After mentally clicking the “Create Character”-Button, there was a sensation of rushing forward and upward, almost like on a rollercoaster, and moments later, the world dissolved into white light as I hurtled into the sun. At least that was what it looked like to me.

  Suddenly, I was in a field of white nothingness, strange streamers of scintillating colour blinking into existence, only to flare for a second and vanish right after. I felt similar to the first stages of the chip-calibration just a few days ago, strangely discorporeal and as if I was dreaming, when around me, figures started to appear.

  Right in front of me was a pair of humans, male and female, and when I focused on them, a blue box appeared.

  Sounded rather generic but I realised that I had failed to look into the different attributes and what they did. I considered logging out and looking up what the attributes did and all that, but decided to look around first. I was quite sure I knew which race I wanted and what kind of class, so unless there was something seriously sticking out, I would just go with what I had planned.

  Next to the humans, a pair of elves stood, I almost skipped over them, with their stupid Barbie-doll looks, even the male elf looked like some sort of male Barbie. Not that I considered playing a male character, not for a full-dive, I had no real idea how realistic those aspects were in full-dive. No, thank you very much.

  But, focusing on the elves, I got their blurb.

  So, sneaky tree-huggers extraordinaire? Even without their Barbie-looks I wouldn’t have been interested.

  Turning my head further to the right there were two gnomes, again, male and female. The male looked so much like a garden-gnome that I laughed out loud, wondering how anyone could take the race serious. But maybe that was their charm, that nobody actually could take them seriously.

  A race of mad scientists, all likely with a napoleon-complex? What could go wrong? Aside from everything. No, thank you very much.

  Continuing my circle to the right, there was a bit of a gap between the gnomes and the next figures. What I saw was a large but slightly lanky figure of what I thought to be a troll, next to their female counterpart, whatever that was called. Focusing on it, brought up another blue screen.

  So, stinky hulk-hippies? I had to laugh at the idea but it was not what I wanted, even if it sounded like they might be the best healers. Still, I would rather not.

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  Next to them, were the other type of elf, even if they were called Sidhe and looked like they should consider a membership at the tanning salon.

  So, we had tree-hugging elves and the haughty, arrogant elves? Maybe they needed something to give both races something pretty to look at.

  The next race to the right were the Orcs and they looked quite fierce, maybe even attractive, in a primal, savage way.

  So, another blurb, but this one more or less contradicted the one of the humans, which made me curious.

  I continued my slow turn and was greeted by a cat-person. I hadn’t seen a lot of them in the trailer, the shape mostly hidden by shrubs or a large wolf, but now, I was able to see them clearly. There was nothing cute about them, giving the impression of a savage predator, ready to pounce.

  These had some potential, I had to admit that to myself, they sounded like excellent rogues, or Scouts, as they were called in Irminsul. Still, I continued my slow circle.

  Next were the dwarves, looking almost square in proportion. It also showed that the figure in the trailer was likely a female, the second figure looked very similar to the first, only one had a beard and the other small breasts, which would easily be hidden beneath armour.

  Focusing on them brought up their summary.

  Again, while the race sounded interesting, I was not sure I wanted to play as a small person. Well, I was quite sure I didn’t want that, so I continued further to the right.

  There was another larger gap and next were the scaled, canine forms of the Kobolds. Focusing on them, gave me the blue window with their summary.

  Did I want to be a scaly dog-person? I had to admit, I kind of wanted to be one, it might be fun. Shaking my head, I turned to the last race, between Kobolds and Humans.

  Having seen all the races, I slowly turned in a circle, looking at all the interesting choices to make. Finally, I smiled and made my choice.