When I woke up, everything was bright and blurry. It took a bit to blink back into reality to tune into what the doctor was saying. To put it simply, I was royally screwed. The Truck that hit me had obliterated several Key spinal discs, so now I was paralyzed from the waist down. The bill alone for the ambulance was gonna be expensive, but the doctors offered a solution. Ironically enough, Lethality Trials paid millions to Chip and connect Comatose or Paralyzed patients. Apparently, by doing so, it could create Permanent characters who never leave the game.
Normally, when a player dies in the game, the system they're connected to would fry their brain and effectively kill them quickly. However, due to some sort of business jargon I didn't understand, comatose and paralyzed players would just become NPCs. Some people apparently would kill to get their family back, even if it was as an NPC trying to kill them
With everything going on, my parents didn't hesitate to sign the contract, but due to some legal terms, they slowly began to remove themselves from my new life till they cut contact altogether. It didn't take me long to figure out, after the surgery, that the comatose and paralyzed people's brains were being used as servers for game instances. However, it seemed to happen to only those turned NPC.
When I was connected, I awoke in my room, like my room from my old house, where I lived with my parents. The doors and windows were gone, but there was a desk with a computer. Apparently, I would use the computer to select which game instance I wanted to go to. So I sat down and entered in my account info. Logging into the first time and seeing all the different instances. I guess this was my life now.