What if there was a way, not only to transform into another. But to swap your whole life with a person from another world? To wake up, swapped in mind and soul. Potentially, any realm you could think of, even beyond the wildest dreams of your imagination. Rich with endless possibilities.
A new life, where you could be given a choice. To not only leave your body behind forever, but to wake up, swapping lives and existences to take over and live a life anew.. You would be put into their shoes, to live out the rest of their life and enter their world and afterlife's, and they would enter your own.
Would you take it? To leave your life behind, to hunt purpose.. to hunt thrills, adventure, fights, battle. The taste of victory, the fall of pride.. The taste of ruin. Death and life, victory and strife balanced and earned by sweat and tears.. Or dark indulgences.. Strong wills crumbling to weaker prides.. Losing in this world could mean more than just simply losing your battle and some coins.. Your humanity.. your whole salvation. Your afterlife could all be at stake. Risking being taken, corrupted, twisted, or freed..
It sounds like a dangerous game. But, given the choice to play it, to find something new, wouldn't you try. While scared and ruthful villains walked about, and fallen heroes fell in a world full of the Chosen ones.. Where you.. The unchosen. The visitor to another world.. would have to be the only one who cared.. Because nobody else would when the world fell to ruin. Would you be a hero? Would you want to save the land, to watch it rise in victory, to work with a magic system where your race, mind and powers were not only free, limited only by your imagination, but to have to use your cunning to outsmart villains, to fight against battles. To live a fantasy.. where you were the hero.. But also potentially the villain..
A story where you could just as easily choose to become the knight who saved the story.. Or just another fallen hero who was turned and ruined into nothing more than a beast.. or a fallen monster....
Picture this.. A world of the world's creation. Flames swirling around your face as you take a transformation not quite man nor quite beast.. The twisted visage of a old creature's skull.. The hands of a man, with the talons of a hawk, engulfed by roaring flame as your body takes on not man.. not beast.. But the frame of magical creation.. Magic to split skulls, jets of flames forming at your fingertips, hard cold steel, claw, and fang. In the world without limits.. You could use anything your imagination brought to you to fight..
Portals to another world, cursed masks that could cause possession, old clothes that could merge and fuse and transform parts of you piece by piece!! A world where you could watch your own story unfold.... It was time to make your mark. Transformations could be more than physical here.
You could watch friends you met, companions on the journey fall prey to corruption, lose their mind, beg for you to free them, or make choices to leave you pleading with them, the caress to find a friend to save you as you struggled to the monsters within.
The cries of the cafe seemed far behind.. A strange seeming feeling came over you now.. The place seemed desolate.. The halls eerily quiet as you awaited your choices..
... It all seemed..
So quiet... You could hear the rain dew dripping down from the rain, and only your thoughts with you...
[The moments passed.].. It was.. ... Peaceful even.
[It was time to make your choice.]
Someone could have been shouting.. But only a echo came back to you. A voice somehow sent from elsewhere and there.. Something that went beyond sanity.. beyond insanity... The gateway to another world stood before you.. Both worlds joined together, yet apart... The smell of fresh brewed drinks from the earthly realm of familiar scents and roasts contrasted against the smell of fresh crackled dragon meat from the other world.. Even alone, it seemed a spicy, picante, gamey meat with a rich brothly drizzle you could swear you almost could feel yourself tasting just by the scents alone... Followed by the sound of flight on a broom as a witch flew past, a glimpse of strange black fur surrounding her lips as she smiled back...
A fire breather was pulling spires of flames out of their mouth! Each momentious moment bigger than anything you had seen before, their breath sparking the entire world like fireworks as the flames shot into the sky and exploded into earth crackling, shaking KAB-BANG bang BANGS! Gushing sparks of jetting white beams of fire as the sky burst into flames, lit upon a scattered campsite of the world.. The soft serene sounds of unclaimed wilderness... Lush green woods thick with vibrant life and leaves of a unclaimed and unexplored land.. simply waiting for you to visit.. You couldn't help but... feel... Curious.. One hand found your pocket as a split second of indecision slowly crawled along with doubt.... if you missed it now.. Would you ever get the chance to go back?
A new life was waiting for you.. Calling for you. The whispers of magic at your fingertips.. A new dimension... Once you entered.. Your old life would be forgotten.. Your eyes would blink, awakening in the eyes of a new world while the creature you traded lives and worlds with would trade lives with your own.. Controlling your own earthly future from there on while you would go on to live, the new realm, a permanent addition. If you died in the world, so would you perish with your new body.
Your fate as you knew it for this tale, would be permanently tied to the new life you took.. Who would you become?