Fiona spent two days messing around, enjoying her new life. Being locked away in a giant apartment wasn't a horrible time for someone who had been living in a small room. She had games, Internet, a large TV and a small gym.
Her food was delivered to her every afternoon with a note. It was paradise and a dream come true. But on the third day, exactly at six o'clock in the morning, a loud alarm went off. Even the washing machine was going off!
She stomped around, turning them off one by one, before jumping back into her huge bed. Three minutes later, her eyes snapped open, a irritated look taking over her face. Sleepiness nowhere to be seen as she rolled into the ground with a pillow. "..UGH! Shh-oot! I can't sleep!"
She had no choice but to get ready for the day. When she got done brushing her teeth and washing her face, the toilet started to talk!
"Frick! May Jesus help you!" She screamed, throwing her hairbrush at it as she crawled onto the counter.
Toilet: ಠ_ಠ
Above the toilet, a blue holographic screen popped up. A small envelope with a bell next to it, showed up. Fiona felt her cheeks burned, realizing that no, her toilet wasn't possessed by a demon. It was just a very futuristic toilet that could talk. She touched it, it automatically shifted into a letter.
{Fiona, the official opening starts at noon, your equipment has been set up. It will be easier for you to start early and learn how to work it. Remember if you don't try the game at least once, your money will be on hold and you will not be able to travel outside of the Country A.}
{Reminder from dad}
She closed it with a sigh before leaving the toilet behind.
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At quarter to twelve, Fiona calmly got the machine ready, eating a bagel sandwich. In the background, a instruction video was playing, telling her what to do. The VR bed looked an awful amount of like the control bed in Avatar with its gel padding inside and shape. She thought it looked cool, especially since it's considered one of the slimmer models.
After shoving the last of her bagel into her mouth and going pee, she set the timer for two. It was enough time for her to wonder and get a feel for the game. Hopping on, she laid down and pulled the cover down. When it started up, her vision went black before a startling white took its place.
[Welcome, Player#000000! Would you like to start the creation of your avatar?]
Floating in the middle of nothing with only a voice that came from nowhere, was not as scary as the talking toilet. But she didn't exactly know what to do, there was no screen to touch or anything to show what should happen.
"Yes," she said, her voice was the same as in the real world. She wondered about the science behind this, before deciding it would be too confusing and involved too much brain science for her highschool education. (....Both Fionas were happy to leave behind school and never thought about college until they needed to.)
She could change everything from her body shape to the color of her eyelashes. Like every time she played a game, she kept everything closed to her real self, well her new body. Then she changed her name to 'Lazy', pleased that for once her name was free without needing to changing it in some way.
Before she could start the game, she noticed that she could stream everything live. Clicking on it, she groaned when she realized that she had to make a account for all the sites she wanted to stream and that it would cost money to stream on more than one site.
Paying for the unlimited, she started to fill in the forms for various platforms. She had no idea what site was popular or not. So she chose to sign for the two on top of the list and one on the bottom. For each site, she used the user name 'CluelessLazyFan' before finally getting the streams to start.
There are three different ways to stream, the first was to have a camera to follow her from behind, view it from her point of view or to have a little ball that you can move around. Naturally, she picked the ball and place it beside her.
Stream Starting
[Game Opening in 10]
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Excited gamers and random people who couldn't afford the game, searched the main streaming sites. Waiting for someone to play the game. When they finally found one, it was simply called 'That one new zombie game, Days Ago'.
8
Clicking on it, they noticed that she had the VR option on and they quickly got their headset on.
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They watched her getting ready, not saying anything.
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Comments poured in.
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She adjust the camera, flashing it a grin.
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They got ready as her avatar walked towards the button carefree.
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The Theme music started.
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Two steps away.
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"Alrighty! Let's get this started!" She slapped the start button, an excited grin on her face.
And their surroundings scattered into a new one.