Library: Autobiography I

Transcribed: Tue Nov 22 16:47:33 EST 1994 [ Please note that the author's memory of ancient events is hazy at best. Therefore apparent inconsistencies in the following autobiographical excerpts are very likely due to the author's imperfect recollection. ] The Shadowjack first came to Batmud many years ago, when the world dwelt on a dimension known as "batgirl". The first person whom I met in this young land was a seemingly innocuous immortal named Anipa, who himself was also new to this world. I explored this growing world for a few months, before business in another world known as Hero demanded my departure from Batmud. I was an immortal in this other dimension, inhabited by superhumans, and my presence was needed there once again. Thus Shadowjack's name came to be forgotten in the realm of Bat. Upon my return to my homeworld, I got to befriend a fellow immortal named Ayeser. We forged great and wonderous lands for the world of Hero. Ever the easily bored, Ayeser eventually disappeared from Hero, in search of new worlds to conquer. I did not hear back from Ayeser until many months later: he had incarnated into a mortal on another world -- Bat! Was this the same Bat which I had explored? A Bat which didn't even have a bulletin board? A Bat in which an immortal named Anipa did not even know what a bulletin board was, when I had asked? I vowed to return to the world of Bat, to find my friend Ayeser -- er, Mowgli -- and see what changed had occurred. I was shocked at the amazing transformations the world of Bat had gone through since my last departure. In what had once been a common, typical world, I now found a diversity and uniqueness never seen before in the multiverse. When I had first arrived to Bat, the world "guild" was not even known. Now I saw before me fighters, mages, reavers, and even secretive ninjas who demanded an invitation to join their ranks. Upon my return to Bat, I discovered that my old mortal form on Bat had long expired. Yet when I tried to assume the form of Shadowjack again, I was dismayed to find that another being had assumed my identity. Disappointed, I grudgingly took on different guises, and began exploring this new incarnation of Bat. I watched Mowgli slug it out with Slimer in an event known as Blood Bath. I eventually joined the mysterious ninjas, who had so intrigued me with their secretiveness. But once again, Hero called me back, for it too was a reincarnating world and it needed my help once again. I had no particular misgivings in leaving Bat again, because I was so used to taking the form of Shadowjack, and had not grown attached to my alternative incarnations on Bat. Once again I worked on forging the new Hero, and not so long afterwards, Ayeser too returned to craft his magical arts on the world. After months of this, Ayeser's work was done, and he slowly disappeared once again, and I too drifted into other dimensions in search of new worlds. After some months, Ayeser and I had a brief reunion on Hero, and I discovered that the world of Bat had once again gone through another reincarnation. So once again I made the journey to Bat to see what changes had taken place. Once again I found that world had changed incredibly. The form of Shadowjack was still inhabited by another being on Bat, but my old incarnations from the previous Bat had converted. New races such as tinmen, draconians, and vampires now stalked the streets. New guilds such as anti-paladins, monks, healers and merchants strove for supremacy. I myself aligned myself with the infernal knights. Although I reveled in the wickedness of being an infernal knight in this new Bat, I was still not very attached to my incarnation; I was too used to accustomed to being in the form of The Shadowjack. So once again, after a few months, I wandered off into new dimensions to explore, this time my departure from Bat voluntary. It was a couple years later, that I heard that Bat was yet again transforming into something new. Having seen Bat in all it's incarnations, I again returned to see what new changes had taken place since my last journeys. Much to my delight, I found that the being which had taken over Shadowjack's form had finally expired, and once again I could resume my true identity. And so this new chapter of my Batlife began.

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