<<OP: The first few lessons are free: Salara's first day in a game>>

[Salara 0]

Great... not only did my friend talk me into trying a video game for the first time.... now I am stuck in it too!?

Salara was lost in thought as the sky faded from red back to normal after the opening announcement in the Town of Beginnings. She was snapped out of her thoughts by the panicked screams of everyone around her, and while she desired to panic alongside them, she just moved out of the way of everybody that was trying to run past or over her. Once she had a clear space to do so, the blonde turned around and began to make her way to one of the shops she saw along the way. She looked around to see if her friend had followed her, but just as soon as everyone had been summoned to the square for an announcement, so also everybody had vanished as they ran every direction to scrounge up what they could to survive in this game. She did not simply want to survive. If anything she wanted to live, but at the same time she wanted nothing more than to disappear from view never to be seen or heard from until the moment was right. 

The female believed her friend was alright, or at least she wanted to believe that. She scrolled down her friends list to send her a message and ask where she was, but right as soon as she was about to begin the message, the name of her friend disappeared from her list. W...what just happened? she thought to herself as she sat down in the tavern and ordered a drink.  She spoke aloud as she waited for her drink, "Unlike my friend, I did not do the tutorial yet. Before I set out, I probably should work my way through that..." she glanced back over her shoulder as she heard another patron enter the tavern, but resumed her staring at absolutely nothing on the bar as she remained to herself. She knew she should probably be mourning her friend, but knew enough about her that she would not want that. After drinking and slipping the bartender some extra col for the remarkable job, she stepped out to try to make her mark on Aincrad, but first... the tutorial.  She made her way to the starting point of the quest, taking a step forward to speak to Zakariah to initiate her tutorial.