[table][row][img]https://i.ibb.co/yqd8wd0/avistears.png[/img][/row] [sup][/sup][cell][right][@Yankee][/right][hr] Kalevi was already displeased at the valuable time he wasted. An hour was spent on character creation perfecting the character he would spend the rest of his time in first-person view playing. As much as Kalevi wanted to make a demonic character, one of the chat moderators mentioned that the "Darkin" race would very much be prejudiced for their appearance and origins. Because of this, Kalevi instead decided to roll a human and load up enough cosmetics so that he [i]looks[/i] demonic. Once that was done, the process of picking a class was a simple one for Kalevi as Rogues had very high damage-per-second and attack speed. Because of their unique status within the starting class roster as a "Melee DPS", it was only natural for Kalevi to gravitate towards the class since it was the best way for him to display his established skills at VR combat. It was also the best class for ganking from what he interpreted based on their skill list. The last thing he needed to do was name his character. Ukkonen, based off of his current screen name username, ukk0nen. Named after the Finnish God of Thunder, Kalevi decided on this name as a way to avoid the fans from his stream, who normally know him by "th0r". Of course, whoever knew enough about Finnish mythology may draw parallels to Kalevi's streaming identity, but he didn't care too much about that. As long as he was able to avoid the masses, then all is well. Worst case scenario would only be Kalevi buying himself a name-change, anyway. Security issues like these weren't too worrisome for Kalevi, after all. After taking a class in Computer Security as an elective for his major, covering his tracks to avoid getting doxxed was second nature to the gamer. He even went so far as to utilize voice-changing software on his streams and never once showed his face. As far as Kalevi was concerned, his identity was a complete enigma to the fans of his stream. As soon as Ukkonen was in the game, he started looking through the various menus available to him, keeping track of all the features he can use as a player. From map sidebars to group and party tags, such things were important to familiarize with early on so the overall gameplay experience wouldn't drag on. He also kept mental note of the stamina costs his basic attacks and Backstab use, for future reference. Once that was done, Ukkonen was quick about equipping his starting gear, including that trashu cape he got as a "compensation" for showing up to the game during its original scheduled launch. It was gross, but it gave him a sense of pride and accomplishment wearing it. Once that was done, Ukkonen opened up his friends list, sending a friend invite to that one healer who was also looking for a group, "cherryblossomblues". Despite this, he did not send a party invite just yet, instead writing up a private message. [quote][ukk0nen]: [color=EA4934]WILL BE LATE TO TOWN[/color] [ukk0nen]: [color=EA4934]GOING TO SEE HOW MUCH TROUBLE THE NOOBS ARE HAVING WITH THE MOBS[/color][/quote] Ukkonen began to make his way to the bloodshed... or oozeshed, whichever one prefers. He made sure to follow one of the other new players- preferably one who chose the tank starter- towards the slime fields first so that he will be able to properly judge the aggro range of the mobs, if any. While studying the damage of the mobs and seeing their animations was Ukkonen's first priority, he also had more devious intentions in mind. He wished to see if stealing last hits would properly allow him to leech off XP and loot from the mobs without working too hard to kill them himself. If such a thing was possible, then leveling up in this starting zone would be [i]easy.[/i] Even if it wasn't possible, he would at least know enough about the numbers to crunch up the most efficient way to do these first sets of quests and hopefully get himself out of this tacky starter zone... Who even names their starter NPC 'Tu Tauri Al', anyway? [/cell] [cell][center][color=cyan]Online[/color] [sup][code]ukk0nen[/code][/sup] [color=DarkGray][b]Class:[/b] Rogue Level: [b]1[/b][/color] [color=tomato]106[/color]//[color=aqua]103[/color]//[color=palegreen]106[/color] [hider=Stats & Info] Body: 6 Spirit: 3 Tech: 6 [sub][u]Equipment[/u]:[/sub] >Basic Dagger x2[/hider] [/center][/cell][/table]