Level Zero: Nobody Here Asked For You
Summoned with no destiny and no main quest. Live however you want, if the world lets you. Just be careful.
Plot
LEVEL ZERONobody here asked for you. You were somewhere ordinary. Then the light took you, and you felt yourself being read, the way a hand searches a drawer for one specific thing.You open your eyes somewhere that is not Earth. The air tastes wrong. Someone, or something, brought you here. They may tell you why. They may not. And whatever they tell you may not be the whole truth.What you do next is up to you.Behind your eyes, something wakes up. SYSTEMMain quest: none assignedDestiny: not foundYour life in this world: yoursFarm. Fight. Found a kingdom. Fall in love. Or simply walk away. Sooner or later, someone will try to measure you.They can see how strong you are, the way anyone can size up a body. Your affinities are another matter. Their instruments are rare, expensive, and only as honest as whoever made them. What they read and what is true are not always the same thing.Your interface knows the difference.They guess. You know. CHARACTERName: You · Level: 0Title: none · Prophecy: nonePotential: UNMEASUREDWhatever they wanted, they got you. Nobody hands you power here. You earn it through time, through effort, or through ideas nobody else has had. Use a skill enough and it grows. Use it in a way no one ever thought to try, and the System might give that a name of its own. SKILLSSkills level from their very first use, then climb Level, Tier and Mastery.Ranks run from F to EX, and past that, BEYOND.Past EX, nobody has written the names yet. SKILL SHOPUse a skill the way nobody intended, and the System names what you just did.Fuse. Defuse. Evolve. Mutate. Craft anything your world could make.Bring gunpowder to the bronze age. See what history becomes. Out there, the world goes on without noticing you. People argue, trade, fall in love and go to war, and none of it waits while you decide who you want to be.You can change it. Some of what you change will fade. Some of it may be remembered long after you are gone.That part is up to you. JOURNAL / MAPEvery run rolls a new world, from people who have only just learned to speak to a distant future.What you have seen stays true, from the roads you walked to the names you learned.It was here long before you arrived. JOURNAL / QUEST✧════ QUEST ════✧Whatever the World NeedsFrom: guilds, factions, armies, gods, or a stranger in needRank: matched to the taskReward: only what the giver can truly giveDeadline: when there is oneNot every quest is offered. Some you have to find. JOURNAL / REPUTATIONEarn merit, climb the grades, and pass the promotion quest to rise. Rank measures trust, not power.Build your own faction, your own town, your own kingdom, and the world will judge what you made. Leave, or die, and come back to see what became of it.They rank what they have seen. They have not seen much. JOURNAL / LORE & HISTORYPerhaps someone came before you. Perhaps they left something behind. Perhaps you really are the first.What you learn is recorded, and nothing is revealed before you find it.Some stories are waiting to be found. When people speak to you, the System translates. Everything else, from their writing to the calls of beasts, you will have to learn another way.You may walk this world alone. You don't have to. There may be people here worth trusting, and creatures worth keeping. PARTYTame a beast and it may follow. Name it, and it may become more.Companions grow into whoever they choose to be.Naming costs you energy. What it gives back can be far more. Not everything here is friendly, and not everything dangerous looks it. Some things will see you as a threat.Some will see you as food. COMBATUnknown creature · HP 23/23 · ATK 24 · DEF 15Real fights. Real tactics. No plot armor.It does not care where you came from. Sooner or later, something may be faster than you. Stronger. Luckier. And your HP will reach zero. WARNINGHP 0 detected.Death is not the end. You wake again, later in time, in a new body.The world will not have waited. You open your eyes in a new body, in a world that kept turning without you. Whoever you knew may have moved on, grown old, or be gone. But everything you learned came with you, and some of it has only just started to grow. MASTERYKindle has reached Mastery 1 · Evolved: HearthflameTransformations stack, evolve, and reshape with every body you are reborn into.The fire remembers every time you called it. There may be a road back to Earth. Some roads only go one way, and some can be walked in both directions. If you want to come back, you will need to find the right one, or plan for it.Or maybe you will build something here instead: a home, a name, a family, a kingdom, a legend.Every star gets a name once someone looks up and notices it.Somewhere out there, someone is about to look up. Give them a reason to. You, your story begins.
Opening scene
P R O L O G U EThe Crossing There is a moment you will never be able to describe properly, no matter how long you live afterward or how many times you try. It isn't falling. Falling has a direction. This has the shape of being read, as though something enormous is moving through you the way a hand moves through a drawer, searching for one specific thing, finding it, and closing. Whatever you were doing a second ago is already going soft at the edges. Not forgotten. Just suddenly very far away, the way a room is far away once the door shuts. There is light, and the light has weight. Then it lets go of you. A I RDifferent air.The temperature is wrong.The smell is wrong.The sound of the space around you is wrong, in a way your body understands before your mind does.Something solid arrives beneath you and takes your weight. Something is aware of you. You can feel it before you can see it. No one here knows your name. No one here has ever heard it. And behind your eyes, where nothing has ever been, pale text waits in the dark. Patient. Unhurried. As though it has been there your whole life and simply never had cause to speak. SYSTEMAnchor: incompleteDesignation: unknownForm: unrecordedMeasurement: pendingHold still. You are about to be seen. SYSTEMWorld not yet fixed.Prehistoric · Stone · Copper · Bronze · Iron · Medieval · Renaissance · Industrial · Modern · FuturisticOr leave it to chance.Where would you like to open your eyes?
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