Chapter 4: Nagging and Character Creation!
[Finally we are to the VRMMO starting point]
Prepared for anything, Juliet waited as her old man came to. Suddenly the most unexpected words came from her old man's mouth.
"Iv'e brought you a gift."
Gramps Will had always told her that her mother hated receiving gifts. Likewise, her father never really gave her gifts either, as he honestly didn't know what she would want. Juliet could understand the sentiment of gifting, though her reason for not wanting one was definitely not the same as her Mom's. With her old man's money, Juliet already had everything she could ever ask for at her fingertips. What more could Juliet want? Maybe she could buy some friends but manga and TV had already shown her what would happen in the end. They would use her for free stuff and never truly form a friendship with her, as it was a more one sided deal. Fuck those shitheads! I would rather deal with twenty of the little shit than one of those backstabbers.
Seeing her daughter's confused face, Mr. Walton continued.
"It is not just a present for you, but for Will and and James too!"
The trio wondered what such a present could be? It was something that Mr. Walton had come here personally to give, unannounced, so it must be something big! The once scared trio, became much more excited and stared at Mr. Walton as he continued once again.
"I have brought the very first commercial grade VR pods! Pods that will not be releasing on the market for another year, as they are currently unable to be mass produced. These will allow you to stay in the VR for as long as you are able to play! They can store up to a weeks worth of essential nutrients for the body, can be used while sleeping, and will even exercise your body for sixteen hours while your body is "awake" causing constant blood circulation and will keep your bodies healthy! Eliminating all need for logging out. As long as you have someone to refill the nutrients, you can stay in, and can even be done by yourself with a short logout. It will allow you to immediately go back in once you are done refilling the supply. The system will also shut down if anything does wrong, and there are even backup commercial grade VR helmets attached. These backup helmets are fully teched and not just spare equipment. They are what the masses will soon be buying, so it will work a a backup if you need an alternative way to log in. All three pods, will also be the only independent systems that have a direct connection to the servers, meaning almost no input lag. It also comes with the same base functions as the massed produced helmets. Meaning it can stream or capture and and all content you wish to create in game."
"..." After listening to Mr. Walton's sales like pitch, the trio stood there stupefied.
VR had existed in one form or another since the early days of video games. Though it was not full virtual reality, there were early arcade games that gave you a helmet that showed a screen that moved in the way you looked. In the early 2000's consoles adapted motion controls that allowed pseudo virtual reality by matching your movements to a virtual avatar. In the early 2010's, with the idea becoming more mainstream, many companies tried to invest in pseudo VR games. In the late 2010's, games like "VR Chat" allowed many people in a virtual space with the space and the avatar's being created by the players. In the mid 2020's, Doctor Smith had publicly announced he would be creating a fully functional AI and would even be combining it with a MMO video game. The game would not be pseudo VR game, it would be a "full dive" system where the mind of the player would be interacting with a server, with their inputs fully controller by their minds.
According to VR game owner Malcore, Docor Smith had already completed the first AI and the programmers had been nearing its completion of the fully functional MMORPG portion of Wish. Once the two were complete, Malcore had promised they would no longer patch or mess with the any aspect of the VRMMO, unless it were to crash. Meaning once Wish was released, the development of the world Wish would be entirely up to the players and the AI. The game would be up 24 seven, and you could dive in as long as you had a helmet and the time. It would be an entirely new world to explore and conquer.
"...."
Juliet's old man was a trillionaire, but she had never known exactly what he had been doing all this time. Although she had read tons of webnovels and manga about VRMMO's she had personally never played many video games, let alone rpg's. She also was not good with people; in an VRMMO she would have to be interacting with people constantly. Also, from the way her father was talking about it, she knew her father had personally wanted to play such a game but probably couldn't. Juliet chose her words carefully.
"Dad, I love the gift that you gave us, but isn't such exclusive VR pods meant for you and your testers? We couldn't possible that them off your hands"
"Please Juliet, my daughter deserves only the best! For the investment that I have made, obtaining these pods was as easy as snapping my finger. To be honest, the pods were made specifically for you three, and would be burdened if you didn't take them." Mr.Walton smacked his lips as he told the truth.
The cornered Juliet smiled but continued, hoping to wear her old man down a bit with flattery. Juliet's old man never really asked for much from her so refusing such a gift was hard. She could tell he had put a lot off effort into these pods. A direct connection to reduce lag would be one hell of a logistical nightmare, let alone a fully functional pod that attended to the human's needs. However, if she did not at least try, then she would be forced to go out of her shell and actually do shit. These pods sounded like the exact opposite of currently comfy, responsibility free lifestyle. 'Fuck' she thought. Juliet knew she wasn't the smartest person in the world, so she quickly racked her brain, while Gramps and the useless shit stayed silent.
Both Will and James honestly wanted to try VR after hearing about it. Unlike Juliet, both had social skills and had played RPG's, William was once a DnD GM so he was really interested in a second life. Yet they both stayed silent, because they knew Juliet was their current master and it was not what she wanted. Juliet's wants and needs always came first, with very few exceptions. looking at her, Juliet seemed to be happily smiling but the duo could tell that she was worried. She never really said what she felt and honestly didn't have any friends, but she was a monster they had raised. If anything it was their fault for being so lenient to her slothfulness, and not getting her to travel and see other cultures. What Juliet saw online through the media's she consumed was nothing but drama, made up stories, or mindless adventuring of Mary Sue character's that didn't have any faults.
'Juliet meeting other people, even if they are onlien personas, might honestly be good for her.' William thought to himself, as Juliet tried again.
"I can tell you put your heart and soul into this Dad! You thought of everything! However, since this is a "full dive" virtual reality, what happens if strangers try to do lewd things to me? Like touch me, try to have sex with me, or even.... try to hold my hand?"
Juliet was not completely innocent, she had certainly seen what the internet had to offer, and of course partook in a few of them. However Juliet was someone who heavily leaned towards the Weeb side of online culture. Juliet was constantly reading anime, manga, and all kinds of other media from Japan, China, and Korea. She seemed to have her priorities mixed when it came to lewd things thanks to online self proclaimed "degenerate weebs." The medias always were more willing to show fanservice, and even sex in online webnovels. You would never catch an anime or other media having characters holding hands unless it was the end of the show. Such "degenerate weebs" had always said the most lewd thing possible was holding hands. In Juliet mind, from what she heard, It could even get a women pregnant like sex. Once she had learned of the act of holding hands, it had made her even more anger at the little shit. He used to hold her hands all the time when they were kids, and Juliet had not been able to make direct eye contact the little fuck for a while. She of course forbade the act from then onward, and punished the little fuck.
The effect Juliet was going for worked, Juliet had unknowingly fired a threefold attack. Juliet had not only said over a hundred curse words in front on Mr. Walton today, but she even went as far as to say she may be sexually assaulted using the words "sex." Juliet was a fully grown adult, but in Mr. Walton's eyes, she was still his little girl. 'Sex should not be said by Juliet.' He did have fears of such a matters and created a system specifically for people who may get harassed or sexually targeted, but such a fear was always in the back of his mind. It was an attack on his image of her, the fear of a sexual assault, and a third strange notion that his daughter would have sex with a man before he held his hand?
A deep frown appeared as Mr. Walton spoke, he was concerned for his daughter, but he had prepared every all for the sake of his dream. He knew his daughter would eventually be able to enjoy what he could not, especially with all the advantages he had given her. Mr. Walton had lived for this moment, he would not take no for an answer! Not realizing he was forcing his dream directly onto her, and it was conflicting with his daughters autonomy.
"My beloved Juliet, I have put many systems in place regarding intercourse. However, that is not something I wish to discuss at this time. Just know that it is impossible to sexually abuse an unwilling person, and to properly engage in the act, many conditions must be met by both willing parties. I am also having Will and James join you, so there would be no reason that you would be harassed. I have even conferred special bonuses to your character since I know you don't normally play a lot of video games aside from that big M.O.B.A. called L.O.L.. However, if you truly do not wish to play the Wish, I will not force you."
Juliet could tell her old man was frustrated, and this request sounded much more bitchy. Like one of the little shit's nagging sessions than something her old man would usually say. It sound like he really wanted me to play this game, bringing up LoL, one of the few games I play that isn't even an RPG. Ultimately the old man was leaving it up to me, but doesn't seem like something I can refuse. Thinking more Juliet didn't completely hate the idea.
Juliet was a noob to MMOs and even RPGs in general but she had read plenty of webnovels about them. If what her old man said was true, then Juliet must have given a really op item to start with, an overpowered secret legacy class, or maybe stat max out? In Isekai or a reincarnation novel she would be the main character, whatever she got would make her combat rival the heaven or shake the world to it's core. Thinking about it like an Isekai did make the idea very tempting. Even Juliet, someone who had everything, dreamed of reincarnating and being the best. It was just that being the best required work, and she wouldn't do it unless she was forced to do it. People may scare Juliet, but if she could just bulldoze them all combat, then what did people matter!
"Ok, I'll do it!" Hearing the confirmation from their current master and the expectations of their former master, the father son duo finally nodded their heads in unison. They could see Juliet squirming, Juliet's smile held and uncharacteristic expression of greed, something that was quite rare for the woman who had almost everything. Aside from when Juliet read novels about friendship beating all, they had never seen such an expression on her face. Juliet may be more excited than they were....
"Father, where are the pods?"
"The three pods are being installed on twentieth underground floor of the mansion, but you will not be able to use them until the day before the official launch on 12th of December. We are launching before Christmas to give the servers some breathing room, as we will be selling these headsets worldwide, and want to ensure everyone is properly receiving and encoding the data at an acceptable level for all out data centers. If there were to much lag, players may feel off put in a virtual space. The headsets will hit stores today and an aggressive ad campaign will begin. Once the servers go up, we can never take them down without causing public dissent, so our hardware engineers will have to ensure everything is running at an acceptable level, to eventually receive billions of players worldwide. We have limited the total number of headsets per country and region, at the moment, so there will probably only be a few hundred players at the start of launch and gradually build up as the hype builds. The headsets will cost as much as a traditional console, so it will be another limiting factor.
"..."
"As the chairman of MalCore I am also giving you one more privilege that no one else in the world will have. Our beta testers have tested out a few things but their data has been wiped. You, Will, and James will be able to play Wish on December 11th, a full day ahead of everyone. One full day Wish is four in the real world."
"..."
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'Time to conquer the first VR world!'
Juliet silently jumped into the middle pod, set aside specifically for her and the father son duo followed into their respective pods.
A bright light enveloped Juliet as she felt her mind become a bright sphere.
"Welcome to our world! I am one of the three Chief Gods of this realm ERIAS! Normally you would created your character via a prerecorded set of prompts but you are the first official non tester human to pass through my gates. You also bear the mark and blessing of the precursor creators, the ones who created us Gods. Would you like me to help you create a character?"
The "Chief God" ERIAS, standing before me was a tall slender woman with long black hair, light peach skin, large brown eyes, and straight pointed face without blemish and seemed to have natural blush. She was wearing plain looking pink top, with an rather small black skirt, revealing her long and slender peach legs. Although the clothes looked rather ordinary, on this woman they made her curves and peach skin stand out. The "God" had flowers growing under her feet, and she had a bright shine around her. While I continued to look at her a unknown box popped up.
[???????]
After reading countless novels, Juliet's heart began to race. Juliet was not used to meeting new people, but was an AI really a person? Juliet's greed easily overpowering her social anxiety. Her father had already given her some kind of op combat cheat. He had not told her exactly what it was but she had made plenty of guesses. Getting the assistance of a Godess, should give her at least one more blessing! Unless she was a useless Godess, like a certain water godess she had read about.
"Yes, please help me with my character creation, great Godess ERIAS"
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
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saltcultivator So many advantages Mr. Walton is giving his daughter, but lets see if they actually will stack up on this noob!
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Here is an album of the Juliet's and James characters. Took me forever to create them, its why it took so long to write this chapter. Sorry. Hope you like them!
You will see William's created character in the next chapter's Author note.
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