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Chapter 89

Avatar creation was not easy. Of course, James hadn't really expected it to be. Honestly, he hadn't known what to expect. Overall though, he spent a lot more time on Avatar creation than he had thought he would.

The first step of Avatar creation hadn't even been related to avatar creation. That had been the part where he ignored Rue and Sir Rexus, as the Terminus preferred to be called, while they began their games. After a moment of failed concentration, James had simply floated further away from the group, until he could no longer hear them arguing about what was going on the stack where, or something of the sorts. James had never gotten that into magic, he preferred hearthstone.

Once he had his peace and quiet, James had been able to look over his Avatar creation screen fully. He noticed the main tab simply pulled up an empty screen, with a platform showing where he was sure, some sort of model could stand. Currently, it was blank, with a message stating No Avatar Selected floating in the space. To the right of that message, hovered a brightly lit, inviting prompt. Create Avatar Now?

”Just give me a second.” James said to no one in particular, as he continued to scan the rest of the screen, as well as the additional tabs that popped up. It seemed, on top of the simple avatar generation option, he had tabs for weapons, armor, skills, upgrades, and one tab labeled cosmetics.

”Why wouldn't they have cosmetics?” He grumbled again to himself. Of course, they would. Xander may go on and on about how DCO was a huge government experiment or whatnot, but the game developer obviously still wanted to make money. James was sure cosmetics would cost some sort of currency to add on to the avatar. Gamers always loved unique cosmetics. And James was no exception. He may have spent a decent amount of gold, and some V Coin, in order to uniquely adjust his Warlock in the Warcraft Universe.

For the briefest moment, James had a longing to log on and see his character again, before he chased that away, partly with focus, and partly because at that moment, he felt another pang of hunger. He still had just under a day left in immersion, which meant another 23ish hours left of suffering from these darned hunger pangs. Hopefully, he would be able to consume more than just Soylent when he woke up.

”Focus.” James shook his orb and turned back to the options. Sadly, all the additional tabs were greyed out, meaning the first thing he needed to do, was obviously, create his avatar.

”Here goes nothing.” James mumbled, and he selected the glowing option. Honestly, he had no idea what to expect, and Rue had been less than helpful. All he really knew was he would be able to use his Avatar in the upcoming Dungeon Wars. Though, that was probably all that really mattered.

For once, selecting the option did not generate the infamous slot machine of choices that James had become accustomed to. Instead, it prompted what appeared to be a normal character creation screen? The first prompt, male or female.

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”Male.” James said, and as he selected the option, a shadowy male outline appeared in the empty space. Next up, Race. James scanned through the list of races; they were all the same as what players had access to. James toyed around with all of them, before making up his mind. He had been torn between human, and elf. The deciding factor for him, had been that in almost all the novels he read, the main characters, upon being brought into a virtual world, opted for human. He was tired of that trope, so chose elf for himself. Also, well, he liked the Knights Who Go Ni, and they were all elves.

For the next, perhaps hour? James lost himself to literally just character creation. The Avatar creation screen gave him countless options of customization, from hair and eye color, to the various shapes, lengths, widths of all of his features. He knew time was important, but for that hour, he once again lost himself to his gamer side, and did his darndest to make his Avatar perfect. Well that, and he actually did just lose track of time.