For future reference:
‘This means thinking’
“This is speaking”
(This is telepathy)
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Prologue
‘This is so unfair!’ Charles thought as he looked out the glass of his new VR-Pod. ‘I get one of the first thousand copies of Anarchy Online and this has to happen!’ Just as he was starting to get really mad another crash sounded outside the pod. ‘Shit! It sounds like the whole house is collapsing! Oh wait, It IS!!’ Charles couldn’t believe his luck. First he finally got that bonus he needed from his construction job to pay for the game after a year and a half of constant back breaking work, and then just as he finished installing the pod in his house the damn city beautification project goes and accidentally collapses some of the underground tunnels from World War Two, which apparently his apartment was located on!
If that wasn’t bad enough by the time he ran to the door, the frame had already bent and jammed the damn thing! When he ran to the windows he found that the landlord still hadn’t sent anyone to un-jam the thing despite asking for a year! And thanks to the mesh in the glass he couldn’t smash his way out.
‘Typical O’dell luck, whatever happened to the luck of the Irish! What, does it take us eating the clovers to be lucky? I knew my families luck was bad, but not killing you bad!’ Looking around for a way out, Charles remembered his new pod. ‘At least the thing should stop me from being crushed….. I hope.’ Quickly he climbed into the pod and closed it. As soon as the lid clicked into place a soft soothing voice spoke through the hidden speakers “Welcome new player, please wait as we browse your game library for any new downloads.” “I only have one download you stupid machine!” Charles screamed. “And I’ll be dead before I can even play it!”
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Just as he finished a rather long screaming session at the pod, most of which would make even navy men flinch, Charles heard a crashing sound. Looking out the glass roof of the pod, he found out that his family apparently didn’t have bad luck, they were freaking cursed! A beam from the roof of his bedroom crashed and pinned the pod door shut. If that wasn’t bad enough, the beam had knocked a rather large amount of rubble over the pods air vents.
“Well that’s just great! Of course that would happen! In all the universe of course that would happen today you stupid son of a ......” he ranted, all the while tears coming out his eyes. “.... I mean it’s just so unfair!’ After maybe 5 minutes of him trying to push off the pod lid and having a good cry, hey who was going to judge him he was a dead man, Charles took a deep breath and steeled his resolve.
‘Well I spent over 5 grand on this pod and this game and there is no way out without being crushed. If I’m going to die I am at least going to use this stupid thing, no matter how short the time is! At least when I’m in the game my conscious won’t be in my body so I won’t feel myself suffocate to death.’ With that cheery thought Charles started up the scanning sequence. It took 5 minutes to finish scanning the neural map of his brain; all the while he could actually feel the air getting thinner as the emergency air tanks depleted themselves trying to keep him alive.
‘Well let’s get this show on the road!’ “Link account batoutahell.0609 Upload to Anarchy Online!” he said, starting up his first, and last, neural upload to the first ever Virtual Reality game. Charles saw a large flash of light and felt a pulling sensation as his vision blurred and his consciousness was redirected into virtual reality.
WELCOME TO ANARCHY ONLINE
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