Large, orange eyes blinked open, slowly a whole world materialized before them, people moving about and chattering with each other. Izumi couldn’t help but think this was a sort of paradise, a gamer’s utopia. She was still new to the system; her father had recently informed her about this thing “the ultimate tomboy adventure” he had called it. That was when she’d decided to find a capsule and register herself under the alias of Cloudchaser.

Her avatar was starkly uncreative; it looked just as she did in the real world right down to her shoulder-length brown hair – or as close as it could get to looking like her. “Ah! Cute!” She would turn and finally lay eyes on the puppy-like creature that swayed next to her. It smiled in quiet recognition.

After familiarizing herself with the basic controls, such as walking and interacting with her own digimon, she began exploring the world a touch, and she discovered another brunette – though his digimon was not nearly as adorable as hers was. She figured this would be a good way to test out the chat system. “Hello there!”

“No, I’m sorry; I’m quite the noob actually. In fact, I just started today. I’m Cloudchaser.” She offered her hand to the male, smiling sweetly and shrugging her shoulders up slightly to show an apologetic side. She was sorry that she couldn’t quite be as much help as he hoped. “However, I had a chance to look over the map, some places seemed rather interesting to me. Wire Forest sounds the most promising to me if you’re looking to gain experience.” She paused, considering her own lack of experience in the game. “We could party up and explore together, two digimon would be stronger than one – we might be able to take on higher levels in that case and rank up sooner.” She paused, deliberating again. “If you’re the ambitious type, anyway.”

“Nice to meet you, Rush!” Izumi smiled sincerely, she was an amicable person, and being around others always made her feel infinitely better than when she was alone – and even if she was physically alone, in this virtual world there were folks all around! “Wonderful! I don’t know exactly where it is, but if we follow the map I’m sure we’ll get there lickety-split! Let me send you a party request, so that we can find each other if separated, and a friend request too, if you don’t mind.” Her avatar looked around as Izumi looked for the party functions, they were found within short moments though and Rush would find himself with two requests – the first to join her party, the second to allow her to add him to her contact list. “This is so exciting!”

"I'll lead, yes, but it's a partnership, so if there's someone else that you'd like to get to let me know. Do you want to buy any items to prepare or are you ready?" Salamon padded around idly behind Izumi, it was enjoying time with it's digimon partner. Izumi, on the other hand, was still standing before Rush, grinning excitedly with her hands clasped in front of her chest. "If you're ready we'll start by heading north." She gave a nod and tilted her head to the right.