Power of Choice

You sigh, hands covering your face as you sit on the cold bed, unable to sleep after the nightmares. You've done too many things - too many terrible, unforgivable things to deserve to live on.

Flashes of women, men, families, strangers, friends, your parents... they're all looking at you now, sad, angry, afraid of you. You break down and finally let it out, the tears flow as you fall to the floor, unable to stand the visions of everyone you've killed... everyone you've maimed... everyone you've ****... All for money and personal satisfaction.

You pressed the knife to your throat.

"I'm sorry."

A bright light flashes and everything in your shabby room - bed, clothes, desk, computers, everything - was thrown to the walls while you were held in place by a strong hand on your shoulder.

"Who - Who are you," you gasp, staring at the young man smiling down at you. "What's going on?!"

"Easy now, John," he said in a soothing, deep voice that instantly set you at ease and held your attention to every word. "I am here because you are to be tested. You may yet redeem yourself in the eyes of the Lord. You will know what to do when you wake up tomorrow.

"For this," he said, pulling the knife out of your hands. "You are forbidden from harming yourself until the test is ended."

The knife dissolved in his hands and you slumped into the blissful oblivion of sleep.

You wake up in your bed.

"What the hell happened last night," you rub your eyes groggily, pondering your neat room and recalling the strange event. "What it just a dream or...-"

You couldn't speak anymore as the information flooded your mind:

You have been granted the Power to do anything you want, **** the world to be how you want it to be, fix your wrongs, help others and... satisfy every single lust you could possibly concieve.

You begin to get excited as you consider all the attractive women at your job when new information hits you and you almost fall to the ground again:

The Test is really a bet between God and the Devil - if you give in to your base desires, reality will fall out of God's domain and Satan will rule at will. If you rise above your lusts (which, you know, will not be easy) and the lusts that will be presented to you, reality will forever remain safe from the Fire and the Lord will return his hand to Earth and utopia will come to exist.

You now have the Power. Not all lusts revolve around sex and desire - can you rise above yourself and save the world, or will you fall and damn humanity to the rule of Satan? Now begins the Supreme Test of John Doe.