Chapter 2: Chapter one – It’s dark in here

Again, I awaken to darkness, but this time, I can feel. It’s like a warm pool, only the water is thicker here, and the walls are snug around me, but there is no discomfort, none at all. I stay sitting there for who knows how long until I remember a lesson from my martial arts teacher as a teen, describing the most basic of his ways to meditate. Not wanting to stay sitting there for who knows how much longer, I start to try to do so. Feeling everything, observing everything, then letting it flow past, calming yourself and letting everything slow down. Like this, time passes, until, you guessed it…

ding - you have learned the skill basic meditation [1], due to preexisting proficiency, basic meditation has evolved into advanced meditation [4]

‘Umm, WHAT!! Why is there a system thing?!’ The message is not a visible thing, it is more of a back of the mind memory that you’ve always had but just now remembered with perfect clarity, that just… appeared, in Vernen’s voice. It felt very similar to Verden imparting me knowledge on all the races (which by the way, I seem to have miraculously forgotten), only less personal. With great trepidation, I thought {Status}...

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