Disclaimer:I don't own Outlaw Star... If i did i'd make sure that there were more episodes for us all to watch. Anyway Not making money, just having fun, if you sue me all you could take would be an empty pringles can as i don't have anything else

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Jim closed the door to his cabin behind him and double checked that it was locked. He didn't want anybody to know about what he was about todo. Pulling open the draw next to his bed he pulled out the orange visor. Jim would ridicule him for this, Susuka would look down on it and Aisha would keep pestering him to let her use it. No this was something which was going to be something he did completely on his own.

It was a new craze which had swept across the universe. The game was called Illusia and it linked people all over the universe in a fantasy based role-playing-game. The purpose was to create a character and via that avatar interact with people and make new friends. The Visor and gloves allowed almost a complete imersion into the fantasy world. On allmost every inhabited planet and station a small outpost had been buillt to link players together.

Jim had picked his set up using his share from a bounty he and Gene had picked up recently and so far he had been enjoying it. For the past few nights he had been venturing into Illusia as a Knight by the name of Hayth. He pulled his gloves onto both hands and sat down onto his bed. Slipping his visor down, jim was greeted by the familiar opening screen with a picture of his character next to it. The Avatar he had chosen had long black hair pulled back into a pony tail which fell down his back. His face was clean shaven with friendly welcoming expression on his face. He wore a suit of plate armour and to his back was strapped a large sword.

After a few secconds the image faded away to show a landscape before him. Jim took a few seconds to get used to the new environment before looking around. It was one of the disadvantages of living on a space craft. The sleeping patterns which people kept were often individual to each space craft and so occasionally the world would be completely deserted.

Jim started stepping down the hill towards the small village which lay at the bottom of the slope. Villages were usually used to resuply but were also a good place to meet people and chat. If there was anyone logged on at the moment then it was here that Jim would find them.

As far as Jim could tell the town was deserted. There were the normal scatterings of NPCs about, going about their preprogrammed lives each looking as blissfully happy as the next. He sat down at a small table and ordered a cup of coffee from the barmaid on one of her trips past the table.Jim sat there, one leg lyeing on the table while the other rested on his knee, watching the town go buy. It never ceased to amaze him how realistic the world seemed.

"Nice isn't it?" Jim span around at the sound of the voice to see who had been speaking. Seated behind him was a woman who he had previously thought to bepart of the scenery. Her long red hair curled down her back and framed her pale face perfectly. Her green eyes looked across at jim with an expression of serenity and the armour showing from beneath her robes hinted that she was probably one of the cleric class.

"Hi." she said "I'm Odana"

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Please, Please Review, this is my first fanfic and im still treading on uncertain ground here and i will try and make the next chapters longer, Scouts Honour