(Read Desc.) An Emperor's Retirement

[Equestria]
{Error: cybernetic systems offline}

I wake up laying face down, a few error messages play in my brain telling me that my cybernetics are down. Great... now I only have one working arm and eye, and my translator is offline, so I hope I don't encounter any locals till they are back online after using my one working arm I decide to sit up and observe my surroundings while waiting for my cybernetics to reboot.

The first thing I notice is, that I'm in a forest, a dark and evil looking forest. I then notice that this place does, in fact, have ambient magic, for this forest, it seems to be a mixture of dark magic, nature magic, and a weak feeling of... holy magic?
That's quite odd, I don't think I can remember a time where I've been somewhere that has both dark and holy magic, I'll have to investigate later. I can also feel another magical signature, but it's too far off to make out the types of magic in it.

This place feels... familiar, as if I've been to this dimension before...

{Cybernetics online}
Oh, good. I think to myself
{location: unknown}
{Time: unknown}
{Dimension: unknown}
{No signals are being picked up from any inter-dimensional satellites}
Well my wish of not being found by me people is going to be made easy with that.
{The ambient magic here is strong enough to power you cybernetics, do you wish to switch to using it to power your cybernetics?}
After thinking for a bit I give the command Yes.
{Switching to ambient magic... Done}
good, is there any additional information that you can give me? I ask my assistant, which is actually just a text to speech machine that has a simulated personality.
{No.}
I should see if there's anything nearby.

[about two hours later]

After looking around for a bit I was able to locate a clearing which had a river not to far from it.
Despite the way this forest looks its actually quite nice, living here wouldn't be that bad I just sat there and enjoyed my surroundings for a few minutes, before deciding to get started on making a shelter. The first step is obviously getting some wood for the walls and roof of the house. The second step would probably be getting some stone for a foundation, I would also need something to make the stone and the wood together, tar or pitch would probably work, but tar was easier to get. But before getting anything I need to figure out how much I'd need, so I quickly decided that the dimensions of my house would be: thirty-six feet long, forty-five feet wide, and nine feet tall.

Now that I had the dimensions in order, I started making my way into the forest, once I was out of my clearing and into the forest, I deployed my chainsaw and started cutting trees down, I had to cut most of the trees into lighter pieces so I could actually put them into my inventory, due to the fact that if an object is too heavy for me to carry normally, I cant put it into my inventory. After a few hours I had gathered what I figured to be enough wood, now I had to locate some stone.
I know I saw some exposed stone somewhere, I just gotta remember how to get there. After a few minutes of searching I found the stone deposit in question, and began to use my drill to remove chunks of stone from the deposit.
Within an hour I had collected all the stone that I needed, and then began the search for tar.
I didn't spot any tar pits while scouting, I wonder where I could find some

After about an hour of searching I found a tar pit, but now this raises the question: how do I get my tar to my building spot?
I mean, I could absorb the tar into my inventory, but that wouldn't be that helpful, as there's no real way to limit the flow of a liquid coming out of an inventory, so it would just spill all over the place. I decided to check my inventory for any containers, and to my surprise I did have four small containers, meaning that I would have to make frequent trips back here.

Once I gathered my tar I made my way back to my base, it only took me ten minutes to find my clearing, so a round trip to the tar pit would only take about five or six minutes plus about three minutes to gather the tar. Now that I have all the materials to make my house, I begin construction. I first dug a that would serve as the place to put the stone for my foundation, I then put the stones in, making sure that the chunks that I placed actually fit together and were level. The entire process of making the foundation took about an hour, then I laid down the bottom part of the walls, which was a layer of stones that was one foot tall, and held together with tar. This time it took about two and a half hours, due to needing to go get more tar.

It was then that I noticed that it was still sunny, which is really weird, as it seems that the sun hasn't moved at all the entire day, which is strange to say the least. As an inter-dimensional traveler, I've seen some weird stuff, and this is defiantly one of the oddest things I've ever seen. Then the sun started to move, but that wasn't t he weirdest part, I could feel a magical aura coming from the sun while it was moving, this of course surprised me as the sheer amount of power to not only move a star, but also be felt by someone on the planet that the sun was over, is well... astronomical. This was now officially the weirdest thing I've ever seen

After I watched the sun set and the moon rise, I resumed work on my house

[Three hours later]

It took me a while to do, but I had finished the outside my house, it was a basic log cabin, now all I needed to do was figure out what to use for my windows. After a couple minutes of thinking, I decided to use my magic to make them out of clear ice, which I would enchant so that it wouldn't melt
After doing that I moved on to furnishing the house.
The biggest benefit of having a limitless pocket dimension at my disposal, is that I can be prepared for (almost) anything, and thus had a few pieces of basic furniture in my inventory, such as: a table, a chair, a small generator, a bed ,a refrigerator , a couch, a tv, and other things of that nature.
Benny always told me that keeping random pieces of furniture in my inventory was useless and that I was overpreparing for something that would never happen, I guess he was wrong.
After thinking about that I was overcome by a wave of sadness due to remembering that I would probably never see Benny again. Maybe not staying in my home dimension wasn't such a good idea... not like I can change it, well its pretty late, so I should probably go to sleep now.

[Ten hours later]

I get up out of my bed and make some breakfast, while eating I think over the events of the past day. I wonder what the reaper meant when he said that I'll love this dimension?
After I got done eating I sit down on my couch and turn on my tv, despite the lack of any internet, I do still have stuff to watch, on account of the fact that I collected disks and stored them in my inventory, although it was mostly background noise for me while I thought about what I should do today Scouting the general area around my house is a good idea.
With that, I got up went outside and just kind of wandered around the forest for a few hours

I didn't find much of interest for a bit, then I spotted a ruined castle in a large clearing. Hmm, well that proves that at some point that there was intelligent life, perhaps I should go explore it. I then walked into the clearing and made my way towards the castle, but before I could get to it I noticed a large ravine which separated me from the castle. Upon getting closer to the ravine, I noticed that there used to be a bridge, but now it was broken. What would be the best way to get across the gap? I then decide to just jump over the gap, because I am not a sane man, I walked back about two meters and started running at the ravine, then jumped at the edge of it, and only got one fourth of the way across it before I started to plummet into the hole. Fuck! thankfully I have a pretty fast reaction time, and was able to use the grappling hook that my right arm has in it to grab the other side and pull myself up and not go splat at the bottom of a large hole in the ground. Damn, I'm a complete fucking idiot.I got up from where I was lying on the ground and made my way to the castle.

The castle was quite destroyed, This didn't look like it was just abandoned, It looked like it had seen a horrible battle, and then was abandoned. As I walked into the castle I was immediately met with what looked to be the throne room. The fact that the throne room is the first room you enter might imply that these people were either naïve, peaceful, didn't expect anyone to attack them. The next thing I noticed was the large tapestries on the walls, they were to damaged, moldy, or faded to tell what was once on them though. I then went up to the thrones, the one on the left was larger and had a model of the sun on top of it, the one to the right was smaller and had a model of the moon on it. Based off of the arrangement of the thrones, these people likely had a diarchy rather than a monarchy Another thing to note about this room is that it is damn near destroyed, most of the ceiling is either gone, or on the floor, and the walls are falling apart. Upon finishing my inspection of the throne room I decided to go in the door to the left.

[Four hours later]

I saw many rooms while exploring the castle, most of which were less destroyed than the throne room, looking like they hadn't seen any battle, just several hundred years of wear and tear. Despite exploring for a while I still hadn't found an armory. After walking for a little bit longer, I found what looked to be a barracks, I was split into two sections, one side has brighter paint, and images of the sun, the other had darker paint and images of the moon. Just like other parts of the castle, it seems like these people really liked the sun and moon. While looking at the barracks I found a door, which presumably lead to the armory. If there was any armor left in there I could possibly discern the body shape of the people that used to live here. But upon entering the armory, I found that there was no armor or weapons in it. This supports the theory that they abandoned the castle.

After wandering around for a few more minutes I found a room that resembled a church, oddly enough there wasn't any imagery that would suggest that they worshipped the sun or the moon, once again the tapestries were indecipherable. I could see the remains of what looked to be stained glass windows, but due to being broken they were of no use. I then decided to sit on one of the benches, and look up at the skip for a bit, that's when the gears in my head started turning. If they don't worship the sun and moon that means that all the imagery represents something other than their worship of it... the only places that I've seen the imagery is places that seemingly belonged to the rulers... Then the sun and moon represent the leaders, and not their reverence of the things, but if that's true then why are the leaders related to celestial bodies? It was at that moment that the sun fell and the moon rose. No. Fucking. Way. THEIR LEADERS CONTROL THE SUN AND MOON! Holy fucking shit, that makes so much sense, but if their leaders can control the celestial bodies that means that they are likely immortal, because I've never seen a mortal with that much power.

After I got done having my little freak out, I decided to go home. I still haven't figured out what the people who live here look like yet.

[Thirty minutes later]

Once I reach my clearing I have an idea What if I climb one of the trees and use my binoculars to see if I can spot any towns. I then climbed up a tree, summoned my binoculars, turned on their low light vison and looked around. The first thing I spotted was a large castle that was hanging off the side of a mountain, It seemingly had no supports holding it. The design of the castle was quite nice. That castle looks like its currently in use, so maybe the people here are still in their version of the middle-ages

The next thing I spotted was a small town, which was designed much like a middle-ages town, Based on the absolutely massive apple orchard, it seems to be a farming town, In the center of the town there was a giant castle that was seemingly made out of crystals, The last thing I noticed about the town other than the fact that I couldn't see people, which is to be expected, considering how late it is, was a... train station? So these people have middle ages building styles, seemingly don't have electricity, but they do have trains, I mean this isn't the weirdest thing I've seen regarding technology progression, but this is certainly strange.

I then climb down out of the tree and go into my home to sleep for the night.