Ch 3 Game Start

Now with time to myself, I start making sure I understand my new life. I still went to the same school had the same friends and my family is still the same.

Charlie and Bart are still friends from high school, we stayed together throughout our love of anime and video games, especially one piece.

I wonder what happened in this world to take the place of us talking about one piece or what I cosplayed as on Halloween 2014 if not as Luffy.

Questions I will have to find the answers to later.

My semi-successful book series Skies of Lock still exists and the money I made from it is still supporting me to this day although it can only keep me afloat for another 2 years, ill have to figure something out before then.

Skies of Lock is my sky pirate book series that I started writing in college it has a small fan base and was only ever published online yet the 3 book series kept me financially well off for the last few years.

But for the last year, I've had writer's block and have been unable to come up with anything good to replace it, maybe experiencing One Piece for real might help me come up with something, or perhaps I can be a streamer like Bart?

After confirming my situation and that I'll be getting a delivery of the DawnCorp full dive headset in 4 days, it looks like the nerve gear from sword art online hopefully it's not a bad sign.

I decided to start writing down EVERYTHING I can remember from One piece

The islands, world, story arcs, characters, devil fruits, races, rules of the world, and even anything I can remember from the SBS's.

One week later

I have the VR headset all set up now and the game goes live in 20 minutes. Like usual I'm on discord with Bart and Charlie talking shit while we wait on pins and needles.

"So where we droppin boys" Charlie said making me question that myself.

I would have the most advantage starting in the east blue since I know the most about that region as it's where the story started but there isn't really anything too special there and Rio said there would be mysteries and adventures in all the seas.

I also don't want to just trace the straw hats adventure, but giving up my biggest early game advantage is kinda stupid, but I don't even know how this game works or when it is.

"South Blue obviously" Bart piped up bringing me from my thoughts.

"I know the reason is bound to be stupid but why south?" Charlie asked aloud

"Because it's my favorite direction plus it's the direction of hell which is where I'm going" Bart replied

I think I could hear Charlie's facepalm over the mic as the 2 of them started arguing about hell and the direction of the south, I thought about the south blue.

South Blue is the land Ace was born as well as the home of the mysterious karate island that sounds useful. Also, it has the Torino kingdom which is where Chopper got sent to in the time skip, it has advanced medical knowledge and lots of golden treasures I could use as starting capital for the awesome ship I'll buy.

"South is a direction on a flat plane so it's not down to hell but more like behind you if you think of it like that" charlie said lecturing Bart.

I interjected "South Blue sounds good since we don't know anything about the world any is as good as any other"

"Fine, the game starts in 5 min I'm going to put on the headset I hope to see you guys in the South but if not we'll regroup on discord tonight, ok?" Charlie finished saying.

"YEEESSS" Bart shouted getting his way.

"Ok see ya then," I said as I left the call and put on the headset, and pressed start as my mind was taken from my body.

After a couple of seconds I appeared in a white room with a glowing blue orb in front of me, I looked down and saw my body in nothing but some underwear.

"One Piece Online goes live in 3 minutes feel free to familiarise yourself with the feeling of VR in the meantime, you can also choose your name now" a female voice rings out.

I'll go with my classic go-to username LeoLionKing420 I've had it since my club penguin account when I was 6 years old, I didn't add the 420 until I was 12 as LeoLionKing was taken on the One Piece forms and I knew it was the funny weed number.

I remember going on the forms to get translations of Oda's early SBS's.

Wait, when I was searching for any mention of One Piece the series I didn't find any mention of Eiichiro Oda at all.

Then it hit me, Eiichiro Oda, his wonderful world he spent 25 years creating, his whole life was taken from him. He is a genius and the greatest mangaka of all time and here I can't even find any mention of him online.

I actually shed a tear at that, now the whole world thinks some A.I Gaia made this world and they'll never get to experience the story through manga or anime and the story will probably be twisted due to the presence of all the players in the game.

Well, I decided to make the name Eiichiro Oda famous and synonymous with One Piece once again, I will take the name of the true god of One Piece.

"I want the name Eiichiro Oda for my character" I said to the A.I in front of me.

"V-Very... Very well your name has been saved" the Gaia said stumbling for a second.

That was weird I thought but didn't have much time to dwell on it as Gaia announced "You can now begin character creation"

A mirror image of myself stood in front of me 6 foot 2 dark shaggy hair fairly good looking like a 7 out of 10. I'm tall but pretty skinny not much muscle and I have dark green eyes.

"In One Piece Online you may not change your face but your body can be freely changed" Gaia spoke again

"As the game has just begun you may only be a human"

That's fine with me even if I had the choice i'd probably still pick human unless Lunarian was an option.

I try to make my character as tall as possible and the limit goes up to 10 feet tall the height of Doflamingo, I decide to stick with it, and while I'm at it I pack some more muscle on my body so I'm no longer a stickman.

Lastly, I seem to be able to change my eye and hair color. I make my hair darker to almost jet black, while I change my eyes to a brighter almost glowing green. I would have made them glow but that doesn't seem to be an option, shame.

"That seems to be all I can do, so can I start in the South Blue now?" I speak to Gaia

"Now launching One Piece Online good luck Oda" Gaia says as everything goes black.

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Ok it finally begins

Mc takes Oda's name for his character people will just call him Oda

Thought about putting a D in that name but didn't want to change his name so I kept it as Eiichiro Oda this does affect his character.

Made mc's description quite vague other than he is tall AF you imagine what you want :)