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Chapter 1:The First Step Taken

Chapter 1:The First Step Taken

John sees black everywhere around him and stares into it as it extends into nothingness.

“Hello” (Voice)

“Hello?” (John) John then sees a floating transparent text box in front of him.

Please chose your avatar name

“Spiral”(John)

Please chose your gender.Male, female or neutral

“Male”

Please chose your raceonly 3 races are currently availableHumanElfDwarf

John now sits and wonders, and asks the voice a question instead.

“Mysterious voice is it possible to change races after my avatar is created?” (John)

“... Yes, but not in the sense that you can become an entirely different race, I can not tell you more then this as it would ruin the fun.” (Voice)

“Alright, then I'll pick human, with a bit of high elf blood if possible otherwise any magic focused elf would do” (John)

“... Yes, I can grant you that race, but beware your mixed blood will possibly change how the residences see you” (Voice)

“Alright, I'll choose that” (John)

Please choose the appearance of your avatar

Johns see a replicate of him in front of him with short hair, and thinks “so that's how I look.”

“Can you access the information outside?” (John)

“... Yes” (Voice)

“Can you look up the anime character Judai from Yu-Gi-Oh GX and give me his hair style, also make it red on black” (John)

“... Done...” (Voice)

“Can you make the ears less pointy?” (John)

“... Done...” (Voice)

“Seems good I'll take this” (John)

Please choose your starting location

“Tirione” (John)

“Welcome to Fantasy Road” (Voice)

John then just appears in front of a fountain and is in awe at how real everything feels. He can hear the sound of water from the fountain, the air hitting his face, and it felt like his body was actually part of this world. The only thought that he had at that moment was that this place was amazing, he soon snapped out of his daze and started to think of what to do next. The first thing he thought of was the first thing all VR novels did, which was looking at his stats.

“Status” (John)

Then a transparent screen appears before him.

[quart=Name,Class]Spiral,N/A[/quart][quart=Level,Race]1,Human/High Elf[/quart][quart=Health,Health Regen/Min]215,11.2[/quart][quart=Mana,Mana Regen/Min]484,22.9[/quart][quart=Stamina,Stamina Regen/Min]64,12.8[/quart][quart=Strength,Agility]8,10[/quart][quart=Wisdom,Intelligence]12,12[/quart][quart=Stamina,Vitality]8,8[/quart][quart=Fame,Infamy]0,0[/quart]

Stat Window

Dexterity

12

* As you are part High Elf light magic will do 15% less damage to you

* As you are part High Elf dark magic will deal 15% more damage to you

* As you are part Human your ability to adapt to any melee fighting style will receive no bonus

* As you are part High Elf your ability to control mana is improved slightly

As John looks at his stats he goes “well it could be worse, at least I still get a bonus to mana control,” then he hears a ringing sound that seems to originate directly in his ear. John thinks for a moment, and goes “this has to be the whisper function.” He thinks of answering the call and was about to actually say “answer call” when the ringing stops and he hears someone's voice.

“Finally you answered the call” (Voice)

“Who are you?” (Spiral)

“Really you don't know? I'm Jason or you can call me YamiUsagi” (YamiUsagi)

“I have to ask why did you go with YamiUsagi instead?” (Spiral)

“I was thinking during the creation process that Eizenberg just didn't sound right, and for some unknown reason I couldn't decide on a name, so I thought why not RagingTable?” (YamiUsagi)

“I see... wait what!?” (Spiral)

“Yea I was going to go with RagingTable, cause it sounded so awesome but then I thought maybe I should go with a more cute but deadly name instead? I was looking around that abyss and then I thought why not YamiUsagi? So I became YamiUsagi though I feel like I'm missing something in my name...” (YamiUsagi)

“I don't possibly see what you could possibly be missing in your name.” (Spiral)

“Yea I was thinking of remaking my character and adding xNaruto to it, imagine YamiUsagixNaruto man it would be so freaken awesome.” (YamiUsagi)

“Wait what? please no! don't remake and add xNaruto. I think YamiUsagi is a great name, it's so freaken awesome that you should most definitely not remake your character” (Spiral)

“My cute but deadly name is awesome isn't it?” (YamiUsagi)

“Yes it is indeed most awesome, anyways did you and everyone else make their character already?” (Spiral)

“Yes, already have them on my friend's list since I ran into them in town. I told them that I would tell you of their names when I managed to whisper you.” (YamiUsagi)

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“Alright, so everyone is doing their own thing until we group up later?” (Spiral)

“Pretty much just tried to message you again, and it finally went through” (YamiUsagi)

“I'm amazed their isn't another Spiral that gets called instead” (Spiral)

“Yea it seems the game knows who you are actually trying to reach, since you can't call random names or random strangers you have no clue exists or not. It's quite amazing that it the game can do this at the same time it's quite scary that it can do this” (YamiUsagi)

“Yea it is, but nothing we can do about it since we are in it's mercy at this point, Anyways what you doing right now?” (Spiral)

“I'm just outside killing rabbits” (YamiUsagi)

“How?” (Spiral)

“With pieces of bark I see lying around, you wouldn't believe what you could do with world objects” (YamiUsagi)

“I see well, I sort of want to figure out how to use magic so I'm going to head to library, since I want to try something out later in the game. I might need to leech off someone's gold for awhile before I start earning gold myself” (Spiral)

“Well if your out of food I'll buy you that rye bread you find in your inventory, shit is hard and taste like bark but I mean its better then nothing. Water can just be drawn from the fountain since it's actually clean enough to be consumed.” (YamiUsagi)

“Well I'm off to hunt more rabbits but before I leave add me YamiUsagi, DarkMerc, Kira, and YOLOSWAG to your friends list. See Ya” (YamiUsagi)

John then stops hearing his friend YamiUsagi's voice, and then tries to add them to his friends list.

“Add friend YamiUsagi, DarkMerc, Kira, YOLOSWAG” (Spiral)

Friend requests sent to Players

YamiUsagi has accepted your request

DarkMerc has accepted your request

Kira has accepted your request

YOLOSWAG has accepted your request

John hears a ring again, and thinks of answering the call when the call stops ringing.

“Whats Up Hommie” (YOLOSWAG)

“Whats Up Man, why you so YOLOSWAG?” (Spiral)

“Why you so Spiral?” (YOLOSWAG)

“Hahaha yea so what you doing?” (Spiral)

“Walking around town, dude town is amazing!” (YOLOSWAG)

“I see, do you know where the library is, I'm at the spawn fountain” (Spiral)

“Yea its basically towards that large castle you see and some where east as you get closer to the entrance. You can't really miss it since its quite a large building” (YOLOSWAG)

“Thanks I might need to leech some coins from someone till I farm after my library experience” (Spiral)

“Yea sure, going to continue exploring see yea” (YOLOSWAG)

John instantly hears two different rings now and wonders how to answer both of them at once and as he tries both rings stop. John then started heading north towards the library once he heard the voice on the other end.

“Yo game is great” (DarkMerc)

“Dude why you so late” (Kira)

“Yo whats going on how I hear DarkMerc?” (Kira)

“Yea not sure I tried answering both your calls at once and this is what happened” (Spiral)

“O I see good to know we can just do group calls like this” (Kira)

“Yea so what you guys doing?” (DarkMerc)

“I'm walking towards the library at this moment” (Spiral)

“I see reading books... Too hard I rather just look at power points and listen to lectures” (Kira)

“I agree” (DarkMerc)

“Well I want to learn what is actually magic in this world, and how to use it so I'm heading towards the library” (Spiral)

“Yea tell us what you learn, but try not to confuse us with your terrible teaching method” (Kira)

“So what are you guys doing right now?” (Spiral)

“I'm at the training hall smacking straw dolls with wooden weapons, it's quite fun” (DarkMerc)

“I'm shooting stuff at straw dolls at a different training hall from DarkMerc” (Kira)

“I see, well I have to just say why Kira?” (Spiral)

“I was thinking maybe Gundam since I had the scene of Setsuna going GUNDAM over and over again in my mind, but then I just started to imagine Kira going around slaying everything in this fantasy world.” (Kira)

“I see, though how are you going to live up the that Kira you imagined in this fantasy world?” (Spiral)

“I'll think of something, if it doesn't work out I'll just not live up to my name. Can't do what you can't do” (Kira)

“Well guys no one is asking why John named himself Spiral, so I'm going to ask why Spiral?” (DarkMerc)

“No real reason except I felt that calling myself the name I normally use would be weird if I was going to craft anything in the future, and I thought why not a spiral sounds good enough and spirals are quite awesome” (Spiral)

“Alright, so no one is going to ask why I'm DarkMerc?” (DarkMerc)

“Yea no one is going to ask since you always use this or that avatar name” (Spiral)

“So messed guys, all so messed anyways I'm going back to smacking this straw doll without your voices. Anything before I leave?” (DarkMerc)

“Yea I might be leeching off someone's coins before I actually leave the library, since I don't think I'm going to farm for quite awhile” (Spiral)

“Alright, anything else Kira?” (DarkMerc)

“No just know that your only going to get that rye bread were eating, since we are all poor” (Kira)

“Alright I think I see the library, I'm ending the call see ya guys.”(Spiral)

John hangs up the call and then walks towards the huge building with two pillars carved with the image of the sphinx on it. Talk about presence the two pillar felt like they could ward off small animals just from the image. John walks through the large wooden door, and sees a lady in her 40s at the counter, and walks towards her.

“Hello how may I help you?” (Lady)

“I would like to read books on how magic is made and used” (Spiral)

“Do you have a library card?” (Lady)

“No...” (Spiral)

“It costs 10 silver for a library card, and if you want a private area to research in it costs 2 silver per a day” (Lady)

“I don't have any silver or copper as of now... it is possible to work here to get a library card?” (Spiral)

“Let me ask the other staff members first” (Lady)

The Lady then walks toward the sea of books and disappears within it. As John watches her leave he just sits on one of the empty chairs located next to the counter and waits. About 3 minutes later John see the Lady walking out of the sea of books, with a male teenager around 20 years old.

“He will help you figure out what your suppose to do to earn the 10 silver for your library card, well good luck” (Lady smiling at them)

“Thank you I will not disappoint your expectations” (Spiral bows and follows the teenager)

“Well we're just going to put back the books manually, since the head master isn't in town” (Teenager sighing)

“Why are you sighing?” (Spiral)

“You will see soon enough” (Teenager)