"Ski..." wait a second. Luckily I caught myself, years of basic tutorials that went over the same things in video games had conditioned me to always skip the tutorial. But what was I even thinking! This isn't some game, maybe this could give me some of the information I craved.

  Something else also bothered me about the Tutorial but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

  "yes, I want the tutorial" the fact that there was no indicator of how to actually get the tutorial worried me as well but I figured if you skipped it by saying skip then saying you wanted it would work the opposite way.

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  "wha..."

  for the second time today, I spent at least a half-minute staring at the screen blankly with my mouth hanging open.

  then, once my mind caught up I started to consider what I had learned. it actually seemed plausible. At the same time I started to get worried, the tutorial man claimed that there was a way to gather lifeforce, but he never specified how, in fact, he really didn't give much relevant information at all.

  completely forgetting to check my status screen, for now, I started to think about my next move.

  I started mentally listing what I needed to do, I already had some supplies ready to go, but I had a sinking feeling that it would not be enough to combat this new world. number one on my list was to figure out how to get lifeforce, the whole idea excited me greatly, I had always contemplated what the point of life was if everyone died in the end, this change could mean that whole throughline was irrelevant in this changing world.

  And for some reason, that felt like a huge crushing weight was lifted off my chest.