Prologue
For years people have dreamed of Virtual reality ranging from video games to entire worlds. There have been numerous amounts of stories and speculation for as long as the idea has existed. But now with technologies growing and improving every day the dream of virtual reality has become a reality with the new release of a Virtual Reality game called Mythical Legends with many flocking to get their hands on it. With wild speculation, stories and dreams over the year people expecting great things.
Mythical Legends has had great hype across all forms of media, and for good reasons. First the game is running on a new system that incorporates not just the Game Masters; GM’s for short, but also the creation of multiple advanced artificial intelligences that support’s the virtual world and create new events and areas as the game progresses. Besides that another amazing feat is that the NPCs and Mobs of the game cannot be easily told apart from any other players.
The Beta testers where surprised and overwhelmed by the games realism and by its gameplay. They played throughout a number of regions on the continent of Tellus starting at one of the four kingdoms Redstone, Thorcyn, Thlyiss, and Andesit. Each kingdom home to the four core races of Humans, Elves, Halflings, and Dwarves. After the six month testing time the programmer of the game accelerated the game’s time over a 1000 years in game time adding more history and lore. With the games production finished and production wrapped up it is the day of the Games Release.
It’s finally the Day Alan Duke has been waiting for, the Release of Mythical Legends. Alan had ordered the game months in advance with the money he had been savings but now with impassions he left earlier then he planned and has been waiting in line for over seven hours at his neighborhood gaming store. Finally the two people in front of him started to move forward as the store opens up its doors. Once Alan Duke finally got to the counter he gave the employee his pre-order receipt and his debit card. With the high cost of the new virtual reality gear Alan was only able to purchased the cheapest of the versions, which came as headset and council box. The other versions were a capsule and a reclining chair which where quite a bit over a college student’s budget. With the game in hand Alan quickly headed back to his dorm.
Back in his room, Alan pulled the gear out of the box and started reading the instruction manual that took longer then he expected. After reading the instructions he quickly plugging the personal terminal into the wall power outlet and Ethernet outlet. Alan connected the headset to the terminal jack before he laid down on his bed. He quickly put on the headset and pressed the power button.
At first there was nothing around him, but darkness along with a weightless sensation.
“New User detected. Would you like to register?” a computerized female voice said.
“Yes please!” he said with excitement.
“What Gender would you like to play as? Male, Female, or Neutral?”
“Male obviously!”
“You have selected Male. What Race would you like to play as? Human, Elf, Halfling, or Dwarf?”
As she spoke four images of the racial choices appeared in front of him.
I wonder which one I should start as? I love Elves, but I played as them too often in my old RPGs. I don’t want to be a Halfling even though they are fast, but they are just not my cup of tea. Dwarves are amazing craftsmen, but I think I’m going to stick to being human for now. I could always purchase another account or start over later.
“I chose human.” Alan Said.
“You have chosen human.”
The three other racial profiles vanished.
“ What would your preferred appearance be?”
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“I would like to see myself, but at about 6ft 4inch please!”
The human image that remained turned into a mirror image of Alan, but about 5 inches taller. The character was wearing leather boots, black woolen pants, and a white short sleeve shirt. Which is the beginner style. He had a wavy mess of jet black hair that fell just above his eyes. He had pale skin and deep blue, gray eyes. He also was skinny and had barely any muscles.
“Could you add some muscle and get rid of the acne . . . and . . . turn the eyes crimson red?”
The characters appearance changed to meet his request. As he looked over it, he thought of other ways to change it, but was not sure what else to do.
“Would you like to make more changes or do you accept this as your avatar?”
“I accept this avatar.”
“What would you like the Name of your character to be?”
“I would like to be called . . . Aaron!” He said with a grin.
“Would you like to finalize this character?”
“Yeah , it’s good.”
“Your character has been finalized. Would you like to go through the tutorial?”
“Yes please!” for the next few hours he learned how to move his character.
“You have completed the tutorial. For the first month of gameplay you will train on one of the many heaven’s training grounds before you can select a starting city. At the end of the month you will have a chance to enter heaven’s training grounds graduating tournament. Where you can earn rewards and improve your abilities.”
As her computerized voice stopped, gold rings of light came up from Alan’s feet and surrounded him. In a brilliant flash of light he was gone.
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John stood in his office looking out the window as max and a number of project members in the lobby celebrated. There where tables of food and drinks set up with people giving cheers here and there. A large screen on the other side of the lobby showed the rapidly increasing number of accounts being created for Mythical legends. With in an hour of its release the numbers slowly began to rise before it started to jump all over the place. With in the last two hours it’s already passed a million users.
John went back to his chair and sat down looking at the number of files on his desk. The files ranged from military applications and medical applications to the Mythical legends production, and Artificial intelligence details. The only file that lay open was the classified information on the alpha testers. Over a third of them died in the process of testing the virtual applications with another dozen or so were left handy capped or in vegetative states. At least they finally got it right before it went to far with over half the tester surviving the first tests.
The strangest case in the entire file was one of the artificial intelligence programmers that fell into a coma towards the end of the artificial intelligence installation tests. She was a young genius that graduated college before she was even twenty and was programing before she was even eight years old. He looked over the picture showing a young read as some on knocked at the door.
John quickly closed the file and slid it in a drawer, “come in.”
Max quickly stepped in, “Th-the boss wants to speak with you… John.”
John stood while brushing back his oiled hair with his hands, “Let’s go then.”
John followed Max the lights dimming as they left.
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Im restarting the series due to it being a while since the last chapter and as a review. i've also heard the the first five or so chapters are slow and people don't like them so im going to try and improve where the i believe the story needs it. sorry I've been gone so long i had a writers block for a while not knowing what to write though i knew where i wanted to take the story and this last semester of college has been so busy that i almost didn't have any free time let alone any sleep with so many all nighters.
And Happy New Year!!!