On a cool summer's evening we see a young man eagerly finishing the 3 day setup and initialization of his brand new XStation GamePod™️ that finally arrived after 3 months of waiting. He is 17 year old Mishi Ozarou and he had started saving up money for this pod since he first heard about it from his friend several years ago who wanted him to play the system exclusive game "Wasteland: Survival" with him when they both could get a Gamepod™️. Mishi has worked many odd jobs in the neighborhood for his neighbors and even spent some mornings working as a paperboy until he finally had enough to order his XStation Gamepod™️. As the initialization reaches 98% completion after 3 agonizong days of waiting, the door of this egg shaped white metallic pod hisses open for the first time as he hears a chime then a cheery female robotic voice saying [Welcome User Number 0 9! What would you like me to refer to you as?]
Mishi thinks for a moment then replies "Call me Ouroborus"
*chime*[Thank you for choosing the name Ouroborus, please take a comfortable position inside the pod to finish setup.]
Mishi gleefully climbs into the pod and lays down into what seems like the perfectly heated spongy gel-like pads of the game pod. Once he is in a comfortable position and stops moving the door of the pod closes once more and seals Mishi in darkness, besides the initializing bar reaching 99% he can see nothing but darkness. Mishi knows the pod has to be closed to work properly, but he wasn't prepared for it to be so dark inside once it was closed shut on him. If it wasn't for the loading bar he would be hyperventilating inside his new pod, but instead he takes a deep breath and relaxes into the warmth of the gel-like pads.
As the loading bar finally reaches 100% the pod fills with a bright white light that temporarily blinds Mishi. As his eyes adjust to his surroundings he looks around and finds himself in the middle of a barren white space with a translucent, luminescent blue screen float in front of him with text that reads:
{THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING}
{ TO SURVIVE THIS WASTELAND}
A few seconds later it changes to read:
{THIS IS A BETA TEST VERSION OF}
{WASTELAND: SURVIVAL}
{KEEP IN MIND THAT ANY}
{LEARNED KNOWLEDGE WILL BE}
{RETAINED IN FULL RELEASE}
{GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!!!!}
After Mishi finishes reading the floating screen, he notices a player HUD in the bottom left of his vision that displayed:
Ouroborus lvl:0 0/10 XP \/ \/ \/
Upon thinking about 'pressing' the down arrows another screen pops up showing his status:
Player: Ouroborus Nick Name: OB
Level: 0 XP 0/10
HP: 50/50(+)
??: ?/?
Stamina: 100/100(+)
STR:5(+)
DEX:5(+)
WIS:5(+)
INT:5(+)
Luck: 100(MAX)
Free stat points:10
Skill Points: 5
SKILLS:
No skills to show
ABILITIES:
No abilities learned
EQUIPMENT:
-Starting Gift Box X1
After seeing this information Ouroborus becomes excited as he thought he would have to start the game with nothing. He thinks to himself 'I wonder how I open the Gift Box'
As he thinks this the status screen closes and the Starting Gift Box materializes in front of him with a promt box reading
[would you like to open the 'Starting Gift Box' now? *doing so will allow you to pick 3 of the 5 listed items in the Gift Box. After choosing your items you will be transported to a random starting location within the Wasteland area.]
[OPEN BOX]
(YES) (NO)