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<p>Thomas doesn't remember what his last name was, before it became Bluebrim, a name belonging to another universe. He's also pretty sure he wasn't this stupid before he arrived, but what can you do, when a day that was supposed to begin with an interview to set your life back on track instead begins in a universe that makes no sense, with rules you can't begin to understand? Maybe he should have paid more attention to the avatar creation screen ...</p> <p>Expect lots of blue screens to begin with, although they should become less frequent when the third chapter goes up and we get out of the character creation screens. I'll be using a homebrew tabletop RPG system I put together a few years ago - the same system I'm using in a somewhat more subtle way in The Ingress Manor.</p> <p>Don't expect a power-leveling fantasy, in which the lone hero beats up all the bad guys, and gets a harem of women. There's just a guy who treats character creation like an annoying series of pop-up advertisements, and the story is basically the ramifications of that. There won't be any clever min-maxing, or unique classes, or lucky breaks. The main character has to learn to take the world he's found himself in seriously, and he'll learn the way most of us do, by doing it wrong first. This is, insofar as it is successful, a dark comedy fantasy. Also a bit of horror, particularly but not exclusively body horror. I'm pretty sure I've earned those Content Warning tags, so, uh, yeah.</p> <p>Note: I'm informed some of the tables don't render very well on mobile devices; they just take up too much horizontal space, and require individual scrolling. Trying to find a good solution, but in the meantime, I figured I'd let my readers know this story isn't the most mobile-friendly.</p> <p>One more note, for those who, for some reason, are still reading: This is practice. Hopefully things improve as I go, and figure out what I'm doing wrong, but I make no guarantees things will ever get better. I've already made mistakes, I'll make more, and I'm happy to notice them each time I make them. You don't improve unless you fail. (On the plus side, it probably won't get much worse.)</p> <p>Currently updating earlier chapters for formatting consistency. Hopefully things work slightly better on mobile now, but please let me know if there are any issues anywhere.</p>
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