There was only 12 hours left until the new groundbreaking fully immersive virtual reality massively multiplayer online game.Universe Lithalris, was opening. The game technically has 10 hours until you can log in, and in those 2 hour timeframe you can do character creation and read on beginner guides and wait until the game is fully open. Adam was excited to go to sleep and wake up to log in, but he has ruined his sleep schedule long ago and isnt going to fall alseep for atleast another hour, so he takes to playing his favorite MOBA game, league of champions, until he is tired enough to go to sleep. Adam plays game after game and only after seeing the clock go by an hour, decides to take matters into his own hands. sighing with frustration that time is flowing so slowly, Adam walks into his bathroom and reaching into the medicine cabinet behind the mirror and takes out a bottle of muscle relaxants and downs them with a glass of water before laying in bed while the pills take the intended effect and slowly he starts being brought to sleep.
The next day Adam woke up to the startling sound of beeping coming from his alarm clock alarming him it was mid-day. In a rushed frenzy, Adam quickly threw on a black band shirt and some sweatpants before chugging down some cereal like a savage. Adam couldn't be late to character creation, as the details mentioned on the website posted that character creation may not be easy and that all races will have a quest to become that race. The website gave the example of goblins and said that if you wanted to be a goblin, you would have to put together a working bear trap to prove you are crafty enough to be one. Adam had his eyes set on being the dragonfolk race, and did not know what the quest entailed or what he would have to do, so In a big hurry, Adam ran back to his room and got into metallic pod before putting on a helmet and pressing the red button with an on icon, "Shit, I cant believe I slept for so long, I already lost 10 minutes because i woke up as soon as the character creation opened."
Before Adam could have another though, a voice rang out and said "Welcome to Universe Lilthalris, Please enter a username and we will walk you through the character creation process.". After some thought, a devious grin crept up Adam mouth as he entered the username "Supreme Shaman" and pressed enter, and to his surprise the username was available.
"Welcome, Supreme Shaman, Here in the gallary you will see portraits of yourself as different races. There are over fifty to choose from, so choose wisely. If you have any questions directly ask the portrait and they will respond.". Adam was amazed as the system finished saying this, and a wall full of large portraits emerged in front of him, and he looked amazed as he saw all the versions of himself. On the wall he could see himself with horns, cat ears, a halo, and even with antennae. After careful thought, Adam asked the portrait of himself which was clearly him, but with a granite-y texture. "Do you know if there is a dragon race? i am having trouble finding them.".
The game forums had limited knowledge, as the developers wanted the game to be discovered and knowledge to be shared between players to incentivize discovery and exploration. With the limited knowledge of the races the game forum had though, Adam was able to see a brief description of each race, including the dragonfolk race which had caught his eye. The short description available on the game forum had detailed the dragonfolk, with limited information about how dragonfolk start with slightly higher strength and constitution scores, at the cost of some dexterity but dragonfolk also came in differing scale colors, which changes which breath magic the dragon had and interesting bonuses. Green dragons had acid, dark green had poison, red had fire, and blue had water. The part which Adam focused on though was the dark green dragons, as the poison they could breathe had a lower base damage than fire breath or other breath attacks, but had a damage over time effect.
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"There is, but dont bother, i'm sure playing a golem will be far more enjoyable." The golem version of Adam said, then continuing "We can offer you the skills [Metallic Body] and [Iron Constitution] which could make you the strongest defender, far better than any dragon could be!". A portrait of a smaller, green, and grotesque Adam responded "Golem? Do you think he is a some muscle-bound fool? Im sure he would ratyher be an intelligent goblin". The goblin Adam looked at Adam and rambled on, "Don't you want [Tinkering] and [Trap Creation]? You can set up traps your enemies will fall into, and gain the upper hand in battle through craftiness and your own smarts."
Before Adam could respond to the goblin, A pointy eared elf Adam joined in and tried telling adam not to be a savage and to join the noble elves, then a short, rotund, bearded presumably dwarf Adam dismissed the Elf, and tried telling Adam to be a Dwarf, followed by Adam after Adam starting to argue and talking over eachother. Adam's ears were deemed useless for trying to find the dragonfolk, as all he could hear was bickering so he slowly tuned them out into background noise while his eyes darted around looking for the dragonfolk class.
After a minute of searching through, Adam found the dragonfolk portrait, with the dragon Adam in it nodding off, almost taking a nap during all this commotion. Adam called out to the painting, and when he did every other painting on the wall vanished, and the portrait of the dragon became enlarged to his size.
"Hey, are you awake? I would like to become a dragonfolk.". The dragonfolk opened his eyes slowly and looked at Adam, "You, a human wants to be a dragon? Maybe in a million years. I will have you know you will have a much higher success rate if you choose another classes quest, as the dragonfolk are one of five classes whose race quest is B rank!". Adam pondered over his words for a second, before responding "Give me any challenge you have, I am becoming a dragon whether or not you want me to be one.". The dragonfolk laughed at this, and slowly exited the painting he was encased in, withdrawing a scimitar from the sheath he had on his belt.
[New Quest Added - Challenge of the Dragonfolk]
The Dragonfolk are a mighty people with many advantages, and you must prove able if you would like to be one, in saying you would like to be a dragonfolk you are accepting a challenge to meet the requirements of one. If you are able to successfully beat your own Dragonfolk form, you may become a dragonfolk yourself.
B-rank quest
On quest success - Access to dragonfolk race, access to dragonfolk starting areas, access to dragonfolk classes.
On quest failure - Forbidden from dragonfolk race, Dragonfolk hold -15 opinion of you upon character creation
Cold sweat rolled down Adam, the system had given him a quest to fight a dragon version of himself, and he didnt even have a weapon?. Adam made a few steps back with clenched fists, and got into what he could only imagine a fighting stance for an unarmed combatant should look like, Adam was ready for the challenge.