This morning my furnishings arrived by drone and with a small fee I could get the thing to bring in and set up everything. I remember when the setup was complimentary, at least it is still cheap. It took me all morning and into the evening to get everything set up like how I want. It is a bit surprising but the consul for the game that Don gave me, unlike most others that can play all kinds of games, is custom made for this specific game. Apparently, it can only play this game and no other consuls can run the game. The consul had a price reduction since I already had the game. Another strange aspect that I found is that it doesn’t hook up to the network. Saves me trouble of setting it up at least. Why did Don give me such a troublesome game I wander?

               After the initial setup, which consisted of putting in the game, putting on the headband and laying down in the capsule, I start the game. Nothing else to do today.

               On the start of the game a strange sensation envelops me. It is really trippy; I mean what the hell is this? I feel like I’m flowing out of my body. Nothing like the sensation of falling asleep with other games. Have they updated the software or something? The shit is this? I might get sick.

               A window appears in front of me, “First time full body synchronization in progress. Slight motion sickness may result. This process will only occur on first login.”

               Slight! Slight motion sickness! How the hell is this slight! I feel like I will hurl up my intestines. Motion sickness is only in the gut anyway. So why the fuck do I feel like this everywhere! This better be a fun ass game.

               After several moments of that the sync finally finished. It is strange in the first place to require a sync anymore anyway, whatever.

               As the game starts a white light flashes in front of me, and a voice begins speaking, “Welcome adventurer, I am one of this world’s gods, as my apostles go forth and . . .”

               This is annoying to listen to; the voice is indistinguishable between male or female even young or old. It sounds like a machine really, “skip”.

               The voice stops speaking when it was interrupted, “. . . what?”

               So, the into is interactive, nice touch, “this cut seen, I want to skip it.”

               “young apostle, I am welcoming you to this world . . .”

               Annoying god, just let me play already, dragon boy is playing because daddy told him too, I just want to have fun beating something up, “ya ok, seen one fantasy intro you’ve seen ‘em all. So what, go forth and defeat the demon lord or some shit?”

               The voice of god is getting annoyed, how humorous, a god possessing the emotions of lower beings, “no, you need to . . .”

               “ok, so if ne demon lord then the land is corrupted or some bull, and I have to go cleanse it by spreading your word or purging the evil of the land. I presume it’s the former since you keep calling me your apostle.”

               The voice isn’t responding, “…”

               This is kind of fun in its own right, “don’t tell me, I’m right and you can’t think of any kind of comeback?”

               “…”

               “what? No witty comeback, no ‘how dare you speak to the almighty god this way’?”

               Before I can continue the space distorts around me and the scenery changes.

***

               I am now in a small town, like, thing. Few buildings, nothing more than one story and it only looks like a few thousand residence. The buildings are made of wood with a stone base and some kind of large tile roof. The streets are compacted dirt with a drainage ditch along side them. A fountain is nearby with a large banner swaying in the wind above it, “Welcome to our world Apostles.” I’m really not sure what to say about this. It just doesn’t seem to fit the theme. Isn’t this supposed to be some ancient dead society with dreary or fantastical atmosphere? Whatever, I want to go kill something.

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               Ignoring my surroundings, I look for the town’s exit. It is a fantasy game, so there should be some monsters outside to hunt. Eventually I find my way outside the town. I thought there might be a wall or something but there wasn’t and I just walked straight out.

               Outside the town is a large field with small animals appearing every now and then. Several other people with the same looking clothes as me are chasing them around. This must be beginner gear, a white t-shirt and shorts. Really bear minimum, no armor or even underwear let alone a weapon. Not much of a friendly start I must say. Well it seems most everyone else has some kind of weapon and several have a bit of leather looking armor, so I may have just pissed off god a little too much. Oh well, just got to find something scary with sharp stuff on it and punch it till it dies. Now to find me a big claw.

               Skipping over the fields of noob shit I venture into the forest visible in the distance. Geh, nothing’s happening. If I calm down to much the pussy shit coward will come back out and he’ll go back to town for some kind of tutorial or some shit. I want to kill some shit not listen to an old ass ramble on about how chosen I am.

               A short distance from me several presences can be felt. I got to admit, I am impressed as hell. How did these developers include bloodlust into a game? This is something you can only really feel on a battlefield or while being hunted. I don’t even have a skill for it, just my personal experience with it. That is some impressive programming there.

               Well, time to take a stance. What will it be? Usually it would be a wolf, but maybe some kind of crazy fantasy monster with like five kinds of animals mixed together? I hope it is a lion. I’ve always wanted to fight a lion. Maybe it will be on fire? A fire lion! Yes! Be a fire lion! Be a fire lion! Be a fire lion!

               I am so disappointed; it is a wolf. It jumped out at me from the bushes and I uppercut it in the throat. When it fell on the ground and re-steadied itself it was obviously a wolf. This is bullshit, where is my Fire Lion! Oh damn it, there’s two more behind me now. Well even though you aren’t a fire lion I guess a wolf fang club will work for a weapon.

               Well, ye who strikes first. I dig my foot into the dirt in front of me and kick it at the wolf in front while I use the force of my kick to lung at one of the wolves in the back. Place my forward leg firm and launch the leg I kicked off with into the wolf’s side. Bend my knee to free my leg after contact and use the momentum to twist to the final wolf and slam my fist above its eye. I wanted to hit the thing in the eye but the little fucker dodged down and I missed the eye.

               A sharp pain assaults my planted leg. The wolf that I just kicked has its teeth sunk into my ankle. Do my kick not do anything to you?! Wait, if my kick didn’t do anything . . .

               I raise my free arm to my neck just in time to intercept the third wolf which barely flinched from my punch. This thing went straight for my throat but instead got my hand. I grab tightly onto the snout digging the teeth deeper into my skin. Hurts like hell but the wolf attacked onto my leg has lifted my foot off the ground making me face the sky. This being the case the next move would most likely be that the first wolf I encountered would jump on top of me and go for my throat again like the third wolf did. Just as thought, here it comes just above me. With all the strength I can muster I pull the third wolf on top of me to block the first. These things are heavy! Is my strength stat too low or something?

               Barely getting the head in the way of the first wolf it diverts its attack to not damage its comrade. Instead, it ops to just crash into my stomach. Fat Ass. I feel like my guts will come out my mouth from the impact. Just to put icing on the cake, from the way the second wolf was biting down on my leg it is now in a disturbing angle. My leg is broken, legs don’t turn that direction, or have than many joints.

               The third wolf whips its head and pulls my hand away from my neck, exposing it to the first wolf standing on my chest. It lunges at me but I shift the assault with my last free hand and push its mouth upwards. What now bitch?

               I feel a warm sting from the side of my neck. I can feel the blood leaving through the many holes. My heart beat is felt throughout my body. It deafens my ears and senses. My consciousness grows thin. I finally notice off to my side. With its teeth lodged into my artery, a fourth wolf. Well, fuck you too.

***

               From the background a system notification sounds, “You have died, you will not be able to log on until enough energy to rebuild your body can be collected. This will take twelve hours.”

               After the message, I wake up in the capsule I just stare for a moment, “well no shit I died. What the hell . . .”

               With a sigh, I sit up, “so I can’t log on for twelve hours? Collect enough energy? Maybe some kind of lore? More dragon boy’s thing than mine. Well, it’s late, I’m tired, and too lazy to go to the bed so . . .” I lay back down in the capsule that is decently comfortable and drift off to sleep.