A Plan Forms
Teri tries to remember what the wiki said...
Transmigrated Teri is a WIP that is part of a “post 200 words a day during July” challenge issued by
. Episodes posted daily will be of various lengths and sometimes will stop in the middle of the scene. You have been warned!The set up:
Teri Travers, a nearly-50 bitter “office lady” who has not led a happy life gets in a massive car accident after being sent home on the first day of COVID lockdown in 2020. She (and her dog) wake up in a strange new world that is also strangely familiar…that’s right, she’s been transmigrated into the world of her favorite 1990s fantasy novel series, the massively popular, critically disdained, and incredibly tropetastic Allisar Fireborn Chronicles (AFC) by the infamous Chadwick Jarvaldson, aka “Fuckin’ Chad” to all his very annoyed fans who are still waiting for the final book to be published.
Previously: Teri remembers some facts from Lady Greyrage’s short life, and starts to formulate a plan.
“Lady Elisandar,” she said, looking thoughtfully at the canopy again. “I find that the doctor is right, there are some lapses in my memory. You said it was a void howler we were hunting?”
“Yes, so I was told.”
“And it grabbed ahold of me. By my leg, I presume?” She flexed her right foot, feeling the pain radiate up her leg to her hip.
“Yes, Milady. Until your familiar appeared to fight it off, the demon had the upper hand.” She shuddered dramatically. “Ser Brorwyn said that if your familiar had not joined the fray, you would have likely lost your leg, if not your life.” Her voice trembled a little.
“I doubt it. Void howlers are not blood eaters, for all that they are related to wolverines.” She squinted, trying to recall anything she had read in the bestiary section of Robern’s Library, a.k.a. the long-running fan wiki. She had been part of the ad hoc emergency team to move it to wikia when geocities was being shut down in 2009, and her meticulousness about it had earned her no friends but it meant that she spent months neck deep in AFC lore.
“That is true,” Lady Elisandar said, looking perplexed. “They feed off umbruus.”
Teri hummed. The Trine were the three powers that wizards had to master: luminith, vitalias, and umbruus. Each controlled different elements of nature and cosmos, and of them, umbruus — the essence of shadows, illusions, and transformative forces such as birth and death — was the one most closely associated with malevolent powers. The reason Emperor Nikodosis was The Bad Guy was because he harvested umbruus to use in his evil magical experiments.
Just as the idea of what she would need to do started to form in her head, the door swung open and Doctor Dourwin entered, trailing three other pretentious, bearded men in burgundy and pink robes.