As Lucy walked up to Kirito and Android 18(JDizzle and Rukia respectively), Kirito put a hand on his gun. That was Lucy. Murderous Dyclonius Lucy. this didn't look too good for any of his avatars. SAO... she'd be able to block his blade with her vectors. AlFheim, same thing. Gun Gale however, he had a pistol. But that would still be deflected if she caught it with her vectors. As he tried and failed to come up with ways to get away from her, she spoke up without evil intent at all.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">"Hi, I was wondering if we met here before... My name's Doce."</span><br/><br/>Kirito let his hand fall off his gun. "Doce? well I'll be a son of a b**ch. I honestly didn't expect to meet anyone I knew this soon! Oh... forgive me for not introducing myself properly during the Beta. I don't beleive there was time enough for it. I was Masahide back then, however my real name is JDizzle. And 18 over here was Rukia. still not really sure how she's even able to exist in the real world, But hey, I'm not complaining! Just to be safe, though... you aren't touching me with your vectors are you?"<br/><br/>As he said this, a character he recognized from the Super Mario series called out and apparently wanted to know where Bowser was. 18 sighed. "Greeeeaaaat! another idiot who thinks he actually IS who he appears to be. I swear, some people take Cosplay to a whole new level!"<br/><br/>JDizzle laughed. "You take everything too seriously. If he wants to be Kamek Koopa, I don't see a problem with it!" Then a character JDizzle didn't recognize, but looked somewhat familiar walked up and asked a question that immediately labeled him as a New Player.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">"So are any of you Beta players and know what we're supposed to do from here or are you all greenies like me?"</span><br/><br/>JD smiled. "Actually, we're all Beta Players. well actually I'm not sure about Kamek over there, but I, 18 and Lucy are definitely Beta Players" he put an arm across his chest and the other hand on his chin. "And I'm not really sure what the end objective is, since the previous end goal was to apparently foil a hackers plans. still not sure who did that since the end of the Beta simply sucked me through a hole and stuff..." As he finished speaking, another player he didn't recognize walked up.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">"Hello. Could you um... tell me what this world is?"</span><br/><br/>18 spoke up this time. "Didn't you read the letter? it clearly explained that this is a Transportive Game World. apparently no time passes in the real world while we're here too. The only thing that wasn't really answered in the letter was the point of the Game."<br/><br/>As she finished speaking, a ringing noise was heard coming from each player. "What the heck?" JDizzle exclaimed. He quickly brought up Kirito's inventory to find out if it was an item in his possession. then he noticed that it wasn't just him. everyone had a button appear in front of them that said "Incoming Message. Accept Transmission?"<br/><br/>He smiled "Well I guess that answers that!" and he hit the 'yes' button which for some reason was in Japanese for him, but English for 18. A picture of the island popped up and now showed a large arena in the center of the islands where the Fortress used to be.<br/><br/>"Welcome Players! As the battle Arena is open now, we will be holding tournaments with special prizes periodically. you can sign up for them at the terminals on the entrances of the North, West, East and South entrances. There will be Qualifiers and Semifinals leading up to the main Finals matches. we expect you to be at least level five or above to enter. you may also enter as a four person team with a benched fifth player to swap out in case of strategy changes and fight alongside each other against other teams. If you need to increase your level, there are creatures spread across the map for you to defeat. there are also ferries that will bring you to special "Mission Zones" spread across the Islands, but these are usually better handled with a five person team. Also, the Checkpoint Zones are surrounded by mini bosses that will drop higher level loot than the normal creatures. There are also NPCs that can give you things for helping them. To send a team or freind request, please slide your right hand from your left shoulder to your right hip, then select the character in the list of people within a meter of you. would you like me to repeat the message?"<br/><br/>JDizzle hit the No button.<br/><br/>"So, Does anyone want to go hunting with me?" JDizzle asked. "I'm not sure what kind of creatures this place has. Besides, according to that message, we could all use a couple level ups if we want to see about entering the tournaments."<br/><br/>He made the custom friend/team request gesture and sent a friend request to Doce, 18, Kamek Koopa, and the two new players he didn't recognize. "The more friends the better, right?" he asked them. "We'll worry about a team for the tournament later."