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[vayne]

Raps still couldn't believe it...

He knew when he started the registering process for the game that the experience of being in the virtual reality would be awe inspiring, but he honestly wasn't prepared for it. As he took his first few steps outside of the man building, he was immediately placed in a state of awe as he glanced around him at the amazing virtual city. There were many buildings and shops set up all around, and the streets and walkways were packed with both players and NPCs. It was like he suddenly closed his eyes and woke up in the middle of Tokyo or something. His mind would've continued to wander aimlessly, if his partner Digimon didn't nudge his leg.

Raps glanced down and standing next to him was his own personal digimon partner, BlackGuilmon. He placed his left hand gently onto the digimon's head and patted it gently as he said to him, "Sorry about that. I just needed a moment to take it all in you know?" The digimon was silent, but nodded its head to show that it understood. Raps had no idea if his digimon could talk or not, but he didn't mind really. He was just happy with the fact that he had guilmon as a partner at all. However, now that he was done with the whole shock, it was time he got himself situated with the game and go do something fun.

He started walking away from the main building and submerged himself into the group of people walking along the roadway. As he walked, he saw many different places offering players all kinds of essentials. Item shops for consumables, weapon shop to increase his digimon's offensive capabilities, not to mention the many different restaurants for players to dine out at. The game certainly did have a realness factor to it, but Raps wasn't interested in all that. What he wanted was to sort find a guide of some sort for new players. He was pretty sure he had passed up an information desk somewhere back there, but he probably didn't notice it.

A simple sigh escaped his lips as he glanced down at his partner and asked, "So what now?"

[scovil]

"Whaddya want to do now, Sco-chan? See if we can find someone to fight?" The teen had paused to read a sign advertising some new items, so it took him a moment to absorb the question. When he did, he just shrugged. PvP battles were fun and stuff, but it seemed everyone else was strong than they were so they always ended up loosing. Not that he really minded, since it gave them valuable experience, but the young man wasn't sure he was in the mood for a battle today.

"Let's keep walking and see if anything interesting happens," he replied absently, shoving his hands in his pockets and continuing on down the street. His partner grumbled a little, but followed along anyway. Scovil's eyes narrowed as he examined the crowd around them. It was busy, much more that usual, and he wondered if there was something special going on to warrant all the people. "Whatever..." he mumbled, deciding he didn't really care.

His gaze then landed on a blonde-haired male who seemed to be about his own age, standing stock still and looking lost. The young man might not have been playing long, but he knew that look. Digimon Online's population had just gone up. Well, Garuda had helped him out, so he supposed he should pass the favour along. He needed to get to know more people anyway.

Catching the question as he walked up, Scovil grinned and replied, "Explore a little. Grab a bite to eat. Find someone to battle against. I know it's overwhelming, but you can do pretty much anything you want here." The teen glanced down to make sure Shamanmon was still with him, then returned his attention to the new guy.

[grimm]

"careful not'get arrested, yah?"

a voice interrupted the conversation between the quartet -- grimm hadn't the tendency or nature to be particularly polite or charming about his words, but he intended well. he'd heard rumors - stories - of players breaking rules and getting thrown into some obscure place for weeks on end. what made it worse was that it involved real sentences served in real game time.

it didn't matter if you logged out and logged back in two weeks later. a sentence was a sentence. a prisoner had to serve his sentence.

it was all rather intimidating, for those who knew, and those who remained blissfully unaware were in for a shock, grimm thought. better to be armed with knowledge than to be without it, after all.

"i heard stories, but if it's ya firs'time ..." he ended his sentence with a shrug. "first time's always worst. so don't get arrested fighting illegal matches or somethin'. they pretty popular around here, yah? in asuka."

but they said it was a free game, a game everyone could play

notes 'sup guys.

[vayne]

Fate seemed to answer Raps's question pretty quickly. As he stood there wondering what to do, he was approached by a boy and his shamanmon. They answered his question, with a series of answers which generally meant that he should treat this game as a vacation. In the Digital World he could do whatever he wanted and well, honestly the thought enticed him greatly. Raps turned to face the boy as he said to him, "Those all sound like some great ideas, but those are things i can do out in the real world." Raps took a quick glance down at his BlackGuilmon before reverting his gaze back tot he young man, "Well, if i had to pick, I'd like to go out there and spend some time training with my digimon. I want to see just what is in store for me out there you know?" Guilmon seemed to like the idea of an adventure and seemingly responded with a chipper growl.

Raps continued on with the conversation, "Sorry, where are my manners." He reached his right hand out towards the young man and said, "I'm Raps, and this is my partner BlackGuilmon." There wasn't really time for the boy to reply to his greeting because another person seemed to drop in on their conversation.

The new guy pretty much just came in and warned about fighting and what not because it was illegal. The whole notion of fighting being illegal kind of disappointed Raps a bit. How would someone test their strengths if they couldn't battle with other trainers and see who was the better tamer? Well, he was pretty sure that there were certain places that sanctioned battles between tamers, and if so, he would just find out where they were some other time. For now he was going to concentrate on meeting new people.

Raps averted his gaze to the new comer and said, "Thanks for the warnings, but that kind of puts a damper on my plans a bit. After all I kind of want to get stronger along with my guilmon, it wouldn't make any sense if we couldn't test out our strength with other tamers you know?"

[scovil]

Scovil swung his head around as someone else spoke, eyes quickly narrowing in disdain at the other player. While he didn't care that their conversation had been interrupted, he did care about what the other player was saying. Yes, fighting was illegal...but only if you did it outside the designated areas. Unless this other guy was so new as to not know that, he was just spreading misinformation.

Closing his eyes and biting back a frown, the young man turned back to the first player. "Raps and BlackGuilmon, huh? I'm Scovil, and this is Shamanmon." With a faint smile, he reached out and shook the offered hand, deciding that he currently liked Raps better than the other player who had joined them. BlackGuilmon looked pretty cool, too. "This guy-" he jerked a thumb at Mr. No-Illegal-Battles, "-is right, but also wrong. You're not supposed to battle other Tamers in city streets, but you can battle people in the arena no problem."

"Yeah, it's really fun! Sco-chan and I have done it a few times already!" Shamanmon broke in, grinning up at Raps, clearly happy with the topic of conversation. You guys should give it a shot, too," the small ogre added by way of encouragement. He had really enjoyed the battles he had fought in so far, and hoped he would be able to fight again soon.

"Anyway, I believe you can challenge players outside of the cities anytime you want and not get tossed in jail, so you could always battle that way," Scovil said, glancing between the two Tamers with him. Besides, one only got put in jail if they got caught fighting illegally, but he wasn't about to say that. "As to what you said earlier about all my suggestions being things you can do in real life - you're absolutely correct. But in here, you do all of that while at the same time being whoever you want to be...as long as you follow the rules, of course." He smiled then, thinking that while he certainly wouldn't blatantly break the rules of this world, he wasn't going to miss an opportunity to bend them a little.