[Poggio]

He looked around at the selection of people and squeezed Tsu's hand. "at the level's we are now. I think we can do the beginners quest with out any one else." Even he had a few other skills under his belt after all he was part knight. "If need be we can find some other users at the party." It sounded like a reasonable idea to him. He pulled the other along into the city pausing every so often at a shop.

[Yokuutsu]

Tsukasa just smiles, squeezing his hand back. "Yep, good point. Time to go on the grand adventure alone. Besides, the game should let us add people in the field if we want too. So we're all good." It's obvious that Tsukasa is excited-he's kind of wiggling. While they're in the city, Tsukasa of course has to look at shiny weaponry and potions. "You can't have too many potions."

[Poggio]

He laughed and wondered away from his companion. He started looking over the items like a bird drawn to shiny things. He was looking for talismans in particular something that would give Tsu's healing power an extra boost with out killing his other attributes. At last he came across a pearl medallion molded into a strange hybrid of a Celtic knot and a Chinese knot with jade embellishments. The npc launched into an explanation of the world and the town and how it was a special beta item not to be offered in the game until the second expansion pack. He bought it once he was able to get an word in edge wise. Saving it as a surprise for later in the game.

[Yokuutsu]

Long as they can find each other later, Tsukasa is fine with this. And so he wanders off to potions. Which he finds out that you can buy potions you can throw and do damage. And mana potions....and of course the basic healing potions. He must buy some, just in case, which he is focusing more on the throwing potions and mana potions. They should be good with those, but he can't currently find any that boost attributes. "Maybe they'll add it later." After he looks at some things, and plans on buying some of them...especially this armor that boosts health...his friend can wear it. And health boosting is good. So, he goes to find his friend and shoves potions at him. "Here. Take these."

[Poggio]

He looked at all the stuff that had been put in his arms and laughed. "Why thank you mother." He looked around and bought a bag to carry most of the items in. Once they were settled he plucked one out at a time to inspect it. While looking over the strange assortment of things he debated giving Tsu his gift, deciding it best be kept for later. "Shall we make our way to the castle? I'm kinda starving."

[Yokuutsu]

Tsukasa just smiles at him. "They seemed useful to me. Especially the throwing ones. They can do damage from farther away. And without using mana or anything. What isn't good about that?" He just follows him and plops down, watching Julius/Grim go through them all. "I can run in circles while throwing them...trying to regen mana. So I won't be completely useless." He just blinks a bit at the idea of food. "Fooooood!" He starts kind of nudging the other towards food.

[Poggio]

"Down boy." He said realizing jokingly he probably should have gotten Tsu a collar for his pendant. "I am not even sure if we can eat virtual food." He wondered if their chinese food had been left at the door step again but continued to pull the other towards the castle. The creators had done a grand job with the palace. They passed through lavishly decorated marble halls to get to the main court room. Inside the royal npc were sitting on their thrones entertained by the players. Grim eyed them but immediately spotted the food table far off near a balcony. He pulled Tsu over to the table.

[Yokuutsu]

"You know not to mention food around me...and what did you do? Mentioned food." He just smiles. He's temporarily forgotten about the Chinese food-him and his short term memory. While they're in the castle, he of course has to look at things and poke at them...like anyone would. "This place is....lavish." To say the least. "Yay! Food!" He's somehow doing chibi eyes at the food.

[Poggio]

He just smiled and shook his head at his partners exuberance. "Let me know how it taste." He looked around wondering off, something felt strange about the party. It was probably the fact that he was experiencing it rather then seeing it from a third person point of view.

"Greetings Warriors." The King stood up suddenly followed by the rest of the royal family. He gave a brief introduction and welcomed every one to the official closed Beta of the game. Grim payed it no mind as it continued to ramble on, but the growing feeling in his stomach continued. He watched the king, for some strange reason it appeared as if he were glitching. The others around him started to notice it too, but they were distracted by the things to come. A dark cloud bubbled up from the center of the room, and the same strange man from the introduction laughed evilly as he solidified. The figure bellowed the cliche villains anthem. "Foools" He spun around, rather then kidnapping the princess like he was suppose to the figure stabbed the king, drawing out a crystal from his chest. It glowed a brilliant color red. The Queen let out a horrible shriek. It reminded Grim, that even in this virtual world, some one had to control the npc's. Many in the room surged to fight the black clothed figure including the prince beside his father. He was too late to stop his fathers strange circumstance and it seemed even more powerless to stop the black clothed figure from using a binding spell and capturing him.

Many of the other figures surged forth to help the prince, realizing that the story had gone wrong but the pair had disappeared roughly in the same manner that they appeared. The game had officially begun and yet the players had not been given many clues. Grim snorted and went to go find Tsu.

[Yokuutsu]

Tsu is just munching on food-because he's good like that. The only thing Tsukasa is finding about this place is that he's not feeling sick about the virtual reality like he normally does...and how creepy that man was earlier. Too bad he's about to return. Tsukasa isn't (actually) one of those to go forward. One, he's a mage. Two, this person is a boss...and he knows nothing about him and so...doesn't want to take a chance of getting too close. He's played virtual reality before and this just feels different to him. So, he's not taking chances on this one.

Once the creeper disappears, he works on finding his friend...which isn't too hard since they're both doing it. So have a worried Tsukasa. "This place just feels off to me."

[Poggio]

As soon as he saw the other he started to snicker. He used his thumb and wiped a bit of white cream of this partner and stuck his thumb in his mouth. "I know what you mean. You know, I think this might be a corrupted file. We should probably restart or at least get off so I can email the support lines."

[Yokuutsu]

Tsukasa just scrunches up his face automatically as the other kind of mothers him. "I was hungry." He's defending himself. "I dunno...maybe a virus got into the game or something?" He has no clue about that, but he has played games where it's like that on purpose, but he had warning of that one. "Yeah probably...:

[Poggio]

"Shit on crackers, if my mother board is infected I am going to be fucking screwed." He swung a fist into the nearest pillar. "Lets go check, I'm sure the Chinese food is here. You can chow down while I inspect my baby." He reached up to try and find the off button for his head set. Instead it seemed as though he was merely tapping his head. A look of confusion crossed his face.

[Yokuutsu]

"In those games....only the game was infected I think....it could just be an attack on the server or something..." Tsukasa already suspected something when the food had taste. He really doubts that virtual reality headsets can actually do that. He makes this whining noise when he sees Julius trying to turn off the set. "I...don't think we can really leave....the food was real..." He says softly. "This place feels too weird. Too real."

[Poggio]

He just dropped his hand slowly. His real name was only reserved for when Tsukasa was being serious. He nodded silently agreeing on the food. But some part of his mind still wanted to fight the logic of it. "Do not tell me we've just been sucked into a plot of a bad fucking anime." he growled emitting low blue flames. "This had better not have tentacles." He looked around at the others dawning on the same realization, the same panic.

[Yokuutsu]

"It was a good anime for one thing....and you're not the only one hoping there's not tentacles." Tsukasa....doesn't want them either. The idea of being tentacled raped does not appeal to him. "Now it's time to breathe and calm down. It'll be alright. We'll find a way to get back." He's eyeballing the green flames. "It's not like we can do anything else other than play the game and hope that gets us back."