[center][b][i][h1][color=gold] Kira Moonchaser [/color][/h1][/i][/b]

[i]Great Hall of the Ardent Heralds[/i][/center]

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So this was it, huh?

[color=gold][center][b][h3]5[/h3][/b][/center][/color]

The end of Yggdrasil, the end of this game she had poured hours and hours into. But, well, that seemed to be the fate of games like this, they had their run, and then....burned out. Like a flicking flame amidst a blizzard, perhaps, though maybe that was a little too poetic about it all. 

[color=gold][center][b][h3]4[/h3][/b][/center][/color]

It was the end of a long, happy dream, one filled with frustrations and losses, victories and achievements. All the guilds she'd seen, all the places she'd been, the fights she had been a part of. Currently she was relaxing against a wall at the front of the Ardent Heralds guild. 

A nice little place, a welcoming guild for newbies, a place for veterans to ply their craft and teach the newer players. A month before this day she had joined the guild, simply to have a place to be when the closing would occur. Of course she had enjoyed the small fun of doling out help to other new players, those trying to see how far they could get from level 1 before the game closed. Some who were looking around for the first time, the brief span of time before this wonder would close. 

[color=gold][center][b][h3]3[/h3][/b][/center][/color]

She'd taken one of the odder paths of Jobs classes, for sure, having to learn a good deal of healing spells regardless to be able to hop into groups. Though it was not like she was useless on her own. She had made innumerable golems and summon them during her time in this game, and had risen to the very top to be able to create the best of the best. The Strongest Golem. Not that she had the time to do so, though she could if she wanted. Or perhaps in the end it was that she hadn't cared to do so, as she instead enjoyed more the pride to have simply gotten to this point. 

Looking down at the ten glimmering rings, their composition almost possessing the aura of the moon's gentle rays at night, or the sun's brilliance during the day. They didn't actually glow in the dark or anything, but each was adorned with a different gemstone that was more precious and beautiful than their more common counterparts. Each ring engraved with intricate designs of heavenly events and such things as angels or the creation of golems or rays of light peeping through the clouds. Works of art, all of them. 

[color=gold][center][b][h3]2[/h3][/b][/center][/color]

Perhaps she could save up money to buy a set of rings that looked like these. She had pictures on her computer for it, when she had first acquired the set. More like screenshots, really, but it could be fun. Gaudy, but....worth it. Ten little reminders on her fingers of a world where anything was possible and the boss wasn't always nagging someone around the office. Heh.

At least in the game she'd been able to fulfill the pleasures of her desire. Treats, items, company, fufufu~

[color=gold][center][b][h3]1[/h3][/b][/center][/color]

Ah...she truly wanted more time to think, to ponder, to savor the moment. But this was really it...the end. 

[color=crimson][center][b][h3][u][i]ITS TIME TO WAKE UP[/i][/u][/h3][/b][/center][/color]

Then the world turned upside down. 

Sudden cold, chilling winds, opening her eyes to find herself in the snow of all things. And she....[i]shivered[/i]. N-No way! This was not something possible in the game! She briefly, desperately tried to open a menu, find a logout by any means possible....but nothing showed up. [b]Nothing showed up no matter how hard she tried[/b]. This was bad, this very, very, VERY bad. At first her mind went to thinking this was some kind of glitch, that the admins and developers would pop in and fix this right away....but there was no sign of them. No sign of this being the game itself even. 

As the others rushed into the Great Hall and assembled, she ran in as well. To get out of the cold. Blast it that she never got the enchant on her attire to protect her from weather effects. Not even her darling battle maid was here, missing in action after having been sent off to check the woods....and Kira having forgotten to call her back in the last countdown. Though that was not the most pressing issue, albeit it was a concern within her mind. As she sat at the table with the others here who had come in, she began to calm down more. Then more. Then enough to try a bite of the cooked meat on the plate before her...and it was juicy. Tender, well-seasoned, part of the feast that had been prepared in here but all the same delicious. The warm feeling as it went down her throat and settled in, ah. 

She began to eat what was on the plate in front of her a bit more, bread and meat and veggies and such, as she listened to what the others were saying. She wasn't going to overeat right now, albeit her character was supposed to have a high metabolism normally, though this bit was helping her keep a better head in this for the moment, to soothe the initial panic. At least until she could wrap her mind around what was going on enough to chill-...wait. There was a strange, but more than plausible idea at this venture. There was at least a few anime like this out there she'd heard of, or watched even. Isekai. Being sent to another world! Or other anime where people were left trapped in video games. Odd ones, not ones she'd watched often if not rarely, but she'd read up on them a good bit! 

As a certain zealously enthusiastic individual was saying, this was all [b][i]real[/i][/b], physical....tasty when it came to the food by the way. 

[color=gold]"Overzealous. It seems....well, the others have pretty much summed it up. Not only has this guild house seemingly been moved to another, very different place, but all of this feels, or rather [b]is[/b] real it seems. The food, the weather out there, even the NPC's seem more "alive" than they were before. As stupid as it sounds to say, this seems like one of those anime where people gent sent to a different world, but in this case...it is very much real. Can't even get menus to log out, but it seems i can still access my inventory."[/color] the Dark Elf said after swallowing some food and wiping her mouth out of habit with a napkin, projecting her voice more professional but relaxed tone she usually used in the game when dealing with formal matters, though obvious hints of her disbelief at this situation were audible in her voice regardless.

This all even as a wave of relaxed feelings and such washing over her...kinda like she was Kira herself now, really. Actually, rather literally now. Though at least the guildmaster was at least now getting about things when it came to doling out orders and trying to ascertain things. Good, that was good. A step in the right direction. But if this was all real...well, they needed someone able to get things moved, people even, as required. 

Then again, her real body was gone.....albeit she had Kira's body now. Name too. The figure, the sexy bust, ah...this might not be so bad then? But then again-

-what kind of topsy-turvy anime had they fallen into?!?!

[color=gold]"I'll volunteer to go with you, I have teleportation spells and Gate, in case we need to get back here in a hurry, or bring anyone back for that matter. I can leave a golem outside just in case as well, at least blocking the wind in front of the doors if nothing else,"[/color] the dark elf said when the guildmaster, standing from her chair before pushing it in and standing behind it, leaning a bit on the back of the tall seat even as she had been speaking. 

This was an emergency, so focus. Yes, that would help her keep her head better, rather than eating more of what little food they had. Though what little bit she had was enough to put some warmth into her body. Not that eating that slow-roasted pork hadn't been [i]divine[/i], no pun against Zeal intended, but still focusing on the tasks at hand was good. In fact, the more she was here, the more she felt that sort of carefree, relaxed, hedonistic personality assert, but doing so naturally like a flowing river. 

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