Age of Gods - A VRMMO Story

Unfortunately, Thomas would have to put his desire for vengeance against Hekrin on hold for the time being. He needed a solid plan, after all, just punching the old goat in the face wouldn't be enough to address his grievances with the dwarf! Revenge was just like a good prank, it took time and proper planning to pull off expertly! He couldn't help letting out a bit of a vicious smile as he wondered if Hekrin would 'force' him to learn Alchemy. If so... perhaps he could concoct something that would teach the old bastard a lesson!

After spending some time on delusions of making Hekrin pay, Thomas focused back on reality and gave Zella a warm smile, "Zella, I was hoping I would be able to purchase some fabric from you and make myself some clothing. I've spent most of my time since I was summoned here learning various professions so I haven't spent much time shopping. It would also be a great help if I could choose what I wanted to make from some of your patterns."

Zella walked to a section of the store counter and crouched down to pull out a very thick book that almost looked like a binder. It was filled to the brim with various patterns for male clothing, "I don't mind. I'll even be nice and sell you the cloth at cost. This is my first volume of men's clothing. The designs in here should be about what you can handle at your skill level."

Zella slid the book of patterns over to Thomas and gave him a warm smile. Thomas flipped open the cover of the book and began to browse through the various designs and patterns. What was the best part of a video game? Aside from having a ton of power and slaughtering monsters? It was wearing kick ass looking stuff of course! While looking through the book the only thing Thomas paid attention to was how 'cool' the finished product would look. Cool by his standards anyway. It didn't take him very long to settle on three articles of clothing. A pair of pants that would qualify as a 'relaxed fit' pair of jeans in the real world. A simple shirt with short sleeves and a three button collar and a light jacket to go over the shirt.

After selecting the patterns, Zella took Thomas over to browse through her fabrics. The majority of them were made of cotton or linen, but there were a few rolls of silk here and there. Thomas focused mostly on the cotton fabrics. Linen was somewhat itchy and silk was just too expensive for simple daily clothing, so he took the middle ground. For the pants, Thomas chose a very thick and durable cotton with a dark blue color, since the pattern reminded him of jeans he felt he should just go with that. For the shirt, he chose a nice dark gray breathable cotton. For his jacket, he went with a thick black cotton. Black went with everything.

With his cloth chosen, Zella measured out the necessary amounts and after calculating the cost turned to Thomas, "Your total comes to thirty gold."

Thomas nodded and fished out sixty of his hard-earned gold, "Can you make it two sets please?"

Without complaint, Zella fetched, measured, and cut a second set of the necessary fabrics to make Thomas's clothing. Once everything was ready, Thomas parted with his hard earned sixty gold and collected his materials. There were only a couple of hours left in the day so he wouldn't be able to complete even one outfit before closing time. That didn't stop him from taking the materials and the pattern into the back room and getting started though. Thomas spent the rest of the day tracing and cutting out all the pieces to the patterns for his clothing.

With his work done for the day, Thomas headed for The Swans Nest and did his usual routine. The following morning he made his way back to Zella's Fashions to begin to sew together his new clothing. As long as he could get enough experience in his Tailoring profession today he wouldn't have to work at Zella's tomorrow and would be able to have a day off to do something different. He fully intended to get some exercise by either heading out of town or heading into the dungeon.

Arriving at Zella's, Thomas headed straight into the back room and fetched his materials to get to work. With everything already cut out the previous night he only needed to begin to stitch it together. Arranging his piles of cloth in a slightly better arrangement than previously, Thomas began to hem the various pieces. He followed the directions carefully and only hemmed the sections that would not become part of the seams. It only took him around two hours to finish working on the hems. The clothing he had selected would have more seams than hems.

Thomas began the next step by carefully sewing the seams of the pants together. He was tempted to activate his 'All Seeing Eyes' for this step to ensure that his clothing would be perfect, but he still felt that would be a complete waste of time. Unless he could somehow push the cloth past its limits and into the pseudo-magical realm, as he had with the iron at Rock's, it would be pointless. Instead, he just focused and aimed for a rating of excellent. It only took half an hour for him to finish the seams and begin work on the crotch of the pants. Since there were no zippers in AoG, yet, Thomas went with a button-up crotch instead.

The pants he'd made yesterday were simply laced together like a pair of shoes. Thomas didn't like that look so he modified the pants on the fly and instead took the time to sew reinforced buttonholes and the buttons. This would make the pants much more convenient. Convenient for what? Who knows, it wasn't like he'd ever had to use the restroom while inside of the game. That was one feature no sane game developer would include within the game, the need to relieve oneself. Sex, on the other hand, would be prevalent in any VRMMO with an adult player base. Not that Thomas planned to have sex anytime soon. It was just the condom principle at work. Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it!