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prologue
Amber never wanted to buy too many things in her life because it made her feel guilty, but when her and Aura both found out that a new fantasy VR game named Auranan had just been released, both of them had to get it. *even though both of them were 21 they still had a childish side to them*.
“Here we are.”Amber said, while quickly looking out of the window and staring at a white sign by the local game stores front door. It showed two People locked in a epic battle with a giant twelve-headed hydra with the words Auranan, Buy it today in big print at the top of the sign and separate information at the bottom. Instantly Amber drove the car into the parking lot and hunted for a space to park. Aura Got out of the car and ran to the sign with Amber trailing behind her. “two-hundred and ninety-six dollars” Aura whispered, barely audible.
Quickly Amber did the calculations in her head and found out that if she spent all the money she had made from the past three days and some of her “Spending money” she could get it. “I can get it, how about you?” Aura said,“Yeah, I can get it. But it's still a large sum of money.”Amber Answered. “Well Yeah... it is, but it’s a VR system, and it will be worth it!” Aura replied hastily, “That's what you said about the game ‘The Overlanders of Fallidor’ but after three hours of that even you hated it”, Amber Replied.
When they went into the Game Store they finally noticed just how many people had come to buy Auranan. Inside the shop there was a line of about eighty two people at the counter waiting to get the game. After about forty agonizing minutes of waiting both Amber & Aura got to the front and purchased the game set, and the black and silver recliners to go with it. While driving back home both of them discussed a plan on how to meet up, and what they were going to try to do first in Auranan, which quickly turned to how fun both of them expected to have in it.
When they arrived home Amber had to stop Aura from racing to their game room and had to direct her attention to dinner. They continued their conversation while they ate some leftover bean burritos from Taco Bell. After they finished their dinner, both of them dragged their items to the game room which was a sight to behold for outsiders.
The whole room was decorated like a blue circuit board, a giant electric-blue couch pushed up against the wall and a huge tv was bolted on the wall, bellow it was a shelf that held an old Wii, a Nintendo Switch, and three other large gaming consoles, a Xbox 360, Xbox one, and a PS4.
Against both other walls were bookshelves filled with several recent cheat code books and hundreds of video games. Pushed to the sides of both bookshelves were four electric-blue & red lava lamps, two large gaming computers, and Right next to the couch on both sides were the two new recliners and the headsets that sat on top of them. And as the last toper, on the ceiling hung a large system of Neon blue bulbs, that shot electric-blue light all around the room.
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When Amber sat on the couch and opened her box the instructions fell out. As soon as Amber grabbed them off the floor Aura automatically sat by her and read the instructions over her shoulder.“Welcome new adventurer, to the Land of Auranan! You are about to open your mind to a world where fantasy & magic live on. Become what you have always wanted to be and pick out your class! If it’s as a warrior or a mage, it does not matter, for you can always enjoy yourself by partying with friends, becoming a lord, or even being a commoner and building up your fame! (this game is playable in your sleep)” the first few pages read.
“Yeah, I'm going to like this,” Aura whispers.
Amber flipped the packet to the setup section and stared at the info for a while and then her and Amber got started...
After five minutes of locating the right cords for both of them and connecting them to where they went, both of them had finally sat down in there recliners with the headsets in their laps, and their timers were set for when they would wake up. “Ready friend?” Amber askes “As much as I will ever be.” and at those words both them slipped on there headsets.
Amber heard a female voice say, “new user detected.” Amber opened up her eyes. She saw an odd room that looked like Cerebro from X-Men. “What is your race?” the female voice politely asks as the words human appeared under her real body. Amber skims through the choices and views the races: Human, Elven, Dwarven, Dragonborn, Beastman, Halfling, Half-Elf, Half-Orc, Nixie, Angel, Undead, or Demon,” the female voice said, all the while, she looked at how her body was changing into the race that she had been looking at.
I love Elves so…
After choosing Elven, the voice again replies, “ Your Sub-race?” and her body turned into an elf with caramel skin with a hint of gray-white and really long ears, she looks under her avatar and sees the word “Dark” and the explanation stating that Dark Elves have a bonus on mana and all magic effects and have 50% resistance to dark magic, they also start to grow deer horns at lv.15, and Dark angel wings at lv. 30.
Hmm… Dark Elf seems good, but…
She scrolls through the Elven subraces: Jaiden elves gain the power over the mineral jade at lv.5 and slowly gets to have more control over it by leveling up. Moon elves were the first elves, their magic power comes from the sacred forest goddess, Korali, and they have a huge bonus on magic damage on nights with a visible moon. Sun Elves are more powerful with light and fire magic than others and get their arcane power from the sun and fire, have a 15% resistance to dark magic and they start with the power of weak undead repel that repels undead up to lv.5. And finally Tree elves are elves that live in huge kingdoms disguised as trees or in the trees & have a powerful bonus on nature magic, and have 10% percent resistance to all elements other fire..
Yeah … Dark Elf.
“Would you like to customize your appearance?” asks the voice. “Yes.” Amber answers immediately and a large color wheel appears, she selects a brownish-silver for her hair and the same for her eyes, but kept her dark elven skin.
“Character appearance confirmed. Please choose a character name. This cannot be changed without buying a ‘name module’ from the Player store.”
“Amber Noria, A-M-B-E-R N-O-R-I-A.” Amber says lightly.
“Name confirmed. Welcome to Auranan, Amber. Your adventure begins. I wish you luck.” And at those words, a blinding flash appears and Amber closes her eyes.