Unholy rays of annoyance shine down upon me, as I unfortunately have my slumber disturbed by, as I rub and clear my eyes, what seems to be the sun... I look up and see the sun and a wide and and azure sky. This, where am I? Who am I. What am I? I peer at my hands, but they are soft and pale like a normal human's. I am human I think. I see that I am dressed like a somewhat fashionable one with dark skinny jeans, a plain shirt, and leather jacket, along with the normal necessities such as tennis shoes and a belt. My hair dangles right at the peripheries of my vision, and I see grey. I have grey hair? It is actually quite beautiful how lush and shining it is, but I..well being old doesn't fit my image of myself. What is my perception of myself though? I move my arms and see clear and smooth skin. I shouldn't be old enough for grey hairs. perhaps it is just my natural hair color? 

I look up and take stock of my surroundings. I am actually in the middle of a barren dessert, although I can see plenty of forest trees in the far off surroundings. It is like I am in a pool of sand, and the trees are the at the edges of the pool. Perhaps a few miles off and I could reach the forest. I am alone I think, perhaps some unfriendly animals may be nearby but in this desert, with a clear view of my surroundings I see no houses or people. Looking at the sun, I decide that it would be best to search for the three necessities of survival, water, shelter, and food. I start walking in a random direction towards the forest. In the desert scorpions or snakes burrowed in the sand would be the worst to encounter, but my jeans and shoes should give me some protection, plus I have no idea how to spot them so I might as well just walk through and try to get it over with. 

Now then. I am in an unknown area, with no memories, perhaps amnesia, but I have...knowledge of may things I assume to be normal. Such as the sun is a ball gas combusting far away in space and gives of light and heat, or how I need water to survive, but no memories as to how I learned such knowledge. Really now, I have no idea about my current status a...

*bing

....Well, this is interesting. This is certainly... not normal. Looking at the glowing screen in front of, I can see what resembles to be a sheet of information similar to a stat sheet of a character in a video game. Hp for health, Mp for mana, Str for strength and so on. I think that this sheet is suppose to represent me. I said status and it appeared. I try to will the screen away, simply thinking of it disappearing and it fades away. I think status and it comes back. Interesting, I guess that pale body does say that I am less versed in athletics and more in perhaps the intellectual arts as suggested by my status sheet. 

I don't have a name, nor class. This is very much like an rpg video game right? While steadily walking my way through he desert, I kept perusing this weird screen system I seem to have. I figured that there was a notification side symbol and

*Please Choose a Beginner Starter Class

-Pugilist

-Swordsman

-Mage

-Archer

-Thief

This is very interesting indeed. I wonder if I am just dreaming, and this is all in my mind, but the blistering heat reminds me otherwise. Still, my heart flutters a bit when the word magic comes to mind, so if I am gonna play this "game" might as well do it in a way I would enjoy the most right. 

*Beginner Mage Class Equipped. 

I check my stats and nothing changed except my mana increased by 10 to 26  and mp regen increased by 20 to 22.5 an hour. Oh, I noticed a separate side symbol that looked like a wand.  Mentally selecting it, I am taken to a skills page. 

Skills huh? Well if this isn't all some hallucination or mirage, then shooting out a mana bolt would be a very reassuring weapon to have. I allocate a point in Mana Bolt and fire a shot of at a nearby sand patch.

zszzt

A small projectile of unstable blue mana fires off and leaves scorch marks around the sound. 

...Awesome. I look back at my stat page and sure enough 5 mana was was taken. I also noticed that my class had been updated.

Looks like I glanced over my status too fast last time. My class has been updated, so has my levels. I am level one out of five. I what will happen once I reach the max. Perhaps I will obtain a better job. Really now I just don't know what type of logic or realism to apply to my current life right now. I'm in a bizarre situation, with a reality defying game system that makes me think I may be hallucinating or dead. 

Well then, as for which stats I should allocate my growth towards, as a mage, int and wis should aid me the most. Strength is probably physical prowess, constitution is heatlth, dexterity is accuracy with ones body, and agility is for movement. Int and wisdom increase the mental facilities, but in rpg games, they aided in both spell damage and mana/mana regeneration. I try putting a point in int and my mp jumped by .5, I then put a point in wis, and .25mp/h is added. So a .5 ratio from int to max mp, and .25 ratio for wis to mp/h. I am still unsure if there are other effects such as spell damage however. 

Ok...first priorites. I want to survive/achieve a minimum of assured needs and security. Second, I want information about what potential dangers. Third, find out what is going and who am I. While I am worried about my identity and past, I don't feel a fear towards a lack of memories, rather I simply feel that the knowledge could help me ascertain my current situation. Really now, I guess I don't really feel sad over memories I have no knowledge about. Basically I want to secure survival for myself, so power/this system's powers are critical for that. There is also the question as to could there be clues about my past within these glowing screens. 

To ensure that I grow strong enough, leveling seems to be my future path for now. To level I need to rely on mana bolt, to use mana bolt I need mana. While mana regeneration would be best in the long run, if I can accelerate my growth early on with flat mana increases from int, and I have a hunch that may increase spell power, I could hunt more early on, and use those skill points to invest in wisdom earlier. At the same time, if for every 4 int I get 2 max mana, and for 4 wis I get 1 mana an hour, as long as I can level faster within two hours it would be more efficient to invest in mana? Hmm... For now I think that investing a ratio of 4:1  of int to wis should be ok for now. Later on I'll do 2:3 and eventually 1:4 or 0:5 instead. If I find that I can't hunt as often. or my leveling is slow then I'll quickly switch towards investing in the long running stat wisdom. 

For now though I need to beat the horror of walking through this god forsaken desert.