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I was one of the first ten thousand to get the game, I was so excited. Sword Art Online, SAO. I heard so many amazing things on the forums and I wanted to experience it all myself, how little did i know. When I first loged on it asked me to create a character and make up a name. I thought it would be fun and use something different than the one i always use, Ari.

So I chose - Lantiss. It was a fantasy game and i wanted to play the role. Afte creating my avatar it asked me what weapon did i want to choose, I chose "Large Blade", it looked really bad a**.

After, it braught me to a town, it was so amazing, you actually though you were in a real town. I knew it was fake but it felt so real. After an hour exploring the town, i met up with my friend Andrew.

Andrew was a beta tester and new the game pretty well, when I told him i baught the game he offered me to show me the ropes and help me level up quickly. Andrew's Avatar was a average looking, black hair, blue eyes, the simple basic novice armor, just like mine. he was carrying a bow and had a bag on the side filled with arrows. His avatar's name was Ayr. He explained to me that there are other classes you can unlock if you just apply your stat points right. He told me that in beta he learned that if you apply your stat points, equally to Dex and Agi and Int and leave str at the basic 5, that it would unlock archer class. He also explained that there are 100 different classes and only 7 were discovered in beta.

After learning to fight and battling for a few hours, I tried to log out because I was hungry, but there was no logout button. I thought I had read the manual thurowly and new how to logout, but it wasn't there. I started to panic, but Ayr told me that we should go back to town, then in a blink of an eye, we were back in town. Ayr looked so starttled and i realized that it wasn't him who did that.

It seems that everyone in the game was summoned back to the town square. you can hear comments, like "what the hell?!", "whats going on?" and "I can't log out?!" then you heard this loud syrin and then the sky turned red and it looked like the sky was melting like wax from a candle. As the drips dropped you can see that it was forming a large crimson cloaked figure.

Just before it was done forming, I blacked out...