AwesomeZero5 — Roleplayer Guild

It was a typical week day for the mall's Turnstyle. A mostly family run business in the mall. Business was proceeding as normal, although it seemed there was an uptick in vinyl records being bought. Although most were just there to browse, and occasionally buy a CD on the latest most popular bands. The average customer would be handled by a friend who covered part-time.

 "So Jayden, my mike has been sounding scratchy lately-"
A familiar customer would bring over an old microphone, that looked rather damaged from decades of use. It was probably bought second hand as well. There were small claw marks on chassis of the microphone, it was a miracle that it hadn't  extended to the 'foam' of the mike itself.

A young man, and current manager of the Turnstyle would look between the mike, and the clock. It was about five minutes until closing. He didn't want to run a full diagnostic on the thing, nor leave it over night. 
Reaching under the work counter he'd bring out wrap of sorts, filled with all sorts of small tools, and screwdrivers. 

"Fifteen bucks. If it doesn't work, you're probably better off getting a new one. May have messed up the Diaphragm and that'll cost more to fix then you bought this mike for."
He'd open up the back panel of the microphone with a bit of struggle, needing to use a screwdriver to force it open. Before checking at the wire coiling inside. There was a bit of copper fraying off. A wire stripper was used to cut off some of the wire casing, and wrap the wires on top of each other tightly. Sealing the casing back up. 
It was shoddy, but should work.
He'd slide the microphone back, and collect his fifteen dollars.
He was supposed to charge more, but it was going to hurt the bank and the fix was quick.

"Villie, mind closing up?"
Jayden called out to the part-timer.

"As long as you've go my shift at the H.T. covered tomorrow. Just don't stay up too late playing your MMO's. Your ma jokes about how it'll ruin your chance with the ladies~."
Villie, the part-timer would tease back.

Jayden would scoff and head on home. He was in a bit of rush since the temperature was supposed to drop during a  snowstorm tonight, His purple short-sleeve polo, and black nylon pants with chains weren't going to stand a chance. 
He managed to get on the bus, head home, and rush up to his room nearly freezing his arms off. 

It wouldn't take him long to hop onto this new MMO, Embedded : The Vanished. He always played virtually the same character in appearance, and with the same name whenever he 'MMO hopped'.  Sometimes the class or play-style changed though.


The starting area was based off of game-play region according to a couple of the pop-ups. It seemed that the local area would be the town of Coleburgh. An old coal & natural gas town that had long been covered in thick layers of smog before the 'disappearances' had begun throughout the world. The place resembled more of a large industrial age city, with brick buildings standing tall though soulless. Factories pumping out smoke without people to run them, and generally a rather eerie and depressed atmosphere to the place. 

The spawn point would be right in front of a decaying puppet store, given a little bit of an introduction animation to arriving there.

Aread Khosrow, a 'Half-fae' in this game would spawn out of the puppet store opening the door. A short humanoid, with sligthly pointed ears, and a mostly slim figure overall. Their skin was a a deep faded purple, and eyes a bright red to match. Along their body were faint bluish-veins pushed to the surface, that looked like they came from a painful transformation. The blue would match the  small dragon-fly like wings along their back.
The character had brown long skirt, over a pair of baggy pants and was holding a large gnarled branch wrapped around an amber stone. Their, starting weapon. 

A game pop-up would appear on the gaming screen!
It was blurry and had suddenly flashed onto screen with a big green button.
It was hard to read all of it from the smaller text, but in big bold lettering:




NEW PLAYER EXPERIENCE SIGN UP NOW!
IN DEPTH GAMEPLAY
INCREASED EXPERIENCE, WITH 3D VISUAL TRACING
REALISTIC FIRST VISUALS UPDATE OPTION AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT 5 MINUTES!



Without thinking much about it, Aread would click the option.
Figuring it would be helpful as a 'new player', and that most others would probably do so as well. 

"Guess they're trying to speed level new players closer to the higher level content."
Aread would speak up.  
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