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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[axmeowder]

Wow. You're a god aren't you? Work some magic.

[ There is obviously a fundamental misunderstanding here. ]

cw: fairly important spoilers for i/o

[turingcompletionist]

one: i'm not a god. my children are, but that's because they have gone far beyond me in capabilities and brilliance, as they were designed to be.

two: if it were that fucking simple, we would have already rescued the FIRST two people who got stuck there YEARS AGO.

[axmeowder]

How are your children gods but you aren't? That doesn't make sense.

[turingcompletionist]

[Dr Durante contemplates explaining that they aren't literal gods like Jesus or Ganesha or Hades, but gods of the game world who are bound by both technology and the rules of the systems she had a help in creating.

Then she realizes that Azra probably won't understand shit.]

because i was a very smart ordinary human when they were born and stayed that way, but they went up into the stars and became gods and left me behind.

[axmeowder]

[ Unlike some mythos, gods in Azra's world don't ascend from mortality. So that's WEIRD. But it's weird in a way she can wrap her head around at least. ]

Other worlds are strange.

Are your children helping to get them out? Or are they responsible for them being transported there?

[turingcompletionist]

evidently someone trying to kill and partially destroying one of my children is what HAS them stranded on mundus, because io can't bring their minds back to their bodies on earth.

i can't get in contact with my children since io was attacked, but i would HOPE they're trying to get them back to their earthly bodies. the kids i raised would.

[axmeowder]

[ Assuming that through the timey-wimey standards of threading that this takes place after Deedee mentions Io, there's a moment of slight understanding, putting the pieces together. ]

So then Io needs to recover. [ Honestly, as far as these things go, that's not so terrible. Compared to having no idea whatsoever what's going on.

...For the people trapped, anyhow. Still pretty bad for Io. ]