I woke up to the sound of a chicken clucking. Wait, that can’t be right. I went to bed with no chicken in the apartment. Once my eyes adjusted, I saw I was naked in a hedge maze. Wait, I thought. I went to bed in my apartment, with my own math PJs on. I realized that the ground I was sleeping on was grass. I felt some sort of unrecognizable distortment. A porcupine barreled at me, running into me, creating some cuts on my leg. I punched it and it died. I thought I was in the hospital and taking medications that gave me hallucinations. If this is actually a world, I don't know what to do. If there are monsters more powerful than this, what the heck? I don't know, I could go insane thinking of the possibilities. A message popped up in front of me:

You have defeated (normal barreling porcupine)

Would you like to collect the drops from (normal barreling porcupine)?

“Ummmm… yes,” I said, and another message came up:

You have collected the drops from (normal barreling porcupine)

You have received (one hundred normal coins)

You have received (healing cream)

You have received (normal magical core)

Another message came up:

Outsider abilities:

Map

Interface

Party and Chat

Inventory and Levitation

Looting

Quest And Translation

Would you like to quest (Explore the hedge maze)

Reward: Simple clothes

“Ummmm… yes,” I said

Another system message came up, even though everything was blocky:

Would you like to use (healing cream)

Reward: all your cuts will be healed

“Yes,” I said. While I was exited about getting magic powers, it also scared me.

"Am I meant to understand any of this?" I pinched myself to make sure it wasn't a dream. It hurt. "Get out of this, Arjun," I muttered. "You are only ten. Don't act like a young adult."

Another porcupine jumped out and landed on my head. I punched it, but it just laid down, spiking my head. I threw it off with some difficulty and ran into the hedge. When it approached, I whacked it with a stick of grass, then ran for a kilometer or so. After that, it stopped pursuing me.

I was able to tell what the topography was from my vantage point. I was in the foothills of a forest mountain range, in a valley between two mountains. Past the range was a desert, with a large city in the middle. From the sounds, past the mountain range was a beach and the ocean. That was odd. I usually couldn't hear through a door, and now I could hear this? There was also a large river at the summit. The mountains were roughly five thousand meters, with snow above four thousand meters. There was still a forest, but it was filled with evergreen trees and trees with purple leaves past that point.

"Wait, snow in the middle of summer? I guess since I'm in 'Madagascar,' it would be winter, but there isn't snow in Africa. This is odd. Trees don't have purple leaves."

I saw a hamster at a high level of "Magic." I ran while throwing grass at it. When it barreled, I jumped out of the way and hid in the hedge, where no one found me for ten minutes.