Rinaye woke up in a menu screen.

  An infinite plain spread out in front of her with the only landmark being a hovering screen not unlike the holographic screens in reality.

  “Are you here Allison?”

  “Alright, let's start this!”

  The screen in front of her showed the words,

  After tapping, the screen started to show a full body scan of Rinaye along with personality traits.

  “Oooh, do you see this? This is so cool! Do these traits apply to me? Let's see… We have Artistic, Individualist, Leader, Entertainer… Clumsy? What!?

  Stolen novel; please report.

  “Really? Are you actually siding with the game here? I can’t believe you. The rest of these look normal, I’ll go ahead and click ok here. Nice! I can change my body proportions! Should I give myself a bigger bust? ........ Nah, sounds complicated, I’ll just make my hair a bit more wavy and click okay on this too.”

  Next were stats. This showed traits like strength and charisma and calculated what Rinaye already had. After that was preferences, and after that, well, you get the idea.

  Rinaye went along with character creation until she came to the last screen where the choice of either quick play or immersion mode was shown.

  “Really? Why?”

  “Okay, hope you're right about this one,” Rinaye replied. Immersion mode was selected.

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