CHAPTER 2
'Welcome to Sword Art Online!' is the first thing I see when I login. Then there's the character customization screen for new players. I see various options, but it's still limited. There's Gender, Hair Style, Hair Color, Eye Color, Odd-Eye, Face, Voice, and Accessory I choose male… of course, a kind of spiky hair like mine, black hair, my normal black eyes, a standard face. Something that I might have looked like If I hadn't had all of these scars and stuff. I choose a voice similar to mine and add an eyepatch on my right eye because I still can't see through that eye, no matter what the NerveGear tries. I press the large 'Next' button and I'm taken to a space to fill in my username. Well, I'll do a simple one. I'll put in my name abbreviated. 'Akamichi.' I press enter.
October 31st, 2022
Town of Beginnings, Floor 1, Aincrad
I'm taken to an unfamiliar place. I take a look at my surroundings. There are various buildings with NPC's here and there, but I also see some users standing around, chatting. I check my items to see if there's anything there, but there's nothing. I check all of the various other options in the menu and I see something called a 'Specialization Menu' I look at the various 'Specs.' There is One Handed, Two Handed, and Daggers. I tap on Two Handed, because I like big weapons, and it gives me a notification reading: 'You can now use Two Handed weapons! We've given you a starting weapon in your Inventory.' The Spec window changes from the three options to like a thousand. 'Sword Skills' it reads at the top of the window. I only have three unlocked. I go to check my inventory, and sure enough, there's a Starter Sword waiting there for me to tap it. I tap it and suddenly, there's a large sword sheathed on my back. I unsheathe it and it's a lot lighter than expected. I have to boost my strength points if I want to get better weapons.
After hours of grinding and leveling up, I managed to get a rare monster drop. I don't know how I got it, but I don't have enough strength to use it, so I'll keep it in my Inventory for now. Well, I might as well log off, I'm getting hungry and I have to clean my room. I bring out the drop down menu and press the… Log Out button? I look around the menu and it's not there, not anywhere. Well, it is this game's first day out of beta so I guess I can forgive them for a simple bug like this. I look around for an emergency Log Out, but there's still nothing. I guess I'll have to wait for them to fix the bug. I turn around to go kill some more boars, but am interrupted by a teleportation circle being formed around me. I get teleported to the Town Center, where everyone else is also being teleported at the same time.
