Day 1 Part 1

Day 1

Today starts a new chapter of my life and I'll begin my story around 7 in the morning.

I was standing in front of a videogame store looking at the new "Battle of Myths VII" game poster.

I'm a big fan of the "Battle of Myths" franchise from the original to today's latest version but they tend to costs a bit much but they are worth it. The games mostly revolve around mythical creatures fighting for supremacy to decides the future fate of there kind.

Out of frustration for not being able to buy the game out of bad habit I started to think out loud.

"Man, I want the new game but I don't have the money to buy it and my allowance doesn't come until next month!"

I was going to keep on with my rant but out of nowhere a grey-haired old man who seems to be in his fifties and dressed in a Chimney Sweep outfit stopped next to me and interrupted my rant by tapping my shoulder before he started to speak.

"You want money, I know a way for you to make some."

He didn't seem to hold any bad intention and he might want my help and pay me for my time so I kept the conversation going.

"Oh, how so?"

"Want to be an entrepreneur? If so what about opening your very own store."

Now he's starting to sound like a scammer.

"That sounds nice but I need money to open and run a shop along with other things."

"No no, you misunderstood my intentions. I'm giving you my old store to run on your own!!"

There something really wrong with this situation what kind of scammer will give away a free store.

I should leave now but for some odd reason, I feel like I should stay and find out where this situation is leading towards. It won't be too late to leave later.

"What's the catch?"

Seeing that I didn't shy away he smiles at me before he started to talk once more.

"Haha, it seems you are smarter then I thought. You see the store I'm going to give you is a little bit special."

"Special how?"

"Ha~ It's too complicated to explain if you are willing you can follow me to look at it."

Red flag!!

I should leave this is getting dangerous but before I could turn around and run the man grabbed my hand and dragged me away.

I don't know what happened after he started to drag me but I found myself in front of an old two-story store that looked like it came from an old western movie in the middle of a back ally which is an odd sight to see.

Once we are in front of the store he let go of my hand and started to walk into the store. Now was my chance to leave I thought but my legs didn't listen to me and started to move forward against my will so I ended up walking into the store right behind the man.

When we got inside the store I can see wooden floor paneling, the walls were painted white, empty wooden cabinets where line up against the wall, a glass counter at the other end of the store and a door behind the counter which I'm guessing leads to a storage area or the stairs for the second floor.

While I was looking around the store the old man went to the center of the store and turn around to face me with a creepy smile.

"Welcome to my store. What do you think of it?"

"Well, it's roomy and clean but I still don't see how it'll make me money with no merchandise and it's well hidden I don't see how people can find it. It's like this place was put here for another reason than just being a store."

"Hahaha don't worry about the little things. Come and sign this transference contract and this store will be all yours."

While he was laughing to himself he took out a piece of paper and pen with his creepy smile out of nowhere while he walks in front of me.

Once he was a foot away from me I could read the contract to only see one sentence on it and it read (I agree to be the new host of the "Curse Store'" curse). Oddly enough other than that there was nothing else, no place to sign my name like a dotted line. Looking up from the contract I see the old man raise his hand holding the pen and strike it towards my neck.

Before I could react or even blink my eyes the pen was already in my neck and I was bleeding with my blood squirting out from a gap between my neck and the pen landing on the contract.

When the contract was covered in my blood the man took a step back removing his pen from my neck in the process. Finally with the pen was removed from my neck I fell on the floor ready to blackout at any moment.

"Thank you and sorry about this but I couldn't take it anymore and goodbye."

Not understanding what he was talking about and before I could comprehend anything his body started to be covered by black-ish red flames consuming him into nothingness.

After his body disappeared I fell unconscious.

I woke up from my unconscious state around 6 p.m. I found myself on the ground of the store.

Getting up from the ground I put my hand where the pen was lodged into in a panic thinking I will touch a bloody hole or something only to feel it was fine and when I removed my hand there wasn't any blood on it as well. Finding this odd I took out my phone and put on the camera to look at my neck in many different angles to only find out I'm fine with no holes or blood on it like what just happened had never happened.

When I was done looking at myself I started to look around the place to find anything to help me get a better understanding of what just happened to me.

After looking around everything was the same just like when I first walk in there was no blood or anything. I was only able to find a small booklet and some keys on a key chain. The booklet had a weird title while the keys seem to belong to the store.

Not knowing what to do I picked up the booklet title "Curse Store Manual" and started reading it.

(Hello and welcome to the curse store business. I will be your guide to this new and exciting chapter of your life or more to say afterlife.

The first thing you got to know if you didn't understand the joke at the top and that is that you are dead as no living person is allowed to run a curse store. The second thing is that you are not a vampire! Really, what's with people obsessions towards vampires I blame movies and there romanticizing of them, you're now a shadow.

A shadow is a unique type of undead and is a being that is said to be a mix of a ghost and a nightmare. The good points of being a shadow are that you are on the road to becoming an immortal, you gain any powers associated with shadows, and you are also able to traverse within the shadows. The downside is that you are not allowed to walk under the sun, have weaknesses to blessed silver weapons, holy and fate energy attacks.

There's more but it's more fun for you to discover them on your own also you might want to keep a diary as it might be able to help you keep your sanity.

The third and last thing you need to take note of is that you are linked to the store and can interact with each other through an interface. To open the interface say "Store Menu".

Now go thrive and progress in this new and exciting business.

That's it and have a good afterlife.)

What hell is this? I'm a shadow and I'm linked to this store, my head hurts.

Let's try the "Store Menu" to see if what written in the booklet is real or fake.

"Store Menu"

After I said those two words a black transparent screen with blood-red letters and bone-white corner boarders showed up from nowhere.

(Store Menu

1) Store

2) Inventory

3) Lottery

4) Chat Group)

Looking at the menu I touched all the options to see what will happen and after waiting for a moment many screens started to pop up one after another.

(Store

Curse Paper Talisman (Basic): A paper talisman that holds a curse within it.

-Price: $1

-Type: One-time Use

-Category: Paper

-Effects: 1) Whoever ripped the talisman will have a month of bad luck. 2) If placed on a door there's a 5% chance to summon a ghost that will hunt the room that the door is attached to. 3) If placed on a person there's a 1% chance of them being possessed by a ghost.

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Curse Paper Talisman Book (Basic): A paper talisman book that holds 100 Curse Paper Talisman.

-Price: $100

-Type: Special

-Category: Book

-Effects: 1) Whoever ripped a talisman will have a month of bad luck. 2) If a talisman placed on a door there's a 5% chance to summon a ghost that will hunt the room that the door is attached to. 3) If a talisman placed on a person there's a 1% chance of them being possessed by a ghost. 4) If the book is burned as a whole 10-90 ghost will be summoned to inhabits the body of the owner of the book.

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Curse Pencil (Basic): A pencil that was cursed as a joke.

-Price: $0.50

-Type: Sporadic

-Category: Writing Utensil

-Effects: 1) When use there's a chance to get a headache. 2) If someone brakes it there's a 1% chance they will lose the ability to write.

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Curse Bedsheet (Basic): A blanket that was cursed.

-Price: $5

-Type: Constant

-Category: Sheet

-Effects: 1) Whoever sleeps under the bedsheet will have a constant reoccurring nightmare. 2) Other than a nightmare, there's a 1% chance of finding yourself in some else dream. 3) If the bedsheet is destroyed whoever last slept under it will fall into an endless sleep.

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Cursed Glasses (Basic): Glasses that were cursed by a devil under a request form a human.

-Price: $10

-Type: Constant

-Category: Headwear

-Effects: 1) Can't be taken off. 2) Allows the user to see ghosts and have x-ray vision. 3) If the glasses brake the user will become blind.

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Curse Ring (Basic): A ring cursed by a God of Love.

-Price: $25

-Type: Constant

-Category: Jewelry

-Effects: 1) Can't be taken off. 2) Whoever wears this ring will fall in love with the first living being they see. 3) High chance of the wear to become obsessed over their loved one and losing all sense of basic reasoning.

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(Inventory

1) Grand Opening Gift Box)

(Lottery

1) Free Draw (00:00:00 Time Left Until Next Draw)

2) Regular Draw ($50)

3) Draw 10 ($450)

4) Event Draw (Locked)

...)

(Chat Group

1) Ghost Room

2) Looking for Work

3) Meet a Ghoul

...)

There's a lot to look over and not knowing what to do I closed all the screens. When I was done closing them I sat on the floor and started to think over what I'm going to do for now on.