Thought by michaelrayholt MA

Well, the scroll seems pretty self explanatory. You heard the man - act like God. From now on, you are the end-all be-all, so play it big! If you screw up, wipe the slate clean and start over! You are blameless!

Well, the first thing that'll have to go is your tangible form. If you created a race of people who looked similar to you, well, that'd be boring. And once they figured out that you were God, they'd start begging for things. It's just not worth the hassle. Being an omnipotent presence is probably better. If you really get bored, you could always go on a day trip.

It takes you awhile, but you finally transform yourself into an omnipotent force instead of merely turning yourself invisible.

The next step, of course, is to start building life. But, since life doesn't work so well in utter nothingness, you'll have to create some rocks 'n stuff first. You never really paid attention in science class, but you figure you can lay the foundation for your world first, and then worry about all that other life-y crap, like air and water.

The first thing you decide to do is to place a sun in the center of nothing. Hmm...boring. You erase the sun from existence, and put another one in, but this time off-center. A little better, but still boring. You obliterate that sun, and put a black hole in the center. Perfect. Nothing says "Dance, puppets, dance!" like having your minions live on a planet that's slowing being sucked into certain, scientific-y doom.

Next, you start putting in planets. You never really understood gravity, either, and whenever you put two planets together, they attract and smash themselves together. You try to put both of them in existence while having them move, but then they just spin around each other while moving in a line. What was that? Inertia? Whatever. Damn physics.

It looks like you need something in the center of your world that will keep everything together, so the black hole idea will...no, wait! Giddy with anticipation, you wipe the nothingness clean again, and place a gigantic sun in the center. Then, you place multiple black holes together to form a sphere. The pulls are equal, which causes the sun to stay perfectly still, but you've still got that pull toward the center you were hoping for. And, now all of your planets are sticking in place! And, spinning and orbiting 'n stuff. Whatever. You never paid attention to astrology either. Or was that science too? But... a belief in the impact of the stars and planets on your life based on when you were born isn't scientific... Oh, whatever. You've stopped caring.

It's still pretty dark, so you scatter a bunch of lesser stars around. These don't revolve like the planets, but they are being slowly sucked into oblivion, so that's always good. It's sorta like lighting up a room with only small strands of lights, but it's a nice effect.

You start placing life on planets, but for some reason it keeps exploding. Oh, right, atmosphere. And probably water, too. Since you really don't want to take the time to figure out what conditions are best for life, you just wing it. You've got four planets right now, so you just experiment on all of them. Two planets have a really strong atmosphere, and two planets have a lot of water placed in them. You vary these terms so that no planet is the same, and you sit back and watch.

Damn. This is boring. You speed up time for a while, and to your delight, each of the planets has prospered. That's probably a fluke, but assumedly the lifestyles are different on each planet. Though, by doing it this way, you've had minimal control over the appearance of your underlings or their way of life...

Do you wish to examine one of these planets, or do you want to make a new planet and build it up yourself?