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After putting on his helmet, his dark apartment room changed into a brilliant white light that enveloped his entire body. It was warm to the touch and gave a slightly tingly feeling to the skin. As the bright light finally started to pass, Louis was able to open his tightly shut eyes.
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“Wow” A gasp escaped his lips as an unimaginable scene danced before his eyes. In front of him was a planet of blue, black, green and red. He couldn't comprehend as to how he could be looking at such a magnificent site until, he remembered he was only in a game. Yet, that didn't seem to lessen the magnitude of excitement he felt coursing through his veins. This was Horizon, a world where anything was possible.
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A text box appeared before him lit in bright blue letters. It was written in a language he didn't know but with the game's language correction system, eventually his eyes adjusted and he could make it out.
Welcome to Horizon
"Where is this coming from" he asked as he waved his hand to where the text box should have been. "Whatever" he shrugged as another text box appeared before him.
It does not seem like you have an account with Horizon yet. Let’s make a new one now, Shall we!
Please state your desired in-game-name.
"In game name, huh?"
Is Ingamenamehuh your desired in-game-name.
"Uh...no"
Please state your desired in-game-name
"Um...Void?"
Is Void your desired in-game-name
"Sure that sounds good enough" He said somewhat proudly.
Please state the race you would like to play as.
"What the hell? Races?"
I'm sorry, but whatthehell is not a viable race. Currently there are only 13 races in which you can pick. The most popular of these being: Beasts, elves, dwarves, and humans.
"Well it would be cool being a beast... But I think I'll just stick with being a human."
Great! According to Section V of the international virtual reality laws set in place your appearance will remain the same.
"Whatever that's fine"
Ok! The last thing, which place would you like to start your adventure.
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"Oh Ryan told me about this.” He thought out loud. “Please start me off in the Kingdom of Rhodes capital city Vallis" as he finished his sentence, his body was once again enveloped in the warm light he felt when he first put on the helmet. However this time, instead of text boxes appearing he was shot off towards the planet before him. As he flew towards the spherical mass of colors, he saw scenes everywhere from party's attacking monsters that seemed to come straight out of children's nightmares, with pointed horns, oozing bodies, or even those without any flesh, to kings being crowned with decorative jewels of every color. When he finally entered the home stretch of the flight, he started losing speed until "plop" he was dropped straight on his butt. "Ouch" he said as he massaged his bruised stump. "Wait...ouch?" He exclaimed. "So this game does have pain. Ryan said it was less than one tenth of reality but... Damn that hurt."
“Well that was fun.” He said as he looked all around him. “Wow” Another gasp left his mouth just like when he first entered the game. Around him lay streets filled with homes and stores alike. As he stared at the signs he saw places named “Elle’s Workshop” or “Bahamut's Diner” or even “BlackKnife’s Sorcery Guild” Around him was a medieval paradise. It seemed to be just before night in town as the sun was gently setting over the lush green hills in the distant, spewing colors of red and orange in every direction. “So this is Horizon…” he nodded approvingly.
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“Yo! You made it.” A familiar voice called out for him
“Hey! Ryan, this is amazing. I feel as if I’m actually in a fairytale.”
“Isn't it.” A dignified smirk blossomed on to Ryan’s face once more.
“So, Ryan, what do we do now.”
“Well first we should level up, talk to some residents, and maybe get a class.”
“Class?”
“Yeah, it’s like what type of thing you are best at in the game. For example if you're an archer, you’ll be better with bows than swordsman are. There are always hidden classes that boost other things, but not many are willing to share information about how to get them and those that do have classes that can only ever be obtained by one person.”
“Oh. That’s sounds pretty cool.”
“Yeah hidden classes are awesome!”
“Anyway. You do know the basics to how the game mechanics right?”
“Hmm... yeah it’s just like we would move our body in real life, but you have to level up and do quests to get stronger compared to like how you work out.”
“Soooo close but no cigar. Actually, in this game you can work out and do other physical tasks to raise your stats. But, it’s so difficult barely anyone does that. By the way if you ever want to check your stats just sat ‘Show Status Menu’ and it should pop up.”
“Ok. ‘Show Status Menu’” A blue light similar to the one before popped up again this time showing his own character's level and stats.
Status WindowNameVoidClassN/AHealth100Mana100Level1Health Regen/Sec.1Mana Regen/Sec.1Strength10Agility10Wisdom10Stamina10Vitality10
Other Stats will appear as you obtain them
“Ryan, what does it mean other stats will be appear as you obtain them.”
“Hm.. oh yeah. If you do certain actions or your body is accustomed you can get stats like say ‘aim’ that may help you aim better and so on and so forth.”
“Hmm. that sounds pretty interesting.”
“Yep! Oh yeah Louie I have someone you should meet. Follow me” Ryan grabbed on to his friends hand and dragged him across town. Little did they know where Louie was being dragged would start a domino effect and crush Louie’s initial excitement and impression of Horizon.
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“Man that code stuffz is complicated Louie”
“Just follow what the penguin guy tells you to do”
“Don’t wanna”
“What do you mean, you don’t want to. You have to in order to make an interesting virtual reality fan fic.”
“Mu”
“Don’t pout at me. Hey! Get back here and continue your journey… Fine! We don’t need you anyway. Wait! I was just kidding, Ryan come back…”
Will Ryan return, will RainbowRabbit ever figure out the code commands. Find out next time on DBZ…. I mean Into the Void. Yeah, that’s this story’s title.
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