Zombie Apocalypse Online

by Black Stride

First story I've actually decided to post, lets go! Kirito is the beta tester for a different game, this one is called Zombie Apocalypse Online. He's usually a solo player, but he decides to show a new player the ropes on the first day. But now he's trapped, and Kirito and his new friend Philia will have to free themselves from a whole new death game!

2. Tutorial

Zombie Apocalypse Online

Hello there! This chapter will just explain some of the game mechanics for ZAO as it is quite different from regular SAO mechanics because this new game is much more firearms focused. As such, if you want to skip this chapter, be my guest! There will also be more unique features but I'll explain that, anyways, here is some game mechanics.

Grand Quest

The world of Zombie Apocalypse Online is a post-apocalyptic wasteland known as Necropolis, where the Player is a survivor who's job is to secure each one of the Zones as well as the Areas.

In total there are 10 Zones with 10 Areas in each one of them. To secure a Area you have to defeat the Boss hidden in one of the Black sites scattered around the Area. After doing so, the boss will drop a crystal. Pulling up the description of the item, it will say it is known as the Pentium Chaos Crystal. Using the crystal will allow a portal to be spawned where the crystal was originally. Entering the portal will teleport you to the next Area. Entering the next Area will cause the door to each one of the cities in an Area to start to release a Anti-Zombie chemical into the city. It is odor less and cannot be seen by the naked eye. It will also cause any zombie already in the city or any zombie that ever again enters the city to be automatically killed.

Zombies can and will try to enter a city and ravage it's inhabitants. The way to enter a city is by going through a door, whether that door is made out of grade A titanium off of a fighter jet, or simple wood. Before entering a city however, you must recapture it from the clutches of the zombie hordes which have overrun it. Once this is done NPC merchants and other businesses will begin to slowly repopulate the barren city.

Combat

The combat system in ZAO is heavily focused on firearms but there is a multitude of melee weapons, without even taking account for the ones Players themselves can craft with the correct skill.

A Player can have up to two weapons equipped at once from the start of the game. The more points you distribute into the STR stat however, determines if you can wield a weapon or even allows you to gain an extra Equip Slot.

The weapons that fall into the Primary Equip Slot are Assualt Rifles, Shotguns, Submachine Guns ( Although certain ones have a special Extra Skill that allows for one handed use, such as the Mac-10 or certain variants of the PM-63 ) Light Machine Guns, Sniper Rifles, and Marksman Rifles. You can also equip any Secondary Equip Slot weapons to the Primary Equip Slot. Any melee weapons will also be required to be in the Primary Equip Slot as well.

The weapons that can be equipped to the Secondary Equip Slot are Pistols, Launchers, specific Submachine Guns, and finally there are also Riot Shields that can be equipped as well.

When you are holding a weapon, as in out of it's sling or, in the holster, not just having one equipped, on the weapon there will be a switch which you can change from Safety to Fire. Changing the switch to Fire will cause a pulsing circle to appear in your field of view. No one else can see it, and it pulses along with your heart rate. This circle is known as the System Assist Pulse. Any shot that you take will land randomly inside of the System Assist Pulse, so staying calm is ideal. To counteract this, everyone else will see Prediction Lines which show the path your bullets will take in air.

Basics

To pull up your Menu, with two fingers, make a vertical sliding motion in air.

Every Player begins with 1000 COS, or Currency Of Survival, that you can use to purchase items.

Everyone also starts off with a standard issue Colt M9A1 side arm, along with a full set of Beginners Combat Gear.

Skills

Every time you gain a level of experience, you also gain a Skill Point as well as three Stat Points. A Skill Point is used to unlock new Combat Skills or level them up, while you use a Stat Point to increase a certain stat, such as STR or VIT.

I dearly hope that all of you players will deeply enjoy this game, no, this whole new world for you to experience.

- Akihiko Kayaba

Author's note-

To all who actually read this, I love each one of you, and I hope you love this story!

I've got the next 5-6 chapters all pretty much thought out, buuut that leaves the rest so if you've got any suggestions, please tell me. With that, it's been DualSluggo, Bye!