It was a very calm and peaceful normal day in the city of Tokyo. A young teenager, almost reaching adulthood, was quietly preparing his food at home.
"Hmm... I forgot the salt..." He said, walking towards a cupboard and taking what he wanted, putting it in.
After preparing the food, he took a deep breath, leaning on the kitchen counter and looking to the side, seeing an empty table, with only four chairs. He took a plate, put lunch on it and then took it to the table so he could eat. Even being alone, he said a little prayer before eating and soon began to be satisfied, as he took a kind of notebook in his pocket and began to write, without worries.
That young man lived alone, the house was not that big, nor that small, but it seemed to be full of essential items, with the addition of several very technological gadgets. He doodled and wrote in his notebook calmly while looking out the window, seeing a beautiful landscape of a... Starry night?
"Damn, I forgot also to change today... My memory is really garbage." He commented, picking up his smartphone and clicking a few times.
Soon the view from the window was gone, it was a complete hologram. While the new image did not appear, a slightly green fog could be seen that covered everything that someone could see, giving an impression of being quite toxic.
In this world, everything was already being taked by pollution, making be inside a house being the most safest way to live. This was sad to think about, but nowadays there were a lot of people trying to find ways to fix it...
But soon that horrendous landscape disappeared, thus emerging a holographic image of a sunny afternoon and clear sky with birds sometimes appearing, even having the characteristic noise they make.
With that done, the boy went back to writing in his notebook, focused as he finished eating.
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April 3th 2136 - 3:45 pm
Today is another day without problems at home, another day deciding to write during my lunch.
Tomorrow is my 20th birthday, I'm thinking about maybe asking my dad to come visit, not for holograms this time. My mother, on the other hand, already told me that she would be here in the morning, without delay. The way she is, I might have to leave the door open when it's 6:30 am.
Dad called me last week, saying I'd better get some work, even if it's at least something completely digital. And well, I'm thinking of doing just that.
With all the money my dad has, he never sees a problem with paying for things for me, I always ask for the essentials and few treats, so that my reserve money always accumulates more and more.
Everything is perfect, but I know they could be better....
Anyway... What will my new job be?...
I have already prepared my own website, I will try to be a game journalist. But I researched very well about it, and apparently this market has so many people, that it is always better to focus on just one game, and that is very famous so that it makes the maximum profit possible.
I didn't think so much about profit, but hearing about a new VR-MMORPG that has been in early access for a few days. Its theme intrigues me a lot, because it reminds me slightly of my old life, from what is written on their main page.
- Keiko Kobayashi -
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Soon the boy realized that he had a blunder at the bottom of the page of his diary and crossed out the words "my old life" and put "an interesting anime" instead.
"My goodness... I always end up writing these things... Imagine if someone sees this... They'll think I'm crazy..." He said to himself, without fear, since he was alone at home.
Getting up, he headed towards his room, where there was a console connected to the computer. It appeared to be a complex and compact machinery that one could enter to interact with people using virtual reality.
He sat in a chair next to him, using only the regular computer screen. "Let's see if everything is really great for me."
Keiko was looking at an improvised worksheet that he had made a few hours ago, in it he had the basics of the basics of the information he got about the creation of characters in the game that he would "participate". Apparently, the young man wanted to have the best experience possible, not in the sense of having everything at his disposal, which is impossible, but at least to be able to focus on some things more than others. Another reason he was doing this was that he hated being stuck in character creation screens, especially when it came to "sculpting" the character's appearance itself.
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But how did this boy get access to this information? If only players with early access would know about this, and even though he had already purchased early access, the game was still being downloaded to his computer.
The answer to that is that one of his father's employees was also among the participants. And as they were known, for the times he went to visit his father's company, this employee was helping with the basics.
"Ooh... He sent one more email." Keiko said to himself as he began to read the employee's email, still aloud, so that he could absorb all the content.
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Hello, Kobayashi-kun!
I'm here to wish you congratulations in advance, if you're already in the game tomorrow too, I'll give you another congratulations.
✧*｡٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و✧*｡
Anyway, I'm sending this email to know where you want to spawn. As in medieval viking culture, which is where the game's setting and ideas were taken from, YGGDRASIL has 9 realms.
へ(._へ)
Depending on the race of each one, some realms will be blocked as a place of first spawn.
Why am I asking this?
(๑¯㉨¯๑)
I want to help you, being a kind of "tourist guide". I know I'm also new to the game, but I managed to learn about perfect locations to farm Experience Points, in all 9 realms. That and I want to give you a birthday present through the game.
Signed, the great friend of justice!
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Keiko was holding back his giggles as he read the final part. "Oh my god, I know he said he would do a lot of RolePlay with things involving the game and that it would be a character with a plot focused on justice... But that's an exaggeration! Hahahah!"
The only thing he knew about this employee's character was that he was from a Heteromorphic race, an Insect, but that he planned to have a beautiful and shiny armor so as not to scare other players.
{8 hours later}
It was 5 minutes to midnight, Keiko had done his usual chores and now he was looking at his spreadsheet again. He had decided to choose a humanoid being, and he had already chosen the appearance. But now it lacked the race and class he would choose.
"There are several options... I would even like to get a race that suits him better to be a duo... But I have to see something better..." Keiko said, really being between choosing Human or Vampire as a race.
Vampires could be considered quite powerful for their initial resistances. There were also some cons, aside from the constant HP loss, along with the debuffs, that you would suffer if you walked outside in daytimes.
Humans were seen as a very basic and completely simple race. They didn't start with buffs, or debuffs, and could be any unlocked class, with no stat conflict. But Humans had a greater advantage than any other race in the game.
Humans couldn't level up their race. Race level 0 was the maximum possible, so that human players could focus completely on job class builds. The other races, on the other hand, could evolve by gaining levels, however, on average, this evolution only happened after 10 - 15 levels were spent in the base race.
While any other character was trying to focus on just evolving the race to a more advanced version, or even trying to evolve the race in with a class. A human character would have already maxed out the chosen base class.
"Okay... That will be it." Keiko started putting on a separate sheet what he wanted his character to be from the start.
During this, an alarm went off and a notification noise happened at the same time. Now, today was his birthday and coincidentally the game had just been downloaded to his console.
"Perfect... I think I'll answer the email when I wake up in the morning..." The young man soon walked to his bed, throwing himself on it so he could sleep.
He would have left the console and computer on, with the spreadsheet open, taking notes on what his future character would be like.
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Nickname: Th3Unkn0wnF0r35T
(Kobayashi = Small forest. Good joke haha)
IGN: -----
(Still working in a name, maybe something related with a great story name or related with a element. Nothing related with my real self.)
Job: -----
Residence: Álfheimr
(maybe?)
Alignment:
(Still thinking, maybe I'll main in the Good spectrum.)
Total Level: 0
Racial Level:
Human ————— 0(Max)
Jobs Level:
(Being a Rogue would be fun for the start..? Or Swordsman?)
Ability Chart:
Hp: 5
Mp: 5
Phy.Atk: 5
Phy.Def: 5
Agility: 5
Mag.Atk: 5
Mag.Def: 5
Resist: 5
Special: 5
(Humans are so lame, they start with everything in 5. At least is better than nothing.)
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