Character Creation_The Most Ignorant Mage

Today was going to be the best day ever!

He had managed to grab a hold of a limited copy of Infinity Gates, also known as "The Hottest Game of the Century!"

Even better was the fact that it was Friday which meant he had all of the weekends to play it!

Yes, life was good in the mind of James Melrose, in fact, things were going great. He was practically bouncing on his seat the entire bus ride home. He was zipping through the side doors even before they were fully open and racing down the street to get to his dorm at record speed.

The track and fields club could eat their heart out because he doubted even Usain Bolt could've matched his speed fueled by pure excitement and half a dozen cans of soda.

Kicking the door close behind him and dumping his bag by the entrance he quickly went into his room. Tom could bitch at later but he couldn't wait even a single more second. He felt like the back of his neck was itching the entire time during classes and now he could finally relieve it.

He plopped himself onto his bed and reached over to the night stall to put on his Helmet, carefully inserting the wires to the port on the back of his neck.

NeuraLink.

An implanted device that directly allowed one to stream the web with their mind. The days of large chunky computer or laggy connections were long gone. It was also thanks to this invention that one could truly experience VR games like never before, allowing all the sight, smell, and sound of the game to be felt with unprecedented realism.

It was also why parental control was so much stricter now for the more... Adult...sites. But that was an entirely different can of worms that he was willing to get into at the moment.

With a reverence that would not look out of place from a Priest holding onto the Holy Bible, he carefully retrieves a small chip from his back pocket. Barely the size of a quarter, one would hardly think that this was something that contained an entire virtual world- no multiverse in and of itself.

With a mad grin, he promptly inserted it... and fell flat on his face.

His legs were on the bed while his cheeks kissed the floor. He would surely be sore in the morning as his body collapsed while his mind traversed the NeuroNet.

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He opened his eyes to an entirely new location. Gone was the wooden flooring, the small dorm room with only a bed and a nightstand.

Now he was sat upon a golden throne, the armrest two lions roaring out in anger. A drum stick was in his right hand, turkey going by the smell and a cup of red wine in his left. Torches lit up the room from all around and there was an opening in the ceiling allowing the light of the moon, or rather moons, to shine down with violet light. Two words.

Holy. Shit!

This was the freaking coolest loading screen/character creation page ever! Man, two seconds in and he was already blown away by the details. He took a small bite, then another, and then another. It was incredible, his mind knew it wasn't real, but he felt more full already.

As he stared at the sky he noticed the two moons slowly converge in the sky as if in an eclipse. His patience was rewarded when a beam of light shot down towards him as soon as the two overlapped. floating within it was a stone tablet

User Name: ...

You already bet your asses he knew what he wanted his name to be, it was on his mind all day after all.

"Merlin!"