She closed her window and went to the kitchen to get her breakfast. she's planning to eat it on her room and wait for the game to be released.
"I've cook a fried rice and some eggs, i'll be in the virtual cabin if you need me" Lawrence said while going back on his room.
"ok!" she went inside the kitchen and spotted her brother's fried rice and was surprised that it didn't look burned. Her brother is really not good at cooking, Her parents even call Lawrence Cooking Demon, because he almost burned their house hundreds of times and yes HUNDREDS.
she took a spoon and poke the fried rice to check if it's poisonous or explode. Poking the fried rice a few more times and finally relaxed that it isn't deadly. But she wondered what's the catch? looking around the kitchen she spotted it.
"It's the dishes, i knew it." she quickly ate the fried rice not minding the very salty taste and started cleaning the dishes while reminding herself to get back at him.
after washing the dishes, she went back on her room and started to take a bath to get ready for the release.
...
*bzzt
Clarity grabbed her phone and look at the notification and was surprised to see that there's only a few minutes left for the game to launch. she quickly went inside the virtual cabin to wait for the launch.
[ Reading the players brain wave...
Welcome back Ms.Peace of Mind. a new game has been released would you like to play it?]
without reading the panel she quickly answered yes and was sent to a white room.
This white room is called The Lobby
(It already explains itself by it's name. do you still want me to explain?)
[ Downloading Rise of Civilizations please wait...
10%...
15%...
50%...
75%...
99%...
[ Download Complete ]
"Nice!" she quickly readied herself to enter the game but a pop up splash itself om her face.
[ Installing the Rise of Civilizations please wait...]
"Ah!!!" she screamed with frustrations. "ugh! why is this is taking so long? I've already wait for an hour!" Clarity complained. (If i was inside this story i would smack her)
[ Rise of Civilizations Installed
Entering the game... ]
...
Now that she entered the game with some of her patience wearing out. let's see the game forum of RoC in Lifebook okay?.
[I♥Philippines: The size of the game is so large. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻]
→ [SeanAcer: Hehe]
[I♥Philippines: Why r u laughing?]
[PurpleMoon: I already waited for hours!]
→ [SeanAcer: Hehe]
[PurpleMoon: What so funny sir?]
[SeanAcer: I just need to add more words.
[PurpleMoon: ???]
[Born in the East: Just get in the cabin and don't surf here in the forum. what if the game is already done downloading and installing?]
→ [SeanAcer: Hehe look whose talking]
[Born in the East: What's your problem? i already saw you in the comments above!]
[Vanishing Cloud: Don't mind him and get inside the cabin]
[Kitsune♥♥: +1]
...
*cough *cough
don't mind me in the forums i just need the exposure.
...
Clarity was sent in the middle of nowhere and infront of her is a bonfire. She wanted to move but she couldn't she tried to look around but there's nothing else but a forest on her right, a beach on her left and the bonfire infront of her.
she whispered the "Menu" command and a medieval themed panel pop infront of her.
[ Character Information
Inventory | Build & Craft
Status of Civilization
Mail $ Notifications°
Settings | Log Out ]
(doesn't look medieval to me)
Looking in the panel, she saw that there is a notification dot on the mails & notifications (the red dot that you see in your app icons) and it. There she saw 3 messages, The welcome message, The Terms and Agreements and lastly... An Achievement!. She tried to close the panel but it didn't close, she kept tapping but it still didn't budge.
"What's wrong with this thing?" she tried tapping the others and accidentally opened the welcome message.
[ Hello there! Thank you for choosing this game. we are glad that you've chosen us and will try to help and maintain the game balance.
Enter your IGN: Peace of Mind
Gender: Female
Please read the Terms and Agreements ]
"That's it?" she opened the Terms and Agreements and was planning to keep checking it without reading (like we always do) but was surprised to see that it's just a short one.
[ Since Virtual Game Accounts aren't hackable and this game doesn't have a store to buy stuffs with Real Life Money. The only thing we need for you to do is never as in NEVER EVER tell to any NPCs that your playing or this world is a game or else your account will be banned in this game FOREVER.
✓ I agree with the Terms & Conditions ]
"so easy!" she smiled and opened up the last message with her achievements.
[First Player Achievement
Just like the saying Early Birds gets the Worms. You are granted a Legendary Divine Artifact to help you with your gameplay.
Please Enjoy]
"WOAH! FOR REAL?!!" she quickly opened her character info and opened her Inventory and spotted 2 dices, 1 Axe, 1 Pickaxe, 10 Beef Jerkies, 5 Tents and the artifact. a panel appeared infront of her with the artifacts information.
...
[ Rubik's Staff (Legendary) ]
A staff with a 3D 3x3 Cube with 54 squares containing mysterious energy to help its owner.
(Owned by Peace of Mind)
...
"54? Isn't too OP? nah! im an early bird its my benefit for being the first one" she checked the information of the other items in her Inventory.
...
Dice (x2)
the dots in the dice represents the number of npc that will spawn for you. The lower the number the better.
Quality over Quantity
...
Axe (x1)
An Axe to chop trees, the better the quality the more easier to chop powerful trees.
...
Pickaxe (x1)
A Pickaxe to mine stones, the better the quality the more easier to mine powerful ores.
...
Beef Jerky (x10)
It's a beef jerky nothing else.
...
Tent (x5)
It's a temporary home for you.
its better to place it beside the bonfire to make it look like your camping.
...
are they lazy? this description is so half-assed they didn't even put an effort and it looks like they're mocking me! are they mocking me? don't they know im smart? sigh, this is SO different from 4x games. 4x games has walls and castle built already but this game only gave me a bonfire what do they want me to do with it? cook myself?
looking back on her inventory, she saw that there's only one usable item in the moment and its the dice to give her an NPC.
"Let's use this dice then..."