"Are you alright?", my friend asked as he lent his hand for me to take a hold of.
"Yeah, I'm fine", I replied, as I grabbed his hand and he tugged to help me up to my feet.
"Boy, that was inten...".
"Duc, your mom is here to pick you up", my friend's mom said as she walked into the room.
I left the house and got in the car. As the car pulled out of the driveway, I thought of how much fun we had with just some plastic swords and shields and our imagination.
The next day I headed right back to my friends house after school. Upon getting into his house, he tugged on my shirt and said he wanted to show me something on the computer. He turned up the computer and loaded up his browser. He navigated around till we were at a site called "Runescape".
"What is it", I asked, in which he replied that it was an online game, where you could live your life as a knight, going around killing stuff, for treasure. I was fascinated when I heard this.
"Here try it", he said, "go make an account".
As I clicked through the instructions, I came across the second to last page, that said "Choose a username." I thought and thought, wanting to choose a username that would fit me, knowing that I could never change it after it had been chosen. After much deliberation and discussion with my friend, I came up with the name "Wizard1994". I've always known myself to be a wizard with the smarts and the power to cast spells and magic. As I clicked that continue button, little did I know that I would be addicted to this game for years to come.
As I launched the game, and typed in my username and password, my body was quivering. Not the bad quivering, but the good quivering, like when you know that's something good is about to come. I hit enter and with that, I was in game. It took me to "tutorial island", where the basics of the game were explained. It showed you how to cook, kill and defend against enemies, and much more. As I reached the end, it showed you how to cast magic spells and attacks. I managed to cast "wind blast", a level one spell, that KOed a rat in one hit. From that point on, I knew that I wanted to be a wizard.
All that was left of tutorial island was to go up the stairs, to the land of Gielinor. No imagination was needed at this land, because here, everything already existed.
