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.

Comments

[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-

[nijistaryume]

We're gonna, probably. I mean, Cami-nee and them have been doing this for ages, they could probably beat any Invader no problem, so eventually it'll have to end.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Sometimes I wonder how such a tale ends, honestly.

But, yeah, very different situation here for sure.

[nijistaryume]

Hey, don't treat us like a story. I'm watching you.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Right, right. I'm a Bard, stories is part of how I think. Including my own, which should've ended quite some time ago.

[nijistaryume]

How's that? It's your own life, isn't it?

[have_hat_will_travel]

... For a long time, it wasn't, to be honest.

Being under the sway of a Demon Lord does that. I've only been actually free to make my own choices for a few months. Until then, I was just playing out a role handed to me, basically.

That role ended with the death of the Demon Lord of Wrath. From there, it was supposed to be 'And so, satisfied at having fulfilled the reason for her existence, Pidonus quietly served the Demon Lord of Lust forevermore, the end'.

Things changed, of course, but.

[nijistaryume]

So... you're pretty sure you're living out a story, except it's after the story. Weird.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Where I'm from, stories can literally have power, at least in the right cases. Bards, like myself, can do a lot with using performing them as a way to use magic, more or less.

But yeah. I reach the end, then I find myself pulled to another plane, and now I guess I'm in a new book where aforementioned Lord now wants me dead because I found out something very much inconvenient to her.

Getting off of my world entirely would be a very handy solution to the situation. At least as long as none of her minions get on BadgerNet.

[nijistaryume]

Seeing your life as a story about you is kinda weird, no offence. And pretty concerning.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Well, honestly, the 'second' book part was a metaphor. The first was basically the result of a lot of powerful magics I'd really rather not go into, though - so the perception isn't entirely wrong, even if it is strange.

[nijistaryume]

It still isn't great, but I guess if it's your thing.