one minute Daniel was on his ship rambling to an audience that sadly, only numbered in the thousands.

the next, he was on a grassy plain rambling to an audience of 7.

7 green little men with feathers in their hair, who were very confused, but very still at seeing an oddly dressed human appear out of thin air not far from where they were tending to their wounds.

“so if my calculations are right I should be gone in…” as daniel glazed at where his digital clock should be he noticed that he was no longer at sea, but rather in a hilly valley of some sort.

“I… jeg gjorde det, fuck yea ta den haters”

#translated from danish he said, “I… I did it, fuck yea, take that, haters.”

as daniel glanced around I noticed the little green men, people near him and placed his hand on his gun, ready to draw.

“Hey kan I forstå hvad jeg siger?” when the green men did not react so he switched to german

“Hey, Kannst du mich verstehen” german didn’t work either

“Hey, tu peux me comprendre” neither did french, though the green men did begin to back away from the strange man.

“Hey, can you understand me?.

the green men did twitch this time so daniel took that to mean they did

“Have you seen anyone who looks like me?” he gestured to his face.

one of the green men nodded, which earned several pokes from his fellow green men.

the green man that nodded did a series of hand gestures, which made the other green men grin and nod all around.

I don’t know if it can trust them, so I will keep my eyes on them as I follow them.

the green man who nodded, turns to leave while waving at me to follow, so I do.

the other 6 don’t move though so I walk around their left side rather than walking in between them. I keep a distance of 3 meters and they follow me with their red eyes all the way.

the 6 remain where they are as I follow nodder (as I have begun calling him in my head).

For what feels like 10 minutes we walk with my long legs easily keeping up with nodder. We walk in silence and it helps the tension I had felt to ease somewhat, for all I know this green man is leading me into a trap.

The hills are high, but oddly enough they don’t stand base to base, there is an average of 50 meters between each hill, leaving large ‘rivers’ of grassland between each ‘island’.

I was lost in thoughts such as these when we passed by a bush and i was jumped by the 6 other goblins. luckily I had kept my distance to every large rock or bush we had passed so far so there were a few meters between them and me.

BANG BANG BANG

I drew my gun and shot 3 times before Nodder and his friends were upon me. I got one in it’s shoulder, one in its chest and one right between the eyes.

2 didn’t get up again and the others wisened up and decided to bolt, but not before trying to shank me with their little knives. their knives just scratched off my armour. and they ran away.

as they ran I aimed at their back, I decided to save my ammunition though.

“ah fuck, 15 minutter I en anden verden og jeg har allerede slået nogen ihjel”

#ah fuck, 15 minutes in another world and I've already killed someone”

Now did the nodder and his friend run for reinforcements or did they just run?

I can't take that chance so I go for the nearest hill.

I soldiered the three shells I had fired before leaving.

climbing it with my backpack was hard but not overly so and as I reached the top I could finally have a proper look around.

At first, it was hard seeing anything but with the scope on my rifle I spotted a building.

a building on a hill.

which was in the opposite direction of where the goblins were leading me.

“sigh” course plotted, I began my trek towards this building the green men did not want me near. I shouldered the rifle and kept my hand on the gun.

best be ready for the little green men, should they want revenge for their comrades.

As I made my way down the hill I stepped into a hole that made my stumble and tumble all the way down, hitting my head on a rock as I did so.

[Gunner Class Obtained!]

[Gunner level 1]

[Skill - Unerring Aim Obtained!]

[Skill - Quick Draw Obtained!]

I saw stars and heard voices, and I didn’t know if and how long I had been unconscious.

so I did the only sane thing I could think of.

get my ass in gear towards my destination.

Now I’m not a small guy with my 2 meters in height it gives a nice frame to build some meat upon, buff but not overly so.

my point is I can cover some ground whilst carrying a backpack of about 25 kg.

I could see the inn now and better yet, there was light in the windows on the ground floor.

Movement by the door someone was leaving, I couldn’t see them clearly from where I was so I checked my surroundings before scoping them with my rifle.

I danm near shat myself. a group of insect people had come out the door alongside a normal-looking human woman.

they talked for a bit before the bug people left.

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the woman went inside so I trekked the last bit.

as I neared the inn I saw a Sign -“no killing Goblins” it said.

Were the green men goblins? it was likely, given their appearance

I knocked on the door…

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Erin pow

Erin had just sat down and said farewell to Pawn and the workers, when there was a knock on the door.

‘dun de de dun dun’ pause ‘dun dun’

it seemed strangely familiar to how people back home would knock, it lifted her mood a tiny bit. and so she went to the door with a little spring in her step.

When she opened the door her mouth dropped wide open

before her stood the tallest man, she had seen since coming to this world.

he had short blond hair and blue-greyish eyes and there was a purplish swelling on his forehead

The most striking feature about him was what he was wearing though. as he was wearing a full-body biker suit.

“Uh I don’t know if you can understand me miss, but if it isn’t to much trouble could I come in and ask you a few questions, maybe spend the night” the man had a Scandinavian accent, Swedish Maybee,

“Erin Solstice”

“what”

“my name is Erin Solstice”

“right i'm Daniel Solhoeg”

he just stood there

“soo, can I come in?”

“Right, sorry”

Erin moved out of the doorway she had been blocking

as Daniel moved inside he saw something and before Erin could stop him, he had a gun trained on Toren, who now crouched, ready to pounce

“NO, DON'T SHOOT, HE IS FRIENDLY. Toren, back of”

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Daniels POW

The lungs on this girl, made my ears ring oh something fierce.

the skeleton obeys Erin thou so I lower my gun

“are you from home”

I whirl around and look closely at her. her dress and shirt look medieval, but her shoes. they look positively modern.

“depends what you mean with ‘home’” I move so I can keep both the skeleton and Erin in my sight.

“well, you’re from earth right. you know America, Europe, uhhm the geneva convention”

“2 state unions and an agreement of wartime behaviour, yes I’m from earth”

at that Erin storms me and hugs me, uf she is strong

“omgiwassoscaredatfirsttherewasadragontheigotchasedbygoblinsifoundthisinnbutitwassodirtyandicleaneditigottheinnkeeperclassand… why is your face turning blue”

“can’t breathe” I wheezed as I clapped her on her arm to get her attention

she immediately let go and took a step back.

“oh,mygoshi’msosorryiwasjustsohappytosomeonefromhomfmmm”

I put a hand over her mouth to stop her from talking

“calm down, you’re talking too fast, why don’t we sit down and we can take this whole thing from the top..

Erin did calm down and she told me, in broad terms what she had done since coming here.

and I told her how I had figured out when, where and who had disappeared. that no-one had cared and how I had live-streamed my disappearance both to prove that I was right but also to see if there was anything I could do from this end

she dropped her jaw at that.

“I can’t believe it, you would risk your life for a bunch of strangers”. well if you don’t, believe me, I can show you

I pulled out my laptop and showed her my maps and calculations.

“oh, that is soo cool. how did you come up with all of this?”

“oh I originally started doing it to prove how it was a hoax, but when I count find any of the people on the list I started looking into other phenomenons occurring at the same time as the abductions, at the time I figured if I could beat the hoax, I might as well feed it…

I scratched the back of my head at that. “but it just kept making sense”

“then 3 months ago”

“IT’S BEEN 3 MONTHS ALREADY?”

“What do you mean?”

Erin was panicking slightly now, and so she had raised her voice

she took a deep breath before continuing in a more level voice

“It has only been about 30 days here” she was wiping at her eyes now

“could be worse than a 3-1 time dilation”

“yes it could be worse but I want to go home and not have everyone grow old on me”

“I understand that Erin, I’m just trying to be real with you”

an idea occurs to me. “would you like to watch a movie from home?”

Erin brightened at that so I put on frozen, cuz you know. Disney