Chapter 33: The marshmallow tragedy. (1/2)
The briefing ended and everyone was led back into the capsule roo sound as they started their boot up sequence Everyone approached their designated capsule and waited for theirof static electricity tickled his skin as Arthur entered hishis arms on the armrests by his side As he leaned back into the chair, he felt the tingling sensation of electricity running up his arms, and the capsule he was in suddenly activated
The capsule door closed, sealing hiraphic display appeared before hi" were plastered on the display, right next to a loading icon When thewith Arthur, the electric sensation he felt quickly dulled down to a comfortable waran to whirr, and Arthur felt hi" appeared before hiraphic text As the le, the words on the holograed to say, "Instantiation co in?"
"Yes", Arthur closed his eyes and answered After a fewconsciousness, the sounds fro co in the black void, the realm between the real world and the virtual one
Arthur opened his eyes, and before hi as far as the horizon He checked the buttons hovering on his ara the servers haven't been activated yet
Instead he hit the icon representing the lobbyathat listed all the available lobbies appear, the only lobby open at the moment however was the one created for the beta testers to join Arthur clicked join on the lobby, and his body was enveloped in light
When the light dissipated, he opened his eyes to see that he wasn't in thelocated in the middle of a lush forest It was rather dark coht full ht to see, and the various caht and war seats, and various ite the food ites ofofa seat on a nearby log
Various people started appearing a few seconds after Arthur had It seeh the novelty of the virtual lobbies hadn't worn off on theiddy with childish excitement when they realised they were dropped in the ht
Both Acai and Maria appeared, they too were experiencing the excite dropped in a new scenery The two snapped out of it and began looking around, their eyes both locking on a fa to blow out the fire that had spread to the very burnt looking
The two approached Arthur, who at this point was noaving around a piece of shrivelled charcoal on a stick Arthur turned to face the two, and with a confident smile, held up the skewered charcoal and asked, "Want a hter, and Acai taking over with cooking the roup continued the conversation they were having before the briefing Being the rowdiest group naturally attracted the attention of the others, all forms of hostility were still heavily focused on Arthur, but their gazes started to shi+ft to his new co sure to remember the everyone's faces, he then inforeted in the wilderness Although this wasto happen anyway, due to their place on the leaderboard, their status as Arthur's friends surely didn't help their public i out, infor everyone the servers had finally come back online
"Well, this is our cue,in" Arthur spoke out before slapping the play button on his arht faded away, he found hie
A notification floated in front of hi hi his iiven ten seconds of invulnerability, giving you just enough tis and plan your next course of action This was i annihilated by etting spawn camped by players
A short while after, two more notifications appeared The first notification was a friend request from Maria, or sobnny
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[Friend Request]
sobnny would like to add you as a friend!
Do you accept?
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Merlin pressed the accept button before turning to the nextThe next was also a friend request, but from Acai this time around, better known as Typhoeus, the reaper