Rebekah smoothed back her wet hair. She had taken a well-deserved bath after cross country, and had heard earlier that day at school that the game had received an update. Just in time for the holidays.
Bekah sat in the couch in her guest room, putting her virtual reality device on. A classmate of hers had designed it for a special project, and decided to use her as a beta tester (for the device, not the game). She got to keep it in the end. It was less bulky than most other virtual reality devices and ran much more smooth, but it was extremely fragile and needed maintenance often. The green "ON" button rested on the right temple of the device and the left side had a red emergency button. She lifted her right hand carefully, gingerly pressing the green button and letting the device take over.
[Enter Magical Girl Online: <IRIS0129>]
[Character Select: Iris Icelric]
[Server Select: PreCure]
[Channel Select: Suite ~ Lvls 21-40]
[Enter game!]
Rebekah, now Iris, felt a slight numbness in her physical body, but quickly forgot it as she was logged into the world. She felt the soft snow beneath her feet. she should have known the admins and designers would do that. She took a few troublesome steps forward, wobbling a bit. Her boots were not made for snow navigation. They were for style, running, and climbing, with the options of spikes or wheels. They were not made for the current conditions. Iris heard other people, already bundled up for the update, giggling at her situation. She shot them a bit of a look, but they thought it was adorable.
Iris, once out of the deep section of snow, hurried to the nearest tavern. She needed to dig out her supplies from her inventory so she could keep her health up. The cold could start getting to one, and not dying was a top priority to Iris. She got in and started to search through her inventory. A fluffy coat, earmuffs, mittens, a scarf, and a snowboot option was removed from the inventory. Iris used the items, and walked over to the mission board.
There were small jobs, event jobs that she enjoyed but didn't pay well, and then the guild missions. Iris wasn't to thrilled about guilds. They were normally too much work and drama for her. For events like this, she tended to join a guild, do the job, get her cut, then leave directly after. Only once did she stay in a guild for more than week. She had joined a server with people who were very friendly, but got so fed up with each other. They all loved Iris and Iris wanted to stay with the whole group. The leader deleted their account, then the group ended up dissolving and everyone went separate ways. Iris didn't trust guilds after that. She had friends, but didn't talk to them often.
She inspected the board silently.