"Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys & Girls! Gather round! Gather round!"
You scan your surroundings tentatively. It's been a long while since this many people were together in one place. You watch silently as hordes of others take their seats within the massive limestone amphitheatre. Eventually, though, you take your own seat upon the upper ring, high above most others and close to the nearest exit. That fact settles your nerves a little and you begin to focus on the single man stood in the center of the arena.
"That's it, take your seats! Make yourself comfortable! Today I have an exciting announcement to make!"
A joyous expression lit up his face as he spoke, his arms flailing in conjunction with the energy of his projected voice. He was dressed in immaculate white robes that were difficult to look at due to the sun's glare. This fact, coupled with his over-the-top excitement, meant that he was merely an NPC. Another of Sotaro Fujimoto's constructs designed to guide the people of this world. Once everyone had taken their seats a wave of whispers spread throughout the crowd before the NPC spoke again.
"It is by the highest honour, bestowed upon me by our esteemed King Jalan, that I am delighted to announce: That at the start of the coming month, this very arena will play host to the 4th Annual Guild Wars! Your King wishes to express his profound excitement towards this year's games and would like to wish each one of you who are selected a very good luck. The bloodshed begins in one month's time!"
The Announcer threw up his hands as he finished his proclamation. Gazing around at the crowd with a wide grin as the majority of them now stood at their feet, cheering and hollering at the news. You, however, can only look to your feet in disgust. You get up and slowly glare at all of the people - real people - who know full well what the Guild Wars involve. You turn around and begin to climb towards the exit steps of the amphitheatre. A faint jingle catches your attention accompanied by a new message. It stops you dead in your tracks.
Gingerly, you point to the air in front of you, bringing up your personal User Interface and click to your inbox. The title reads: YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN. You turn around fast, only to see the announcer staring directly toward you. An arrogant smirk covers his face. You clench your jaw in anger, knowing full well who the announcer really is. You discard the message and storm out of the amphitheatre.
Welcome to...
Hello! And thank you for taking the time to take a peek at my Interest Check. SAO:TGW is an alternate universe RP set within the fictional world of Aincrad. The same rule applies, wherein if you die in-game you die in real life. However, the idea of this game is not to clear levels to reach the 100th floor. You, along with roughly 10,000 others, have been trapped within SAO for nearly four years. Though the game started with 25,000 players, that number has been whittled down gradually over the years with the help of The Guild Wars.
These Guild Wars are portrayed as World Events in which a large selection of players must compete against each other and survive in order to gain the chance to be released from the game. The players are split into two Guilds; The Dragon Warriors of the Midnight Realm and The Crimson Guardians of the Asylum. Each week, a team of five from each guild will battle it out against the opposite team in various different modes of death matches. The last players standing from each team will then be put through to the Final Eight and after four weeks the Eight will battle against each other in 1v1 duels to the death. The winner of the Final Eight duels will then be given the chance to fight King Jalan and claim their freedom.
However, there is rumour of an uprising. Information Brokers have been going crazy trying to establish what is truth is what is fiction but the general jist is that a former Argus employee was trapped within the game by Sotaro Fujimoto. No one knows how but this prisoner seems to have escaped their confinement and is apparently gathering supporters against Fujimoto, who joins the players in game as King Jalan. Many a player has searched for this supposed prisoner but not even the Cardinal system can find him. Some believe that he doesn't even exist, that he is just some lie told by a player too afraid of the Guild Wars.
The question is, though, what will you choose to believe in? Will you fight in the Guild Wars and gamble for freedom? Or will you rise up and take what is rightfully yours?
You scan your surroundings tentatively. It's been a long while since this many people were together in one place. You watch silently as hordes of others take their seats within the massive limestone amphitheatre. Eventually, though, you take your own seat upon the upper ring, high above most others and close to the nearest exit. That fact settles your nerves a little and you begin to focus on the single man stood in the center of the arena.
"That's it, take your seats! Make yourself comfortable! Today I have an exciting announcement to make!"
A joyous expression lit up his face as he spoke, his arms flailing in conjunction with the energy of his projected voice. He was dressed in immaculate white robes that were difficult to look at due to the sun's glare. This fact, coupled with his over-the-top excitement, meant that he was merely an NPC. Another of Sotaro Fujimoto's constructs designed to guide the people of this world. Once everyone had taken their seats a wave of whispers spread throughout the crowd before the NPC spoke again.
"It is by the highest honour, bestowed upon me by our esteemed King Jalan, that I am delighted to announce: That at the start of the coming month, this very arena will play host to the 4th Annual Guild Wars! Your King wishes to express his profound excitement towards this year's games and would like to wish each one of you who are selected a very good luck. The bloodshed begins in one month's time!"
The Announcer threw up his hands as he finished his proclamation. Gazing around at the crowd with a wide grin as the majority of them now stood at their feet, cheering and hollering at the news. You, however, can only look to your feet in disgust. You get up and slowly glare at all of the people - real people - who know full well what the Guild Wars involve. You turn around and begin to climb towards the exit steps of the amphitheatre. A faint jingle catches your attention accompanied by a new message. It stops you dead in your tracks.
Gingerly, you point to the air in front of you, bringing up your personal User Interface and click to your inbox. The title reads: YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN. You turn around fast, only to see the announcer staring directly toward you. An arrogant smirk covers his face. You clench your jaw in anger, knowing full well who the announcer really is. You discard the message and storm out of the amphitheatre.
Welcome to...
Hello! And thank you for taking the time to take a peek at my Interest Check. SAO:TGW is an alternate universe RP set within the fictional world of Aincrad. The same rule applies, wherein if you die in-game you die in real life. However, the idea of this game is not to clear levels to reach the 100th floor. You, along with roughly 10,000 others, have been trapped within SAO for nearly four years. Though the game started with 25,000 players, that number has been whittled down gradually over the years with the help of The Guild Wars.
These Guild Wars are portrayed as World Events in which a large selection of players must compete against each other and survive in order to gain the chance to be released from the game. The players are split into two Guilds; The Dragon Warriors of the Midnight Realm and The Crimson Guardians of the Asylum. Each week, a team of five from each guild will battle it out against the opposite team in various different modes of death matches. The last players standing from each team will then be put through to the Final Eight and after four weeks the Eight will battle against each other in 1v1 duels to the death. The winner of the Final Eight duels will then be given the chance to fight King Jalan and claim their freedom.
However, there is rumour of an uprising. Information Brokers have been going crazy trying to establish what is truth is what is fiction but the general jist is that a former Argus employee was trapped within the game by Sotaro Fujimoto. No one knows how but this prisoner seems to have escaped their confinement and is apparently gathering supporters against Fujimoto, who joins the players in game as King Jalan. Many a player has searched for this supposed prisoner but not even the Cardinal system can find him. Some believe that he doesn't even exist, that he is just some lie told by a player too afraid of the Guild Wars.
The question is, though, what will you choose to believe in? Will you fight in the Guild Wars and gamble for freedom? Or will you rise up and take what is rightfully yours?
