Chapter 1: It actually begins...
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Rising from his bed much like a zombie from it's grave, Rick groans and slams his hand on the snooze button of his alarm clock. After a minute of just sitting in the darkness that is his room, he moves to the kitchen to prepare breakfest. On the way, he stops and knocks on Amber's door.
"Hey, you awake yet?"[Rick]
Receiving no awnser, Rick calls again only to hear silence. Deciding enough is enough, he opens her door to see her bed is empty. Thinking that she must already be in the shower or something, he proceeds to the kitchen where he cooks up two servings of eggs and bacon. As he sits eating, he looks at the calender to realize its a Saturday.
(Ohhh. She must of went to one of her club events or something.)[Rick]
Amber is very popular at her school; so much that one could say that she puts the word "social" into "socialite." So it isn't that big of a deal to Rick if she wasn't home when he awoke. Unless it was a weekday. Then he'll be VERY worried.
After contemplating his paranoia, our hero proceeds to walk to his room to do the final amounts of reasearch about the game as the equipment is set to arrive later that day. With the guidance of Goo Gle-sensei, he finds a link to a page on the game's website that allowed him to create his character now. Or atleast set the basis for it. Afterall, the VR reads your brainwaves to move your body. So an overweigth person would find it difficult to move in a body that is much lighter. Or a tall man in a short man's body. The same rules apply for genders.
After messing with the various sliders and the randomize button, he chooses to make a character that is similar in appearance to him. A 5ft, 9in tall human with black hair and a faint beard. Choosing to use hetero-chromatic eyes instead of his teal colored eyes, the figure looked somewhat mystical with his silver and gold eyes. After checking over the figure, Rick glanced at the age bar and lowered it to 24.
(Don't want people to be treating like some ancient tree just because I'm 31, now would we?)[Rick]
Exiting out the browser after clicking the done button, he clicks on a secret folder named "materials", that for some odd reason contained pictures of his sister.
(What? Its Saturday and noone's home. This is mah me time. Bugger off already!)[Rick]
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After talking to the voice that mysteriously haunts his mind, our deranged hero whips out his pitiful dic-
"Would you shut up already! Besides... it ain't that small."[Rick]
Just face the facts, man. You'll never be able to please a woman with that. Anyway call me when ya done, k? Author out.
"Lil' fucker..."[Rick with a extremely small dick]
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Eventually, the equipment arrived. After calmly signing the paperwork and closing the door, Rick took a deep breath. Then suddenly letting out a shout of joy.
"FFFUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKK YEA!!!!!"[Over-Hyped Man-Child]
After letting the entire apartment complex know of his exitcement and giving his annoying neighbors a reason to call the cops, he carefully moves the VR tech into his room and seting it up. The setup was actually quite simple. You wear a helmet that is much like a motorcycle helm with extra padding, which is attached via a long cord to something similar to a mainframe which holds the tech needed to read your brain waves. By carefully reading the instructions, our friend was able to get it assembled right before the cops arrived at his doorstep with a noise complaint.
After shooing away the cops and the annoyed neighbor who summoned them, Rick rushed to his room to get started. After checking the connection to the internet and other things as a final precaution, he started the game. As soon as he hit the start button on the screen, everything faded to black.
Suddenly a message appeared.
SYSTEM MESSAGEWelcome to Sea of Stars Online
As this message appeared, lights started to spring up in the void that surrounded him. To Rick, this view had such a mesmerizing appearance, that the only word that appeared in his mind was...
Otherworldly...
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Author Corner:
I feel like I could of done better on this one but...
The view he saw was pretty much like this: http://www.unoosa.org/res/timeline/index_html/space-2.jpg