For a short moment, you look at the sphere surrounding you, then back to your hands... then back to the...
Is that a clock?
Does that... 5:49...
OH SHIT! The doors close in eleven minutes! You spin on your heel, breaking into a flat out run as you ignore everything around you. There can be no thought... no distraction... Nothing but moving.
For a brief moment, the shell around you seems to pulse with purpose... before fading into nothingness as you dash onward.
Thankfully, you succeed in your rush. You make it.
If only just.
Still, you made it, and so still breathing hard, you head down to the Gymnasium, where they have set up the tests for the day.
Arriving, you find people being sorted and split in various groups. Electromasters over there, Telekinetics in that direction, some of the people who control air over there...
Separated and sorted not only by level, but by power. Different people get different tests.
Unless you are a level 0 of course. Level Zeroes get all the tests.
And you even understand why, not that it doesn't frustrate you that you have to go through so many tests... But any of those tests might be the one where your power finally awakens, where you take that most important of steps.
That step where everything changes.
So many people here... each and every one of them here for the same reason. To be weighed and measured. There hopes and dreams toyed with and tugged on, only for everything to fall apart again.
You always hated that part the most... when you have to look at the scientists taking the tests, and the cold... frustrated looks on their faces. 'Why are we here? We could be doing something important' the looks all seem to say. They don't care.
They don't believe in the people here. They don't even see the people here. Just mistakes and flaws in their perfect little world.
It's... Depressing.
Name by name is called, and person by person goes. Whether it's intentional of not... These tests give an edge of despair. The Level 3's are already done, and only a bare two dozen of the Level 0's are done. The two Level 4's were done even faster.
Group by group begins to disappear. It took the same amount of time to test a level 0 as it did to test four Electromasters.
So long... and not a one. Not a single boy or girl comes out of the room with that glow. That light in their eyes.
Level 0.
Level 0.
Level 0.
Again and again and again, over and over. It never changes. It never shifts. It's...
Maybe.
Maybe it's hopeless to dream. Here, now... that strange sense seems to unfold from below the depths of your sight... somewhere where it was still there but you couldn't see them.
There... Three. Three of the people surrounding you have those spheres. A few have orbs that glow in their chests, or a slight glow in their eyes... but nothing more than that.
Three people here might just be Espers, if your eyes are not simply your mind breaking from the wait for your own power. If you aren't just imagining things...
But if you aren't...
Maybe the scientists will know? They will be able to explain what it is your seeing!
...And if they can't explain it? If it is nothing more than your mind playing tricks on you?
Could they take you out of the program?
[ ] Tell the Scientists what you see
[ ] Don't tell them
"Toukichirou, Kirigiri" One of the scientists call out... This is it. Your System Scan...
IT weighs heavily in your pocket. This is your last chance before the test... Do you listen to the Level Upper
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
And so you begin your exam...
You have 21 Points to spend on your Attributes
1 is basic
3 is Average for a Preteen
5 is Average for a Teen
7 is a lazy adult
10 is a Fit adult
13 is an Athlete
15 is a Pro Athlete
17 is Olympian
21 is [ERROR]
All Attributes begin with 1 point in them. At this point you no stat can go above 6
[ ] Make a Plan for your Stats
Strength - Your Physical might, you strong you are and how much you can lift. Standard RPG Attribute
Agility - Your Flexibility and how fast you are. Another rather standard Attribute
Endurance - How Fit you are, how long you can run, how hardy you are... Once again, Rather Average
Intelligence - How smart/learned you are.
Insight - Your Perception and Wit, how fast you think and how hard it is for someone to trick you.
Charisma - How... Likeable you are
Personal Reality - A Measure of how far your own Personal Reality has evolved and manifested.
Belief - I tried to come up with something for this forever, but I couldn't get anything. PR is your Esper Stat. This is your magic stat.
Willpower - your Mental strength, how hard it is to shake your world view or displace your beliefs
0-0-0-0-0
And after this, Character Creation is FINALLY Completed, and things can start to accelerate and plot can start to begin and whatnot.