Entering the Game

This time Gel didn't have to flag the ticket collector down to get on the plane. He just went up normally, gave the ticket, and entered the plane. Since he was there in time he got a good seat as well. He sat down in the window seat, at the front of the plane.

'What to do now...I guess I'll just plan out what I want to do when I get in the game tonight.'

He put in airpods and listened to music while thinking about his plans for the game, there was a lot for him to consider.

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The plane had landed after about 3 hours of flying in the sky, and Gel exited the same way he entered, through a big plastic tube.

He left the airport after going through customs and made his way to where he parked his car, according to the photo he took earlier today.

He entered the vehicle and sighed, 'Who would've thought I would be in this car before even a day passed.'

He thought about what happened today and, once again, sighed, 'Whatever, I'll just play with the cards that have been drawn.'

He exited the airport parking lot and made his way to his college dorm.

After around 10 minutes he made it there and exited his car. When he got to the door of his room he saw it, the copper gaming pod.

Gel smiled for the first time in a while, he was after all a big nerd about these machines. He opened the door to the dorm and brought the pod inside along with the New Creation game cartridge.

"Seems like someone's back soon...did something happen?"

Gel looked over at the voice and it was Jordan in practically the same position from when he left, "I don't really want to talk about it."

Gel was friends with Jordan but that didn't mean he had to tell him all the problems he had, and definitely not that he is getting involved with something that would be illegal in the future.

"Alright, just tell me if you need to," said Jordan yawning and not taking his eyes off of his phone.

Gel just nodded and dragged the gaming pod to his room and opened it up. When he finished setting it up with his account information he stopped and admired it, "It truly is beautiful, I wonder what the code looks like inside of you. If only I was richer and could afford to research this."

He sighed at his pitiful situation before climbing into the pod. He closed the entrance and clicked on the New Creation button. When he clicked on it he peacefully drifted to sleep.

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Gel opened his eyes peacefully and looked around him. He was a black void with a giant digital interface in front of him counting down. It looked like he had a couple of hours before the servers launched.

He looked around him and saw a bunch of little balls of light moving around, 'I guess those are other players waiting for the game to start. I have a while to wait.'

He looked at a smaller digital interface in front of him with two different options. One being a chat of some kind and the other one being internet access.

He took a peek in the chat, and as he guessed, it was a mess.

"Who else is going to take their clothes off right when they get in!"

"If you want to get arrested and start the game with a disadvantage, then, by all means, go right ahead."

"Just because there is punishment doesn't mean I won't express myself how I want, change never starts if no one tries!!!"

"You just want to be naked while playing this game...you know minors can also play this game right? If you were able to take your clothes off in public then I don't think this game would be on the market. Anti-naked Gang!"

Gel read the first couple of messages he saw before closing the chat out of cringe, 'Gamers will always be a different breed.'

He just went on the internet tab and looked up videos so he could distract himself long enough for the game to launch.

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Gel was looking at the clock expectantly, it was almost time for the game to start!

'Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, ONE!!!'

When the clock hit zero, a white light spread from it, and Gel was forced to close his eyes.

When he opened them back up he saw a completely different scenery. He was in a beautiful garden with flowers all around him and a beautiful clear blue sky.

He admired the scenery as much as he could before a voice entered his ears, "Hello there!"

Gel looked behind him and saw something that startled him. In front of his face was a cute little pixie boy. Gel was startled at first but then calmed down the next second, 'This is a completely different world, anything could happen. I must be prepared for the crazy.'

"Sorry for scaring you, I'm Modicum. I'm here to give you the run-down of how this game is going to work! There are some things you must do first though, tell me what you want your new name to be!"

Gel felt this was going kind of quickly for him, but he just went with it. What did he want his name to be? He thought about it for a moment before coming up with an answer that felt obvious when you thought of it.

"My name is going to be Vi," This is what his older sister called him as a nickname. Since he was doing this for his family, he thought it was obvious.

"Alright Vi, now tell me do you want to change how you look? Here is an interface for you to change what you want."

After Modicum finished his sentence an interface showed up in front of Gel. The interface had a 3D model of what he looked like and when he clicked on his hair it showed all the things he could change.

Gel thought about it for a moment before coming up with a decision, 'My goal I'd to be famous, so I should go with a flashy look, but I also don't want to go too far from my real body since I need this fame to carry over to real life..."

Gel changed some things around and after about 5 minutes he was done. All he changed was his eye color and hair. He made his hair touch his shoulders and have a dark blood red color going through it all. He also changed his eyes to be a gold color, it looked exactly how Gel wanted it to, flashy.

"Alright since you are done with that spin this wheel to see where you will begin your journey on the Flaming Chaos Kingdom."

The little pixie boy snapped his fingers and a wheel showed up in front of Gel. He looked at the wheel for a moment before spinning it ferociously.

After a couple of seconds of spinning it stopped and landed on Domini Village, "Alright Domini Village, now where do you want the tutorial to be? It could be in a forest, or on top of a mountain..."

"How about on top of a mountain, that sounds interesting."

"Alright then, I wish you a fun time in New Creation. Good luck!"

The little boy snapped his finger again and Gel felt his eyes get heavy as he once again, fell asleep.