Spears of light pierced through Tom’s eyes and straight into his brain. He raised his arms to block the light and shut his eyes as tightly as he could. His hand bumped into his haptic gear. Had he fallen asleep in the game? That made sense, as he had already fallen asleep once today or yesterday.

  He pulled the haptic gear off, his head catching his ears as he took them off. He winced at the pain. He must have put on the helmet wrong and crushed his ear.

  His eyes winced shut from the overhead fluorescent lights. The moment he did, His ears were assaulted by a roar like a lion getting raped by an elephant. Whatever made that sound was right in front of him, but he couldn’t force his eyes open.

  The roaring continued. The air around Tom vibrated with sound, and he could feel the warmth of breath on his face. He scooted back in his seat. Slowly, the muscles in his eyelids started to relax, and he was able to crack his eyes open. And He immediately wished he hadn’t.

  Sitting directly across from him in a little dinky office chair was some kind of Lizardman. A monster. Not some dude in a costume – a real fucking flesh-and-blood monster, and it looked pissed. Its right arm, which might have been as thick around as Tom's waist, reached across its massive chest and … tried to rip off the haptic gear that was awkwardly placed over its reptilian head. Tom tried to get to his feet and run, but the moment his feet hit the floor, he was hit with a sense of vertigo and stumbled forward, crashing first into the table and then onto the floor.

  The monster finally seemed to have given up and violently ripped off the haptic gear, sending the expensive rig crashing into a wall. The lizard man's motions were too much for the little office chair, which finally collapsed under the monster's bulk, sending it crashing to the floor.

  “Wharrapuck?” said the monster.

  Then Chloe's scream cut through all of the morning fog.

  "MONSTER!!" she screamed.

  Tom spun to see his little sister holding onto Lucy's neck as she stared at the lizardman.

  Two new screams pried Tom’s attention away from the giant monster in front of him. He wasn’t alone in here with the creature, which was some small comfort, but who the hell were these people?

  The first one was a squirrel. A literal squirrel man, he was honestly cute, and he knew it was a he because he was naked in a pile of clothes too big for him with his chestnuts out. Standing at just three feet tall, covered in thick fur, with a bushy tail. His coat was a warm brown color with accents of light tan around his belly, tail, and ears. His eyes were a pair of curious blue that gleamed with mischief and intelligence and a small button nose that twitched with excitement. His most notable feature is a long, fluffy tail that was almost as long as his entire body.

  The other one was a taller woman who he was forced to describe as a pornstar. No other description summed her up quite as well. She had light caramel skin, and her hair was a messy mane of spun blonde hair. Despite wearing sweats, it looked like her tits were about to rip through her sweatshirt, and her massive ass had already ripped open her pants. She also had pointed ears, so she was probably an elf. Despite all that, her eyes were the most eye-catching. Golden irises looked back at him with confusion. She looked suspiciously like …

  <[Analyze Person] has Reached Level 2>

  <[Analyze Person] has Reached Level 3>

  <...>

  <[Analyze Person] has Reached Level 8>

  "Alex?" Tom asked.

  "Huh," she responded.

  “Huh?” said the monster. Its mouth hung open, giving everyone a clear view of the very sharp teeth inside.

  "Holy shit," the squirrel said in a voice that immediately made Tom think of Alvin and the chipmunks.

  The squirrel guy jumped to his feet and lept backwards like a frightened cat, drawing two moonstone shortswords. The big-tittied woman summoned a giant fireball. Tom summoned a glyph as things started to look like they were about to turn nasty. But Then, just as the fighting was about to start, Tom began to notice his surroundings. He was in Alex's house, and Chloe was behind him crying. He was in the game room where all of his friends were, and now he was surrounded by a bunch of strangers…

  "This can't actually be real?" he muttered to himself

  The monster turned to look at him. "Toooom?"

  The monster was wearing clothes. Hector's clothes only ripped like he had just hulked out. Tom shook his head. There was an easy way to check all of this.

  "[Augurs Eye]," Tom said immediately. Everyone in the room turned to face him, their weapons raised.

  <[Augurs Eye] has Reached Level 7>

  "God dammit!" Tom swore as he dropped his glyphs.

  "Guys, it's us, it's me, Tom. The lizard is Hector, she's Alex, and Skippy … why are you a cute squirrel?" Tom asked as he clutched his head. Blood was running from his nose.

  All at once, his friends stopped preparing to kill each other as they took a moment to properly assess their surroundings.

  Tom, realizing Chloe was still crying, went over to his sister to try to calm her down.

  "Tom?" she asked as she looked at him.

  Tom winced as Chloe looked at him without really recognizing him. It hurt more than he expected.

  "It's okay, Chloe. It's me and the guys. See nothing wrong," Tom said. "I promise you it's just … a costume."

  "It is?" Chloe asked wide-eyed

  "Yeah," Tom said. "Here, watch."

  Tom pulled at his ears and stuck out his tongue, making Chloe giggle. But the ears didn't come off; in fact, his new pointed ears felt painfully real. A part of his brain prodded him; he had been using magic just a second ago, and he shouldn't be able to do that either. With deft hands, he wove together a spell, and a cluster of glowing butterflies burst from his hands.

  "Pretty," Chloe whispered.

  "That is so fucking gay," Skippy said.

  Chloe instantly forgot about her worries as she reached out to try to touch the butterflies.

  Meanwhile, Tom was having an internal panic attack. He was a half-elf, he was his in-game avatar, and he could use magic! What the hell was going on? That's when something horrible occurred to him. What if it wasn't just them? He quickly used [Augurs Eye] on his sister.

  DING!!!

  Tom immediately checked Lucy.

  He was equal parts concerned and relieved at the fact that Chloe had turned Lucy into her own magical guard dog. Tom pulled himself away from his sister to look back at the rest of the group, clutching his head.

  "So, as a side note, magic is real," Tom said as he tried to cast a spell to heal himself; his hp had already dropped to the 50% marker just from using [Augurs Eye]

  Hector was still clearly freaking out.

  “Whashgoingon?” asked Hector.

  "I think we all know the answer to that," Tom said.

  "Do we?" Skippy asked, his voice high and squeaky "Do we really? Maybe you should enlighten the rest of us. Because I, for one, would like to know why you look like Link from the legend of Zelda, why I'm a furry, Alex looks like she belongs on pornhub, Hector is a roided out lizard and why we are all dressed up in gay Renaissance fair costume."

  "Yeah, I have no idea about the how or even the why. But we are very obviously in the game."

  “This is going to be so fucking awesome.!” Alex said as she blasted her wall with a Spark bolt.

  "This can't be the game," Skippy said, sounding like Alvin the chipmunk.

  "You're adorable," Alex cooed.

  "Eat my taint, Alex," Skippy shot back. "This can't be the game."

  "And yet it is," Alex said.

  “Is it?” asked Skippy. “Is it really? Maybe you should enlighten the rest of us. Because I, for one, don't know why I'm fucking furry. Alex is a fantasy porn star, and Hector is an eight-foot-tall crocodile?”

  "I thought we already established we're in a video game." Tom pointed out.

  "I think he's still freaking out," Alex cut in.

  "No, we aren't. I'm pretty sure the legend of noralon didn't have Alex's house as an explorable location or computers or Tom's little sister as an NPC," Skippy shouted pointedly.

  The effect was ruined by sounding like he was huffing helium.

  "Aporkalipse," Hector mouthed.

  "What?' Tom asked, turning to look at his friend.

  Hector was moving his lips and tongue around.

  "Apor, apap, apacolipse, syt, systam apakalypse. System Apackalipse" Hector muttered, slowly clearing his throat. "Ok, I think I goot thisss, it's a Ssssystem Apocalypssse,"

  Hector's voice was substantially deeper and more gravely than before.

  "Oh, good to see that speech impediment that's not going to be a thing," Tom muttered.

  "What the fuck is a system apocalypse?" Skippy asked.

  "The world becomes a video game, monsters show up, and society collapses, which might explain this situation," Tom said.

  "That sounds retarded," Skippy said.

  "That's what your mom said last night." Alex shot back.

  "I was supposed to be going to Florida this spring!!" Skippy groaned as he scratched at his head.

  "Tom, why are you all dressed up?" Chloe asked.

  "Um, we all went to Magic Land and returned with superpowers, but now we all look like this," Tom said. "It's not a costume, sorry/"

  "Can you teach me magic!" Chloe asked, immediately forgetting everything that had just happened.

  "Of course I … we can. But right now, I think the important thing is … Alex, Why are you fondling yourself?" Tom hissed out the last part as he placed his hands over Chloe's eyes.

  Alex looked up at them from where she had been fondling her brand-new giant tits.

  "What part about I'm going to be a big titty girl next time did you not understand?"

  "Uh, hu, and why are you groping yourself?"

  "Don't knock it till you try it. This is fucking awesome. Though I wonder?" Alex Then slid a hand down her pants to start playing with her sex.

  "Oh my god, it's so much more sensitive!"

  "Fucking perv," Skippy muttered as he threw an empty pop can at her head.

  Alex didn't even react to the pop can hitting her in the head.

  "Hey now, no kink shaming in the guild. Besides, if you suddenly had tits like these, you would be foundling yourself all day too. They feel amazing." she moaned as she played with herself.

  Skippy face palmed while Tom tried and failed to look away.

  "Guuyss, there's an eight-year-old in the room. PGss-thirrteeeen," Hector said

  Alex jerked her hands away from her privates as if she had just been caught masturbating instead of openly masturbating in public like a perv.

  "We are all going to die," Skippy muttered.

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  Base

  Personal: +4 PER +4 WILL +3 INT +3 CHA

  Racial: +3 WILL +2 CON +2 CHA +1 SPIRIT

  Bloodline: +5 PER +5 INT

  Level Bonus: +1 to all Stats

  Mini-Character List

  Tom: Our Protagonist who now looks like Link from the Legend of Zelda

  Alex: Tom's best friend, a newly created elf and the group's wizard

  Skippy: Tom's friend, a squirrel and the group's duelist

  Hector: Tom's friend, a lizard man and the group tank

  Chloe: Tom's little sister

  Lucy: Alex's former dog and Chloe's animal companion

  AN: