Hello everyone, this is my first time writing a fan fic and I'll be glad if people tell me constructive criticism. Also just at a side note my name is not John nor is my last name Moto.
John Moto was an new college graduate from some random University of California that was neither ranked one of the best or too low to be recognized, his mother was Japanese and his father was Chinese and he was about 5' 11 which was quite tall given his nationality. John once asked his father why they named him “John” apparently it came from their childhoods days of watching too many T.V. shows, movies and animes that had some character named John in it. Apparently his father just thought it was an awesome name and if someday he had a boy he would name him John and thus that's how he got his name. His father also told him why his last name was from his mother's side and not his father's, and that was because he just thought “Moto” sounded more awesome then “Lee” though John thought they both sounded just as awesome.
John had just returned home from his college life, and was going to start looking for a job after he took a decent break. As he was unpacking his stuff, his cellphone rang and to his surprise it was one of his old high school buddies.
“Whats up Jason, why you call me?” (John)
“Yo didn't you hear the new VRMMO game called Fantasy Road is going to be on sale soon!” (Jason)
“O yea, I totally forgot that it was coming out, and why was this so important you had to call me again?” (John)
The reason why John asked this was because normally they chat through some VOIP called SKYPE, and only on some extremely odd or important circumstance did they actually use the phone.
“Dude did you forget we were all going to start the game when it came out with David, Jimmy, and Derek?” (Jason)
“I totally forgot, my bad” (John)
“You at least ordered the capsule and the game already right?” (Jason)
“O yea now that you mentioned it I pre-ordered it with you guys like a year ago” (John)
“Yes you did you idiot, and its coming out tomorrow” (Jason)
“O Crap really? Dam I got to finish unpacking soon then, cause I heard that capsule was huge” (John)
“Yea something around a full size bed after assembly” (Jason)
“Dude I'm going to pack up first man, I'll go on SKYPE when I'm done” (John)
“Alright though I think everyone is going to sleep to prepare for tomorrow so you should just unpack and get ready for tomorrow, since no one will be on SKYPE when your done probably” (Jason)
“Your probably right, I'll just log on into the game whenever I get the capsule tomorrow. What town did we plan to start in again?” (John)
“You serious? We planned to start in Tirione since Derek found that city had some of everything around it.” (Jason)
“Alright I'll meet you guys in the game tomorrow then? Though how am I suppose to find you guys?” (John)
“Well I'll probably be called Einzenberg thought I'm still deciding, David will probably be called DarkMerc and well for Derek and Jimmy they will probably be called … fuck it just wait for someone to find them or they will contact us” (Jason)
“Well I'll be called Spiral then, and see you guys in the game” (John)
“Wait what? Spiral? I could of sworn you would of picked … never mind whatever just contact us, since no one is going to know that other then me” (Jason)
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“Goodnight then, I'm going to finish unpacking now” (John)
“Yea, goodnight” (Jason)
John hangs up his phone and then continues to unpack his stuff again. He was finally done unpacking at around 2 am, and he took a shower and quickly went to bed afterward. His alarm sounded at around 11 am and he got up from his bed and got ready for the new VRMMO that he was expecting to arrive soon. He went to the kitchen after he was done getting ready and saw that there was a boil of noodles already made for him, as well as a giant box in the living room. He ate the boil of noodles, and then after cleaning the bowl in the sink he went to start assembling the capsule in his room. Too his surprise the pieces weren't all that heavy, and were mostly made out of plastic with the exception for the parts that were used to connect his brain to the VR world. Yesterday the reason why John forgot about the game in the first place was because he just graduated from college and had to return home and was preoccupied with unpacking when Jason called him.
The VRMMO Fantasy Road was the first of its kind, it was the crystallization of human brain research, the unending pursuit for a fantasy VR world, and military research to save on real life simulations. Though some say that this technology was being used by militaries for illegal operations, but no one really could argue that it was also one awesome toy that allowed for practically almost anything. The leading AI company Alice hired many fantasy fanatics, to help them create the ultimate AI that would create the game known as Fantasy Road. The AI was said to be able to create so much content that no group of human beings in their lifetime could possibly emulate it. Though the ability for the player to experience more time in the game then in real life was also one of the game's most appealing features.
Crono the company that created the capsule experimented on rats when they tried to extend time and found that when they tried to extend time greater then 4x the machine they used to interact with the brain goes asynchronous, and the rat just walks away from the test machine. This was known later as the theory of max time, since no one was able to prove that any live being was able to enter the VR world at time greater then 4x. The research of Crono also showed that the brain when connected to the capsule would disconnect itself when it could no longer handle the stress the capsule was putting it under and would become asynchronous to the capsule after a certain period of time. The rat in the test cases seemed to be unable to walk straight and eventually just rests on the spot and falls asleep only to get up after their brain relaxes or wakes up. There was also substantial tests conducted on humans during the alpha stages with their approval, and that resulted in the knowledge that humans also disconnected from the game after a certain period of time depending on their body's condition, and mental stress. Using this research Alice was able to warn the user when their brain was showing the early signs of mental stress high enough to disconnect them from the game, and would encourage them to log out before they experience one of the worst migraines imaginable. This knowledge was broadcast throughout all forms of media since last year to insure no one didn't know if they were going to use the capsule.
After John attached the last piece of the capsule together he presses the button that verifies that the capsule was indeed built correctly and ready to be used.
“Checking... 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%” (Capsule)
“Verifying... Done... Ready” (Capsule)
John says to himself “dam this is sorta scary... well here goes nothing.” John enters the capsule he just assembled and then presses the switch to start the machine. As he lays down on the foam inside the capsule he sees red, yellow, green and his vision disappears.