A young girl is waking up in the middle of a small clearing in a forest. She is dressed in her pjs she is slowly waking up thinking she is still in her bed. She murmurs.
“Why is the light so bright, it's too early in the morning.”
and tries to find her blankets to turn over and go back to sleep. when she can't find her blanket reaching around herself, she slowly opens her eyes and looks around. She sits up and she's in a forest.
“Where the hell am I.”
she exclaims, she becomes frightened calling out for her parents she gets no reply only the sound of the forest, she starts to wonder how she got there without being woken and how long she's been here. Even though she is frightened she stands up looks at the sky to see if she could tell the time by roughly how high the sun is she thinks it must be mid-morning or mid-afternoon by the height of the sun. She looks down at herself and sees she's still dressed in the pajamas she put on last night she asks herself “Aiden how are you going to get out of this one”.
Aiden begins to wander around the clearing not going into the forest yet, all she sees is more endless forest with no way out. she asks aloud.
“Whoever the hell kidnapped me could have least dressed me in my clothes or even left me some shoes”
at that moment multiple tiny transparent boxes appear in front of Aiden’s eyes; she screams in shock closing her eyes and falling back. When she opens them again, she can still see the boxes, but she notices there's clothes icon in the boxes. Her hand hovers over one of the boxes lighting it up a small dialog box appears saying equip, she slowly moves her hand towards the word equip and as she hovers over the word it too lights up and then her trainers appear on her feet.
Aiden looks down at her feet and sees her trainers she also realizes the boxes didn't follow her eyes, but stay in front of her, she looks back up its see the boxes haven't moved, Aiden then tries to think of her closet full of clothes and the boxes multiply showing all the clothes that were in her closet. When the shock finally wears off and she hadn't realized what she was staring at her only thought was “why does this look like a game inventory”. Aiden Dan has another crazy thought and hopes to God she's just having a weird dream and says the magic word “status”.
The answer Aiden receives is a closing of all the boxes and a single page appearing in front of her with her full name Aiden Riley Reid written at the top. Aiden slightly raises her head and has a strange kind of stare, then slowly tilter her head back to where she had woken up and then slowly back to the page and gives one exclamation
“What the hell I've been isekai.”
Aiden then starts pacing back and forth in a hurried manner rubbing her face saying repeatedly.
“This is bad, this is very bad”.
Eventually Aiden is slowly able to calm herself down and thinks logically on what to do next.
“First things first, let's get dressed.”
Aiden then turns back to the page of status and begins to think about the boxes of clothes that had first appeared, she then begins working out how to select the items to dress herself and take off her pajamas. Now dressed in boots, jeans, T-shirt, shirt, jumper and jacket. Aiden then realizes that if she is in a game world the forest is most likely filled with monsters then how can she defend and protect yourself. As Aiden is thinking these thoughts the magic boxes of the inventory begin to change again and take on sports equipment. With this change Aiden begins to realize this the inventory may be filled with the items from her room and worked by her thoughts alone.
To test this theory, she thinks of an item she knows is in her room but has not appeared in the boxes yet. When the item appears she realizes it's true, then goes back to the sports equipment to find ways to protect and defend herself. Aiden first looks through her sports gear for anything useful that might work as armour, surprisingly she finds knee pads and elbow pads from rollerblading, shin guards from playing football and her bicycle helmet. Then she thinks about a weapon, Aidan thinks about the sports her family's plays and inventory shows her a cricket bat,
“thought that was in the shed, glad I was wrong”, takes the bat out of inventory, gives a few swings and then has a stray thought of wanting a knife the inventory responds bringing up her arts and crafts equipment.
“oh, didn't think that would count as a knife”
but it is it is one. she takes the knife out and puts it into her pocket.
“All ways good to have an extra weapon.”
now she feels a bit safer equipped with armour and a weapon.
Aiden decides to investigate her status screen more thoroughly. “status” Aiden once again sees her status screen.
STATUS
Name: Aiden Riley Reid
Race: Human
Gender: female
Citizen: Free of Great Britain
BUFF
DE-BUFF
GIFT
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SKILLS
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Investigation this screen, she found she could manipulate it to only bring up selected information or all of this. She didn't understand what citizen, the buffs, gifts meant or why the heck she had no skills this was a game world there was also no status point, she hoped she could find someone who could explain in more detail. She also had no stamina bar or a manta bar like in most common games. While thinking about video games and what players saw when they played them, Aidan’s view changed into a more game like as at the top right her vision showed a red bar and underneath that a white one. With this Aiden realised that many things were happening to her that she did not understand she wished for a guide.
Aiden then looked around for clearing thinking about which direction go and wishing she had a map once again when the thought entered her mind a map appeared in front of her the only problem it was completely blank only thing showing was the clearing. With this Aiden now had to pick a direction to walk in, she decided to go with the age old method of following the sun and had hoped that this planet was the same as hers in directions, the new thought added to the map and her HUD a compass. She began walking West.
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Aiden begin walking through the forest hoping to get out. As she walked, she fiddled with the interface to see what she could do, she found that the map would fill in the area around her as she walked. Aiden found that she could change the transparency of the interface to see through or completely solid. She settled on making the interface slightly transparent so she could see through it but also distinguish what was in the interface she began fiddling with the inventory of her room. She found her watch and decided to put it on, she felt more comfortable knowing at least the time at home.
Some hours later by her watch, she found she could not access the inventory this scared her so much that she stopped checking the rest of interface to see if she could find out what was wrong, the rest of the interface responded like it normally had, it was not effected by what was occurring within the inventory. Aiden looked at her watch and found that it would be the time her mother would wake her up for school, she then theorised that if a person was in her room she must not be able to access the inventory. They seem to be the correct deduction as moments later she could once again access the inventory. Aiden realizing her mother and family would be worried about her found a note book wrote a note for her mother and placed it on her desk. She then decided to continue watching keeping her inventory open see when and if she could access it or not over the next couple of hours, she found every now and again access to the inventory was impossible. This slightly worried Aiden as she did not know if she would need to access the inventory when she needed something the most so she stop for a few moments to get a backpack and fill it with items she may need out of her room.
By noon on her watch Aidan started to get hungry and thirsty with the interface open it responded to her thoughts and showed a bottle of water that had been left in a training bag from training a few days ago. The water bottle was full Aiden knew it should last her a day or two but if no food was found she would die. So in a second note to her mother she asked if any food bars could be placed in her room, she was unsure if her mother would get these messages. Aiden walked and rested throughout the day sipping her water listening to the sounds of the forest around her on high alert for anything that would attack her. Just before nightfall she was starting to tyred and getting worried for having a place to sleep, she looked around for a place to sleep for the night she knew that sleeping on the ground was dangerous so she looked for sturdy tree branches to rest on. She found a tree and climb it to find if the branches would support her wight. Opening her inventory finding she could access it, so she took out a few belts and tide herself to the tree and then took her blanket from her bed and wrapped it around herself. Aidan had a hard time falling asleep due to the thirst and hunger, cold and fear she was feeling she spent most of the night in a half sleep till the morning came. As the morning rose Aiden slowly opened her eyes. She heard birds chirping around her, she followed the sound and found birds picking at berries as bush while watching them she realised that she could eat these berries having found a food source she felt a great deal happier. She put her blanket and the belts back into her inventory climb down the tree and went to the berry bush she started picking them and eating them found that they tasted a great deal like blackcurrants, as this was the only food store source she had found since waking up yesterday morning she decided to take as many of the berries as she could, so she opened her inventory to find a container to store as many of the berries as she could in it. She then ate her fill of the berries on the bush when was full she once again began walking following the sun again.
As with the day before she kept her inventory open, she found periodate throughout the day that it would become inaccessible sometimes for a few moments and at one point for a whole hour. She worried about her family how they were feel having no idea where she was or what happed to her, no one had found her notes yet. She wondered if she'd ever be able to go home and see them again.
Her washer was beginning to run out and while the berries had juice in them it was not enough to quench her thirst. This added to her worries. Though she did find more of the berry bushes and rather than go into her supply in her container she ate them as she went along. As the day began nearing the end and the sun was starting to go down she decided to find out that another place to sleep and worry about finding a water source in the morning so she started looking for a tree she could sleep.
Aiden heard the faint sounds of running water. She decided to go towards the sound, following the sound she eventually came across a river. She knew she had to risk drinking the water as there is no more bottled water left, even if she got sick at least she would not die unlike not having ant water to drink. So she refilled the water bottle she'd been using and found a few more in her room filled them and put them in the backpack she was carrying. She decided to move a bit away from the river to find a tree to sleep in again. So, she repeated what she had done the night before she tide herself to the tree and wrapped herself in her blanket.
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Aiden spent the next few days walking along the river and she thought the water source had to be connected to a village or town. Aiden had been in this new world for four days, surviving on a diet of berries and water were starting to make her feel nauseous she then found that she had a de-buff on the info sheet of the interface.
STATUS
BUFF
DE-BUFF
Nausea
Lower stamina
This the buff made her more tired since she got it. It figured stamina meant how much energy she had to use, with her feeling nauseous and the description saying it lowered her stamina she obviously had less energy to use.
Aiden did not realise the change that would occur on this day when she first opened her eyes. While cautiously walking along the river She encounter a goblin, he was greenish grey with pointed ears, very sharp teeth, wearing what can only be described as caveman clothes and wielding a sharp stick. Aidan became very frightened when the goblin turned towards her, she put her hands out in front of her in a surrendering manner while continuously saying.
“Please don't hurt me don't mean any harm I don't wanna fight”
the goblin turned towards her and started walking to her direction while snarling and gesturing wildly. Aiden continuously exclaimed.
“don't come any closer please stay back stay back.”
When the goblin got too close begin swing her cricket bat hitting him on the neck above the shoulder blade this move severed the goblin spine but didn't kill him, he fell to the ground gargling. Aiden fell to her knees and events of the last four days had caught up with her and she started bawling crying out
“I want my mommy, I wanna go home, I didn't mean to kill him”.
The goblin as he lay dying had only one thought 'Barbarous humans letting a youngling wandering the forest alone far from any human settlement'. the dying goblin however was not alone he had been in a group with three other goblins, they heard the screaming and crying that came to investigate what happened. What they found was they’re friend dead and a small human youngling crying over his body. The three goblins stayed hidden in case other humans were around, though as they listened to the human youngling crying, they began to understand her words realizing she was alone, scared and had not meant to kill their friend. They decided to venture out towards her. The movement startled Aidan she stopped crying and waited terrified for what was to come. Fearing for her with three goblins, they did not venture too close to her and were not carrying any weapons they merely snarled at her. A strange event then occurred Aiden began to understand what the snarls meant. Aiden had unlocked one of her gifts which is called universal translator though she would not know this yet it meant she could understand any language from any place.
Aiden told the goblins she could understand them. The goblins did not blame her for the death of their friend they understood she was frightened youngling. Aiden then ask them if they knew where a human settlement was, they pointed her in a direction of which a settlement was three days away. Before Aiden departed towards direction the goblins had shown her, they gave her some dried fish and nuts for her to eat on the journey. Aiden thanked the goblins and said she was sorry for killing their friend.
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After three days of travelling in the direction the goblins had told, her sleeping in trees being wary of the dangerous around her she finally exited the forest. Aiden found that the area she exited was on a hill she could see most of the area in front of her and so at the bottom of the hill at the fair end of a long road just on the horizon what she could see was a village. Aidan started the long trek towards the village hoping to find answers and a safe place when she got there.