Julia

"Now you know who the chosen five are who I decided to summon, who I chose to hopefully save the world. Normally it is forbidden for any outsider to enter this world. For this world is connected to each and every world's future. If this world, this universe even dies, then they all die but they will all learn that in time. First, I must tell you how I became to know of these five soon to be heroes.

Julia was in the library with Red and Fiona. She needed to find a way to stop these cracks. Luckily none had appeared in this world yet but if left for too long they could easily start to. As she looked through one of the books she sighed and put it down slowly. There was no information anywhere. She had no other choice. Slowly she stood up and went to the Universal Data part of the library. She had only one option left. Once there she sat herself down. The cracks could be being made by anything and this world was dangerous as it was. Whatever was making these cracks were extremely dangerous. She needed people who were willing to fight to survive.

"Bring me a list of everyone willing to fight for their or someone else's life."

Suddenly a list appeared in front of her, but the list was way too long. She sighed and thought for a moment then spoke again.

"Cut out anyone who does not have the power to do so in this world."

The list was suddenly shortened massively. Now it only showed a few hundred. She gave a sigh and nodded.

"Bring me each and every fire according to the names listed."

Suddenly hundreds of files appeared in front of her. She would read each one until she found the perfect team who could survive in this world and were willing to do whatever it took. Hours went by, the clock ticked away and one by one Julia got through the files. After an entire day had gone by, she had done it. She had her team, four people each from a different universes. Each one experienced in combat of some kind, each one having the power to survive in this world. They were her best shot.

"Come on Red, we have visitors to meet."

Red jumped on her head and slowly Julia walked out of the library. She walked to a large yard outside of the Library of Knowledge. She quickly made a portal and began to travel to different universes, different worlds. It took her weeks of preparation but, eventually she gathered the needed ingredients. When the time was right, she began the summoning ritual, telling Fiona in advanced. She placed her hand on the grass and a huge summoning circle appeared. By name she called them out.

"Bahamut, Ming, Grace, Jack and Taylor Hiss I summon you all to the world of Azroh!"

With that, the summoning circle glowed brightly, and soon enough a huge flash of light appeared, so bright that Julia and even Red had to close and cover their eyes.



The courtyard where they were all summoned. I can edit new characters in if new characters are made.

Jolene

Jolene woke up and stretched herself out before getting out of bed. She got herself showered, dressed, got some breakfast and then said hello to her mum. After doing all of that Jolene got into her Ultra VR Gaming Chair, put on her Ultra VR Gaming Helmet and emerged herself within Elder Scrolls World End. Once inside of the game Jolene or Bahamut, in this case, went to the newly released DLC areas. It would have to take a teleport to access the new areas of the game and she was looking forward to it. The creators of the game gave clear instructions on how to access the new areas. So Bahamut spoke to the DLC NPC. After going through all of the dialogue Bahamut entered a cutscene. He stepped up on the teleport pad take would take him to this new DLC area. Just as the pad activated Bahamut disappeared as expected. He arrived in a courtyard of sorts, far different from where he originally was but then again he had just been transported. None of the DLC areas had been leaked before so all of this was new to him. The area itself was extremely detailed and the graphics were amazing. He could tell that a lot of money had been put into the DLC but that was no surprise it was a popular game after all.

Bahamut

Now Bahamut was in the DLC area, he made sure to take in more of his surroundings. His eyes first stopped on a lalafell in front of him with what seemed to be a red panda on her head which immediately made him think of a Final Fantasy cross over or something similar. Beside her was an Ogre. After taking note of those two, Bahamut looked to his sides to find three others had also been brought here, NPCs more likely. Two of them seemed more or less human while the last one was an Inumimi. In fact, inspecting her closer he could recognise who she was. The Inumimi was Ming whom he knew from popular comic books. "Oh wow I didn't know World End was doing massive crossovers like this. This DLC already looks pretty amazing." He looked to the Lalafell who seemed to be the main NPC for this DLC pack, or this area at least and nodded to her. "Hello there. Tell me where I am located and what my objective is." Bahamut looked at the other NPCs and took note of them. He was looking forward to interacting with the Ming NPC and was excited to see what she was going to do in this DLC. He was hoping to fight with her knowing just how powerful she was.

Grace

John had just finished off what he thought of was the final boss and just had his avatar grace loot the body when suddenly their was a flash of light and he teleported to new location. Grace looked around and saw a lalafell and an ogre standing in front of her together? Seriously? Kinda strange that they are not trying to kill each other. And what appeared to be human a inumimi and a dragonborn standing next to her Grace began talking to herself for a moment.

"So umm is this some kind of bonus end content I don’t remember reading online about a secret quest?. Not to mention inumimi haven’t appeared in this game yet must be some kind of new update released without me knowing.”

She stopped for a second realising she should introduce herself to the other players. She looked to Ming Then to Bahamut and then to Jack.

“Hi I am grace nice to meet you if you don’t mind me asking how did you unlock the inumimi race for your avatar? And I love how based your character design on Ming.”

“Hay there you probably heard but my name is grace your gear looks pretty intesting that spear in particular looks amazing judging from the eye in its centre I am guessing it’s got some pretty handy weapon skills to.”

“Hello you probably know this already since I’ve said it twice now just in case my name is grace it’s not often you see a human avatar.
They tend to be the weakest race overall but you look pretty strong you must have a pretty impressive build I can’t wait to see what your class can do.”

Grace completely ignored Julia and Fiona assuming they where NPCs.

Fiona

Saw as the hero’s Julia had chosen appeared in front of her and saw how some of them where talking about some strange things that she couldn’t understand sounding like they where crazy. Fiona Looked to Julia and back to the hero’s she honestly couldn’t work out why Julia picked them.

“Seriously Julia I don’t know about these guys most of them look they couldn’t take on the enforcers let alone some of the monsters of this world. We don’t need any dead weight slowing us down that will just make our job even harder. I think we need to put these guys to the test and see what they are really made of.”

Grace and Fiona

Grace heard Fiona talking wasn’t hard since she wasn’t exactly shy about questioning their worthiness for this quest

“Guess it’s time for the standard pre quest challenge to get the story rolling sorry” sigh “guys guess can finish the introductions later.ok then what are the conditions to this little test.”

Fiona Looked to grace who had already stepped forward ready to fight.

“Well since I don’t want to injure any potential allies I’ll make it simple if you can land one good hit on me that actually causes some damage then you pass.”

Grace smiled and drew her spear as Fiona put on her mask. Grace went to activate a enhancement spell but her skill tree wouldn’t open but suddenly the spell she was thinking of activated on its own. Magic began flowing though her and wrapping around her body air swirling around her increasing her speed and agility wile also giving her a wind aura to help with offence and defence. She looked a little confused for a second now even more convinced there was a recent update magic and skill use had been streamlined allowing for speed casting she smiled making a mental note to check out the details the update online later but for as she couldn’t wait to try this new battle system. Grace flew at Fiona and threw a simple punch with her right hand but Fiona caught it

Fiona smiled
“your grace right well your gonna need a lot more then enhanced strength to beat me”

Fiona then turned around and went to slam Grace into the ground but as she did Grace used the wind around her to create a powerful gust producing a updraft strong enough to send them both into the air. Grace used this opportunity to get free of Fiona grasp then aimed her wand at her firing out a plasma blast Fiona scratched her wrist and as blood shot out she created a magic barrier around her as she was sent flying back slamming into the ground. Fiona got back up ready to fight but Grace was already behind her Grace dropped her wand and used a sprit skill covering her fist in spirit energy created from the power of her soul. She struck at her with both hands with a soul strike that. Could pass though most magic barriers attacking the soul directly. Fiona Grabbed both of her wrist and hit her with a head but as Graces head was knocked back she let out a little smile as she stomped on her spear that had now landed on the ground pushing it into the ground as her magic flowed though her spear it head began to glow as multiple spear head shot out of the ground beneath Fiona Impaling her from all directions. Fiona Screamed in pain as she let go of Grace she had a smug smile on her face

“So I guess I pass then"

Fiona Cast a healing spell on herself closing up the wounds

“Urr fine I guess your strong enough your more powerful then I expected”

With that Grace walked back and rejoined the others.

Bahamut

Bahamut took notice of one of the humans and quickly realised it was not a NPC. She wasn't talking like any normal NPC would do. He was about to reply to her comment when the Ogre NPC spoke up. Apparently, the Lalafell was called Julia. He watched as the Ogre challenged all three of them in a Test of Strength challenge. This must be an opportunity to raise his influence and fame between these two NPCs. He watched as the first player who was called Grace took up the challenge first and succeeded. She noted that the player was a pretty good battler. She also had the Ultra VR set, allowing her to quick cast spells and skills just by doing the action of said spell or skill. This player was clearly an advanced player like he was. Once the Test of Strength was done he stood up. "I'll go up next then."

He was lucky to go second. It allowed him to see some of the NPC skills that were set and he had a good idea on how to pass the test. He used his summon skill to summon the gates of hell. From the gates of hell two undead fire wolves one at each side of him. Then the gates to hell sunk underground.



One wolf ran to Fiona's left side. He howled loudly and fire covered it's entire body. With a running jump it would phase through her and bite her soul to do direct damage and internal bleeding. The second undead wolf summoned a dark shadow mist turning all undead and hellish creatures invisible. The mist itself would inflict burning and blindness. Afterwards, the first wolf turned to pure flame and sunk underground. Moments later it would shoot up underneath Fiona to eat away any mana she had. Lastly, Bahamut used his dark shadow skill, allowing him to manipulate the shadow mist into claws and fangs that would attempt to scratch and bite Fiona from every direction. He then stabbed the spear into the ground, spear side up. The Eye Of Ra would target Fiona and shoot a sunbeam going light speed powerful enough to incinerate energy or magical barriers. Now weaponless, Bahamut placed his hands together and created a lightning inferno orb and threw it into the air. This Lightning Inferno orb would cast lightning from above while raining meteors to attack Fiona.

He waited to see if he had passed the test or not. "So, what do you think, did I pass?"

Fiona watched as the dragonborn summoned two undead wolfs from the bowls of hell as one attacked from her left side the other attempted to clock them using magic mist luckily the enchantment on her mask could counter this. Flona then noticed her skin burning as her skin began regenerating healing the burns just as fast as the mist was damaging her. Fiona simply jumped over the first wolf evading its bite but almost as soon as she landed it shot out of the ground she jumped away from it but noticed it sapping her mana. Fiona cut her wrist once more and cast a barrier spell and with the difference she had created between them and the barrier around her it slowed down the mana drain enough that she could safety continue without worrying to much abot it. She dodge and weaved evading the claw and fang attacks. when she sensed magic gathering beneath her she jumped back evading the ra blast doing a couple backflps as lighting and meteors raind down at her she continued fliping backwards. She came to a stop with a surprised look on her face.

"your a ruthless basterd i like that. if those attacks had connected i may of been in trouble. But since those attacks would of done damage and i didn't have a chance to counter attack and the mist did burn me yeah that's enough for a passing grade."
@DarkShadowWolf

Jack was taking a break and decided to explore. There were many places he hadn't visited yet and he knew that there would probably be too many places to explore in one lifetime so he had to make use of it while he could. The ancients created this world which is what fascinated him the most. While he was exploring, Jack was suddenly teleported and take somewhere entirely different. He looked around quickly. This didn't seem like anywhere he was just and he didn't use the ancient warp devices to transport him. He looked around and listened to what the others said and became confused. He didn't understand what they were talking about at all and he didn't have time to really take everything in as someone, a strange creature he had never seen before gave them a challenge to test their strength. He watched the first two go up first before looking around. He wanted to get this challenge over with as soon as possible so someone could begin to explain what was going on. So he quickly used her shadow and manipulated it. It shot up instantly in the form of a dragon and went to slash at her back just as she finished talking when that was done he looked around once more.

"So where am I, how did I get here and what is an avatar? I don't understand anything that is happening right now."

He looked at the two in front of him before turning to look at the others.

Fiona
Just Fiona was finishing up with the dragonborn she sensed dark aura as her shadow suddenly attack her she jumped to the side evading a direct hit but the dragons claws managed to scratch her right arm.

"you little shit attacking like that lack honor but at least it is effective i am still nor entirely sure you have the level if power needed to survive in this would but since you did cut me i quess you past"

Grace
Grace looked to Jack "wait what are you talking about what are avatars? You've gotta be kidding there's no way your an NPC right "

Grace looked to Bahamut she knew he was a player he mentioned DLC but if this is a in game event why are only 3 players here a party of 6 with half players and half npc? Maybe we will form groups of two with the NPCs at some point allowing the players to explore more freely. She couldn't be sure though so she waled up to the two who had completed the challenge
"ok now seems like a good time to finish thoses introductions whats your name class and build?." She knew even NPCs can understand and answer that question.

Ming was currently on the battlefield. She slashed one of the Nekos and spun around, throwing her shield to attack and slash a few other nekos. She grabbed her shield again and went to block a fireball coming for her when suddenly she disappeared in the middle of the fight. She looked around now seeing she was in a courtyard with a few others. She listened to what they had to say and for now observed, trying to understand what was going on. She spoke when quickly before the test of strength challenge began.

"What do you mean I based my character around Ming? What is an avatar?"

She looked to the Ogre as she declared a test of skill and strength. It was a simple and easy challenge to overcome. She watched the others first to see what they could do then she stood up herself.

"That wasn't bad but I have seen far worse attacks in my lifetime of war. Let me show you how it is done."

Ming held out her sword confidently and smiled.

"Samurai Arts: Thousand Sword Strike!" She dropped her sword into the ground then suddenly thousands of sword appeared around Fiona. They shot at her all at once. Then Ming shouted out again.

"Samurai Arts: Shield Slash" With that, she threw her shield at Fiona but purposely missing her. The shield would bounce off an invisible wall and come back even faster straight at her. The top of the shield became as hot as lava. The moment the shield made contact it would cause a powerful and deadly electric shock. "Samurai Arts: Solar Blade!" she held out her hand and the rays of the sun moved to it. Suddenly a sword was formed. She grabbed hold of it and swung her sword. "Samurai Arts: Lava Bath!" With that, the ground would materialise and become lava instantly. She then held her sword up high. "Samurai Arts: Solar Strike, explosion-style!" With that, she did a full circle with her solar sword. A mini sun appeared in the circle then she swung. The mini sun would rush at her and then do a mini super nova, just large enough to cover the area around, but not too much to cause damage to the building a few feet away. Along with that, an intense infernal flame was sent flying at her. Both the mini sun and the solar flame was bright enough to blind.

Ming was fighting all out, completely seriously. When she was done she stepped back without a word and gave a respectful bow.

Once that was done, Julia slowly stepped forward. She didn't understand everything that was going on but she did understand that for some reason, two of the chosen she had brought thought they were in some sort of game. She had read enough in the Library Of Knowledge to know what games were and to understand them enough.

"Welcome all of you to Azroh, this is the courtyard outside of the Library of Knowledge. My name is Julia, this is Red and this is Fiona. You have all been chosen. You have been summoned here because we need your help. I am sure you have noticed by now cracks have been appearing everywhere. Not just in your world, but in all dimensions, all through space and time. These are cracks in reality. By going through them you could end up in a whole new world, dimension, universe, literally anywhere. That is if you survived. by going through the crack, before you reach the other side, you enter a place of nothingness. In between realities and by going there it rips you apart and instantly kills you. By dying like that everyone who once knew you will forget about you like you never existed. That is why I called you because we believe you can do it, we believe you can save the world before all of time and space is ripped apart. There is some bad news though, I'm afraid you will be unable to leave until you complete your mission, I will warn you, by summoning you here I and all of you are criminals. It is forbidden for any outsiders to enter this world. We will be hunted, our mission will be dangerous. Let me introduce everyone. Bahamut, Grace, Ming, Jack and Taylor. I am sorry for pulling you out of your worlds, but I had no choice, oh and one more thing. I don't know why you think this is a game, Grace and Bahamut but I am afraid that this is the reality. I wish it weren't real myself. None of us are NPCs, we are all real. If you die, there is no returning back to the world you came from. Things are quickly worsening and we cannot linger for too long. If you have any questions please ask. I will answer any questions given before we begin."

As she called out the names she pointed to the person it belonged to. With that she gave a small smile, she knew there were going to be some disagreements but she had no choice. She hoped that these people would, in fact, be the ones she needed. She then turned to Fiona.

"Fiona, I chose these people because of their ability to survive in this world and morally good choices throughout their lifetime. I am confident they can help us before it is too late."

She looked back at everyone else and waited to see what they had to say.

Fiona

Fiona Watched Ming lunched one attack after another while calling out the names of all her attacks she may not know exactly what each attack did but the names gave her rough idea of what to exactly.Fiona cut her wrist creating a blood barrier all around her turning her blood acidic melting the mini blades. Just then Mings shield flew past her and bonced back in her direction she jumped back as the floor become larva and landed on Mings shield as soon as she did she screamed as electricity ran though her body she quality covered herself in blood armor enchanted with a magic barrier protecting her from the heat and electricity. Fiona leaned back on the shield turning it to face the sun as she held on to the now vertical shield using Mings shield to block the supernova and fire blast the force of these attacks sent her and the shield flying back.

Fiona got back up and threw Mings shield back to her as she healed her wounds 'you where actually trying to kill me there. During a sparing match no less your almost as brutal as i am but calling out your moves will probably bite you in your ass sooner or later in this world."

Things had started simply enough. Taylor had gone out to survey an isolated fracture out in the desert, having made camp on a ridge overlooking the site the previous evening. If anyone was going to figure out where they came from and how to close them, he absolutely needed to take a closer look. He went over his gear as he hiked into the crater, and as he got on the same level as the glowing fissure, he thought he heard a voice call his name. Which wasn’t likely, as he hadn’t seen another soul crazy enough to venture this far out into the desert, let alone this close to one of the cracks.

Then, Taylor felt the spell take hold. His first thought was that the fissure was pulling him in, but then the scenery shifted well before he reached the edge. He’d gone from the parched red crater, to a verdant walled courtyard, suddenly in the company of four other souls with him in the summoning circle, and two more outside it, an ogress and a... halfling of some sort? Leading him to presume one of them to be the caster responsible. Listening to his fellow summoned converse, some of them acted like they were part of some sort of game, leading the man in black to sigh in annoyance. The ogre outside the circle seemed to share his sentiment, suggesting to her comrade that she test him and the others in combat. Taylor didn’t like that prospect, so he took a cautious step back, reaching for one of his pistols holstered under his coat, prepared to move if he were attacked.

To his relief, the draconic scion and the warrior maiden, both who believed this a game, followed by the inumimi, had leaped in to do battle with the ogress, giving him a chance to retreat towards the wall to re-inventory his gear in case he’d lost something in the summoning. ”Weapons, mags: check. Runes, gems: double check,” he muttered. Satisfied all his trouble kit was still with him, he turned his attention to the melee unfolding before him, impressed with the power on display.

As the battle began to lull, Taylor saw the halfling call everyone’s attention and begin to offer explanation as to just what was going on. So she’s investigating the fractures, too, he mused, the explanation putting him at ease that this wasn’t some sort of sadist’s game. ”It all seems straightforward enough. No questions from me, Julia of Azroh,” he answered as he made his way back towards the center of the courtyard.

Fiona

Just as Julia finished talking she saw another chosen try to sneak back to the group with all the excitement she had almost forgot there was another candidate she pointed to Taylor

"hay toothpick you really think you can just hide and avoid fighting and sneak back without me noticing? Get ready its your turn to face me don't worry i won't break you."

@RabidChoco

Bahamut

Bahamut listened to the NPC and smiled, he looked at his fame and influence statuses and saw that it raised slightly. Then as expected, a name appeared on the screen. "Fiona" with her social status towards him. It was slightly raised, meaning that she considered him an ally instead of an enemy. They weren't close friends yet but that could easily change. He watched everyone else perform their trials and took in their abilities and what they could do. It was when Grace asked him a question that he started to pay attention again. "I'm no NPC. I am Bahamut, a Dragonborn Arcane Shifter class so I focus on magic that summons or transforms me or the items and objects around me. I can also heal, cook as well as craft weapons and armour for us." After answering her question on his build he turned to Ming and watched her fight. As expected she didn't hold back and could have easily killed Fiona. It is then that Julia spoke.

Julia gave the name of the world they were in and explained that they had been chosen. What was strange, however, was that Julia mentioned strange cracks that were appearing everywhere in all universes and realities. He remembered very clearly that he had seen several while spending time outside as well as on the news. They were too much for the government to cover up. Then Julia said that this was not a game and it was all real. Even saying she wasn't an NPC. That was very aware for an NPC and they weren't talking how a normal NPC should. Some things weren't adding up. Bahamut took notice of the fact that he couldn't leave until the mission was done. He went to his setting to check his log out capability, and as expected there wasn't one. This wasn't normal either. It was at that moment at Julia's came on his screen. She immediately saw him as a good and trusted friend and ally. The fame and influence bar was almost maxed already. Julia had summoned them and completely trusted them. She had no doubt that they could help. "Some things aren't adding up here. I do have some questions. Why were we chosen specifically? What made us so special? How did you know we were the perfect team? Do we know what are causing these cracks to appear yet? If not could we use the Library of Knowledge?" He asked a few simple questions to try and gain more information. If this was a game then it was going to be needed for the quest and if not, well then it was still needed either way. It would just mean it was much more serious. Either way, they needed to know these things. While he waited for answers he turned to the other person and slowly gave a nod of encouragement.

Library of Knowledge -- Courtyard

As the ogress Fiona called Taylor out, he sucked in a breath through clenched teeth, and giggled nervously. "Eheheh... Could we... I dunno, not? I don't... I don't fight friendlies," he suggested. But by force of habit, he touched the places he'd concealed his weapons, ensuring they were ready for a quick draw in case she insisted. Somehow he doubted that Fiona was going to take "no" for an answer. "Or at the very least, can't it wait until your friend's brought everyone up to speed?" Mentally, he started running through what he'd seen during her bouts with the with Grace, Bahamut, and Ming.

Fiona

Fiona listened to Taylor and had a good chuckle.
“Your first mistake was assuming I am friendly.” Fiona passed for a moment and looked at everyone who was summoned before continuing.

“Julia summoned you here because she saw something in you that convinced her you could help us save all our worlds. Countless lives rest in our hands and you’ve been summoned to a world where demons dragons and so many different types of monster exist. THOSE CREATURES ARE WEAK AND FRIENDLY COMPARED TO WHAT WILL BE HUNTING US. Make no mistake if you agree to help us you will be putting your lives on the line and if you are not strong enough to handle the kinds of enemies we will face you could end up getting someone killed. At best you lot are useful pawns that can help us prevent the death of all live in existence at worse your dead weight. And I for one would like to know which before we run into trouble and if you can’t keep up with me while I am holding back then you will be next to useless out in a real fight.”

When Fiona finished her rant she pulled out her club. “Julia get ready to heal that cowardly little shit just in case I accidentally break him.”

“Just so you know I can steal the powers and abilities of anything I eat and an ogres diet is mostly bugs animals and other monsters but I guess i don’t mind changing things up every more and then. Im fact I’m kinda in the mood for a fat free chicken wing.”

With that Fiona began to morph her body she grew an extra pair of arms a scaly bat like wings and snake like fangs. Fiona took flight heading right for Taylor while letting out a super sonic screech that would burst the ear drums of any normal human leaving them dazed and in agony. Fiona then shot out venom out of her moth aiming for his eyes hoping to blind him. After that Fiona shot out spider webs out of her wrist attempting to tie him up and pull him towards her. Fiona was hoping with the sonic scream and the venom shot he would be unable to evade her attacks but if he did she would simply adjust her aim. If successful she would punch him in the head just hard enough to knock out any human as if her used her full strength her fist would go though his skull.

@RabidChoco

Courtyard -- Library of Knowledge

Someone really didn't like Taylor's attempt to defer the bout. He was intimately familiar with this kind of rant, vaguely recalling giving a similar one in the past. As Fiona went on, he slipped a pair of earplugs into his ears, and reached for his gun, expecting to face the first strike when his guard seemed down. Then she started to transform, and he froze with his hand on the pistol's grip.

Okay, these earplugs are trash, Taylor grumbled internally as the ogress launched into the air and unleashed her mighty scream. Despite his complaint, the earplugs did their job, and the shrill shout was merely painful instead of utterly debilitating. He went down to the ground, but quickly came back up, drawing one of his pistols and letting fly a couple shots, deafening in their own right, aiming to punch a hole in one of her new wings. Momentum was enough to carry her through his initial assault, so he got up and moving as she spat out her venom, and while he managed to evade the caustic spit, he found his foot ensnared by the webbing she'd shot right afterward. With his free hand, he drew one of his knives, cutting through the spider web and got to his feet before Fiona could reel him in. "Ignite," he intoned through clenched teeth, and arcane script all over his outfit flared into a furious crimson as he raised his gun and pointed it at the ogre. "I know. This isn't my first time."

@PharaohAtem