Wizard

Slinging spells and summoning arcane doom had always appealed to you. The chance to do that for real (or as close to "for real" as you could ever get) was too tempting to pass up. Clicking the option with a thought brought up the same stats list as before, with the numbers now changed to reflect your selection. Strength down a little, as was constitution, but your mana gain and generation were both way up. There were myriad other alterations that didn't seem worth the time to read.

It seemed that you would be a total glass cannon and a real weakling up close, but hopefully the spells you would get would balance it out. In a lot of games, casters had the highest ceiling to become OP.

Next to the stats list now were three bullet points.

Class traits

• Arcane intuition: You possess an innate understanding of arcana, allowing you to sense when magic is used, and (if you have learned the spell) what spell was cast.
• Ritual warding: To understand magic, is to protect oneself from it. You will take less damage from all spells
• Quick study: Your craft has taken years of reading and practice to hone, to learn is second nature to you. You learn all spells and trainable skills quicker

That all seemed good, and was about in line with what you'd been expecting. Locking in the class selection and accepting the default wizard stats, you were moved to the next step of character creation.

Race

Again, you were presented with a list of options, starting with human and with other possibilities stretching away below it. For a moment, you considered making a change, but ultimately you decided against it. As a human being, you knew what you were, you knew what you could eat, you knew what your tolerances for hot and cold were, what your sleep schedule should be like, how you could bear injury. If you switched to be an orc or an elf or a half-troll, you would have no idea about any of those. You were about to be thrown into a new and confusing world, there was no need to make it more complicated.

Besides, you were hoping to meet Miranda, Sarah and Tom once you were done with this. If you came out with green skin or 7 foot tall they might not have recognised you. There was even the possibility that a different race would speak a different language, one they couldn't understand. No, it was wiser to stay human.

With that, character creation came to an end.

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Are you happy with this class, stats, and race selection?

You will not be able to alter them again.

No

Confirm and exit

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With no thoughts about what else to do but a lot of second guesses, you chose the bottom option. Again, the world was overcame with light, as the swirling clouds your mind had floated through closed in around you.