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[capella]

“Wow! Just look at it all, it’s absolutely amazing!” It was hard not to be excited for something new, and Digimon Online was exactly that for young Hotaru Yuko – or as she would henceforth be known to this virtual world: Sugar Rush. Her eyes were practically sparkling as she gazed around at all the wondrous things to behold, digimon with their partners, shops, a bustling city that didn’t even really take up any space at all!

The blonde stopped to marvel at herself then, her avatar was dressed exactly how she would enjoy, a rainbow scarf, black striped shirt, heavy olive drab jacket, and skinny black pants (covered in little gray stars!). She spun around on green, zipped up boots until she could see a pink creature behind her. “Oh!” Coming to a stop she crouched and leaned close to the clamped closed creature and reached out a hand, before touching the striped shell, the Syakomon popped open, she stumbled backwards and fell on her posterior.

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[vulcan]

a hand extended towards sugar rush, a grin curving the mouth of its owner. it was a flamon, a humanoid digimon; not quite human like a lucemon, but not entirely a beast like a gabumon. its tail swayed in the air as it looked at the girl, tilting its head slightly in order to prompt her into accepting it.

after all, it wasn't like the syakomon could do the same. it didn't have limbs, for one.

vulcan hovered somewhere behind the flamon, eventually approaching close enough for sugar rush to see. the boy adjusted his goggles - told himself, quietly, that he'd at least try to make a friend this time - and smiled (a smile that didn't reach his eyes, but what mattered was the attempt).

"hey there. first time?"

[lupo]

"renamon." one word, one word was all it took for the vulpine to seemingly materialize beside her. just to know that renamon would always be there for her made ruki feel less alone. and more secure. no-one was ever privvy to that information, and ruki knew renamon would never let it pass her lips. "today we rest. no battles, no training."

renamon nodded: it had seemed to be training and battle, day after day. a day where rest was important was certainly needed. once agreeing to her tamer, they continued to walk through asuka city, nothing on their mind except perhaps mill about. it wasn't normal for ruki to be relaxing like this. it probably wouldn't last.

ahead she saw movement. a girl falling and then someone moving inwards to help. intrigued, ruki padded closer, renamon close by her heels as faithful as ever, reaching just in time to hear vulcan speak. "everything okay?" ruki asked, not interrupting as it would be so very rude. socially awkward ruki was, this might just help improve such abysmal social skills.

[capella]

She felt a little awkward suddenly, with all these people around noticing that she was a clumsy newbie. Feeling her cheeks turn red and warm she took the offered hand of the digimon (of course she didn’t recognize what it was since she’d never really had many dealings with digimon, this was her first time ever). “Are you an ‘NPC’?” She asked the flamon wonderingly, of course her answer was soon given by what seemed to be a male – not that she could be sure if he was male in the real world, he probably couldn’t even be sure she was female, virtual reality was so interesting! “I guess it’s pretty obvious,” she scratched the back of her head and gave a sheepish, and apologetic, smile.

A red-head then, with a tall yellow fox-looking thing added in. “Oh, yes, no I’m sorry. Everything looks so real, I just was a little surprised when I noticed my digimon.” The blonde rubbed her rump a few times. “Falling even hurt a little, the sensory stuff in this game is really amazing.”

NOTE: SORRY IT TOOK ME A BIT.
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[vulcan]

"everyone starts somewhere," said takuya, still wearing the same smile. he'd started off quite some time ago, but hadn't really played. a few who had started around the same time he did had already adult digimon and the like -- the boy reminded himself that he was different, anyway. "it's better than being completely afraid of your own choice."

he adjusted his goggles as lupo spoke. "yeah. it's total immersion, some kind of technology ... you're staff, right?" the teenager glanced at the redhead. he'd seen her around some, but hadn't bothered to ask previously. not all staff revealed their statuses, after all. "a guide?"

[lupo]

ruki looked towards the girl first as she spoke. flamon wasn't an npc, but she didn't speak about it. it wasn't her place since it wasn't her digimon that was being asked the question. she instead focused on the girl, who was new to the game. ah, to be a newbie playing the game for the first time again! ruki remembered her first experience with digimon online, it was something one would never forget. "makes the game much better to feel as if you truly are apart of it." and the senses and all that sort of stuff made it better than other mmorpgs.

"i'm staff." ruki nodded. "name's lupo." there, now they could speak their usernames too, making it more 'formal' she supposed. "not a guide but a game moderator." and soon to be organizer if things went the right way for her. organizer was one of the top spots, and ruki just hoped she could make the cut. so far the other organizers were all older than she was: in their twenties and above. but she knew a lot about digimon, about the game, and she had a total drive for being the best. and she wasn't one to abuse her staff abilities and powers either.

[capella]

"Afraid?" Yuko sensed a story behind this boy, like he may have had more to say on the subject but chose not to. She tilted her head and blinked curiously, but feeling that she did not want to pry and step on any of her new friend's toes she just smiled. "A staff member! You must know so much about this game! I'm Sugar Rush." She was really excited to be meeting new people, it felt nice to not be stuck at home. "Do you two play this game a lot? Can we form... what do they call them... a party?"

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[vulcan]

"sure, i guess."

flamon glanced at vulcan, its eyes wide. vulcan rarely formed parties; socializing was usually out of the question for the boy. what caused the exception this time? when vulcan glanced at flamon, the monkey-like digimon turned away. it didn't feel comfortable looking at the goggle-wearing teenager.

"right, i'm vulcan," he said after a moment of thought, having realized that he hadn't introduced himself. "lupo, mind doing the honors?"

flamon glanced away, slightly unused to how chatty vulcan was being.

[lupo]

"i know quite a bit." ruki nodded. having been a player before promoted to staff meant she knew quite a lot about digimon online. more specifically, the digimon, fighting, those sorts of things. "i'm on everyday." for more than six hours at least: this game had become a second home, a second life, for the teenager. "please to meet you sugar rush, vulcan." ruki nodded to each one.

"a party?" ruki raised an eye, vulcan seemed to accept it, and ruki was the only one left to decide if she wanted to join up or not. "why not?" ruki took a moment before sending out the invites. once accepted, they'd be an official party and would be able to locate each other if they got out of sight; unless they left of course. "invites are sent. anywhere you'd like to see first?" the game moderator asked.

[capella]

"Oh! Something popped up!" Yuko stepped back once, then lifted her hand attempting to figure out how to accept. "How do you...? Hmm... Ah, like that!" It took her a little bit of experimenting, but eventually (after comically flailing her arm around a bit and punching at air) she figured it out. She was an absolute novice at this game, even though she'd read through the manual, it was a whole different thing to read and understand and then apply something. Sugar Rush was so excited, now she was making new friends and really getting to play the game for real! "Anywhere is fine with me, thank you for starting the party!"

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[vulcan]

"you pick," vulcan offered. he'd seen much of the city, and the surroundings. sure, he mightn't have went out into the wilderness for too long, but he figured he had a better grasp of what was going on -- a better grasp than sugar rush, at any rate. "... i don't have anywhere in particular, but the sunset's great at plug cape."

[lupo]

ruki held her silence as the other two accepted their invites, with sugar rush having slightly more trouble than vulcan. neither one had any suggestions apart from vulcan mentioning plug cape, and that was a pretty good starter for a new player as not many digimon attacked there, plus there was a chance of seeing a whamon, which was pretty cool in itself. "we'll go to plug cape. of course we'll be going through the park to get there. be on guard, there are some sneaky digimon there." sneaky digimon that would like to attack, but they were no match for the party of six(three players, three digimon).

"you're welcome." she added to sugar rush before she began to make her way towards the city gates. the park was just outside, and once they got through the park they'd reach plug cape. the trek wouldn't take too long either provided things ran smoothly.