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"All right!" A young man said, closing the door to his room. "Homework's done, a long weekend's ahead, it's time to play some Elder Tale!"
Going to the start screen, he loaded the application. In his eagerness to play, he glossed over the title screen and the announcement that the tenth expansion had been released, and went straight for character selection. Clicking on the character name Wrottzen was the last thing the boy remembered before blacking out.
What happened? He thought as he regained consciousness. Looking around the room he saw plain wooden walls, a simple desk and bare furnishings, the exact opposite of the room he had been in before.
Where am I? And why does my body feel so weird? Wanting to investigate the surroundings, the gamer tried to get up off the bed, but found himself unable to do so.
Gah! It feels like someone put a huge dumbbell right on my chest! "Hello? Is anyone there?"
Almost on cue, a young man came through the door. "Thank goodness you're awake! We were starting to get worried Miss Adventurer."
"Miss? I think you're mistaken mister. I'm a guy through and through. Now could you please help me up?"
"Of course." With the help of the caretaker, the gamer sat up and noticed a strand of long red hair come across his view.
My hair was never this long. Wait! Long hair, Miss! Please don't let it be true. Suddenly panicking he yelled, "Get me a mirror! Now!"
"Yes Ma'am." The caretaker said before scurrying out of the room. He returned a few moments later with a small handheld mirror.
Looking into the mirror, the gamer's fears were confirmed. Instead of seeing a full masculine face with beard stubble growing, he saw a slender feminine face with long red hair and piercing blue eyes. As he looked down under the covers, the rest fell into place. His body felt weird because it wasn't his own; He had trouble sitting up because of the mounds on his chest.
"Where am I?! Who did this to me?!" He now she yelled.
The caretaker stood there unfazed by the outburst. "No one did anything to you Miss. You were simply lying in the street before I took you back to my house here in Syr."
Syr… That name seems familiar. Now that I think about it, my face looked awfully familiar too. "Hmmm"
"All this seems to be quite a shock to you. I'll leave you alone so that you can work through it. If you need me I'll be in the next room Miss Adventurer."
Again with the Miss. That's going to take some getting used to. Wait what did he say after Miss? Adventurer? Now I know I've heard that somewhere before…
"Adventurer… Syr… Elder Tale!" Suddenly all of the pieces fell together. Adventurers were the name for players in the game Elder Tale. Syr was a medium sized city in the northern part of what would have been New York in the real world. And his face looked familiar because he was the one who designed its features, and spent hours looking at them from behind a computer screen.
"I've become Wrottzen." He said inspecting his newer smaller hands. "Focus. Can I still open the menu?" A few wipes of the hand eventually revealed the menu and all of Wrottzen's stats. She was a level 47 Half- Alv Guardian with the subclass of Alchemist.
"I guess these are my stats now. Wait the friend list is still here?! Is he on?" Wrottzen searched his list until he came across the name he was looking for: Bojohn. "Thank God he's on. Maybe he'll know what's happening."
Bojohn was the Wrottzen's best friend IRL and the one who introduced him to the world of Elder Tale. While Wrottzen was only level 47, Bojohn was a level 69 Swashbuckler, a powerful ally and one who knew far more about MMOs than Wrottzen.
Activating the telepathic link, Wrottzen said, "Hey Bojohn you there?"
"Dude is that you!" He replied, "I didn't think you'd be on!"
"I finished my work early. Kinda wishing I didn't do that. Any idea what's going on?"
"Nah man, I'm in the same boat as you. The only possibility people in the streets have been able to come up with is that it has something to do with the new expansion that just went live."
"A new expansion went live?"
"Yeah it was on the loading screen of the game." Bojohn replied, "It was one of the last things I can remember before ending up in game."
"I just woke up myself. I'm being cared for by a Person of the Land so I haven't been outside yet. How are people reacting?"
"Not good. People are panicking, yelling for GMs, even picking fights with one another and People of the Land."
"Where are you right now?"
"I'm at the edge of town, I was just getting set to test out my character before you called."
"Don't do that yet!" Wrottzen quickly responded. "We don't know the consequences of dying yet. What if this is like that anime SAO?"
"Which one was that again?" Bojohn replied sheepishly, "You've told me about so many they've all started to blur together."
"It's the one where the players of an MMO get trapped inside and are forced to fight their way out. Only a death in the game means death in real life."
"Oh crap! I don't want to die! I don't even have a girlfriend!"
"Exactly. At the very least wait for me before going out. I can tank for you and with two of us, the odds of survival will be much greater."
"If there's a possibility of dying IRL, shouldn't we not leave the city all together?"
"You had the right idea. We need to test out the capabilities of our new bodies. Eventually we will be placed into a fight and, at least for a while, being more comfortable with your body could be the difference between life and death."
"You always were the smart one. Where do you want to meet up?"
"Meet me by the Sphere in three hours. We'll set out from there."
"K man, I'll see you then!" Bojohn replied before ending the link.
With the transmission over, Wrottzen laid back down flat on the bed. I'm glad to have at least one friend in this new world. Now how am I supposed to prepare my equipment!
AN: Hey everyone, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of Adjustments. This is my first Log Horizon fic and I might not be as familiar with the lore as I should be. Let me know if I made any errors in portraying the Elder Tale universe. Next time we'll meet Bojohn and set out into the great unknown.