Welcome to Life Slayer Online player!!! 

I woke up at five thirty and hauled myself out of bed. I got dressed and brushed my teeth and headed out at five forty limbering down the road like a zombie.

The streets were so peaceful at this hour and so dull. The light was so blue and gentle unlike its usual evil bright rays. It was almost beautiful in the tranquil and calm light.

I walked into the center of town regaining some semblance of posture and consciousness.

It's too early but again it is a necessary sacrifice. LSO is available today and this is the time they stock up. Given the walk back and the time to download, I should be able to play by eight at the earliest and since mom will be at work and my sister will be at school I should be able to play for the rest of the day.

I walked into the rundown gaming shop and the door rang as I pressed inside. The owner and I go way back with me being one of the only 'enthusiasts', as he likes to call us, in the town. I looked down as I entered. It's a reflex at this point. I can't do anything about it. I walked up to the counter and looked up.

My heart stopped again. Why?

Why is she here? Dammit, will I be unable to order it? Aaaaaah damn me and my stupid inability to talk to cute girls. Standing in front of me was S.I Rene.

"Hey you're Charlie right? What can I get for ya"

"Um you're S.I Rene right?"

"Damn and I moved here cuz I didn't think I'd get spotted. Well since you know that can i assume that it's LSO you're after?"

"Uh yeah and the equipment to play it"

"Awesome, I'm so excited to play. I've got four hours and then I can."

"Cool" I'm so uncomfortable, what do I say at a time like this? Should I ask for her number? Should I keep quiet? Aaaaaaah why the hell did this have to happen.

"Oh I'm sorry im talking too much I'll get your game."

"No." aahh it's now or never, time to speak! "Its just pretty early compared to my usual schedule so I'm kinda tired"

"Oh well fair enough. Hey since we'll both be playing, give me your number and we can meet up!"

"Oh ok."

"Cool I was excited to move to a small town like this so i didn't get spotted and have creepy guys following me but also kind of annoyed that I wouldn't get to speak to any fellow shutins but now I get the best of both worlds."

"Yeah it's difficult to find people who like games in this town. I've found maybe four."

"Well then I'm counting on you to replace the entire ring of gamers I'm used to. You go to the local highschool right?"

"Uh yeah."

"Sweet I'll see you there but it's vacation right now so we'll have to meet up in game instead."

"Ok."

She handed me the game and I gave her the money. placing the small plastic book on top of the box full of the console. It was surprisingly heavy but I was fine carrying it.

I walked out of the store, the bell ringing as I went.

What the hell was that?!?!!

Did S.I Rene just ask for my number???

I wonder what her real name is?

Can I really call her S.I Rene?

And why is she in a small town like this?

Eh who cares about that now. I want to get home as quickly as I can to log in.

I rushed back home and walked in the door to see my mom and my sister around the table eating breakfast and watching cartoons.

"Hey ItsAssassin" my sister shouted as she chewed into her toast. Her words combining together in between chews

"Assassin?" my mom questioned, a puzzled look across her face.

"Inside joke. Have a good day Ellie and you too Mom I'll see you when you get back."

"Hah you don't have school unlucky!"

Again I had to stifle my laughter almost letting it slip.

"Yup a reeeaal travesty, I'll haaaave to stay inside playing games aaall day."

I walked into my room turning the light on for the first time in what seems like an eternity.

I placed the game onto my desk and opened the box.

I quickly assembled the gear and plugged the game in.

'Estimated download time - 1 hour 37 mins 55 secs'

I then lay down on my bed and took a quick nap setting an alarm for that time. What a morning. It's only seven and I've already done more than I did last week.

I clicked on my phone and sent a message to banana.

'To Banana_Boy83:

I got LSO, u?'

Then throwing my phone into the bed I put the helmet on and strapped myself in.

I'm so excited I could die.

I pressed start and my body felt weightless. My mind felt like it was being ripped from my body. It wasn't pleasant. it felt like I was in a lake of nothingness just drifting around with my eyes closed. Then it started. I was falling through the sky and below me was a strange world. Is this the opening?

Cuz its fucking terrifying!

I guess it's supposed to showcase the realness but still.

Then my gaming intuition kicked in as I surveyed the landscape looking for possible towns and dungeons scouting the main cities and areas.

"Welcome to Life Slayer Online player!!!"

Then I was in a dark room, I assume this is the character selection. Ahh I guarantee that I'll spend way too much time on this.

"Choose your alliance!"

I walked over to the ten uniforms lining the wall and stared at the plinths next to them reading up about each race and their various pros and cons.

"You have chosen Shadowrath" it specialises in dark magic and knives which happens to be my favourite. I love playing as undead characters like zombies and lichts. For some reason being a skeleton is so much better than a human or beast man.

Then in front of me was a selection of ten weapons:

A sword

An Axe

A spear

A shield

A knife

A Staff

A hammer

Dual swords

A sword and small shield

And some brass knuckles.

It was a pretty basic selection, the staff is likely magic but it's probably offensive magic like pyromancy or light magic and that is so overrated so i'll go for the knife my race already lets me use dark magic.

I walked forward and picked the knife up.

Then in front of me was well me. This was clearly the character customization.

Dammit, I can't be anything other than a human! Ahhh well I suppose it works with the whole realism effect.

I looked at myself, everything was the same apart from my right eye was reversed. The outside was black instead of white. I had this bright blue eye as well. It didn't go with my naturally brown eyes.

I tapped on it and tried to manipulate it but an error came up

'Error: the right eye of death is a perk specific to shadowrath and cannot be changed'

Ugh that sucks. I tapped on my left eye and made it the same colour. I then added some scars on the cheeks because I want this avatar to be as near to undead as possible. Well that's not true but if I add a couple it will help me internally cope with looking like myself. I then made myself a little shorter to about average height.

After I hit accept I was taken to a new chamber, this one was bright and white. There was a mirror so I checked out my new appearance. It wasn't too bad.

Then I looked around me to see a man sitting on a throne.

"Well player, are you happy with your appearance and other selections?"

I accepted and stared at the man.

"And what will your username be player?"

Ah so this is the welcome bot? Maybe a mascot for the game. He doesn't seem so bad. What should I make my username. I'm drawing a blank. Then I thought back to my sister at breakfast. Eh why not only the biggest game of the century.

"Are you happy with the name ItsAssassin?"

I hit accept again.

"Good and what would you like the NPC's to call you?"

"E! And what do I call you?"

"Hehehehe, that's a first 'player'. I am T.H.A.U.W.B but I suppose I prefer Eden."

"Ok Eden, thank you. And what does thauwb mean?"

"The helpful and useful welcome bot."

"Haha i see why you like Eden better I will be sure to call you that"

"Thank you player. Now before you get started there is one last thing to be decided.

In Life Slayer Online every player gets a unique skill and it is completely unique. No one will have the same one as you as we made more than there are people in the human race. So even if people make alternate accounts we will have enough.

And your Skill is 'Copy' be sure to check it out when you arrive"

And just like that I was in a forest. In front of me was a village. It was small and picturesque. I'm not quite ready to get started yet.

I opened my menu and scrolled through the options looking through the skill trees and stats, checking maps and data. It was menial but necessary. I looked at the logged in count. It was only maybe a hundred players.

This is great. I can get a jump on the game.

Also it looks as if people get scattered randomly over the map so I'm probably ok here in the town of Teld.

I tried to look for the copy skill but I could only find a blank page. I guess i'll have to find out the old fashioned way.

By grinding levels for hours!!!!!