I saw that it made some sense. I thought it was weird the blue one was the first to bring up sex. The red one seemed to just be upping the ante. Then again that was the perils of being in an co-ed school. Everyone wanted to impress the girls they liked. It seemed that the white one was firmly straight though. "My name's Sunny Solaris. I am a freshman. What are your names?" I asked. "What type of stupid name is that!?" the red one mocked. The white clad jock was named Tyler, the blue one was Klein and Brad was the red jock. "Fine then. Now, if you guys will excuse me!" I snapped as I went around them. They let me pass. I signed my name on two of the sports teams on offer. The first was tennis because it was a safe, non contact sport. There was also singles and doubles play to help my odds. Lots of the sports games in full dive VR were pretty nice. Playing tennis was a good pastime of mine. That made me confident that I could get on the team if I did well enough. I definitely thought I could fill in a spot. The 3 jocks quickly hurried and wrote their names on the Tennis and Football Teams.
Most likely, that was the sport they were originally interested in using. I signed up for the Soccer Team as well. The last thing I needed was for those jocks to be popping up and just sabotaging me in all my tryouts. I then went to a large bench and looked around. There were a few kids next to me as they ate. I was not interested in talking to them. None of them seemed to be all that important to know. Then again, anyone could be a Hunter or a were-creature purposely trying to blend in. I would have to keep my eyes open. After the lunch period was finished, I went to my other classes. The first hour of school was spent on one extracurricular activity and the other hour was spent on the second. Tryouts were going to be split into two sessions because of this. The first session was Cross Country, Tennis and Golf. That meant that I was to go to the tennis courts. I did not worry about a single thing as we got ready. The game had been out for 20 years. Of course there was a cheat code menu. I opened it up and boosted my speed and strength. That would help a lot with my chances of getting on the teams.
Doing that was not just a good thing. The true downside of using cheats was that all of the NPCs took a -10 penalty to opinion of you. They just found you... kinda off. In a setting like this, being found to be "off" could lead to the unwanted attention of people that might want to attack you for it. Whether it be by werewolves or Hunters, they might come after me. Session 1 of the tennis tryouts started with some laps and stretches to warm up. Klein, Tyler and Brad were all there muscling in on me to make me mess up. It is easy to tell when someone was making mistakes or being a bad actor. It was clear to me at least. They even tried to blatantly trip me as they ran past them on the track. The best way to deal with that was to just outrun them. The first thing tennis activity was hitting 10 balls fed to us by a machine on the opposite end of the court. The first 10 were supposed to be with the forehand. I did them and the next one was Brad. He was able to hit them, but he sent them soaring into the gate. "Keep the the balls in play the best you can!" the coach, a middle aged man said. That was very important.
