Oh, already?!?

After a long and troubled time, I was finally able to log on Asura server and Hyu hung the phone to do something. Within logging, I found myself in some kind of dirty road, surrounded by nature, a lake or river of some sort and wood buildings. Everything looked amazing, though I knew it could look better if I had a better graphic card like Hyu did. But I didn't care, I was online, it was running on 800x600, so I was cool with it.

Hyugaut >> I'll be right there to show you stuff. Walk around and talk to some NPCs to get the feeling of the game.

As the message I just received was written in Portuguese, I knew it was really from Hyu, though he was using that odd nickname. So I started typing random stuff to see if I could answer him.

Jessbond: oishijsdioaj.

Pretty. I doubted he had received that, as there was no sign of a recipient to what I just had written. So I just kept trying to find how to walk. I tried the mouse, but no luck. All the mouse did was switch the camera point of view and make me dizzy by spinning the camera around me. Then I started smashing my keyboard until I finally got the keys that I could use for walking. After I talked to some NPCs, I saw a guy with a huge neck coming in my direction. His name tag said Hyugaut.

Hyugaut >> I'm here! Now follow me. I'll buy you some weapon for us to fight something outside the town.
Jessbond: .... I just know how to talk like this. How can I send you private messages?
Hyugaut >> you type / t Hyugaut msg
>> Hyugaut: yay!
>> Hyugaut: Do I have to write that all the time?
Hyugaut >> No, you can use ctrl + r to answer to the last person that sent you a tell.
>> Hyugaut: Sweet... by the way, what the hell is that nickname?
Hyugaut >> <Huh!?> mine?
>> Hyugaut: Yeah.... Hyugaut! Why the ut at the end? It sounds... gay...
Hyugaut >> It is French!
>>Hyugaut: same stuff! >:)
Hyugaut>> Well, I was randomizing the names when I created my char and a lot of elvaan names appeared with ut at the end. So I decided to put ut on mine too, as Hyuga was already taken.
>>Hyugaut: suuuuuure...
Hyugaut>> lol. I actually made some friends cause they thought I was french because of my nickname.
>>Hyugaut: well, anyway...let's go wherever you were taking me.
Hyugaut >> ok!

So Hyu took off to somewhere and I started to follow him. Well, at least I was trying to, but I couldn't see much from the angle the camera was. Obviously I was running in the opposite direction. When I finally got the camera in position, Hyu was nowhere to be seen.

>>Hyugaut: Help me! I'm lost!
Hyugaut >> Already? lol

Then I was finally able to follow him to a place with some windows that Hyu introduced to me like the AH. Later he explained that AH stood for Auction House and that it was a place where you could buy and sell stuff. All I could see was some menus with lots of categories and items listed. Well, I had no money and no items, so no use to learn how it worked already.

Hyugaut wishes to trade with you.
Hyugaut >> Accept trade
>>Hyugaut: How?
Hyugaut >> lol. Click on yourself, enter and select trade.

I did that and a little menu popped up. He gave me a sword and a shield and told me to equip it in the ctrl + e menu. I did so and my char went poof for some secs , just to show up with her new sword and shield.

>>Hyugaut: Cool! Let's kill something!
Hyugaut>> Sure! Follow me!

We went back to where I first started and then over some bridges to a big gate that looked like the city entrance.

Hyugaut points at Puroiko-Maiko, W.W..
Hyugaut>> Talk to that guy and get Signet from him.
>>Hyugaut: Ok, but... what is that?
Hyugaut>> It makes mobs drop crystals and gets conquest points whenever you kill a monster.
>>Hyugaut: Conquest points.... right..... @.@ so much info... hehe

Then we went through the gate and got to some plains called West Sarutabaruta. There were some little rabbits and bees around and a few players with the ? besides their names.

>>Hyugaut: Yay! I am not the only lost person around!
Hyugaut>> <Huh!?>
>>Hyugaut: Those two guys also have the ? besides their names...
Hyugaut>> lol... yeah that says they are new players.
>>Hyugaut: I noticed... This ? has the power to summarize all I am feeling.
Hyugaut>> LMAO!
>>Hyugaut: By the way, what is that symbol besides your name?
Hyugaut>> Oh, this is my Linkshell pearl. It is like a guild here in Final Fantasy.
>>Hyugaut: Ahhh... I want one!
Hyugaut>> uhhh... first you need to get less noob! Come on, go kill that rarab!

So I targeted the Savanna Rarab and chose the Attack option. It was a fierce battle, the little rabbit was so mean with his evil lookin eyes that it scared the hell out of me. But I was going to prove him I was worthy. I swung my sword at him and I could see we both were losing HP, but he was losing it faster. After a few more swings, it was down.

Hyugaut starts casting Cure on Jessbond.
Jessbond recovers 20 HP.
>>Hyugaut: Did you saw that?!? Yay! I am good! Die, evil rabbit, dieeeee!!!
Hyugaut>> uh... that is the weakest monster in game. You know that, don't you? >.>
>>Hyugaut: Shush! It was evil!!! I wish I had a Holy Grenade to throw at it!
Hyugaut>> lmao... ok, let's keep going!

I got back to killing monsters. It was a slaughter! Tiny Mandragoras, Bumblebees and Savanna Rarabs were going down as fast as a GilSeller using Flee-tool. I was in ecstasy at how easy It was. The monsters were barely touching me. It may have something to do with the fact that Hyu was healing me whenever I got hit, but I was not really caring.

Jessbond attains level 2.
Hyugaut>> <Congratulations!>
>>Hyugaut: Thanks! I am awesome! :D
Hyugaut>> Suuuure you are...
>> Hyugaut: lol

I kept going and going and the levels were coming together. I was soon level 7 and Hyu took me back to buy some new gear, weapon and spells. At that time, with Hyu power-leveling me, I wasn't much in touch with my mage side. I was just bashing one enemy after another while Hyu cured me. Sometimes I used dia just for the sake of it, because I really didn't like spells and getting mp. But I was bound to learn a lesson soon.

Hyugaut>> I have to go to an Linkshell event. I'll be back later to PL you some more!
>>Hyugaut: NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Don't leave me, pleeeeeease!!!
Hyugaut>> ^^;;;; Sorry, Jess.... but I really have to go!
>>Hyugaut: T.T all right... all right... leave poor Jessie alone... you meanie!
Hyugaut>> ^^;;;;;;;;;; see ya later
>>Hyugaut: T.T bye bye

So there I was all by myself in that strange world for the first time. I confess I was kinda scared, but I gathered all my new stuff and headed out to West Sarutabaruta Outpost, where I was camping earlier. I looked around and found my next victim: an Yagudo Scribe. It was quietly minding his own business when I charged at him with full speed. Though I was missing too much, things were smoothly and his hp was dropping in a steady pace. When it was around 50% HP I noticed something I had never seem before: my own HP was red!

Yagudo Scribe starts casting Aero.

Damn it! I had totally forgot that Hyu was not there to cure me, so I frantically searched for Cure on my spell list and started casting.

Jessbond starts casting Cure.

Whew.... I was saved! I was almost a goner!

Jessbond's casting is interrupted.
The Yagudo Scribe casts Aero.
Jessbond takes 23 points of damage.
Jessbond was defeated by the Yagudo Scribe.
Jessbond falls to level 6.

What the hell had just happened?!? I couldn't get it. I was casting! Why didn't I get cured?!? And why I was lying there naked???

>>Hyugaut: I think I died... :/
Hyugaut>> LOL! Already?!?
>>Hyugaut: Well... it was kind in the first monster I tried to kill. -_-;
Hyugaut>> lmao! What happened?
>>Hyugaut: I forgot that you were not curing me... and now I am kinda lying naked over here.
Hyugaut>> O.o you lost you level?
>>Hyugaut: It seems so... the log said "Jessbond falls to level 6". I think it means something...
Hyugaut>> LOL! Good start ^^
>>Hyugaut: Thank you >.<

I stayed there looking at the damn Yagudo that had just killed me, too shocked to do anything. It's hard when you find out that you are not invincible.

And that was how the first death of our heroine went. Will she be able to recover from the shock? Will she get revenge on that evil Yagudo? Will she die again? For those answers and much more, stay tuned for the next chapter (or not!)!