Tyler NightIt didn't take long for Angel to get home from school; she lived right across the street (her parents chose this house because of that). While she knew it would be just as long of a wait either way, she felt like she was being sort of ripped off in terms of time; she had nothing to distract her from her new game once home, and was worried she'd miss it. But at least she knew she'd be done with her homework. As soon as she entered her house, she had her homework out, and had already started by the time she sat down.
By no means was she a good student, she just did her homework and deliberately only got adequate grades (despite the fact that this all came to her naturally). It was better to get it out of the way than to have to deal with a stressed teacher, and it was better to not get a perfect grade so she wouldn't get too much attention. However, today she didn't filter her answers in her homework; she was too distracted by the ARE. The distraction was enough to get all the right answers, and despite having homework for all of her classes, she was done in under half an hour. The fact that she had almost an hour left until the game went online was not lost on her.
Her dad was the only one home with her, since he worked at home to make sure someone was always there for her, and neither had yet said a word to each other. Having so much time left, the least she could do was distract him from getting any work done. She walked into his office. "Daddy? Are you busy?" Without waiting for an answer, she plopped down next to him. She proceeded to tell him, in excessive detail, about her day, until it reached 4:57. "Okay, I'll be playing my game. I'll leave it in time for tonight, k? Are you playing, too?" On his confirmation, and a second confirmation that he wouldn't actually show up in-game and identify as her dad, she went back to her room and quickly donned the helmet. When it reached the right time, she logged in.
She took her time making her character. As soon as she saw the option to be another race, she immediately went with it. So, Padurii or...no, Padurii. Definitely. After some time, she finally finished her character, and was in the game. She had chosen a name she used in pretty much every other game: Distrugerea_Inger, "Destroying Angel," a play on her name and the name of a mushroom. As soon as she reached the Town of Beginnings, she came to a sudden realization. Why am I the only non-human I see? No matter where she looked, so many people were humans. I didn't think the race menu was so hard to find... When she finally noticed the option to do the tutorial, she agreed. Immediately, she was dismayed combat was so important to everything, at least right now.
She took her time playing around in the menu, discovering that with her choices, she ended up with a free spell. She looked over the details carefully before beginning the combat portion of the tutorial. Apparently, she'd missed the memo that spamming Attack on boars was the only thing people could do in this game, so instead left the town, heading east, to find something else to harvest. It was some time before she reached sheep. So...only thing I can do right now is fight it...but there have to be better ways to...oh! Right. Spell.
She held her hand out in front of her, and as she spoke, "Alok," symbols spun around her, stopping on a total of four. Okay, so some kind of substitution cypher... She was less than impressed...at first. That is, until a skeleton popped up out of the ground. "Oh, hi there! I think I'll call you Malachi." She reached out and touched the skeleton's "cheek." Entering combat stance, she led Malachi to the sheep and, left hand behind her back, started slashing away with assistance. She would have to do this quite frequently until she gained the ability to gather wool without killing. Or trade for it. She wanted to start a business in-game, after all, and how would she get anything done if she had to spend so much time doing meaningless tasks that weren't crafting? She was starting to despise this game already.
By no means was she a good student, she just did her homework and deliberately only got adequate grades (despite the fact that this all came to her naturally). It was better to get it out of the way than to have to deal with a stressed teacher, and it was better to not get a perfect grade so she wouldn't get too much attention. However, today she didn't filter her answers in her homework; she was too distracted by the ARE. The distraction was enough to get all the right answers, and despite having homework for all of her classes, she was done in under half an hour. The fact that she had almost an hour left until the game went online was not lost on her.
Her dad was the only one home with her, since he worked at home to make sure someone was always there for her, and neither had yet said a word to each other. Having so much time left, the least she could do was distract him from getting any work done. She walked into his office. "Daddy? Are you busy?" Without waiting for an answer, she plopped down next to him. She proceeded to tell him, in excessive detail, about her day, until it reached 4:57. "Okay, I'll be playing my game. I'll leave it in time for tonight, k? Are you playing, too?" On his confirmation, and a second confirmation that he wouldn't actually show up in-game and identify as her dad, she went back to her room and quickly donned the helmet. When it reached the right time, she logged in.
She took her time making her character. As soon as she saw the option to be another race, she immediately went with it. So, Padurii or...no, Padurii. Definitely. After some time, she finally finished her character, and was in the game. She had chosen a name she used in pretty much every other game: Distrugerea_Inger, "Destroying Angel," a play on her name and the name of a mushroom. As soon as she reached the Town of Beginnings, she came to a sudden realization. Why am I the only non-human I see? No matter where she looked, so many people were humans. I didn't think the race menu was so hard to find... When she finally noticed the option to do the tutorial, she agreed. Immediately, she was dismayed combat was so important to everything, at least right now.
She took her time playing around in the menu, discovering that with her choices, she ended up with a free spell. She looked over the details carefully before beginning the combat portion of the tutorial. Apparently, she'd missed the memo that spamming Attack on boars was the only thing people could do in this game, so instead left the town, heading east, to find something else to harvest. It was some time before she reached sheep. So...only thing I can do right now is fight it...but there have to be better ways to...oh! Right. Spell.
She held her hand out in front of her, and as she spoke, "Alok," symbols spun around her, stopping on a total of four. Okay, so some kind of substitution cypher... She was less than impressed...at first. That is, until a skeleton popped up out of the ground. "Oh, hi there! I think I'll call you Malachi." She reached out and touched the skeleton's "cheek." Entering combat stance, she led Malachi to the sheep and, left hand behind her back, started slashing away with assistance. She would have to do this quite frequently until she gained the ability to gather wool without killing. Or trade for it. She wanted to start a business in-game, after all, and how would she get anything done if she had to spend so much time doing meaningless tasks that weren't crafting? She was starting to despise this game already.
