First Quest (Video, username 'westandreamcatcher')

[lightnovelexperiences]

[So.

The camera picks up an idyllic looking sandy Mediterranean beach, near a patch of grass and forest. It shakes a fair bit, like a cell phone cam in an unsteady - or nervous - hand.]

This is... this is uh. Deedee. ...'s player. Don't... if you know my real name from before the Badgernet crash don't throw it around.

I uh.

I'm on the fucking Shores of Awakening. I'm on fucking Mundus.

And taller and y'all hear how high my voice is. I can feel my tails.

I woke up alone face-down on the sand here. Felt it burn. I uh.

Please advise.

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[lightnovelexperiences]

Yeah uh I made this body. This is my game character, Deedee.

Funny, I didn't hear a truck crash through my wall to land on top of me, killing me instantly.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... Wait, is that a common cause of planar kidnapping on your world???

[Pidonus' story training does not yet appear to include that particular trope of isekai fiction. Being from a world that doesn't have truck-kuns yet, that's probably why...]

The fact that you've been pulled in as your character... That's a new one for me too, honestly.

From what I'm getting, though...

Dang it, if I had a way to do planar teleportation, I could actually get in range to help somehow, I think, but.

[lightnovelexperiences]

Only in books about it. It's more of a cliche than a trope.

Honestly someone with more experience in no shit swordplay and magic would be very helpful here, yeah. And it wouldn't be a bad place for you to hide.

You're used to an, uh, adventure friendly milleu. We're not so much, not with these stakes.

[have_hat_will_travel]

I mean, sure enough, but also, inside of a video game where the mechanics mean something?

Who knows what sorta awkwardness could ensue...

[nijistaryume]

Wait, are you charmed, too?

[have_hat_will_travel]

... What does "charmed" mean in this context?

[nijistaryume]

[She looks unsure, but shakes it off.]

I mean like a curse. Actually, I don't know if it's a curse? But if you're in another world and you start saying that kind of stuff, either you're a creeper or maybe you're cursed by whatever creeper you came with.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... I'm going to guess this one's different, honestly, since some of the past talk on the network wasn't unlike this.

Unless Jake's cursed to say he's not cursed? That's oddly specific, though.

[nijistaryume]

Okay good. 'Cause I doubt they have medicine for that over there. Just gotta make sure. We're the people-coming-in-from-another-world experts, after all.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... The situations described sound really different from the kind of planar kidnappings of my world.

Wonder if something causes the situation on your world somehow?

[nijistaryume]

A god, apparently. I don't really remember it all that well.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Gods, eh?

It's plausible to beat them up.

[nijistaryume]

You think? Bet we could, though I assume it's pretty hard. After all, no one's ever done it before, not even a Dark Lord.

[have_hat_will_travel]

You just need strong consultants.

Well, and a lot of other things but-

[lightnovelexperiences]

No, just cursed with being an insufferable weeb, so I made Truck-Kun jokes.

It's funny, these kinds of stories usually start with someone being, like, incredibly uber and level 99 with some bullshit build or unique skill.

And here I am, a stock punchcleric. I even got nerfed.

[nijistaryume]

Seriously? [She starts writing something down.] No cheat, weaker than before -- are the video game ones supposed to be like that? I didn't actually watch any.

[lightnovelexperiences]

I've never read or seen one where the characters got nerfed before. Some where they showed up in a world that works on character levels for the first time at level one, but never a nerf to level one.

That's weird enough to be important, I think?

[nijistaryume]

Maybe it's just how things work where you went. 'Cause it's a game in your world, right? Not getting sent to another world 'cause a god wanted you there. I mean, the one who brings people to Iden only brings creepers, usually.

[turingcompletionist]

I don't think so. When something happened like this before, due to honest mechanical failure, the two of them didn't lose their levels. I think the level loss is something separate, but I'm fucked if I know.

[nijistaryume]

Hmm... Hacker who watched too much anime? I don't get it.

[turingcompletionist]

Me either. I'd almost wonder if the kids did it to him on purpose... but the question there would be why.

[lightnovelexperiences]

...because an adventurer was responsible.

A PC.

and broken equipment or a broken build is how.

[turingcompletionist]

[............]

Oh motherfucker. I think you're right. Fuck.

[nijistaryume]

You know them the best, I guess. Though parents can be pretty willfully ignorant sometimes if their kid's hurting other people.

[turingcompletionist]

... point taken. But I did program them to interact with people in good faith, so. [She sighs.] I really wish they'd let us talk to them.