*bzzt* *bzzt* *bzzt*
My phone starts to vibrate as my alarm goes off in the morning. The soft morning light filtering through my bedroom window. I slowly wake up and reach for my phone under my pillow and turn off the alarm.
As I get up and stretch my body still a little tired from waking up. I look at the time on my phone only to be confused as to why it's 7 am, much earlier than I usually get up. As if to answer my question a reminder goes off on my phone.
Reminder: Ingenuity Online release today.
It took me a second to process the reminder, but as it sank in I was ecstatic. Today was the release date of the most awaited immersive VR game in history, Ingenuity Online.
I rush out of bed and grab a pair of jeans and then a blue blouse out of my closet. Thankfully I had the foresight braid my hair last night to minimize prep time in the morning. I undo the braid and let my wavy snow white hair cascade down my shoulders. As I look in the mirror I see pale but delicate skin, pink lips, and a pair of stunning amethyst colored eyes (purple). The only makeup I decide to apply today is a tube of black lipstick and some mascara.
I go to the kitchen of my two bedroom apartment and reminisced on how I got here as I made breakfast. When I was seventeen a friend said that since I was good at seeing patterns, and that I should look into trying penny stocks. So I learned how to analyze penny stocks and earned $10,000 by the time I graduated high school. So a few months latter I found this apartment and have lived there ever since. Soon after I purchased a VR game cabin and had it installed in the second room, because I have always loved video games.
At 7:30 I finished up my breakfast and cleaning up. I went out to my car and triple clicked the lock to remote start my BMW 8 series Coup. I get in the car and drive to the nearest game shop to pick up my preorder copy for Ingenuity Online.
As I get out of my car I start hearing catcalls all around me, to which I rolled my eyes and kept going. I walk up to the entrance and wait for the shop to open.
A little before the shop opens a bulky guy, about half a foot taller than me at 5'9", walks over to me with an unveiled look of lust in his eyes.
"A small girl like you shouldn't be..."
Before he could even finish speaking I grabbed his arm, twisted it, kicked the back of his knee and pushed him face first into the ground.
"Don't worry jack ass, I can take care of myself," not veiling the disgust in my voice for a second.
As all this happened the game shop employee came and unlocked the store. As soon as the store opened I walked in to avoid further conflict. I walk around the shop as I wait for the register to get ready.
"Morning Winter, I'm ready for you over here."
"Hey John, sucks that you have to work today right?"
"It really does, I'm gonna have to set up really quick to start as soon as servers go up for Ingenuity, you here to pick that up?"
I confirmed and scanned my thumb chip. After the facial recognition the game was sent directly to my game cabin and started to download. With a dazzling smile I said bye to John wishing him luck for when he started the game.
I look out the glass doors of the shop to make sure jack ass and his friends were gone, thankfully they were. No matter how skilled I am it's only possible to take on that many people alone in a game. So I head back to my Coup and go back to my apartment.
It's 8:30 by the time I reach home and since I have a while before the download I go to my computer. I've always loved playing those retro games from the early 2010's. I play until the my phone tells me the download is complete and quickly found a save point.
I get comfortable and change into some sweats, before I get into the game cabin. I go and check the nutrient solutions to make sure it's full. After all this is done I jump into the cabin and close it over top of me.
-"Welcome Winter Jenson, what game would you like to start?"
"Start Ingenuity Online"
-Ding "Only character creation is available right now, servers come online at UTC - 5:00. Would player like to continue and start character creation?"
"Start Ingenuity Online."
"Booting creation server... Ding, Welcome to Ingenuity Online."