Prolouge

Choose your race.

Ummm what? What race am I supposed to choose? I look around seeing nothing but pitch blackness and those words glaring brightly in front of my face. Race? Ohh I get it now. This is some new virtual reality game my brothers bought and decide to create an account for me to grind their gold and be backup support solely reliant on other characters to kill for them but so necessary in group setting.

Damn stupid brothers. Couldn't they just call me, text me, or heck email me to log on. Though yeah, chinese farming a game for them has tiring and I have been making excuses not to log on, but breaking in my house, tossing a virtual reality helm on me and logging me into a game is a bit much. Don’t they know mom will kill us if we don’t do well on our finals.

Fine. I'll choose my character, get into the game, log right back out, head over to their damn house and give them a piece of my mind.

“Okay game, give me a list of the races that I can chose to play.” I don’t know who I’m saying it to but apparently it worked.

Up popped the prototypes of the races I can choose as my character. Man the developers have outdone themselves. The characters are detailed and finely drawn. Whoever they hired as their artist must be world class. No hardship here staring that these characters. Furthermore none of the races have an “ugly” class.

Seriously, if there wasn’t a bonus to some classes, who would want to be an ugly goblin, weird looking troll or a hairy dwarf. The game developers got away from those archetype. Instead they went through the elemental route.

First the Landian, land animal characteristic such as cat ears, tails and claws. Then there’s the Aquarius, creatures of the sea. Some water serpent, some water man looking things with fins as their ears and webbed feet. And are those tentacles? Wow, where’s the mermaids with a soprano voice and we’ll have a classic. I know, the water serpent thing can be the mermaid. Instead of fish fins for legs, they have snake tails.

The Infernos are the most human looking race there is. Humanoid with weird tattoos. And my favorite, the Aerials. Humanoid creatures with wings.

Yes, wings. I’ve always wanted to fly, and now it seems I could. I’ve always envied the birds that could take to the air to get away from all the smoke and fogs of the polluted cities. The gold I could save on a flying mount wouldn’t hurt either.

There are three different type within the Aerial race. The Ruse Marren have wings similar to that of a butterfly. Beautiful gigantic wings spanning 8 to 9 feet from the body, yet easily folds along the spine, giving someone that arrogant, ramrod, stiff like they have something stuck up their bu...back look. Or someone carrying a staff on their back. Hey, I can be generous with my assessment.

The Tajin Nost are leathery bat wing humanoid. Their wings have joints, allowing them to fold their wings in like a cape. Knight of the realm, with a dazzling white charger and cape that flutters in the wind. Very majestic.

I think of angels when I see the Perrian Let, ducks when I’m hungry. Feathery wings. Big, bulky, molting wings dropping feathers here and there. I can pluck those feather and pretend I’m having peking duck later. Yum, peking duck. And a pillow. A nice soft pillow. Pluck those feathers.

How do they control those wings of theirs? It looks hard to curve around the body and how in the world would these suckers walk in tight spaces huh? There’s always these cave like dungeon and I’m gonna say to my party members, “Grease me up and pull as hard as you can.”

The other 2 races have a way of folding their wings that so that should they have a need to be in tights spaces such as a narrowing winding passage of a cave, they can scrunch up their wings and walk. The Perrian Let, not so much. Maybe they can fold their wings, hmmm, I know, under the armpits and wrap around the body, crisscrossing at the center of the body with the wing tips ending around the upper thigh. The arms can be freed to fight. Sight might be limited, with the wings block peripheral vision.

I switch back and forth among the 3 races. Choosing a race is hard work. Actually choosing the character name is the hardest part. My younger brother spends 3 days creating a list of potential names, hoping the ones he like doesn’t get taken.

Oooh what’s that. Race description.

Ruse Marren: These dainty creatures like to flutter in the wind in an indiscernible pattern. Due to their tough fibrous wings, the Ruse Marren are able to perform maneuvers in the sky that most find almost impossible to duplicate.

Yeah nice description, but it’s the details below it that interest me. +10% to agility and +10% to dexterity.

Let’s see the other races.

Tajin Nost: These predators in the sky dive bomb their prey with deadly accuracy. Gigantic wing spans and excellent vision allow the Tajin Nost to hone in and overpower their prey from massive distances. +10% to strength and +10% to precision.

Perrian Let: These majestic birds of prey fly far and wide to hunt prey. The musculature of the wings were built for long distance flight through some of the toughest conditions. +10% to constitution and +10% to endurance.

The Perrian Let it is. I rarely pick classes that allow me to capitalized on either agility or strength, but everyone needs hit points.

Now the customization of my character goes something like this:

Gender: Female

Face: Already inputted

Hair color: can be change later by visiting a salon

Hair style: can be change later by visiting a salon

Eyes:

Height:

Body type:

Feather color: White: changes as a characters grows and develops

Wing color: White: changes as a characters grows and develops

Wingspan: Small: changes as a characters grows and develops

What? Why in the world the developer do this to us gamers? Does this mean that we don’t have a choice in how we look or do the developers want to milk players of gold by forcing us to pay for customization. In the other MMORPG I’ve farmed, I found a rare dye that sold for 3k gold. Could the developer be going that route. Damn greedy pigs!

I’ll just get this done, log out, and get even with said brothers. They have some nerve to do this to me. I know their account name and password!

Hair. I like silver or red. I would’ve said anything but black, but there some god awful colors out there. Puke me green for example. I hate that light yellowish green color. Dark green, emerald, jade or just plain green or yellow is fine. Just don’t mix it.

Hmm, not silver. My wings are white already. More white on white doesn’t look good. And red does not match my complexion or facial feature. Dark blue? Blond? Oooh dark purple, with bangs framing my face and curling down my back. I like that combination. I can always change it later in the game or reroll and create another character with a different look. Although, I want to try save the rerolling process as a last resort. I’ll still be in the same situation, but next time I’ll just agonized over a different color combination.

Now for the eyes. I always like a either a bright aquamarine or a light hazel on my characters. Can’t change this characteristic in game so… dark blue it is. Bright aquamarine is too blue. It doesn’t match with my hair or my skin tone since they are using my real face.

Height. There two option for this. A drop down menu from small to giant or an input box for you to enter the desired height. 5 feet 4 inches. IRL I’m 5 feet. I don’t like being short, but I don’t like being tall either. 5’4” is on the short ish side of normal, but that’s the ideal height for me.

Body type. Slender. I can’t identify with the voluptuous body type with double D boobs and wide hips. It’s just not me. I wouldn’t mind a C cup leaning towards the D with a somes flare at the hips, but the not exaggerated v shaped female anime bodies.

Feather color is a weird one. From what I can tell, the developer didn’t design the Perrian Let to have smooth skin. Instead they have small feathers overlapping each other all over most of their body. There are some featherless area such as the face, torso and abdominal area. I would assume the breast for females are also featherless. They cover the private area of character with a bikini swimsuit.

I pushed the enter button and confirm my character. A new phrase popped up.

Enter your name.

Leviene. Easy peasy. It’s the name of all my main character in any MMORPG I’ve played. And it’s not something someone would think of. I never got the “that name is taken” message.

Enter another name.

Altreyes. Name of my alt.

Enter another name.

How many names do the developers want anyways. Rayael. Done.

Enter your lineage name.

Ugh. Arganox.

Confirm your character.

Leviene Altreyes Rayael Arganox.

Race: Perrian Let

Gender: Female

Face: Already inputted

Hair color: Dark purple

Hair style: Long hair with curls at the ends and bangs framing the face

Eyes: Dark blue

Height: 5’4”

Body type: Slender

Feather color: White: changes as a characters grows and develops

Wing color: White: changes as a characters grows and develops

Wing span: Small: changes as a characters grows and develops

I press the confirm button with impatiences. Get on with this.

Confirm your character by typing confirm in the input box and press enter.

Leviene Altreyes Rayael Arganox.

Race: Perrian Let

Gender: Female

Face: Already inputted

Hair color: Dark purple

Hair style: Long hair with curls at the ends and bangs framing the face

Eyes: Dark blue

Height: 5’4”

Body type: Slender

Feather color: White: changes as a characters grows and develops

Wing color: White: changes as a characters grows and develops

Wing span: Small: changes as a characters grows and develops

I type C-o-n-f-i-r-m in the box. Once I pressed enter, darkness enveloped me.