(Alright, heeres the list:
DragoNess/ Vanessa Aumira: She is a loud and proud girl who never backs down from anything, and tends to step into a leadership sort of role. Her personal channel consists of her completing impossible challenges and sometimes irl stunt and parkour videos. She also has the highest hospitalization count within the group. One of her most impressive feats is the fact she completed the cinnamon challenge without even a single cough

GriffinGriffon/ Griffon ORilei: tends to speedrun through most games, also a loud and bright personality like Vanessas but tends to be more charming and less reckless. His main channel has a lot of blogging content as well as gaming, often called the golden boy of the group and likes to flirt with the camera, but is very adamant on not dating a fan

UnicornGirl/ Amber Cerani: Probably the most simile to PhoenixBoy, she has a pastel goth aesthetic and a very unique style. Outside of the main channel she puts a lot of focus on storytime videos as well as gaming, where she mostly plays story-based rpg games

MerMan/ Kaito Shimizu: Moved to America from Japan as a teenager and still has a strong accent. He strays more towards mystery and puzzle games, he also makes a lot of content in his native language on his personal channel. Hes also a vTuber who doesnt show his face on camera and uses an animated avatar instead.)

*Cool, well, I should hold you up too long, and we dont want to fall behind either, Amella we got a whole world to explore* Iyonder waved a goodbye and Amella dragged her out of the open room towards the outside world where the real game would be taking place

"Good luck on your adventuree!" Phpenix bids goodbye in usual fashion and atarts heading out himself. Its about time he starts seeing wht this place has to ffer.

(Ooh sounds good. ....lmao love how phoenix still manges to be on a different wavelength from half his friendgroup no matter what friendgroup i put him in.....and of course theres alwaya a reckless person, a puzzlemap person, and the roleplayer xD)

(I like to think the difference between them gives them charm, plus I find opposing personalities sometimes click better also since they were a group I tried to give them a mythical theme)

As you head out into the bustling streets of Grandiflora, lots of brilliant sights fill your eyes. The city is covered in plants and brilliant flowers growing throughout the buildings and streetlights. The buildings closest to the palace you were exiting seemed to all be stores and shops selling fine jewelry, silks, and delicious foods. It was pretty obvious a newcomer wasnt meant to be able to afford anything yet, but the further you got from the castle, the more stores would be friendly to new players.

At the end of the street there was a large archway that lead to the new player district with other clothes and foods and goods marketed towards players, it was still nice, but definitely not as classy. Beyond that, another archway seemed to open into the wide open area outside of Grandiflora, the wilds outside of the safe zone

(I like it.)

Phpeniz started taking note of certain shopw, like those for food or supplies. Those would ckme in handy later- expenive items were either just for show or were very useful. Or just plain rare.

He totlaly didnt have a flair for accidentily collecting rare items. Of course not. Totally not him.

He keeps heading for the new plyers district, keep n eye out just in case he spots anything of interest. A quest would be nice- he ausmes theres one seeing as this is a reality game and those tend to have quests or tasks to do.

It looked almost impossible to find a quest in this crowded of an area. The second a question marker popped up above an NPC, someone would jump on it and it would be gone in a second. Of course, maybe with a bit of wandering or camping, it would be easier to snatch a quest. Maybe there would even be some hidden npcs in alleyways or buildings.

Alternatively, there could always be something to find in the wilds, perhaps a wayward adventuring NPC or perhaps even players youve met before, such as someone from your group. It would be most likely to find Ness climbing a tower somewhere, Griff was likely being a center of attention, and perhaps even getting some high level gear as early as possible. Amber was definitely already leveling up her skills knowing her, leaving Kai as the wildcard here, unsure of what he was up to in an open world like this.

Which left Phoeix, who usually did whqt he called a "get every achievement, easter egg, and item to the point your device cant handle it anymore". (The guy he paid to help with fixing his devices qas not thrilled by Phoenixs exploirs-)

He wandered towards the alleys, might as well see if there were any hidden areas. Those usually had interesting things.

[Investigation skill Level Up]

After sneaking through some alleys, you find some points of interest being possibly rummaging through some crates in the alley, or a quest marker above a hooded figure in an alleyway. It seemed not many other people were investigating all the back alleys yet, and were instead branching out to the less busy streets or the wilds

He goes for the hooded figure. Shady dealings, lets go! "Hello?"

...besides shady back alley figures were strangely greatplaces to fins illgal legal stuff. If it was in the game, its free game for Phoenix. Bonus points if its a weapon that destroys Amber and her high level gear in one hit, its very amusing to watch.

(Wow that wa soff topic-)

The NPC in the hood looked up at you as you approached and made contact with him. Upon seeing his face it was clear this was a older, sickly man.

*Hello young adventurer my grandson and I have become ailed with a terrible fever, and we desperately need an herb to alleviate our symptoms my family does not have much, but we can offer what we can if you can help me* The man explained, a small popup showing the quest details appeared.

Rewards:

-25 XP
-15 Copper
-???
[Note: ??? Means there is an unnamed additional reward]

"Sure. What herb do ypu need" Phoenix asks. He'll pronably have to search around but he can probably forage or something for the herb.

Or thats his reasoning anyways.