The pair got off a bus to stop, as they walked into a PC cafe, Gyun sipped on his macchiato "pussy".
Juwon glared at him as he walked up to the counter to pay the fee, "hey I just don't want to be breaking the law, besides I said I'd pay for today."
"excuses excuses," Gyun said as he pouted a bit as he finished his macchiato and tossed it in the trash. "Either way I haven't played before so you're going to have to help me, I don't even remember the last time I played a PC game much less a VR game."
"2 hours please.....thank you, and don't worry I'll explain it to you and help make your character, Reality Quest has been popular for the past month since it's been out. You mentioned you wanted to make some friends on the ride over here, well this will definitely help it's the hottest game this year and almost everybody's playing it. It only came out a little over a month ago. Here you go" he said as he passed Gyun a paper with a barcode on it he got from the cashier.
"here, scan it on the scanner on the console"
Before continuing as they walked towards a separate room. "I personally don't play it a lot but I'm pretty good and I know enough about it that I'm not left out on any conversations about it."
Gyun pulled out one of the lollipops he'd taken from the duo back at school. He took the wrapper off and popped it into his mouth. "So how good are you?"
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"I'm level 67 right now"
"Is that good?"
"It's fucking great! especially if you count the fact I've played less than 34 hours on my account, I'm nearly ranker level at that point."
"Ok, sounds fun I guess"
"It is, if I didn't have to study so much to keep my grades up I would play Reality Quest way more but it is what it is I guess"
Juwon led Gyun to a pair of large open semi-capsules with comfy-looking chairs inside with a headset connected to bulky wires that went into a large box. in a separate room with curtains in between the capsules to divide the room with bulky helmets on the chair.
"scan your paper on the reader right there," Juwon said as he pointed out a red light on the edge of the semi-capsule
Scanning it before he sat in the seat of the capsule
"Ok Gyun sit down for a moment, I'll turn off the game audio immersion so you can hear me since I'll guide you through what you should do to start an optimal account for your play style."
Gyun got a bit nervous as he saw the helmet whirred and started up, he tried to stall by asking questions. "You said this was a VR game right? But what's it about?"
"Well it's your typical sci-fi setting; spaceships, intergalactic wars and empires, aliens, alien beasts, laser guns but it's pretty grim dark. I guess you could say it's like Warhammer but not as dark and less gory but there's still blood but there's not any organs or anything. Though if damage to vital organs will be factored into how much damage is dealt per strike. Ok here you go "
Juwon passed him a helmet, "Put it on, since the helmet connects to your nervous system and brain it can read your intended movements, but for auditory responses like if you are talking to someone you have to physically talk and the microphone in the helmet will pick it up. Don't worry about the sound outside the capsules muffle all noise inside and outside.
"Ok" Gyun's voice had lost the nervousness he was a bit excited about this as he put on the helmet
"Ok now slide and adjust the helmet until it connects"
"How will I know if, herk Ugh! Gyun had only adjusted the helmet a bit so the back was more snug against the back of his neck. But now it felt like his whole body was cramping.
"Hey listen to my voice, that's just the machine trying to get a feel for your movements. Just ride it out, only lasts a few seconds."
As Juwon said it subsided after a few seconds, and Gyun was greeted with entering a purely white world, Gyun found that he could not move, nor that he had any form.
Soon a figure of an old bearded man with an aura of dignity appeared clad in white robes and holding a golden staff.