thought while
immersed in the Miyabi Full Dive. You can also choose your text with nothing
but a thought. With no barriers between your thoughts and the keyboard, you’ll
be able to communicate much more quickly with our developers and other
players. Menus function in the same manner. Voice functions between players
are disabled, as we like to maintain a certain atmosphere within the game.
You’ll only be able to vocally communicate with the developer you report your
progress to. I’ve begrudgingly allowed this with the advisement of my most
trusted designers. Now, I’d like you to choose a player character username,
one that suits you. Just remember, make it cool.”
Sam laughed at this ridiculous man, Milner. Truth be told,
the guy was already starting to grow on him with his strange personality. He
decided to take Milner’s advice to heart and start with a cool character name.
He wanted a name that was dark and mysterious. He also wanted it to be
timeless and unique. He came up with it on the spot, Sarem the Sanguine. His
thoughts manifested as text on screen. Ideas flooded his head about a cool
character to match such a dark name. He hoped that the game had a robust
character creation feature so that his ideas may come to life. Milner’s voice
interrupted his thoughts.
“Good, now you’ll be able to create your character.”
“Yes!” Sam couldn’t help but scream.
“You’ll start with your physical features such as skin
color, height, weight, and body type. I’ll let you create your perfect virtual
body in peace. Just say ‘help,’ if you need anything.”
Good, Sam thought and then he focused on what his new
body would look like. He scrolled through the genders and skin colors. He
thought about a female character, but his hunch was that the game had a first
person viewpoint instead of third person viewpoint. He wouldn’t be able to
stare at the virtual babe’s ass the whole time if it was first person, so there
was no point in gender bending, he figured. He also wanted an experience
completely different from his everyday existence, so instead of transferring two
hundred and eighty pounds of his five foot eight Asian self into the game, he
made himself into a tall, broad, and superbly muscular man with a deep black
skin tone. He wrestled with whether to make the character bald or not and
settled for a dark haired close shaved Caesar haircut like he actually had in
real life. He went for a full-on black goatee. along with creepy silver eyes
that seemed to glow in the moonlight. He kept his character’s main sword hand
on the right.
That completed the character’s physical appearance and he
moved on before he got lost in the minutia of all the other tweaking options.
Now came the fun stuff. As he read the text on this current
menu, his excitement started to build again.
Choose your class:
Fighter
All around combatant. Best at close range. High STR and
DEX. Good VIT and DEF.
Starting Gear: Burnt Iron Helm, Burnt Leather Cuirass,
Burnt Leather Gauntlets, Burnt Leather Leggings, Burnt Leather Boots, Steel Sword,
Burnt Iron Shield
Soul Intensity: 3
VIT 10 DEF 10 RES 8 STR 12 INT 6 DEX 12 SPD 8 SPT 2 BLF 5
PCP 2
Sam’s character, Sanguine looked every part the fighter in
his tough and flexible burnt leather gear. He looked like he had weathered one
hell of a battle. Now Sam knew what kind of game he was playing. It was a Planes
game, like he and Robert had hoped for. This was some modern day version of
one. The term “Soul Intensity” and the way the stats were spread out gave it
all away. This stat distribution and the stats themselves reminded him closely
of the Death Planes, a game he played to death about ten years ago. Sam read
the class’ description to himself, trying to remember what each stat stood for.
“I think ten vitality is good and would be my max health, so
I would be able to take a few