Jack grinned somewhat guiltily, he finally had it. He could finally prove himself as someone more than average. He plugged the helmet into the outlet next to his bed and laid down. The guide he looked up on the internet said you just turned it on and waited right? Then there was a countdown and you had to say linkstart to activate it. Jack put the helmet on and laid down waiting for the system to activate, a mechanical voice said in a monotone voice, "3... 2... 1..." Jack took a deep breath and shouted "LINK START!" and his vision exploded in a burst of color and distortion.

 He selected a premade avatar and looked at the name selection, a name to make for himself, a whole new persona to forge himself around. Jax. It may not be different, but Jack didn't want to be that different, he just wanted to be better. He swallowed nervously and his vision blurred again until he suddenly found himself in a town square. Jack looked around and moved his body in wonder. This was a game? He looked around and a menu popped up prompting him to pick start equipment. Somehow unsure of himself he grabbed a spear, medium armor, and a shield. Jack spent the first five minutes simply looking around and moving, this place was amazing, if anything it looked better than real life. While experimenting he accidently brought up the menu and spent a bit of time pursuing that. Looking in his inventory he found an item in it, a guide of some sort. Jack found somewhere to sit down and read through it. It was quite expansive and soon he found himself immersed in learning all about the game. 

After absorbing quite a bit of information Jack decided to test out some stuff, the book had given example sword skills, although in this case they were spear skills but whatever. He made his way out of town into the starter area and viewed the frenzy boar cautiously. So according to the book if he just lined himself up like this... Jack's eyes widened as he felt the way his body should move and it did just that rapidly moving forward and stabbing the boar 3 times in rapid succession.[i]So that was <<Jab>>[/i] Jack thought fascinated. No, he mustn't think of himself as Jack anymore, here he was Jax. Here he would become exceptional. Jax quickly mastered two other skills through experimentation on other frenzy boars and grinned. He was getting better; he could get good at this. He was about to attack other monster when suddenly a flash of light enveloped him, "AHH" he cried out surprised as a glimmer of panic shot through his mind, had he triggered some sort of trap? To his surprise he found himself back at the start, only with thousands of other people. 

A giant figure appeared in the sky explaining the new rules. Jack sat down heavily on a nearby bench thinking it over. They were stuck here? Well in the extremely short term view of things at least he wouldn't get in trouble for stealing the nerve gear. On the other hand was he really prepared to risk life and limb just to survive? Playing a game was fun and all but this? Jack shook off the feeling, he was Jax now, a soon to be hero of Aincrad. He wasn't going to let this stop, no this just meant he wouldn't have to leave to go back to his boring life. The game had like a 100 floors, he could be here practically forever. Jax resolutely stood up and looked around; it seemed people were getting into groups, or parties. He should probably find someone to group, he still didn't know much about this game yet so he should find out as much as he could. Of course he could just leave, keep killing stuff, and figure it out on his own. Thinking about it more there would probably be other people thinking the exact same thing, so if he just waited he would find somebody. If not then he could hoof it on his own. Either way Jax would wait here for a while before deciding what to do next.