A happy chiming tune wakes Aya from her slumber, rubbing her eyes she turns her head toward the sound.
"Oh the game." she says, pushing the covers off and slowly getting out of bed with a yawn. Aya makes her way over to the only desk in her small one room apartment. Once she's fortable she checks the time on her phohat's charging nearby.
"3:45 am? It's pretty te." she says yawning again. The musi her s tio py, makiurtention back to it.
Even if she didn't want to py right now the music was getting in the way of her restful night, plus she o let the PacBook charge fully for the night.
Aya sits ready to turn off the ptop monitor when she decides to take a look at the game instead.
Dispyed on her s is a vast ndscape that makes her eyes go wide with excitement, Aya clicks on watg animations for a beautiful nd structured to look like something straight out of a fantasy novel.
The mascot character from before flies over her s once more, waving at Aya as though to invite her into the game. The girl could only squeal in joy, digging out her old mouse to plug it in and click around.
"Let's see first of all I have to make an at huh?" she says. After filling in the necessary details she es to the part where she has to select her name and css.
[Please enter a name]
"Hmm, I want to choose something clever but at the same time it's just a game so no pressure." she says to herself. Aya holds her hand to her seriously mulling over what the name of her avatar would be.
"I'll just keep it simple." Aya says, typing into the puter.
[You have selected Yvlena]
[Yvlena will be your name?]
[Yes/No]
Aya smiles to herself remembering an old story about that partiame. Her mom used to tell her stories once upon a time, she could barely remember any of them now but that uck out to her.
Yvlena.
'And it's pretty too.' she thinks.
es the race.
"Well I don't really know much about all these basic stats but it might be a little b to py as a human I think." Aya says with a giggle. "Though from what I know, humans are generally more banced but certain csses have more strength or dexterity hmm."
She looks through the csses, ing upon, elves, dwarves, humans, and a multitude of other races each with their own uats, and power-ups.
Aya finds herself getting overwhelmed by all the choices she's presented with.
"Bah!" she excims, throwing her hands in the air "I'm just going with elf, I've always wao py as that rayway." she says clig oton.
[You have selected elf as your race]
[Elf will be your race]
[Yes/No]
Aya clicks yes
Another prompt es up.
[Please choose a starting area]
A couple options show up and Aya picks the ohat makes the most seo her.
[You have selected Bloom Haven.]
[Yes/No]
Aya clicks the firmation button once more and soon all the info she's entered disappears, allowing the game to load.
"Wele Yvlena to Moon Valley a nd of secrets, mysteries, and more. Do enjoy your stay and remember magic is real."
A kindly and motherly voice says from the puter speakers. After a shortcut se introdug her character Aya is finally greeted by the elf she made.
"Wow I look so cute." the character on s is a little elf girl. Yvlena had dark hair like her's, with warm eyes, her hair was cut short in a bob and her skin a lovely tan. Aya made sure the character looked somewhat like her.
'It's like I'm really in the game. I wonder how it feels with VR?' she thinks. Moving her character around she could see she was in a small town. The cobblestone floors and little shops around gave the fantasy ype medieval vibe.
Aya wasn't aloher, all around her, she could see different pyers and NPCs running around. The girl feels herself getting overwhelmed again, after all this was all quite o her.
"Is there a guide or something, maybe I should just chey character." she opens the status to view her basic stats
NAME: YVLENA
RACE: ELF
HP:100
MP:60
CLASS:????
[LVL: 1]
[EXP:0/30]
her eyes fall oats she currently had.
[STR]:10
[DEF]:5
[DEX]:12
[AGI]:12
[INT]:12
[WIS]:10
[CHA]:5
[LUK]:5
Aya nods, w if she could do more researto the game so she could uand what all the numbers meant, though she retty sure she wasn't the stro character. There was more info
"Never been much of a fighter so I'll take it," she says nodding to herself. Cheg the time again Aya nearly jumps out of her seat
It was now 5:27 am nearly time for her to get up for work. Now she would feel sleepy as she pushed her trolley all over the office.
Aya groans but, doesn't regret creating her character and going through the set up of the game. She had a lot of fuhough she hadn't pyed yet.
"I 't wait to explore this some more." she says, logging out for the day and closing her puter.
"There's a mobile app too!" she says, cheg her now fully charged phone. Opening the app stores she quickly searches for the Moon Valley panion app and installs it while she runs to the shower to kick start her day.
More than anything at least the day had started well.
"Thank you Daichi!" she beams, slipping into her work clothes and grabbing hr backpack for the day. When she came home she'd have something to look forward to.
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All through the day, the only thing Aya could think of was Moon Valley, she pushes her mail ign the rude remarks as usual.
Even Viviana's usual quips didn't bother her. All she wao was go home and py. The workday seems to go on forever.
"What's with you today?" The mail room boss asks. He takes a deep puff of smoke, blowing it around the room and saturating the air.
"What do you mean sir?" Aya asks, looking up from her phohis was one of the rare ces he addresses her without a sharp tone or snarky attitude.
"How do I say this, the lights are on but nobody's home." He says with a chuckle. Aya ughs a bit too, although a bit nervously. Holy, the grumpy man looked like he could fire her for breathing wrongly at the mail station.
"I'm just a bit distracted but I delivered all my mail on time same as usual." Aya replies.
"You better be, I know you 't afford to mess up with this job." he says with a smirk. He swivels around in his chair, fag the loelevision s in the mail room.
Aya frowns at his words, and her good mood evaporates instantly at the reminder of her situation. He was the one sg off a here she was getting the short end of the stick.
She shakes her head, brushing the ent off so she doesn't fume over his words. If she could find a better job she'd take it.
Axen City was going through an eic drought, with unemployment rising by the minute, of course, she couldn't lose the only job she currently had. The city was dying, the pce she'd grown up in all this time was dying.
'No wonder Daichi got him and his grandma a pce out of here.' Aya thinks.
It ressing situation and that jerk just had t it up. Aya sighs, tapping her foot anxious to shake off the stress. It was a miracle her hair didn't fall out at this point.
"Whatever, I'm going to save enough, and then I'm going to leave too." she mutters to herself. Holding that promise, she nods. It would be painful to turn her ba the city her mother and father loved but it was getting too much.
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Aya repeats her evening routine once metting on the bus and heading home for the day, she'd been so busy she couldn't even examihe panion app.
Taking out her phone she decides to do it on the bus ride home, while it was quiet and had very few passengers.
[Please input logiails]
the app says.
Aya quickly does as instructed.
The interface opens, revealing a pixeted version of BloomHavearting area Aya had chosen. The girl smiles, letting the game bring a little smile to her face after the long day.
The app shows her the character stats, current items (of which she had none), and a few other little details.
The ab on the app was much more surprising.
"Earnings" she reads, on this page were her current Moon Points and gold, the in-game currency.
Sing the app, she learns that Moon Valley has quite a few ways to make money, Aya swipes out, fully intending to look through that page te.
The ab on the app was the mini-game tab, where the pyer could py simple games to win in-game items and Moon Points.
The fourth tab was a simple items colles window, that was currently locked. Aya assumes it's for the items one could colled trade.
The final tab is locked, making Aya uo access it for now. She shrugs and heads back to look at the character s.
Her little elf avatar stares back at her with warm brown eyes, Aya feels as though she's looking at a refle.
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The bus stops at its usual destination, leaving Aya to dismount and wave the driver good evening.
On her way to the apartment, she could make out a moving vehicle parked outside.
'Oh, no way! Mrs. Lutz is leaving already?' she thinks, increasing her pace so she would be able to catch up to her neighbor before she left.
"Mrs. Lutz!" Aya calls, meeting the old woman who watches the moving men load her items unto the back of the truck.
"Aya my dear, I'm so gd I got to see you before I leave." the old woman says with a kind smile. She hugs Aya tenderly before a voice calls for her.
"Grandma we don't have all day." Daichi's voice calls from the modest four-wheel vehicle. Aya on seeing the redhead waves enthusiastically.
"So good to see you Daichi!" Aya calls.
The man pokes his head out of the window.
"Aya is that you!" he asks, the car door sms open as he runs off to see the young dy currently hugging his grandma.
"It's been forever! How have you been? Heard you work at Nue Corp now." he says. Aya sighs deeply.
"Ugh don't remi's nothing special I just work in the mail room." she says, oddly enough Daichi seems impressed by her words.
"You know I used to be a janitor there." Daichi says with a kind smile.
"For real?"
The man replies with a nod and a smile.
"Now look at me, moving outta this dump of a city, you should e too if you Aya, plenty of opportunities in Mericross city."
Aya's head drops.
"I would love to but I don't have the moo move to a city like that." she says.
Daiods.
"There are other ways to make money." he says. "You've heard of Moon Valley?"
Aya nods vigorously.
"Yeah, I just got it w yesterday thanks to your old PacBook." Aya says ughing.
"Grandma told me she gave it to you, I'm gd it's in good hands. Py your cards right with that game and you'll make more than you think." he says.
Aya nods, taking his words to heart.
The moving men soon call for Daichi and his grandmother. The old dy hurries along while Daichi takes a moment to bid Aya farewell.
"Hope to see you in Mericross soon, Aya." he says o time before he's off. Aya stays at the apartmerao watch the cars drive away as she waves to them.
"Py my cards right huh, well you got it Daichi."
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Heading up to her apartment Aya only has ohing on her mind, Moon Valley, she would try her best to make the most out of it.
If the game could really guarantee a source of ine she was willing to try.
And then maybe one day she'd build her own pany, something that could save Axen.
Just like her mom would have.
Walking into her apartment Aya hangs her backpack up and walks over to her desk to start the ptop. She sits, opening the game to hear a familiar and melodious chime.
"Wele to Moon Valley."
[Login?]
[Yes/No]
she moves her mouse, h over the answer.
Game Start.
