It's here!"Oh my God it's here! It's here, it's here!"
Japi's husband looked at her like she was completely insane. Which was likely, as she was jumping up and down shaking uncontrollably and clutching his arms. "What?"
"R 4~!" She threw her arms around and hugged him.
Now it was coming back to him. She'd done something similar about two weeks ago, saying 'It's out.' instead of 'It's here.' and he remembered telling her to go ahead and buy it. R:4 was referring to the fourth version of [The World] an online game Japi had been obsessed with for a while. Lith liked games like that, but the last time he'd looked at that particular one, he wasn't sure it was really his type.
"Well, go install it, silly," he told her, watching her dash off, squealing excitedly to grab her laptop from their room. What a dork. She was more of a kid than any of their kids.
~~
Japi set up her laptop hastily, not even plugging it in or getting out the mouse before she stuck the installation CD in it's place and started it installing. Then she pulled the mouse and power cord and hooked everything up, setting her fairy mousepad up on the desk and table and moving everything into place there.
She sat down in place and spun the chair around waiting for the install to finish. After all that, it was only 15%. "Hurry up!"
She counted outloud every percent that installed, Lith coming into the room to check on her once, before shaking his head and leaving her alone.
~~
When it was finally done, she logged in, set up an account and got to the character creation screen. She chose female of course. Japi liked playing characters that were her own gender, though she occasionally made male characters. Still, her first one should be female.
For her first character, Japi wanted to have something different from when she played R:4. She was a Tribal Grappler last time she played, a class they had again. But this time she wanted a weapon user.
To her delight, they still had the Flick Reaper and she selected it and proceeded to search through the character appearances, running across the perfect one. She was wearing a beautiful short kimono. "Ah!" It was perfect, especially since Japi was a big fan of kimonos and wore them all the time. She chose a nice matching hairstyle, one with chopsticks through it and picked purple. For the kimono, she picked green and chose blue eyes. She had always liked the cool colors best, after all.
Ooh. They were letting you choose a job separate from the class. A new feature, though she couldn't be sure if they didn't have it in R:3, since she was unable to play it. But they let you input your own title (though it had a disclaimer about losing your account if you make it something dirty, so people wouldn't be dumb about it). She just typed 'Adventurer' in the line, since she couldn't think of anything else.
Now for a name. Ugh, that was the hardest part. It always took her so long to come up with names for anything. Well, she was going to be playing this character as herself, so she could put her name, but she thought that was silly. Maybe her last name? Or part of both? Japi Lucarium - Ja Luca - Jaluca. That sounded nice. Now maybe a last name? She looked at her character, swaying to one side of the screen. Bloom? It fit somehow. Jaluca Bloom. She typed it in and hit next.
Review information.
She looked it over and thought about it. "Oh wait!" She went to her closet and grabbed her FMD and controller to hook them up to the computer and put the FMD on and clicked the button that said 'play' with her controller.
Her next adventure in [The World] had begun.
To be continued...
((Shop level: 20 posts, p3=5, p4=3, p7=3, p8=4, p9=5
OR Event opened pg. 13--my first post 14, count from there...
OR I autoed on pg. 24, yeah I'm counting that one.
xd ))
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