Hi there! This is actually my second fan fiction but I wasn't satisfied with my first one so that got scrapped. So, read through this one please and I hope you like it! -Kalil
Chapter 1 - Suited
We had done it. We had finally done it. We had created the 'Full experience' helmet for Minecraft. It was like a virtual reality helmet, except it took into account what we were telling our bodies to do in real life, thus making the experience much more realistic. It had taken us almost two years from when we had started in 2015 and was now the 15th of November 2016. We had four developers of the helmet, whilst we also had three developers of the modpack that would work with the helmet. Our helmet wouldn't work with vanilla Minecraft. It was designed so that it could only work on a certain server at first.
However, although five of the seven on the team had good intentions, the other two did not. We just wanted a new way to play the game and with our discoveries whilst developing the helmet, we could do so much more than just play Minecraft.
The launch date for the server was the 1st of January 2017 or New Year's day as most people called it. There were just 1000 helmets available across the UK with another 2000 in the US, as we projected a larger market over there. Of course, some were set aside for personal friends and supporters of the company. So overall, there were just 3500 helmets in circulation. They sold out in just over an hour and everyone waited for the launch date. The first step was to download the modpack, this took about an hour on average connections due to the size of the pack and was done one week before the launch date to ensure everyone with a helmet had the modpack in time.
At nearly midnight on the 31st of December 2016, we initiated the server boot files. Luckily, as we had tested this over and over again, it wouldn't have crashed but many people were sceptical. Everyone had their helmets ready, and we were online.
There were just 26 people in our office, us and our close friends. Our PCs were plugged locally into the server to ensure the best connection available to us and we started. The menus were a lot different in our pack, as you had to physically click the button on the menu. Our helmets had blocked all nerve control to our body and re-routed it into the helmet and projected all sounds and visuals directly into our brains. This was it, the most interactive Minecraft experience ever, but nothing ever goes correctly with such an ambitious project.
The two of our team that had been against the use of our helmets had changed the way the mods and helmets worked. The helmets were fitted with a small microwave transmitter, if you took it off or disconnected from the server. You were dead. The mods however didn't allow you to leave the server because they removed that function all together. The two developers that had done this had turned our project, into a tool of a madman. We didn't find this out, until it was too late.
We logged into the server, admiring the large landscape that had been built by a team who we paid with free access to the helmets. It was glorious, the towns looked divine. There were many villages, towns and castles in the many kingdoms of our server, which was another unique selling point. The clock hit midnight in Britain and the people that had bought the helmets flooded into the server, almost crashing it. Due to the high bandwidth allowance, the high CPU clock speed and RAM amounts, it just about stayed up. 3500 players on one single server at one time, this was more than ambitious. This was crazy and seemed too good to be true. I attempted to tell my body to hit the tree I stood in front of. Whack, whack, whack. One log popped off the tree and a feeling of intense happiness flooded through my body. We had done it. We had finally done it!
