Sword Art Online OOC

[Tyler]

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In the year 2022, the Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG), Sword Art Online (SAO), is released. With the Nerve Gear, a virtual reality helmet that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain, players can experience and control their in-game characters with their minds.

On November 6, 2022, all the players log in for the first time, and subsequently discover that they are unable to log out. They are then informed by Kayaba Akihiko, the creator of SAO, that if they wish to be free, they must reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if their avatars die in-game, their bodies will also die in the real world.

Our Role-Play will not be following the adventures of Kirito. No cannon characters will be in this story. We will be starting our first post with logging into SOA and thus figuring out that we are trapped within the game. From there, we are free to alter our story however we please. Will we climb the floors and risk death of our characters? Will no heroes emerge and we just accept the reality of spending the rest of our lives within a VRMMORPG? I'll let the players who partake in this adventure decide that.

Feel free to use any format you please to describe your character. Just make sure you have name, age, sex, and maybe background just so you don't all give me previous war veterans who decided to play a video game. I don't require any other information because we are all starting as newbies, and thus you will be filling out your character sheet as you Role-Play.

You can go anywhere you want in this world with a single blade.

Accepted Characters:

Real Name: Tyler Brian

SOA Name: Tybo

Age: 19

Level: 1

Skills:
<<Basic Combat>>
<<One-handed Straight Sword>>

Items:
<<Beginner's Sword>>

Appearance:

Real Name: Alicia Waters

SAO Name: Alice

Age: 17

Level: 1

Skills:
Basic Combat
One-handed Straight Sword

Items:
Basic Breastplate
Beginner's Sword
Beginner's Shield

Guild: N/A

Background: Just your atypical city girl. Alicia has just finished the final exams for her last year in high school and decided she would treat herself with purchasing the headgear and trying out Sword Art Online. In real life, she bakes occasionally and plays the violin. She has a pair of caring parents and a younger brother.

Appearance:


5'6" in height, Alicia is fairly average. She has a thick head of chestnut waves which, for the sake of practicality, she has always tied up into a neat pony tail. She has a healthy build but not very athletic. Along with hazel eyes, a button nose and the faintest dusting of freckles across her milky complexion, she has pale cupid's bow lips and a set of slightly too big ears.

Real Name: Zachery Ellis

SAO Name: Rin

Age: 19

Level: 1

Skills:
«Basic Combat»
«One-handed Straight Sword»

Items:
«Basic Breastplate»
«Beginner's Sword»
«Bottled Water»

Guild: N/A

Background: Zachery lives with his father, his parents having divorced many years ago when he was only a child. Zach has an older brother who he looks up to a lot, since he is a professional gamer, which is something that Zachery aspires to be. His father was one of the Graphic Designers who worked on SAO and he was gifted with two sets of NerveGear and two copies of Sword-Art-Online for each of his sons on completion of the game and it's release to the public. Zachery is one of the first people to enter the world of Aincrad.

Appearance:


Zachery is 5'8" almost 5'9" in height. He has medium-length, Brunette hair and striking, Sapphire eyes. His body is not as athletically trained as his brother's (who, despite his gaming lifestyle, very much likes to keep in shape) but he has conditioned himself somewhat at his father's advice, prior to playing the game. In the many months before the game was released, Zachery underwent a rather passive training regime to keep his body in good check and hopefully give him a leading edge within SAO.

Name: Akashi

Age: 17
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Appearance:


Almost always wears an irritated, or annoyed, yet bored look on his face, except when fighting Strong opponents, or Monsters. THen, his face turns to one, of a happy rage, if that makes sense. Stands about 5'8", and Eyes are a midnight sky black.
Personality: Always seems annoyed, or irritated, and never attempts to make allies with anyone. When those that work up the courage do attempt to approach them, he treats them like nothing, acting like he's superior. Those that attempt to chide him for his attitude, recieve only insults, and antagonizing remarks, As Akashi attempts to get into a fight with them, to test and see if they are strong enough to be 'fun', or 'worth his while'.

Weapon(s) of Choice:
Spoiler


Now, think this, except the blade alone is only a little bit shorter, than Akashi is tall.
Fighting Style: "Shadow Barrage"; Simply the name for his self made style of Fighting, He has focused on boosting his strength and reflex stats, along with his health, So he can wade into fights with groups of enemies, simply cleaving his way through the hordes of opponents, using his large amount of health to absorb the few attacks he is incapable of blocking.
Skill Specialization:

Starting Sword Arts:
"Shadow Blade"; Raises his blade for an over head strike, His blade turns an ominously dark black, Before slashing down onto the opponent, with Increased weight and sharpness, often breaking weapons of a durability less then His blades Strength.
"Darkness Gatling Slash"; The blade glows Completely black, as he shifts to using it one handed. The blade becomes weightless to him, for a short bit, allowing him to wield it unbelievably swift, often catching foes off guard, for they still feel the weight of the sword, as it crashes into them.

Real Name: Carol Evershed

SAO Name: Corona

Age: 18

Sex: Female

Appearance:


Level: 1

Skills:
Basic Combat
One-handed Straight Sword

Items:
Basic Breastplate
Beginner's Sword

Background: Carol is currently spending a year working and studying in preparation to apply for law school. Living away from home and relatively poor, she was lucky enough to have an older brother willing to give her his old Nervegear system when she moved out. Usually more of a sports game player than an RPG nut, she won a copy of SAO as a prize in some raffle held by her local games store and has decided to give it a shot. She is a decent student, works out in her local gym a few times a week, and knows how to make a mean espresso. In fact, she's somewhat addicted to coffee, using it to fuel her frequent all-night study sessions.

I'm planning on possibly making her a mace-and-shield fighter down the road.

Real Name: Elijah Wilson

SAO Name: RangingWolf

Age: 16

Sex: Male

Appearance:


Level: 1

Skills:
Basic Combat skills
One-handed Straight Sword

Items:
Beginners Breastplate
Beginners Sword

Background: Elijah is a sophomore in his local high school. Currently he is unemployed. He is a very care free, happy go-lucky type of person, but he can be very serious when times are needed. He has been begging his dad to buy him this game ever since he heard about back when it was still in beta, his dad finally did once the game came out. Elijah is involved in only two sports cross country and track&field. Elijah is a bit of a loner, he keeps away from big crowds. Elijah brought the game to do two things escape reality and make friends.

Name: Zanku Yazuka

SAO Name:Zanku

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Theme song:Deriora Devil

Appearance:


5''7 in height, A boy surrounded in mystery...not showing much emotion most of the time it is hard to know what he thinks. He has crimson eyes and black crimson hair, whenever he engages in battle something inside him awakens like an instinct and his eyes somehow change.

Level:1

Skill's:
«Basic Combat»
«One-handed Straight Sword»

Item's:
Beginners Sword

Background: Zanku lives with his Mother's Sister and her daughter, his mother died when he was young and his father had disappeared without saying anything. He was alone for a while and lived first with his grandparents but his Aunt wanted to take care of her younger sister's son so she took Zanku in. He joined the beta-test of SAO and was one of the first ones to play it, after the release he bought the game and used the nerve gear he got from his father before he disappeared. Now he enters a new world, the world of Aincrad.

[Jack Rinner]

what skills does a newbie start off with? And what skills will be available later on?

[Shingaku]

I Would Love to join! I Love SAO, and hope to see its continuation. I went and made my own SAO RP, but no one seems to have picked up on it yet.

[Heyitsjiwon]

May I suggest something? Later on in the series

*Minor Spoiler-Doesn't give away any important plot. Just some very minor detail about the SAO system later in the series.*

There is something called the Original Sword Skill (OSS) where the player can essentially make up and name their own skills, but with some conditions. One it has to be a series of attacks, and not just one swing or else the game system thinks that the skill already exists and doesn't allow that skill to be created. So, the longer the series of attacks, the more likely the system will allow the skill to be created since it is original. Two, the skill is created by coping your movement, so you have to actually record the skill for the system to analyze it. Three (and the biggest point) is that when you're recording the skill, you actually have to move at the speed that the premade skills are preformed. So, all swings and movements have to be deliberate and very quick. Thus, its actually very hard to make a skill especially one that is long. In fact, when the OSS is first introduced Kirito could only make one that was around 8 strikes. Alternatively, Asuna (aka the Flash who is the fastest one handed user) could only make one that was 11 strikes long and it took her a month of training in order for her to record the skill perfectly and have the system approve of the skill. I think it would interesting if you could implement this future function of SAO in the RP. Course, the first ones made will have to be fairly simple like 3 or maybe even 4 strikes long (Which in itself would need quite a bit of time to be practiced), but as the RP progresses you would really be able to see the characters develop.

Edit: I also forgot to mention. Once you create a OSS, it is permanently yours and it can not be copied. However, you can voluntarily "teach" someone else the skill you created. The person you want to teach doesn't have to go through all that time training to perfect the skill so that he/she can record. It's treated as an item essentially in the sense that you can automatically use it if it has been taught to you.

[Tyler]

@Jack: Not sure what you mean by skills. I'm going entirely off the Anime. We could certainly make up our own system for skills and such.

@Hey: This was in the show? If not I'm going to have to say no. It sounds like a way to turn fights into premade combos instead of tasteful writing.

[Our Lady Muffin]

Is the fighting going to be super mechanical? Or is it going to be pretty rough and rely more on general description/imagination? I hope it's the latter because I suck at mechanical fights. ><

Oh! And you said that our first post would be us logging on to SAO; that means we'll have to play through that whole scene where Akihiko lays out the rules and guidelines right?

[Tyler]

Real Name: Tyler Brian

SOA Name: Tybo

Age: 19

Level: 1

Skills:
<<Basic Combat>>
<<One-handed Straight Sword>>

Items:
<<Beginner's Sword>>

Appearance:



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@Our Lady: I don't want mechanical fights (why I declined Heyitsjiwon's idea). I love tasteful writing, and I believe the fighting within the anime doesn't look mechanical at all, so why should our RP be?

Since this is a leveling game, I realize everyone is going to want to be the highest level. I will set limits to what levels we can obtain per post. If I see someone doing exceptionally well with their writing/character development/plot movement, then I will give them a higher level cap than the rest.

[Our Lady Muffin]

Real Name: Alicia Waters

SAO Name: Alice

Age: 17

Level: 9

Skills:
Basic Combat
One-handed Straight Sword

Items:
Basic Breastplate
Beginner's Sword
9 Pieces of Bread
2 Bottles of Water
5 Basic Healing Potions

Guild: N/A

Background: Just your atypical city girl. Alicia has just finished the final exams for her last year in high school and decided she would treat herself with purchasing the headgear and trying out Sword Art Online. In real life, she bakes occasionally and plays the violin. She has a pair of caring parents and a younger brother.

Appearance:

http://i.imgur.com/VSjmi.jpg

5'6" in height, Alicia is fairly average. She has a thick head of chestnut waves which, for the sake of practicality, she has always tied up into a neat pony tail. She has a healthy build but not very athletic. Along with hazel eyes, a button nose and the faintest dusting of freckles across her milky complexion, she has pale cupid's bow lips and a set of slightly too big ears.

[KalasAlseif]

I figured this would help with our CSes Also, will there only be one person with the ability to Dual Wield? I don't want it for myself, I was just wondering whether unique skills would be coherent with this RP?

Real Name: Zachery Ellis

SAO Name: Rin

Age: 19

Level: 9

Skills:
«Basic Combat»
«One-handed Straight Sword»
«Two Handed Straight Sword»

Items:
«Basic Breastplate»
«Beginner's Sword»
«Gunther's Vengeance»
«Bottled Water»
«2 Roast Chicken Legs»
«5 Apples»
«2 Loaves of Bread»

Guild: N/A

Background: Zachery lives with his father, his parents having divorced many years ago when he was only a child. Zach has an older brother who he looks up to a lot, since he is a professional gamer, which is something that Zachery aspires to be. His father was one of the Graphic Designers who worked on SAO and he was gifted with two sets of NerveGear and two copies of Sword-Art-Online for each of his sons on completion of the game and it's release to the public. Zachery is one of the first people to enter the world of Aincrad.

Appearance:

Zachery is 5'8" almost 5'9" in height. He has medium-length, Brunette hair and striking, Sapphire eyes. His body is not as athletically trained as his brother's (who, despite his gaming lifestyle, very much likes to keep in shape) but he has conditioned himself somewhat at his father's advice, prior to playing the game. In the many months before the game was released, Zachery underwent a rather passive training regime to keep his body in good check and hopefully give him a leading edge within SAO.

[Our Lady Muffin]

Aha! Thanks for that link.