Chapter 3: Conditions

Pov: Samantha

I just stare at the man. Just stare. And stare and…. Ooow he looked away uneasy. It’s my victory. But I am confused and the nurse seems to understand  what troubles me and smiles.

“Perhaps you have to explain it a bit more” says the nurse while looking at the man in black.

The man seems to realise what she means and begins to understand why I kept staring, or at least thinks why he knows it.

“I’m sorry, let me first introduce myself, my name is Robbert Sylvier, a representative of NewLife, a company that makes VRMMORPG possible.” He takes a breath and continues

“We want you and a few other people that have, how do you say it, special circumstances to test the game and experience it so that we can improve it before giving it to the masses”.

I understand what he means, in short it was something like this:

We want people that won’t be missed to test something that hasn’t been tested before ever and if something goes wrong that we can improve it without losing someone important.

I’m annoyed that they want to test people that have problems and….

Again, before I can finish the thought Robbert speaks up again seeing my gaze.

“It’s not what you think” he says fast “We want the game to be able to support everyone. Also the ones that have a few mental problems. We value you just as much as anyone else”

we should attack

I’m beginning to hear War speaking, but that didn’t matter at the moment. I begin to understand what they want, but there has to be a price or something. It has to be.

“Of course there are some conditions” Robbert says

- I Friggin knew it-

I look at Robbert suspicious, I mean who wouldn’t. He gives you an offer that’s near impossible to refuse and then says there are conditions. That’s damn suspicious and if you’re possibly asking yourself  “why would it be near impossible to refuse?”

It’s quite simple….. It’s boring as hell to be in the same room for 2 or 3 years straight. I don’t know what to do, alright,

Robber just looks at me, quite calm and states the conditions:

First of all, this will be a secret, no one will know what we do,

the second condition is that you won’t know where you are placed  before you go into this game. So your real body will be in an unknown location

the third condition would probably scare a lot of people but you won’t be able to leave the game until the game is completed or a second game comes out.

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the last condition is that we, the testers, get the first patches to see if its safe and if there are any problems with the patches that could be solved.

I admit that the third condtion is a bit scary but I still think I should accept and they will take care of my body.

- Don’t do it, it could be dangerous- Plague says worried, in my head of course.

- Do it, it will be interesting- says desire, - We will protect you if something dangerous happens-

That is true, they will protect me if I’m in danger.

- this will give her the most happiness- says a voice that feels devoid of any emotions. The voice was Death. Death is the second most overprotective one of all, but wants to see me happy. By the way, he’s kinda the boss of all the other personalities.

I have to tell you that these talks happened within 3 seconds in my head. So it didn’t look weird or anything for Robbert or the Nurse.

I want to say something very badly, but can’t speak. The Nurse sees this and asks us to wait for a second and runs into the hallway. She is back within a few minutes and is clearly happy with herself. In her hands are two items. First item is paper, of course its WHITE. And second is a pen. I understand what she wants and take the paper and pen from her and write a single question.

“What kind of game will it be?”

Robbert reads the paper and smiles at me and answers it

“”It will be an open world game, the theme is Fantasy and we have programmed it in such a way that there are thousands of species, hundreds of continents and hundreds of different classes in that world. Furthermore there’s magic and you can choose what you want to do. If you want to be a merchant you can choose the class merchant, if you want to be an adventurer you can choose a certain combat class. Of course there are a few secret classes that only one person can have or just hard to get classes. It’s quite a variety of things.”

The moment that he stops talking I jump towards him, since no one suspected it, I could easily grab the hand of Robbert and start shaking it vigorously.

Robbert seems to understand what I mean and smiles

“I think this means you accept, right?”

I just stare at him with sparkly eyes and shake his hand again.

Robbert laughs and starts to walk towards the door. Before he leaves he looks over his shoulder and says

“Someone will come within a 3 days”