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Character Generation.

Dreams Of Before.

Yes. This can be very disconcerting. I was confused as fuck when I died, repeatedly, moments within attempting to give Hellmoo a go.

However.. you're not ACTUALLY dying. When the character generation 'Dreams of Before' world explodes, it means you simply weren't quick enough and that you have to start again.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Don't cry about it.

You get about five minutes or so to grab as much as possible, and find the underground bunker. You can retry as much as you like. What you take is relevant to your character's 'natural' skills when you get into the game. I'm not going to reveal what does what, as we'd have a whole bunch of characters with all the same boring skills.. but I'll give one of the more obvious examples.

The Switchblade. If you manage to pick this up and get to the underground bunker before time runs out, then your character should have a natural skill with knives/swords/bladed weapons. Easy!

There are a fair few random items with various skills scattered throughout Dreams of Before, but you can only take four down to the bunker with you. Success is announced with the simple line, "You have survived."

Once you're at this point, the game will show you what skills you earned from the particular items you chose and picked up, and I believe this is where you can first view your stats. (type score)Then you can choose the sex of your character, describe it, and decide whether you want to be released into Freedom City, or retry chargen.

Good luck!