That was the first day. [Solo] [Social]

[tzuf23]

For the first time in my life I felt nothing, not nothing itself but the feeling of nothingness. A feeling of floating in a void but at the same time almost like standing in a windy tunnel. A tunnel full of memories, memories that flashed before my eyes. Like a man about to die. Memories of my childhood, memories of happy times and those of sad ones. I continued having these flashes for a time that seemed infinite, but I was wrong. I felt my body again. Than I saw a light, a light so distant it was like a dream but I knew it was real I felt it in my bones, I had to go towards it, that’s what I did. Slowly standing up with a heavy feeling of worry and loneliness I walked towards the light. Nearing it I heard voice. They were soft at first but as I got nearer to the light they became strong and I could make out words. A female voice asked “How did we get here?” and another voice a male one this time asked “where are we?”. Slowly by slowly I heard more voices asking the same sort of questions, questions about their location or how they arrived here or why they are here. All seemingly confused at whatever situation they were facing, a situation that seemed increasingly dire. If I can judge by the mass of voice and sounds of running and panicking. I finally reached the light when I heard a gruff male voice screaming at someone to wake up. I was about to step through when the severity of my situation hit me. I had no idea where I was nor how I got there and the space around me was completely foreign to me. Even with light I couldn’t see outside the cave and I couldn’t find where the voices are coming from. Knowing that the only way to gain more information was to step outside I did so. The light hit me immediately almost like opening my eyes after a long sleep. That’s exactly what it was, and the gruff voice I heard seems to be a man standing above me trying to rouse me awake. I tried to get on my feet but fell down and got into a sitting position. The man gave me a hand to help me up and asked “Are you okay? Everybody else was also asleep. We seem to be in some kind of city. I should to continue waking people up. You should go talk to them” the man points to a group of people “they sent me to wake people up” the man proceeded to move and try to wake more people. A lot of people were on the ground, not all of them looked human. Some had fox ears, some had longer pointy ears, like elves in fantasy stories and some look like humanoid cats. I looked around and I saw a city, a city very similar to the London I knew but the buildings were old and damaged. moss could be seen hanging of some of them. Seeing this I remembered, remembered what I did earlier. I had like many others bought the expansion for elder tale the moment it was released and had logged in to create my character as I had for a long time to have an English server and a fresh start. I know what happened, what happened to all of us. The moment I realized that we were launched into what I knew up to that point as game I collapsed, almost falling to my feet my mind was rushing with questions and hypotheses. Eventually I got back on my feet but the sun had started going down. However that group of people were still there and one of them beckoned me over. He was a young man seemingly my age, I think he was a half Alv. Just like what I am now, I wonder how it would effect me if it did at all. I approached him and asked why he was beckoning me over. He then proceeded to say “I noticed you were in a bit of shock so I didn’t want to disturb you. But now that you’re awake, all of us” he waves his hand in order to show the others “seem to have ended up organizing helping all the people spawning around here. You probably noticed from you reaction but it seems we’re in elder tale. And we’re in London, we’re still not sure how we got here or if we can get back but hopefully we’ll find a way. Anyways if your new to the game or something of the sort I’m sure one of us will be willing to help you.” he finished. “’Thank you for the suggestion but I’ve been playing this game for a long time.” I respond adding “How the hell did we get here?” under my breath. He didn’t seem to hear me. I started walking away from the group knowing I could handle every situation I would face and fearing the need to relay on others in such a situation. The first thing I did was try to use the menus when I did that I found they were there, which seemed strange seeing as this isn’t a game as far as I understand where I am. It’s to complex. I then began to investigate the menus to find out how much transferred into where ever we are right now. It seems most of the mechanics are still the same. Finding a few skills I decide to check out how to use them trying them out on a wooden plank, I could activate them from the menu. But when I started thinking about them I noticed I knew how to preform them without using the menu. Finding that out I understood that at least some of the mechanics in the game can be used outside of the menus and decided to investigate further when I have more information. The first thing I decided to do was find and npc and get a quest to find out how experience works in this. Since after using the menus it still seemed to be there. Let’s go I though to myself, running into the city in a random direction.