《Founding Eden》 prologue - The Awakening Founding Eden prologue ¡®The Awakening¡¯ Royal Road is the biggest virtual reality game in the entire world. Everyone who can afford to play the game has played it. Those who cannot afford the capsule or it¡¯s too big to fit in their house have memberships to a game center where they play the game. Even those who don¡¯t like the game have at least paid for one month¡¯s membership. But now a new system has been invented by a new company. It is basically a helmet that you can put on to enter virtual reality. The only game that was on that system as of now was a game called ¡®Fallen Eden¡¯. Steven had been in a coma for four years. It happened during his freshman year of high school, it was a story that was all over the news it was during the first day ¡®Royal Road¡¯ was released to stores, it was such a big crowd outside the store and when the doors were opened everyone pushed and shoved their way in not noticing that a kid had fallen over and gotten trampled. He was brought to the hospital barely alive but not conscious. He woke up barely being able to move he was in the hospital. He remembered that he was waiting outside of the store waiting to buy ¡®Royal Road¡¯ and got pushed from behind that¡¯s it. Since no one was in here it must have been a little while it looks dark out the store opened around like 9 am it must have been like 12 hours since them. He looked around and saw he was hooked up to a lot of equipment it must have been a very bad accident. He sees and presses the button to call the nurse. She comes in with a rather surprised look on her face. Within a few hours his parents were there overjoyed and in tears and this 11 year old girl who looked familiar was there bawling louder hen his parents. He asked his parents who she was. That just led to more tears and she screamed ¡°I¡¯m your sister!¡± Steve looked confused ¡°My sister is only 7¡± After a lot of explaining realization and a week of recuperation and having friends visit Steve was finally back home and getting to sleep in his old bed again. He was having lots of problems. Not only had is muscles for the most part vanished, he had sustained serious injuries that he had yet to fully heal from because he wasn¡¯t able to work them and help with the recovery. It would be a couple of weeks before he could walk and much longer before he can run. He will never be his old self again. He spent those weeks catching up with his family and everything he had missed in the world. He learned that Royal Road wasn¡¯t just an old game but was bigger than ever. This disappointed him even more. It meant he was 4 years behind the best players and it would be impossible for him to ever catch up. Fall was approaching fast and they had to decide what he was going to do for school. In the end they decided he was going to be home schooled with a tutor. He would be using the virtual world and technology from the Unicorn Company to learn at a much faster pace because time moves differently in the virtual world. He could get 4 years of schooling in 1 year and start catching up to his friends. Steve wanted to find a game he could play. He had always been an active gamer but no matter how popular and amazing ¡®Royal Road¡¯ is he refuses to play it because he knows it¡¯s impossible to catch the better players of the game or even most of the average players anytime soon. His favorite part of gaming was being at the opening of a new game and getting a head start on people he was always one of the top players in any game but if a new RPG came out he would almost certainly abandon the old game. Because of this habit he had never beaten a game in the past or ever made it to close to the top level. Later on the news he heard of a new system created by a subsidiary of the Unicorn Company that let people wear a helmet that hooked them up to different virtual reality games. Royal Road was planning to eventually switch over to this system but that might not be for a few years and it might not even be this version of the system. Steve was intrigued by this development so he got out his laptop and started looking up this new system. The very first thing he saw was the internet was going crazy over a new game called ¡®Fallen Eden¡¯. The Creator of the game somehow had access to the Royal Road databases and made it so anyone who starts playing the game has a copy of their ¡®Royal Road¡¯ avatar starting over from level 1. The entire world is different and people say it¡¯s not as good as RR. But it was popular because they could get an early look at the new Gaming Helmet and try new quests and adventures that no one else had to know. The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. The more Steve looked into it the more he wanted to play. The game was shrouded in mysteries, like how they have access to the Royal Road databases and how the game already got the software needed to be used on this new system. Some conspiracy theorists say that Eden is actually one of the continents of Royal Road, other than the Versailles continent, that are not available in the game yet. This theory has been proven wrong by the way the classes, laws of magic, and religion very too much from RR but some people still say that¡¯s just to hide it. After doing his research he asks his parents if he could get the game and use the helmet for his schooling too instead of the capsule because it would make more sense than changing his whole room to get a new pod installed and he didn''t need a capsule because he didn''t plan on playing RR anyways. His parents were easily convinced, they seemed to be overly happy to do anything he wanted seeing as they had just finally gotten him back. For the time being it seemed he would be able to get anything he wanted. He ordered the Gaming Helmet and ¡®Fallen Eden¡¯. It took some time to arrive during that time he did more research on that game and research on virtual reality in general. The world of Eden is filled with overgrown trees, oaks, holly, spruce, birch, every tree you can name and thousands of others grown to the size of Redwoods. There are volcanic mountains that never stop flowing, lakes as wide and deep as it can be and still be called a lake, trees so big there are villages built in them. Eden was supposed to be one of the most beautiful places any one had seen, and it was around the towns were people lived, but everywhere else looked abandoned the lakes that were supposed to be beautiful and clear had been reported of having so much algae they were green, the glowing red mountains were covered in so much steam no light from the lava could get out, and the forest was well just overgrown but still really cool looking. Each race has its own starting town, and some races that get along can start in each other¡¯s towns. Steve was worried he wouldn¡¯t be able to play the game because he didn¡¯t have a RR account and everyone who has played so far said it takes your RR avatar and restarts it at lvl 1 while not affecting your actual RR account. He didn¡¯t know if the game would let him play if he didn¡¯t have an account. The Game finally arrived he gets it all setup with the helmet plugged in and adjusted so it fits his head correctly and logs in to the Game ¡®Fallen Eden¡¯. -Your brain waves and iris scans don¡¯t match any of the Royal Road data bases would you like to create a new account for ¡®Founding Eden¡¯ Founding Eden I thought the game was called Fallen Eden. Maybe it¡¯s a mistake in the game that no one has caught because most people already have a RR account. Oh well let¡¯s get started. -YES!! -New players have to choose their alignment. This determines what classes you can start with and where you start in the world. You can choose Demonic, Humane, or Angelic. This is even stranger I must be playing the wrong game there was nothing like this in anything I read on the game oh well let¡¯s see what classes each of the alignments hold. Demonic contained harpies, miniatures, different kinds of demons, dragons, and many other classes of monsters like that. ¡®Holy Shit!!¡¯ you can be dragons in this game that¡¯s awesome!! Humane contained what seemed like all the classes available in RR ¡®Well I can¡¯t choose that alignment it would be to normal¡¯ Angelic didn¡¯t give a description or say what classes there are. ¡®Now I¡¯m even more confused what is happening why doesn¡¯t any of this make sense what class should I choose. Well this is good it wouldn¡¯t be fun if it wasn¡¯t unique¡¯ :?: next chapter Chapter 1 - New beginning Beyond the Gate Chapter 1 ¨C New Beginning Beyond the Gate
Your brain waves and iris scans don¡¯t match any of the Royal Road data bases would you like to create a new account for ¡®Founding Eden¡¯
The world was black and filled with nothingness all around me except for the message screen. The screen was lit but it didn¡¯t shine any light in front of it like a phone or computer screen. This is getting me really exited!! ¡°YES!!¡± All of the sudden I felt like the flooring beneath my feet disappeared and I let out a startled yell expecting to plummet. I was falling not fast but just a nice slow comfortable descent. I could feel some air coming up so I knew I was going down but it felt more like I was floating than falling. I looked down and saw an old looking clock face that looked like it was falling apart but that only made it look even cooler like a giant antique you could see gears from behind it some moving but most not (maybe they were just going so slow I didn¡¯t notice. Both the hands of the clock were on the 12. That must be the in game time since it was like three twenty when I logged in like 2 minutes ago. As it got closer I noticed the top half was even more corroded and decrepit then I thought and it was collecting a lot of dust but the bottom half looked broken and maybe burnt and there was maybe even some blood on it. The clock was probably broken for good so I guess that isn¡¯t the time. I landed directly on the center of the clock and a new message window just popped up in front of me.
New players have to choose their alignment. This determines what classes you can start with and where you start in the world. You can choose Demonic, Humane, or Angelic.
I looked up the details of each of each of the alignments. The Demonic alignment contained harpies, miniatures, different kinds of demons, dragons, and many other classes of monsters like that. ¡®Oh My God Dragons!!!¡¯ The Humane alignment contained what seemed like all the races available in RR. The Angelic alignment didn¡¯t give a description or say what races there are. I really want to be a dragon like really, really want to be a dragon, but at the same time I really love the idea of not knowing what I¡¯ll get if I choose the Angelic alignment. Damn! It is just too hard to choose and I can¡¯t do random because I might get humane. Why do they do this? Looking down I notice ten minutes had already passed, I guess the clock does work. I really should decide or I¡¯ll be sitting here all day and never get to play the game. After thinking about it for a while I realized being a dragon would actually be very inconvenient. You wouldn¡¯t be able to go into towns or get any quests because you would be too big and imagine how hard it will be to get used to moving around in a dragon body. Who knows what I¡¯ll get for Angelic. I wouldn¡¯t mind being an angel, I mean it is a little girly, but who knows I might be able to be a God, or some kind of paladin race not just a class. ¡°Angelic¡±
Is that your final decision? You will not be able to delete this character unlike in Royal Road so every decision you make is final from here on out.
¡°I¡¯ve made my decision so I¡¯m going to stick with it.¡± A glowing white light appears at the end of the hour hand of the clock in the shape of an archway. I walk toward the light and through the archway. Now everything is white except for my body standing right in front of me. I jump back in surprise before realizing that this must be the character creation screen. ¡°Show me the different races¡± -¡­ Nothing happened. Maybe I swipe sideways or something. Nothing is happening what how do I do this. I don¡¯t even know what race this is, it looks exactly like me so it should be a human but human was classified under the humane alignment. What do I do? ¡°Start¡± -Are you ready to name your character and start your adventure? ¡°NO!!!¡± that¡¯s not what I wanted. ¡°Instructions¡± -Edit the avatar in front of you to your liking. ¡°Geez that helped sooo much¡± I look closer at the other me and I look kind of brighter and completely clean with a slight shine kind of like the pictures of high elf¡¯s I¡¯ve seen except all the other features look just like me so I don¡¯t know what race it is supposed to be. I walk forward and touch my chest and a window pops up with a slider for skin color. Now we are getting somewhere but still how do I change the race. I don¡¯t really want to change my skin color. ¡®Damn how do I work this thing?¡¯ I swipe my hand to get rid of the window and in doing so I accidentally slid my hand against my shoulder and it got a little on the bigger side. He had always been more of a skinny kid and now after being in a coma for so long he was even more so. This is cool I have to edit it myself. I¡¯ll take my time. *** The finished character is bigger than his actual body he gave himself really overly defined muscles not big. He made his ears look pointed not to the extent of a whole elf but he didn¡¯t want to look too human. He made his hair long and black, and gave him a cool/angry looking face just to spite the fact that he was a shiny bright human with angelic alignment. I looked like one of the darker character from and anime or manga that always sit in the back of the room. The ones the girls fight over like Sasuke from Naruto except with longer hair. This race must add an overall improvement to his looks something similar to an elf I guess. The only thing that annoyed me was the shining of my skin. ¡®What am I a vampire from Twilight? ¡­ Oh well¡¯ ¡°I¡¯m done¡± -Due to your characters high looks, one stat point from each stat you are able to add to will be in the charisma slot at the beginning of the game, do you want to continue. ¡°NO!!!!¡± After making his character look bad and several more tries nothing he did changed that message. ¡®I guess it is a race future¡¯ I¡¯ll go back to my original one I made. ¡°I am done¡± and before the message even came up he said ¡°Yes¡± -Are you ready to name your character and start your adventure? ¡°Yes¡± -What would you like to name your character? ¡°Lucifer¡± -Sorry that name is not available ¡°Figures, how about Mephistopheles¡± -Sorry that name is not available ¡®Damn if that doesn¡¯t work then Satan defiantly won¡¯t work. What other evil names can I think of? Ganondorf from Legend of Zelda would work but I wouldn¡¯t want that to be my name. This is always the hardest part of any game. I¡¯m surprised with myself for even coming up with those names. After a long time of thinking I went with the Name ¡®Urek Mazino¡¯ is an Irregular from the Tower of God manhwa. The character I made looks nothing like the character but his name fits the type of person I¡¯m going for, well for the most part anyway, so I am going to use it anyway. -You will be starting at the Gate of New Beginnings. My vison floats out of my control turns and backs into my new body almost as if my eyes flew out of my head and put in a new body. I started moving my body around testing it out. I look ahead and see a dulled golden gate up ahead. I walk forward until it looms high over my head. Right in front of me I saw an old beautiful antique looking wooden podium. The sides were engraved with scenes of wars involving angels and demons they almost seemed to move about but if you looked closely at one part you couldn¡¯t see any part of it actualy. But the podium was full of scratches and the wood was starting to rot, but at the same time seemed alive. It was hard to explain most likely something that can only be created with incredible amounts of programing. An old (just like everything else so far) thick book filled with names was placed atop the podium. It was open to a page that still had a few blank spots at the bottom of the page. ¡°Sign your name and you may enter.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± I looked around and saw a paladin at one of the ends of the gates looking at me. ¡°Sign and enter¡± ¡°Oh ok, thanks¡± Looking down at the book the three most recent names appear different than the others. They look newer more of a modern-day look to them. Silent Soul, Yanah, and the last one was written like a normal signature fast and illegible. They must be other players that hadn¡¯t played Royal Road before. I started flipping through the pages of the book after going through a couple of hundred pages it felt like the pages would break apart in my hand by the slightest touch. As I went back I noticed that there were names crossed out and a fair amount at that. I started flipping through large groups of pages and the farther back I went the more names there were crossed off but there was normally at least one or two still there. I stopped flipping through the pages when I realized I was making no progress at all there were different names on each page but I wasn¡¯t any closer to the beginning of the book. I decided to close it and open right to the first page. The entire page was crossed of accept for a line at the top of the page and the first entry. I looked down at it ¡°Abel¡± and the line above said ¡°King Yama¡± grants access beyond this point to the following.
New Journal Entry: Story of Abel
New Journal Entry: Yama¡¯s Entry Book
This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. What journal entry what is that is that, a new feature of this game or something I wonder what it is ¡­ ¡°Hey you! Don¡¯t just stand there if you have to write your name then you need to enter I don¡¯t want to stand here watching you all day!¡± ¡°Okay, Okay Sorry¡± I¡¯ll worry about the journal later. It¡¯s probably just the story of Cain and Able and I don¡¯t want to go on some religious journey, I am going to play the bad character. It¡¯s not fun being good in a game. I flip to the end, write my name, and enter the gate.
New Quest: Earn your wings
-The starting quest for all those who chose the angelic alignment you have to do a good deed. Depending on the deed and who and how many it impacts depends may change the results of quest. You can choose when the deed is the one to earn your wings. Once you have chosen your deed it is very hard to get better wings - Rank: D - Requirements: Angelic starting alignment - Rewards: Wings
Damn! So I am an angel, I thought so, I mean having wings is awesome but I have to do something good and I just decided to be the bad guy!! I get rid of the screen and take a look around. It looks rather spare not many people around. It looked mostly like your average medieval town but the ground was white except for right up along the sides of the roads the white slowly turned into dirt and there was some grass on top. Behind me where the gate was is now a big metallic shimmering wall. The way it shimmered was like how the sun reflects off of water when it has a slight current or a ripple but yet the wall was perfectly flat. God the sure put a lot of programing and work into giving the start of the game a very good first impression. But I hope they didn¡¯t just spend all their time and money on aesthetics but on content as well. So first things first I need to do is look in to this thing about the wings. What does it mean by that, are the wings different sizes? I look around and notice that there is only a few people around me and they don¡¯t have any wings on their back except one which had wings that weren¡¯t very big and didn¡¯t look like they would be able to lift them up at all (like the ones from the skypiea ark of one piece), maybe the others that didn¡¯t have wings hadn¡¯t gotten them yet like me. But I do notice a notice board up ahead with a map. I guess I can look for it in the library The Library was a rather small building that looked more like a small house. I opened the door and noticed a huge staircase leading underground and on the left a desk with a librarian. I ask if I can go down stairs. She says I can. As I started down the stairs she said ¡°Where are you from? I have seen people from all over the world as they enter this town when they first get here but I¡¯ve never seen anyone who talks or walks the way you do it¡¯s like you aren¡¯t from the world below.¡± ¡°Do I really act that different?¡± (I am going to have to work on that I don¡¯t want to stand out to much) ¡°I don¡¯t know, most likely others won¡¯t notice, my high intelligence stat gave me a passive skill that allows me to notice things most others won¡¯t.¡± ¡°Did you say everyone comes here when they enter this word, do you mean when they die.¡± ¡°Oh did you just get here? I guess you still haven¡¯t quite come to terms with the fact that you died. Well not everyone comes here some go to the world below the world below. ¡° ¡°But if everyone who dies comes here how come the gate isn¡¯t overflowing with people?¡± ¡°Oh well time in this town goes much slower than the rest of the world both up here and down below. And who ever judges them keeps them coming at a slow but steady pace.¡± ¡°Oh ok¡± How much must time be slowed down here? I mean the rest of the game is already 4:1. They say it works because the mind can handle things at a different speed then the body but this seems to be too much to make sense. After a long time of searching I found a book about the wings you can get. Book on known ways to get your wings Apparently there is some ceremony for when you get your wings where the people you helped and the people you have met since getting here come and a light comes down from Gods palace, which I am guessing is a place you can go eventually, and the light takes the form of your wings. The book then goes on about different kinds of wings you can get and some of the common ones and some of the known ways to get specific types of wings. It also gives some examples of high class wings that it is unknown how they were obtained for example the class of angels known as Seraphim they have six wings. The set of wings that attach the highest up on the back hang behind the others are the smallest set but in some cases each wing can still spread almost the length of the entire body. And each set gets larger as you go down. (Look up Seraphim on google images) For giving food/money to the poor gives you the average Skypiea wings, as I am going to call it. The more you give or help at the instance you chose for your deed depends on the size but most for this is small, this article did not cover the giving away of your entire fortune though. ¡®I noticed that it didn¡¯t mention actually giving time only material possessions. The next article caught my attention, Messenger wings (on feet). Each foot had a set of wings coming from the ankle. It talked about doing deeds like, if the hospital ran out of something they needed and you ran and picked it up for them for free or spent your money on it (apparently things like that add additional perks to abilities, stats, or appearance that the wings may have) could get you these. So I figure after reading it that they are common and I would rather have actual wings instead. But that¡¯s not what caught my attention what caught my attention was, in the margin next to the article someone hand wrote in ¡®The bird of Hermes is my name eating my wings to make me tame¡¯, which I know I have heard before.
New Journal entry
Oh I almost forgot about that journal feature I guess I can just refresh my memory by reading about it. ¡°Read journal Entry¡±
Unable to read. You lack the requirements to read this journal
¡°What Requirements?¡±
Possible requirements:
-Language -Skill -Previous knowledge on the subject -Level -Or specific circumstance
That sucks. Now think where have I heard that before, where¡­? I have no idea. Ok, Hermes who is Hermes. I think he is a Greek God but what which one It is next to the article about wings on the feet so it must be the messenger god. But what does he have to do with eating wings? If I have to get the Hermes wings for this journal I am not getting this journal. But I hope I remember where I have heard it before. I don¡¯t really know much about this place like if I have to stay in the first town for four weeks like in RR. I should go back to that bulletin board back where I started. Welcome and congratulations for living your life well enough to make it up here. Was posted at the top of the message board. It was then split in two with one side being town news and normal stuff like that and the other side having info for new arrivals. On the side for new arrivals it said you have to leave the town after four weeks, and you cannot return without special permission or for a relative, friends, or your wing ceremony which will always take place in this city. I think I¡¯ll log out to look up ¡®The bird of Hermes is my name eating my wings to make me tame¡¯ and probably log in in an hour or so after I get some food (and go to the bathroom). Oh before I log out I should check my stats. ¡°Open stat window''
Status Window
NameUrek MazinoAlignmentAngelic
RaceWingless Angelclassn/a
level1Fame0
Titlen/a
Health100Mana100
Strength9Dexterity9
Vitality9Charisma5
Wisdom9Intellect9
Luck0Leadership0
"Log out" - ... prologue Next Chapter Thanks for reading!!!! My dyslexia made me give up on the code for the chart many times so I decided to end the chapter there. I have a lot of school work so i will try to get one chapter out every week but it might be much less sorry. I have the next chapter already started. Chapter 2 – The Fire Pit’s Hidden Charm Chapter 2 ¨C The Fire Pit¡¯s Hidden Charm My brother gets out of a coma after four years and the first thing he wants to do is play a virtual reality game. I mean it¡¯s not like I know anyone who doesn¡¯t play them. Everyone who can afford to has played RR at least once. But still he could at least act like he wants to spend time with his family who thought they had lost him for good. My friends have been complaining to me for the past four years that I am not playing, but they never push me too hard because they know that I blame the game for putting my brother in the coma. (Don¡¯t worry I am not going to make her fall for her brother like Suguha/Leafa from SAO) But now that he is back and starting a new game I might give it a try. I asked my mom to order two headsets so I could also play. When my friends heard they got so excited and are getting the game for themselves, well most of them at least, some have to wait for their birthday, or keep trying to convince their parents if they can¡¯t afford to get the game themselves. Ok I guess it¡¯s time to start playing, my brother¡¯s been in for about an hour. After calling all my friends and telling them I am starting the game, I put the helmet on, and boot up the game. -Your brain waves and iris scans don¡¯t match any of the Royal Road data bases would you like to create a new account for ¡®Founding Eden¡¯ ¡°YES!!¡± (This paragraph is almost literally cut out of the first chapter the rest is different except for what the game says) All of the sudden I felt like the flooring beneath my feet disappeared and I let out a startled yell expecting to plummet. I was falling not fast but just a nice slow comfortable descent. I could feel some air coming up so I knew I was going down but it felt more like I was floating than falling. I looked down and saw an old looking clock face that looked like it was falling apart but that only made it look even cooler like a giant antique you could see gears from behind it some moving but most not (maybe they were just going so slow I didn¡¯t notice. Both the hands of the clock were on the 12. That must be the in game time since it was like four twenty (<- only difference) when I logged in like 2 minutes ago. As it got closer I noticed the top half was even more corroded and decrepit then I thought and it was collecting a lot of dust but the bottom half looked broken and maybe burnt and there was maybe even some blood on it. The clock was probably broken for good so I guess that isn¡¯t the time. I landed directly on the center of the clock and a new message window just popped up in front of me. -New players have to choose their alignment. This determines what classes you can start with and where you start in the world. You can choose Demonic, Humane, or Angelic. After looking up the details of each group I figured my brother most likely chose to be a dragon. Well first of I think every boy would choose to be a dragon, but if my memories of what he was like four years ago, four years is a long time especially since I am only 11. ¡°I would like to go with Demonic¡± -Is that your final decision? You will not be able to delete this character unlike in Royal Road so every decision you make is final from here on out. ¡°Yes¡± The time on the clock slowly starts moving faster and faster. The hands go all the way around three and a half times, maybe four and a half, and ends with both hands on the 6, well I guess the hour hand stopped first and the minute hand had to catch up. There was a second hand on the clock that wasn¡¯t there before that was also pointed toward the six. When all three hands of the clock were pointed at 6, A black skeleton hand comes out of the blackness that surrounded the clock comes out and rests on the five of the clock and starts to push down. The clock face starts to tilt down at the 6 and rise up at the 12. Flames start to rise over the edge of the bottom of the clock. I hold on to the clock as best I can as it starts to get steeper and the fire gets higher. I guess that¡¯s why the bottom of the clock looked burnt earlier. The hands of the clock start to sink into the clock until it become completely flat at the same time the clock reached the vertical position. Out of reaction I start franticly trying to find something to grab onto as I slide (fall incredibly fast) down the face of the clock toward the fire. I feel incredibly hot it has reached the point of torcher after reaching the point where I can no longer scream out the pain while still falling, everything goes dark. I feel an intense yet numbing stinging over my entire body reaching the point where I almost can¡¯t feel it at all, that is until a cool breeze comes over me. At first it was easing the pain, but it got colder and my body was so sensitive it felt like the most intense frost bite/stinging coldness I had ever felt before ¡­I blacked out again. One thing I won¡¯t realize until later, I have yet to choose my class. If this happened for choosing a demonic alignment, what will happen when I choose a demonic class? (It¡¯s the only options I have left) *** As the sun starts to rise the parents of the two new virtual reality players wake up, and get ready for work. Before they leave they go to wake up the kids for breakfast. A few hours later the house is filled with police and members of the IT department from the Unicorn Company. The conclusion reached was a virus on the LAN (local area network). What had happened was the parents could not get them out of the game through the messages they sent from outside (there is a feature where you can type something into the computer the head gear is wirelessly hooked up to and they get the message in game), and nothing happened when they tried to hit the manually log out button on the helmet. They had called tech support for help thinking that the button was broken and they just weren¡¯t logging out, but as they explained the situation over the phone they got more and more worried. The IT members would take an hour to get there and the parents called the police also as they got more and more worried. Eventually the decision was made move them to a hospital by switching the helmets over to a portable wireless hotspot so they could safely move them. They set up a special secure network that was separate from the hospitals to avoid the virus from spreading while they tried to get rid of it. The security system on Unicorn Network devises was tested to be more than 100 times better than any national security system out there. If someone was able to hack it there was no telling what would happen. It was made to be kept a secret so the world doesn¡¯t go into panic. *** Detective Harvey Walksin was the first to the house when this happened. It was not something he would normally be called to but he lived close by, so he knew them not well but he still kind of knew them, and he was good at calming down people so he decided to head over after asking permission from his police chief. Later when it was asked who wanted to work on the case he was the first to volunteer, because it peaked his interest. The first thing he did was go online and watch the game trailer. The trailer was a voice over while showing mountains dungeons monsters and much more. ¡°The passage of time has ravished the continent, cities submerged under floods, great lakes turned to desserts, forests overgrowing the world with trees reaching the heights of mountains and other forests turned to nothing but long fields of ash and brimstone with lakes of lava, but civilization is still holding on. It started four hundred years ago when the great tree at the center of Eden fell. The country was through into chaos, the emperor died and his empire was split into many kingdoms. Trade has become nearly impossible between kingdoms due to the wild ever changing landscape. Now in a world with Gods fighting Gods for followers and land, demons fighting gods and other demons just for the Hell of it how will you learn to thrive. Start your adventure all over again in this world of turmoil. You and your friends can find a new God to worship and start a religion, or help one of the bigger religions takeover the all of Eden and restore order. Or build an army, concur kingdoms, and become the new emperor if you can make it to the top. Anything is a possibility¡± Well I might as well log in to check to make sure I can get out safely. -Welcome to Fallen Eden - Your Royal Road character will be copied over and reset to level one -your character is human named ¡®Law¡¯ so please choose where you want to start your adventure? A large map was displayed in front of me. The map was popping out with the trees and mountains and such. Huge mountain ranges, lava pits, great lakes and deserts, everything you can think of, but the weirdest part was the mountain, and pit in the center of the map. The pit is on the east side of the mountain and it is huge and black but the mountain looks even stranger. It is the largest feature on the map big enough that you should be able to see it from anywhere on the map. There is a plateau stretching out to the west/southwest of the mountain, or maybe it is a mountain range that combined to form one long mountain. The plateau itself is taller than any of the mountain ranges on the map by far and reaches into the see. The whole thing almost looks like a tree that has fallen over and pulled its roots out of the ground with it, but at the same time it looks mountainous, cold, and eerie. Most of it was slight grayed out still leaving color though, showing either an unavailable kingdom or an area under no one¡¯s control because it was too dangerous (most of the map). There were 7 greyed out Kingdoms and four available kingdoms to choose from each had 3-5 of their bigger cities lit up as choices to start in. The kingdoms that were available were to the south eastern region of the map and looked to be the most normal region in the continent. There were no names above the cities or the kingdoms but from others playing it would probably be posted online somewhere. There were a few locations marked with stars throughout the map. The key said race special ¡®optional¡¯ starting locations. The human one was of on a little island far away from the main content to the south east. Other stars were located on a mountain, in a forest with trees the size of mountains, in a hilly plain, and many other places throughout the map. Ok since these four kingdoms are going to be the main starting areas and it looks like the focus of the game for a while where would the best place to start if you want to look for a missing person? I guess the center would be best but what if they chose a race other than human, they might have different starting areas, or they might have chosen the special starting area. I won¡¯t go for that because it is isolated and I will not be able to gather as much information from there. Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. ¡°I¡¯ll go with the center most city of the kingdom on the north west end of the available kingdoms¡± You have chosen to start in Histrothor¡¯s capital city Felaheart. Lights appear all around me and then when my eyes have adjusted I am in what seems to be a rather busy town square. I look down at myself it was my Royal Road character except in beginner clothing. I was a rather big and tall guy with lots of mussels. It wasn¡¯t a very hansom character but it did have a very stocky build that would fit well with a tank/guardian type character, which is how I played RR. This time I am going to be a paladin. After watching the trailer I decided it would be easier to obtain power and knowledge of the world while working with a church. ¡°Log out¡± Are you sure you want to log out? ¡°Yes¡± I sit up and remove the helmet. Well that¡¯s good I can log out. So the main job I have to do is find them in game and keep them from moving around in the world. I was told it would be easier to isolate the virus if they are not moving around in game too much. But I want to find them for the reason of being there for them as someone who knows what is happening in to them and can help them through this. I know this could put them through a lot of stress and mental trauma and I want to help them through this. I go through and contact most of the people close to me and tell them that I will not be available very often for a while and I tell them if they need to contact get in touch or spend time with me they will have to get ¡®Fallen Eden¡¯. I give my report to the police chief about my plan for the case and how I want to find them as fast as possible. I am leaving most of the out of game work to my partner and I will be spending all of my work hours and free time in the game because I need to be a high level if I want to find people with ease. I will be going in to the station once a week to give a report on my progress and spend every Monday working with my partner on out of game work, like tracking down the maker of the virus, looking in to conditions behind them being stuck in game, and possibly try to find out if there are any other reported cases of the game virus appearing anywhere else in the world. He will also be looking into the special starting areas and putting requests on dark gamer websites for information about any irregular players who never log out / NPCs that act like players. Now that I have everything settled its time to log back into the game and get started on my hunt. No matter how many times I have played RR, when I log in I am always amazed that a world like this can be created by a computer. So the first thing I need to do is see if I can get a job right away at a church. It is a good way to make money and create the faith stat early on in the game and it is easier to become a paladin if you are already working for the church you want to serve under. Now I need to figure out a few things, which church is most powerful in this area, which I want to join, and what churches don¡¯t get along. Oh and what the requirements are needed to become a paladin for that church. *** Going back to the sister After passing out from pain at least 50 more times. That could be an exaggeration or an understatement since it was so painful I only remember the first two very well the rest I¡¯m not sure if I woke up or just had fuzzy head filled with pain. I must have been out for week¡¯s maybe even months. It was just a long painful experience. I don¡¯t know how I¡¯m alive let alone if I¡¯m awake or not since I have yet to open my eyes. Ahhhhhh!!!! It hurts it¡¯s like my eyelids have been fused together. That would make sense, never mind it doesn¡¯t if I had actually been burned as much as I was I shouldn¡¯t be alive so it wouldn¡¯t matter if my eyelids had connected. Nothing actually hurts except for when I just tried to open my eyes, which is still in excruciating pain by the way don¡¯t get me wrong. I guess I¡¯ll try to sit up. As soon as I start to move my arms I let out a scream of pain and blackout again (not that it wasn¡¯t already black). After going through that uncountable more times I eventually was able to sit up and force my eyes open through the most agonizing pain you can imagine. Scratch that worse than you can imagine. And what I saw when I opened my eyes was me naked. Well not ¡®me¡¯ the skin was a very beautiful but pale slightly light greyblue tinted color with very dark reddish purple hair. The whole thing was slightly ghostly while still solid, full, strong, and mysterious looking. As soon as I took my concentration off it, the pain came flowing back so suddenly I blacked out again. I was able to sit up again using extreme will and concentration. Opening my eyes was easier this time, still unbearably painful, but easier. But what I saw before me this time was different. I still think it was me with the height and shape but this one was scaled mostly red but the stomach up to the neck and down between the legs was orange yellow. The face was also distorted into more of a lizard shape. I try to pick up one of my hands to reach for it or something but with the injuries to my body my other arm cannot support making me fall backwards. Not sure if I blacked out before or after my head hit the ground. I wake up and before I try to open my eyes I realize I have yet to look at myself and to see the injuries but I am afraid to see how horrid the burns are. The fact that I am able to wake up and move some must mean they aren¡¯t too bad (I hope). But before I look at me I should see what the other me looks like this time. I¡¯m just too afraid to look at myself. I look forward at the alternate self. I nearly threw up only to be forcefully stopped by the tremendous pain caused by me leaning forward causing me to black out again. This time it was me the actual me except with rotting flesh and bones showing through. I couldn¡¯t catch anything else due to losing consciousness so fast again. This cycle continued for a while until I was finally able to hold myself together for a longer period of time. I don¡¯t know if I am getting better or just getting used to the pain. I had seen mostly ugly ones during this time like goblins trolls and such. There was one that did catch my attention though. It looked younger than me, the legs turned scale like from just above the knees down ending in big talons, and instead of arms it had wings. It was the only winged one I had seen so far. I finally remembered I was in a game after seeing a few text boxes floating around. The top one said something about a character selection thing. I quickly looked at the rest and it was just an endless list of warnings about falling unconscious. I closed them all. Maybe if I choose a class and create a character I will enter that body and be rid of this pain. I think I am going to go with the first one I saw it was beautiful and mysterious, strong yet fragile. I will have to go with that one. ¡°Go back to the first race¡± The alternate self that was in front of changed from a skeleton to one that it was currently on to a new one. It was me with red skin horns a forked red tail ending in a triangular point. It had my hair made darker making it completely black. Since there was no sex appeal added I am guessing it¡¯s just a normal demon and not a succubus. That was definitely not the first one I saw. It changed every time I blacked out so maybe it was already constantly changing when I was slipping in and out of consciousness before the time I was able to open my eyes. ¡°Next¡± A different one came up it was also new. ¡°Next¡± Again a new one came up¡± ¡°Is there any way to auto flip through them faster and I can just say stop when I see it¡± It then started flipping through it at a fair speed. Half of what we passed were just monsters that had no resemblance to me either and no two seemed similar. ¡®Are there really this many different races to choose from I mean this is absurd. Wait was that it ¡°WAIT STOP!!¡± ¡°Go the other direction¡± ¡°Stop¡± That¡¯s the one I remembered. The skin almost looks like snow but still has a little grey/blue tint to it making it look a little less pure. The body looked younger than me but more mature at the same time. The eyes were the same color as the hair except a little darker and the redness was less noticeable leaving mostly purple, they looked deep and dark filling the face with beauty and mystery, but at the same time with an innate look of sorrow, and pain adding to the exquisiteness of the emotionless face that had yet to obtain an inhabitant. The body was the most unlike the rest by the fact it looked fragile all the others didn¡¯t necessarily make me big and huge or anything but they all looked strong. It also looked like it was barely touching the ground almost like it was weightless. With all the pain and the yelling to stop my body started to drift into unconsciousness again and I didn¡¯t have enough strength left to say anything. But I think the game new I had made my decision. I felt the pain melt away as I seemed to drift up above my actual body and flow toward the other body. When I was right in front of it a box came up telling me to choose a name. END of chapter 2
Going back to Steve/ Urek¡¯s story (the main story) next chapter. I just finished this chapter first I was working on both of them at the same time (so it won¡¯t be as long before the next chapter (hopefully)) I think this was a good place for this chapter, it was needed early on, it explains a little of Eden. Don¡¯t know why I split the sister¡¯s story up maybe to build suspense or something it just seemed to flow that way as I wrote it. When I first showed this chapter to my friends they said I was a terrible person, the parents finally get their son back only to lose him and his sister again to a video game, and they loved the story, so I hope you guys like it too. And most of all thank you for reading my story and I hope you enjoyed it. Sorry for the long distance between chapters I have a lot of work to do at college "which is more important" even though I like doing this work more. but over winter break whenever that is I will hopefully speed up with my releases. Help! I need a name for the sister IRL and in game they can be the same (can¡¯t be Elizabeth I¡¯m using that as another person¡¯s name but that is basically the only unavailable name at this point) I also need a name for the Detectives partner I need help deciding what kind of mobs there will be to fight in heaven. (Won¡¯t need these for another two chapters) One last thing out of the 3 characters so far whose story are you most interested in? [th_092_.gif] you want to help me...