Author's-note: This is my first fanfic, and probably the first story i've ever posted online (I say probably because I may have posted something earlier on another site and forgotten, but that was probably a while ago anyway). Please forgive if this is of sub-optimal quality or a bit short, and be gentile with any roasting in the comments.
I'm going to finish this story regardless, but some feedback would be appreciated.
anyway I've talked enough, on to the story,
enjoy :-)
P.S. There is very game specific content in this story!
Some of this content will not make sense unless you have played Terraria and know at least most of the major mechanics, I will not be explaining the nature of any of the terms I use regarding the in-game creatures or game-play mechanics, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
(besides worst comes to worst you could just look it up ;p)
(EDIT)-I was going to make this chapter 2 but then I realized that chapter 1 was waaaay too short, so I just decided to extend chapter 1 and make chapter 2 later, Enjoy :)
Chapter 1, Prologue
Perspective: Conroy
"Ahh, another morning on Terra-Earth.", I said to myself as I awoke feeling a bit sore.
It has been two years since the real world had merged with the game, to this day I still wonder why terraria of all games was the one that had to come to life. By now anyone who didn't know how to play the game was weeded out, but I'm getting ahead of myself, why don't I just start with the day everything went to hell?
It was April 3rd 2013, a Wednesday I believe, no one really knows what exactly caused it, it happened so fast.
The day was odd right off the bat, I woke up mid-day, I'm 26 and I live alone so I'm usually in no hurry to get up, I'll never forget the time I saw on the clock that afternoon 12:04 PM, that would be the last "normal" moment of my life. As only minutes after I finished getting dressed, a Devourer burst through my floor, leaving me flabbergasted to say the least, barely missing my now petrified body.
I had only a single moment to react, running out my bedroom door and sprinting to my gun safe in the room across the hall, I had never entered that code so fast in my life. I grabbed my Benelli M3 and the beast burst through the ceiling just as I loaded the first shell.
I jumped back, one of its fangs grazing my leg. By reflex alone I fired, landing a shell full of buckshot into the creature, near silence filled the room as I could hear only the ringing of my own ears and the racing beats of my heart.
I prayed to whatever gods were listening, hoping that the creature was dead, and to my relief I was right.
I finally got a chance to get my bearings, figure out what in the name of Christ was happening, I staggered to my feet and looked out my window to find the city I once knew in near ruin.
My first thoughts zipped to my girlfriend Stephanie, but I shook that thought off, for the moment I needed to worry about number one.
Okay Conroy get yourself together you can have an existential crisis later, you've played at least half a dozen post-apocalyptic survival games, you're ready for this (kinda).
I raced downstairs, I don't have a very big house so I just jumped the railing, my mind was racing with all of the essentials for survival, "food, water, weapon", I told myself. I grabbed my backpack, an unopened box of granola bars, four, no five bottles of water, and I already had a weapon.
I needed to travel light so I changed into a tracksuit, the heaviest thing I had on me was my shotgun, and 50-something rounds of buckshot.
With my tracksuit, sunglasses, baseball-cap, and duct tape hand wraps, I left my home. My first destination was my girlfriend's house, the phone towers were dead so I would have to check on her the old fashioned way.
As I ran down the road I noticed something, the grass was... purple? I was surprised I hadn't noticed this sooner, I found it extremely odd, disturbing even, then I started putting peices in weird but seemingly correct places.
"Terraria...? But thats impossible."
A game I had been playing for two years now, since it came out.
"But... how... why... No, it couldnt be... But why else would... Well it makes about as much sense as evrything else that's happened today."
Had the game truly... come to life somehow? Either way there was no time for questions, I had to press on, at least I had somewhat figured out what was happening.
I continued my thoughts as I kept running to my girlfriend's house, The giant grey worm, the purple grass, the puzzle pieces fit, jumping to conclusions was my best bet for now.
"Could the game have truly... Come to life somehow?"
"But... that makes no sense, something like that shouldnt be possbile... but... it's all I have to go on."
could the city have become... corrupted? But that makes no sense, the corruption doesn't spread nearly that fast, even in hardmode it would take at least a few days for a city of this size to become corrupted, how could it have happened overnight? Unless...
The Wall of Flesh... When it's defeated and a world goes into hardmode, it causes two giant strips of the world, from hell to space to become corrupted and hallowed; this city could've been caught in the line of fire.
But still, the game would've had to have fused with the real world a while ago, after all players would need time, days of prep, before they could even touch the Wall...
My train of thought was cut short as I arrived at my Girlfriend's house.
I quickly entered, searching for any sign of my girl, I searched the house calling her name,
STEPHANIE ARE YOU HERE?! I called out... no response.
Come to think of it, I hadn't come across a single person on my way here, not even a dead body;
you'd think that with the entire city in ruin there would be a few corpses lying dead in the streets.
Sure maybe it had been evacuated, and that would explain the absence of people, but in that case why was I left behind, and it still doesn't explain the bodies,
AGHHH SO MANY GOD DAMN QUESTIONS!
I decided to leave that delema for later, I had to find Stephanie.
I looked around her house, door after door was opened until I found her, asleep in her room, as if nothing was wrong.
Then I recalled yet another odd observation, the house seemed untouched, not like the other houses around here which were half torn apart.
Why was this house untouched? I mean sure, I wasn't complaining, my girl was safe but... how had she not suffered the same fate?
Until i remembered, Stephanie's brother also plays Terraria.
Conroy: *Shaking Stephanie* "Steph Come on wake up! All hell's been let loose outside!"
Stephanie: *Waking Up* "Roy..? what are you doing here?"
Conroy: "You really have no idea whats going on?"
Stephanie: *still half asleep* "Whatch'ya mean hon? Is there a riot or something?"
Conroy: "Listen, I know this sounds crazy, but somehow, someway, I think the real world has merged with a video game.
I facepalmed mentally, that really did sound crazy, too crazy, "probably could'a laid it out a bit smoother bud", but i was panicked and the words were already out there so...
Appropriately Stephanie is looking at me like I have three heads
Stephanie: "Yeah... okay... did my brother put you up to this or something?
Conroy: "I'm not joking babe, just look outside for Pete's sake!"
Stephanie, with a confused/okay I'll humor you, look on her face, goes to the window and her jaw drops,
she covers her mouth and breaks into tears only moments later.
Conroy: *Puts his hand on Stephanie's shoulder* "Babe... Look at me"
Stephanie breaks herself out of her horrified state, turning around, and almost immediately jumping into my embrace.
Conroy: "Look I'm not sure how, but I'll get us out of this."
Stephanie stops crying for a moment,
Stephanie: "What about my family?"
Conroy: "I'm not sure about your parents, but I think you're brother Drake might've been protecting your house.
Though I haven't seen any of them.
I dont want to assume the worst babe, but in this situation, frankly I wouldn't get my hopes up."
Stephanie simply nods, thanking me for not giving her some bland one-liner of reassurance, she's a tough girl.
Conroy: "Okay lets look around a bit, maybe they're held up in the basement or something, if the city was evacuated they wouldn't have just left you.
I'll just cut to the chase and not butter things up, there's two possibilities,
One: They're dead
Two: They're held up somewhere and hoping you're still okay
Got it?"
Stephanie nods again, clearly she's liking me taking charge but is still very nervous, she grabs the bowie knife she keeps behind her bed (she's had problems with people breaking in through her window before) and takes my six.
We began walking around the house, me with my shotgun on my shoulder and Stephanie tailing me close behind with the bowie knife held backhanded at her side.
Stephanie: "Wait, do you hear that?"
We both stop to listen and to my surprise I hear something that sonds like blaster fire, coming from outside, I give Stephanie a nod and hand signal for us to move out
We both jog through the halls, out the front door, and turn to where the sound was coming from.
Conroy: "There!"
I point to the left side of the street, about a block and a half away we see someone battling a swarm of Soul Eaters with a Phaseblade and Meteor Armor.
We see him jump high into the air, hooking a pair of climbing claws into the side of a building.
He then jumps to the side dodging a soul eater as it rams into the wall, then impaling it with his Phasesaber,
Jumping off of the wall he grabs onto another soul eater that was hovering nearby, immediatly jumping off of it wile backfipping and slicing it in half,
Landing on both feet and one hand with his phasesaber backhanded, he holster his Saber and pulls out a Space Gun,
firing a hailstorm of bolts into the final soul eater, missing the first two shots but then nailing it with seven succesive bolts, effectively turning it into swiss cheese.
Conroy: *Jokingly* "looks like I have some serious competition eh babe?"
Stephanie: *giggles* "Well we'll just have to see about that, I havent seen his face yet."
The stranger seems to notice us, then begins running twards us at a considerable pace,
preparing for a possible attack, I poise and aim down the sights of my shotgun, puting the ironsights on him and my finger on the trigger.
As the stranger approaches he slows down and raises his hands in reaction to this, to show that his approach was not in fact a sign of hostility.
but still being sceptical, I keep him in my crosshairs while questioning him.
Conroy: "Who are you?"
The stranger, rather than speaking, takes off his helmet to reveal his face, to my surprise it was Drake, Stephanie's twin brother.
Conroy: *Dropping his shotgun* "DRAKE?!"
Stephanie immediatly is overjoyed to see her brother still in one peice and runs at him screaming, jumping on him and holding him as tight as she could.
Stephanie: "I was so worried!" there were tears in her eyes now "I thought you were dead! Where are mom and dad?"
Drake: *to stephanie* "Calm down it's going to be alright, me and Roy are perfectly capable of protecting you." *to Conroy* "Right man?"
Conroy: "Yeah!" I then go to the matter at hand "Where the hell did you get that gear?"
Drake: "I accessed my character's in game inventory, once I selected my character the stuff just kinda materialised on my body, I assume anyone who'se played the game can do it, haven't you tried it?"
Conroy: "Okay... how am I supposed to do that?"
Drake: "You just have to boot up terraria on your computer at your house, once you do all will be revealed."
Conroy: "Oh thats just great, not criptic at all or anything like that."
I then set off to my house, leaving Stephanie in the hands of her brother for the time being,
I had no idead what happened or how it happened but apparently I was about to find out.
/END CHAPTER 1/
