I was saddened by the lack of Baldur's Gate stories on here so I decided to make my own! It will definitely branch off from the original game but that's what makes it fan-fiction lol. Well, enjoy!

"Welcome to Faerun!" - Speech

'Im in Fearun?' - Thoughts

"We're in Fearun" - Telepathic Speech

"Ignis!" - Spells

For as long as I could remember I always played video games, the earliest memory I have was playing games with my dad when I was just a kid. A lot of things changed since then but the only thing that hasn't changed is my love for video games.

EARTH-2024

"Yawnnn!" The sound escaped my lips as I stretched my hands over my head. How long has it been since I started playing?

'Eight hours? Jesus...'

Recently my life has just been one boring grey cycle. Nothing changes much and I don't do much except work. There is one thing though, one big highlight of my life. Video games! I couldn't tell you how many hours total I've sunk into video games. It has to be easily in the thousands, yet I don't regret a second. However, the thought of how many hours I spent in front of a screen pretending to be a fictional character does make me think on all the things I could've done instead.

Eh, it's too late now no need to think about all that stuff.

Still, it was hard to get out of my head.

It was now early in the morning and my all-nighter would quickly become another day without sleep. Well at least I had tomorrow off. More time to game! But after a few seconds of standing up, I quickly started to feel the fatigue getting to me.

'Today is gonna be a long day.'

After a quick change of clothes, I walked out of my crummy room into my equally crummy apartment.

''I should clean up soon' I thought while walking toward my door. Knowing me though I probably won't clean for a while.

The apartment I stayed in was pretty small, dirty, and infested with rats and roaches, but it was home. That must count for something right? While I would like to get a better apartment it's just not possible with my current salary as a cashier. It's enough to live sure but that's not saying much when you're surviving off rice and eggs. Well, at least I have games I guess.

My thoughts soon turned to my favorite hobby. Gaming. I wonder what my party is doing right now? It was currently my 7th time playing Baldur's Gate 3 and I am enjoying it quite a bit. It seems like every time I play that game I find something new, in fact I've been playing it so much I've started to dream about it

Well, it's not like that's anything new.

My thoughts were soon interrupted by the blazing heat of summer as soon as I stepped out of my apartment.

"Fuck it's hot," I said to no one in particular.

Anyway yeah, I can't wait to come home and play Baldurs Gate again. I do wish sometimes though that I could change some things about the game. As great as it is there's of course some flaws. But I love it all the same.

Stepping into my car broke my train of thought yet again and the realization of having to go to work finally hit me.

"Fuck! UGH!" I yelled in my car.

Okay, okay, calm down. I sighed before turning on my shitty little car. I wonder if anyone else yells in their car before work. Anyway, I wonder what mischief I'll be up to when I get back home. Probably saving some people, killing monsters, and having fun with that group. I wish I had friends like my character does.

Friends huh? My character doesn't know how good he has it. Friends, lovers, fame, and fortune are around every corner in a huge amazingly beautiful and exotic world with magic and so many races you can hardly keep up with them all. Much better than boring old earth. Seriously my character has it good...

CRASH!

It came out of nowhere, it felt like I got hit by a train and someone sliced my throat with a hot sauce-covered knife. I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, what was I thinking about?

"Hrrgh! Khak! Khak!" I gripped my throat in pain.

What the fuck happened! One minute I'm driving and the next im choking on my own fucking blood! Im feeling cold... Am I gonna die? Fuck I am right? Fuck.

How is it so cold? Where am I? All I can feel is the pain in my throat. Someone is touching me I think? Maybe I'll survive... As if, I'm going to die like this aren't I? Wait, I hear something. Who is it? What is it?

Slowly it was a murmur, drowned out by who knows what. Everything is muffled. Then it hit me out of nowhere everything, every sound, feeling, thought, emotion, and sight. Sirens, screaming, running, anger, sadness, hate, fear so much fear, and a little bit of joy. Who is this in front of me? A person? Who is that?

"...I'm sorry."

Oh, I remember now, a paramedic with blood all over them, and me with even more blood on me laying on the hot asphalt. Are they saying sorry to me? Why. Oh. Because I'm dead.

?-?

Urgh! So many emotions! Hate, anger, bloodlust, death, gore. What is this, fuck!

'Kill!' My mind tells me, no my body, my very blood. A gnawing hunger for death and gore.

'Kill!' Did I kill something? It felt so good. So fucking good. Kill I must kill. No! What am I thinking? No, kill yeah killing is good it makes us feel good. What kill? Yeah kill. Kill! Who what. What is this?!

Hate, anger, a thirst for blood, lust, absolute bliss. I feel these emotions entirely. I hate it. This isn't me it can't be? Is this hell? It has to be.

Please be a dream. Wake up! Wake up!

"WAKE UP!"

I woke up with a start so sudden it scared me. Oh fuck where am I?

FAERUN, MIND FLAYER SHIP-1492 DR

I know where I am. Yes. I know all too well where I am. This is the Mind Flayer Ship! But what was all that? Is this a dream no it can't be, it feels too realistic. The cold metal of the pod I was in infiltrated my very bones. The putrid smell of flesh and bodily fluids filled my nostrils and hit my brain like a train. Yes, there's no way it's not real, I felt myself die didn't I? But what were those things I felt before I woke up? Those emotions burned in my soul, I felt it, I was it. I need to calm down and find my way out of here.

Whatever it takes I need to escape.

I tried my best to focus on the situation and get the fear out of my mind. For some reason, it was much easier than I thought, I wonder what reason was that? I shook my head and looked at my surroundings. The room was much creepier in real life than in the game, it was part mechanical and part bodily horror. The ship I was on was a living being, the walls were made of flesh and most of the machinery was also made of flesh with metal mixed in somehow. I looked all around the room but all I could see was the pods that held people captive. All of those captured people were obscured by the dim light and the pods themselves. All except one.

'Lae-zel!?'

Holy shit it's really her! She looked almost exactly like the game but she was even more stunning in real life. Her green skin glistening with sweat and the look of shock, anger, and fear were shown on her face quite clearly. She struggled and tugged against the restraints of the pod with her efforts going to waist. I tried to brake free myself but I quickly found my restraints were far stronger than myself.

The dim room was briefly filled with an alien purple and red light that went away as fast as it came, and the thing that came out was more horrifying than I could ever think of.

'A mind flayer... Fuck!' I thought with fear and panic flowing through my very body. Every instinct told me to run, to fight, to get away to somehow to survive this external threat. My hair on the back of my neck stood straight up and sweat began to pool on my forehead. It felt very much like seeing a predator in the wild, or what I assume it would feel like. The mind flayer itself was horribly gross and horrifying as it was ugly. Their slimy squid like flesh glistened in the dim light with their mouth tentacles swaying independently in different directions. Their clothes were equally alien as their face was, a black and red robe which glowed with alien power covered most of the mind flayer. I silently vowed to never let myself become one, even though I knew that it wouldn't necessarily that difficult considering the plot of the game.

The mind flayer continued to float slowly towards the middle of the room towards the pool before they plucked their disgusting boney hand into the foul looking water. It searched in the water for a second before pulling back its hand from the water. I knew exactly what it was pulling out, I knew it all too well.

A mind flayer parasite!