Jalia's AO Beta Journal
Jalia in Anarchy Online! 6-17-00
Like millions of people who signed up for the AO Beta, I was finally allowed into the last, open "stress test" beta just a few weeks before the game went on sale. Luckily for me, the account key they sent me actually worked (about 2% didn't) but I had to ask my friend Jeff to download the game for me since he's got a DSL connection and I still don't. Took a week to link up with him and get the disk, but after that I was set to play.
At first, I couldn't even get past the first stage of character creation. I was supposed to click an orange down arrow, but there wasn't one. I eventually figured out (from screenshots on the web) where it was supposed to be, and then figured out that if I switched to first person and stood right on top of it, it would magically appear.
After getting past that point, I finally got to have a little fun. I created a nanomage first. I made her short and thin, elf-like, but with her mostly bald and tattooed head she looks a little scary anyway.
So here we have Elisa "Jaliaaqua" Shenkel. I didn't realize it at first, but the name you pick for yourself is really a nickname, while the computer generates a first and last name for you (you can keep generating first/last names until you find one you like). Anyway, Jalia was taken, but I'm not sure that "Jaliaaqua" is much of a nickname, lol.
Elisa is a nano technician and aligned with the clans who are fighting Omnitek.
For some reason I keep losing my head. Especially with my nanomage. And you thought her head was scary!
The headless nanomage strikes again! It took me a while, but I finally started to get the hang of the game.
I decided to try some of the other race/class combinations:
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