After days of writing, rewriting, deleting eveerything and starting from scratch then writing again, I FINALLY got something coherent down for the first chater woop! Please note this is merely a shell and will edit it according to feedback and whatnot I get thank you!
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Chapter 1 - Ducks and Dragons
Myth, a fantasy world of magic and mystery, filled with unique races, legendary creatures and Gods. Explore a land filled with dungeon-
“Boooooooring, skip”
Zane raised an eyebrow in annoyance and swiped across on his Smartphone, skipping the intro dialogue to Myth, the world’s currently most popular Mobile Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (or Triple MORPG as it was commonly abbreviated to). The screen faded out and the login screen popped up.
“Hey you guys we should try using our old logins”
Zane lifted his scruffy black haired head up to the familiar everyday afterschool scene of his friends Chase and Jared chilling in his room. Chase looked inquisitively at the other two, his hazel brown eyes repeating the question silently again. Absently he scratched his short brown hair and then rearranged himself on the bed into a cross legged position.
“Yeah sure why not, we don’t lose anything by it”
Jared voiced his agreement with a nod of his head, getting some of his long spiky blonde hair into his emerald green eyes. These two traits had earned Jared the fond nickname “Saiyan” from his other two friends due to them being the main features of super saiyans from their favourite show Dragon Ball Z. Hastily he brushed it out of the way and then leant back into the wheelie chair he was sitting on, his lanky frame seeming to meld effortlessly with the shape of the chair.
“Alrighty then let’s do this”
The three friends turned back to their phones and entered their details into the login screen.
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“Welcome to Myth”
The words disappeared and the world came into view.
“We’re in! And man these are some seriously updated graphics!”
Zane’s exclamation was met with grunts of agreement from the other two. Zane turned his attention back to the game. Looking around he noticed the landscape he was in was a barren one, with deep black craters pock marking the hard grey ground here and there. The sky above was a matching lifeless charcoal grey with not a cloud in sight. This scenery stretched on as far as the eye could see.
“Huh wonder what happened here”
Zane turned around to see a human with short spiky silver hair and glowing amber eyes. He was equipped with an arm guard on his left arm which was black with a golden shoulder plate adornment; on his right hand he only had a matching glove for his left. He wore a long armless coat of brilliant orange with a black underside, while underneath he had a simple plain orange t-shirt with black shorts going to his knees and a pair of black kung fu shoes on his feet.
“Wow that looks pretty cool Chase”
The two turned to face a tall fully armoured silver samurai with a long, thin katana blade in a sheath on his back. From under the back of his mask, which only showed the deep glow of blazing red eyes, flowed a long silver ponytail.
“Well I guess that’s Jared”
Zane took a moment to assess himself. Compared to the other two, what he was equipped with was far less glamorous; just a mere short hooded black silk robe top with gold embroidered stitching on the sleeve wrists, coupled with plain dark trousers and black shoes. However he took consolation in the fact it still looked somewhat impressive with his long dark blue hair and glowing violet eyes.
“Well seems like not much has changed from 5 years ago”
Snapped out of his reverie, Zane turned to Jared.
“What do you mean?”
“Well, the HUD is literally exactly the same. There’s the usual red and blue hp and mana bar at the top left and shortcuts at the top right, with the menu options at the bottom; although there now appears to be symbols instead of words for each”
Zane glanced quickly at the bottom of his screen. From left to right it was: A body outline for Stats and Equipment, A book for Skills, A bag for Inventory, a scroll for Quests, shield and sword crest for Guild, a dragons head for Pets and a wrench and gear for settings. He simultaneously opened his stats, inventory and skills page.
“Well it seems our stats remained the same level and we appear to still have the items we had when we last logged. However it does appear our skills have been reset with only the basic moves left…and even some new ones!? I suggest you guys check yours out”
Heeding his advice Chase and Jared both opened their menus to verify their own conditions. Jared quickly scanned through his and instantly realised something.
“Well this is new…we have titles and before you ask, Stats page bros.”
Zane and Chase quickly flipped to their own stats pages. As if prepared beforehand the three said their titles aloud one by one starting with Chase and ending with Jared.
“Limit Breaker Crash Legendary Hero”
“Chaos Mage Zerox Legendary Hero”
“Sword Saint Jiru Legendary Hero”
As Jared finished speaking he trailed off into silence, each buried in thought with questions. A front and back title? Legendary Hero? And more importantly what does the bit at the front mean?
“AAAARGH too much to process”
Chase’s outburst was accompanied with him driving his gauntlet’d arm into the ground with a forceful punch, leaving a fist imprint into the hard ground.
“Yeah Chase is right let’s just play and figure it out as we go along, besides this is an MMO we could always ask someone somewhe-”
“GROAAARGH”
Jared’s suggestion was cut off by a loud roar from above. Looking up, there was a silhouette in the sky fast approaching them getting larger and more noticeable as it came closer. Suddenly Zane realised what it was.
“Guys I know what it is….DUCK!”
Without wasting any time all of them dived in 3 separate directions as the creature crashed into the spot where they had been standing, sending massive dust cloud billowing in its wake. With one flap of its mighty black scaly wings, the dust was cleared to reveal the enormous presence of an elder Dark dragon.
“Dude…..that is not a duck”
I myself have a few questions even with regards to a couple things. Firstly descriptions, I really am lacking in that department I feel and any advice pertaining to describing things and ways to do so subtly would be appreciated! Equally pacing: I sorta feel this is a slow start but I hopefully will speed up with subsequent chapters. Anyways as said before any and all advice, criticism etc to help me improve is welcome as I still got tons more to write haha thanks!
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