[Shenandoah]

He got to the Game Station, nodded to Rex (the guy that ran the place), went to his favorite station in the back that was luckily free today, and dropped his bag. Logging on as Mazin, he smiled. His character was one that he liked quite a bit. He was a mage and his favorite spells were always offensive rather than defensive. He liked his character quite a bit and no one that saw him in the game could ever connect him with real life.

Some, he had seen, tended to make their characters look much like themselves to give it a bit more 'realism'. However, Rick didn't like his real self, so he fabricated his ideal self. Granted, his character was perhaps a touch 'pretty boy', but he always had plenty of girl characters interested in him despite his shyness... in fact, it tended to drawn them in more when he began stuttering it seemed. He didn't understand that at all. Didn't girls like guys with strong backbones?

The game loading screen popped up on the monitor and he picked up the VR headset. Settling it over his eyes, the VR headset was slightly heavy but not uncomfortably so. It covered his ears and was very top of the line. The game finished loading as he picked up the controller on instinct.

It was time to play.