Welcome to Gaia! ::

Aric smiled happily. This place was his kind of environment. Everyone was talking exitedly about the relaease of Vitual Kingdom and what was to expected of the game. Bright lights were flashing all around, and the sense of expectancy was enormous.

Aric grinned and clutched the card in his hands. He couldn't believe that he had won that drawing. He laughed out loud as he remembered the look on his brother's face when he had told him the news. Aric had spent the last several months repeating the word "No" over and over, as his brother had begged to take his place. But this was once game Aric wasn't going to let his brother get the jump on him with. Aric was in line at the moment, proceding slowly to a young woman. He had heard so much about this game he could barely hold still.

He had heard from rumors that character designs were completely randomized, and the skill and wit of the player was the only thing that would prove a person's ability, rather than level or experience. Aric loved the idea. Logic puzzles and games of chess were his favorite pasttime, and a game where he could show his true colors, without the need for quick reflexes or a trigger-happy finger would be the greatest thing in the world for him.

He pushed his glasses up his face and smiled enthusiastically. 'This is going to be great,' he thought happily.

((My own RP got moved too. I found it under the level 3 category. You'd think they'd sent a PM or something to inform us. I had to mass message the other players.))

Aric saw the boy several people in front of him performing magic tricks for the woman taking cards and watched with interest. Some people said he was logical, but he could never spot the trick to those kind of performances. Aric grinned in anticipation. There were all sorts of people here to play the game.

He had only seen one girl so far, however, and she looked very out of place in this building. Her attitude had given her the appearance of being lost. Aric wondered why she was here in the first place.

'No use worrying about that now,' Aric thought. 'I'm almost to the front!'

((Just moved your OOC thread, its near the top of the list))

Before too long Adrea finally found herself at the front of the line. She nearly dropped everything trying to up them onto the desk, but after a frantic moment of juggling she managed to pass off her card and papers to Elincia. "Whew! There we go!" She laughed. "Sorry about all the extra stuff, it was kind of a last minute thing," she added with an apologetic smile. Adrea hadn't actually gone through all the paperwork, but went ahead and assumed Jun and Joey had completed everything alright. They were both basically geniuses, so she was sure they couldn't have screwed it up too much.
"I hope everything is all filled out right!" Adrea beamed confidently.

Elincia glanced down at the card, the registration information different from what it should have been for the girl. Elincia began typing things into the computer as she swiched things around, changing minor details like the slightly important fact that she was a girl and not a boy.

"Now what exactly is your name again?" she asked, sifting through the information and typing in what was obvious, "I generally shouldn't be doing this, but I'm assuming the incredibly ill kid who gave you this was somehow related to you, and since I saw him very happy when he handed it over..." She glanced back up, card in hand, "I appreciate you taking it for him," she paused, a broad smile on her face as she added somewhat sarcastically, "I would have hated to clean up the mess he would have left in the pods." she laughed lightly and keyed in a few more things until all that was left was the girl's name.

Some of the people behind her who could hear what was going on looked incredibly annoyed. Elincia shrugged, the girl had a card so she was perfectly legal in all technicality. It wasn't as if they weren't going to get to play, there were still plenty of pods despite the mass number of people there. Besides, most of the first had signed up for short, thirty minute sessions. Sessions that would be over within the next few minutes. Elincia grinned at how smoothly things were moving despite the obnoxious human element. She was really tempted to give the more impatient ones a hard time when they got to her, their tapping toes and agitated chatter getting on her nerves.

Elincia smiled and typed in the name. Scanning the card a second time she handed it back to the girl.

"Well at least the card wasn't wasted. I'm sure all these hard core gamers can understand that. I think any one of them would jump at the chance if they didn't have their own." She glared down the line sharply, and many people shifted out of her direct line of sight nervously. One boy, a few people back with glasses, just looked at his registration card as he waited in line, occasionally pushing them up off his nose. He seemed amused about something, maybe even lost in his own little world. She turned back to the girl, glare gone.

"Andrea," she paused, pondering as she looked at the girl's distinguishing features, her short hair and her bright face, "It seems like a very noble name. Very pretty and refined. I do hope you have fun. Do me a favor and teach all these boys a lesson." Her grin was huge as she sent the girl on her way, waiting for the next players to approach.

Meanwhile, in the tech labs, people were going back and forth as they waited for the last few members of the current session to enter the room. Most of the players were on an individual roster, choosing not to enter the same locations as people they knew, but it was easier with so many people waiting to send gamers into the Kingdom in large shifts that were just small enough that the initial Immersion wouldn't overload the system.

It was here that a young technician approached Tim, clipboard in hand as he circled the room, talking to players and asking about their impressions and expectations as they waited. He glanced at the boy, standing in wonder at the pod. He was tempted to laugh out loud at the tux Mr. Kinomoto had made his son wear, but he didn't. His supervisor would probably fire him for it. Instead he said jestingly,

"So kid, are you going to sit down or are you just going to stand and stare all day. Hey Tim, it's been a while. What were you, like, two when I last saw you? What do you think?" Tapping the open mouth of a Celtic dragon design to indicate what he was asking about he smiled broadly. Not much older than Tim himself the statement didn't really fit, but then again, this technician was known for his lame jokes falling flat.