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Quinlan63

The Overlord
Location: City of Beginnings

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Anthony was shocked to see the notification that everyone in all of Titan Age was trapped inside of the game. He had only been inside for 5 minutes when an hour ago the announcement went out to all the players, needless to say it wasn't well received by everyone. Groups of players were cursing the name of whoever or whatever was responsible for our forced containment. Others, those who had time on their hands, decided to just relax and just keep themselves busy until someone fixes the problem and can let everyone out. Now Anthony at least  spent 10 minutes trying to contact the other admins but all calls to them and the outside world were all getting block for some reason. Frankly it was frustrating but he knew that he could spend his time exploring the game that he help design. The City of beginning was just as he remembered from the concept art, the tall buildings, high walls to protect the low level players, and even the guild buildings where players can learn skills like blacksmithing or crafting. All of it was just exactly as he envisioned it would be. He was so amazed by all these things that he almost forgot that if he was going to there for a while that he might as well make sure that he can stay comfortably. It was time for him to make a living for himself even if it is only a virtual living. "Maybe I should check out the guild buildings first," he said heading to see what they may have to offer.
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Within the first hour of Titan Age's release, Freja logged in and Loki was born. Spending the first few minutes doing the standard go here and meet these people for the tutorial, Loki went on to find her classes' skill trainer just outside of the City of Beginning. 


City of Beginning...She really thought that was a pretty poor name.


"How original.... surly no one has ever thought of that as the starting point in a game before. I can see, we're playing with groundbreaking Devs in the field of naming placing. I cannot wait, to see the name of the next place I find, but honestly, I'm not sure how they'll even be able to top City of Beginning."


Shaking her head, Loki got to work. Enough bashing, she had plenty of time to do that later. Now was the time to be serious, and work on her character and learn how this game works. You can't taunt someone unless you have a strong platform to fall back on. It can be as stupid as you want it to be, but as long as it's strong, it'll give you plenty of loop-holes and unproven facts for you to keep the argument going endlessly with neither side gaining any ground. However, this time it wasn't and online argument she was getting into, but rather virtual(physical?), confrontations and torment. So her platform will be herself, or rater her avatar. So first thing is first, and that is making herself stronger. 


Starting with the monsters on the outskirts of the city, Loki beat up on the level two wolves and goblins, testing her limits and the games features. She could only fight one at a time and had to wait for her mp to recover fully before fighting another. Certain actions activated different skills, and saying the name helped in the activation. Though she was sure that as she got better with using the skills, she'd no longer need say the names out loud anymore.  She did this until she reached level 3, then made her way back to the city to sell the items she had gained as drops. It was during this time that the message displayed across her screen. She crackled and a twisted smile spread across her face. Brilliant, just brilliant is what this was. The sweet sounds of chaos, as the trapped players tried has hard as they could to contract an admin, gm or to try and log out. The yells of angry players filled her ears as Loki walked into a npc run store. After selling off the items, she used all of her newly gained gold to buy a staff and some black robes, since the warlock class wasn't given any starting gear at all. 


Equipping her new gear, Loki headed back to the forest to try out how using a staff feels with some spring in her step. This time she'd make sure to pick up the different gatherable plants too. More stuff to sell. Or she could train a crafting skill with them.


"This is gonna be fun!"
 
Yuna made her way through The City of Beginnings, she wanted to get used to these new surroundings, get to know the town so that she could fully dive into this new reality of hers. A new reality, this was her escape from reality, an escape from the life she lived every day, where she had to put others first and had barely any time to herself. This was the ulitmate escape to her, it felt so real, everything around her, it was incredible! as she walked through a narrow street she put a hand on the wall and felt the texture of the bricks underneeth her finger tips. As she walked she could feel the ends of her scarf trail behind her, she couldn't help but smile at this place, it was all so surreal and yet it was so realistic!


Everytime she walked past a window or any reflecting surface, she stopped to look at herself, she was still surprised to see the girl staring back at her, who looked so much like herself except for the longer and lighter hair, but the most notable change were the bringt green eyes she had given herself. Even though the changes were small, she didn't fully recognise herself when she looked at the mirror, but she was sure she would get used to it over time. 


After a while she felt as if she had explored the city enough and she made her way back to the central area, she did not exactly know what to do next. Maybe she would go to the guild buidling to learn some skills, or maybe she should go to the forest outside the city and try to level up. While she was deciding this she was enjoying the atmosphere here, so much exitement and happyness, she could feel it everywhere. 


Untill they received the notification.


Yuna could feel her heartbeat raise, this couldn't be possible, this had to be a mistake, she couldn't be trapped! it was impossible! She tried to log out but came to discover that it was indeed true, it didn't work. Yuna closed her eyes and took a deep breath "calm down, it's just a little error, they're trying to fix it the best they can right now, I'm sure of it, it'll all be fine" she told herself to calm down. 


she noticed how the atmoshpere had changed, it wasn't exited and happy anymore, people were angry, scared, annoyed. Yuna didn't want to be around here anymore, it was best to get away from here for a while and go to a quieter place untill everything had calmed down again. 


having decided this, Yuna made her way outside the town, with a fast pace she walked through the streets towards the large walls that protected The Citty of Beginnings from the outside. She had her bow, the weapon she chose at the start, on her back. Maybe she could go training outside, practicing aiming and see how far she could reach with her bow. 


when she had finally got out of the town she felt reliefed, there were still al lot of people here because it was still close to the city but it were a lot less and seeing all the green and the beautifull senery she felt much calmer already. She set off deeper into the forest, but was carefull not to get attacked by anything, first the wanted to practice before she set off to actually kill some monsters.
 
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Anthony had been working real hard to focus on killing the lvl 2 goblins and foxes, this was giving some good results but his HP kept dipping down a bit. He wasn't worried too much, all he had to was cut them down one at a time and and to make sure he doesn't pull too much aggro to the ones he wasn't fighting. It all felt amazing to him to be living out the dream he so work for to create. Now that he was getting the chance to try out one of the classes he made he was very pleased by the work he put into the paladin class. He was even wondering how the players thought about the stuff he worked on when it comes to the classes that he spent hours working on.
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With that thought in mind in another 30 minutes he heard the sound of a ding and a screen popped up saying that he had reached lvl 2. This made things a lot easier for his progress so 10 lvl 3 wolfs later another screen came up prompting another level up. With all that he gained he thought that it was best to head back and go see about buying a shield to keep him safer. It was pretty costly for something that only gave 1 point in constitution so he couldn't get anything else until later. 
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Leaving the store before heading to the guild buildings he took stock of what his stat were(HP: 60/60 MP: 90/90 Str 9/ Int 9/ 5 Agi/ 5 Spt/ 6 Con| 10 points available). He wasn't really sure now how he was going to distribute his points for now so he decided to just wait for now and give it some thought. He might even come up with it by the time he gets all the skills from the guilds in the city.
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As she walked back towards the forest, Loki went over her player UI. So far she had 50 health, 110 mp, 6 points in strength, 5 agility, 7 spirit and 10 free points to spend. So far that was fine, she was a low level so she didn't really need to invest into her points until level 5. For now, the monsters were weak enough to the point were her class level up bonus was enough to deal with them. In order to get to level 4 she'd need to get 300 more exp points, which meant fighting 20 level 3 monsters. Getting the herbalist job, Loki reentered the forest and used her staff to fight goblins and collected plants and herbs in-between while waiting for mp to recover. Her goal was to at least be able to enter the cave before nightfall.


While fight, Loki took note of some very important facts. The staff had long reach and was nice for fighting the short goblins, however, she couldn't use any of her magic while it was out as the was a two-handed weapon. Even if she held the staff with one hand and tried using magic with the other, her spell wouldn't register. Loki figured it was because the staff was unenchanted, so it was considered a two-handed blunt weapon and not a magic one. However, putting her staff away or "sheathing" it allowed her to use magic again. So her fighting style was using ward, unsheathing her staff and melee attacking then using Life Drain to recover any health she might have lost. For now, she didn't need the other skills she had gained until she found a stronger monster. At level 4 she'd get surge, which will be a huge help to her damage output and level fight will give her the death touch passive for the mp boost for each kill allowing her grinding to become more effective. Soon enough she'll be able to buy a basic magic staff so she can use her skills along with melee attacks. 


Loki smiled to herself as picked some herbs and poisonous plants. She had reached level 4 in about 28 minutes. One minute for every monster plus the times were she picked plants waiting for her mp. 


"Ah, I think I've done well so far. Maybe I should killsteal from some people for fun?"


Wandering around the forest picking plants and making notes on new ones she found, Loki noticed another player who hasn't seemed to lost their mind over the log out issue. Getting a bit closer, the player nametag read Yuna. The girl was clearly a ranger, and had bright green eyes and dirty blonde hair. Loki smiled to herself.


"Hmm, I wonder what kind of person she is. Well, I've got plenty of time, so let's find out."


Sitting down behind her tree, Loki watched the Yuna girl. "People watching", was almost as enjoyable was tormenting them. People are interesting creatures after all. Especially during times of chaos like right now. Loki wondered how long it would be until everyone started forming groups and taking claims to areas. Heh, reason why there aren't riots in the city, is because of the guards. However, sooner or later guild will begin claiming lands as their "own" and the ones that are too afraid to venture out of the city, will find life pretty hard for them. She couldn't wait til that happened. Oh she'd love to turn all those groups against one another.
 
John had been playing for quite a while before the error message popped up. He'd mostly spent this time looking at the different shops and the other player characters, he had been pleasantly surprised by how real everything looked. There had even been several occasions on which he'd forgotten that this was all just a bunch of numbers on a computer somewhere. But the error message had put a stop to his fun, as it was hard to enjoy something when everyone else was panicking.  John himself were almost one hundred percent convinced that this whole mess was either an special event or just some ridiculous prank that the admins had pulled, so he saw no real to panic. Instead he simply shrugged and began to walk towards the forest, ready to start farming.  


He reached his destination surprisingly fast, and upon his arrival he noticed a group of bunnies. John smiled as he activated his life drain ability on one of the rabbits, killing it almost immediately. His smile grew wider as he saw the amount of XP he'd gained from it. Sure, it wasn't a lot but it was much more than it should have been. He activated life drain on another rabbits which, just like the previous one, died as soon as he finished casting life drain. John continued with his slaughter of the rabbits, until he saw that he'd leveled up.


"What a perfect timing, I was starting to run low on mana". John quietly said to himself as he started walk back towards the city to buy a new weapon or some armor. 
 
Yuna found a quiet spot in the forest, it was a little clearing with shrubbery around it and soft green grass all on the ground. She took her bow off her back and pulled it back to see how it felt, it was a bit heavy to draw back completely but with a little bit of a struggle she managed, then she put an arrow on the bow, which wasn't as easy as it seemed and holding it in place while drawing back the bow was also not a simple task. Finally, she got it in the position she wanted it to be and she aimed for a tree at the other side of the clearing. With a dry *twang* and a *swoosh* the arrow flew away, but it missed it's mark and hit the ground behind the tree, around a meter to the left. Yuna didn't react, it was what she had expected, the took another arrow and tried again, it went much smoother this time, again she aimed for the tree and this time she actually hit it! more through luck as through skill but that didn't matter. 


She smiled, this was fun, not easy, but fun. she shot some more arrows untill she got the hang of it and she walked to the other side of the clearing to collect her arrows, most she could find rather easily due to the red feathers at the end. when she just pulled the last arrow out of the ground she saw a bunny walking. "Ahw" she muttered, it was a cute little thing, she knew they were just little pieces of data but it didn't make it less cute. She didn't want to kill it, even though that was the purpose of these things. She saw another one and a third one, she bit her lip but then she took her bow again and pulled it back, ready to fire, carefully she aimed and then let the arrow go, it hit the bunny, but didn't kill it, quickly she took another arrow and that one also hit mark, the bunny shattered into little particles. "I'm sorry" she whispered as she picked up the loot. 


Even though she didn't like killing things, Yuna was pleased to see that she had earned some experience and some gold. She really needed to think about those things but she had been carried away by the rest of the game to care about those untill now. "I'm sorry, to all the animals out here" she whispered as she set off to find more animals to kill, 


After a little while she had killed some more bunnies and a fox, she felt bad about killing the fox since those were rather cute, she told herself to tame one of those as soon as she reached level three and had the skill to tame animals. She was planning on keeping most of the loot she picked up to use it for cooking or crafting later, skills she was determined to learn. She had also picked up some plants and herbs, also to keep rather as to sell. 


Suddenly, she heard a sound behind her, not the sound of the animals but something else, when she turned around she saw that her panick had not been  completely justified since it was a goblin but she was nervous nevertheless. Quickly she shot an arrow at him, which did some damage but not enough. This was a good time to test out some of her special skills, she mumbled the name 'eagle shot' and shot another arrow, this did more damage. then she dashed out of the way because the goblin tried to attack her. Quickly she hit him with another eagle shot and a normal one and the goblin shattered. Yuna got a funny feeling in her stomach, she was so proud of herself, she killed her first monster! she let out an exited squee and picked up the armour it had dropped. maybe she would sell this one, she had no real interest in armous as she felt it restricted her in her movements, for now she was good with what she had. 


Then she heard a little 'ding' which notified her that she had leveld up, she let out a little "yay" to herself and saw that she could add some points to her stats. without thinking too much about it she added two points to her spirit and saved the rest for later. 
 
Gale had been grinding, as was her usual first course of action when starting the game, the low-level monsters were not particularly challenging, though few games made the beginning few levels difficult. Most likely, that was to prevent the casuals from getting discouraged too early on. It was interesting to be a part of a virtual system, though, and that made the battle system a bit more interesting. She could practically feel the weight of the dagger in her hand, though naturally, that was her brain tricking her with the information the game was feeding to it. In all honesty, it was somewhat disconcerting when Gale thought too much about it, so she had opted to just enjoy the experience. It wasn't as though she hadn't engaged in risky behavior before this. Besides, if a whole group of science nerds had said it was safe, who was Gale to argue with them?


She made her way along the path back to the town, as her HP having dipped down somewhat and she needed to replenish her supplies. She received the system alert and let out an audible sigh in response. If this sort of thing were to happen a lot, she'd probably end up dropping the game no matter how intriguing or unique it was. It would be very inconvenient to not be able to log in or out reliably, and undoubtedly the people running the game would be getting a whole lot of hate mail and complaints about the issue. Although Gale did not particularly have anything better to do, it was just frustrating that they hadn't worked out all the bugs yet, particularly with such a major system. Perhaps they couldn't manage it with the larger number of players, but it always annoyed her when game companies knew that they'd be getting a lot of players and still could not manage to prepare accordingly. There were a lot of popular games like that, many of which crashed and burned because people soured on the experience after having to put up with server issues. It was simply bad management.


As she finally reached the town again, she made her way around to gather supplies, having just finished up before sitting down near the town square where people were milling about, ranging from looking panic stricken to relatively unphased by the situation at hand. Gale glanced over to the person who was sitting down near her. Her first thought was to wonder what sort of scenarios one could engage in PVP under, though she figured it would be best to reach a higher level before getting too excited about that. Instead, she considered the potential benefits of forming a party early on. She had yet to explore those mechanics after all, so it would be interesting to see whether it would facilitate the leveling process.


"Hey, looks like we're stuck here awhile, huh?" Gale asked, placing her hand on the person's shoulder. "You up for forming a party? Might help pass the time a bit quicker."
 
(Asuna´s POV)


I sighed at the just barely open door in front of me, not even bothering to reach for the knob and just lightly tapping it to open the entrance home.


"Daddy, you should really start paying attention. One of these days all of your collections will have been robbed. Though, the robber would have to bring a train to load it all." I muttered to myself as I stepped in and closed the door behind me. Albeit rearranged, the toys, clothes and paper sheets with colors were still laying around all over the entrance, spread over the whole hall that lead to my to every other division in the house. Did they go to sleep? I really couldn´t understand what was so hard about picking stuff for the baby. They had had me already, surely they knew SOMETHING about what would be good or bad for my upcoming sister, right? I sighed again, I just wanted to get back to my room and start up the game. Let them sleep. The yelling the teacher did today was enough for me, more than that really, I just wanted that sweet melody of the gears turning, and the artistic lines of the new game I just acquired yesterday. Everything was already set up for the play: the account was made, the things downloaded, the character created, I even went to the shop for purchase some things for my character. I hated looking bland like some netdecker. I would just do me, pick up my style with those dog ears and the dog tail, and even that promotion pet that would hatch in a couple days, but was so adorable I just had to get it! Not that it made a lot of sense that it would "hatch", given what kind of pet it was. And by my garment choices, it shouldn´t be too hard to guess either.


With the doors locked and the keyhole stuffed to prevent noise in case my parents woke up, I sat on my bed and picked up the machine, then dove into the game. There was a bright flash at first and I instinctively tried moving my hands, but I found they wouldn´t move. It was weird, I could at once feel my arms and not, even if just for a moment, like their ghost was being taken from them or something. It only lasted for a second, and probably had something to do with this "amazing" VR technology the game was famous for, but it still freaked me out a bit. I held myself, though, I wouldn´t be so dumb as to humiliate myself by crying before I was even playing the game. When my sensations returned to me, I had to blink a couple times to remove that blur from my vision. It was all worth it, as my jaw dropped from the beautifully rendered city, it was almost life-like in practically everything! As if the graphics weren´t enough, the fact that I was actually not just seeing and hearing it, but also smelling, feeling, maybe even would come to taste it, it was, it was just, wow! I tried moving around, nearly tripping from something unusual. I looked down, seeing the length of my legs and the puffiness of my chest, exactly like I designed them (I had even been confused with a guy once over that particular feature of how I customized my characters). Then I looked at my arms, my legs, and even felt the jacket thingie around my neck, the ears, the tail (they wiggled, but there wasn´t really much control I had over them and I couldn´t feel them unless I touched them with another one of my body parts). I took a moment to let my eyes widen and then jumped in place in excitement, squealing.


"Yay! Yes, yes!" Exactly as I designed the character, and now I WAS the character...in a sense. Maybe I would nail acting like it too someday, maybe get one of those "roleplayer" people to teach me or something. But for now, I should get a hang of the game. According to my research, the first things I should do would be getting some extra skills. You never know what could come in handy. I couldn´t remember if there was a limit, though, so maybe I should prioritize the ones I wanted the most. Let´s see... I had gone for this caster type, the warlock. They said it was pretty difficult, but the idea of resurrecting things was just so awesome I couldn´t pass on the opportunity. Like ZAP! And they were back to how they were, but with me. I couldn´t wait to get to that level!


But yeah, skills. I had to ask a couple people to teach me how to acquire them, sure I had researched, but doing things for real was quite different, especially when you were literally inside the game. I acquired the farming, cooking, alchemy, enchanting, herbalism and crafting ones, and was about to get more, when suddenly this alert pops up. I tilted my head, confused as to what it could be about, and clicked on the button. A noise popped out of the menu that tempted me to close it and open it again just for fun, but it could that messages would be lost if I did so, so I just went ahead and read it.


I just stood there for a minute, eyes blurting in every direction and feet into none. Couldn´t log out? Couldn´t contact the outside world? What kind of joke was this? On the first day? No, this couldn´t be happening. This was like one of those anime where people got stuck in their games! Oh God, was I going to die? Quick, where was the protagonist? I needed to find one! Surely there I would be safe. But this was real life, there was no protagonist, was there? Then why was I stuck in the game? For what purpose? My head couldn´t take it, it was just shaking around inside itself, so I bobbed to a bench on the fountain at town square, and nearly jumped at the friendly tap.


"Ah!" I squeaked in surprise. My cheeks went a little red, I didn´t mean to sound like that. I gulped. "I´m sorry, I didn´t... a party sounds great. But, hum, we aren´t stuck here forever? I thought that´s what it meant. Was this just some kind of weird maintenance shutdown?"


I sighed, much more relieved, then looked up to actually get a better look at the person speaking to me. She looked thin and pale, with a slightly red hair. Her name was hum... Rubyrunner.


"Nice to meet you, Rubyrunner. Did you play this game for a long time now?"


Crap! Stupid question! The game launched TODAY! Besides, she was level 1. No one plays a game for "a long time" and stay level 1.


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Alistair/Castiel: 

Lvl: 2


Strength: 10


Intellec: 3


Agility: 6


Spirit: 2


Constitution: 9


5 points avaliable.

[SIZE= 14px]Setting up the game had been rather quick and simple the only difference was how Alistair had to actually adjust and enter his own physical traits before continuing on to the registration process.[/SIZE]


[SIZE= 14px]After thirty minutes of setting up his character, and distributing stats that would benefit his class. After a successful log in Castiel stood silently in the City of Beginnings, taking in the sight around him. It was a nice change from his dimly lit room and it was also filled with new players who'd just logged in as well. [/SIZE]


[SIZE= 14px]"First things first this tutorial.." He sighed and quickly activated the first quest in his log, quickly rushing through the tutorial steps and taking note of the important things like forming parties and accessing his map and stats, once he was all done with that Castiel decided to head out into the fields not far from the city. He gave his short sword a few swings in order to adjust to its weight and the way it felt which didn't take long and heven was soon taking on a few of the lower level wolves around the area[/SIZE].


His movements began to flow more easily as he dodged quick swipes and shifted his weight to put more force behind his swings. After about 10 wolves later he'd received a pop up notification saying that he'd reached Lvl. 2 and that attribute points were available.  


"Nice, maybe I could- huh?" Castiel was quickly cut off by another notification bit this one seemed to be an error message from the staff, but the message seemed to cause panic amongst a few players while Castiel justill stared at bit shocked and confused by it all. There had to be over a million players online and they most likely had families waiting for them...did the families know? Had this evening been made public yet? 


"Panicking won't solve anything...I've gotta stay focused, Level up and keep myself..no everyone safe." The blonde tightened his grip on the swords handle as he nodded to himself. "Might as well keep at it..maybe form a party to lighten the work load, after all there's strength in numbers.' 


[SIZE= 14px]Castiel took a deep breath before sharpening his gaze as he rushed back into a battle with a Lvl. 3 wolf, swinging quickly while trying to move faster and deliver heavy blows. [/SIZE]


[SIZE= 14px][Open to Anyone][/SIZE]
 
Smirking, Gale shook her head slightly in disbelief. She'd found herself a genuine introvert, flustered awkwardness and all. Gale never knew quite what to do with people like that, though she'd be able to push the girl around for a little while and that was what mattered at the moment. She'd be able to ditch her after awhile, or at the very least once the game managers fixed their damn system. It amused her that the girl seemed to think that they'd be stuck in there forever. It was, of course, a possibility, but Gale was certain that nothing so dangerous could make it onto the market without even a whisper of controversy surrounding its release.


"Yeah, I've been playing for years," Gale said, looking rather amused by her own joke. "I'm practically an expert."


With a shrug, Gale continued, gesturing to the people around them.


"There's a ridiculous number of people stuck here right now. That's probably the reason for the server hiccup. They could do with a less ominous warning, though," she added. "There's not much worth worrying about. May as well have a bit of fun... Let's see... how does the party system work again?"


She scanned the options available until she found the option to invite the other girl to her party. It seemed that the girl was a warlock, which meant they'd likely have to pick up someone playing a support class later on.


"There, invite sent," Gale said after selecting the option. "We'll be able to scout the area with relative safety, and see what the perks of teaming up are."


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As Loki watched Yuna shoot arrows at rabbits, she covered her mouth to keep from laughing. What was she saying sorry to virtual rabbits for? It's not as though they had any feelings. Her fight against the goblin amused her though. Not bad for someone who just took up a bow. Loki wondered how good she actually was though.


"Let's have a little test shall we? It's about time I moved on to find some other people after all."


Adding in the stat points she had been saving, Loki activated her abyssal familiar skill. A ghostly ball of glowing gas floated along next to her. Looking at the stats, it had 170 health and did 11 damage per hit. She smiled at the creature, already coming up with an awful idea. Using Shadow Cloak to get away from the area without being seen, Loki sent her little ball of gas after the ranger. 


The familiar sped towards Yuna at full speed, it's only intention, to ram itself into her body. Snickering, Loki left without looking back. With any luck, the girl will get critically hurt and run into a few monsters. Ah, it really is fun messing with people. Loki thought about finding some more people, but she also wanted to go back to town and sell the new drops she had gained getting to level 4. As well as try out making some potions and poisons, and if she couldn't, than selling the plants she had gathered. Besides, there were plenty of people, in town too. With that train of thought, Loki headed back to town.


"Who knows, I might just get to have fun in town as well. Heheh"
 
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Anthony had gone around getting the crafting, smithing, and camping, and construction skill and still didn't know what he was going to about allocating his extra points. It was such a big deal, he already check out what  was the likelihood of these beginner mobs killing him were and he like the results. At the pace he was going he could do well  until he reaches level 7 so he had time to decide on how he wanted to develop his character. He decided to take a break from grinding and look around town to see if he can find the inn for later. It was only expected that he find somewhere to stay at night and the Half Moon Inn would be the perfect place for a player starting out.


It wasn't really late enough for him to get a room so he just took a moment to just relax and decide on how he was going to proceed from here. It was nearly lunch and surprisingly enough there were players everywhere ordering food to buff themselves up for their next grinding session. Looking at it that way it seemed like a good idea to see what kind of buffs they could give him there. He had worked real close with the guys who did nothing night and day but thinking of different types of things the food in the game could give the player. There were only two from what he could see, a cup of ale that increase your HP by 30 points and a turkey leg that increased you strength by 3, both lasted for an hour. They weren't expensive by any means but at 10 gold for both a player would still need to go earn some money before they could have it.


 He decided to just take his to go and have it before he goes back out again. Before that he wanted to see the Temple of the Pantheon of Light. He knew the artist who drew the art for that building and he really wanted to see how it came out after all that work. Getting to it he could see the marble structuring and the interior of the temple was perfectly made to resemble a temple from ancient greece. There were that may player there yet so it was only assumed of two things at this point, they don't know enough about the temple or they came here and didn't get any quest yet. That was to be expected, the rest of the development team thought it would be best to let the players get used to everything before they get a taste of the religious groups of the game.


There wasn't anything for him to do there either until he gets his first class quest so he thought best to move on and head to the city gates. Passing through the gates he saw two players starting a group. He didn't really want to be in a group right now with anyone. Not because he thought he was to good for anyone but he did want his progress to slow down. Also he just took a minute to look at their levels and they were both lvl 1. If anything he would just be a problem for the both of them at the moment since they would get to much experience if he joined them. He did though take note of their usernames just for the future. You never no anyone you see today might become your greatest enemy or ally tomorrow and that was one thing he lived by when it came to online gaming. With that he head out to give the goblins another good run and see if he could make it to lvl 4 or 5 before the day was over.

Paladin lvl 3 


HP 60/60


MP 90/90


Strength 9


Intelligence 9


Agility 5


Spirit 5


Constitution 6


Spare Points: 10
 
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strength: 5


Inteligence: 8


Agility: 11


Spirit: 5


Contitution: 5


points available: 3



Yuna was caught off guard by the glowing ball of gass. It struck her in the back without a warning. Astonished she noticed how her HP dropped a bunch. "that hurt!" she said to no one in particular as she took her bow and fired an arror towards the thing, she wanted to shoot it again but had to jump out of the way for antoher attack. She managed to hit it a few times inbetween avoiding it's attacks and like that it went back and forth for a while untill she finally managed to bring down it's health to 0 and it scattered. Yuna was panting, this was a far stronger enemi as she had ever encountered here and her HP had dropped very low.


While she waited for her HP and MP to recover she thought of what it could have been, surely this thing didn't belong here. Could it be that someone had send her that thing? She shook her head, that would have been very mean of someone to do that, who would even think of such a thing? It must have been a mistake or a bug or something like that. 


As she thought about bugs, her train of thought led her to the error that had been send out earlyer, she opened her menu again and hoped to see that it had been fixed but nothing had changed. She bit her lip, soon she would have to go back to the real world, she couldn't leave Peter and Wendy alone for too long, even though she had asked her friend Vivienne to look after them for a while, Peter and Wendy must miss her and Vive couldn't stay forever to look after the twins. 


She shrugged, worrying wasn't gonna help and it was silly anyway, soon this would be fixed and then she could go back and nothing will have happened. She wasn't going to let her first time playing this fantastic game being ruined by such a silly little thing. Since she was halfway to level 3 she decided to go and hunt some more, then she would earn the tame beast skill and be able to get herself a pet, something she really wanted. But on the other hand, it might be a good idea to head back towards the town and get started on learning some skills, she had done a lot of hunting already and there was still plenty of time to do that later. 


Thinking that, Yuna started to wander off towards the town, she wasn's rushing and while she was walking she would enjoy the beautifull surroundings and pick up any collectibles she found along the way. She also shot another rabit and a fox which made her come very near to level three but not quite there yet. 
 
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I scoffed a little at her little tease, unnecessary and a bit rude if you asked me, but it slipped my mind again as soon as she inquired about the party system. I shrugged and proceeded to open the menu again (not without a smile showing up in my face again when it made that funny sound when it popped open) and tinkered with it, trying to find something about instructions of the party system... I clicked a couple buttons, one which made my gloves glow slightly and another which made a piece of bread come out of seemingly nowhere onto my lap. I giggled. I should thank the girl later for it, she definitely had reassured me there. Looking back at it, I WAS being a little silly. That kind of thing didn´t happen in real life. It was just a mistake that would soon be fixed. Worse that could happen was getting a little late for dinner or something.


A little bell rang near me, similar to a bicycle of some sort and the party invite icon appeared on my screen, I mean, my sight. This was a still a bit confusing, but could you blame me, it was my first time using something like VR! I reached to the icon with my hand and the two options, to accept or reject the invite appeared, respectively in green and red colors. Pretty standard. Obviously, I clicked on the green and smiled at the other girl a rogue, judging by the daggers. One could tell why they were so fierce and so keen in DPS, these people were really menacing when one was standing right in front of you, it gave you chills like you were about to get mugged by them!


"Well, do you know where we should head to first? I was just picking up skills until the error occurred. Didn´t have much time to explore anything yet. When I researched they mentioned this dungeon and a forest, but I don´t really know where either of them are now that I am looking at things in first person." I explained.


 @ApfelSeine
 
strength: 5


Inteligence: 8


Agility: 11


Spirit: 5


Contitution: 5


points available: 3


gold: 56

There were more players around now that she came closer to the town, but they didn't seem as panicked as before anymore, Yuna was very happy about that since she was rather senitive to the mood or atmosphere of a person or a place. She couldn't stand being in a place where there was chaos or panick or fear, it was like a stinky smell to her, you just wanted to get away from it as quickly as possible. 


As Yuna walked towards the town she realised she didn't even know how the earing skills worked here. She had never seen a game with such a system, usually you had to aquire the skills yourself. Of course, during her tour through the town she had seen the guild buildings but she hand't actually been inside them, she hadn't entered anywhere actually, not a single shop or building, she had been to busy finding her way around. Maybe she should just go in and see what happened? But she didn't want to make a fool of herself by not knowing what to do, and she didn't even know if specific skills had specific guild buildings.


While she was thinking all of that she didn't look where she was going and she had trailed off the path and promptly walked into a tree. Embaressed and with a red face she took a step back and looked around to see if there were any players around who could have seen her, and she came to the conclusion that there indeed were some players. Quicly she moved on, with her head down and her gaze to the ground, while also looking up to make sure she didn't walk into something again. She couldn't believe she actually did that, where had she been with her head? how did she manage to distract herself that much? most of all she wanted to hide from everyone right now, even though it wasn't too big of a deal, just her being silly again, it could have happened to anyone. that didn't make it better though, she still felt stupid. Quickly she moved on to be out of sighed of anyone who might have seen her.


she reached the towns gates and she still hand't found a solution to her problem of getting the skills, maybe it would be a good idea to just ask someone, parhaps they could help her out, and she might would be able to make a new friend too. this thought cheered her up and almost made her forget her tree accident. She looked around to find someone who she could ask, her eye fell on a paladin that just came from the town, if she remembered correctly the paladins were the good guys so she hoped he would live up to his class and help her out. 


She walked in his direction and cleared her throat "ehm... excuse me" she said quietly, not because she was shy or trying to whisper but because her voice was naturally very quiet, and also becuase she tried her best not to let her french accent show "I was wondering if you knew how aquiering skills here worked" she gave him her sweetest smile, hoping he wouldn't just be a jerk and send her away.


@Quinlan63 @RaynaFon
 
As Loki made her way back to the city, she spotted the ranger girl from before. 


"Hmm, must have gonna a faster way back." 


Well, admittedly, Loki had gone a detour to make sure the girl didn't spot her after she sent the familiar after her. Speaking of which, it looked as if the girl live. Wondering if she should keep going or follow the girl and bother her some more,Loki quickly put her hand to her mouth to keep from laughing as she watched Yuna slam face first into a tree. Both girls were red, but for two very different reasons. There was no question about it. She was totally going to follow this girl. 


"Oh man...this one is absolutely precious. The kind that make you not want to torment them outright, but make situations that are terrible for them."


Wiping away a tear, Loki follower then girl back to the city. It seemed as was asking a paladin for help. Loki tended to dislike paladins as most felt the need to act like justice warriors, but were really just a bunch of insecure hypocrites. Smiling, Loki walked up behind Yuna and stood next to her and the paladin.


"I think I can help you out there. It's actually quite easy in this game. You simply ask one of the crafting trainers to teach you their skill and they'll teach you it for free. There's probably a craft for anything you can thing of. I'm headed that way to learn how to make potions, so I can show you if you'd like. Heh, also, I'm not sure fighting trees unarmed is a good way to make exp. Hehe, just kidding. So how are you all enjoying the game so far? Looks like the logout scare has settled down a bit, do hope they fix it soon tho."


Loki gave them both a smile as she addressed both the ranger and the paladin this time.


@Quinlan63 @Summer Breeze
 
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Paladin lvl 3 


HP 60/60


MP 90/90


Strength 9


Intelligence 9


Agility 5


Spirit 5


Constitution 6


Spare Points: 10


Gold: 30

Anthony was still thinking about the thrill of killing goblins and having the adventures that he was working so hard to make. Heck he was starting to think that if they couldn't get out of the game that it might not be all that bad. As long as he worked hard and did whatever that was needed to do, he could live a good life. He could even tell from how everyone around him was acting that they all have at least realized there was nothing better to do than try to keep yourself busy.
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Now it came to him that he might want to work hard so he could by his own place to stay so he doesn't have to stay at the inn. For that he was going to need to either kill a lot of mobs or find some good quest that have great rewards. So much to do and all the tie in the world. The more he thought about it the more exciting the whole situation seemed to become. That also made him realize that he might need to start making friends so he could have those to spend time with when he's not neck deep in dungeons. 
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That thought came across his mind as he heard the voice of a girl coming up to him. He wasn't sure if she was being quiet because he was a stranger to her or that was her natural voice (he has met people like that before). She had a smile that made her look so nice to him he was sure that this might have been the nicest person he had seen. Now he wasn't a person to get tricked easily by someone just flashing a smile at him, but when it came from here he just knew it was sincere. Then he heard that she wanted to know about how the skills worked and he felt as if he was meant to be here for a reason. 
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That was until another girl in robes (a Warlock it seemed) came up and told the other exactly what he was going to say. Normally he would get mad about not getting the chance to talk about what he created but he knew that if you didn't want to make enemies you had to be nice first. He wasn't sure what she had meant by fighting trees unarmed. He couldn't remember if they added hand to hand combat in the game so that made little sense to him. Even the comment about the tree made even less sense. "I'm having the time of my life here myself. I finally get to be in the world that I helped create with all the other developers." There was just wasn't any other way he could express himself on his situation. "Also if you both want to know anything I can help you when it comes to the guilds, the skills, or the guild system here."
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strength: 5


Inteligence: 8


Agility: 11


Spirit: 5


Contitution: 5


points available: 3


gold: 56

Asking had turned out to be a good decision, not only one but two people wanted to help her out now. She smiled at the warlock that had joined them, she seemed to be quite nice. "thank you for offering your help, that's very kind of you" she said and she smiled, but then, when the warlock mentioned her little accident her face turned red again, appearently she had been around when that happened aswell. she really didn't like being reminded of her mistakes, especially not embarecing things like that, that was even worse as just a plain mistake.


But Yuna's interest shifted back to the paladin when he said something about the world he helped to create, she forgot what the warlock had just said and her eyes glimmered "wait, did you make this game?" she asked him, not because she didn't trust him, if he said he did then she believed him, but more because it was just too amazing to be true. "that is really cool! which part of the game did you make?" she continued, not really giving him the chance to answer her previous question. when Yuna got exited it could happen that she got carried away a bit by it, which was kinda happening now, there was so much more she wanted to ask the paladin, all about this beautifull world and how he had ever made that, it seemed like that would have been an incredibly difficult tas. 


then she realised the warlock had also asked her the question so she nodded and smiled "this game is a lot of fun, I'm having a great time here, but I really hope that they fix the log out problem very soon, I need to get back to my family, they need me" she said, then she thought of something and she looked at the paladin "do you know why we can't log out anymore?" she asked him, to her it seemed as if he was probably the person who would have to know the most about it, since he had helped on creating this game. 


@Quinlan63 @RaynaFon
 
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Lvl 3 Warrior 


Hp: 110/110


Mp: 40/40


Strength: 12


Intellect: 4


Agility: 8


Spirit: 4


Constitution: 11


28 Gold


2 points avaliable.



[SIZE= 14px]Castiel had continued his training on a more secluded part of the city of beginnings. Players also seemed to calm down and accept the new reality while others became a bit immersed into their characters, which led to a small disagreement between some of the classes and had led to a small shoving match. [/SIZE]


[SIZE= 14px]The blonde shook off the small group, ignoring their actions as he continued his onslaught of the enemy monsters that spawned around him. He began sprinting at the last goblin which he'd pushed back against a rock, charging a skill as he rushed forward. "Cleave!" His sword began glowing a light blue as he swung through the goblins neck, watching as it burst into the usual energy fragments. "Nice..a critical." He said as he watched the level up menus appear in front of him and began applying skills, making sure to at least save two.[/SIZE]


[SIZE= 14px]After sheathing his sword Castiel turned to see a crowd of players behind him, primarily warriors and healers who began applauding him, some even asking if he'd join their party all which he respectively declined and made his way back to the city, still followed by the group of people who were chattering amongst themselves. [/SIZE]


[SIZE= 14px]"I don't have time for this.." He mumbled as he approached a weapon shop, stepping inside to see what they offered. Of course it wasn't much but it was awful expensive especially with the currency he had, eventually he caved and purchased a Knights Sword and even exchanged his own short sword which only went for 10 gold. But it was worth it, especially since it did better damage than his previous weapon and added to his stats. [/SIZE]


One thing that was left on his list was armour and maybe a shield but for now that would have to wait until he picked up some more quest or got lucky enough to find either one in a drop. "Might as well get a move on." He smirked before putting his new sword in the sheathe along his back and made his way back outside. To his surprise the group had finally left him alone and he didn't waste any time getting out of that city passing by a paladin whom he narrowed his eyes at, gaining a dislike for the arrogant class or at least that was how he saw most displaying it and it made him sick. 


The man was accompanied by two women: One warlock and the other a rogue, he wasn't gonna bother with them but the male had mentioned something about being one of the developers which made Castiel slide to a brief halt, clenching his fist as he held down anger. "A developer? And he's not doing a damn thing about us being stuck here?" The blonde shook his head. "No...maybe he doesn't know how to fix it, maybe it came from higher up...maybe." He said before shaking off the situation and continuing on outside of the city. 
 
Loki smiled inside. This girl was way to fun to tease. She wanted to keep teasing her, until she heard something that made her frown slightly. The paladin helped create this game?


"So he's a dev huh? Ugh great, so he's probably a major killjoy, with admin powers. Just perfect."


Loki wasn't sure if she could get banned if the logout system was down, but she wasn't one to take chances before she was 100% sure. Last thing she wanted was to get lost in cyber space, if that was even possible. Last thing she wanted was to get banned anyways, making accounts on a VR game was not as easily as spamming them in a normal mmo. Besides, wasn't impossible to contract the Admins? So what was he doing here for. Maybe the Admins were acting like normal players? That seems silly though, who would do that?


Yuna, for her part seemed enthralled when the man said he'd been apart of helping to create this game. She sure did have an odd air in lungs to question ratio.


"Well, until I know all the facts or until we can ditch Mr.Paladin and I can have fun with Yuna by myself, I'll just have to be....Ugh...n-nice..ahck."


Hmm...well, She could at least try to make the best of it while she had this situation. If he's telling the truth about being a dev, then he should know at least something about this topic.


"I know it's not exactly on the list of things you just mentioned, but, what's the purpose of the temple, was what bonuses to each of the different shrines give?"
 

Anthony wasn't surprised to get a lot of question, one being if he knew about why they were stuck in the game. He would of gladly told them if he knew that answer, but he had nothing that could give them a good answer. Although he didn't expect to be asked about the temple and the bonuses you can get from them. It wasn't really his area of expertise but he did attend all the meeting like everyone else so he did get the chance to learn about what the players would get from them. Time to see if those meeting paid off.
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"Well the temples all have shrines to the 7 deities of the pantheon of light. From what I remember each of them give you something for a donation of gold. Starting with the head deity Helios the sun god gives you a one off skill that deals 1000 damage to one target if you donate 1000 gold. To make sure player's don't overuse this too much you can only get it again 24 hours after it is used. Then we have Luna the moon goddess allow the player to respect there stats for 1000 gold. Following we have Mars the war god and Hecate the goddess of magic. He makes allow your attacks deal 10% more damage and she lowers the MP cost for skills by 10%. Both only last for about 2 hours and cost about 200 gold each."
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Anthony was surprising himself that he had remembered so much about the temples. He wasn't really paying too much attention now that he thought about it. But it didn't really mater now so he might as well keep going while he was on a roll.
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"As for Vulcan the smith god, for just 50 gold he give you a chance to make a rare item for 3 hours, but there really is only a 3% chance of that happening. Hathor the goddess of love blesses the marriage of two players for 100 gold giving the two a couple of bonuses. And lastly, we have Hermod the messenger of the gods can increase a players speed by 10% for 2 hours for 200 gold."
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Really he was impressed with himself for remembering all that and being able to say it on the spot. He wasn't sure if it showed but he was worried the whole time that he would for get about something. Oh and he did forget one little thing.
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"Oh I did forget that there is a pantheon of dark for players to join. They don't have any shrines yet but the player who gets the first one up and running will get a huge reward. Even me and the rest of the developers don't know what it is because the games AI will just randomly generate it. Oh and before I forget I have to admit that I don't really know why we are all stuck. I logged into my private account so I only have access to information in the game from the stuff I helped make so I really won't be any help with getting out."
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He said that last part  biting back tears hoping that they didn't notice that for the first time being in his dream world that he did not hold the key to the other players freedom. Yeah he didn't being there but from what the rogue girl said she actually had a reason to leave. Taking a breath he relaxed know that breaking down now would help no one.
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Loki noticed three things that Mahan had said. First was the explanation of the Light Pantheon. Loki had an interest in Luna, not just because of the stat readjustment, but mostly because she really liked the moon. As a kid, Freja would go onto the roof of her house when her parents were arguing and stare at it. Even now she'd look at the moon from time to time, though she wasn't sure why.


Secondly, the Dark Pantheon. Loki wasn't completely sure what it was and felt that Mahan didn't either, however it sounded interesting not to mention that reward. Hmm, maybe she should seek it out? Well she'd weigh the options first before she did anything. Lastly, was the fact that Mahan was a private account, so he had no access to any of his admin powers. Normally Loki would be happy, and she was, but there was still no tell if or when the logout problem would be fixed. Still, he couldn't mute her for saying something he didn't like which was nice.


Loki looked around, acting as if she was watching the other players around their small group. "Hmmm, well I hope the logout issue gets fixed soon then. I have a feeling that our bodies haven't magically disappeared. This logout problem might be an issue for people who's bodies can't handle it. I hear some medical therapies use vr for physical trauma patients to help them relearn how to move properly. This extended stay can't be good for their treatment schedule."


Loki stood up straight and stretched. "Well for now we can't do much about it. Maybe it's like a 'beat the game to earn your freedom' thing? Heh, doubt that's possible right? Anyways, you need to go get some crafting skills right Yuna? I can show you if you'd like. You're free to join us too if you'd like."


Opening up her system UI, Loki sent both Yuna and Mahan a party invite.


@Quinlan63 @Summer Breeze
 
"This. Sucks."


Max threw a pebble into the air and swatted it with the flat of his sword as hard as he could, hoping to hit it over the horizon. Of course, his laughable strength stat caused it to only fly about 10 feet before landing pathetically to the ground. He sighed loudly and collapsed onto his knees.


He'd been having bad luck from the beginning. He's been online for nearly half an hour, but hasn't been able to get a single experience point; without any strength, all the damage he does is basically scratch damage that most monsters he's encountered can heal faster than he can deal. It was so hilarious that he already got a nickname in the City of Beginning; "Noodle Arms". He was thinking about logging out, maybe giving the strategy guide a quick read to see where he went wrong, so he can re-spec his character. However, for the past 15 minutes, he had been taking the time to admire the accuracy of the physics engine; usually, these kinds of things are broken and unusable. At least, that's what his brother always told him. He wasn't exactly happy about his situation, But at least it was something to keep him busy.


Then, of course, the notifications kicked in.


Max stood bolt upright. It took him a moment to realize what it implied, but his heart began to race when he did. He had to check, just to make sure... and, as promised by the notification, the logout was gone.


"Alright, Max, relax and see where this goes," he said to himself, "there's no reason to panic, it might only be for a few hours." He then began walking around aimlessly, though it was more like pacing in one general direction. All along the way, he whispered to himself, "...positive imagery, positive imagery, positive imagery..."


He eventually stumbled and fell with a grunt. He began to pull himself up, but looked up and saw a group of other players. He stood up and brushed himself off. "Hey!" He shouted to them. He was too far to see their usernames.


@Quinlan63 @Summer Breeze @RaynaFon
 
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