The Virtual World v1.0

It was a dark cold afternoon, a new MMORPG arrived to the marked with the promise that it will be a new experience of gaming, it was.

I was one of the lucky 1,000 people that had the demo of the game. The controller was a helmet of virtual reality, that reads the pulses from the brain and transforms them into movement in the video game. In just two months, I advance to the level 23 of 100; I was the only player that reached that far in the demo.

I connected the helmet and put it in my head; it started as usual as the demo, with little color differences. I choose my demo avatar and started the game.

I spawn in the main plaza, with other 200,000 players (more or less), with any instructions of what to do or where to go, but I knew that the first thing that you do in a MMO is level up, to become stronger.

I found a little forest and started to walk through it. I couldn't see the sun through the leaves of the threes. I level up easily to level 5, and walked away. I looked to the clock, 8:00, time for dinner; I opened the menu and start to look at the log out option, I didn't find it. A heavy bell starred to rang, so I reach to the main plaza to see if there was any important message. I reached the plaza just in time, and the sky started to became red, with Warning messages in it. A black tall figure emerge from the sky and started to talk. He said that he was the creator of the game, and it was virtually impossible to scape from it, he said that we couldn't log out, because we needed to finish the game; the 100 levels of the game. If we beat the game, we should be able to log out from it. He also mention that if we were fatally injure in any part of the game, we would die in the virtual world, ant the real world. After his speech, he vanish in front of all the players. The message was perfectly clear, we needed to beat the game.

A small object appeared in all the players bags; a small mirror. When it was active, our avatars transformed in ourselves. We where in the game.

Based on the face on every player, you could see their intentions; some of them wanted to level up immediately, some of them were afraid, and, some were just becoming nuts.

It was just the start of everything in this virtual world....

A week later some of the players where whispering that the first boss was found, and a group of level 13 players were about to confront the boss. I joined them.

We walked through a small dungeon with weak monsters, and reached to the boss chamber. Most of the players were highly motivated and wanted to beat the boss at all cost, but some of them were afraid to die. None of us wanted to die, or at least that was my perception. We eagerly awaited the boss, and it appeared.