Zeke

(All of this time I spent leveling and making it to this floor, I still have my starting weapon and have to do the beginner quests on this ranch that is so like many other MMO's to have. For the similarities it shares though, this was not at all a cookie cutter MMO even before the horrible news had spread.) Zeke grunted at the difficulty to which this world was, like a replica of everything he didn't want to put the effort into back during his teen phases.

Rain patting down on his head, he could barely see anything but a barn through the heavy storm happening added along with the hair in his eye's. Step by step, the dropped boots he had found on level three were implanting themselves as his mark through the mud and ground. "Is anyone there!?" (What am I doing, even if there are any non-NPC's working here, they surely wouldn't hear me through this commotion.) Running to the house's front door, he knocked once and waited. Examining everything on the ranch nearby, the barn that was built into the house had been locked down tight and the windows seemed boarded up through the slightly see through curtains. "No one's home.." His behind planted itself on an old rocking chair before he rocked himself back and forth on the front porch.

A pair of legs moved in black clothing, lazily pushing themselves a long as I rubbed my eye's with my right hand. (That was my first time sleeping in an alley, is it too hard to get Col in this game or am I just have bad luck with getting drops? Inn's weren't made for me apparently.) I chuckled to myself as I thought this, the scarf around my neck covering anything from the nose down on my face. It was really early in the morning when I had woken up and decided to take my stroll in the danger zone again. (If I had anything to do last night after all of that grinding, I might have been able to push myself to stay up later. For all of SAO's beauty, I still can't seem to find myself doing any activities except being by myself and accomplishing what I half to... What am I kidding? I love the battling in this game, it makes me feel like an actual warrior and someone who can accomplish something.) My smile had returned again so shortly after the first one. I took my body to the plains again with the hopes of finally getting my level to two, it has been way too long to be this behind everyone else and I couldn't stand it.

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My back would have ached severely if it had been programmed into the game, I was only a couple of hours into my first grinding session and the plains around me were half full with enemies while the other half laid vacant from where I had just came from. (The sun is already close to the night setting, I should have logged in sooner but I can now have a few respawning area's to myself.) My head filled with thoughts as it pointed up at the sky, I had managed to not find a single item with my luck yet and I only had enough Col for a few healing crystals. On the plus side, my health gauge was only at a very lenient yellow color from where I had been working on the level one's the entire time. "I'll be able to produce many crystals like this as long as I am careful, once I reach level two I shall have about five with the actual necessity being one. Adding these up with what level creatures I will switch between I can manage five hours at the minimum of training before I'll need to teleport back to the City."

(Is that humming? Is that a skill?) In worry, my head swung to every direction surrounding me until I caught a glimpse of someone in as much black clothing as I. "Hey! What are you doing!?" I was actually curious since no enemies were in my vision and yet a skill was able to be cast without permission as if it was a duel I hadn't wanted to be a part of. The aura that helped me spot the other player had swiftly broken from his body and was sent in an arrow shape towards something on the other side of the small hill I was by. *SQUEEE!* A horrible painful yell from none other than a boar shot out and the player who had provoked it disappeared, I couldn't do anything about them since when I went after them, the boar had attacked me out of nowhere! "What the hell!?" My health gauge fell into the red and I was on my behind starting to feel my first sensation of viewing death since I had started. (It must have been some sort of provoke skill he used, he was trying to get me killed?) As quickly as I could I pushed myself up and readied my attack, I had to completely clean the slate of my mind as I watched the enemy prepare it's attack.

[if battle dice rolls 1-5]: I miss my attack

[if battle dice rolls 6-10]: I hit with my attack.

I plan to start off with my first topic on Floor 1, I wanted to post this short message here for anyone that would want to join. The decision is to help decide if it should be OP or SP.

Conclusion: I've taken a good amount of hours and now I've decided to start a solo party for my first adventure.

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Hello everyone, I would like to start this introduction formally. My planned character name will be Zeke, but I am in fact actually named after my Father. Rondel Griffith Jr. is my certified name to be exact. I've had so many nicknames over the course of my life but the one that has stuck to many of my Family and Friends is the one my Father also gave me. 'Wolfy' is the nickname I speak of and at times I believe it to be my actual name because of how often I am called it instead of Rondel. The pronunciation is a little weird so it's easier to say Wolfy when referring to me in situations.

I came upon this role play site fairly easily, searching for a SAO Rp forum on the Google search engine. I read the rules first of all which then became more and more of obvious to me I had struck gold on the first link I visited. The actual feeling of keeping your character alive along with party and battle systems blended with role playing was absolutely what I was looking for. Now that I am here and ready to get started, I can tell that my thought about looking for a site like this has not let me down and I also look forward to meeting you all in and out of character. *bows*