Well here goes. I've had some positive feedback from my peers about this concept. A look at SAO from the other side of the coin, the people on the outside wanting to hack in, the people who had to witness their friends, siblings, husbands, wives all trapped in this world.

This chapter is intended to be a pilot, feedback from this will be the deciding factor if I continue this endeavor or not.

Love it or hate it, I appreciate the time taken to look over my work! Thank you!


7:30AM on a Monday, Christopher Motiva, a young college graduate of 24 this year, he looks over at his phone that's got its cheesy cheery alarm tone going off, silencing the alarm he sits up and turns on the TV, rubbing his eyes he stood up and looking outside his City apartment, a small city of Portland, Maine, He walks over to his door and sees the Wall Street Journal exactly where it was every morning, chucking it on the counter he starts his morning routine, shower, shave, coffee on, khaki pants and polo shirt proclaiming his position in the company he worked for "Systems Engineer", take coffee and out the door.

He takes his laptop bag and gets in his car and arrives at 8:45 at IDEXX Laboratories, walking in he's greeted by various members of his department, and he takes up his seat in his office. He logs into his computer and uses a script to launch his arsenal of utilities across the eight monitors in pairs of two in front of him. Looking over system log aggregators, network load reports, system log averages, countless emails, work orders, and his calendar. Outlook pops open a window "Meet with DevOps 12:00PM"

He didn't like it, he carries his laptop with him down to the developer's think tank. He never liked devs in the first place, Chris was much more at home with the nitty gritty systems, working with the cables, the machines and the brains that made what these sloppy coders made run. He sat in basically a beanbag and groaned as he opened his laptop and typed some emails as he listened passively into the talk that was being given. Some new virtual reality helmet, a thing for gamers "Oh great, more bandwidth hogging". He started listening in more when the talk shifted to how immersive this helmet was, it tapped into the nervous system to provide the ultimate level of realism. "What about bugs…. You really want to be that close to people's… brains really, in the wild" He said to the Man in jeans and a t-shirt talking, he could feel the eyes of the room upon him as he waited for his reply. "We've done plenty of testing Mr. Motiva, run it through debug logging and if you find a flaw in beta, let us know" He moved on and Chris did exactly that, opening up the DevOps server console and editing to put that program in debug logging and waited for the log file to appear as he listened in.

"This will go live this weekend, Chris, I need you to have the hardware ready to handle the load. I want everyone on full A-Game let's iron any last glitches out and let's light this candle!" The group of coders cheered and went to their work, Chris stayed behind and looked his logs over and looked to the man in t-shirt and blue jeans with a critical eye "Why don't I see any logout requests in this version?"