Scientific ReQuest is the Web Serial written by Astrille and published on Royal Road.
The story is a satirical take on the usual Portal Fantasy plot where the protagonist is summoned to the fantasy world strangely resembling the game he once played.
Jessica Harper, the story’s protagonist, is, however, not a gamer. She is an ordinary British middle-aged teacher with almost next to no context for the generic MMORPG the world itself resembles and doesn’t find the whole affair amusing, let alone desirable. She doesn’t want anything more than return to her ordinary, uneventful life, and forget this annoying experience forever. We follow her as she tries to make a living in the new world, applying her knowledge and common sense in a game-like setting, to remind the readers how ultimately silly and nonsensical those worlds are.
It can be found here.
This fic contains examples of the following tropes:
- Fetch Quest: Jessica was accidentally summoned to perform a cliched fetch quest.
- Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game: Setting is inspired by one, though "NPC" are apparently sentient, normal people when not dealing with adventurers.
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: Mike is a minotaur. He is also a normal shopkeeper, not that different from humans in the setting.
- Trapped in Another World: A premise of the story, an ordinary teacher trapped in the game world.
