Walking Again
The lid of the capsule closed with a slight hissing sound,
“Great I’m inside a huge coffin” Alan muttered as darkness surrounded him,
“At least it’s comfortable in here, now what do i do?” he sighed realising that perhaps he should have waited for his sister to get home from school, so that she could explain this contraption to him.
Suddenly there was a bright flash in front of his eye’s, yelling out in shook he found himself in a white room all though labelling it as a room would probably be stretching the imagination.
Another shook came as he realised he was actually standing up with no means of support to hang onto, slowly he started to move around his heart raced with joy, he had his legs back.
Crouching down suddenly he began to hug them not wanting to let them go when a female voice spoke out.
The scan on your iris and vein has determined that you are an unregistered user. Do you want to create a new account?
Startled Alan looked around franticly for the person that was speaking to him but could only see the white room. “Is this Royal Road?” Alan asked somewhat troubled.
Correct this is the login and Avatar design stage for Royal Road. Do you wish to create a new account?
“Err yes” Alan spoke from where he was sat on the floor looking at the roof.
Select the name of your avatar
“Hmm Allwind that’s the name the crowds at competitions use for me might as well use it here,” Alan mused after struggling several moments to come up with something.
Select your gender from male, female or neutral.
“Male,” Alan said looking puzzled, “wait neutral what’s that about? This thing is really crazy, how does that work?” he pondered
Error, please select your gender from male, female or neutral.
“Male please”
Royal Road has forty-nine races. You may select your race from the primary thirty.
Ranging from human to orc, elf to dwarf---
“Human” Alan replied to the voice not sure that what he was hearing was real, what the hell’s an orc he thought.
You may alter your appearance to your liking.
“Show me what i look like”
Suddenly a life like model appeared in front of Alan it was like looking in a mirror
“Wow is that what i’ll look like in the game?”
Correct.
“Can i change it?”
You may alter your appearance to your liking.
“Hmm hair colour, change to blond, add five centimetres in length.” Suddenly the avatar’s hair changed from brown to blond and lengthened.
“Cool hmm, increase leg muscle” and suddenly there was more muscle on the avatars legs.
“And change eye colour to green” after fussing with the avatar creation program for more than thirty munities Alan was happy with the overall effect.
“Done i really don’t believe that’s going to be me”
Your account has been activated, your stats and class shall be determined while you are playing Royal Road.
Select a city or kingdom to start in?
“What? I don’t know any, random i don’t really mind,” Alan said scratching his head from where he was sat.
Welcome to Royal Road, enjoy your journey.
Suddenly a bright light embraced Alan, and then there was a flood of sound, a sound that only a large crowd could make, as Allwind was unceremoniously dumped onto the floor.
“Now what? Ow my, it’s just like reality bit old though.” He said sitting up and looking around.
“Is this really virtual reality it feels so real the floor even feels cold,”
“Hey newbie get out of the road your blocking the gate” a tall muscular man in amour said as he walked past Allwind before disappearing.
Slowly standing up Allwind’s legs began to shake, as he slowly made his way to the side of the plaza that he had appeared in it was busy far busier than he ever anticipated “just how many people play this game?”
“Just where should i start?” he mused when he court sight of something in the window of a nearby shop “wow it’s me well the thing i created wow this is really amazing, so real,” he said touching his own face with his hands.
“You can tell he’s a newbie.”
Some of the crowd around the plaza had noticed Allwind’s behaviour and were discussing him among themselves “it's not a bad looking avatar all said and done” one girl whispered.
“Guess i’ll just walk around and get used to things” Allwind smiled and began his tour of this strange world that looked like reality with shaking legs.
The city was big with many areas, shops, street vendors even a river that ran through the city but the most prominent building, had to be the large church built with white marble; it was a symbol of prosperity and beauty were people could worshiped the Goddess Freya.
Allwind soon arrived at a secluded spot away from all the hassles of the busy roads and plaza, his legs had stopped shaking as he got used to walking again “i wonder if i can do Gymnastics in this world, one way to find out,” he muttered as he began to run up and down the small square he found himself in.
As he completed his forth lap of the square he threw his upper body weight forward and executed a cartwheel stopping he looked around in embarrassment it had been so long that he had all most messed up the very basics.
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Signing in relief that there was no one there to witness him he proceeded to more cartwheels across the square and then decided to do a hand stand against the wall for fun running through the basic training methods that he used to do on a regular basis.
TTiring
You have gained the skill Gymnastics.
“Hu a skill what’s that.”
Skill Gymnastics
Level 1
Increases Agility by 5
Increases Endurance by 5
Increases Health by 100
“This is weird I already know gymnastics? I wonder what other skills I have.”
AvatarAllwindTypeNuteralLevel1ClassN/ATitleN/AFame0Health100Mana100Stamina100STR12AGI20VTI10WIS10INT10ENDURANCE15LUCK10LEARDERSHIP0DEFENCE0OFFENCE0MAGICAL RESISTANCE0%
“Hmm what the hell does all this mean?”
“Brother Log off now dinners ready.”
“Yikes not so loud,”
“What am I doing? Brother, dinner is ready just say exactly what I do, system window, logoff accept.”
“System window, logoff accept,” and suddenly a number of blue windows popped up, and the world went dark before allwind could read any.
The lid to the capsule opened revealing the face of his sister, Sarah she looked absolutely stunning for a seventeen year old, and often got into trouble while avoiding boys that were always after her affections, currently she was looking furiously down at Alan as he lay in the capsule.
“You should have told me you were starting” she said pouting before leaving heading in the direction of the dining room.
* * * *
Dinner that night was somewhat awkward, as Alan sat once again in his wheelchair at the table, his mother and father sat opposite while his sister refused to say anything to him at all during the meal, it wasn’t till after they had finished that she let go of her anger and nearly jumped on him wanting to know what he looked like, where he had started and what he was going to do?
She fired that many questions at him so fast, that even their parents couldn’t keep up with the convocation.
“Ow you started playing?” his mother asked happily.
“Yes thought I would try it out.”
“We can tell son, you have the light back in your eyes.” His dad commented
“So where are you, where did you start from?” his sister asked almost begging for info
“In a small square in a city some were”
Sarah hit her head with the palm of her hand “i should have known.” She cried in frustration, as his parents laughed.
“Well let us know where you are, and we will come help you if you ever need it,” his mum said smiling she was truly relieved that Alan had found something to do.
“Have you done any quest yet?” Sarah asked.
“Quests? No just being doing acrobatics unless that was the message that popped up” Alan said scratching his head.
“You mean systems window, yes that will be a quest.” Sarah said smiling.
His dad however knew how lax Alan was when it came to gaming so he politely inquired as to the details of his son’s first quest.
“Hmm well it just said that you have learned gymnastics skill nothing more.”
- Thump –
“Are you ok sis hitting your head on the table hurts you know.”
“I’m fine but maybe you should go back to the hospital i think they forgot to check on your brain,” was the reply from the face down Sarah.
“Well if were done i want to go back to training”
End
Author’s notes
Big thanks to Vindrueelsker, Vereliosi and IcedLance for their inspiration and all around humour
Side notes hopefully this layout will be better than the prologue.
29/4/13: have edited the table :) + new quest boxses