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Brie Zahn
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| Name | Brie Zahn |
| Age | Young Adult |
| Gender | female |
| Known Associates | none |
Brie Zahn is a freshman at College of Estavelle trying out for the Half-Rubber? team. One night on the way home from the gym she encounters several of her classmates attempting an illicit summoning ritual to bring a tank from the game TKTKTK. She confronts them and the ritual goes wrong, sucking her into the game instead.
In the world of the game she quickly meets Fred? AKA Prince Eitel Friedrich van Freytag-Loringhoven, prince of the kingdom of Eitelsten. The Gunn Empire has razed his kingdom and he is headed to the Magazene Monks to retrieve a secret weapon his people placed in their care.
Brie enjoys the hospitality of the monks, who unfortunately do not know how to send her back home. They soon learn that the Empire is on their trail so they prepare the secret weapon, the battle tank Eitelkeiten. A monk(who?) joins Brie and Fred as the third member of the tank crew and together they set off toward a northern city rumored to be full of mystics, along with several trucks full of provisions and ammunition and fuel.
Brie, despite never having driven any vehicle before, finds herself the Eitelkeiten's driver, with the monk as copilot/machine gunner and Fred the commander and main gunner. They have several encounters and skirmishes with Imperial forces as they make their way through the mountainous northern terrain.
As they go, Brie has an important realization. Early on in her adventure she realized she could do pretty much whatever she wanted and it would be dismissed as her "foreign ways" but as time goes on she finds it's more than that. Despite lacking any talent in Artifice she is the only real person in a fictional world and per the principles of Demi-Ontology she has broad power over it. Her own desires are effectively as real as the world around her. Everything has tendency to bend to her wishes.
Brie begins asserting herself more. Their path is easier than expected. A bridge they thought destroyed is actually still intact. Towns are more welcoming and freely resupply them. Finally, during an Imperial ambush Brie allows herself to be captured and negotiates with the Imperial generals. When Fred mounts a rescue attempt they find the Gunn Empire has had a change of heart and will withdraw from Eitelsten and end all further expansion. Fred believes this must be some kind of trick but as they turn back to the south all evidence seems to show the Gunn Empire is keeping to their word.
As they return to Eitelsten many other refugees who fled return as well, and they begin the rebuilding process. Brie decides she likes this world that bends to her wishes and announces she and Fred shall wed and she will be the princess of Eitelsten. Despite their time together Fred still feels this is somehow now how things are supposed to be.
Natasha Winter arrives in Eitelsten to bring Brie back home. Nat has never played the game but has read the book series that details Prince Eitel's valiant battle against the Gunn Empire. Were the books any good? That's not the point, what matters is Brie has messed everything up and skipped a lot of plot and character development. Brie uses her narrative power to try to resist, but Natasha is as real as Brie and has a lot more experience navigating Demi-Ontological worlds.
It turns out Brie's parents have employed Dimestore Novel to find their daughter, and Mr. Encyclopedia? has in fact known where she was from the moment she fell through the ritual. Brie returns to her old life, a few months after she left, not having learned or grown at all. The only thing she has to show for it is the nice outfit she was given at the monastery, which unlike everything else given to her is as real as she is.