I waited as the game took me into Root Town. I can't wait to see what the game is like. Will it be hard? Will it be boring? It must be good if Chloe has been playing for over 2 years.
Finally! The game has signed me in.

"Hey! Where have you been, I have been waiting here for over a half hour!" The first thing I notice when I get into root town is Chloe. "And don't forget that my name is Trinity inside the game."
"It took a while for me to get into the game, you know with the character creation process and all," I said in my defense.
"You must be a really slow typer or something, it didn't take me that long to get through it," she boasted. "Anyway, welcome to The World!"
I looked around. Chloe an. . . I mean Trinity and I were in a really bustling town with lots of other characters from around the world. I heard many different languages being spoken around me. This town was huge and all walled in. The walls were vintage brick, the walkways were vintage brick, everything except the bridge a ways away was vintage brick; and there were rivers everywhere. People were on boats in these rivers. I turned around and noticed a rotating circular outline with a transparent, light green center. This object was slightly taller than me.
"That is the chaos gate," trinity said. "It is used to go to different game fields. There is so much stuff you can do with it, but that's for later. I wanna show you the shops first"
She dragged me by the arm and took me some stairs; following a path and then taking a right turn down some steps to what looked like an item shop. This shop was indented in a wall. There was a wooden sign on the counter with what looked like a bottle with a green substance.
"This is the item shop," Trinity said. "This is the most important shop in the game. You go here with the gold you get from selling your treasures from the dungeons. You can buy all kinds of healing items and stuff like that here."
I shuddered at the fact that there are dungeons in this game. I never liked going into dungeons on any of the games I played before. I almost always had died in the middle of one, and had to restart the game and try again. That makes me really angry.
"Make sure you pick up some health drinks!" she reminded.
I walked up to the counter and the store clerk said, "You won't get far without the right items."
I asked him for 5 health drinks.
"100 gold, please"
I then realized that I might not have any money. I noticed a pouch down at my side and I checked it. Sure enough there was 500 gold in it. I gave the clerk the 100 gold and he gave me the potions. I then asked myself where am I going to put them. I then felt a weight on my back. I noticed I had a very primitive looking sack. I stuffed the 5 potions in my bag, and then Trinity suddenly pulled me away headed towards another wall- indented shop. This wasn't a shop at all.
"This is the Elf's Haven," she said. "You can store items here that you can't keep with you. You can only carry 50 different items."
"That's very useful," I said.
She motioned me to follow, so I did. We crossed a very old looking bridge with banners hanging out above the tunnels below. I could hear the ambient sound of water flowing all around the town as we walked around.
She took me to another shop and pointed out it was a weapon shop. That was a given considering the wooden sign on the counter depicted two crossed swords.
"You can buy some weapons here, but they aren't that great. You can get better ones from the dungeons and by trading with people. I'll show you how to do that later when you get some treasures."
She pulled me up some steps and across a main walkway and down some more steps and we came to another shop. This one was sort of a mystery. The wooden sign on the counter depicted a crystal ball with what looks energy being released from it.
"This would be the magic shop," she said noting my confusion. "You can buy scrolls for magic abilities you don't have. You just buy them, whip them out when monsters get on your nerves and BAM!! The monsters are gone! You normally get abilities by equipping different weapons and armor. The abilities differ with weapon type. You, for example, would get a lot more magic skills from your weapons than say, a pole arm like me. I would get more spear related skills."
I realized I hadn't seen a weapon in my hands or my pack or anything. "Where is my weapon?" I asked. "Do I have to buy one?"
"You will see it once we go into a field. Well, those shops are on all of the servers you will visit as a brand spankin' new player of the world. For now we will only worry about the Delta server. The Delta server's root town is named Mac Anu: The Water City."
"I see where this is going," I replied. "Each server has a different root town."
"Exactly!" she exclaimed. "And they all are different themed. I advise you stay on the Delta server, the monsters can get pretty tough in other servers."
As we walked toward the chaos gate, to go a dungeon exploration, I saw many different people. I stopped to talk to a blade master passing by. He said his name was Orca, of Azure Sea. I dropped my jaw at the elegance of the name. I asked him how long he had been playing and he told me about 5 years, ever since The World had come out with its first beta version.
We were almost to the chaos gate when Trinity stopped suddenly and looked at me.
"OH! I almost forgot! We should probably save before we go to the dungeon." We walked back down the brick steps leading to the chaos gate to another indent in the wall with a burly looking man inside. There was one of those convenient little wooden signs with a disk depicted on the side.
I walked up to the man and he said, "You better save before you go doing anything in the dungeons."
I asked him to save my game. He did. Trinity did the same.
We walked back up the stairs to where the chaos gate lie.
"Ok, I am gonna give you my member address and you are going to add me to your party."
She gave me the member address and a small notebook with many pages appeared in my hand. The name "Trinity" had appeared in the book.
"Now you use this notebook to keep your member addresses in. You can send a flash mail to anyone in your member address notes. Flash mail acts like telepathy in the world. You type in the message you want to send to the person, click send, and it gets shipped off to the person. You can read flash mail while still online in the world. The BBS on the other hand you have to log out of to look at. You can look at that on your own time."

I looked at my notebook. I touched Trinity's name transparent hologram of a keyboard appeared in place of the notebook. I wrote.
Hey! This is kind of weird messaging you while you are standing right
in front of me. Oh well, thanks so much for showing me around this
place. I really like it so far, and I think I am gonna keep playing
this game!

Angelo :)

Chloe apparently got the message. Her characters expression went blank for a few seconds. When she got back, she gave me this weird look that seemed to say, "you're a dork!"
Trinity told me to walk up to the Chaos gate and say, "delta Bursting Passed Over Aqua Field". I did and suddenly a series of high tech looking rings formed around my character and Mac Anu suddenly disappeared from my sight . . .