For the next six days I basically studied up on virtual reality games. I even went over to my friend Dongdong’s house multiple times to try out some of his older virtual reality game. The ones I played were single player games. Therefore I did not need a personal account to play. I also didn't have my personal virtual reality identity card yet. So I could not just go to any gaming store to play.

Furthermore six days ago the day after my waitering, I went to a gaming store to make a VRP card or a Virtual Reality Player card. This card is used to identify a player online. It will use a DNA sequence, body scanner, brain wave activity and finger print to verify your identity online. Next you fill out some questions, social security and a password and passcode you want to set up. After that the store will sent all this information to the Virtual reality government headquarters to make you a special card this is very specific to you. Somewhat like a super drivers license for online gaming. This is for the protection of all the players online. It decreases the chance of virtual reality crime. Such as hacking and stuff. Furthermore due to hacking getting out of control a couple centuries back the government basically forced internet providers to lock out any users that don’t use an identity card when they use the internet. Therefore they change the computers to add a slot of identity cards. It is just not as secure as the VRP card but still much more secure than passports and license. Without those cards people cannot get online. Furthermore if whatever identity you made up does not match something on the data base you automatically kicked off. It made it much harder for hackers to do their thing. Anyway enough of this history lessons.

Back to today. Tomorrow my game arrives and the day after is the game opening day. Furthermore today I am getting my VRP card. I am extremely excited but I have to watch the mail careful so my parents don’t see it. Its weird how my parents can make something so legal feel like a drug deal going down. I called out of work and said that I have lot of homework and such to get out of work.

Also they have just released the name of the game today. The game is called Ascension. I can feel my guys exploding just thinking about it. It is 4:15 right now and still hasn't arrived yet. I’m like a puppy right now at the door waiting for my master to return home.

Swoosh. Pf pf.

A UPCPS drone pulls up. Just incase you wondering what UPCPS stands for it stands for United Province of China Postal Services. Most of out males are done by drones not. The drone saw me and flew over to me. Then a beam of light scans me.

“Long Zhang confirmed,” a robotic voice sounds out. “Here is your mail. Thank you for using our services have a good day.”

The drone drops off a piece of mail onto my hand and flew away. I opened it up and it was my VRP card. It is dark black with my picture and information on it. If you glance at it from the side it turns completely black. This is cool I thought.

Quickly I got out my phone and gave a call to Dong Seng, “Dong I got my Virtual Reality Player card,” I shout excitedly. Well its more of a whisper shout if you know what I mean.

“Cool! You wanna come over right now?”

“Hell yeah.”

I went down to my basement and got out my bike. Yes people in the 3000s still ride bikes. Its cheap and a good exercise believe it or not. Plus Dong only lives 10 houses down and I didn't feel like walking. I locked my house doors and activated the alarms got on my bike and rode. Only to realize my sisters and brothers are coming back in ten minutes and I have to cook for them. So to fix that I called up Domino hut pizza and ordered some pizzas and charged it on my debit card.

It was only a couple minute ride to Dong’s house.

I rang the doorbell and heard Dong’s voice.

“Long I’m coming hold up.”

Dong opens the door and led me.

“Hey your helmet also arrived at my house today,” Dong said, “lets get you set up.” You can tell how excited he was for me.

“Alright!”

Quickly we went into his room and apparently he also set up a bed for me. What a nice friend he is I thought.

“You don’t want to play sitting,” he said, “last time I did that I would sore all over. Felt like a stick for a couple of days.”

“Oh lets get started I can’t wait. The game is coming tomorrow right?” I asked.

“Yeah I got a buddy of mine to make sure yours was sent on time. Especially after you told me about the event I can’t possible not make that a priority.”

“So what do you think we should do,” I asked.

“Don’t know lets get you set up first.”

I opened the box and a football size helmet was in my hand. It was very futuristic looking with those lens across the eye area. When I put it on my head and a lock sound was made and it powered itself up. After that I inserted my VRP card. Then something covered half my nose and up. Not a single speck of light entered my eyes. It felt like I was blind folded. After that I think I fell asleep because the next thing I knew was that I was sitting in a digital chair that I must admit was really comfortable. A screen also appears in front of me.

It was asking me to verify a bunch of my information. After what seem like forever I finished verifying all the questions. It was about 15 minutes to be exact.

Next opened up a tutorial tab on the screen. Dong Seng helped me with this earlier thats why I am able to navigate through this so easily. Once I opened up the tutorial tab a list came out.

Free Room Practice

Control Practice

Obstacle Course Practice

I clicked on Free Room Practice and the scenery began to change. It looks like I was at a skate park. I began to run around in here doing tricks and stuff. Parkour stuff. It was quite boring.

“Control Room!” I shouted.

It is going to be pretty boring to describe what I am doing today so lets skip today and go onto tomorrow.

After school Dong gave me a call saying that my game has arrived. I rushed over to get it. Oh one more thing we don’t use CDs anymore rather now everything is on flash drives. I told him to help me load it so when I got there I can just put in my card and I am ready to go.

It took about a two minute bike ride to get there so I don’t really know if he actually finished downloading the game onto the helmet. The next question you are probable asking is why do I have my valuable 864 dollar helmet at his house. Well, my dad hates virtual reality stuff so I have to hide it.

When I got to Dong’s house it turns out he already downloaded the game before he called me. What a great guy I thought.

I got on his side bed and logged on. There are preliminary stuff I have to do before the game begin tomorrow. One thousand fricken questions. Half of those questions they already had the answers too such as name, age, height, blah, blah blah. Some questions were probable targeted at my psyche. Such as favorite color, tell or don’t tell if your friend or family commits a crime, whats your favorite word, whats your favorite word, and favorite species. I think I wrote elf for that last question. Anyway there is a lot of f ing questions excuse my language. Anyway it took about four to five hours to answer. I am really questioning whether people would play this game or not. Just these thousands of questions were already a turn off. Anyway after spending 5 hours answering questions I saw my an alert screen pop up.

(Long Zhang Your Bladder is Full Please log off and use the bathroom as soon as possible. Alert level 10)