[i]Cold.

You felt yourself drifting, floating, an endless twilight lit void. Moments of your life playing endlessly on repeat like a broken record before you. Accomplishments, defeat, despair, sadness, happiness...were you married to the love of your life? Watching your children grow? Perhaps you forwent those things in favor of a career, or money. Maybe you were ended far too soon before your time. Confusion momentarily besets you. Where did you get here? Were you not at home? Perhaps spending time out? A sudden, sharp pain hits you. The memories move faster, culminating into a single, painful, cracked image.

Ah.

You died.

Perhaps it was a horrid accident. Maybe you died peacefully in your sleep. So was this death? What they called seeing your life flashing before your eyes? It was oddly peaceful. You tried moving, but did you even have a body? You tried breathing, yet you could not. You had no need of it. At least your eyes worked. Probably.

Suddenly, gravity worked again.

The memories vanished into the ether. You slammed into the ground. Was it ground? There was definitely a solid of some sort beneath you, yet there was nothing but the blackness of night beneath you and the light of day above. A gentle, warm breeze follows and for a moment you almost feel like your being cradled by a warm embrace in this cold, vast, nothing.

[color=6ecff6]"Another one, hm? Lets see..."[/color] A voice reaches you. The ground beneath you ripples like water as footsteps echo in the silence. Something touches either side of your face, as though someone was holding you gently. Your vision is blessed by the sight of another. Long, dark colored hair, luminescent blue eyes upon pale flesh. Yet you could still not speak. Somehow, you felt vulnerable. As though every secret, every lie, every facet of your life had been laid bare.

[b]"Ah...You'll do. Yes, quite nicely, I think."[/b] You were released, but the comforting presence hadn't left yet, and movement still escaped you. [b]"I do not have much time before the other finds my meddling, so I shall keep things brief. My name, affiliation, and status are all unimportant. [color=6ecff6]In short, I am a Goddess, and I am here with an offer to save you from oblivion.[/color]"[/b]

The twilit void rippled, a moon slowly edging into your vision, filling the twilight with the gentle light of the moon.

[b]"Well...not really an offer. You don't really get a say in it, fufu. I'm plucking you from your world, and throwing you into another. Ah-ah, don't think your being a hero or some great, powerful summoned hero. No no, nothing like that. You'll have to work for your power, at least a little."[/b] A pause, as the moon rose, so too did the warmth fade from both this goddess words.

A gentle rain started to fall.

[b]"That said, I'd be rather distressed if you died before you did anything, so I will be helping a little. I've already given you a new body! My finest work yet, if I do say so. I've also taken the liberty of [color=6ecff6]drawing out your previous' life accomplishments and giving you a very unique ability!"[/color][/b] The sides of your face were grabbed once again, but far were they from warm and gentle as before. Stern. Commanding. [b]"What do I want? Simple. [color=6ecff6]This world is dead. I want you to rebuild it.[/color] The people, humans, demons, and everyone else are scattered. Living in sheltered communities on this dead, frozen world. They have no future, really. Either hunted by the Elder Beasts that roam the wastes, forced to worship them for protection, killing each other for limited resources-"[/b]

The sound of cracking glass. The moon was draped in red. Cracks formed across its surface like a mirror.

[b]"Hmph...less time than I would like. I will be putting you in a relatively safe place with others. You can find weapons, knowledge, and other things there that could help you - [color=6ecff6]but do not linger.[/color] The guardian of that place will find you, and it will kill you, [color=6ecff6]and I will not help[/color] once you are there."[/b]

The sound of rushing waters filled your ears, and you could feel the goddess presence fading. The world began turning, swirling and rushing around you as you found yourself being pulled downwards. Your senses started to return. Water filled your lungs. You tried swimming, but the tide was too much, the water too heavy and you sank, deeper, deeper, into the void below...

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[center]And so, here we are.

The stage has been set.

The frigid air trembles with anticipation.

So let us go over my only ground rules first, my little reincarnators.[/center]
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Rules:
1. I have very few, and really, most are guidelines, but If nothing else, [i][b]read this one.[/b][/i] It is likely the most important rule here. In regards to combat - PvE should be simple enough. You do not get to decide whether or not you hit an enemy - or if your attempt at something was successful or not. I will be handling that and writing the narrative to describe how exactly you fare. Now, inevitably, especially in later stages, PvP is likely going to be a thing. At some point, this will likely cause some contention. Ideally, I'd be happy enough to let you all resolve things between yourselves, in a 1 on 1 scenario though I will step in if needed.

That said, eventually there is a good chance of an army controlled by you, clashing with an army controlled by another. I, will be determining overall who's armies successful here. I will be willing to listen to suggestions and concerns should you not like my verdict, and potentially change things...but my decision is ultimately final. If you still don't like my ruling after some discussion...well, I'm sorry but that's just the way it is.

2. I will be posting once every week after the IC goes live at the [i]latest[/i]. I will of course be giving some leeway to those who need it or give me a proper reason. I understand people get busy and such, but I'd like this to keep moving at a GM post per week at the minimum. Faster, should everyone post sooner. I'll be pretty lenient, and worst case scenario I'll just assume your character did nothing that round.

...and that's it, really! Can't think of anything else important right now. Here's a discord link for you all. No need to join if you don't want, but I'm usually active there 90% of the day so its the easiest place to reach me.

[b][center][url=https://discord.gg/dJjt8qg]Discord here! Clicky Clicky![/url][/center][/b]

Now get your CS's in so I can start planning all of your [s]tragic deaths[/s] glorious path to power!~