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[Fenix]

City Traffic

Kouta sighed as he closed the door to his room behind him. There was only so much of his family that he could take before needing to seclude himself. Between the rants of his older sister being told to find a husband and the rants of hating the small country town from his other sister. Then there was the never-ending questions about what colleges he was going to apply to, that or when he was going to start working for one of the local farming families.

Once in his room he immediately went to his bed and threw himself upon it. I need to escape… he thought while he reached over and pulled his Amusphere off the bedside table and placed it over his eyes. As he went through the login process for ALfheim Online he lost his senses of being in his familiar room, and entered his new world.

The sun’s bright rays shone down onto him as he stood in one of the parks in Alne, the city beneath the World Tree. The city fascinated him, it was so much like the cities of the real world, yet he could see how different they were.

“Well, time to get going,” Fenix said while he stretched out his body, getting acclimated to the virtual world again. He began running from the park through the streets of Alne without a care in the world. He wanted to be on his way and go into the world as fast as he could so he would not have to worry about the real world.

Of course, in the one moment where he chose not to pay attention, he would run into the greatest mistake he could make in any social situation. As Fenix approached an intersection he noticed that a cart had just been pulled into the middle of it. He was going too fast to be able to simply stop. Brace for impact, he told himself as he hardened his body for the impact. The Salamander collided with the cart, and because of a partially realistic physics engine in the game, when the Salamander met an object with significantly more mass than he, he slammed into the cart as a ragdoll hitting moving car. With the other energy that was not lost, he was cast off to the side into a group of bystanders.

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[Jayde]

Jayde had finally gotten home from her work as a DJ, and it had been quite a long day, so many people wanted to hire her, most of them cause they knew she had been one of those stuck in SAO, for two years and wanted to hear her story, but she did not mind since she did still get paid even if it was just for a talk.

So when she finally were in her home, she went to the music room and did sit down in her good chair that was standing behind the disk turners, that she did use to practice and make new music, she did lean back and place her legs on the table as she did reach behind her on the shelf for her AmuSphere down from the shelf and then placed it over her eyes, as the login process to ALO would begin.

A few moments did go and then she was standing inside of this new game, it was her first time in this game she had her avatar made for a few weeks but been to busy to actually start the game, she had picked the cait sith race since they looked cute, even tho the pooka would have fit her more.

As she got into the game she was in some town called Alne, and looked around with a smile on her lips,
"This does remind me of back then, but this time you just don't die for real when you die" she said with a happy smile on her lips as she started walking around the town until she did see some guy that had bumped into a cart or at least that was what it looked like at tis distance, so she did rush over there to ask him "Are you hurt sir?" the young lady did ask the blond haired stranger.

[Fenix]

City Traffic

On the ground Fenix was reminded by why he disliked cities. They were always unpredictable, especially when a person from the country was trying to leave quickly. When he heard someone ask if he was alright he opened his eyes and looked up at the sky. There he saw another player with dark hair…and cat ears.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” he said while pulling his legs into the air, and then jumped up with his body to get back onto his feet. When he landed Fenix turned back to the other player and gave them a friendly smile, “thanks for asking, I’m sorry if I inconvenienced you in any way!”

That was the most he could do, apologize for his actions that had repercussions on others, and then do what he could to make the situation better. While looking at the other player that had asked him if he was alright, he noticed that they did indeed have cat ears. They must be a Cait Sith player, he thought, I wonder what it feels like to have ears and a tail, must be a weird feeling when people don’t normally have those.

Alfheim certainly did make him question the power of virtual reality technology. In this world for example, all the races had wings and could control them without a controller that is of course if they learn to use the wings as though they were truly on their backs. Then there was the Cait Sith, they had cat ears and tails, different from the other races that had pointed ears, and even more specifically he had heard that the Cait Sith could control their ears and tails. For him, a player that could not fly without the controller, being able to manipulate appendages that he did not normally have just seemed weird to him.

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[Jayde]

Jayde was happy to hear that the guy was okay, "I'm happy to hear your okay mister, i'm Jayde by the way, could you stop staring at my ears?, i know they are cat ears, and yes it is kinda funny haven't gotten used to it my self yet, but then again its my first time being logged into the game, since i was not sure if it would be like SAO" she said with a smile looking at him.

She then looked towards the guy, as she was still kinda wondering how she actually was to capture a beast, cause she knew that she had the skill but how to actually do that?, there was no such skills in SAO, and back in SAO she did not relay on such things as pets, she did aim for high speed and evasion so she could attack and get away before the monster had even noticed it was hit.

she did then look down and towards the guy and looked him up and down, and from what she did remember when making her char there was something with the hair color that could show which race people were.

And this guy had blond hair, the sprigans had black and undine had blue, those two were the onces she just had in mind of what color they had. so it was not one of those two that was for sure.

[Fenix]

City Traffic

Fenix was brought back to teh virutal world when the girl introduced herself and asked him to stop looking at her feline features.  As she pointed this out to hi, the Salamander's face lit up in a bright red colo.  Even if he wanted to hide his embarrassment there was no way that Alfheim Online was going to let him because of the engine being used for the avatars.  Nearly every emotion was amplified in the body language whether the person wanted it to be seen or not.  This feature was something that Fenix could live without, alas, he could do nothing about it as a player.

"I wasn't staring," he said defensively, waving his hands in front of himself, trying to maintain some sort of social standing within the group around him.  The last thing he wanted to be seen as was some sort of creep that would ogle at any girl that walked in front of him. 

"Thanks for seeing if I was alright, not a lot of city people would do that,' the Salamander added while regaining some portion of his regular posture, 'and I'm Fenix, nice to meet you!"

Alright, I've managed to stave off any lasting reputation markers, so now I can proceed smoothly, Fenix told himself as he was prepared to continue the social interaction he had gotten himself into. Thankfully the area was already clearing up because objects were invincible and the wagon had begun rolling away, going back out to the stall to resupply whatever seller was there. As for what would happen in the future was still a mystery to the young Salamander.

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[Jayde]

Jayde would just give a cute giggle as she looked at him.
"Don't worry Fenix, i'm gonna get used to it at some point cause it does feel kinda strange having cat ears and a tail, but hey this race looked the cutest and wanted to stay a rogue type like i was in that other game i played" she said trying not to ruin the moment by talking about SAO, cause most people just wanted to ask a ton of questions when they did find out she was one of the survivors.

She then took a look around the area, seem like they were basically the only two left standing in the area, so maybe it was about time to find some place to eat, she was getting a little hungry since she had only just gotten home from work outside of the game.

"So what race are you anyways?, i know your not an undine or sprigan, or a cait sith" she said looking towards the boy

[Fenix]

City Traffic

Did she just laugh? Fenix thought as disbelief went through him. This time he did not let it take control so he was able to hide it. But what did such a laugh mean to him? Was she laughing at my embarrassment? Was she laughing because I did something amusing? All these thoughts ran through the young man’s mind as he was trying to find some meaning in a laugh. He decided to forget about it and that he would not read too much into it. Everything about this ruckus had messed up his composure for when he was in this world.

When Jayde started speaking he turned his attention to her and what she was going to do about the race she chose. She mentioned wanting to make her character into a rogue build like she had made in a previous game. From what he knew, there were plenty of other games out there, maybe she had played Gun Gale and made a rogue character there.

Fenix began to glance around the area and was relieved to see that most of the other people had left the area. Then the girl spoke up again, this time asking what race he had chosen.

“I’m a Salamander,” he smiled while putting up his right arm to show off his strength. After all, the Salamanders were known for being the physically strongest of the nine races. Just as he felt relief at being able to hold his position, a rumble came from within him. The growling of his virtual stomach emphasized the need of some sort of food to fool his mind with. A new grin came across his face as he tried to hide the growling while he asked, “would you want to go get some food from one of the shops here?”

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