it definitely started as a good day, if you over look the annoying nightmare I had last night. the sun was milder today. and the weather could be said to be perfect. the ideal day for a stroll in a park, you expect to see kids playing around. but the park have been monopolized, leaving behind those arrogant pricks of the society. it is the year 2999AD the era of the great alliance. science have taken many big leaps from the ancient era. this Is an era of great innovations and advancements. science have brought about a world where anything that can be thought of, can be made. bringing along with it a great sense of accomplishment but only to those who are privileged and can afford it. as science advance the discrimination between different strata of the society got bigger. the rich got richer with the labour of the poor and the poor just gets poorer and weaker as the day goes by. long got out of bed stare out his little appartment hiding at a corner of the street. you can say the only good thing about his place is the direct view of the park. every morning he gets up and stare out the window. imaging, if one could be as rich as their ability to imagine, long definitely would be in the upper class of the society. he live alone in a small cubicle kind of apartment, simple bathroom and simple room with a small corner allocated as the kitchen. he was not contented at all. but where would he get the opportunity to improve himself. in this era of science, opportunity are abundant but access to said opportunities are limited. he got ready for the day. and a simple egg meal was all he could afford and rice. yet he could still be considered lucky when compared to others on the street. he got dressed in a simple plain Jean and a plain black polo. he had to attend to 3 jobs. a sales attendant from 9am to midday, and from midday to 5pm he had to work at warehousing facility and do some heavy lifting. after which from 5pm to 8pm he goes around helping people clean up their mess of the day. before he gets back he was always so exhausted and tired. but today was different.. after the nightmare from last night he decided to take today off.. today was the day. it finally was coming out. and long had to take out all his saving to be able to get most common grade. he was quite pumped. the prospect of it was great. he have heard people talk about it everywhere. in the super market, in the warehouse, on news and even in the houses of the people he cleaned up after. he saw it as a new hope to life. he wanted to change his fate, he also want to one day walk in the park and not be chased out as a nuisance, drive good cars and eat to his satisfaction, talking about food. "I am still hungry, I saw a picture of a steak this morning,prime beef stake. I wish I could have some " he tought to himself. yes long was a food chaser but life is not fare. his situation doesnt allow for him to spend on eating. "anyways this is a way. I will do my best" he said to himself.
He stepped out of his little cubicle and the first thing he saw was an advert on an holographic sign, the advert was of a chibi looking female dwarves with a war hammer twice her size and eye golden and focused with an annoying little smirk. the advert is for the new game launching today, "Orbis pioneer" a new total immersion virtual reality game. it has been the hype of the game world for the past years. and have been in development for close to four years. with a hype that it will revolutionize the way the world sees gaming. it promised and indept immersion into the game world and a realistic fantasy mechanics. Their slogan is "your imagination is your limit". the world boosted multiple playable race, a unique class and skill development system. life rating tiers and a freedom to do whatever you want. An open world, colonizable, player controlled economy. but what is most captivating remains the game world technology. using the latastest technology from utopia cooperation, the *atlas a.i* one of a kind. according to heresay only one exist and it became the game core. the game was made to function on it's own and advance with a set of realistic operations maintained by the a.i even utopia cooperation do not where and how the game will progress. the mystery of the world is its biggest asset. long slowly walked through the street into the busy part of town. long live in a little town in the centeral alliance territory called verden. A little town to the west of Central alliance Territory capital city Dragon's Gate. with a population reaching almost 2 million people. when compared to others the town could be classified as a village. long slowly worked through the busy street pass hawkers and vendors of different cuisines and among other things, long slowly walked to the closest hover train stop. he was heading to the buisness district of the town. he was quite conversant with the route,as he took this route everyday. he sat by a window side as he watch up come and go, looking outside to the scene that one could only describe as a world straight out of those ancient sci fi novels, long was jolted out of his little day dreaming when he heard the announcement that he was at his bus stop, like every other person he highlighted the hover train and slowly walked into the buisness district, building were built talk and one could even spot some floating building, auction houses, malls, stores, this scene could never get old, he has been seeing this for a long time now and he still could not get used to the spectacle of this world. as he walked he could only feed his eye with the various exotic product holographically displayed in various stores.the store he was heading to was just a 5 storey mall, quite a small establishment when compared to the magnificent view he passed getting here, he was quite familiar with the mall as it was the mall he works at, slowly arriving infront of the store, there was a long cue infront of the supermarket. long would have had to wait on this cue but this mall was where he worked and he could just go in through the workers exist. not in a hurry he surveyed the various kind of people on the cue. he had this little habit. in his absent minded state he walked slowly toward the worker exit of the store. only to be bumped into and almost lost his foot. getting interrupted so suddenly. long looked up only to see the one he has bumped into was a clean looking pale faced boy. from one look you could tell he was one of those cheesy fine boy creeps, he carried a simple punk with an oblong face and oval shaped eye, and he had a long smile in his face to confirm this the first word that came out of his mouth was " oh i didn't see you there, it's a good thing I am fast, I would landed on my butt, oh you quite fast yourself, but stop walking around absent minded only creeps do that". long facial expression went from none to what!! he wanted to reply but before he could mutter any word. the pale face youth directly stepped into the mall. "when did such cheesy banana faced person come to this mall?" he pondered abit allowing it to slide but continued on through the back exist for workers. As he stepped into the mall, it was like a new world, forgetting the almost perfect temperature control to suite the human body.. isle upon isle of product. he was used to this scenes. but something was different today, a special isle was designated for a special product, with technical support and customer support on stand by, this isle was dedicated to the new game Orbis pioneer, the game was sold with it's very own TVIkit(total virtual immersion kit) which comes in different models, from what long can see, most people acquired TVIkit silver model, comes a TVI headset that gives a maximum of 70% realism, this number could be said to be quite high but according to pro logs. if one wants to go play pro one needs and TVI headset with atleast 90% realism, included in the kit is a manual to operate the headset, and wireless charging bud, this way as long as you within the range of the bud the headset never runs out of power, the silver TVIkits comes with a bud which gives a 40meters freedom range. for better kit models one could get better range and immersion, but just this model cost about 9000 alliance credit (₩), quite pricey but the prospect of the game is quite worth it according to expert analysis over the net. given that the game was single handedly created by the world richest conglomerate Utopia cooperation, they could say to have monopolize the energy sector with their quantum power distributor, yes we no longer rely on nuclear or wind or water generated electricity but quantum generated electricity. the conglomerate have their hands in all thr baskets. banking.. technology.. agricultural...medicine, you could see their hand everywhere. the idea and thought of the world biggest creating a game was so captivating that it even drew along non gamers to take a look. according to director general in charge of Orbis pioneer he mention on live TV " this game will revolutionize the world, and hope it will create a second home for the world, a place with no limitations, utopia would be putting in their best" they also announced the exchange of game currency for real life currency. this had moved everybody to invest in the game, even company and other corporations and bodies is looking at this as an opportunity to expand. As long stood there recalling , staring and imagining whats to come, a tall buffed young youth, dark skinned fellow, with an afro punk and a face most people want to call cute tapped long out of his thoughts, "you are doing it again, do not get lost in your thoughts so often, anyways have you gotten your kit?", long looked up squeezed his face and said "one day I will be as tall as you and no not yet, I had to take out all my saving for the past 4 years and all I have is 22570₩, I was hoping to get the platinum kit so I can get a 90% realism but from the looks of it am short 2430₩ " the dark skinned tall youth could only smile and respond "you keep stressing about height, you never going to be as call as I am, you always going to remain a 5ft 7. that aside I was able to get myself the platinum kit.. I hope it is worthwhile I had to pull funds out of my saving too." long smiled very wide and said "sheen my friend, my brother, can you find it in your heart somewhere in that dark place to borrow 2430₩, pleeaaaaase" long looked like a puppy begging for milk, sheen couldn't help scrounge and almost turn around to leave. "I shouldn't have interrupted his thoughts" sheen thought to himself, long wouldnt let such a great opportunity get lost. he held onto sheen acting shameless not minding the surrounding, after about 30 minutes of a dark skinned sheen dragging long about, he gave in and lent long a total of 2500₩, As soon as he got it. long ran to the isle, as luck would have it the female attendant was also a friend and colleague in the store. shameless long went into action again, smiling sheepishly as he approached jade, a young well rounded fair skinned girl in her early twenties. she had a pretty normal body but she had an habbit of dying her hair weird color... who dye would dye their hair luminous bluish green. long once asked her why.. she only replied "weird is the order of the day", long was confused too... long got to the counter bypassing the long cue directly to jade " jade, what a beautiful day dont you think?" jade replied "long just say what you need, that smile of yours makes me want to beat you up", long couldn't help but readjust himself.. experience spoke more here and his body couldn't help remembering. "I want a platinum TVI kit", long spoke fast and direct. jade smiled . seeing this smile long knew what's to come next wouldnt be nice. but before she muttered anything a banana faced guy walked up to them and directly asked for a TVI special model full body kit. "another rich tycoon" both jade and long thought of same thing at same time. but long added loudly "banana faced guy?" yes he was the guy who had bumped into long at the entrance and still lectured him not waiting for his retort. "who is banana faced guy you are talking about" the pale faced cheesy guy turned to ask while scrounging. long having realized his big mouth just leaked could only smile sheepishly and say nothing. "I know you were referring to me. how is my face banana faced.. I have a symmetrically perfect face and chiseled chip, what do you mean by banana face, dont you you have any eye?" long thought "shit a narcissistic one at that", long slowly replied under his breath "but your head is so long and your skin so yellow" "what did you say?!!" the pale skinned youth said getting agitated. "nothing nothing.. am just praising how good you look and will be love by plenty primates" long replied. "that's more like it " banana faced guy turn back to jade to get his order . she quickly processed it while smiling and he left. as he was leaving she looked at long and asked "how long do you think he will realize the sarcasm in your last words?" long smiled and looked at the youth leave.. only for the banana faced guy to turn back and his look were one of realization. but he couldn't be bother any more. the helper had already packed his package and loaded and waiting for him at the park. he could only shout " I will remember you". long replied with a smirk and waved. this definitely was not his first time getting into such a situation. he turned back to jade and asked her for his kit. he helped him through the process and checked him out. he did not come to work today so just went to see sheen and say hy to a few others before leaving the mall. as he walked home, it was a not even mid day yet. he left home a little after 9 and he was done with all he had to do before 12. he decided to take a long stroll through the streets. the street were paved and smooth with a special material. it was quite durable too.