Disclaimer: I do not own Log horizon

Authors note: So yeah. I've just got total titanium layered writers block with HP and the Hunt so I'm trying my hand at another story. I finished watching Log horizon, loved it and decided to write a fan fiction. If you enjoy this and have any suggestions/advise/criticism please leave that in a review. Hope you enjoy.

The clock next to my computer slowly ticked towards midday. My head was resting in my hands staring at the clock, waiting for the hour and minute hand to strike twelve. At twelve the massive update 'novasphere pioneers' would implement allowing players on to the servers.

Despite it being light outside the curtains were closed and the lights were off, I was predicting a full day of gaming ahead while I got used to the vastly changed game. It was quite exciting really. Elder tale was an amazing game yet with half of its players now having reached the max level its developers had to introduce new content to keep the crown as biggest and best MMO. So the new update was introducing massive amounts of new items, quests, NPCs, monsters, areas and raising the level cap ten levels from 90 to a 100. I was looking forward to getting back in to it. A knock came at the door.

"Come in!" I called. My Dad opened the door and poked his head through.

"****, I'm heading off now. There's food in the fridge for dinner tonight and the weekend. I should be back by Monday night." I nod my head in acknowledgement, not looking away from the clock which showed only four minutes were left.

"I wish you wouldn't spend so much time on that game. Your addicted to it" he said in frustration.

"I wish you wouldn't spend so much time to at work. You're addicted to that. We all have our guilty pleasures Dad." I said finally looking at him.

His face had fallen and I immediately felt guilty. His workaholic tendencies were what drove his and my mum's marriage in to the rocks and drove a wedge between me and him. He had tried spending more time with me but he soon relapsed and if anything spent more time at the office. After being appointed the British ambassador to Japan he had embraced the workaholic culture the country possessed. I barley saw him nowadays.

"Well, I'll see you on Monday. Goodbye ****, love you"

"Bye" I deliberately left the last bit unsaid feeling suddenly irrationally spiteful. Dad hung at the door for a second then closed it and left. I heard him get in to his car outside and get driven off. I sighed and held my head in my hands.

'I shouldn't have done that' I was being childish and now I'd feel guilty for the rest of the night. I shoved the incident from my mind and concentrated on the screen, determined not to allow anything ruining my return to my favourite game. I looked at my character slowly revolving on the screen; my avatar was pretty average mostly. Six foot height with dark brown, crew cut hair and hazel eyes. I looked at the stats:

Japanese server

Name: Caerwyn

Level: 90

Race: Human

Class: Blade Master

I looked at the class remembering the 7th update. It was an unremarkable update by all standards but it had one unique feature, titled 'End of Sakoku' which had luckily released as I'd had arrived in Japan. Its main purpose was to allow people to travel between servers to face people from other countries in PVP and limited PVE. It also however allowed you to transfer your character permanently to another server. I had taken advantage of this to transfer my character over when I had moved to Japan.

Though the majority of classes were the same all over the servers of Elder tale, each had three classes which usually conformed to historical groups. Japan had Samurai, Monks and Kannagi. The northern European equivalent was the Knight, Blade master and Priest. The Blade master was similar to the monk, it had the high evasion rate and to the ability to chain combo's with the short cool downs. However the blade master could equip medium armour and bladed weapons increasing its damage. To balance the class, the Blade master didn't share the extremely high HP of the Monk and had a medium amount of HP. It relied on its evasion skills to stay alive.

It was a somewhat controversial decision to allow 'foreign' classes to move between servers and upset the class system but it was eventually accepted for adding a degree unpredictability it put in the game and to mix things up.

There was only a minute left now until I went back in to Elder tale. I thought about my friends in the Debauchery tea party and the brilliant times we had had together before the group disbanded. 'I wonder where they are now?', it would be nice to see them again. You could make true friends in Elder tales. Anyone could make a beautiful avatar in a game, personality and ability was what truly shone through.

The countdown hit zero and the log in options suddenly coloured where they had previously been greyed out. I hesitated, the cursor over hovering over the 'log in' button. 'Will anyone even log on for this? Or have they all moved on with their lives?' I wondered. My big brother, Alex, who was back in the UK would be playing I knew but he would be on the North European server, and neither of us would be meeting up for some time while we enjoyed the new update.

I dismissed my hesitation. If I had had such an attitude before I would never have met the tea party and the friends I made afterwards. There were people to meet, monsters to beat, loot to acquire and new horizons to see.

I hit the Log in button.

Authors note: Ok so a short intro chapter. I tried to make it a little longer but honestly there's little you can write about before you get in to game itself. The next chapter shall be along shortly.

I found the whole class thing quite hard for several reasons. As my character is coming from another server I wanted to give them something unique that would make them stand out. However Log horizon is built on a delicate system of classes that all have their weakness and strengths, obviously too make Shiroe an important character with his strategy skill.

As such making a new class is hard because of that and it's easy to make them too strong despite thinking that you're not. Basically the blade master is a mainly a dps, similar to the swashbuckler. If anything frankly I think the Monk is OP though. Apparently only having cloth armour makes them weaker but they have ludicrously high HP so it doesn't even matter.

Oh and I couldn't be bothered to think of a name beyond the one he had in game and I didn't want to distract you so **** is whatever you want to be why'll he'll be called Caerwyn in game.

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