I was looking at the loading screen. I just made a new character after instaling RaS. Now I just needed to wait for a while, and I will finally play this game. I waited months for it. I even bought newest VR gear. It was my dream game, that's why I won't let those girls take my fun. I won't let those days of hard work go to waste.
Finally loading screen showed 100%, and I was teleported to a new location. It wasn't like anything I ever saw before. When I first loaded this game I was greeted by a white space without anything around me. Now I was in a small village with few wooden houses. Weirdly enough it was full of people, but they weren't NPCs. Those were new players. Like me, they just started their game in this place. I didn't even needed to look for their nicks to know that, I just looked at how they behaved. It would be weird for makers of this game to make NPCs jump everywhere or stay on the fence. That's why I knew those were the players.
After looking at them something magical happened. I felt a gust of wind on my face. Never before have I played any other VMMORPG, but I knew that even they didn't used technology like this. RaS was the first "true" VMMORPG that used all of your senses to immerse you into the game. That's why I felt this wind, and that's why I could smell this village, just like it was a normal place. Of course things like pain are really limited but they still exist in this world, making it seem real.
Then I looked down, to look on my new character. I was wearing cute, white and airy robes that were reaching my knees. In my hand I had a short, metal staff with a blue crystal on the end of it. I was really small.
"It's hard to get used to those 155 centimeters." I said to myself. Normally I look at the world from a higher perspective, but I couldn't worry about this now. It was my time to start playing. I waited for this game for a long time.
I looked straight ahead and my white hair covered my face. It was because of this wind that I felt one more time on my face but not only there. This robe that reaches only my knees wasn't a good clothing to protect me from wind. I just pulled it down a little but it didn't help much.
After that I looked around and I saw a knight standing near one of the houses. He was wearing full plate armor and he had a two handed sword with him. He caught my attention because above his head I saw a big, glowing question mark. It must have been an NPC that was going to give me my first mission.
I approached him and I started the conversation.
"Greetings! They must have sent you here as a reinforcements from the city. Let me go straight to the point. We have a big problem with goblins. I thought that I will defeat them alone, but I was too weak. Please, take care of this and I will give you some potions and new clothes." he said to me.
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I just clicked a button on the screen that said that I accept this quest. I could ask one of those people around me to help mi with this quest. I saw elves, humans, orcs and beasts just talking here or jumping around. I'm sure if I asked they would help me, but now I just want to try this game alone.
"I'm not a NEET that can't speak with people. I just want to try this game out alone." I said to myself as I opened some tables to look at my items and spells, to see what I have.
SKILLS
SPELL NAME COST Magical attack 20 mana Heal 50 mana Cure 100 mana Holy flame 70 mana Holy shield 30 mana
I had two offensive spells: "Magical Attack" and "Holy flame". I had one buff: "Holy shield". It could give me some armour. And lastly I had normal healer spells: "Heal", "Cure". I could cure poisons and debuffs with "Cure" and I could heal myself with "Heal".
After that I looked at my character.
CHARACTER
Name Lilly Race Human Gender Female Character class Healer LVL 1 HP 250/250 MP 400/400
ITEMS
Healer Robes +30 ARMOR Healer Staff +10 INTEllIGENCE Healer Boots +10 ARMOR
Those were my items. Armor divides damage taken, and intelligence makes your magic stronger. I had a lot of experience with MMORPGs so I knew things like this.
There was no reason to wait. I just needed to finish my new quest. I opened the map, and I checked where I needed to go. The quest could be finished in a nearby forest, that was about five minutes of walking from here. I left, leaving behind people that were just jumping in the starting village, and I went to this forest.
After few minutes of walking among the trees I saw my objective. A small camp with few goblins that were living in a forest. They had set up few tents there, and they were even smaller than me. There were maybe six of them, and all of them were sitting around a small fire that was burning in the middle of their camp.
It's not like I need to be careful. It's a first mission in a MMORPG. It can't be hard.
I prepared a spell. It was a "Holy flame". It takes more mana and time to cast it, but goblins didn't saw me, so there was no need to worry about this. Then I pointed my staff at them, waited for a second to charge it with my mana and then I fired a beam of energy. When it hit them it exploded, killing two of the goblins and damaging the rest.
Four of them were still alive, and when they saw me they started running towards me with angry faces.