Passion Core: The part of the soul where flow lives. A powerful mana source, which can be used to repay accumulated cycle-debt to the SYSTEM, also known as Core Draw. Best tapped through sex or artistic endeavour. 

Hymn: The SYSTEM as a persistent, living metaspell. Not quite alive, but running continuously to make enchantments function and answer Hymnos spell declarations.

Corruptors Index II: There are four main methodologies used by the Corruptors: Destroy, Infiltrate, Seduce and Torment. Destroyers and Tormentors seek access through violent means, by threatening ruin unless access is given or by trying to sieze the physical hardware.  Infiltrators try to access the system through semi-legitimate means, and Seducers seek access through the intimate lives of users and administrators.

Administrative Body Status: Yes, it's HP.

Core Draw: Represents accumulated mana/processor debt to the Hymn. If maxed, you will be shut out from registering programs with the Hymn until you use your Passion Core to clear the debt.

Int, Wis, Cha: Are as expected representative of Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma.

Seducers? Oh look, another reason not to have sex with anyone. As if he needed more of those.

So there's physical access points here. Hell, maybe he's a physical access point. It sounds like the Hymn is an overlay to the physical world... Not a simulation, but a physical place with persistent 'magic' that runs as a computer system laid on top.

If he believes that. All this information is new and videogamey and the easiest way to run a video game is on a computer, not in reality. And he definitely died. He was hit by a truck and crushed and ohgodithurts-

Deep breaths.

Anyway, there's so much bullshit here that it basically has to be a simulation.

What do the simulators want?

No, no, not the time to get into thoughts like that. He'll be stewing for days.

He's feeling restless and tense. A new world, coding-like superpowers (that he doesn't know that much about yet), a chance after death. And if he buys into the premise here, he's basically the hero from another dimension who has to save the world. He should be doing something. He should be figuring out how to get out of this metal box. If this is a video game he can blunder around exploring and nothing will immediately eat him.

But is it? Genre knowledge does not work in real life. If this is 'realistic', or somehow actually a real other world, his expectations of things based on how video games work are useless at best and misleadingly dangerous at worst.

...Ugh. Thinking in circles, just like he predicted.

He pulls up the Hymnos manual again. Does it have any function that can detect the Corruptor virus? For that matter, 'summon clothes'? Even if he's a "data" administrator (implying there's more types) there ought to be some general stuff right...?

The Hymnos manual has a Virus Scan function, yes! It's "[Target] [Virus-Detection] [Execute]", very easy to remember. 

Hymnos cannot generally make solid objects out of nothing, but for an administrator some rules are stretched. The system warns that materializing him clothes will take three Core Draw, but does so if prompted.

He can make heat and light and electricity, impart physical force to objects, scry on faraway locations (or close ones), manifest physical documents such as books or manuals... 

...Can he get the cost of clothes down to two or one by asking for less material? He tries various configurations of requests, cancelling them as soon as he gets the core draw warning. If the cost to make objects seems to be material-independent he might ask for several outfits at once as well as a cloth bag, and whatever other survival gear he can think of.

But he also needs to figure out how to get out of here.

He's on a planet, near the coast and near a bay. But he needs a much closer view to figure out how to... Escape? Well, it's a tutorial area, it won't be that hard, surely.

Wait. Video game logic = bad. This might not be a video game.

...He figures out how to specify location of the remote viewpoint spell, then calls for a view from a hundred meters above himself.

If he's willing to go for just underwear the Core Draw goes down to one, just shirt and pants is two, shoes and socks bumps it up to three. He can get a whole second outfit if he's willing to max the gauge to five. 

From a hundred meters above himself there's a bustling town, with a town square centered in the middle of the view. People are going about their daily business. It's evening. It seems to be vaguely medieval save for the fact that there are bright red streetlights all around the square. In the center of the town square is a tall statue of a man singing.

...He'll probably go for a full outfit at three core draw, trying to match the styles in town. But not quite yet.

He scries lower down on the town, a street level view after several guesses on height.

Huh.

What about the view... One meter away, on the other side of that wall? On all four walls, for that matter. And above and below him, why not.

There's gardens past the first wall, townhouses past the second and third, and the fourth seems to be a path down towards the harbour. 

There's nothing below him but dirt and rock. 

Above him is the pedestal of the statue of the singing man.

Hmm.

He is... Not actually sure whether he wants to attract attention or not.

Try to hide his special status, likelihood of success? Very slim. He knows he's socially awkward enough to probably fail. He doesn't know what's normal or not around here.

Hide-->Succeed, possibly minor, possibly major gain, in that the 'corrupted' won't have a reason to suspect him of anything.

Hide-->Fail, minor loss. Embarrassment, maybe reputation issues? He's not sure. He does know it would be trying and stressful and he might not actually learn much useful.

Do not hide-->Good reception. Major advantage. Probably embarrassment since, well, it kind of seems like this might be a religious thing.

Do not hide-->Bad reception. Unknown quantity of disadvantage. May have to run out of town. Worst case scenario: Actively hunted by locals, including Corrupted.

Hmm.

HMMMMM.

...He is not going to bother trying to hide his status.

Now, how to actually get out of this... Pedestal.

First, he looks around. Are the walls totally featureless? He'll scry around, if so, and try to find some hidden mechanism. If nothing, he'll need to figure out what Hymnos he's supposed to use here.

Scrying turns up a hidden mechanism to his left with a control panel consisting of hymnos symbols, and a hidden doorway. They appear ro be linked.

The obvious thing to do is to activate it, which his new brain happily supplies is ke.

Okay.

Okay, but.

His heart is pounding. Does he even have a heart? It feels like his heart is pounding. This is all too surreal.

He could stay here and read more, right? Maybe overnight. He could figure out how to listen through the scries, surely there's a function for that, and... Try to figure out how this society works, try the 'hide his status' thing. Get familiar with all the Hymnos commands, maybe work on some slightly more complicated algorithms than the samples provided.

He's nobody special. Why the hell pick him as a 'local admin'?

...He's being drafted, really. He's not dead, but now he'll have enemies to fight. It could be dangerous. It probably will be dangerous. He's never deliberately done anything dangerous or attention-getting in his life.

His mind runs in circles for a while.

He could try summoning a bunch of books here and reading them but that feels like cowardice, and also probably wouldn't be as informative as another person. As seeing things for himself.

...Does the virus scan function return a simple yes/no? Or a location of the virus?

He scries on the topography of the town for a while, then attempts to perform a virus scan of the whole town - defining the space so it will get any possible basements but not 'waste' space scanning the middle of the sky or deep below the earth.

A virus scan of that size costs a Core Draw, does he wish to proceed?

...What's the largest virus scan he can get away with without a core draw, he wonders. For that matter, probably these 'little' applications aren't actually 'free'. If he tries to game it by doing two things just below the threshold of a core draw, probably that... Gives him a core draw. Even if it's measured in distinct dots, it would make much more sense for it to have more distinctions. A 32 bit integer or whatever tracking resource use, marking a full dot when he's used so much.

And the virus gives a boolean answer. He can binary search it if the answer is yes, but if there's multiple Corruptors in town- Hmm. He'll scan the same thing, but in quadrants around the statue, at first.

North-eastern quarter of the town, defined thus with a somewhat long song: Any viruses here? And what about his core draw, does it cost one?

No tick on his Core Draw. No virus.

Promising.

South-eastern quadrant. South-western quadrant. North-western quadrant.

He gets the expected Core Draw warning on his third scan. No virus detected from the second, either. Does he wish to proceed?

Yes, if he knows this town is - safe - then he'll feel a lot less nervous about poking his head out.

He has one Core Draw remaining. 

The town is free of virus.

He wonders if scanning just a cubic centimeter containing a person who is Corrupted returns a 'yes'. If so he can work out space-filling patterns, search larger areas with less core draw... For that matter he needs to take a serious look at how enchanting things works. Something that virus-scans without ongoing core draw would be very good. But, later.

Well, that's something to think about later. He has one core draw left now, and the ways to fix that are art or sex, or apparently masturbation (inefficiently).

...He blushes. He'll have to get good at art, somehow. It's not like anyone would want to have sex with him.

He stands and straightens his clothes and faces the door and feels like this is a point of no return but intones, "Ke."

The panel slides aside neatly, and little stone stairs pop out to allow him access to the outside world. 

He steps out of the statue and tries to look nonchalant.

And... Nobody's freaking out or paying him especially much attention?

Nobody's noticed just yet, it would seem. It's getting dark, though.

If he sings ke again, will the statue close up?

Come to think of it, does this 'administrative body' need to eat or sleep? It didn't really sound like it. That could be convenient. He'll see, he supposes.

It closes up quite neatly.

Okay. So. What now.

...He walks around the square and tries to listen to people talking?

They appear to be speaking something that his internal software converts immediately into English. It isn't English, he can hear the sound of it, all rolling consonants, but his brain simply smoothly interprets the meanings, like it's being dubbed over. 

Snatches of conversation he picks out include:

"Have you been to the mages' quarter to repair that lamp yet?" 

"I hope Clara's ship comes in soon. I'm starting to worry."

"I love to peoplewatch. It's relaxing. Have you ever tried?"