Ned woke up to in a small messy studio apartment. At first he he was stunned. He thought (Is this how after life is like). But then remembered this is the apartment he got after he came to city. But then he saw his arms. There was no wrinkles in his skin. He looked young. He quickly checked his body. He saw himself in the mirror he was shocked. For the there was no old man in reflection. But a young man. After a few minutes stareing in the mirror. He went look for his phone. When he saw the date in the phone he was again shocked. It was 21 September 2004. The year he came to LA. He came here in March. So it is six months after he came to LA.
LA 3 o'clock at night.
In a small studio apartment. A young man was sitting in the bed. Ned was finding it hard to believe that he had just died and some how back to when he was 19. After a while he started to think again (So I died and came in time. I wonder if I can count myself as a time traveler. I did just came back to 40 years In the past. No I guess It's called regression or something. Well I am for sure not complaining about it. It's like a dream come true. I guess the only thing I am missing an all powerful system but I think it's okay even without it.)
Just when he thought about that he suddenly saw there was panel in front of his floating in the air.
System:Does host wants to activate the system?
Ned with out a second thought said,"yes".
System: Activating the system in 3 2 1.
System activated.
Welcome to Artist System
Host status info
Name : Ned Miller
Age :19
Status : Struggling new Artist
Skills:
Singing (Novice level)
Songwriting (Novice level)
Acting (Proficient level)
Script writing (Proficient level)
After looking at the status info he thought (Hah, so I really didn't had much talent for music. Looks like all this years trying to write a script wasn't a waste. My script writing skills have reached Proficient level. Same as acting.)
Then he suddenly saw.
System: Thank host for starting the system. System hopes that the host will reach the apex of the Artist world. System is giving the host two bonus for the system activation.
1. All skills will raise one level higher.
2. Host can choose a skill to raise one additional level higher.
Bonus activated.
All skills have raised to one level higher
Current skills:
Singing (Proficient level)
Songwriting (Proficient level)
Acting (Veteran level)
Script writing(Veteran level)
Please choose a skill to raise one level higher.
Ned fell into deep thought again( I can raise any skill to one level higher huh. So which skill to choose. Let's ignore the music skills for now. So acting or script writing. Even with a higher level acting skill I doubt it will be easy to get a good role. So script writing it is).
After thinking a bit more he said, "system update script writing."
Skill to update has been chosen. Updating skill. Update completed.
Current skills:
Singing (Proficient level)
Songwriting (Proficient level)
Acting (Veteran level)
Script writing(Master level)
After that he spent the the whole night writing the script he wrote in his previous life. Because of his updated skill the quality of the script was on different level. After the read what he wrote Ned eyes almost popped out. He could not believe that it was written by him. He thought (So this is master level script writing).
LA in a office.
Josh Denbi a producer and director was sitting in his chair with a gloomy look. In three years Josh didn't have single hit. Although he had many hit movies in past but that was not helping him currently. His next project is his last chance. After that it will be all over for him. He must make a big hit.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. His assistant came in and said, "sir there is someone to meet you".
"Tell him leave I don't want to be bothered now." Josh said.
The assistant said, "sir he says it's about a script."
"A script huh. Let him in." Josh said. The assistant left the room.
Soon a young man entered the room he had dark black hair, black eyes and a stunning face. He was 6ft in height. It was none other than Ned Miller. When he entered the room. He saw Josh. Josh was in his fifties. He had some gray hair mixed in his black hair. He had glasses with slim frame in his face. He had a very skinny body.
Ned remembers him from his past life. Josh was the one who give Ned the leading role in his past life. After he gave Ned the role he just like Ned got a lot of pressure to fire Ned and hire the star kid. But like Ned he didn't give up. After the scandal Josh had to take the role from Ned but he promised to give him a role in his next movie. While making his next movie he again called Ned to give him a role. But by then Ned had already given up on acting because of what happened to him so he refused.
When Ned entered the room Josh look a good look at him and said, "who are you? I have not seen you before."
Ned said, " I am Ned Miller. I have a script that I believe you will be interested in".
Josh said," You are very direct huh. I like it. Give me the script."
Ned took out the script for his bag and handed it to him.