[IC] Aincrad VRMMORPG Roleplay

[NoobCW]

The orange sun shone upon the small white houses of the City of Beginnings. The buildings are made of white bricks which reflecting an oozing state of yellow under the evening shade. The floors along with the city borders are also of a white color. Along the streets, a few marble statues can be noticed, with the shape of mythical creatures like Dragon, Phoenixes, or bizarre creatures that doesn't seem to originate from any fairy tales. The roof of the houses area mostly made of wood, which dulls down the luxury of the place. Some houses are empty, while some others are item & weapon shops occupied by NPCs. The center of the place have the tallest structure, a clocktower which shows the time in Roman Numerals, and rings when it hits 12 noon. Around it is a fountain with water of a clear crisp, as well as a few Koi fishes frockling in the water. The clouds blows a cooling, spring breeze as players spawns beside the clocktower.

The city is located near the west edge of the floor, being surrounded by a large cresent-shaped field which encompasses a good amount of land of 1F. Further east is a forest, and then a cave by the walls, which is said to be the dungeon of the 1st Floor. There's a neighbouring village in front of the nearest path to the forest, which is a common stop for the players who want to venture to the forest, which consists of monsters of higher difficulty.

Fate, on his four legs, moved towards the nervegear that was lying on the floor. Squeezing his head towards the nervegear, he found himself back into the world, beside the clocktower as usual. As usual?... Fate looked at his hands, they were still animal paws. Staring towards the rough reflection of the water, he realized that his appearance had remained unchanged. Wait... there should be an Avatar creation phase beforehand... Strange... Fate sat beside the fountain and sighed, the clocktower rang as Fate looked towards the evening sun which never rise or set, but only stays still on one spot. The players seemed to have more realistic features than the Beta testing. Did that avatar feature get scrapped out or something?

He decided not to attract any unwanted attention with his appearance, and strolled off towards the item store, buying a sword as well as a few potions with his starter money.

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After finalizing the connections, The Maker decides to approach Darrin one last time. “This is it, my friend. Once I flip this switch,...”

“I’ll be over in the actual game, yes, I know.” Darrin intrudes on The Maker’s sentence, “I’m just happy I could help you get those algorithms down in time for the release. Plus, I guess I should thank you for saving me from Death Row. I’m just glad that the only thing that could really kill me now is a severe virus that I can’t fix.”

The Maker, sounding hesitant, replies, “Right. A virus. Well, take care!”

“Wait!” Noticing his hesitation too late, Darrin is pulled through the network link and into the game. “Dammit!” Darrin screams at the top of his lungs with irritation, and begins to feel light headed. Thankfully, he has learned to manage short rage bursts, and he gets himself under control. He then takes the time to look around, seeing random people staring at him like he was a lunatic.

Embarrassed, Darrin storms down a back street paved with rock, and stops at an NPC vendor. The NPC tries to grab his attention, but he tones it out, thinking back on his situation. He knows three things. First, he’s an alpha tester with scarce knowledge on the actual game itself besides the NPCs and the battle system. Second, there is no leaving the game for him what-so-ever. Third, The Maker, who he now dubs as Bob (being as he doesn’t much care for the name), hesitantly replied to Darrin’s mention of death and viruses. He begins to get the feeling that this game may very well become his grave if he isn’t careful.

On that note, Darrin rummages through his inventory, checks out his stats, menu selections, etc. After having everything set up he heads back to the center of town to find a generic item shop to spend his meager starting cash on potions and a bow.

[Scarifar]

At last. The highly anticipated game Aincrad Online, and he was playing it. He was glad he was one of the 10,000 people to receive the first copies of the game. Now he was going through character creation, and he was having a heck of a time figuring out what appearance he wanted. He wasn't the most creative when it came to appearances, and often just went with the flow. Eventually he decided to keep it a bit similar to his actual appearance, but add his own little touches to his avatar. Now he needed to choose his class. Hmm.... perhaps he would go with a support class.

With that done, he pressed the "Accept" button and found himself in the town square of a town. Well, this certainly looked promising. People around him were already here, enjoying themselves in the game. He took a few moments to get used to his character, stretching his arms and legs, then taking a few steps in circles. Satisfied, he opened the menu and selected the "Inventory" button, checking out what he had on him. It wasn't all that much, just beginner gear, which was to be expected. Well, nothing a bit of gold farming wouldn't fix. He wandered around the town, looking for a way outside to kill some low leveled creatures.

[NoobCW]

Fate walked off the item store with his completed shopping spree, carrying a bag of items behind him (He doesn't know how to use inventories). "Time for an epic start for my fantasy adventu- ouch!" He'd accidentally bumped onto Darrin, falling down on the floor with a huge thud. He's a human... Frowning at Darrin as he started picking up the fallen items back into the item pouch, he approached Darrin as he made an apology with a monotonous, unsincere tone. "And... You're too tall, I can't see you, meow~" Fate added, throwing his items back into the pouch. "The scammer Ruler, stating that I will be changed to human height, and yet there ain't much difference. I've became taller, but I'm still a midget..." Fate hissed, his eyes glinted towards Darrin as he tiptoed frustratedly, desperate to be seen as equals, in terms of size at the very least. "Now I'm not~"

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"So," Darrin began with an irritated tone, "you're a cat then? I don't know many humans who act like that, and a dog would be much more apologetic than that." Stumped by his knowledge, Fate was speechless as Darrin continued. "Well, regardless, sorry for bumping into you like that. I'll be on my way." Before Fate could say anything, or even exchange names with him, Darrin waltzed right by him and into the shop that Fate just left. "Alright, time to work the magic words!" Darrin exclaimed, twiddling his fingers together in front himself. With a new found enthusiasm, Darrin approached the NPC vendor and began to haggle with him. It took a little word-play and some conversating, but Darrin evenetually got the exact bow he wanted that was made to level with him at a price of just... all of his gold. To be honest it was worth it considering that this item tends to be difficult to find and actually purchase. "Thank you very much, sir. I'll come again really soon for more stuff. Next time, I'll pay you extra to make up for this," Darrin explains, as he begin to think to himself how stupid he sounds talking to an NPC like a real person.

As Darrin turns around, Fate is standing at the door, staring in awe. Darrin puts two and two together and realizes that Fate watched his entire schpeel with the NPC to get this incredible item at such a price. "Cheater, you bought that item lesser than what its supposed to be, I call hax!" Fate gave the middle finger, "Wait... how did you even use hax here?"

"It's a mechanic. All NPC's can be talked to like real people, so if you barter with NPC vendors, you can get even better deals. You just have to know how to deal with real people." Darrin began to think himself a teacher again explain this to Fate, and he bagan to reminisce. "If you want, being a cat and all, I could show you a few lines that would lower prices nearly anywhere you try them. What do you say? It could be my way of, I guess, appologizing for our little accident earlier."

"Anything," The cat replied, letting out a sigh, "Sounds like the art of scamming to me from the explanation, but better than not learning this~ Anyways, Mr. Scammer, my name's Fate~"

"Fate, huh?" Darrin seemed to be perplexed. "Interesting name for a cat. Either way, it's nice. And my name is Darrin." As Darrin finished introducing himself, they left the store and began the lessons.

[Scarifar]

Alexander had left the city boundaries and was now in a field, watching people kill boars and other level 1 cannon fodder for xp. He took part in it himself, shooting lightning bolts from his fingers and getting mostly assist xp from the slain monsters. For obvious reasons, assist xp did not allow him to gain as much xp as a final hit would, but since there were so many people just killing monsters and his lightning bolts coming from a cheap spell, he was gathering xp rather quickly. He also gathered gold from the fallen mobs whenever he could.

Eventually he reached level 2. It was a rather simple thing to level up at his current level, but the joy of leveling up still felt great. He even got a new spell. It was just a simple root spell, but he figured he could make good use of it. He tried it against a boar, smiling when magical ropes appeared from the ground and wrapped themselves around its legs. The boat struggled to free itself, but its efforts were futile as Alexander kept shooting lightning bolts at it. However, it soon managed to free itself and charge at Alexander, who tried to block the attack with his staff and take partial damage. The boar tried to charge again, but Alexander recovered enough to shoot a final lightning bolt and kill the boar. Alexander sighed, then got back to his job assisting the other new players with killing the level 1 and 2 mobs.