A/N: the first two chapters take a back seat to the rest of my story so I apologise for the abruptness and lack of content. The action and adventure eventually picks up in part 5+6 (Chapter 3). Help in writing would be appreciated.

War Journal day 1: 'Heaven turns to Hell'

So Today I logged into this game seemed alright at first something along the lines of world of war craft or perhaps Eden Eternal or at least until everyone started to freak out because there wasn't a log out button. I think I was the only one not freaking out. Well it looks like the head GM's finished speaking. The beta testers are heading off on their own that's a good plan except no one will like it. I'd better head out to.

End of entry

The sky was red and hundreds of people were panicking in the centre of the Town of Beginnings. All the players had been told that to leave they had to win the game which consisted of 100 floors. A tall pale skinned man dressed in a green garments looked up at the red sky and made a promise to himself "No matter what happens I live on to the end" he said. Other players around him heard him and called the man crazy. The man ignored them and walked north out of the town to begin the process of staying alive.

His name was Simon Incubus a solo player that prefers being alone to the company of others. He carries a long sword around his waist. He wears the standard beginner's light armour but in various shades of green with brown boots and a brown headband to tie back his long black hair. Black stubble covers his face and borders his bright blue eyes as one of the oldest players in the area the last thing Simon wants is a bunch of teenagers following him around asking for help.

Simon spent four hours at one of the smaller hunting grounds on floor one. Various boars rose up and died alongside Simon's experience and items. When his item storage pack was full he headed straight for the nearest tree climbed up and fell asleep on one of the tallest branches. It was only ten o'clock at night on the first day but Simon felt everything was going well.

War Journal day 2: 'Two Birds One Stone'

Already at level 5 the starting armour seems adequate enough for the moment. The long sword I have is a good weapon but I won't be happy until I get a ranged weapon of some sort but I don't believe this game has anything other than throwing knifes and darts.

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Simon woke slowly to find a group of about five teenagers below him having breakfast. Simon studied them. Four of them, three males, one female seemed completely scared almost hysterical but they must have been in deep shock as they didn't say anything. The fifth member of the group a tall girl with long blonde hair seemed to be the one in charge. She was trying to comfort the others. "Come on you guys cheer up I managed to by some bread this morning and later after we have done a quest or two maybe we'll be able to get some wine or something," said the blonde girl. She was tall Simon observed about sixteen years old she looked like the oldest in the group. The girl was handing out bread loathes to each of the other group members.

No one ate the bread some of them just looked at it. Simon sighed silently and jumped down out of the tree startling the group. "If you have something with the bread it would make a better meal," said Simon in his deep monotone voice. The blonde girl had unsheathed her weapon. It was a short sword with a bronze coloured handle. Simon looked down the sharp edge of the sword and he produced several pieces of boars' meat from his inventory. "Try combining it with the bread it should be much tastier," said Simon offering each of the group a piece of the meat they all took it. The blonde girl put her sword away and combined the bread with the meat. She was the first to try the new food. "A pork sandwich," said the girl in surprise and with the comfort of a food substance that is from the real world the others began to eat.

Simon took out a piece of meat for himself and ate it on its own. The blonde gestured for him to sit next to her and he obliged. "Thank you so much for your help," said the girl and Simon nodded. "Just to have something normal again is good for all of us. My name is Sam Succubus by the way," said the girl. "Well my name is Simon. It was a pleasure to meet you all but I'm off to go find myself a quest. Good day," said Simon as he stood up and walked off back into town. Sam wondered if she would meet the kind man again.

Simon headed into town but stuck to the back alleys to avoid other players this tactic paid off as he found a shady but forlorn looking character waiting outside an inn. Simon noticed the man as a guest holder. Simon talked to the man and got his first quest 'Two Birds One Stone'. He then headed south out of the city onto a large open plain where giant eagles roamed. He was supposed to kill five of the eagles and obtain their feathers for the quest holder.

Each eagle was about the size of a small man. With a slight difference in attack between the boars and the eagles the low level monsters fell swiftly to Simon's blade. The eagles were fast so Simon had to change from using his standard side swipes to crushing downward blows to take them out in one. He collected the feathers and other body parts from the eagles but he also collected a rare item a giant eagle egg. The item is small about the size of a large chicken egg but it is coloured pink. Simon was curious about the item so he sat down on the edge of a small lake near the eagle hunting ground and got out the Beta tester hand book.

The hand book was small bound in brown cardboard but contained information on everything from the best hunting grounds to rare items that can be found on the first floor. He found the information he was looking for. It turned out he had two options as to what to do with his pink egg. Have someone with a chef skill cook it or hatch and learn the beast taming skill. Simon thought it would be better to hatch it. So he put the book away, ate himself some more boar meat and went back into town to get his quest reward.