In a normal high school classroom with a normal teacher, normal seats and normal kids, there was a normal kid surrounded by his friends in a little group while he cursed at his phone.
"Goddamnit man, I can't be reading this shit anymore!" The kid cursed as he shut off his phone.
"What is it now Seth?" Another kid asked clearly already understanding what the problem was.
"It's these damn pieces of literature man, it's so damn annoying everybody's a pushover who either can't stand up for themself and announce their needs and wants, but also can't say no to anyone, everyone has a flimsy sense of justice that can be easily rebuked! Or they're just plain assholes without a sense of compassion or respect for anyone!" The kid from before, now known as Seth leaned back in his chair in exasperation.
"I'm not even saying everyone should become a villain or something, I consider myself a nice guy, if I had powers, I'd be Superman, but fuck! You can be Superman without his personality as well, Superman's a fucking pushover like Batman they both have detrimental flaws in a world that completely takes advantage of that."
"He's on a rant again huh?" A girl in the group sighed.
"Yeah."
"If I was there, there would never be a problem, in the end everything goes to shit because people despise being controlled and use whatever means to stop that, but you know what, when people do whatever the fuck they want and learn whatever the fuck they want, religion, racism and war comes from that." Seth continued.
"Why Religion?" The one guy who had been paying the most attention asked?
"It's a stupid thing that is made from the despair of weak Humans who can't resist their fate, so they look up to a higher power to push their weakness onto that for hope, but it's also a good way to start wars while being in the "moral" high ground, and it's good at making willing cannon fodder." Seth answered.
"If you were to be in that situation, would you succumb to seeking a higher power as well?" The guy asked.
'Why the fuck would you ask that, especially in that tone?'
Seth woke up from his rant and looked around to the supernatural sight of everything around him losing color and frozen in place, the only things not frozen and having color would be him and his friend across from him.
'Mn, alright.'
Although his heart had started beating faster than before, it quickly calmed down as he came to the conclusion that whatever happens it doesn't matter since he has 0 ways to resist, so he'd might as well answer truthfully.
"So, you asked if I would turn to God if I was put in their position?"
"Yes." The boy nodded.
"Hell yeah I would, in the end I'm still a Human, a weak and pretty normal one, if I'm in the area of a Tornado I'm immediately praying to God that I don't die. I'm a pussy through and through, however I'm the pussy who survives and the pussy who won't just take some bullshit just because I'm scared of it. Although I'd pray to God about the Tornado, I'm not gonna sit down and cry and hope he takes the wheel, no I'm gonna try my hardest to survive."
"Good, I love the honesty, I'd rather that than you puffing your chest and saying you've never felt fear before and would dominate any world you're put into." The boy smiled widely.
"So, what's a divine being want with me?" Seth smiled back.
"Why'd you immediately assume I'm something like God?" The boy asked in curiosity.
"Well, what supernatural being you know that can stop time?"
"Fair point."
"Now to tell you what I've come here for, Seth a normal teenager who feels he could at least do better than the main character if he was put in the same world or position, I've seen many people like you who feel they'd be better than the main character, however you seem to be more self-aware of your own position, so I want to see for real, what would you do if you were there."
Seth was a little taken aback, he had his suspicions about what the Godlike Being in front of him wanted, and based on the conversation and his own imagination he could already kind of tell what he wanted, and he was right, but even then, it's still pretty surreal.
'So, I get to go to other worlds and maybe become the main character there, and all this guy wants to see is what I would do if I was there...'
"Hell yeah I accept." Seth had no doubts in his mind on his answer.
"Hahaha! Good, I love the energy, I sincerely hope it stays that way." The "God" laughed heartily before he snapped his fingers and Seth was whisked away into an all-white space with blue panels of information in front of him.
[Welcome to the "If I Was There" Show, where you will be sent into many different worlds to see what you would do if you were there]
[These are the rules of the Game:]
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• The Player will be placed into a fictional world, whether that be a game, novel or tv show it does not matter.
• The Player can be descended into the World as the Protagonist of the World, an Extra with an already established history or a simple Transmigrator dropped into the World
• Once placed inside the world, based on the difficulty the Player could get something called a [World Gift]. World gifts act as little crutches to help the Player succeed in worlds that they wouldn't realistically survive in. These gifts can range from abilities to simply being good with scissors.
• So that the Player can grow from their tribulations, when the Player accomplishes a feat they are given an [Achievement]. Achievements then reward the Player with [Achievement Points] and [Game Points], how many is based on how good of an achievement the Player accomplished
• [Achievement Points] are only gained from achievements and can only be used in two ways, after the Player competes a world and returns to [Intermission], or to level up the [Skills] and [Abilities] the Player gains in a world
• [Game Points], can only be used inside a world and can be gained in a multitude of ways, surviving near-death situations, killing people or creatures, achievements, and anything else I can think of when it comes to it. Game Points are used to buy from the [Game Store] or to upgrade the Physical Attributes and Energy Reserves of the Player
• [Intermission] is the place the Player goes after completing a world, it has a calming effect on the Player's mind and allows the Player to have access to the [Player Privilege] a vault separated into ranks that allows the Player to buy Privileges before entering a new world, like Abilities, Skills, Items, Editing their spawn or even Editing the world itself. However, the things the Player can buy are based on the performance of the Player in the world before and the grade they got. If the Player got an A Grade on the previous world, the Player can access the [Player Privilege] of A rank and below
• [Skills] can gained from the [World Store], [Player Privilege], or learnt from others. Skills are Physical "Techniques" that normally reside in the realm of possibility, however, this does not mean they cannot become Supernatural as skills have a Level cap of 5, after which they evolve to become even better skills that can transcend common sense
• [Abilities] are naturally supernatural and more often than not are better than skills, however Skills do not have levels and instead benefit from Skills that correlate to them, for example the Player has [Fireball] as an Ability, it cannot grow stronger unless the Player gets a skill like [Fire Magic Mastery], and as the Player gains more Mastery they could even learn new abilities like [Fire Spear] or even evolve [Fireball] into something like [Great Fireball]
• Based on the World the Player is placed inside, the user's Abilities could be adjusted, changing an ability like Omniscience into Observation. However, skills are not changed as they are considered a part of the Player, since skills act as Passives while Abilities are Actives
• The completion of a world is completely up to the Player up to a certain point, the Player must make it to a type of "Checkpoint" to consider a world completed, for example; If The Player Dies, The Main Antagonist of the Player is Killed, The Player completes their Goal, etc. Based on where the Player decides their "Completion" is, Loki will determine the Grade
• When returning to [Intermission] , the Player is given the choice to keep 1 Skill or Ability that they gained from the World. Everything else is erased except for any skills they had before going to the World. This includes their experience, as the World will feel like a vivid dream. This is so that any trauma gained will not be completely transferred over. It still will, but not as much as it could. However, this doesn't completely erase experiences, when the Player tries to do something they did before it'll feel like trying to fly in real life after flying in your dream, it'll feel like you can do it but you can't because you don't have the ability, but once he does he can replicate his previous moves to a T.
• If the Player dies in a World they will lose all memories of said world except for the fact they lost, they will lose the ability to keep an ability or skill, and will get an automatic F Grade
[Status:]
[Universal Name: Seth]
[Physical Attributes: Unchanged(Above Average)]
[Energy Reserves: Unchanged(Empty)]
[Talent: Unchanged(Gifted)]
[World Gift: None]
[Original Skills: [Awareness 3], [Empathy 1], [Calm Mind 2], [OCD 3]]
[Achievement Points: 0]
[Game Points: 0]
[Grade: N/A]
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'This is a pretty good system from what I see, it scales based on the world I'm in, if I'm in a normal world it'll seem like a simple daily life system, but if I'm in a strong world it could seem overpowered as hell, perfect for the show he wants me in.' Seth praised the transcendent intellect of whoever could have made such a perfect game system, only someone divine in presence and nature could ever create such a thing, truly a humble being to not boast about their achievements.
~Here's your first world, you cannot choose for now, but later you will be able to~
A voice projected itself inside Seth's mind, startling him for a second before he got over it and chalked it up to the boy from behind talking in his mind like a God would, which wasn't incorrect so all was fine.
[Nothing Special - Game]
"I think I've heard of this game before, but uhhh, I can't completely remember so I'll just go without a thought."