"Move it Aiko!", Takeo yelled as he zoomed up the stairs towards his room, hearing his younger sister give a small cry of shocked surprise. He had a somewhat good reason to rush up the stairs and almost knocking over more china vases than a bull in a china shop. The newest and hottest game was in his hands; "Sword Art Online" (also known as "SAO") was the season's best MMORPG. As one of the lucky ten thousand who managed to get the game, he kinda felt special in a way. Adding the fact that his best friend Ryo was a beta-tester, it felt absolutely absurd with the amount of stuff and help he would receive.
Takeo was never much of a MMORPG fan, preferring a good strategy game over grinding goblins for gold and XP and what-not. But all that was thrown far out of the endlessly creative mind of Takeo after hearing the buzz SAO got. Takeo slid the game into the NerveGear and after what seemed like forever, the game was ready. "Let's do this shizz.", Takeo said as he layed down on his bed.
But before anything happened, a message stated that he would first have to calibrated it. Takeo sighted as he moved his hands across his legs, arms and his torso. But the NerveGear noticed something Takeo hoped it didn't. A message said that the entire pelvic region had been avoided. It also included a diagram and instructions to help Takeo calibrate it. Takeo shook uncomfortably has he moved his hands over "that" region. Still being able to feel his warm cheeks red with a tinge of embarrassment even though no one was there in the room with him, the calibrations continued after he yelled, "Link Start!".
Five green, futuristic bubble appear suddenly and calibrated his touch and the other four senses. A few seconds later, all of the green little bubbles had stated "OK" and Takeo closed his eyes. There was a tunnel vision of a rainbow that zoomed past his view and the language selection menu (Takeo selected Japanese), before Takeo arrived at the character customization menu.
The character customization was very intricate, literally having 1000 options for eyebrows. After fiddling around with it for what felt like an hour, he created an avatar with a great likeness to himself. Same cropped black hair that was combed to the left, identical dark blue eyes, and the avatar stood at 5 foot 11 inches according to the menu, slightly taller than he was in real life. After mentally confirming the character's look, menu for customizing characters went away.
Then the sensation that Takeo experience going into SAO were incredible. Several chutes of light beamed past him in a rainbow-like pattern. He saw violet, red, blue and many other colors in many different shades. It was almost exactly like the previous rainbow. When Takeo un-glued his eyes from the rainbow-on-crack sight, he had been introduced to SAO.