Blue Ridge

As I was walking down the mountain, I came across a multitude of peculiar creatures. Some I recognize from other planets and some that I do not, there were even some foolish animals that decided to attack me, but only one swing of the two swords on my back was enough to decapitate every beast.

When I was getting closer to the town of Blue Ridge, I could faintly hear the purring of engines of the ancient vehicles that one would only find in museums across the galaxy. I was peeking through the foliage to get a good look at a part of the town, so I can get a feel of what the people of this planet are like. While I was watching these people, I realized what I was wearing would stand out, plus these to swords on my back might not be such a welcoming sight among these people.

With that thought in mind I found someone of similar height and build to myself and watched him for a perfect moment to knock him unconscious and take his clothes. While waiting for him to go to a secluded area, I put my swords into the backpack I have which uses shrinking technology to fit lager and more items into the bag. After about two hours, the unlucky chosen one finally went behind a building that was near the forests edge.

I inched closer to grab the man and once my hands were within reach, I grabbed and pulled him into the shrubbery where I quickly knocked him unconscious. After he was knocked out, I started taking off his shirt, jacket and jeans to use for myself while roaming the streets. I still decided to have one of my handguns hidden within the jacket to ensure personal safety should something go wrong.

Now that I look better than before, I decided to walk out of the forest and then into the streets to explore this town. During my walk alongside the street, I noticed people were looking at me weirdly. I didn't understand what was wrong as I thought I looked normal in my newly acquired clothing and with no weapons in sight on my person. With me being curious about what was wrong, I decided to ask a random passerby.

" Excuse me sir, would you happen to know why everyone is looking weirdly at me?" I asked him politely while thinking to myself 'I hope this translater module in my head works for this language.'

While shaking his head he tells me " Dude you've got this crazy looking mask on your face man, that's why everyone thinks your crazy or cosplaying."

When he said that I looked around and noticed that everyone around had their faces showing with no one except for myself wearing a full face mask. With the knowledge of why this was happening, I decided to just continue walking on my way. There is no way in hell I'm taking this mask off; afterall they would be staring even more if they saw me with it off.

After a few hours of walking around town, I got a general idea of the layout and locations of important buildings and places. I wanted to get a place to stay at the local hotel, but they don't take the galactic currency. So first thing I need is to figure out a way to obtain "dollars" which in my opinion it is very weird to have paper currency.

Since I need money for many things other than just a room, I decided I'm gonna look for a job that would hire a mysterious masked man. Just as I was gonna head down the street and ask people if they knew anyone that was hiring, I got stopped by what seemed like a police officer. I'm surprised that the police officers on this planet don't wear armored gear, but just some formal looking uniform.

"Sir, I'm gonna have to ask why your wearing a suspicious mask on you today?" Asked the officer with a curious gaze towards myself.

" Officer, it's due to severe scarring from my past that normal people my get scared or weirded out if they saw my face" there was no point in lying because if he did ask me to take it off, well that's what he would see.

"So officer, I would appreciate it if you wouldn't bother about the mask anymore." I continued to explain and plead.

"Very well, but don't do anything stupid now or else I'll have to bring you into the station. There have been enough odd things today, like just an hour ago was some lunatic running around on the street almost naked screaming that aliens took his clothes." Explained the officer with a pained expression on his face.

As the officer walked away, I thought that I'm extremely glad that the crazy man did not see any defining feature of my mask when I knocked him unconscious or there would already be bloodshed right when I got here.

With a few hours of searching for a job, I found a flyer looking to hire a temporary bodyguard. Only two conditions are must be willing to travel and have to pass an interview by the contractor. The flyer in hand, I walk to the designated house that the flyer shows as the location of the interview. Now time to go get my first job in this new world that I hope can entertain me for awhile.