"Hey, you're talking differently from before." The individual says with just a touch of indignation.
With a look of disgust and an eyeroll, "Of course I am! This is work. I have to talk properly when working or the others would get angry and it's just too much trouble to deal with ""THEM"". They're a bunch of pretentious asswipes."
"Ahh, I understand I have to deal with some of that type on the Outside as well." In an understanding tone.
"Nn, well let's get started. My name is Son-ja and I'm the Guardian Diety of Orphans and Outcasts. I'll be your guide for the character creation portion of entry to our world."
Widening their eyes, "Wah! But! I thought the guides were supposed to be a Messenger of the Gods not a God themself."
" Yeah, well we ran out of messengers cause a few ran away after they dealt with a few too many of you people so the Gods had to pick up the slack. I say that but each of us takes about 1 out of every 70 or so that the individual messengers have to deal with." Son-ja stated with a shrug while chewing on her bottom lip. Then states firmly while opening a screen in front of herself, "That's enough of that, let's get back to business. What's your name gonna be?"
"Royal "
She types it into the screen, "Race?"
"Um, what are the choices"
She looks up at me and sighs a deep sigh then snaps her fingers. The walls on one side disappears and now there is a long hall filled along one side with stationary forms of different species and races with plaques in front of them. "You know, most of those who come here just picks some variety of human, elven, or dwarven. At the very least they already know what they want without going through the Gallery." She waves her hand to the side and a lounge chair appears. "Just tell me when you've decided on what you want cause I'm not walking back and forth or standing around while you browse." As she sits down and pulls out an old style handheld game.
As I walk into the gallery I see a window pop up in front of me.
Because not all races have been unlocked by Outsiders in order to make your selection easier the locked races and subraces will be removed from the gallery.
What's left is 12 main races to choose from and quite a few have several subraces. Like the Humans for example had several dozen subraces to choose from. Although it seemed that they were seperated by the region in which they lived and not by their appearances as several appeared identical to each other.
The Elven main race had three subrace choices; High Elf, Drow, and Sylvan. the High Elves appeared to have very white nearly translucent skin while the Drow were extremely dark. The Sylvan on the other hand had mottled skin color in shades of gold, green, tan, and brown.
The races of the Dwarven, Elfling, Gnome, Trolls, Pixies, and Centauri only showed one choice for each. Although the coloring of the Pixies and Centauri were alternating every few seconds. I'm guessing this means there is a wide variety of skin and hair color for these races.
The Beastkin race had had four subraces; Foxkin, Wolfkin, Bearkin, and Birdkin. The Foxkin and Birdkin were of thin and slight stature with animal characteristics of their respective races. The Wolfkin was a bit bigger and more rugged while the Bearkin was quite large at around 7 feet in height and was clearly very strong.
Next to the Beastkin were the Giants. One of them was the size of a two or three story building while the other was so tall that the first Giant only reached it's waist.
Beside them was a race called Constructs. There was an Earth Golem, Metal Golem, and Ancient Technology as the subraces.
At the end of the line there was just a shadowed silhoutte with the race name of Hybrid.
No matter what I tried I couldn't get anymore Information about any of the races except for the name. Even so, the majority of them had appeared in other older games so their relative strengths and weaknesses could be known. But the mystery that was inherent in the race Hybrid drew me so I chose it for my race. When I did so the races in front of me changed and a window appeared in front of me.
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Hybrid - A individual born from the mating of two or more seperate races.
Maximum number of races or subraces used in creating a hybrid is ten. Please choose the races and subraces you wish to use for your Hybrid.
As I close the window and look around I notice that several of the previous races that had been there either decreased or vanished altogether.
The Human race only had 6 of the more than 50 subraces they had before. The Elven had lost the High Elf subrace but gained the Wildling Subrace, which seemed to be covered in some type of war paint and be nearly naked as well as quite a bit less attractive than the other elven races. Although if taken into context the Wildling could hardly be called unattractive and at most could be termed mildly handsome.
The races of Dwarven, Elfling, Pixie, Centauri, and Constructs had vanished as if they hadn't even existed. In their place were several dozen different races that hadn't been there before.
Of the Beastkin only the Foxkin and Wolfkin remained and the smaller of the two Giants were still there as well as the Gnome and Troll.
Among the new races that appeared many of them were from what would be considered monster races such as Slime's, Goblin's, Orc's, Ogre's, and many many others. I can only assume the mating wasn't consensual for these to appear. There was also a Dryad, Draconis, a Nymph, and a Sylph.
Most of the races or subraces to choose from were downright horrific and there was no way I could accept looking like any of them.
As I went through the different races and subraces I made my decision. First would be the Sylvan subrace from the Elven main race. Then the Wolfkin subrace from the Beastkin and the Troll seemed interesting so I added it in. The Draconis had two subraces. The Makkin had matte dark scales while the Revium had iridescent scales that shone in the light. I chose to select the Revium subrace as well as the Quarrian Slime subrace from the main Slime race.
Unlike the Smelt Slime subrace, which looked like a giant ball with tentacles, the Quarrian Slime had a vaguely humanoid appearance although it was small about the size of a child.
I hit complete on my selection and a new window popped up.
Selection complete. Please choose percentages of each race or will default at 20% for each of the 5 races selected.
I chose 30% Sylvan, 25% Wolfkin, 20% Troll, 15% Revium, and 10% Quarrian Slime.
I walk back to Son-ja to tell her I was done, but she had fallen asleep with a bit of drool coming from her mouth.
"Hey!"
In surprise Son-ja jumps into the air and throws her arms out and the game she was holding flies at me.
"Wha, wha, whad hapn'd? Whads goin on? Whadda ya wan' ya Fucking Asshit Bastard!" She looks around and seeing me, "Haa, oh its jus' ya. You done yet?"
"Yeah, I've picked my race. What's next?"
As she looks at the screens in front of her. "Hmm, hmm, Name? done. Race? done. Gender? done. Stats? okay stats next." She presses on the screen and a window opens infront of me.
Before entering the world of Eadenara you may choose up to 5 stats from this list which will contain 1 stat point in each stat. If you do not choose 5 then the extra stat points will become free stat points which you can allocate once you enter the world.
Agi - Agility - overall speed, dodging.
Atk - Attack - capability of attacking.
Cha - Charisma - charm, appeal.
Def - Defense - capability of resisting attack.
Dex - Dexterity - quickness, gracefulness, reflexes, detailed work.
End - Endurance - physical constitution, withstand hardship.
Fle - Flexibility - Pliablility of joints and mind
Int - Intelligence - ability to learn, understand, or use knowledge.
Ldr - Leadership - ability to lead and command.
Luc - Luck - overall luck, coincidence, chance.
Per - Perception - observation, awareness, strength of senses.
Res - Resilience - capability of recovery.
Sta - Stamina - staying power.
Str - Strength - physical strength, capacity to carry.
Vit - Vitality - capacity of life force, vigor.
Wil - Willpower - mental strength/endurance.
Wis - Wisdom - insight, knowledge, good judgement.
"Okay, I'll go with Vitality, Resilience, Wisdom, Luck, and Charisma!" I yell out the last one.
"Hmm, all done now would you like to go through the Tutorial or skip it."
"I'd like to go through it please."
"In that case I'll leave you here, as soon as the Tutorial ends you'll be sent to the world of Eadenara and you no longer need me to guide for the tutorial since it's just basic knowledge and has it's own team of guides for it."
As Son-ja leaves through a door that wasn't there with a face of panic before the lights dim and a drumroll begins.
"Ladies and Gentleman, We welcome you this day to the 384,769th Tutorial for the world of Eadenara." A man dressed like a circus ringleader came out. He had a long mustache and small goatee. Behind him were two female clowns clapping their hands with looks of worship on their faces.
'Ah, shit I should have said no' is what I was thinking as the longest 2 hours of my life began.