Chapter 1: Why Me!?

'If we're gonna have hours like that I might as well quit..." Arnott thought as he stepped into the elevator of his workplace, a fairly large building "home" to software engineers, 3d modelers, and many other professions needed for game creation.

"Hey, Arnott, what'd you think of your first death march?" One of Arnott's coworkers, David, asked as he entered the elevator as well. Arnott groaned and glanced at his coworker, though the glance came across as a glare, causing David to jump slightly.

"It made me want to quit." Arnott said rather blandly as he pressed the first-floor button and the doors closed soon after.

"Well, they only happen every once in a while, so it's not so bad." David said as he stretched. "Well, that aside, did you see the news?" David asked as he leaned against the railing on the back wall of the elevator.

"I don't really keep up with it, seems pointless to me." Arnott said.

"I see, well, there was an interview from the CEO of this company here, they were really impressed by someone during the last few days and he plans to give them a raise, but he refused to comment any further, wouldn't even say who it was." David said then sighed.

"I see." Arnott said as the elevator doors opened. "Well, I'll see you tomorrow on launch day." Arnott said as he exited the elevator.

"Right, we should play after it launches, I mean, you know all the easter eggs, right?" David asked. Arnott raised his hand and waved slightly as he continued walking to the exit. "That motherfucker certainly is something else, eh?" David mumbled to himself.

'Well, I guess I should just get home, I'll think about quitting later.' Arnott thought as he reached an empty crosswalk and pressed the walk button and waited for the light on the other side to change.

"Hey, mister." A little girl with long black hair said. Arnott looked down at the girl with a confused expression. After a moment, he noticed she seemed to be hiding something behind her back. "Sorry, but I need you to die." She said as she pointed a gun at him and pulled the trigger, letting out a loud bang.

Arnott collapsed and his consciousness began to fade, but he was still there to an extent.

"The bullet I used instates paralysis, but you'll still feel everything." She said as she crouched down beside him and touched the wound on his stomach gently.

'It hurts. It hurts. What's happening? I can't... I can't focus.' He thought as she stuck her finger in the bullet hole.

"Don't worry, it won't all be bad." She said as she wiped her finger on Arnott's suit. After hearing a bit of movement, the girl held a ball of fabric in his view. "Here's my underwear." She said as she moved the underwear from his vision and placed them spread out over his crotch area. "Still not hard down there..." She mumbled.

She stood up and moved over his face, showing underneath her dress.

"Look at my pussy. Does it arouse you?" She asked. "Well, I guess it doesn't matter, I'll be sending you to another world anyway." She said as she sat on his chest, showing him her face in more detail. Innocent features, large, green eyes, pale skin. A sadistic smile appeared on her face. "You're curious right!? The question of, why was there nobody to help you?" She asked as she giggled.

She lowered her face close to his.

"I brought you to my realm. It only mimics yours." She said. She kissed him. "So, how did you like kissing this loli?" She asked with a smile. "Hmph, statues are boring." She said blandly after not getting an answer as she shifted her expression to something more neutral. "I guess I've teased you enough anyway. Allow me to explain." She said with a sigh as she moved away from his face a bit. "I'll be sending you to another world, you'll get an ability, maybe two, but it won't be anything too special, in fact, you might even get an ability unique to goblins, wouldn't that be fascinating?" She asked as she laughed at her own joke.

'I don't get it... What's happening...? All I can focus on is the pain.' Arnott thought as his vision began to darken slowly.

"And by the way, I'm a goddess, I made the world you're about to go to, or more accurately, made that little game of yours real." She said. "Well, since you can't say anything and I have nothing else to say, I'll use you to pleasure myself while we wait for you to die." She said as she stood up and began undoing his pants, throwing her panties onto his face.

Once the pants were undone, she went down on his dick and spent the rest of the time he was there using him as she pleases. he blacked out after a few minutes and bled out after a few hours.

Soon after, Arnott woke up in the woods with some kind of GUI in front of him showing two new abilities in separate columns of a text board. On the left is an ability called 'Goblin Lord' and on the right is 'Appraisal'.

Upon reading the ability names, information about and from the abilities flooded Arnott's mind, giving him a mild headache, causing him to wince slightly. After a moment of hesitation, he stood up and began to organize his thoughts as the GUI disappeared.

'I don't quite understand, but, I guess I'm in a different world?' Arnott asked himself as he looked at the unfamiliar terrain surrounding him. 'And these abilities, they're rather useful. Goblin Lord tells me many things about how goblins operate and grants me control over creatures who swear fealty to me as well as their descendants. It also allows me to converse in any language, pretty useful.' He thought, organizing the abilities mentally.

'Appraisal allows me to look at the status, name, and effects of objects and creatures. Also, I can see the talents of creatures as well.' Arnott continued his internal organization. 'Well, that aside, my first order of business is to find some kind of settlement, I need to get a grasp of the culture and civilization nearby.' He thought.