Thread: Sword Art Living, (Frogger and Sirix)

Celesta Frogger Kaila, are you sure about this? Celesta asked nervously, picking up the helmet and studying it for a long moment. I mean... this is your game, and you've been waiting for it to come out ever since it was announced... I'm not really interested in- Kaila and Nicole's eyes both narrowed, making her train of thought drift off. Kaila let out a long sigh, and plucked the helmet out of the girl's hands, using it to gesture. Look, Celesta, I know you've never been interested in video games...but really! You have to try Sword Art Online! It's going to revolutionize the genre of MMORPG, no...it's gonna make every other game look like kid stuff! Nicole gave a curt nod herself. You do need to try it, Celesta. I've been reading reviews on it, and honestly... Sword Art Online is supposed to be absolutely fantastic. Opening her eyes, she smiled while tilting her head. There's no reason to be nervous. It's just a game...and besides, Kaila and I will be joining you inside. A hand lifted, playing with strands of brown that were tickling the underside of her chin. Come on, Celesta... That Nerve Gear is our birthday present to you... Aren't you going to try it, just this once...? Kaila decided to play along, and agreed, disappointment etching itself onto her features. Guilt rising inside the girl's chest, Celesta finally caved after a couple of minutes, albeit rather reluctantly. The other girls were pleased, however. Their friend wasn't one to socialize, for it just wasn't in her nature... In fact, if their mothers hadn't arranged a play date when they were just two...there was a good chance of them never becoming friends in the first place. The set up didn't take too long, a lot of touching toes and other movement so the Nerve Gear could find the correct receptors in the brain... It did bring a lot of laughter, especially when Kaila went tumbling over her head and ended up sprawled out on the bed. After the set up came the trailer opening for the game...a field rushing by, and then a profile shot of a floating castle. What is that place? Celesta wondered, but didn't have a chance to ask before the character making screen appeared. Nibbling on her lip, she decided to go with someone who looks a little like her...but not overly so. Once she chose a template to go off of, she tweaked it here and there, giving the girl a little more color than that horrible pasty white...altering the shape of her eyes, changing the color to green...and after a few more minutes of alterations, decided she was done. The final product was a tall, slender teenage girl modeled after herself, with little differences here and there. Her eyes were green, her hair long and brown...but other than that, Celesta could have sworn she was looking into a mirror. Satisfied, she hit the Accept button, blinking when she was asked to name the character. Hm... What should I name her...? she thought out loud...not quite sure where even to begin. After all...there had to be hundreds, thousands...millions of possibilities. Her finger tapping out a rhythm, she finally decided to just pick the first name that came to mind. It ended up being... Frogger. Celesta was thrown into the game after that, a huge Welcome to Sword Art Online appearing before her eyes. In a flash, she found herself standing in the middle of a large court yard, with a fountain in its center and walls all around. There was four doors for each direction...and a great deal of people. Hello? she called out, mostly experimenting...and partly, to see if Kaila or Nicole has finished making their characters. Her voice was soft, almost like music, just a tad higher pitched than her voice in reality. Her green eyes blinking, she glanced here and there, even straining onto her tiptoes to see if she could see...well, she didn't really know. Having been wrapped up in the starting process, she never did see what their characters were going to look like.