I felt nauseous yet I didn't feel like I'll vomit anytime soon... This must be an after effect that incorporates the brain to transmit for the player to sleep almost in a forceful manner... They could at least keep it down a notch...
Right now... I'm standing in a wide circular white dome... In the middle was a futuristic transparent panel...
|Enter your name|
A voice of a woman echoed within the room... In the panel appeared a keyboard... Woah! Slick I like it... Continuing on I typed in the letters for my designated name...
Tink... Tink... Tink... Tink...
"R..yo... Sh...iki...gami... and done."
|Is this name alright?|
Two options showed up at the level of my vision... It's basically accept or change... I tapped the accept button as I like the name... Ahh... What? It's a game I can do whatever I like to it...
|Please choose a race|
Here come the hard part... Well for me at least... total of 48 races in total appeared encircling me as I was in the middle... It didn't seem cramped since the dome was spacious enough to fit 49 people in it... Well basically it was bodies waiting to be picked...
The ones the left a big impression to me was the [Inka], [Drago], [Crazlun], [Ave], [Dekar], [Talgor], and [Ylka]. This was the most different of all races... There is a reptile beast in the [Beast] race but it's unlike the [Drago] race that had a different aura. The [Inka] well are made up of Child-like beings that makes you feel like you want to protect them. [Crazlun] race were made out of Crystals or most of it's body was, while the [Dekar] race is filled with four eyed humanoids. [Ave] race was like Elves but they have this symbols up their body that couldn't be incorporated with the elven race, I'm not saying that their bad looking it's actually a work of art if you ask me... the [Talgor] is well a minotaur like being with gigantic masculine body they are a race to be feared with... Lastly, the [Ylka] a race filled with disadvantages... Honestly, the starting stats is much much worse than the humans... The only saving grace of this race was their looks... They had the color scheme that other races could not equip... Silver a color almost anyone ever uses and oddly enough this race can almost equip the other races appearance... These race's description was blank. I don't' know if they didn't type it in or not or they're just adding some kind of mysteriousness in them for the players to pick it and learn it for themselves.
Picking a race was a hard choice to make... It's almost as if I'm the only player who gets stuck in this stage for a reasonably long time.
|12,376 players have picked and created their characters. Only one hour left before the start of the beta phase please create your characters by the allotted time|
Woah! What? Only a few number of people are yet to decide their characters... It seems that... I can't pick a different gender than my own...
Despair filled my mind as I hit the floor with my fist. Why!? I yelled in my mind. Whatever... I should just pick a race and get over with it... Having too many people fawn on me to ask about joining a party can be a real pain... I also want some challenge even though this will be the first time I'll be playing in a virtual space. I want to feel everything it has to offer... Good looks would be good too though... I also want to play solo for the time being... and thus only one race could satisfy my claims... The [Ylka], good looks, check, weak and will most likely be ignored or chased away by players, check, and most of all having almost the same stats as I do IRL I can feel everything the game has to offer with a weak body like this... Though the good looks part isn't within my bio data but who cares it's a game let me be someone I'm not!
I tapped the [Ylka]'s body and the same options showed up... I tapped the accept button once again and a question was once again asked....
|Do you want to incorporate your bodily features to your game character? Of course it wouldn't be the same as any other race, your features will change drastically as per the race you have created. or would you like to have a random generated body?|
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"Incorporating my bodily features, huh? How would they do that the VR machine only covers the head part of the human body and it's not the whole head but only from the eyes, ears and the back part of the head... Unless..."
It says my features will drastically change according to my race so... Will I look like a good looking person?
Excitement and Fear crept up my body... Excitement to see a body taken from my features and Fear if that body is much worse than I already have... I don't know how much time I have but... Let's go with Incorporating my features into my game character.
I tapped the first option. It then initiates a peculiar program and all of the other bodies were gone. Only me and my character remained in the circular room.
|Initiating memory search...|
|Mirror Match Found...|
Three images of me staring at the mirror appeared on top of the panel. One was when I was three years old, the next was when I was 9, and lastly my present self...
|Matching Facial Features... Reconfiguring body structure... Merging...|
The three images were merged into one... Ahh! I don't know what this will turn out! I hope this won't be so hideous that I'd kill myself by banging my head on the panel... and as it turns out... it was nothing compared to my features, though I could see some of mine there were some that didn't match... It's not bad but it didn't look like me... Or maybe I would have been like this if I were to go in a diet.
The character had small yet sharp eyes, pupils colored like chestnut, an arc in the brow part that you could only see from a girl could be seen, and that small lips that seemed to belong to a child... and shoulder-length hair with a few bangs in front. It was a girl... No doubt about it... Where did they get that kind of result from merging my appearances in three different age appearance? Is it because it's an Ylka? It did say that they will change my bodily features drastically according to the chosen race... It's the height was a bit more lower than mine... slender body and semi-thin arms could be seen from the clothes it wore. They incorporated the body of when I was 9 huh... The glory days...
Seeming as it's not really about appearance but stats... People will still ignore according to my circumstances... I'm glad I'll be playing solo from now on...
|We will be implementing another change in your character... Would you accept this changes?|
Changes? Didn't you change it enough already? Making it look like a girl isn't it already enough? Well, there's no harm in taking that offer... I tapped the [Accept] button and it prompted me to speak.
"Ahh! Ah! Eh! I! Oh! Uh!"
|Voice recorded... Changing pitch and tone of voice... Simulating voice...|
"Ahh! Ah! Eh! I! Oh! Uh!"
What? The voice I heard was the same as when I was still in highschool! But there's more to that it didn't sound like a man... It sounded like a pseudo-girl's voice... If I didn't know that it was my voice I would have surely thought that the figure in front of me was truly a girl...
|Changes have been implemented... Finalizing configuration... Character creation initializing final phase... Do you accept these character?|
"Hah... Well, whatever... It's just a game after all... It's still a guy's body anyway so it's not like my body's changed entirely!"
I tapped the [Accept] button once again and I felt my body changing... as the figure in front of me moved closer and closer...
|Body merge in progress... Calibrating body movements... Processing... Finalizing procedure... Body merge complete...|
Then a blinding flash of light blew like a flash grenade in front of my eyes... The female's voice echoed one last time...
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