Chapter 2

Chapter 2 is the first chapter of Fairy Dance of Death, the first chapter of Arc 1, and introduces the reader to the world of Alfheim Online. It follows Kirito, Argo, and Asuna as POV characters, and takes place over the first four and a half hours of ALO's launch, on November 6th, 2022.

Chapter 2 can be found here on Fanfiction.net, and here on Archive of Our Own. It is posted as Chapter 2 on Archive of Our Own, counting the foreword as chapter 1, and, as this wiki is using Ao3 as tier 1 canon, the wiki pages shall be named accordingly.

POV

 * Kirito
 * Argo
 * Asuna

Supporting

 * Klein
 * Skarrip

Plot
Kirito logs into ALO for the first time since the beta test ended, and experiments with his Voluntary Flight, before being identified as a beta tester by Klein who convinces him to help teach the older player how to play. They spend the next four hours together farming mobs.

Argo, upon logging in, immediately begins contacting players who agreed to be part of her information network, including Kirito and Skarrip. She is approached by Asuna, who is a complete noob to MMOs, as well as video games in general. She spends some time teaching Asuna, before getting fed up and leaving.

Asuna, after Argo leaves, realizes how rude she was, before reflecting on how she had never played a game before, and how happy she felt while playing ALO.

At 5:30 JST, Kayaba Akihiko forcefully teleports all 20,000 players to the main plaza in Arun to give an announcement speech while in a giant-sized GM avatar.