Message of the Day – Welcome to Persona: Immersion! Contact the support desk at your local reality hub if you need any assistance!

"Welcome to the reality hub! New players, please head to the support desk to receive your Immersion license," you hear from an intercom as you first walk into your local reality hub. A good shiver runs up your spine as you think about the immense jump in technology something like this must have taken. Crowds of people walk around the huge lobby. People were heading to multiple places in the gray and white tech-colored room. You imagine the people heading away from the main lobby's giant counter were heading into back rooms to reality links.

With excitement coursing through you, you head up to the line to the support desk. Excited murmurs fill the room. Despite the long line, you make it towards the front fairly quickly. Thank goodness, considering you started to get jealous of the future players who rushed out of the lobby. You remember that the Kirijo group was a major sponsor for the development team for Immersion, so it made sense that an efficient staff would be stationed at a reality hub. It also does a good job to explain the amazing technology for 2012.

"Next!" a female attendant shouts from a now-empty spot at the support desk counter. In a simple exchange, you pay for a subscription to Immersion and receive a key card. The key card has a picture of you taken from a small camera the staff lady's computer along with directions for the floor, hallway, and room that you need to go to in order to find your reality link.

You quickly head away from the lobby heading for the elevator. A quick gesture prompts the people already in the elevator to hold it for you as you give a light jog and nod in appreciation. You smile, though a reality check tells you that with the anonymity of an online game, virtual reality or not, there were bound to be all sorts of griefers and trolls. With reality hubs all over the world opening, it wasn't as if it'd be easy to find anyone either.

As you reach your floor, you round the corners quickly, trying hard not to bump into other people entering and leaving rooms. When you finally find your room, you enter to see a numerous reality links and a staff member sitting at a desk, giant wires protruding from his computer setup to the multiple reality links in the room. He gives you a smile and points at a reality link that's empty. The device looked like something straight from a sci-fi movie. Before you make a move to touch it, the staff member gets up and hands you quick pair of glasses with ear-buds hanging off of the ends.

"They help compliment the reality link," he explains as he presses a few buttons on the side of the reality link, opening the glass portion of the pod. "Just lean back into it and we'll do the rest."

Though somewhat skeptical, you listen to the man and you step in and lean back into the pod after putting on the glasses he gave you. The faint hum of the computers died out as the glass cover lowered back down.

"You ok in there?" a voice plays in your ear. You instantly recognize it as the staff member who helped you when you entered the room. "I'll set up the virtual link shortly. Your body might feel numb throughout, but you'll still be able to log out and regain full control. As a backup, I stay out here and monitor all players."

You reply with a quick "ok," not sure if he could actually hear you or now. After a few brief moments of silence, your glasses start to shine lightly and to the side of your head, a visor extends over your eyes, presumably from a slot hidden on the back of the pod. The side of the visor that you can see has a monitor on it and it starts to shine brightly, almost blinding.

You feel your body go numb and you start to sense that your body is picking up sensations that weren't in the reality link. Virtual reality set in as the bright light faded. You open your eyes slowly to be met with a dark blue velvet room, full of computer servers to both sides. You are sitting in a chair, made of the same soft velvet.

"Welcome to the Velvet Room," an eerie voice coming from an old looking man says, "And welcome to Persona: Immersion. I am Igor and I am pleased to meet you."

Igor waves his hand and a light blue transparent screen appears in front of you. On it are blank fields that ask you for information.

"We are shaped by what we perceive ourselves as. What do you perceive yourself as, my dear guest? Answer and go forth on your journey, wherever it may take you. We shall meet again," Igor says as the Velvet Room around you, and him along with it, fade away to black.

It's only you, the chair you're sitting in, and the small screen in front of you. You grab a corner and pull at it, noting that it was just like a window on a computer, stretching and shrinking at your command. You tap on of the blank fields and a virtual keyboard, again tinted with a transparent light blue, appears in front of you. It didn't look like you were getting out of the area until you filled in the info.

That feeling of excitement rose again as you knew that this was the only step between you and the world of Immersion.

Hope you're as hyped for this story as I am! I can't wait to see what kind of cast the awesome readers of the Persona fandom give me!

This fanfic receives characters through PM ONLY.

The OC form is on my profile page. The main reason is because a year or two back, Pokémon OC stories got taken down because OC forms boosted review counts, among other reasons. As such, even if the Persona fandom isn't quite as strictly moderated, I try to keep it in habit to do it the "right" way.

A few notes. If you didn't notice, this story takes place in the P3/P4 universe. You'll see this a lot more as a major plot mechanic as the story goes on. Along with that, expect the mature story-telling that Persona's known for. By that, I mean that you shouldn't expect everyone to be friends and for everyone to live all happy and good beats evil and characters to all live and all that jazz. Persona's amazing for having depth, and I'll try my hardest to respect that form of story-telling.

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