no one knew where they came from they just suddenly appeared. It was a simple device just a helmet like the ones fillies and colts would wear when riding a scooter or more recently sky diving. thoughts of a small orange filly popped into my head along with her two friends but the thought left as quickly as it appeared. but what this helmet did was what made it so awesome.
Login accepted welcome sharky to Avalon
A great flash of light and im in Avalon a world that everypony can spend time in to live there out their fantasy the game is so real that all the first timers thought it was another world entirely at least till the character creation screen appeared you could be anything you wanted to be at first pony's where boring and chose to look just like they did in real life but the first innovator was Lyra heartstrings she created a strange avatar like nothing anypony had ever seen she called it a human but the character class never caught on with anypony else so she is still the only human in the whole world of Avalon.
The real fun in the game though was how long it took to play the system was only active for 4 hours a day but in the game world it felt closer to four days and every pony played even the princess of the night had an avatar but nopony knew who or what it was except for a cross eyed blond mare named ditzy doo or as she is better known in Avalon derpy whoovs but that's a story for another time
In this world there is no limit to what you can do you can make a character in any specialization from a simple swordsman to a grand mage but what made the choice so important was how you developed your character everyone starts out the same a set of ragged clothes and a dagger but once you lvl up you can choose from a nearly limitless set of skills to invest in the skills could be searched through by what they their description you could look for a specific skill or you could look for the next best thing if what you wanted didn't exist but none of the skill were unfair and you could also gain skills that existed in the real world as well. most didn't bother to though this was a game plus the skills don't transition from the game to real life so why waste time to learn them
That was until today. today was a special day it was the one year anniversary of Avalon so everyone was told to login today for a special event that would only start after everypony was logged in so naturally everyone logged in as soon as they could not wanting to wait but it was all a trap once everypony was logged in the entire world was teleported to a huge field that everypony knew very well it was the first place anypony ever saw in the game the newbie field but something was off my character wasn't the normal avatar i was used to it was me. I guess i should be more specific it was my real body somehow i looked the same as i did in ponyville so did everyone else. Even princess Celestia and princess Luna looked like they did IRL this more than shocked the pony's they where partied with they had no idea they were playing with royalty or that the most creative swearing they had ever heard was coming from both princesses that was when we met the person behind this whole trap it was discord
He appeared in the sky or more accurately he was the sky he told everypony the new rules to the game and the number one rule was don't die if your avatar dies you are placed in a deep sleep that can only be broken if somepony clears the game. We where told that time was frozen outside of the game and that we didn't have to worry about our body's or our homes this was a small relief to several hundred farmers but none the less we where still worried he gave us a time limit there was a tower with 100 floors on each floor had 2 things a town And a dungeon at the end of the dungeon there is a boss room but unlike before the dungeon shifts every 2 weeks changing where everything is located unless the boss is defeated once the boss is dead the dungeon stops shifting and once every monster is killed the dungeon shifts into a staircase that leads strait to the next floor and the monsters respond every two weeks unless the boss is defeated the next 30 minutes where spent by discord explaining the finer points of this game such as how new skills had been added and that we had a sense of touch we could feel pain just not the full amount think of it like a funnel only a small amount can get through at a time but there was a way to release the limiter called the ethics code this was made to protect fillies and colts in the game but once the became grown mares and stallions they could gain the option to turn the filter on and off in the game his parting words where this ends the official Avalon tutorial and good luck the sky cleared what followed could only be described as a full blown mass histaria on caffeine fueled pogo stick ride through a mine field
