Day 1, Reborn!
From a cold, black, infinite nothingness, Leanne LeSuere blinked into existence. For a moment she stood motionless, feeling like an alien invader to some far flung world in a parallel dimension. Even her body was not her own. It was as if her conscious being were some how transferred to... well, someone else, somewhere else.
At last she moved, but only to rotate slowly on the spot, taking in her surroundings. It all looked strangely familiar; grass, trees, flowers. And a number of evidently man made stone and wood sculptures lined a pathway that wound its way down a hill and off towards some ornate looking gazebo styled building. And yet, it all looked strangely different, too.
Her concentration was broken as something bumped her heavily from behind. Turning, she saw a young woman back away clumsily. As they stood there, face to face, Leanne realised the woman was an exact clone of herself. It was quite disconcerting.
"Hello!" said the woman enthusiastically, with a beaming smile and a vigorous wave, lumbering off down the hill without waiting for a reply.
"Hi!" replied Leanne, unsure if the woman had even heard her. The path did indeed seem to be the only through way. So Leanne trotted off tentatively down the hill after her identical twin, but she was nowhere to be seen.
Various hoardings along the path conveyed short instructional messages. Following the directions on one of them and instantly morphing into a male, albeit an effeminate looking one, Leanne began to realize there was more to this world than meets the eye.
She made another quick couple of experimental changes, and her arms suddenly extended in length and her hands became huge. She giggled. She giggled to herself a lot over the next twenty minutes or so as she morphed and molded and tweaked her very physical being, oblivious to the comings and goings of a number of people around her, even as they stopped to stare at her efforts and joined her there for minutes at a time as they experimented with altering their own appearance.
After a time, Leanne liked what she saw and stopped. This body somehow felt right for her. Pleased with her sleek new blonde good looks, she skipped off down the hill enthusiastically.
More signs helpfully gave her texts explained other concepts to her that were surely unique to this new world, and she scanned them briefly before storing them away and resolving to read them more carefully later. She cheerily greeted a parrot as she rounded the bend, but didn't stop, anticipation and excitement building, she hopped across strategically placed stepping stones over a bubbling stream and trotted up the incline towards the building she had seen earlier.
At the very top of the hill, a deep, narrow chasm barred her entrance to the building, tantalizingly close, it looked so far! But a sign to her left informed her she could fly over the gap! Obeying the sign, Leanne hovered off the ground and buzzed left and right, jerking back with a start as she almost buzzed herself over the sheer edge of the chasm in front of her. She lifted herself higher into the air, and carefully lining herself up with the building, she shot over the gap somewhat faster than she'd expected - and slammed into a colorful hoarding on the far interior wall of the build, landing heavily but without pain.
She giggled and dusted herself off, reading the signs inside the structure. Was she ready to explore this new world, they asked her?
With growing anticipation and excitement, she clicked the sign and was presented with an invitation to 'teleport' to a new location, somewhere far from this little island. She vaguely wondered just how big this new world was.
Accepting the invitation, Leanne vanished into darkness for a moment before reappearing elsewhere in this strange new land. Standing there, blinking in the sunlight, it seemed for a moment she had arrived in an empty green field, but then, as she watched, structures began to take form and color all around her.
A helmeted and jump suited pilot thundered past her in some kind of single seater space craft, flame and smoke spewing from its rear, and disappeared beyond her view. Two glamorous looking girls who were chatting nearby suddenly poofed and vanished, one after the other, leaving a pastel cloud of love hearts behind that faded and twinkled.
A pair of white foxes, easily as tall as she with fabulously bushy tails swishing behind them, padded nonchalantly into a nearby building on their hind legs. Through the windows she could see row upon row of colorful dresses and outfits. This was evidently a clothing store. She suddenly noticed her own lurid lavender top and crude blue pants and felt just a little embarrassed.
All the while, more and more buildings flickered into being, piece by piece. She noticed trees now, swaying gently in a breeze she couldn't feel, and just beyond the store, she could see the glistening ripple of waves lapping the nearby shore. Just then, a jet ski roared into view, a white spray piercing the air in its wake.
She lurched clumsily towards the water for a better look, a grand, shiny and imposing looking build on the far shore catching her eye beyond the skier. As she neared the waters edge, a sleek black sports car careered around the corner of the store and came powering towards her, engine screaming. Just when she was beginning to get nervous at its ever increasing closeness and speed, it skipped clear off the road, wheels folding beneath it, flaming jets simultaneously sprouting and lifting it skywards with a jerk, clear over her head and away over the water and the shining structure beyond.
For a moment she stood motionless, feeling like an alien invader to some far flung world in a parallel dimension. Leanne began to realize once again that there really was more to this world than meets the eye. This was going to take a long time to get used to. But what a fun time it would be!
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