Clearly, I was now a moderately attractive young man. My skin was kissed from being in the sun. I had no shirt on, and I saw that I only had some ancient underwear on instead. My hair was dark brown. I had very pretty red eyes as well. That did not bode well for what I might be seen as by the NPCs. I knew that there were all sorts of worlds and servers. I still had to hope that this was the one my girlfriend was on. Everything around me was a dark void. There was a wooden door behind me. I had to go through it. There was nothing else in the space. Slowly approaching, I got another popup in front of me. It asked if this was the avatar I wanted. The choice was final. I saw nothing so wrong with it that would need me to go back and try to change anything about the avatar I had. I was just a guy that got a lot of time in the sun. "It's fine, I guess." I said, thinking out loud. That was enough for the game apparently. The popup faded away and the door began to creak open. I just shook my head. This was getting to be a bit much for a game. Walking through took a while. It was a white void.
After a minute of walking, the scenery of an ancient town began to fade in. I was still in a limited form of dress. That was not good. I checked my inventory. I had 1500 lin on me. Lin seemed to be the currency of the world. The extra 500 lin came from getting the game on its opening week. I was going to need it to get proper clothes and gear. I looked like I was a crazy person. I checked the map menu. That would help me get a handle on things. I was in some coastal town in a place called Ainon. All of the information was available in the game's encyclopedia. The Ainon Province was part of the Namor Empire. In recent years, the empire had split nearly in half due to a pretender claim on the throne after the last emperor died. The Eastern Namor Empire was currently ruled by the legitimate heir, his official wife's only daughter. Even though there was a male preference for title succession, the whole of the East was on her side. Her older brother had died in the civil war. The Western Namor Empire was ruled by the sons of a native concubine. The West preferred to be ruled by them.
Being that I was only level 1, there was not much that I could do about this. I would need to be pretty high leveled if I wanted to even think about imperial politics. I made my way to the nearest shopping district. I bought a couple of outfits. I then went a couple doors down. I got some light armor and a short sword and a small shield. That is a really good start. I had played other games like this before. I was someone that likes to get in close and personal with my enemies. I also bought some rations. Eating gives you some health. There was a training area where the garrison trained. It was open to the public. I got some good practice in. FOG was like using my body in real life. I experienced no lag between thought and action. After getting warmed up, it was time to go. Ainon Province was on the border with both the Western Empire and the larger Namregia Region. It was a land of several barbarian tribes. I did not want to go there now. I wanted to go to the provincial seat. That was a major city. Important things would happen there. I left the town and walked down the road. It would be long.
