A Roegadyn in Equestria

A Roegadyn in Equestria.

Chapter 2: Ok just think things out.

*Point of view: Brex Mith*
*Location: Everfree Forest*
*Time: One week after his arrival*

It had been nearly a week now since he had found himself in this new world. The sun was just starting to ascend into the sky and a large unknown figure was currently sitting on top of one of the highest branches in a tree not too far from what one would call a Castle out in the middle of the wilderness.

From his vantage point it was clear to see that this was a rather large structure with a number of buildings that went up to five stories high, while some of the others near the center, jetted up close to ten. There was even a very deep trench that apparently surrounded the grounds as a natural line of defense. It didn’t take long for him to have spotted a rope bridge that appeared to be the only means of crossing the divide safely that could have only allowed a single person to cross at a time.

While squinting his eyes, he started to mumble to himself as he looked over the damages done to the Castle. Hay, it’s been over a week without talking to another person, give him a break. “Wow… just wow! Look at all that! It’s like a bomb went off over there. No wait, scratch that. More like multiple bombs all went off. Dang, that one over there at the larger building is a real doozy. Geez, half of the roof on that one there is missing and I can see inside from all the way over here. Oh! Now just look at the courtyard, that's what I would call a blast radius!”

He lifted one of his hands to show a small pile of wild strawberries and began picking at it as he looked around a little while longer. After he had finished, he had a dejected look on his face as he shook his head again before mumbling, “It's been so long, I've gotten too comfortable with talking to myself.”

He had lifted his hand up to act as a visor from the sunlight and continued to watch. It was a good thing that he had done so, because a group of fliers at that moment were patrolling the area nearby and if he hadn't done so, there was a good chance that their approach would have gone unnoticed in time.

Figuring that they were quite a distance away and with not making any sudden changes in their flight patterns gave him the thought that they had not seen him yet. Wiping his hands together to get any residue off of them, he looked down and thought to himself, “Well, it's a good thing I'm not afraid of heights anymore. Not sure what happened to me but at least I'm not freaking out after taking two steps off the ground. I guess I better not take my chances, down I go.”

Without showing much care to his safety, the man pushed himself off of the branch, only to land on the one beneath but only a short distance down. This process was continued a number of times until he had finally landed on to the dirt and leaf covered floor of the forest.

Normally this would not have been such a smart move to make seeing as it would cause quite a stir with the sound it would have normally created. However, at that moment he was currently using a skill Is that he had acquired when arriving in this world. Said skill allowed him to jump from high places without taking damage of any type, but also had the added benefit of silencing the noises he would normally have made.

Not sure as to why or how this had happened, but the man had gained some rather unique abilities from a video game he remembered playing in the past. Because of that, he was currently a ninja in the middle of the forest.

Ninja class, an advance class from the rogues. they excel in high damage output and employ the Chi ability and in conjunction with hand signs they can produce a variety of effects. Just like with the rogues the advanced class of ninja are far more skilled at evading detection and execute assassination attacks with ease.

Standing to his full height he surveyed the current location he was at defined a small clearing surrounded by Trees and large bushes. But there was a small dirt path that seemed to be used now and again by those who resided here. He was about to move on when he heard some rustling not too far away from beyond some bushes.

Now narrowing his eyes, he glanced to the upper right part of his vision to see a circular display that appeared to be a type of radar. It seemed to have something that looked to be a compass that pointed to the North on the outer edge. It displayed that there were three dots appearing at the very edge of the radar and were slowly making their way towards his location that was shown to be at the center.

Making sure on the direction of the incoming life forms, he turned his head until they were lined up with where he was facing and found them to be coming from the sound he heard just earlier. Focusing his attention on to the dots, he noticed that they were all yellow, with two in the lead and one trailing not far behind.

This was one of the things that came with him when he woke up. Apparently, this was called a Mini map and it had the function of detecting possible hostiles and other living creatures within a set limit. Furthermore, the colors indicated whether or not they were friend or foe. Reds are hostile right from the get go. As for yellows, they are considered neutral but can become hostile at a moment's notice. The last one being green, was something he had yet to encounter during his time in the forest. This was something that would designate another as being friendly and a possible ally.

During his time, he had experimented while watching the local wildlife and had a good grasp on the mini map’s functions. He had witnessed how some yellows on his map would turn red as they became hostile with one another. It had even developed to the point that he was capable of instinctually telling who was hostile to whom. But of course, he would still check his mini map just to make sure now and then.

At first, he concluded that it was a group of animals but that was quickly thrown out the window when he began to hear what sounded like footsteps. This was followed by some murmurs that could have only been from someone talking.

Not wanting to be spotted, he did a back flip a short distance and stealthily landed in the shade of a tree nearby. Immediately after landing, the skill Hide was then activated. His form began to become somewhat intangible after only a second had passed and when the process was completed, he stood there quietly, observing who was about to show up.

Skill: Hide, A skill that allows the user to go into a stealth state, those from level 1 and up to 10 levels higher than its user cannot see the one using this skill. Targets more than 10 levels higher than the user can see past its effects. Some creatures have skills or ability’s that allow them to see past this effect regardless of their level.

After several moments passed, there was the sound of a very annoyed person as they push themselves through a large bush and into the clearing he was waiting on the edge of. Upon seeing who it was, the figure who was hidden away in the darkness only gave an unamused look as he thought to himself, “Great, just great. It's them again.” Immediately after, the second entered the clearing and then not too long after, so did the third.

The group had on a set of mid evil armor that were all uniform in their make and design. Seeming to be made up of some type of metal that was white in color, along the edges and decorations were that of gold. What was the most eye catching about the gear itself was how it depicted a yellow sun on their chest plates.

The first of the two that emerged was chatting away and this caused him to think to himself, “Oh come on! Just how many times am I gonna come across this very same set. Also, didn't anyone teach them that they should not make so much noise when patrolling a possibly dangerous forest? I think that they're just wandering around aimlessly until their shift is over or something. If they keep making so much noise, they're never going to find anything while on patrol at this rate.”

What was currently standing before him, was apparently a set of three guards who were currently on patrol of this forest. This set of guards were comprised of one male, who was carrying a sword and shield, and apparently a very obnoxious attitude to boot. The next was brandishing a short spear on her back. As for the one who was bringing up the rear, she was a slightly smaller one and she was clutching at the short sword hanging on her hip.

He knew that he had come from a time where that sort of gear was not very common, if used at all. But that wasn't very odd to him seeing as Just who was using those tools had caught his attention a whole lot more than what was being worn.

The one with the sword and shield turned and revealed that he had a horn coming out of his helmet, along with the set of furry animal ears. If that wasn't enough, his face wasn't quite right. It had more of an equine shape to it. The male also had a long tail coming out from his rear that was halfway down to the ground. From his current position, it was visible where there should have been skin, was instead some very short brown fur and the mane and tail he could see was colored in light brown. He stood at five feet and eight inches, with what could have been considered a fit build. But that could have just been due to how the armor could have been making him look bigger than he really is for all he knew.

The next on the list was the one wielding a spear. Her fur was pink and the mane appeared to be blue. She too had a horn coming from out of her helmet Just as the first one did. Unlike the male, this one had a more relaxed and carefree attitude going about with her, but one could still sense that she was on alert and ready for anything. She stood at about five feet and three inches and was quite fit from what he could tell.

The last one was the shortest among them all. She was purple with a black mane and tail. This one was only an inch shorter standing at five feet and two inches and appeared to be a size smaller compared to the other girl. She was a good distance from the others and was shaking like a leaf while clutching at her sword and its sheath as if she was waiting for an attack to happen at any second.

During the time he had been staying in the forest, there had been times that he had gotten to catch Their names aside from the purple one. He was positive that the male was called Break Down and the pink Unicorn went by Swirl Sugar.

After a good several minutes of talking between themselves, the patrol group finally moves on and follows the beaten path that they had found to another direction. Soon after the unknown figure steps out of the shadows, but not before first making sure that the coast was clear before coming out. Turning he makes his way down another beaten path that was going in the opposite direction from what the guards had taken.

Going along with his now daily routine, the large man comes across a river and crouches down on a log near the edge. It was easy to spot some fishes that were swimming near the surface by where he was crouched down at. He lifts his hand and with a flick of his fingers, he produces a set of Kunai knives held between his fingers and quickly throws them at the fish within range.

Out of the three that were launched, only two of them hit their marks and the fish started floating to the surface. As soon as he had gotten the fishes in his hands, the knives themselves disappeared. Glancing back down to the water he could see where his knife had originally ended up with there being a small hole from where the blade had dug into the rivers floor after missing, but saw that too was gone as well.

He then chuckled to himself and said, “Well at least I don't have to worry about cleaning up after myself. It also helps that I seem to have an unlimited supply of these.” He glances over to the fishes in his hands and shrugged before continuing, “Eh, it's not like I really do need it, but I still get the craving now and then. Besides I could still use the protein.”

Afterwards, he finds a secluded location and lights a small fire to cook and consume the fish before moving on with his day. Looking back over towards the tree line, he just knew that there was going to be something new to find while in there. He then began to chuckle to himself lightly as he recalled just what had happened over the past week and how he had that run in with that Timberwolf pack.

*Point of view: Brex Mith*
*Location: Everfree Forest*
*Time: First day in the new world*

There was nothing but darkness and a bone chilling, cold sensation running through his mind and body. At first, he couldn't figure out anything as his thoughts were very slow at forming anything that could be considered coherent. But after a while he was capable of rational thought again and began to think to himself in broken sentences, “Huh… What? Just… where? What happened? Can't… move. It's so… cold.”

At the time he had no sensations aside from that cold he mentioned. But after a few moments, sound began to fill his ears. There was a gentle breeze that was happening around him and there was the subtle rustling of grass being pushed by it. Seemingly far off in the distance he was positive that he could have heard trees swaying as their leaves continuously brushed up against one another.

Still not feeling anything, he thought to himself in a slight panic, but this time his thoughts sounded a little more intelligible, “Wait, what's going on? Wasn't I just... Wait, what was I just about to say? Also, why can't I move… Why can't I feel anything? Hold on, am I outside. Am I being brought to an ambulance? Oh no! I must be paralyzed, what happened to me?”

It was about to go to a full-blown panic but stopped when he started to have sensations occurring all over his body. first it was simply him noticing some new sensations of touching some type of object, but soon the cold from before was subsiding. It took a few more minutes until he had regained most of his senses and could tell that he was laying on his back while on top of a soft yet firm surface. There was also a scent coming into his nose that reminded him of pine trees or at least something similar to it.

Slowly his eyelids twitched, which meant that he now was capable of moving them. He opened his eyes and caught sight of a cloud filled sky with gaps of sunlight that was streaming through and illuminating where he was. From the side of his vision, he could see the tops of trees only a short distance away that were encircling his position. He flexed the muscles in his fingers and proceeded in doing so with the rest all the way down to his toes to get a feel for what has happened to him. Upon finding or feeling that there was nothing weird, he started to sit up.

When he had gotten to a fully seated position, he was about to take stock of his situation further when a black strand of hair, with silver on the tips fell across his face and obscured Half of his vision. His eyes went wide and focused on the hair immediately. Wanting to make sure that it was real, he carefully reached up with his right hand and took it between his fingers and gave a gentle tug to see if it was a wig but found that it was in fact his real hair as it tugged on his skull.

Afterwards he quickly got to his feet and stumbled a little as he seemed unaccustomed to his newfound height. His eyes quickly traveled down his form and began examining every inch. Almost instantly his eyes snapped forward and went wide. Right after all of this was done, there was a loud THUD that seemed to echo through most of the forest.

(This is a picture of how Brex Mith looks right now.)

Some time had passed before he had finally awoken from his unintentional nap. Quickly getting back onto his feet, the man raises both of his hands up and flexes his fingers in front of his face to test whether or not he was dreaming. He then exclaimed loudly in a very surprised and confused tone, “Wait, what's going on here, why do I… huh, h-hello, hello. Testing, One, two, three… testing. Is that really my voice? I'm almost positive I didn't sound like this before. Hmm, it's sort of an older brother, baritone feel to it.” He then played with his new voice for a moment before going back on topic.

Soon after, he examined himself and turned his head to look at his surroundings and then asked, “Just how did this happen, where am I? Ugh! My head, I-It hurts...” Right as he attempted to remember any sort details pertaining to how he had arrived, a sudden pain rack through his brain and made him shut his eyes. Clutching his head in an attempt to relieve it, he had to wait it out for a good minute before it finally subsided.

After releasing his grip on his skull, he looked at himself slowly once more and said, “OK that's not a good thing. But hold on a minute. What's happening, why do I look like my character from my favorite game? This can't be real… right?”

He then kneeled down and grabbed on to a piece of grass and began to feel it with his fingertips. After making sure that this was not some type of weird, realistic dream, he got back to his feet and tapped his right hands index finger onto his chin.

Looking back towards the woods, he thought to himself, “Well that just screams creepy. I just know the instant I leave this spot, I'm gonna get attacked by something, I just know it. OK, just think about it. I'm a game character and I’m somewhere I don't know. Then there’s what looks to be a creepy set of woods, what do I do next?” Raising his eyebrow, he had a look of understanding on his face which soon turned to a questioning one.

He began pacing in place and said,” OK so I'm my game character from final fantasy. Then that might also mean that I can...” As soon as those words escaped his lips, a window popped up before his eyes that displayed his character information. Catching sight of this, nearly startled the man but he managed to regain his composure and looked at it with a scrutinizing gaze.

From what he could see it was apparently the exact same format as it was in the game when he played. After a few seconds he snapped his fingers and concentrated harder and this created another pair more windows to appear side-by-side with the first.

Starting from his left-hand side, it was the character data. The next one was his inventory, which held his Items and money. As for the last, that showed his affiliation and personal information such as his birthday. Glancing over to the first window, he saw that it displayed his character name which was, Brex Mith. Alongside that, it displayed that he was a member of a race called the Roegadyn.

The rest of the information had to do with his current class, its level, the points in each stat and all the items equipped right then and there. Brex continues to look it all over and after a few seconds, he thinks to himself, “Hmm, I could have sworn that I had my maximum grade armor and weapons equipped the last time I played. Oh well, guess I will just have to click the auto equip icon and it will all just switch over.”

After those thoughts ran their course, it was quickly noticed that the window was not showing the previously mentioned icon. After letting out a grunt, he says, “What? Where is that thing… Fine, I’ll just do it manually.” He searched through the armory section for the gear he wanted but soon found it to be severely lacking.

After seeing this, Brex couldn’t help but to speak in a shocked tone, “H-Huh! J-Just what’s going on here, where is all my gear, why do I only have a few sets on my armory’s list?!” Just as he had said, there in front of him, was not the full set for each of his favored classes, but only enough equipment for two. The ones that he could play were his Ninja and the Paladin class’s. Normally He had a habit of keeping on hand what would be needed for at least six of them and room for some altered sets in case he had to play one with another type of style in mind.

With a defeated gaze forward Brex then talks in a scared and panic tone, “This is just not happening! I spent so much time leveling those up to maximum level, not to mention the constant dungeon runs and quests I went through to gather them all up. At least those happen to be among my favorites.” A Gasp escapes him as he continued, “W-Wait up, if that’s not the same then… O-Oh no. Please let it not be true…”

In a flash, he looked up to the top of that screen and noticed something else that only added to the growing mountain of worries. For the second time that day, the Roegadyn’s eyes go wide with disbelief, this was then accompanied with a trembling voice that had a strong layer of sorrow, “T-This C-Can’t be, ma… ma… MY LEVEL IS ONLY AT 35?! No, that can’t be right, it was at 70 before….” There was then another *THUD* that rang out into the Everfree Woods that day.

Roughly half an hour had passed sense Brex had his second mental breakdown of his life. After finally getting back onto his feet, the dirt was brushed off and his attention returns back to the remaining windows and begins checking on the second of the three.

After a few seconds passed, he went on to say, “Now this looks to be my item box. Let’s see how much room I got. One, two, three, four and… Huh?” Thinking the hits to his sanity just keep on coming, Brex notices that instead of the usual four divided bags that would hold a set amount of space. Instead, It would seem that for some unknown reason, there is fifty bags and each one was capable of holding fifty slots per bag. This meant that it would come to a grant total of 2,500 slots of free inventory space.

When those numbers had been found out, Brex was just stupefied with how much he could carry around on hand. Before he could go to the next window, he saw that there were a few slots inside that happen to be in use right now. With a closer inspection, Brex found out that he had the following. Six High Health Potions, six Poison Cure Potions, six Blind Cure Potions and six Mana Potions.

Finding it odd that he even had those inside his inventory, Brex pondered as to why. He didn’t use them all that much before, seeing as at the time they wouldn’t do much good for him at all when he had gotten to a point when leveling up. At Level 25, He would only recover but only a sliver on his bars, so they were placed away somewhere else to be delt with at a later point. At one time or another he would just forget and they were left in his room storage.

The last thing that was noticed on the inventory window, was when he glanced to the very bottom and right there was a row of numbers next to a familiar icon. It was the icon that represented the coin used in all basic transactions within the game, otherwise known as a Gil. Squinted his eyes to make sure that he was reading the numbers correctly, Brex soon after just a few scant seconds, he gave what was now becoming a normal reaction to his situation. Witch happen to be the blank, ‘your fucking kidding me face’.

Really, by now that should just be trade marked for him by now. Right Infront of Brex, was what could only have been the sum total income from the first day he logged in and started playing till the end, along with liquidating all assets. This got the Roegadyn a grand total of 870,940,302 Gil. That would be enough to buy the largest plot of land inside the players district, along with fully furnish it with only the best items one could buy and still have enough to lend out to others as if he himself was a bank. At this point, he could have had coins in his eyes if this was some cartoon.

Moving on quickly before the last info fully had its chance to really make an impact. There was only the third window left to review. It didn’t have a lot on it at a first glance, the thing was meant to display things like your current affiliation and the rank with each one. At the moment, all of it was blank for that section. Then there were the titles a player acquired with the quests and activities one did.

For example, the Gambler title, was one would get by going to the location known as the Golden Saucer. The place mentioned was a type of gambling hub where one would play an assortment of games to collect what was called saucer coins. These could be used to buy rare Golden Saucer exclusive items. Mostly for the cosmetic effect such as the item being a set of clothes or accessories like earrings, necklaces, armor and weapons that would have a unique pattern or glowing effect when drawn out.

Brex started remembering that he had seen some of the other male players wearing things like suits and the female players wearing a rather provocative outfit that ranged from maids and bunny girls. Once in a while, he would catch one trying to look like a sexy succubus, with long black nails and horns that one could get there as the prizes when turning in the coins won from the games. It was always so lively there at any time. After a moment of reminiscing, he went back to his reviewing.

The next part was displaying his characters birthday. Alongside with the date, it displayed one of the twelve gods in place of a birth stone. The name of his was Althyk, the keeper, surveyor of change, the god of space, time and controller of earth. Represented on his birth stone with an hourglass, to which he belongs to. Brex remembers that his god was the father to two goddesses. The eldest daughter was Azwyma, the keeper of the sun, goddess of inquiry and controller of fire. As for the second, she was called Menphina, the lover, keeper of the moons and commands ice.

Now Althyk himself had a younger sister called Nymeia, the spinner, watcher of celestial bodies and goddess of fate and commands water. He recalled something about his god and that was a note that mentioned in the last battle with a powerful being called Bahamut, a caster called upon his power to send the Adventurers to a safe place before the massive attack struck that laid waste to the realm. Never really did find out wither or not that had any effect in the game, other than for the role-playing purposes.

For the next several minutes, Brex processed all the info that was basically thrown at his face. Then as if a light bulb just went on overhead, he had a look of determination and declared, “I’m in a new world, in a new body with skills and abilities only others dream of. I may as well accept it and move on, if I don’t and things keep going as they are now, I’ll end up in the loony bin by tomorrow night.”

As if the world accepted the new commers declaration of challenge, the sounds of nature died down. All that was left in the air was a light wind blowing through the trees, along with it carrying a scent of rotten meat. It started off faint and seemed to be coming from Brex’s right side. Turning to face the direction of the strange scent, he noticed a pair of glowing green orbs, no bigger than golf balls from within the darkness, just past the edge of the tree line. Instantly the memory of the descriptions flooded his thoughts.

Starting at the glowing eyes, the rotten scent, even the forest’s way of looking. After putting it all together did it finally connect with him. He spoke with a defeated, low tone that just screamed that Brex Mith, the now Roegadyn, had finally understood just where he was. While not taking his eyes away from the new company, he couldn’t help but to utter the following, “Oh for the seven hells! I’m in fucking Equestria!”