“Dialog”
‘Thoughts’
I sat up in bed. ‘That was one weird dream’ was all I could think. I started to crawl out of bed when I saw three semi translucent bars hovering in the top left of my vision. I screamed and fell back onto my bed. “Hey Alan you ok up there because you just screamed like a girl” my mom yelled. Alright I’ll admit my scream probably did sound like a little girl.
On my bed I began asking myself questions. Did I hit my head really hard? Have I been doing any hallucinogenic drugs lately? Am I going insane? The answer to all of these were no but I still couldn't explain the bars hovering in my vision. I tried to look at them but they stayed fixed in the corner of my view. I closed my eyes and they remained there. From left to right there was a red one, a blue one, and finally a yellow bar. Ok so the dream I had may have been real. So...I'm now in the “game” of Real Life Offline. My brain started to stutter to a halt there. So my world is now some RPG. But wait it called itself an MMO. So that means there are more people than just me. Suddenly I had a thought what if that old man had changed more than just my eyesight.
I rushed to my bathroom. In front of the mirror I looked at my reflection. At six two I weighed just less than 160 lbs. I was a little skinny but I couldn't be described as weak. My dark brown hair was cut a medium length and my skin was a slightly tanned white. My eyes were a solid black with no whites to them. Yep all normal...maybe my skin was a little tanner than usual. Hmm my eyes were definitely always this solid black color. Wait, shit what happened to my eyes. I obviously was quite shocked by my new looks. ‘Wait’ I thought ‘this is like an RPG so I should have stats and an inventory right’. “Inventory” I called out to myself... ok maybe I would still have to carry stuff around
“Stat and skill windows” I called out. Suddenly a blue box sprung up in front of me
[quart=Name,Alignment]Alan,neutral[/quart]
[quart=Level,Class]1,none[/quart]
[quart=Race,Title]?????,none[/quart]
[quart=Fame,Notoriety]0,0[/quart]
[quart=Health,Mana]100,100[/quart]
[quart=Strength,Agility]10,10[/quart]
[quart=Wisdom,Intellect]10,10[/quart]
[quart=Vitality,Magic Affinity]10,1%[/quart]
[quart=Attack,Defence]1,1[/quart]
Status Window
-race bonuses
-can only learn magic related to race
-?????
-?????
-?????
-?????
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mana vision beginner level 1 0%(passive)
The world is made up of different types of mana which are invisible to normal people. You are able to feel these manas. You will be able to see farther and mana will become clearer at higher levels you can also become able to see more types of mana at higher levels.
gives the ability to see fire, earth, water, wind, holy, and demonic mana
gives 1 % affinity with all man that you can see
‘What the hell did that old man do to me?’
“Alan get down here you’re going to be late for school” my mom yelled at me
‘Wait, what happens if my mom sees me like this’. Back in my room I threw on some cloths and a cheap pair of aviators to cover my dark eyes. As I looked out the window I saw the bus coming down the road towards my neighborhood. As the closest house to the road I had a good view of what was going on the road. Throwing things on my desk into my backpack I rushed past my mom and out the door. I sprinted up toward the kids getting on the bus about 300 feet ahead of me. ‘I’m almost there’ was all I could think. Suddenly “ding” one of those damn blue boxes sprung up in front of me
Through sprinting you have earned 1 agility
I was so surprised that I tripped over my feet and fell. My face scratched against the ground. The first thing I thought about was pain. The second was that in the corner of my vision I saw the red bar drop slightly. ‘Hmmm so that bar seems to be connected to my health, interesting’. Now that I was looking at the bars in the corner of my vision I saw that the yellow bar also was slightly lower than it had been before. ‘So maybe that one has to do with stamina’. As I picked myself off the ground I looked up to see the bus driving away
Sighing I began to jog to school. A solid 2 miles later I finally reached the school. On the way I had gained the stat endurance and gained 2 stat points in it. I got to the school a few minutes before the bell rang. As I walked through the halls I noticed something was a bit weird. Above everyone's head was their name and their level which for everyone was still 1. Also the people seemed a little different. ‘Hmm Tommy over there seems a little shorter than usual today. And was that a beard he has. When did he start that because it pretty long. And that kids ears over there seem really long. Did I miss some announcement about today being like a fictional medieval character dress up day? Or maybe everyone here had the same dream as me and have all changed too. It improbable but it seemed like that was the only real explanation. Far more plausible than my entire school dressing up like elves and dwarves because my school has no school spirit.
I finally got to my classroom. Looking around I noticed that there were quite a few people missing. Everyone was in circles with their friends talking. I could just make out words like dream, last night, and crazy floating in their conversations. As I walked up to my group of friends I couldn't help but feel that something was off. My friend Hannah wasn't there. My close friend Grayson had a darker feeling around him than usual as if a black cloud hovered around him. I wondered if this was my mana vision skill at work. Since he was born his crazy martial arts fanatic dad had crafted him into a master of many forms of martial arts. If you had asked him how he felt about this sort of upbringing he would probably answer that he wouldn’t have had it any other way. He had competed in many tournaments around the US and had easily crushed all his opponents. Sidney next to him seemed to glow a little and I could make out a faint glow circling her head. She was the complete opposite of Grayson. Where he was dangerous spending his time training and mastering fighting she was very peaceful. She loved helping others and dreamed of being a doctor when she grew up. When I looked at my friend grant he looked up from the book he was reading and waved me over. There seemed to be no mana around him and I thought maybe he has a mana which I can't see yet surrounding him. They looked at me with very serious expressions.
“All right Alan did you have that dream last night” asked grant. I looked at him with surprise.
“Yeah, did you guys?” I asked. I was very surprised that they had had the same dream as me. I suddenly wondered if they were any different.
“You have no idea because you just got here but the entire school had that dream” replied Sidney.
“Wait what the hell is going on how is this possible” I asked. “I thought that I had been hallucinating or something but I guess this is for real. Are you guys changed at all” I asked
Everyone looked uneasy for a second. “We all have but we probably shouldn't discuss how we have changed here because there may be someone listening. Most people in the school stayed human. Out of the 5 thousand maybe 200 of them seem to be something other than human. And most of those look elvish or like dwarves. However that’s all we know because it seems like an unwritten agreement has already been made not to show others your stats, except for your close friends” Grayson responded. “Also there are some things you should know that we have found out so far. It seems like those that didn't have the dream can't see the physical changes that have happened in us. I walked downstairs without realizing that I wasn't... completely human and no one noticed. I didn’t either until my sister who is a freshman this year came downstairs, saw me and screamed. It was then that I noticed my parents eyes were glazed over when they saw me, so I think that whatever happened to us is also able to hide any changes from those that haven't been changed
Hearing his story I was a little happy to hear that I didn't have to wear sunglasses in public for the rest of my life. That could get really annoying at like night and such. Slowly I pulled off the aviators and showed them my black eyes. They looked at them for a bit with surprise but none of them seemed like this was outside the realm of possible. “Oh yeah, I don’t know if you already knew this but you can gain new stats by exercising and doing new things.”
Grant spoke up. Oh yeah that’s happened to me too. I was reading a book and when I had finished it told me that my wisdom had increased.
“Hmm” I started thinking aloud “if this is what I think it is than our world has turned into a sort of mmorpg thing. If that’s true than there are a couple of things that should be different. There should be monsters and dungeons because how else would people level up. Also there should be shops to buy and sell gear. Also there has to be some way to get a class. I guess friend’s lists are also important. Those are all vital parts of a successful game.” with that thought in mind I called “out would you guys like to be my friend”. They all looked a little surprised and then pressed the air. A box told me that they had accepted my friend request.
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Suddenly the bell rang and all the students shuffled to their seats. For a couple of periods nothing out of the ordinary seemed to happen. However, when gym came around something interested happened. The gym teacher left the class to go to the bathroom. one of the kids suddenly put down the 60’s he was curling and yelled out “can I have your attention please everyone I have something to say that I’m pretty sure everyone will want to hear.” everyone looked his way
“I’m sure you're all surprised by the dream that happened last night. This is something outside what we could imagine is possible. However this is real. After school today in the gym we will allow people to join the guild the Chaos Nights. Yes we are able to form guilds. This guild will be lead by the captain of the football team Nick Metclaf. He has been able to get a special race, beast man. He will be the strongest man in this school so his guild will be the strongest formed. If you want to thrive in this new world I would suggest joining the guild.” with that he went back to lifting weights. The gym teacher walked back in and seemed very surprised with how quiet the room had become. There were quiet whispers from friend to friend asking if they should join the guild.
The next period I had lunch I sat down at a table with my friends once there I immediately began to talk with them. “Did you hear about the guild thing” I asked.
“Yeah” said Grayson “some jock stood up in my math class and talked about it”
Grant also added something “I heard about it through others in my honors classes. I heard that it’s basically the football team running it. I also heard that some kids are planning to make their own guilds.”
“We should make our own guild” Sidney said. We all nodded in agreement. We all began thinking of cool names for our guild
“I have a good idea” said grant. “We should call our guild anonymous and our thing should be that we don't tell people that our guild exists when we do guild stuff we should hide our identities from everyone. I vote that Alan leads the guild but that’s just me.”
No one had any objections so I called out “can I make a guild named anonymous”. A blue box appeared in front of me.
you have created the guild anonymous
you are now the leader of anonymous
you may create guild laws which those in the guild must abide by
you may invite people to the guild
current members 1
I quickly invited my friends to the guild. With that the members in the guild reached 4. “Oh yeah have any of you guys heard from Hannah?” I asked “maybe she’s not here because of the dream.”
They all shook their heads no. this concerned me. I and Hannah had been good friends since we were little. She lived next door to me so we always played together when we were little. Her parents were always away on business trips so my family always ended up taking care of her. She was like a sister to me. I decided that I would stop by her house after school.
The rest of the day was pretty normal for me considering the huge changes that had happened. A lot of gossip ran through the halls in the school. The talk of guilds could be heard everywhere. Some people had discovered that they could get skills during a woodworking class. People went crazy trying all sorts of different things to try and get skills. It was discovered you could get skills for just about anything from sculpting to jumping as long as you repeated it enough. Also in one of the math classes a teacher was passing back a test and when he had finished he gave two kids who got hundreds a book saying something about proving their wisdom and reward for their efforts. The books turned out to be spells. One of the kids got fireball and the other got ice spear. The kids claimed that when they looked into the teachers eyes they had turned a gray. It seemed as though when the conditions were right the same power that made it so others couldn't see the physical changes that had happened to us also made them act like NPC’s. This caused lot of excitement among those that had the dream, who began calling themselves gamers, because it proved to them that magic existed. The day ended with lots of excitement and probably the most important discovery. The field that sat across the street from the school was full of bunnies. However instead of being cute and cuddly they viciously attacked those that got near them. Also some students who went out into the woods behind the school to smoke some pot had come across a cave which turned out to be a dungeon.
On the bus ride home a box suddenly opened in from of me. However this one was grey.
All right I hope this works but there’s like a message system for friends and a chat system for guilds. you should all open the chat so we can talk
-Grant-
I was a little surprised by this message. This was really useful. I guess I should enter the guild chat like he had told me to. “Join guild chat” I said another message popped up
During the guild chat your mind will be separated from your body. Do you still wish to join?
I was a little taken back by this message. It seemed a little... dangerous. I got into a comfortable position on the bus and responded
“Yes”. The world around me suddenly shifted. Instead of staring the back of the green seat in front of me I was looking at the wall to a gray room. I looked around me stopping when I saw grant.
“Ah finally you're here. When I first joined it told me that those with permission could change the guild chat to their liking, but when I tried to change things it told me that I don't have permission to do that yet.”
“Okay I’ll give you permission” I said “give full permissions to all current member” as I looked at the boring room around me a thought struck me. “Make landscape into a hill plain”. Suddenly the world shifted suddenly and became an expanse of grassy rolling hills. “Allow each member of the guild to create their own plot of land which they can create anything on” I added. Satisfied with my work I turned back to grant.
“So you going to be doing anything today” I asked.
“I’m going to the library to check out if things have changed at all and to gain some stat points. I heard that Grayson is going to the meeting about the Chaos Knights to scope things out. I don’t know what Sidney is doing but I’m sure she’s not going to just sit around and relax. You shouldn't be either. I think The Chaos Knights are going to become really powerful and I don’t want to just get crushed under them.”
“Alright I’m on the bus right now and I think my stop is soon so I’ve got to go” I said. I then logged of the chat.
Once I had been dropped off at my street by the bus I went directly over to Hannah’s house. I knocked on the door and there was no answer. “I’m coming in Hannah I yelled opening the door.”
“Alan don’t I’m looking...really...different today so don’t come in” she called out. I walked in anyways. I found her in her room. She wasn't that different. Her hair was now completely white instead of the golden blond which it normally was. Her features seemed a little different. The most surprising difference was really her ears which poked out about 2 inches from where they would normally end. In other words she was an elf. Not that bad a change when you looked at some of the other people who I had seen so far today such the one kid who had been turned into an undead.
“I see that you also had the dream” I said pulling down my sunglasses and showing her my eyes. When she saw them she seemed to relax a little. I told her about the goings on at school and how everyone in high school had had the dream and about how having the dream had seemed to affect us. I explained everything that we had discovered throughout the day. Finally at the end I sent her both a friend and a guild request.
After all that, I went home giving her time to let things sink in. At home I remembered grants words about training. I went ahead and did a little circuit doing pushups, crunches, pull-ups, squats, etc. when I couldn't do any more of those I went for a run. I went in intervals between sprinting and a more regular pace in order to try and get both endurance and agility. When I finally got back to my house I sat panting onto my front lawn. I looked at the messages that had appeared so far. It seemed like I had gained 4 stats in strength and endurance and 3 in agility and vitality. Satisfied with my work I ate dinner and went to bed. Lying there, tired from the day’s ordeal, I quickly drifted off to sleep.
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hey guys. Starting off with a nice long chapter. Probably never going to write something this long (long by my terms i guess) again but had to do it for the first day because i wanted so many different things to happen.Thanks to everyone who has read so far. Its a really cool feeling to see that people read something you wrote. If you have any suggestions please write them. Also if you have an idea of something you would like to see added i'm open to suggestions because no ones ever done this sort of thing before there are lots of different things i could add