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Chapter 2 by MoxxiBits MoxxiBits

What should our protagonist do next?

Call out of work sick, and go to the mall [Global Changes]

"OK," John thinks to himself, "I'm already late, might as well use a sick day."

Finishing his morning hygiene routine, John returns to his room, calls his boss and explains that he is not going to be making it into work. They are fine with it, and he looks at his newly muscular arm as he puts down the phone. He now had a full day to play with what can essentially be considered a super power. As this passes into his mind he thinks for a moment and realizes something.

"Miku."

"Yes, Master?"

John liked hearing that, "If this is effecting reality, how are the changes I make perceived by the rest of the world?"

"Oh totally. Like, your original design was to like secretly be able to alter your reality. So, like, the default setting, like totally does works similar to that. If you like change someone..."

"Stop, for a moment," John cut off the ditz in his ear for a moment realizing that making her sound like a dumb bimbo, while fun, will make getting any explanation out of her take twice as long as it otherwise would, "Alter Miku, when ever an explanation requires more than 3 sentences simulate intelligence equal to the Jarvis protocol. Now please continue the explanation."

"Certainly Sir. To continue, if you change someone or something physically if will be treated as though has not changed at all, so long as that physicality change does not negatively interact with the laws of physics. If you change the mental or emotional attributes of others, they and the rest of the world will act as though the changes were their natural state. This in effect can be treated as though the rest of the world is truly filled with None Player Characters and you are now truly the protagonist for having knowledge of the mods installed. You can however change this. Options include white listing individuals so that they will, like you, know base reality (determined at the point they are whitelisted) and recognize visible changes and be able to recognize changes in personality naturally, or at the moment of applying a change there is a setting that will make that change recognizable to all as though it is happening at them moment the change is applied (Time delay on changes is available)."

"Thank you, Miku."

"Of course master."

Ok. So John can make changes and have no one know that they are happening or even act as though they have happened, add or remove people from a white list that will allow them to recognize changes naturally while they are on that list, and make changes recognizable to everyone essentially whitelisting the planet for individual changes. Nice. That being said, he's got the day. Where is a good place to go and start really playing with these settings to fully grasp the extent of what he can do? The mall!

Grabbing a pair of old jeans he stops, "Miku, bring up wardrobe."

"Yes master."

Suddenly a window appears in view of all his clothes in categories with a display of his current appearance next to it. He is shocked briefly being reminded of what level of specimen he has turned himself into. Then flipping through the categories he quickly choose an outfit noting that there are indicators for how clean each article of clothing is and a durability, essentially telling him how many more normal uses he had in them before they start to have holes. Grabbing his keys he heads downstairs where he sees his mom and sister eating breakfast at the table, his dad was probably already at work. With a wave to them he hears a, "Have a good day honey," from his mom and head out the front door.

There, parked on the street he approaches his car, an old 2000 mustang that is in surprisingly good condition. It was at one point a project car of his dad's but after his dad accidentally wrecked his first car he gave the mustang to John. Reaching forward he gestures as though tapping the car from a distance and a new window appears with a line connecting it to a now visible border around the vehicle. In the window are all of the details about the car, the wear or durability of each component, and he is happy with how user friendly the interface turned out. Flipping through the details he hits the edit button on the make and model, with a few gestures he change fields to read Tesla Model S Plaid and make sure to adjust everything to factory new. He hits the 'Apply' button and watch as what seems to be a pixelation of his old mustang as it becomes an off the assembly line Tesla, and with the charge being a setting in Reality Shift realize he won't even ever need to charge it. With a smirk John steps to the vehicle and make his way to the mall.

Pulling up and parking John quickly makes his way to the food court. Finding a table he begins looking around seeing the place mostly empty. Right, its the morning. In that case he begins looking behind the counters, with predatory eyes which probably isn't a great look he glances at the employees of the food storefronts. Still, no inspiration strikes. No one catches his eyes to be a target of his first transformation. Then, he remembers most of the time when he would mod a game it would first be to the base models, then after getting to know certain NPCs he would adjust them as he liked. So, he puts his finger to his ear, seeing the symbol for microphone muted appear in the lower right of his field of view and asks, "Miku, could you be a dear and bring up the global settings."

"Yes, Master."

So nice, every time. A display appears similar to his own, or his car's but with three points on all sliders one for the absolute minimum, one for the absolute maximum, and one for the average of each attribute. John scrolls through the list and can think instinctively of increasing the minimum and average breast size of women, increasing the minimum and average ass size of women, reducing the average intelligence and increasing the libido of women, reducing the average and maximum strength of other men, or even setting a default minimum attraction to himself in the minds of all women...

What will we globally change?

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