<div class="floatright">(http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/1849/soulcalibur4takia.jpg)</div>Perhaps it had been a coincidence, but Evie hadn’t been able to get much sleep that night anyway. She had swung her bare legs out of her legs and rubbed her hand through her disheveled, long brown hair and finally put a T-shirt on before moving to her computer console. She was going to stroll around on the net for a bit, in the hope of killing some time until she got tired enough to finally fall asleep.<br/><br/>Even before the bright-green message from Freya had flashed across her console window, Evie had already discovered the sudden appearance of the seemingly unlicensed Codeline Warriors online. It had been hard to miss as the news had traveled quickly all over the net. At least within their little circle of “insiders”. She had already unpacked the huge files and her hand had flicked over the install command that would transfer the files to her Mindbox. She wasn’t keen on the thought to just pump some pirated version of a huge game onto her very expensive Mindbox. She had just bought herself a new one after the memory core of her previous one had been fried. The last thing she wanted was to infect her new one with some nasty virus.<br/><br/>Eventually Evie couldn’t hold back her curiosity and she let her hand press down onto the holographic controls of her console. The files were quickly transferred to her Mindbox. Now all that was left for her to do – if she had the courage – was to hook herself up to the VR equipment and immerse herself into the program. She pulled her conversation window with Freya into the Mindbox as well, so she could chat with her friend as she was exploring the game.<br/><br/>She hooked into her friends instance of the game so she could see what Freya was doing as well as exploring the possibilities of the game herself. She noticed that Freya had loaded a fantasy world into the universe console, so she followed suit by logging onto the same world. Now for a PC to use to do some exploring… The amount of choices was very extensive. Besides a very detailed custom character creation process, she also could choose one of the thousands of characters<em>Codeline Warriors</em>had acquired the rights too. Eventually she settled on a dark-haired, large-chested beauty, clad in a pinkish-red bodysuit and wielding dual swords.<br/><br/>With her avatar all set up, she was ready to plug into the world. She hesitated ever so slightly before her finger made a circular motion above the “log on” button on her holographic console window.<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">“Ready or not, here I come Freya… Here goes nothing…” <br/></span></span>