Okay, so I've written my first fan fic. Its not done, not by a long shot, but it is a start. Its basically, what if the team of Stargate SG1 got stuck in one of my favorite video games? World of Warcraft. What classes would they play? What would they do in the world? How would they fit together as a team in that world? The part I have been able to write, lets call it chapter one, is just them finding themselves on the character creation screen and having to choose their characters before they are logged out for inactivity, but since at the moment they are purely digital, they don't want to find out what "logged out" means for them.
Stargate SG1/World of Warcraft Mashup
Chapter One:
“Whoa!”
Jack wheeled around on his heels, still trying to grip his P90 that was no
longer in his hands. Noticing this he dropped his hands in an aggravated gesture,
muttering “I hate it when that happens…” Sam, Daniel, Tealc, and Emma looked
similarly confused and aggravated as they evaluated their…. Lack of surroundings.
They found themselves in seemingly empty space, reminding Jack of some of their
experiences on Asgard planets, like Cimmeria or K’Tau where the room they were
teleported to held practically nothing. But here, there really was nothing, not
even an obvious floor. It was like walking on a solid surface of….. air. “Alright,
Carter? What’s goin’ on here?”
“I … don’t
know sir. I have no idea where we are or how we got here.” Carter put her hands
on her hips as she looked around the … room? “I don’t even remember exactly
what I was doing before we got here.” She looked to the others who gave agreeing
nods and shrugs.
Jack
gave a short nod to Carter, pursed his lips and slipped his hands in his
pockets. “Okaaaay.” Looking all around, then up, he considered a moment before
yelling “Hello! I dunno who you are, but what’s next here?” He tipped his head,
waiting for some kind of response before slightly lowering his head to check
his friends reactions.
A flash
of light came before they found themselves inside a city made almost entirely
of crystal, with small thumbnail pictures of different faces from different
races, male and female, floating above them, and other thumbnail pictures off
to either side of the group that made no sense to them. Well, most of them.
Emma seemed familiar with them somehow, but still a bit confused. “Emma? Do you
know where we are?”
Still
looking puzzled, she nodded. “It … at least looks
like the character creation screen in World of Warcraft, the video game I’ve
been playing.”
Daniel
held up a finger on one hand. “Wait a minute… Are you saying we’re in a video
game?”
Emma
shrugged, still thoughtful, and looking at the floating images surrounding them.
“That’s what it looks like anyway. I mean, these are the races you have the
option to play,” she gestured to the pictures of the races, “and those are the
classes those races have the choice to play,” she finished, pointing to the
other images.
“Alright,
how could that happen?” Jack asked incredulously.
“Without
more information, I’m not sure sir.” Carter replied thoughtfully.
Silent
until now, Tealc finally spoke. “O’Neil… you will want to see this.” Jack
walked over to his friend and followed his gaze to words scrolling in a circle
on the floor. You will be logged out for
inactivity in twenty-four minutes, the message read, circling over and
over.
“Carter-“
Jack started.
Daniel
cleared his throat. “Um, Sam, what happens if we’re ‘logged out’ but we’re
physically in the game?” The question
came out in his usual rushed voice, slightly more rushed since it also had a hint
of panic to it.
Sam
winced. “Don’t think we should wait to find out.”
Daniel
gestured in a kind of moving forward sign. “Okay… so what do we do from here?:
“We
choose characters and enter the game?” Emma suggested turning to the others.
Tealc-
as usual, the calmest of the group- pointed out the obvious, again as usual. “You
are the only one of us who has any knowledge of this game. How are we to choose
characters without it?” he asked, his eyebrow showing the only amount of
expression on his face.
Emma
tipped her head a bit considering. “Well, I think I’ve played enough of this
game to be able to choose characters that would suit your personalities and
have a well-rounded group for the game. And we are limited on time, so I suggest that.” Everyone either shrugged
or nodded agreement. Tealc’s nod was simply his token slight bow of
acknowledgement, but gave the idea. “Okay, I’m not sure if we’ll be in the game
long enough for it or not, but I think we should at least be prepared to have
to go into dungeons. So we’ll need-“
Jack
interrupted. “Excuse me, dungeons?”
Emma
shook her head. “Not like medieval castle dungeons or prisons or anything. They’re
… special quests that take you to a separate part of the game…. Harder levels
that you need a group for.” Since that seemed to satisfy him, she went on. “We’ll
need a tank- a character to be able to take the brunt of the damage, and keep
all the enemies focused on them.”
Tealc
stepped forward. “I volunteer.”
Emma
nodded. “Figured that. Your best bet for that is a paladin. They’re basically
holy warriors with a lot of taunts, plate armor, and emergency heals. The
taunts keep the enemies focused on them. Oh, also, at level ten, everyone gets
to pick a talent specialization, depending on how they want to play their
character. When the time comes, you need to choose protection.” Tealc rose his
eyebrow slightly before giving another slight bow and shifting away slightly
since the focus was no longer on him. “We’ll also need a healer, which I’ve
done a lot of. And fairly good at it, if I do say so myself. So I’ll be a
druid. The rest of the group is typically dps- damage per second. Jack-“ she
turned to Jack with a slight smile. “One of those classes is hunter. You get a
pet, get to shoot stuff, track a number of different enemies, and the ammo
never runs out.”
“Oh
yeah?” Her description seemed to be agreeing with him.
“Yeah,
it used to, but they changed that in one of the expansions. Also, you used to
have to wait till level ten to get the pet, but now you start with a pet right
away.”
“Okay.
What kind of pet do I get?” he asked, his eyebrows with interest.
Her
head tipped a bit again, with a slight grimace. “That depends on what race we choose. But we’ll have to pick classes
first, cause not all classes are available for each race, they all have their
specialties.” His face fell a bit, but he kept listening.
Daniel
spoke up. “What about us?” he asked motioning to him and Sam.
Emma
stepped a little closer to the two scientists. “I always thought Sam would be a
good mage. For one thing, the base stat you need to watch as a mage is
intelligence, and you obviously have a lot of that. One good thing about mages,
in later levels, if we get to those levels, can make portals to the major
cities, or can teleport themselves. They can also summon food and water.” Sam
pursed her lips slightly and gave something like a nod. “Daniel… “ she paused
to think, biting her lip slightly. “You might be a good shaman. For one thing,
it might be a good thing to have a backup healer. But depending on the talent
specialization, you can also do wicked dps.”
“How
does shaman work exactly?” he asked, seeming to pinch the air in front of him
and squinting.
Emma
winced. “Honestly? That’s the one I know the least about. I know you work with
the elements, and with totems. But there are a lot of people who know how to do
it well. Including a very good friend of mine. So we could probably ask him in
game. But I do think you’d be good at
it, and could figure it out.”
“Okay,
so that’s all the classes figured out, what about races?” Sam asked.
Emma
thought for a minute again. “I think we should try to stay at least in the same
general area. Same part of the world anyway. And the only two races that can
play druid are night elf and worgen, but worgen are extremely isolated, so that
leaves me with night elf. Which is what I would prefer for that anyway.
Luckily, hunters and mages are pretty much available to …. I think almost every
alliance race. Paladins are available to humans, dwarves, and draeni. Their capital
city is only a boat ride away from night elf lands. A very short boat ride at
that. And shaman are only available to draeni and dwarves. I think jack and I
could start out as night elves, and the three of you could start as dreani.”
Yellow
lights started flashing lightly from the floor, and the message circling the
floor started flashing as well as circling, now reading, You will be logged out for inactivity in fifteen minutes.
Emma
started talking faster. “You guys should be able to figure things out on your
own. Quests are given by people all over the world, you’ll find yellow question
marks over their heads. When you’re done, it’ll change to a yellow question
mark, and they’ll give you rewards. Either currency or armor or useful items. Mages
wear cloth armor, Shaman wear….. leather, I think, and Paladins wear Chainmail,
at least till you hit a certain level, then shaman wear chainmail and Paladins
wear plate armor. As you level up, you’ll learn new spells automatically. A lot
of the stuff, it might give you tips on what you’re doing, assuming you’re a
new player.”
Sam
held her hand out in front of her, asking for a minute. “If we’re in separate areas,
how do we find you later?”
“Every
race has a starting area. Draeni and Night elves are failry close. Until about
level twelve, you’ll do quests in your own area. Once you hit that level, there’s
a boat by the main city Exodar that’ll take you to Rutherin Village. Exodar is
the city that looks like this one here.” She gestured to their surroundings. “We’ll
meet you at Rutherin Village and move on from there. Both races have to go
through there to move on anyway.”
They
all nodded before Sam pointed out one more thing. “Won’t we need some kind of
screen name in the game?”
Emma
searched her memory a minute. “Oh yeah.” She checked the message on the floor.
They were down to about seven minutes. “Okay… we’re short on time… wait, does
everyone remember when we were in that underground city, under the ice and they’d
put memory stamps on us?” Everyone nodded slightly. “Do you remember the names
you had?”
Daniel
nodded. “Yeah, I was Karlan, Sam was Thera, Tealc was Tor, Jack was Jonah and
you were Evellyn.”
Emma nodded back. “Yeah, lets use
those. How about it?” Everyone else nodded agreement, except jack, who simply
shrugged. “okay, So that’s decided. By the way, don’t turn down any bags. The
more bag space you have, the better off you are. We should be able to add each
other as friends in game and talk to each other.”
“How?” Daniel asked. No one had
time to answer though, because everyone seemed to have a button in front of
them with their class, race and names over them, reading “confirm”.
“We’re running out of time. Hit
confirm, and we should be able to figure it out in there.” The lights around
them started flashing red, and everyone rushed to hit their buttons. As they
did, each saw a blinding flash of light before being distributed in the game.
