointsUnlocks future Fla magics.[Earth elent: Level I] Cost: 5 pointsUnlocks future Earth magics.[Water elent: Level I] Cost: 5 pointsUnlocks future Water magics.[Knowledge elent: Level I] Cost: 100 PointsUnlocks future Knowledge magics.
Hisssss... So, one of these things is not like the others. For now, as I certain do not have enough to buy it, I'll pretend that last option isn't there. If I rember anything about gas, that option is either super useful, or it's a trap. Like sothing an evil developer might put in place to screw over first-ti players.
That sort of thing.
If I only start with ten points, that last option seems insanely expensive. I'm leaning towards a trap. First a giant centipede, and now a trap.
Not falling for it.
Even if I had the points to fall for it, I'm not falling for it. That's the kind of thing that gets a poor little snake killed before it can grow old and die peacefully of old age and over-eating.
[Healing] and [Fla] selected.
[Spells unlocked:]
[Fire breath][Fireball][Weak Heal]
Well, this is interesting.
Speaking of eating, I'm hungry.
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