Day One: SummaryRainer woke like any other morning, getting himself ready for morning training. It was in the bathroom mirror that he first encountered it; The light blue text floating over his head which read "Rainer Hinotane LV 1" with the title <The Gamer> floating just above it. For some reason, the gravity of the situation didn't fully click with him and he, somehow, took it in stride, making his way to his dojo in an almost surreal daze. He notced the names of other people floating above their head, the only difference being the lack of a "Gamer" title like his.
At one point, he even started calling out the names of people as he passed them by, watching them respond and playing it off as a mistake. These were people he had never met before in his life, and he knew their names. It clearly wasn't a hallucination. At the dojo, things weren't much different, save for his 3rd Dan instructor apparently being Level 4 with the title <3rd Dan Martial Artist> floating where Rainer's "Gamer" title would have been. Nevertheless, Rainer continued his training, finding that his technique was a bit better than usual and that training was going even better than normal. After a diligent day of intense training a window suddenly appeared in front of his vision, apparently observable only to him. It was light blue and rectangle and read as thus;
Diligent Martial Arts Training has increased your STR and DEX by 1.
It was hard to say what was going on with this apparent Stat boost, which seemed to work in with the video game theme that the world had apparently undertaken, but Rainer did actually feel slightly stronger than he had at the beginning of the day. Making his way home, Rainer searched for anything about what was happening online, but found nothing. Eventually, he made his way to bed, no closer to finding an answer.
Day Two: SummaryA much less eventful day, Rainer tried unsuccessfully to convince a TV Station that he was some sort of psychic, partly in hopes of finding some answers or someone in a similar situation, the other part of him intending to at least make some money off his new situation. No matter what he said, though, he was brushed off by the station, leaving him to do little more than continue his online search into the phenomenon. No new information could be found, however, and Rainer once again went to bed with more questions than answers.
The new window, or 'Quest', had caught Rainer off-guard. He had no idea how to close the window in front of his vision without seeming like a crazy person, so he instead settled for pretending to brush a fly away while hitting the Accept option. He was sitting in the Septembres Food Court, casually eating when he had received the quest, but it had definitely caught his attention. At the very least it meant that there were others out there seeing what he saw with the title of "Gamer" over their head, just like him, and he was being encouraged to seek them out.
But that raised another question.
Encouraged by whom? Who had sent him the quest? Why did they want him to find others? Was it an elaborate trap? Nevertheless, Rainer was eager for answers. Perhaps there was a reason he had received the quest now, in Septembres of all places. Did this unseen Quest Giver know where he was at that moment? He supposed a mall complex would be the best place to spot someone with a "Gamer" title, but where? There were certainly a few gaming stores around, perhaps they would be the best place to start? After all, if Rainer was looking for a "Gamer", what better place to look than in a store full of them?
Standing from his table, Rainer took his soda in hand and started making his way to the nearest games store. He didn't have far to travel, as it wasn't too far from the food court. The journey paid off almost immediately, however, when Rainer saw two titles reading <The Gamer> over the heads of two strangers, one by the name of Lucian Bonhert and the other being someone by the name of Timothy Epnet. The two appeared to already be in conversation, which caused Rainer to hang back slightly.
If they already knew each other, it could possibly be a trap to lure out other Gamers. After all what was the point of a game if not to defeat adversaries and progress further? This clearly had the looking of some sort of RPG with a Levelling system as well as Stats, who was to say that this wasn't intended to be a PvP game? Rainer knew better than to log into a PvP server and expect Peace, Love and Understanding. It was called PvP for a reason.
With that in mind, Rainer hung back at the entrance of the store, hoping to stay concealed enough that the Gamers couldn't see him or his "Gamer" title. He had a feeling that it would be a little bit safer to eavesdrop first and get an idea of these two Gamer's allegiances and intentions.