Achilles drew his father’s sword, and one thousand eyes spread from his shadow onto the ground and the trees and the rushing water. He didn’t know how he could count the eyes so fast, in an instant, but he somehow knew there were exactly one thousand there! New information poured into his head. He realized truths about himself that had been invisible before. He had a “class” that was called “Human.” Of course, he’d known he was human before, but now he understood that it granted him certain abilities. He had the trait “Human Versatility,” which gave him a bonus to all experience points he earned. However, he saw that humans gained Hit Points, or HP, at a very slow rate. They got 1 at birth and then 1 additional HP for each ten years they lived—until they faded with the weakness of old

