In the year 9:41 Dragon a conclave was held by Divine Justinia in order to make peace between the Templars and the Mages and to try to get Thedas back into order. However, the blighted magister Corypheus interferes with the proceedings causing a large explosion which killed all who attended and destroyed any chance of peace in thedas. This resulted in a breach into the fade appearing and an elven mage being given a mark, the only thing that could close the breach and save the world. This... is not her story.

Journal entry #1 June 13th 2017

I am keeping this journal to remind myself that this is actually fucking happening and not in fact a fucking dream I am not waking up from. Okay first off, I was driving into work, like any other day, except in the tunnel I used and a red portal or something opened up and swallowed me and my car up. Next thing I know I'm in a fucking cave or something and surrounded by a bunch of assholes in black robes who seemed utterly enthused by my appearance, even though I had one of them splattered in my windshield. Honestly it's all a bit of a blur and I think I blacked out for a bit cause when I woke up I was strapped to table and all the robed assholes were chanting. Figuring out was was about to go down I screamed at them to stop but was ignored.

That's about when a group of people burst in and started killing everybody. One of them was shooting lightning out of her fucking hands so I just waited screamed for their help and waited for something to happen. One of the cultists almost plunged a knife in me but was, thankfully, interrupted by an arrow to the face. That about when I realized that the person who shot the arrow was very short and holding a Crossbow . I think I passed out again after that.

After that I rudely awoken by that same person who O realized looked like a "fantasy dwarf" (WTF) who wanted to know who I was (again WTF). I told her that I was Garrett and currently confused beyond rational thought. She thought I was funny. I saw the rest of them, three people(one male two female) examining my car.

Anyway the one of the women, the one shooting lightning approached me and asked me what I was doing. I pretty much told that I had no idea what was going on and told her that I was just pulled through a red portal while on the way to work. She had pointed ears...I'm in a fantasy land, god dammit. Anyway she seemed to sense something off about me but seems to believe that I am from a another world, at least for now. She introduced herself as Ferah. We have set up camp outside the cave and right now I just want to get some sleep so...done.

Journal Entry #2 June 14th 2017

So I pretty much got an info dump over the past two days so here goes. I seem to have ended up in a continent called Thedas, these people don't have a name for the planet it seems. They said that they were investigating a group of blood mages who were experimenting with space manipulation. Apparently they were using a recent magical event as well as copious amounts of blood to power the experiment. When I described they portal they said that it sounded similar to various rifts that had been occurring with the exception of the coloration, they were green not red. It also explains why they believed me so readily about coming from another world.

They questioned me about where I came from and told at least some of what Earth is like, enough to explain the car at least. The male Elf, Solas I think (soulless?(nerd senses say bad news)), seemed to be befuddled and somehow offended. The dwarf, Varric, seemed to be fascinated and wanted me to explain some things in detail, given his semi auto crossbow I think he might be helpful in the future. He mentioned that he is an author and would be interested in getting more info to add to a possible book. I might have just invented Sci Fi here...Fuck yea.

Anyway the human, Cassandra, mentioned that the rest of the Inquisition (oh right they are from an "inquisition" this will totally go well for me) would need some proof to believe my story so we went back to the cave to see what I could get from my car.

To be frank, it was trashed, utterly fucking trashed. The engine block was ripped apart by the portal, I'm guessing, and the axle was completely bent out of alignment. It sure as hell wasn't going to go anywhere on its own. Thankfully it still had my old textbooks and tool kit in the back so that was something. I already have ideas that will make the explosives engineering book very useful. Might need to use part of my apocalypse plan. I also had my car charger and my phone so that should make life a bit easier here. I also scavenged the alternator and battery from the car so I should be able to set up a kinetic power generator eventually.

The group mentioned that they might be able to hook up some horses to the carriage (best let them think that) and take it with them as proof. The two mages sealed the cave with a magic barrier of some kind, (Ward?) and said that we were going to get horses from a local horse master, but that we'd stop by a base camp in the meantime to restock and give me time to adjust.

First story, felt like doing something similar to Stranded in Fantasy ( /wiki/Stranded_in_fantasy) since story structure is not a thing I can do yet and the style fit in my head.

The writing might be somewhat disjointed to show the journal writer being stressed and easily distracted, any comments on how I could improve that would be appreciated.

Will probably be updated in sets of two entries and at a frequency of whenever I get to it. I am easily distracted and might not get to it for a while.