The World Of Infinity - Ultimate Setup

Ch. 4 - The opening festival

This time the fall faded faster and shortly Hael found himself, wobbling on his feet, at a large open area surrounded by darkness. The area itself was lit by few streetlights only enough to provide vision around the plaza but beyond you couldn't really see anything.

Interested in the sudden event Hael surveyed the new area. In the middle of the plaza was a large statue of a warrior in antique spartan clothing pointing his sword up to the sky. The whole plaza was at least few hundred meters from its diameter and first thing that came in mind when looking at it, was some sort of a market place.

As he was absorbed in analyzing, It took hael a good amount of time to realize that he wasn't the only one in the area. All around him players were popping out collapsing to the ground. Not long after loud noises of friends uniting first time in game were starting to erupt. After all everyone had been spawned in random locations around the starting town. But actually now that he thought about it. The Announcer really said that the opening ceremony would be held at the capital of infinity, not in the starting town! What a surprise! Some players seemingly had already made it in there though and wore some sort of armor or carried weapons... lucky... Everyone had been given a small amount of currency to get started it seemed.

Hael quickly retreated to the back of the crowd since he couldn't stand being surrounded by masses on a same level. Lucky for him very few of them were as tall as he was, so "on a same level" wasn't really an option. Still he took a nice corner close to the edge of light and darkness, with an opening behind him to be able to leave freely if necessary. He checked his currency situation and found that he had around 2500... Citrus... which apparently was the currency in the game. The wolves were most likely worth 500 he thought and closed his inventory. Shortly after it seemed that the spawning had halted and a loud voice could be heard.

Ladies and gentlemen...this is your Announcer speaking! Ive got a question for you...:

ARE YOU READY!?

BECAUSE ITS TIME!

LET US COUNT! FROM 5 to 0. THE COUNTDOWN TO THE BEGINNING OF THE GREATEST ADVENTURE YOUR LIVES!

Let me ask you again,

ARE YOU READY!?!

The crowd which apparently had grown to tens of thousands of people without hael noticing shouted "YEEESSS!!!" from the top of their lungs. The voice started counting and the crowd, fully sucked in the flow, joined.

5.

4.

3.

2.

1.

0.

THE WORLD OF INFINITY....IS NOW OPEN!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At the same time the plaza exploded into light and so did the area around it. From the darkness appeared hundreds of shops, inns and taverns shining warm and welcoming aura, along with an arsenal of new voices. NPC characters ran outside from the shops and joined the fun. The people living inside the game. The perfect artificial intellect. Right behind hael an attractive looking tavern slammed its doors open as well and without much of a fight a bunch of beautiful waitress girls dragged him in.

A while later, from the tavern window, hael watched the sky where massive fireworks were illuminating the night. The view was straight from a fairy tale. As his eyesight finally returned to normal it only took one glance that left hael and everyone else for that matter gasping for air. The city gave a feeling of the past and the future both combined into an utopia. (There were large buildings and small buildings connected with bridges and stairs. It seemed like everything was in at least three floors. The buildings were made of some unknown white material and every corner was light by silver or gold streetlights.) (Need picture again) Hael couldn't contain his excitement and even he started clapping his hands with the cheering crowd.