The Immersive

Chapter III

Adrian's POV

After I logged in I noticed Matt was already setting up, thinking nothing out of the ordinary I went back to finding a long, but not tedious quest that hopefully would take us most of the night. I thought a language quest might be the key, one with lots of puzzles and wordplay for Matt and then some foreign language and classic English for me.

What struck me most looking back now is that something was not right as Matt set up.

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"Crap," Matt whispered under his breath.

"Everything alright Matt?" I  asked, leaning out of the rig to look at him.

"Yeah, just a small malfunction with the little suckers on my glove. I think I fixed it," he replied.

"Alright, that's good," I said.

I went back to looking for quests to do together as I noticed Matthew had finally joined.

"What do you want to do?" He asked.

"I was thinking a language quest or something you and I might enjoy," I replied, hoping he'd go for the language choice.

"The language thing sounds fine, I think there's a quest we outsourced out in Yert that dealt with languages. Do you maybe want to try that?" He prompted.

"Sounds fine to me."

Inside the Immersive there were many planets, which were then divided up into galaxies, then universes, and then quadrants. Yert was  inside a popular quadrant, number sixteen to be exact, but in a less popular universe and galaxy. Yert was separated into a universe where there were many other "brainy" games for lack of a better term. As for the outsourcing, we often sold our space to other users, companies and corporations. It let people explore what others were creating and allowed a source of revenue for us. The four of us also owned our own planets which were made private except for each other. However, many fans, haters, and reporters waited outside for a hopeful appearance from one of us.

Before we left for Yert, Matt and I met on my planet doing some quick research on what we would need for the quest. As his avatar slowly materialized behind me similar to a staticky television, I finished up my research. It wasn't long before he asked if I were ready to go and we set off.

It had been such a long time since we had gotten on together that I actually forgot how his avatar looked. Above his avatar, a floating blue name appeared Doc. I had forgotten about that; it was a shortened version of the nickname we gave him when we were younger; when he was obsessed with Doctor Who. I also had forgotten how much he had changed since then, only his goofy and outlandish personality remained.

"What?" He looked at me quizzically, tilting his head in confusion.

Matt had one of the suavest outfits in all of the Immersive, he looked like a mix between James Bond and the head of a mob. He wore a black suit that accented the broadness of his shoulders and appealed to his diminutive stature. It had silver buttons decorated with a pistol and sword, crossing at their handles. He wore three handkerchiefs in his breast pocket, a single silver, black and blue one. Wrapping around his shoulder was a black contraption, and as he stepped closer to me I saw that it was a gun holder. It must have been for decoration, he had no use for guns when he was that powerful. Over the top of his suit and gun holder was a high collar woolen coat that fell just below his knee. He also wore black gloves. Standing with his arms crossed I noticed the skinny, black walking stick he allowed to lean against his leg. Later I would realize that the topping of the cane resembled an old Atari controller.