Your name is Senaz, and you have a… Peculiar situation.
Well, like any normally-constituted person, you have a number of situations. You're a Succubus, preternatural manipulator of human lust and desire. You play music and learn tricks and magic through it as a Bard. You can always be the life of any party, even just a board game night. And you were, until recently, a loyal minion of the Demon Lady of Succubi (known to most, including you, only as the Red Queen).
You're also a reincarnation isekai protagonist.
It took you a rock to the forehead to figure this out about yourself, but… You were some boring programmer dude for a shady company until you got hit in the face by a speeding Mack Truck. And then you were reincarnated as Senaz. And the goddess who did it gave you two other wishes, too.
As you've come to realize over the past couple days, your heroism is actually a pretty central part of who you are. It's more than just a little thing you throw into your adventures to spice up your work - rather, it's your central goal. The thing you're stuck working for.
It doesn't bother you as much as you'd think, honestly. Because, while you have spent the last ten years as a loyal dark seductress, gaining the perspective of thirty years of normalcy has reminded you that you care about others' well-being. A lot. You generally try to be nice… Though you will fight back, viciously, if the circumstance calls for it. And yet… and yet, as much as you might rather just drop back to the giggling, gleeful evil of before, you want to fulfill your responsibilities even more.
… Which leaves you groaning, and picking yourself up off the sand you landed on. Pushing down on the wet clumps with your gloved hands.
Wait. Sand?
That can't be right, can it?
You weren't anywhere near a beach earlier. You were in a mountain keep on a borderland. Not a place for sand.
This might not be your world. Not Earth, either. It's… Is it from fucking Another World Online?! You must have fallen asleep playing again.
You're still you, though. Rocking tits, purple outfit, you can feel the charm magic at your breath. You're Senaz, a Succubus Bard. Bard's not directly a class in AWO, though there is Entertainer, so that's a contradiction. Why's that the contradiction that jumps out at you first? Succubus is the first word in the Lazy Character Summary, shouldn't it -
Okay. Breathe. Try the menus. The menus shouldn't open, right?
They open. There's your character sheet. You're first level.
Your equipment loadout is correct, your god entry is glitched out -
Equipment:
[ ] (Equipment) Your hands can sharpen into vicious claws, which play nice with your toughness. (Frontline DPS focus for a mobile glass cannon build.)
[ ] (Equipment) A glaive and chain shirt, for hitting things from almost as far away as you can hit on them. (Backline aggro management, good at counterattack tanking.)
[ ] (Equipment) You've got a sword and board. Avast, large-chested knight! (Hybrid Tanking means you can handle crowds.)
[ ] (Equipment) Your lute's equipped for magic blasts. (Ranged DPS and support..)
You'll also get camping equipment, some rations, and a few consumable healing items.
God:
[X] (God) ┡╀┐ ▅ ▅ (Um… What? I mean, it's gotta be the isekai goddess who gave you these wishes… But her name has to be pronounceable right??? She's not the goddess of Missingnos…)
In addition to the grab bags of powers, your clerical religion naturally also has major story implications.
… And your stats are correct for first level - max Agility and Spirit, dumpstered Strength because Succubus if you are going direct punchy something is wrong - but you and your raid guild weren't first level.
You try to log out so you can send a support ticket.
Emphasis on try.
[ ] (The Important Vote) You're spacing out. Snap back to reality already.
[ ] (The Important Vote) You know, I've seen enough anime that I should have known where this is going…
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I think my stress levels are finally dropping. So, have a junkpost with particularly unsubtle references while I start working through how to get the adventure back on track.
(Yes, if you vote to continue this, the references will continue.)
(Also, thanks to both Talia and Sunt for their reads on this.)
