log-in: e v a

Running up the stairway, Lucina opened the door to her room. Slinging off her backpack and throwing it to her light blue comforter, she dropped in her swivel chair and booted up her desktop computer. She led the mouse cursor clicked on the Eva Online program. After a cinematic of moments in what she assumed would be the main storyline, the main title and logo for Eva Online showed, with tiny letters underneath reading: "out-of-beta release." Lucina had downloaded the game yesterday, hearing from an online friend that the game was having a special lottery and had a decent beta.

Putting Eva on windowed mode to boot up Skype, Lucina messaged that said friend.
"[2:40] lucibear: starting up eva! I'll make my character and then add you. your username is forestspeaks, yes?
[2:41] a bunch of oaks: ooo, have fun!
I can't play tonight tho. I have homework :c
[2:41] lucibear: are you going to do your hw this time? ('v' )
[2:42] a bunch of oaks: not everyone can be good at school >:v"

She chuckled at their interaction, and returned to the game.
Logging in, she was met by a character/server selection screen. Pressing new character, Lucina went through the different races, hair, and classes before she set on her avatar. Long blue hair with sideswept bangs, olive skin, dark eyes. It fit enough for her, and as a class, she chose the 'Lord' class. From the description, a tank class that dabbles some in magic.
Typing in her display name, "futureseer" entered a server, and instantly on her screen she was notified that she won the lottery.

It was a surprise, for sure. She almost screamed in surprised excitement. Pressing the agreeing button to the prompt; she expected the game to continue as normal. What she did not expect was everything turning black, and feeling grass wavering around her in a crisp wind.
She did not expect to open her eyes to such a blue sky.
She did not expect to be all alone.

// ah, that's ok
honestly I wrote more than i usually do lol
id probably draw Ethan/Ekko one of these days now that he has an appearance i can draw

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Getting up from the ground, Lucina took a good look around the area. From what she could she, the wild grass amassed around her like a sea. A tree was in the distance, but other than that, it was nothing but the ground and the sky. "Well, this is odd. Very odd," she muttered to herself. Lifting her arm up, she flinched in surprise as a menu came up.

Character. Inventory. Skills. Quests. Map. Friends. A blanked out options and logout button. The Friends tab had a green dot over it. Lucina decided to go through the other menus first to see if anything had changed. She still had the starter gear and the starter sword. In her inventory, she discovered there was a little shiny piece of paper with fancy calligraphy announcing that she had won a spot in the lottery. It materialized in her hands, and she rubbed her thumb on the shiny parchment before placing it back in the inventory. "Am I the only one here with this? Others who won would have it, so would that mean there's others here as well?"

Wanting there to be an answer, she opened the Friends menu. She didn't expect to see anyone, really. She only just started the game and created her character- from what she seen, she is her character now. A sole name was seen at the top: ekko. The green dot was to presume that they was currently online. Tapping on the name with her finger, the map opened up and a pinpoint appeared elsewhere. "Is that where this 'Ekko' is?" Her question fell to no ears. "This is probably my best shot then.."

//the name typo is pretty
also cheekyy ethan cheeeekkyyyy. then again they don't fully recognize the mess they are in
i also imagine that they're rather a distance away from each other so theres some walking to do first lol

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Closing the menus, Lucina started walking to where she remembered the place of the dot.... only three steps in to become unsure and having the check again. "Gah... is there a way to keep it open?" Opening the menu again, she went into the friend's menu and tapped on Ekko's name again. The map popped up, and Lucina took a minute to check if there was a way to keep the map. Testing a couple steps side by side wasn't making the map disappear, much to her relief. "Could I hold the map?" She questioned, hesitantly pressing the map. It felt like paper, but there was a sharp spark that stung her fingertips. Quickly removing the map, she had it in her hands. Holding it by it's top corners, she pressed the map to the empty frame of where the map was once displayed. It filled in the frame's shape.

"I'd rather not do that again.." Looking at the map, she saw that the pinpoint marker was moving. A little slow but it was moving. 'I should get moving, it'd be awkward to just wait here.' She thought to herself, starting to walk fowards what she hoped would be a friendly face.

Lucina continued to walk towards where Ekko was, checking the map. Occasionally, she entered into tunnel vision only to snap out of it before almost tumbling down a steep hill. "Woah!" She shouted, wavering onto one foot before she managed to balance herself. 'I should be careful, I think I can't be a klutz here,' Lucina thought about the multiple times she tripped or bumped into something due to her own feet. It was something she was trying to iron out, since she herself was tired of causing accidents all the time.

As she continued towards the pinpoint, Lucina kept to wondering. 'What if this dot isn't a person? Maybe it could be an NPC, or a monster coming at me disguised as a friend. Games usually don't have that, and I'm sure you have to be sentient and alive and have an account to be added as a friend. Then again, the developers have that kind of control...' Each thought escalated with worry as with each moments she hadn't seen anyone in quiet a while. The pinpoint was closer than before, but there was still some distance. Her feet were starting to hurt under the hard boots. Maybe one trouble of steps more..?

//first interaction!! woo!!
Eventually, all that walking was coming into some good. Lucina thought she could be in hysterics after walking for so long to suddenly see a person walking in the same direction as she did. A male figure with simple light red armor. He was too far for now to truly see the details, but he waved to her and started making his way. Normally she'd take the time to wave back and move orderly, but she more or less ran towards him in excitement with finally seeing a person.

The run was short-lived as Lucina misinterpreted the distance as he gotten closer to her faster than she had anticipated. After he had taken the time to catch his breath, she gave his question with a confused look as she processed it. "I.. don't think I am. Sorry to worry you, but I hardly know anything but the menu system. All I did was create this- well, now me and won a lottery thing. Now I'm here." She sighed before continuing, "I'm supposing you are the same? I'm Lucina." She took her hand out for a proper greeting.

Lucina had a small part well-meaning part pitied smile at Ethan's mistake. It could mean there being more players brought here by an unfortunate fate. If there wasn't, would it be best or worst if either of us ended up as NPCS? It was an uncomfortable question to think about now.

Even though it didn't help in their situation, Lucina frowned as she looked at the long grass surrounding them, "I hope so, either one really." Even if it was being trapped into a game, it beat being alone. At the mention of servers, Lucina tried to remember which one she had clicked on. She swore it said that the population was moderate; trying not to combust her computer with all the player models in the fuller servers.

"I don't remember seeing anything that said anything about this area being a newbie area. Hopefully, if there's a town nearby, maybe it'd say?" Lucina theorized, before remembering the lottery ticket. "Oh! Before I forget, I looked in my inventory and I found this-"
As she said this, she opened up the menu and her inventory, and in her hands materialized the lottery winning certificate. "Do you have one as well?"

"It looks like it. Only now it's shiny and physically holdible... I'm a little afraid that it'll tear if I pull on the paper. It feels fragile." The certificate dispersed into light for a brief moment as Lucina returned it to her inventory. Her fear was not displaced, since she didn't know if the object could tear. As so, it was safely returned to where it couldn't -- hopefully.

There was a brief tightening in her stomach. Lucina understood where it would have come from, looking around at the empty space around her. "So empty.." She muttered to herself to have an idea pop into her head, thinking about the questions of newbie civilization. "We should try to find the nearest town. If there's others around or who have gotten in before us, they possible could be there." Plus, better than the middle of nowhere.

//kinda short! sorry!