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So that is going to do it for me. Damn I managed to get through a lot of chapters. It just got so good then.
World Building in the best of ways! Thinking that the main character is a dumbass!!
I love Relc and
Klbkch. They are hilarious partners, really nice people, and fucking badass warriors. Relc is my absolute favorite, I think even more than Erin. I don’t know if it is mean or not, but I see Erin more/less as a self-insert type of character, if that makes sense?? Like, I see her doing the things that I would be doing, so I see her As me. So while she is a very good character she isn’t my favorite. Relc took that spot the moment he opened the door and ate pasta. You can’t really hate me for it, Relc is just so so good. Energetic, entertaining, hard-headed, kind, but also a badass fighter wanting to protect his town and skilled enough to do it.
And we get Pisces….who I am s u p e r pissed at. Because of THAT ASSHOLE, Relc might not be friends with Erin! Her first fucking friend in this place! Because he tried to Scare her for food and money, kept trying to weasel his way to Get his way, and kept using any and every manipulation tactic when all else fails! Seriously, fuck that guy.
I don’t give a shit about his necromancy either, or why he went into it as a hobby! (thinking to raise dead parents). He didn’t need to be an entire pompous dick-nugget!
And now more humans have wandered in from the modern world. Did they just….get summoned because they were holding onto a cellphone or technology at the time? Erin had her phone in the bathroom and those two twins had an ipod. So maybe?
Regardless, we got a group of people as the “Human Prophecy Rangers” to be trained. Random campers who wandered into a local village. Random kids end up in a king’s court (they are either going to be thrown in jail or herald as royalty). One lady in the middle of a demon fight, so no idea what is going to happen with her. And a criminal who now is in the adventurer’s guild so I can guess what she is going to do.
These people are going to be like Erin, leveling up in the first class they get, so they are going to be shaped by their surroundings. Peaceful villagers, battle-weary adventurer (please let the criminal chick be chill here), and I don’t even want to know what kind of bullshit those cult-men are telling those other people.
Honestly? I think Erin got the best of them all. Because at least she is more/less self-efficient and doesn’t need to be used/abused by anyone.
Well this is new. We got ourselves an interlude. No idea what that would entail. Maybe a general overview of what Erin does instead of this day-by-day set up from the other chapters.
Well, it isn’t about Erin. Because we get a general of Erin just trying to deal with the past events of the day. Then we get this
Which means…..maybe we learn more about the people who cast Erin’s summoning spell in the first place?
So this isn’t just a one time mistake by just one powerful guy. This was a cult-effort colossal mistake.
Yall I’m just fucking LAUGHING MY ASS OFF
Erin was a fucking Test Case!!! Either she was used as a practice dummy to see whether human-summoning is an actual thing, or she was fucking sent to the wrong place while the rest of the “human power rangers” were gathered to defeat the Shadow Dark Lord Demon King nonsense they were summoned for.
These Cult Sages Done-Fucking-Goofed because one of their chosen heroes actually fucking LIKE the Drakes and Insect-People!
Oh OOOH this gets better.
1st) natural human reaction. Don’t trust shit until you get information. They are kidnapped after all, even with “good intentions”
2nd) P L E A S E tell me that the Evil Shadow Lord Dark King Demon also summons their own humans to do battle as well, because that shit would be hilarious.
Ok, reading furthing, it isn’t just wandering. Those guys looking for their “holy heroes” popped up portals all over the place. So random people are just walking in like Erin! Not only regular teens, but also apparent criminals.
I love this line. Because, yeah this is a game changer isn’t it? Not only with brand-new people being teleported in by some unknown power, the fact this power exist, but also that they are going to bring in new ideas to interact with this new world. Some for the better, some worse, but regardless the world will shift.
I’m getting the hang of this word-blogging thing. It probably helps that we got introduced to some pretty cool characters. (and one asshat)
So Erin is left in the building, and is running low on supplies in everything. She should really go shopping for more stuff, or at least charge a lot more for the fruit juice.
It better not be fish boy or so help me.
Good to know we are on the same page.
So Pisces the magic fish is trying to weedle his way to stay at her inn. I’m guessing he needs a hideout to not only hide from the cops and everyone who hates him, but he needs a safe space to practice his dark arts&craft from the fantasy joanns store. And Erin said no. Which is fantastic. Do I pity his situation? A little, yes. But that is me trying to assume and believe that he is indeed a good person underneath, because all of his actions is just a trash plastic bag who doesn’t know manners if it barrel-rolled into him. Erin has every RIGHT to keep him out.
Dude, I am not underestimating you. I hate you. Big difference. I recognize your talent, but you are a dork that I will never respect.
At least we know what line he won’t cross, good for you but it doesn’t really give you any points in the [decent human] class.
So Pisces is now begging to stay, because anyone in necromancy is killed on sight. Which…..I mean I get where people are coming from because no one wants zombies and undead running around, but I am not so sure if I can approve of that.
Erin started to waver a bit, but not enough for Relc and
Klbkch
to return like badasses! I don’t want Pisces to die, but honestly he isn’t really a good guy At All. So I am glad they returned to help Erin out.
She only had this building for 4 days, and they are already destroying her hard work. Can Basic Craft fix furniture?
But shit, Pisces can actually fight decently. Unfortunately, not well enough. He finally decided to back down but it is waaaay too late.
I can’t believe Relc is about to kill his in front of Erin. Like, from his perspective the dangerous necromancer could have killed and rose Erin to be undead, or Relc had bad experiences with necromancy. But shit, this is going to be another mark in “things that traumatized Erin” playbook.
Oh Shit. I am amazed, horrified, and the only thing my brain can really focus on is if humans really have green-blood in this universe.
I am so pissed. I am sooooooo p i s s e d.
She didn’t want him to die. She didn’t want anyone to die. So she took it all back to fucking save this fucking asshole, this fish-trashed human. But it cost her a friend. Relc fucking left angry that she would protect someone he views and dangerous and I am sooooooo pissed at Pisces.
OK, now I know that I am right about the banner thing. The pasta, the blue juice, Pieces-Boy’s bone hand. It is matching the chapters (or at least what was happening previously)
Damn. We can’t even get 24 hours away from this guy? You think he is a wanted criminal that wants some housing help?
I will never, in the future history of my life, ever get tired of this.
Well he now entered the building, making use of her kitchen and food.
Sometimes, it is the petty things that is the most satisfying.
So, someone is controlling the weather here, which leads to some exposition discussion on magic.
Short answer: anyone magic is a mage, and terms are how they get said magic exactly like in d&d. Simple enough, but Pisces is an ass about it so fuck him.
Level 30?? How high do these levels get to?? This sounds less like d&d leveling and more like RPG game leveling.
Sounds like someone doesn’t want to talk about his hobbies. Come on, open up a little. Tell us about yourself and your crimes while we wait for the cops to return.
Hell to the Yes, speaking of cops. The best two cops finally arrive. This is going to be great.
I seriously wish I had the ability to 4th wall break into the stories I read just so I can punch characters in the face, then vanish and read about their confusion.
I am crying because I fucking said this before and it is still hilarious.
Well they are enjoying a lovely conversation of small talk about levels and fixing the place, The Pieces rears his ugly head
I’m just going to call him fish-boy because I hate him and his stupid name.
And here we are, just casually talking about how the rude customer over there tried to rob her the other night, in front of the cops, who she forgot where cops.
I am living for the small time chaos of this scene.
Yeah, these cops are just loving the chaos as well.
YOU BETTER RUN!
FISH-BOY GOT CAUGHT! God I love these cops. They just spear-fished the fish.
Especially when they got a passive Zone-of-Truth thing going on.
So….he’s an ass. I guess he needs some form of income to support his Necromancy hobby. And while I don’t approve of beating him up first, I do like them wanting to split the reward with Erin. These are very good boys.
We need a visual representation for this comic. Because Relc is fucking hilarious.
Ok so reading on, they aren’t just any guardsmen. They are Top Class Guards who are still super important and skilled. And Fish-Boy is being an ass to insult said skills, by I guess having Skills be less than knowlegde? But either way, these two are top class and Fish-Boy isn’t that powerful for all the pomp he gives himself.
Again, Relc fucking kills me whenever he speaks.
He used “capabilities” twice. If you have a 7 syllable vocabulary at least use it.
Or use your Passive Necromancy skills.
So Erin blurted out the Necromancy skill he has….but I have to wonder. Did he steal the skeleton? Because if he was there already, why didn’t he raid everything else before Erin came back? She was gone for hours.
He may be an ass….but he knows how to use his lower level spells to his advantage. I respect his skill (barely) but I hate his face.
Well looks like necromancy is super important to stop. Seeing how all they need is a graveyard to just destroy everything. Guess people take them pretty seriously, even if it an idiot like him.
Which makes you wonder why he took it up in the first place, and why he told Erin.
She is just a lonely person who wants her friends back, and is sort of forced into this role of learning about innkeeping to keep them. At least she knows where the city is now. Hope they don’t have bad feelings about humans.
Yeah, like hell am I going to stop after a skeleton blob thing tried to bust in the door. Time to continue!
Holy shit she one-shot the monster with her puke-pot.
If that turned out to be a con-man or something, congrats on the vomit.
YOU MOTHER FUCKER!
Tie him up, pour the puke on him, and feed him to the goblins if the cops don’t return first.
Congrats my dude, your scam failed and I fucking hate you.
So he tried to dip, but she got smart enough to figure out he only has like 1st level spells/cantrips on him. God he is such an asshole.
No need for violence?? You SCARED and TORMENTED HER!!! For Food!!! Dine and Dash like a fucking NORMAL PERSON!!!
After fully reading this, I really fucking hate this guy. Shove that cloak up your ass Eridan and just go. You better not try to teach Erin about Fantasy Racism or I will punch you with the spike-fish.
NO FUCKING SHIT!!! God the level of arrogance on this guy.
I am so over this guy so much. He fucking had money. This entire time. Erin just kept looking at him as he kept putting in more money to try and make “amends” for his trick. He had silver! HE HAD GOLD!!! He could have paid this entire time!
God I hate him. I would make a better wizard than him. I would make a better conman than him.
Well…that explains a lot. The fruit was partly poisonous, I guess like a blowfish. And I guess this means that it affects different races differently depending on their constitution.
Good to know that she somehow accidentally found a way to safely eat the fruit.
So we got some more general information from this random guy. She is in the Flood Plains, not known to have humans where the locals don’t really like humans. He doesn’t like the non-humans who live here, and sounds like he is currently on the run. But Erin has a point, the first people she met were actually decent, so why would she ever think differently about them?
Oh, this sort of explains the whole “glad we didn’t have to kill her” thing, if there were hostilities between humans and the locals in the nearby city.
Why must my first thought be Homestuck? It is a reflex at this point.
Well look at this go-getter multi-classer. We got ourselves a real Barry Bluejeans over here. 5 gold says that those bones weren’t an illusion.
You know, I still can’t tell if the banner switches periodically or is just associated with the chapter settings, but given how she has now just started her guest-serving abilities, I will assume the latter.
She woke up and how dare she forget Relc’s name. First it was easier to remember, second he was the best guy there!
What? She is going to make a ladder to grab more fruit? Maybe a stick to poke the fruit down?
When you are bored, you get innovative.
Let’s try basket weaving. That is a thing people do right?
Well it worked in 20 fricking minutes! Seriously, these skills kick ass to instantly make a basket in just 20 fucking minutes.
So now she has fruit, a basket, and even snatched more eggs. Those seed-pods she has didn’t scare/affect the bird, which makes sense.
Capsaicin
doesn’t affect birds, and these are just fantasy-setting spices.
Well she survived…but now she is hella sick. Which fucking sucks. You think the blue fruit is protecting her from whatever disease is in the place? It does small like cleaner fluid after all.
I’m just, like same. Same. The only tow decent people you met and she is just waiting for them to return. Trying to do everything she can to prepare for their arrival. I hope they do return soon.
Well fuck me I guess. They got pulled into overtime on their job. Guess it will just have to be a little longer.
Which….might be good? It can give Erin decent time to heal up her nausea so they won’t think “plague” and kill her.
Well Erin tried waiting for them, but woke up alone in a frosted inn with mysterious knocking.
So my guess is the skeleton guy came back….yikes. It just has to be one of those nights wasn’t it? Like, The Raven type of night.
Oh yeah, yeah I will totally open the door after hearing That^. Yeah, uhuh.
Eat my ass you formless spooky voice, the Innkeeper says NO!
Fuck it got in. It might be the skeleton from before? That got horribly mutated after it’s exploration outside.
You know what? This is funny on a existential horror level. Because congrats you terrifying abomination, you got puke.
I guess we are inviting our new Bug Friend to tea. I hope they have money.
So this explains why the actual insects here only have 4 legs. The 6-legged ones are sentient.
This is fucking hilarious, and we ALL know why
This is getting better and better. Like, now the other ant-man is going to take a crack at it. All while she is trying to plan her escape route. Classic.
Nevermind, it was a dragonborn. Got to love the party.
I know that this is all in like within the same paragraph…but it is still really fucking funny to me.
I love these two. Lizard boy got complemented by being called a dragon. This is adorable.
So after some gentle nudging, Erin finally lets these two in. From the City Watch, so I guess there is a city nearby…..somewhere in this cube landscape. And she offers them food, which is only polite after all.
If he wasn’t blushing before he certainly is now.
So she finally explains her situation two the cops in front of her. (yeah, city guard, but let’s be real they are cops). No need to lie when MAGIC is the literal answer for everything. And these two are nice and kind enough to at least get the general idea of what is going on.
I just really like this line. It has the same vibe as Hermione’s “we could have been killed, or worse expelled.”
So we finally get names:
Klbkch
the Ant-Man. And
Relc
the Drake. I am going to like Relc a lot.
And Klbkch is going to be entertaining because he doesn’t know how to keep his mandibles shut and not tell Erin about the dangerous plague she could possibly catch.
ok, so these guys also know about leveling up. And Classes are officially a confirmed thing for this universe. Hopefully they can stick around to give Erin tips on how to generally live around here, and about leveling up.
I want to be that guy. Why can’t I gain skills like this just because I didn’t let a plant die?
I love how they just kick each other when they did something rude. And yeah, I guess Lizardperson was a rude thing to say, but at least they understand how terrified Erin was from his outburst.
Ok so Erin’s hand injury has shown itself and I was right. It was an infection due to poison by that stupid fish. At least they are offering to heal it up. However
This is interesting. Relc is a bit suspicious of Klbkch’s motive. It looks like he isn’t use to his partner’s altruistic actions. But that’s the real question isn’t it? Why?
I just fucking love Relc. I have decided he is my favorite. (he better not fucking die)
Oh this is new. We have more characters in this story, so now we get their perspectives. Such a clever way to expand the world. You can only follow the characters that have visited the Inn.
Hmm. So the area they are in don’t really have humans, and this sort of implies the social ladder of the races in this world. (Don’t be so despairing Relc. I’m a Human female who would want to hang out with a Drake and an overgrown bug)
These two are fucking hilarious together. Have I said that I love them already?
No way in hell are they passing up more pasta and juice. And this is how Erin’s Inn business starts booming.
So THAT’S It! It wasn’t just any healing potion. It was a powerful one.
These two met a lonely, scared girl in the middle of a dangerous quarantine area who’s first thought was to invite them in for food and more food, and they decided to help her with the best potion they got.
I absolutely LOVE these two.
Of course we got Xenophiles in this planet. What Fantasy RPG wouldn’t?
One sentence later and that was a mood shift. How deadly was that plague??
AND WE LEVEL UP AGAIN! I guess having actual guests around pays in the experience points.
A cell phone? She kept a cell phone in her travel? ….does it even have reception??
Now I am not an expert in any form of biology or medicine….but you may have been poisoned. That is a possibility of magic poison.
Right, forgot. There was a skeleton. But I guess he vacated once Erin took up shop. So the Inn might feed off of the existence of those who live in it? Or the skeleton just decided it was time to fuck off.
Well the start of her day was waking up to the fact she left a rotting fish in the kitchen now infested with parasites and basically worthless. What a morning.
Ew, that is just making me sick thinking about it. Like, if I see it I would be ok, but imagining it actually makes it worse.
Well now she decided to get rid of the fish
Apparently there is no simple task to EVER do in this universe that doesn’t cause problems.
And this problems are more insects just crawling out of the fish like the plague! Well, at least all those insects are no longer in the Inn anymore. (yuck)
Now she is fighting insects, weird mutant fantasy insects. You think she gets xp for killing one?
WHY must things EXPLODE!!! The Fish Exploded. The Insect Exploded. Is she going to get the strength to explode a goblin eventually??
Oh…..was that why the rock-crab was screaming? It wasn’t the fruit, but the flies inside?
Sometimes….you just have to flip things off. It is nature’s way.
So now she is trying to make bread. Her skills gives her basic information on what to do. So Basic Cooking tells her what she needs and how to do it to make certain food. Meaning the more she increases it, the more complex foods she will be able to make.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t expend to everything about the cooking process. She needs to make a fire, and fire isn’t really cooking (unfortunately). BUT, it does give the idea of if you increase your fire ability, she can eventually make a flamethrower.
My guess is to debone something (yes that is a word)
Listen….sometimes it is nice to know the level of detail they put into minecraft. They do teach a lot passively.
Well she managed to make a fire, but I guess it doesn’t come with a skill, which is a rip.
I swear to god if that is another goblin. How many goblins must Erin deal with??? Can she use her new cooking skills to just, torch the fuckers away by now?
Of course it would. Why wouldn’t it. That seems to be the theme of actions going on currently.
It was a dinosaur.
But you know….it would make sense if dinosaurs were in camo. Better protection and all that.
Well now she has eggs to cook with. Sorry not sorry, a girl has to eat.
I like this. Because even if it is a small thing, she is taking ownership. This is her inn, and she has decided it to be Open.
FUCK YES! The best decision!!
Until it wasn’t….the eggs were alive. It..makes sense. It was something to just happen….but if she needs food this is the best way to do it.
As someone who hasn’t grown up on a farm, and who wasn’t around/use to the idea of actually killing things for food, it is a hard choice to do.
She JUST made food! She just made some really good food, an actually decent meal! And now some idiot comes it to fucking rent a room. It better be worth it to stall her from eating right now.
I am so confused as to what is sentient and what isn’t in this world, but at least this guy seems polite.
So that ends it for me. Went through 4 mini-sections. Pretty good story I might say.
Is it slow, yes. But also entertaining as hell. She is basically in minecraft world where she is dropped in the middle of somewhere and trying to figure out how to go from here.
She managed to find food, water, and fucking destroyed those goblins. She fought a group and won. And now just kicks their ass like it is nothing. With every goblin she beats, she levels up higher and higher. I can’t wait to see what happens when she is level 20.
I would still like her to be such a badass she becomes the goblin leader, but that might be a long long time before anything like that could happen.
Back to food. We can’t have nice things all the time.
She woke up to the pain of her hand. I can’t tell if this is morning or the middle of the night.
How deep did she cut her hand? Or was there something to that fish that seeped into her blood?
Eventually, nature calls. And she decides to just go in a place that will not stink up her new home.
I do it all the time in minecraft. As a just in case.
And here we go. I guess instead of the Inn jumping to a new area/new town, it just slowly glacier crawls in the middle of the night. My door is now 2ft further to the left.
She then tries to treat her hand. Or at least remove that bandage. But….yeah blood scabbed over, so it hurts like hell to pull if off. She also found more kitchen stuff in the kitchen. I don’t know if it was already there, or if it was because she leveled up she got new stuff.
Never mind. Reward for Level 4. She has flour now. It couldn’t have been missed from her last walk through.
Yeah, that cements it. Flour is one thing, that shit lasts a long time. But butter? A giant ass block? With how ancient this place is, butter wouldn’t last that long.
This is her reward for leveling up.
Or the Inn really likes her and is giving her shit.
Hey look, there is magic. I guess the Inn really is giving her shit.
Until she broke it. Well….that sucks. redo them yourself?
Hey, I actually don’t remember that part/forgot about it. So I guess the Inn has a ghost that likes her for taking care of her house. Or it possess the Inn like Monster House style.
In d&d skeletons are monsters too. Just a reminder.
Oh hey look, the thing that I had forgotten was there turns out to not be there anymore.
Looks like Erin just took over as new Innkeeper.
So she tries to convince herself that, you know, the skeleton is gone for good, and not haunting her and waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Like you do. When there is a noise upstairs. She does on the attack, then changes her plan to run away. Can’t be too careful.
Don’t you hate it when your imagination makes you imagine things worse than a skeleton?
She matured really fast if she got over her goblin fear with a day.
GOOD FOR HER!
You know, I would actually like it if Erin just, defeated them so hard they decided to live in the Inn with her to help protect the place.
That or their scout being launched out the window.
I am so proud of her. Way to take control!
And we end with the seasoned warrior goblin raid party just taking one look at their friend, and be like “yeah, fuck this, let’s go.”
Level in dreams? You mean you only level up when she is asleep. That, somehow oddly makes sense.
Well, after resting she went to get some more food.
I guess she forgot about the stream nest to her Inn. But given how she doesn’t have a way to purify it yet, getting water from fruits is probably the safer option.
I hope you guys realize that this is making me want to read survival manuals for in case shit like this happens. Because that is what this is making me think of.
I can’t believe that there is a minecraft reference here. I was making shit up.
So the trees don’t have fallen branches or bark to strip or anything, which is really weird. I guess she has to burn the fruit for fire. At least when she figures out how to cut that tree, she has instant knives and spears.
The best way to process everything that has happened? She cleans, cleans and thinks of what has happened while she was here. How she won her fight, how she found the fruit, how she survived.
Looks like leveling up means that the dust just….disappears. Which is weird, but I like it. The higher she climbs, the easier and longer things stay clean.
Again, you literally jumped over a stream from before. There is water.
So poetic really.
She’s a pepsi person. I prefer coke, but to each their own.
Uh, hey, actually, this is bad. To be hot and not sweating, yeah there is something really medically bad. Better find some more food other than those blue fruits.
She finally remembers the stream and refreshes herself. It actually reminded me of a scene in Gerald’s Game, how you can try to remember that moment of survival but it will soon be forgotten because of time. Not really relevant to this story, but a bit nostalgic for me.
Remember kids: don’t do that.
So she manages to finally get herself clean. And maybe want to explore, but the inn is her best protection that she has.
Too bad there is now a new monster coming up on her.
Now at least she has meat. And can use the teeth as a weapon.
You didn’t do anything. The fish jump jumped and suffocated on air. I’m actually not sure if the fish is dead.
Figures. The world just hates her.
Eventually the fish does die. And is hard as steel. Everything is just more harmful in this world.
Time to cook. With the Inn’s only tools in the entire place: knives.
I don’t know why I like this line, but I do. A lot.
So she starts cooking, or more like hacking away and struggling, but then she cuts herself and
Looks like her leveling up also adds in to her defense and health points. Either that or she can’t injure herself with her own weapon.
You know what? I should really stop saying things like “oh her leveling up does x y and z for her” because, no. No it does not. She just cut herself on her hand, it’s gonna hurt!
And so she spend the rest of the night in pain, trying to fall asleep, trying to distract herself from her bandaged hand. I want to think that if she just falls asleep she will be healed like that, but I don’t know anymore. This is becoming real.
Why the decimal point? How is this like one-hundredth of the story?
It is nice to discover new things while running for your life, isn’t it?
You know that Goblin wanted to show off his cleaving skills.
I am loving the yodeling goblins more and more.
I call bullshit. How dare these goblins use hunting tactics used by humans. That is cheating.
So she enters the Inn and is locking all the doors and windows before the goblins get there. A smart move, but I’m pretty sure that the Inn wouldn’t have allowed the goblins in in the first place. Not sure why, but with the way they write it, it makes the place sound alive.
Well fuck my idea. Goblins can and will ignore Vampire Rules
So they start to attack her, and cut her, but then comes a change
And this, this I get. This I understand. But there is always just that one small moment that reminds you.
And that changes everything. Because adrenaline still kicks in whether in fear or in anger.
You know, I expected her to fight back. But damn, that was a literal knee-jerk reaction to the nuts.
Remember kids, the “chair breaking away” only happens with break-away chairs (pre-broken). Otherwise, you still have your improv weapon.
So she decides to kick ass with all the chairs and tables in the inn against those 6 little bastards. Pretty good fight for someone who doesn’t fight.
Now, when can we get a villain or minion or someone who doesn’t laugh evilly?
“ha ha!” oh shit she big
“HA HA!” retorts
Sounds like she is going to be a pretty good barbarian. That or athletic bard.
So she beats them back where they are now bloody, injured, and actually rethinking about attacking the human.
The best way to scare off the tiny menaces.
So she laughs herself to exhaustion, which when you think about it, it is pretty absurd situation.
At least she levels up pretty fast.
They blasted past when you kicked that goblin in the nuts.
I forgot how matter-of-fact the writing is. It is actually pretty refreshing.
K, so this is like Right After she got her notification that she leveled up. Was it a mental thing, like a mind blip, or if she has an access screen is unknown at the moment. But her freaking out over it is a realistic reaction.
Oh look, it was a mind blip. Question solved
You know, I am not sure why she is freaking out so much about this though. Like, wouldn’t this just be super helpful that you know the general idea of this world? Leveling up like video games, monsters like rpgs and d&d, you got the basics down more/less.
So next day, she needs food. There is nothing in the Inn to eat that isn’t old, dust, or moving. So she is forced to go back outside to the world of monsters that she just escaped from.
God that is such a good line.
The idea of a different planet makes sense. But, to go to another dimension of Earth, it is the small things that jump out. Like, the idea that the clouds are just…too big. That, that makes it feel , I’m not sure. More real? More lonely?
So Erin is looking around the vast landscape of Mountains, Hills, and Valleys. Somehow high enough to look down on trees like it’s in Minecraft. With just some random old building just sitting there.
After yesterday, don’t trust anything just yet.
So she decides to leave to the trees to get from fruit. Sounds like a plan right? Well….
Don’t you hate it when giant rocks change your plans?
At least it isn’t goblins. New Goal: Get some Armor.
I will run away from giant crabs. I will run away from guns. I will run away from giant crabs with guns.
So she made it to the trees. The weirdly shot trees. I can’t even process a whole forest for just 10ft tall trees. You just need a ladder then you have basically a high platform.
Agreed.
She’s having problems with the tree. And the tree is stupidly hard to push down (like, any normal tree). So, spear the fruit?
Or I guess let it shimmy like a cartoon. How can it vibrate if it can’t be pushed? What logic is that??
Well she got the fruit, and got slightly upset that there isn’t a game announcement for getting said fruit. She was over thinking it.
Listen, this is the best way you test out food you don’t know. 1st: let it touch your skin to see for a reaction. 2nd: nibble a little bit to see for a reaction. 3rd: eat it and see for a reaction. If you feel fine after step 3, you good. But make sure to wait in-between tests.
But she opened the fruit, saw a giant ass pit which I thought had water, but turned out to be like cleaner-fluid smelling chemical. Can probably hide your sent from the rock crab.
Hey, just thought of something. Do inns have toilets? Glad the fruit turned out to be non-death. But fantasy toilets, do they exist?
Back to crab. She is trying to go around dumb crab again.
These things are goddamn terrifying if they can run 10ft per second.
Glad her aim is right, but it sounds like it isn’t affecting the crab as Erin/me thought it would. Like, with pain, confusion, acid, anger, etc. What, does it make it high?
Oh, so it is deadly afraid of that. Maybe it smells like the dead-ant pheromone ants would do. It didn’t do any damage other than smell, so that is the only thing I can think of.
Wait, Smurfs exist here?
Nevermind, they be evil Smurfs
I like how this implies that because Erin comes from another world, she is also faster that the average human here.
Fuck Yeah Michigan. Home Girl Represents!
Good way to end the chapter, just saying that she is from my home state while running away from goblins.
Time for some more of the written word. I mean, I only went through 2 …chapters?sections? I’m still unsure. So hopefully I can go through more this time around.
Our girl Erin is currently squatting in an abandoned inn where she is now getting class skills. I am just waiting for when she is going to adopt the place as her own.
That does sound like a good idea. Actually, the Temple Of Karkat thing I was doing was supposed to be me testing out how Letsplays would work. I would love to do more games like that, though I probably won’t update them as often since videos take a bit longer to do/make.
But if you have any requests on games for me to do, shout them out in either an ask or in the idea-channel on the Discord. Fair warning, my rules for suggestions also apply to games, and I am fine with horror but I will scream.
So yeah, I didn’t really post a lot about this series. It was interesting, but I don’t think I can do more than 1 or 2 parts at a time.
I love the set up and slow build. First part was dedicated to the inn itself. The second part was for Erin and her struggles. I like the Isakai “trapped in another world” genre, and now that it was established as the video-game sub-genre, it really has my attention.
It was great at setting up atmosphere, I can really feel the dust and smoke, the haunting ominous feeling the inn has. It just really sets the stage to see how Erin can manage to not only forge a new life for herself, but thrive by changing this haunted dump into probably a 5 star hotel.
I would give my Fibonacci rating, but honestly I am not sure entirely. Rating wise, it would be an 8 for me to continue. It would be a 13 for me to just straight up read it, but I am not sure how well me live-blogging this really worked out. It’s different, talking about a story medium like this, as opposed to comics and videos, more visual stuff. Please give me feedback, or advice, on how well I did. Because it could determine on whether or not I’ll continue doing stories like this in the future.
I love this, this new (section?) part is just so good. I love how her title changes depending on the situation. If she was outside, she would be a traveler. But at the moment, she is a woman. That casual identity change is so creative.
Ever had to take a leak and find yourself staring at a monster?
The dragon was probably from her last encounter, and so to make sure she isn’t going nuts, Erin decided to make a mental check on all the shit she has. Smart move really.
Looks like you a modern girl Erin. A girl that is used to all of this magical bullshit you had been facing. How long were you here for?
I like this line. There is just so much depth to it you can take it in any direction.
Right, back to the story. So looks like Erin wasn’t here for too long. Went to the bathroom, saw a dragon, almost died and ran the fuck away, and found refuse at the inn. Less that a day, tops. Happy first day of the rest of your life.
Oh ABSOLUTELY!!! I love where this is going. She stays here, cleans the place, calls it her home, and then the inn teleports to a new area. She picks up friends, followers, customers, makes her life established as a wandering innkeeper. This is a good plan to follow
She starts cleaning, and honestly I would probably do the same. She has no way home, no idea what to do next. Cleaning would give her a more sense of control and a nice distraction from her entire situation.
So she searches for a rag, we find out that it was a mix of dragon and goblins that attacked her. She she is hesitant in this spooky place of what could be in this inn. Understandable, considering she might have second degree burns.
The story does well to convey her sense of dread and unease in this place. With the dark and the unknown, her slowly growing fear, and then when she actually hears rustling?
She just keeps chanting and moves on. Just ignore the sound and hope it doesn’t chase you. Same.
Turns out, they were curtains. And it did freak me out a bit reading it (seriously, the pacing is slow but really builds up the atmosphere). Instead of exploring the rest of the place (valid) she takes the curtains to return downstairs and starts cleaning.
She cleans everything but the floor by the time night falls. I am sure the Inn will be please with her work. So she relaxes for the next day
Until her class skills come up. I guess this really is an insakai, at least the video game styled ones. She is going to be a master someday, given how she has nothing better to do.
So, the story is separated into chapters, then like mini-chapters? Can’t tell if this is a prequel to chapter 1, or if it is really worth like $1.
I love how the inn is described here as this vague mysterious possibly sentient/feeling thing. Not aware of itself, but still aware on some level.
^that. That is some good set up right there. And that stuff continues when an injured lady comes in and runs straight for the inn. Like, heavily injured, burnt, cut, everything. And she goes to the inn like it’s her last hope.
But THIS^^^ So this world establishes that Inns are used as meeting points, quests, etc which is used in all sorts of D&D campaigns and video games. Get food, friends, information, all that fun stuff.
This this inn is dark. Nothing in there, just isolated and empty.
Creepy right?
ooh la la, is this an isakai I see? A stranger in a strange land? Oh do go on.
And it does. Gives great descriptions on her feeling alone, in this obviously empty and deserted place. A place that was once filled with greatness but fell so far. Even so, it is still a lot safer than where she just came from. So she stays, rest, then the exciting conclusion:
I love that. I love how something mundane like wanting food can start something so magnificent. Did the Inn burst into life via “Be Our Guest” song number? Did it slowly transform into something decently livable in? No idea, but now I really want to know how her quest for food somehow gave birth to something magical.
