Today was the day that every gamer was waiting for, the day that the new VR game Sword Art Online comes out officially as a full game. I was in line with some friends waiting for the store to open so I could buy the new game with the new system that you needed to play it. So they made Sword Art Online a game only compatible with their VR system called the NerveGear. So as soon as the doors opened a line of gamers who were camping outside and parents of gamers who had school and college students. As soon as I got home from the store I went to my room and immediately began to set up my NerveGear. Once I was finished calibrating and setting up the Virtual Reality helmet I put in the game and said "Link Start."
I then felt a rush as inside of the aluminum and iron helmet on the screen came a white light followed by multicolored circles that said "Logging in" and "Initialising game."
Then, when the white light has subsided I found myself standing in front of a large cathedral and the entrance to a medieval town called "The Town of Beginnings." As I took a minute to get used to the new world that I have found myself in. I had a general idea of what to base my build around, but I took a look in my inventory just to further my decision. After deciding my focus I looked around at the people in the town. I saw one person leaving the area with a friend who looked like he needed a tutorial for getting to the tutorial. (I'm not God, that's Kirito. I'm just a dick.) I then decided to follow to see what the person's name was so I could party up with them later or in case I met up with them later.
I trailed them, for no real reason, until they got to a plains with a large group of boars. I decided to wait behind a couple trees for them to finish. After seeing the person who seemed to not know how to play get kicked in the balls by a boar, twice, the one who lead him here jumped in and killed the boar with a random pebble he found on the ground. He then helped up the man who was grabbing his crotch appearing to be in pain, while he actually couldn't feel anything. After he was up he then revealed that his name was Klein. I didn't come out of the shadows yet because at that moment he tried to log out and couldn't seem to get it to work. Then the other player, who showed his character name to be Kirito, opened his menu to see if he could logout. He then found that we were stuck in Sword Art Online.
Mere moments after we were teleported to the Town of Beginnings where a dome of error messages surrounded the town that prevented escape and then allowed for the creator of the game, Kayaba Akihiko, to make his grand entrance. He introduced himself and gave a quick description of what is happening. Ultimately Kayaba had told us that we have no way of logging out of Sword Art Online, IF someone were to try to take off our NerveGear we would die and if our health reaches 0 we also die in real life. I honestly loved the idea of only getting one life in a game and in real life, it forced me to get ready for more than just the game but also to get ready for a contest of survival. I knew that my family wouldn't try to remove my NerveGear because they don't want to possibly ruin my health or hurt me. So the only thing that I would really need to do is make sure I survive to the end. I decided to do that by being a solo player and leveling up on my own at my pace. But I then snapped back to the moment when Kayaba asked everyone to go into their inventory to receive a gift he gave them. It was a small hand mirror that then revealed what everyone looked like in the real world. Kirito didn't change that much but Klein got less hairy and seemed to lose some muscle. I didn't really change since my hair was almost the same while I tried to reflect myself into my character to make it seem more like something I would get emotionally attached to. Boy was I about to see the fruits of my loins when he was done explaining what he did.
He apparently just wanted to screw with everyone by, and I quote, "revealing what you truly are" and honestly I was surprised, there was a lot more girls than I thought. But since I want to get to the game I called "Why don't you stop talking and at least let me leave if you are going to repeat what you said when you were saying during the E3 reveal and to every reporter who asked about the game during production. Honestly, how does anyone get to play a game you make if it is mostly spent in the starting town with you talking about your creation as if it were made by God himself."
Sadly I didn't get the reaction I was looking for, instead of wrapping up his speech to let us play he said "Well okay then, I will let those of you who want to leave go if you can answer this: What is the reason I trapped you here for? I didn't give you that reason and I won't give you a hint. If you get it right I will let you all leave." With that offer standing 5 groups all went to work on rapid fire answers, with no luck, while I teamed with Kirito and Klein to get the answer. Because he dodged the question of why he would trap us we had to really think of why. He isn't going to be any help since he won't slip up this early, I then thought about what he was talking about earlier when he was being interviewed about how he would describe his game. He said about how it would be a game that will be remembered for a long time and how it will show the difference between real life and the digital world is just the amount of data and how you perceive it. I then said "You trapped us in this game because you want it to be remembered and to break the difference between the real world and the digital worlds that are created."
The large figure then straightened up and said "Nice job, you have discovered my plot, but haven't come close to what I really want to do. Although, since you were listening so well to all of my interviews I will let you all go." With that said the floor opened up and dropped us into the real Town of Beginnings and Kayaba disappeared in a puff of smoke. I saw Kirito and Klein go into an alley so I went another direction to not raise suspicion by Kirito about who I was. I wanted to keep myself as hidden as possible, so I could then play at my best and at my own pace.