Chapter 1: Prologue

As the final bell of the day rang my friends and I darted out the classroom and to the large school exit. "When you get home Moe you better remember to install the game! I will get on when I get home and put my stuff away, I'll be waiting for you by the Chaos Gate so I can show you the basics." Chris exclaimed.

I nodded lightly and flashed a big grin as I jumped into my car and sped home. I had recently picked up my first day collectors edition of a game called "The World" but never had time to load it onto my new laptop. The genre of the game is classified as a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, otherwise known as a MMORPG. I was to concerned about which character I'd like to play to even remember installing it. You have the basics from any other type of game like this: the Blademaster, there was also the basic mage type Wavemaster, Spear wielder's, Heavy Blade a user who carries around a giant two handed sword and the Twin Blade user who wields dual short swords. Chris had chosen the Blademaster class, whom he named Orca. Chris had been playing since the beta version was released 5 years prior to the complete game release. He insisted I try the game out and maybe get into video games. I am mostly interested in reading or hanging outside, but he says the game is "Amazing!". I had my decisions based on the two that seemed the most interesting: Wavemaster, or a Heavy Blade. The choices continued to rattle my brain as I pulled into my driveway. Before I walked through the door, I decided I would become a Heavy Blade. I have always enjoyed over-sized swords that my father used to collect.

I went upstairs to my room, placed my bags on the bed, and then inserted the "The World" CD into my laptop. A pop up window with multiple different character classes appeared asking if I wanted to install the program. I clicked the fancy yes button. The next screen was the End-User License, I never actually read the full thing so I just scrolled down and clicked Accept. When the pop up closed another one appeared with a fancy orange ALTIMIT OS background and the installation bar. My phone buzzed in my purse on my bed.

"Hey Moe, are you installing it yet? I'm waiting by the Chaos Gate like I said I would for you. Hurry and finish setting up your character. I remembered something on the way home, you preordered the First day collector's edition, there were only 100 of those released world wide. You're lucky. See you soon. ~Chris."

My eyes grew wide as I pulled out the tin case from the desk drawer. I removed the grey translucent "The World" sleeve and read the inscription on the front. "The first day collector's edition of the new hit MMORPG. Collector's # 001" My jaw fell to the floor and I quickly replied to Chris's text. "I just read the inscription on the front of the case, it says Collector's # 001! I may hate video games but I find this rather exciting! The first copy is mine!" As I hit send I sat my phone down and then bounced around in excitement. When I returned to my computer, the installation had just finished. I clicked the newly created icon named "Enter the World". It's icon was a picture "The World" written in fancy text.

A message appeared on the screen. "Please fill out the required information necessary for registration."

"Moe Rayne Misaki." I typed, and then clicked the next button.

The rest of the information was the basic requirements for any online source. I was still leaning towards the Heavy Blade class, but was open to new ideas that looked interesting. After I clicked the finished button the pop up window closed and a new one opened. I looked at the screen hard and read it out loud. "Congratulations new member! You are the holder of one of the 100 first day collector editions! You are very lucky to recieve one of the few special versions released world wide! Again congratulations, and welcome to "The World." ~Signed CC Corp President." When I clicked the close button at the bottom of the pop up yet again another one appeared. "Welcome to "The World"! As one of the holders of the First Day Collector's release click on this link to unlock exclusive content! The content for each collectors edition is completely different then the next, be it a new class, new weapons or abilities!" I scrolled down the screen to find a code consisting of numbers and letters. When I clicked on it my laptop screen blacked out and then an animated envelope appeared on the screen. A letter popped out of it including information of what I had recieved from the code.

"Congratulations! You've redeemed a code for "The World" the items listed are the new content for your game: Human/Beast Halfling character race, advanced character customization, extra desktop backgrounds and audios for your game's main menu, the Adept Rogue character class, and an extending inventory, member address list and mail inbox. From the workers at CC Corp we all wish you luck! Welcome to "The World."

Finally the pop ups ended and the screen switched to the character creation screen. Without looking at the Heavy Blade class like I originally planned I went straight for the Human/Beast Halfling character race my edition came with. I opened the advanced character customization and got to work. A pop up opened and asked me to choose my class. I scrolled to the Adept Rogue class that the code unlocked. Another pop up opened after I clicked Accept. "Please choose three (3) classes you would like to assign your character. Please note the Adept Rogue is slightly weaker at the three (3) you choose then those classes on their own due to a gaming balance." I looked through the classes and read the description of each and went for the magic classes the sounded the best. In the first slot I had Harvest Cleric, the second slot had the Shadow Warlock and the final slot had the Wavemaster.

I was returned to the character design page. I chose a simple white and black colored attire. A sleeveless white dress shirt, I removed the collar and added a white satin hood, the shirt ends just below the top of the skirt. A short short black pleated skirt that has white and pink bows flowing off both sides with a black silk like material underneath that shows an inch below the skirt and is laced at the bottom, along with white thigh high stockings that turn into her high heels. Short light brown hair that rests just above her shoulders. The Human/Beast race made her resemble a cat, with feline like ears matching the light brown color of her hair. I gave her dark lapis latzuli blue eyes, two small silver hoops near the top of the right feline ear and one on the left feline ear. The advanced customization options allowed me to change her height, weight, breast size and many other customization variations. I made her 5 foot 8 inches, mader her a little thinner then she was and gave her small breasts. I decided to give her inch long nails a translucent pink polish that shimmered in the moon light, and finally the last custimization option was my characters "wave symbol".

I scrolled through the list and finally chose the one that looked the most interesting and what I thought would fit with the three magic classes. I had two light green snaked lines across both cheeks along with another line that made them look like mirrored F's. The symbol also trailed down my arms in beauitful snaked lines and spirals. When it came time to name her, I instantly decided what I wanted. "Lunaria." I typed into the fancy box. I clicked ok and looked at the different concept art that passed by on my screen as the game connected to the server. A pop up then appeared and redirected me to the log in screen where I entered my characters name and the password I choose earlier with the other information to finish my registry. I followed the instructions to the key and then hit the golden "Login" button. I grabbed my Head Mount Display (HMD) and put it on as the screen went black.