[color=FFA420][u][b]McCoy[/b][/u][/color]

Getting day 1 Terminus access involved jumping through more than a few hoops, but once he was finally in, instead of directly entering the digital world, he was stopped short with instructions to choose some starting cards. He had a few ideas to go off of, though it seemed that the original effects of duel monsters didn't always correlate with their advanced duel counterparts, so he'd largely have to go in blind. It's not like he's ever participated in an advanced duel either.

After spending a bit of time trying to go through the list of available monsters, he realized that, with how big the catalogue of monsters was, there was no chance he'd get through it all, and even if he did, he didn't know what some of the cards were even talking about in the first place. Eventually he felt like he was spending too much time on this when he could be progressing in ways that could render his starting conditions obsolete (which was totally not just his impatience talking) and he used the system's card recommendation feature where it did a brain scan before throwing a set of seemingly random cards at him. None of them looked repulsive at first glance, (though he had to wonder why it gave him a jelly blob and a cat of all things) so he accepted the recommendations blindly and moved on to avatar creation.

[color=FFA420]"Hmmmmm..."[/color] He held his scruffy chin as he stared contemplatively at an A-posing model of himself, before eventually deciding to quietly add one inch to his height before moving on, changing nothing else. Well, nothing except for adding back his hat, which he had taken off to put on the headset. He was a hat guy.

Finally, it was time to enter a username, and he went with the one he'd been using since his teenage years: Konoha Koi. It didn't really mean much other than being similar to his real name and a reference to his favorite Naruto character, Kisame, who was a weird shark man. Everyone shortened it to Koi in conversation as a matter of course and being called "Koi" felt normal in a way that other usernames didn't.

Finally arriving in the hub world, he took a couple of minutes to just take in the sights. It was his first full dive VR game, and, at least based on first impressions of graphical immersion, it certainly lived up to the hype.

Okay, sightseeing over, time to get down to 'bidniss. An in-game mailbox was flashing at him and one expository Tour Guide dialogue later, his first order of business was figuring out where to go. Neither of his monsters actually seemed very strong offensively, and while one of his traps would help fighting with one of them, his cat cards seem to only help his Dark Cat with fucking around. as for Attribute Bomb... wait, why was he given this card in the first place? What the hell is this card?

At least his spells seemed to have practically nonexistent cooldowns. That was nice, because he had a feeling he'd be relying on them to get anything done. His much more straightforward traps, however, did not offer him the same luxury.

After entering the guide building and coming to stare blankly at the array of portals leading to various worlds with descriptions that waxed more poetic than strategically helpful, he decided to tap out and go to the nearest NPC for advice on where he should start.

[@Darkmoon Angel]