Welcome to Sword Art Online! (SAO) is a Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG), released in 2022. With the Nerve Gear, a virtual reality helmet that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain, The first game ever to be able to control your character like you were in the game yourself! Make friends, go on quests, form guilds, go on dates and even get Married and buy a home! (marriage not bound legally outside of game) The world is yours for the taking, with amazing worlds which you can interact with just about everything.

On November 6, 2022, you and the first 10,000 players log into SAO for the first time, and later discover that they are unable to log out. You are then informed by Akihiko Kayaba, SAO's creator, that if you wish to be free, someone must reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. Also your Avatars have been stripped and your Nerve Gear has scanned your body and made an exact copy for your real body, and the abilities of your body. And whats more, the stakes have raised in the game, the pain simulator, which is only to give you slight shocks if you are hit in the game (to make it more realistic because no one wants to be shocked) has been cranked up to a dangerous level as you actually feel exactly what the wound would feel in real life, and whats worse...if you were to die in-game or be forcefully disconnected from the outside world, your real bodies will die. Will you survive and make it back home?

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Soo this is based on the tv series /novels Sword Art Online, which i just found and instantly liked the idea. Those who have seen it or read it, it will basically be the same plot, but not from the main characters point of view, so no cannon characters allowed. Either they are apart of it or not even in the story at all, we can either start from the beginning or be a few months into the game, we can have relationships between characters or just meet up. (I kinda like having relationships at the start, makes it more interesting i think to have siblings or what ever from the real world.)

I am open to ideas and comments about quests and story lines, that give your character spotlight, and blending story lines together, so don't be afraid of asking I'm willing to work with (mostly) anything. I would like this to be Advanced casual, Three to four paragraphs the norm please. I am going to make it start six months after the day we logged in.

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Character Sheet:

Name:
Age:
Level (No one sees this in the game)
Screen name:
Appearance:(in real life)
Beta tester or first time: (there are only 1000 beta testers, and not generally liked because everyone else felt that they took all the good monster spawns for themselves. Alot did this, but still many did the opposite and helped the first timers through the first few dungeons.)
Skills?: (fishing, cooking, black smithing etc.)
Weapons:
Equipment:
Guild: (if some people want to be apart of one at the start you can make one up, it can include other players here or what ever...make it interesting!)
History (in the game)

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Character Sheet:

Name: William Osborne

Age: 20

Level: 40

Screen name: Fenros

Appearance: Black hair instead


Beta tester or first time: Beta Tester

Skills:
Strength and agility are Advanced, Tracking, listening, blacksmithing, Spear wielding, (Maxed) Hand to Hand combat, One handed Small Ax (advanced) dodging,

Special skill: Adrenaline Junkie: In the heat of battle his senses become more clear and detailed. He is able to keep up with multiple Enemies at one time and to him it seems like slow motion, where as his agility and strength sky rocket.

Weapons:
Spear of the Reaper: (rare in picture) This weapon drains a good amount of HP of his target with each strike, With adding a constant drain of 2% every ten seconds.
Tomahawk
Bootknife

Equipment: (in picture) plus 3 days of food, water, cooking supplies and hunting supplies.

Guild: Him and Mia(Player killer,killer) Bounty hunter

History: Fenros was a beta tester for SOA with three of his best friends When they found out this game turned into life or death, they decided it would be best to help the new people so they wouldn't die so early in the game. A few weeks passed by and while they were helping a few players who finally worked up the courage to venture out from the safeness of the town, they were ambushed by 10 Player killers. Those that didn't believe that people would actually die in real life. Taking them by surprise the pkers killed two of his guy friends, and the rest of the group. The killers ran once Fenros and his remaining surviving friend, Mia, killed half of them. Fenros and Mia took it upon themselves to hunt down those who did it, and kill them...and any other pker that they came a crossed. the two are inseparable now and work extremely well together. They still help the new players or those in need when they can. Also participating in boss raids on each level.

Mind if I reserve a CS slot? I'll be able to write one up tomorrow after school.

Name
Miracle Ariete Slayn

Age
14

Level
13

Screen name
Littrix (or Lit)

Appearance

Height - 4'9
Weight- 95.4

First Timer

Skills
Cooking~
Musical Instrument~
Familiar Communication
Familiar Recovery~

Weapons


Equipment
Health Potions - 2
Warping Crystal (Starter City) - 1
Antidote Crystal - 3
Col - 34063 ~


History
During the first day of the game she walked around the starter city doing her normal things. She wasn't much of a gamer nor did she know much about the game itself but she felt that she wanted to try something new. Hours passed by looking at the NPC's and her surroundings but didn't get close to the gates very much. Everyone in town seemed human like and she was very impressed! It all seemed real. As soon as the afternoon struck she had been teleported a man in a huge red cloak appeared in blood? Odd for a GM to introduce herself but she didn't mind. She could tell that some where a bit scared and tried to get out but she could see why. Teleporting in without notice is a bit scary he gave us all a piece of glass. She saw her avatar but suddenly everything changed knowing something was wrong she could see her real body and real face. Now she felt odd but ..she didn't know we would go through her and as some kind of freaked out she just tried to stay calm. She stared at the GM until he had spoken. Now..it really did feel like hell. Silence fell upon the spawn and when the GM left she could here the screams. She was scared. The eery essence fell upon her and she simply broke down, falling onto her knees. Tears slowly seeping out. She was...she couldn't express her emotions but one..word scared the area cleared after a few hours of screaming or crying. She finally stood up but did nothing. Thinking and thinking..for hours she was afraid to die by virtual mobs. She wanted to suicide now..but she knew she could do something about it. She finally got up but waited a few days, maybe weeks..to finally get her strength up to go outside the gates and thus she did go outside but only a foot away. Puffing very hard she decided to go. She finally fought, not giving up and finally gaining the strength to return to her normal state. She gained courage. Though she was still risky her poor strikes and strategy caused her to go way down in health though she killed the mob at the last moment. She didn't have enough (money currency) as well. She was very weak though when she got meat from mobs she would usually cook and when she did sell her food and gained another skill. she gained a instrument and which she practiced more on and gained a skill.. She played music when she was little but stopped.Her mother played the violin it was..sweet to have a few memories in her possession. and at one point she gained a friend as well. At level 7 roaming around the nearby forest a dragon a cute, small one popped up. Seemingly it was asking for food and she gave..it 'meat' she didn't know things like that could appear but it seemed nice to. She was happy when the dragon became her 'tamed beast' it was odd and she gained two extra skills that she didn't know about. She was sure that she read that beta-testers manual but this 'beast' thing didn't popped up. Though during fights she would get healed during her fights and wouldn't take much risk anymore though she was still low health. The beast, named ' Aura ' was the greatest help she could get. Knowing that she was a 'newb' at this game, knowing that she had to try and fight her way through this damned game.

Name: Kilia Fayne
Age: 17
Level: 42
Screen Name: Night Arrow Mora
Appearance:

Beta Tester or First Timer?: Beta Tester (Beater if you want to go that far...)
Skills: Archery (nearly maxed out), Dual-Wielding, Throwing, One-handed Blade, Stealth, Tracking (advanced), Eavesdropping (or just a listening skill), Hunting, cooking (basic), Crafting, Blocking, Dodging, Blacksmithing and Charisma/Intimidation.
Weapons: A specially acquired bow, two rare shortswords and numerous throwing daggers (that can also be used as versatile melee weapons).

Equipment: 3 days worth of food and water, rope and grappling hook, hunting equipment, leather strapped armour with light metal plating, money (100,000 Col), paper and ink.


Guild: Solo player, PKer, Assassin, Bounty Hunter, Mercenary, Contractor, Body Guard.

History: Like most who started SAO, she had a heavy heart. The future seemed bleak, most certainly for a solo player such as herself, and she didn't want to be stuck in this world, trapped, forever. The first few fights of hers were extremely difficult, as she'd often wondered if she might as well kill herself rather than prolong her suffering. It was through one of these little mishaps that almost cost her life, and also the founding of her best friend: Rye.

Rye saved her life and taught Kilia from then on, teaching her the ways of the game and how to play. She was a natural, and was slaying more monsters than most within the first month alone. Her level grew quickly and the two of them became an extremely powerful force that wasn't to be reckoned with. After a little while, Rye offered Kilia a job, as well as a guild to join and place to stay. That was when Kilia first joined the Thieves Guild...

It was often perceived that the Theives Guild were a bunch of intimidating scoundrels and bullies, though even Kilia had to admit their tactics were rather brilliant. They never killed, only pushed around and tortured an enemy until he or she gave in to their demands. Once they'd dropped the requested items, they'd leave. Kilia stayed within the Thieves Guild for a majority of the time SAO has been running...

Kilia started her newfound profession a few months ago, when her best friend, Rye, was killed by Laughing Coffin, the murder guild. Shortly thereafter, she found out how easy it was to take another person's life over a monster's, and how much faster you can grow in terms of level, skill, and Col value. She put up her message on the message board, and was surprised by how many requests she first got: body guard missions, assassinations, mercenary jobs and other such quests which, given the right price, she'd go out and complete.

She has a saying that "I'll do any job for the right price", and that is no joke. She supposedly even got an offer to kill Heathcliff, the leader of the 'Knights of the Blood', though turned it down due to the low price and satire request. However, she made sure to state that she's gladly attempt to kill Heathcliff should a true oppurtunity arise...

Kilia has a dark and harsh exterior and doesn't like to speak much. She has a soft spot for gruesome things and brutality and can be considered a bit of a sadist and masochist. She hates, what she likes to call, "cute shit" and is a downright red player due to previous acts against humanity. Alone, she's killed nearly one hundred players...

Name: Saraswati Balasubramanian- Her friends call her "Sara" or "Swat"
Screen name: Arlanni
Cursor Color: Orange

Age: 23
Level: 20
Appearance: Sara is more than likely to be surprised by her appearance in the game world. She had selected a milk skinned, blond avatar with woad tattoos.
Beta tester or first time: Newb.
Skills: Belly Dancing, Stealth, Climbing, Lock Picking, Backstabbing, Legerdemain,
Weapons: Bow, Short Sword
Equipment: Grappling Hook, Thieves Tools, Mirror on a stick, 25,000 Col, Healing Potion, Potion of Anti-Petrification, Warp Crystal (Starting City), Haste Potion
Guild: Has no Guild as of yet but if she did go for one it'd be one that focused on the thieving.
History: Before the announcement, Arlanni was a "newb hunter". She would appear to new, low level players and tell them she knew of a great place to "grind" for levels. Once they were outside the "safe zone" her comrades, all PKers would descend upon their hapless victims. Since Arlanni never participated in the attack she remained "green" and therefore trustworthy to do so again. In return, they gave her a portion of the spoils. Thus she became quite wealthy and had far better items than her level than one would normally expect.

Arlanni, since the announcement that circumstances in the game became dire, has actively avoided seeking out monsters and other players. At first she was just going to keep to herself until those in the game were rescued. A sound enough tactic... except, one still needed to eat or their character's hit points would start to drop. That meant food. It also wouldn't do, sleeping in alleys and getting her throat cut by a player killer in her sleep.

Her solution to this was to stick mostly to thievery, robbing various NPCs and PCs of significantly lower level while avoiding players of a much higher level. After all, if one gets caught doing minor things like petty thieving, the most the city guard seemed to do was put you in a cell for the allotted time. As a result, in the same six months everyone else has been playing, Sara is a fair bit lower level. It also has changed her "Green" cursor color over to "Orange".

What really bothers her most is the fact that, after discovering that she may have killed real people, she doesn't feel particularly bad about it. She isn't sure if it's because she didn't know at the time... or if she really isn't bothered by killing people. One thing is for certain, she doesn't want to die but at the same time... she's starting to think that nobody is coming to save them. If that's the case, maybe... just maybe killed people to go up in level so that she could take a shot at the final boss is tempting. Only... she doesn't believe that the final boss can be defeated and that this is all some sick joke on behalf of the game designer that hijacked the game.

So many bad girl characters (the women outnumber the men!)... If I'm allowed to make a second character, I know who I'll add :D

I'll be writing up a male character once I get home, which should be around 2:30 EST. I get out of school early today, usually I would get home around 5:30. Three hours make all the difference.

*Is that a RvsB quote I see?*

Jedly said
I'll be writing up a male character once I get home, which should be around 2:30 EST. I get out of school early today, usually I would get home around 5:30. Three hours make all the difference.*Is that a RvsB quote I see?*

Uh, who are you asking that question to? Because if it's me I've got no fucking clue...

Assallya, your character would have known the announcement (I forgot to put this in) but it's only the first 10000 players that logged on, no others ever came in. Think about it would you go into a game that 10000 people never logged out of In six months? If you can change that please that would be great.

Name: Ryu Kazuki

Age: 19

Level: 27

Screen name: Reaper

Appearance:

Beta tester or first time: Beta Tester

Skills?: Swordsmanship, Hand-to-Hand combat, Hunting, Quick-Thinker, Bargaining.

Weapons:

Equipment: Couple rations of food and water, 50,000 Col. (Armor in picture.)

Guild: Solo Player. Currently looking for a guild.

History: First starting off in SAO was challenging to say the least. Usually losing to simple enemies, and barely leveling up. Getting the hang of the game was hard to Ryu, but after some help from fellow Testers, he gained experience of how to play the game. After training non stop, Ryu made up for lost time and leveled up rather quickly. After the news came out that this was a life or death game Ryu decided to train even harder, making sure he wasn't one of the people that got killed early in the game. Generally staying in the safe haven of the town, Ryu would bargain with other players. Getting good armor, and getting a good amount of Col.

Jedly said
*Is that a RvsB quote I see?*

Delta44 said
Uh, who are you asking that question to? Because if it's me I've got no fucking clue...

I think he's talking about your sig...which I'm pretty sure is from Xionic Madness.

Also, I'm gonna write up as CS for this if it's okay :D

Oh, it's from Xionic Madness? I just saw "OMEGA" and thought it was a quote from the RvsB series, referencing the AI Omega.

Anyways, gonna also use this post as a placeholder for the CS.

I'll improve my BIO as soon as I get home. <3

edit - Bump I got my backstory up now. Cx

Is this still accepting characters, because if so I would like to join

Yes it's open still

AliceZaru you are accepted,
Delta accepted. Pm me if she is going to be good in the end or go evil (I have an idea)

Added a majority of the CS, still have to write up the history and equipment.

Name: Jack Carter
Age: 16
Level 22
Screen name: Bane
Appearance:
Beta tester or first time: First time
Skills?: Fishing, Appraise, Blacksmithing
Weapons:
Equipment:Heavy metal armor, mostly white steel with the exception of a blue sun on the upper let shoulder
Guild: Former member of a guild called Rising Sun, due to fall out with the leader, attempting to recruit for a new guild he would run
History: Buying the game at the request of an IRL friend. Jack joined the game as a tank like character to work alongside his friend, planning on building a ranged type character. When they realized the truth behind the game, they continued to level and work together, eventually recruiting other players and forming the guild Rising Sun. The guild had about twenty players and although small, did what they could to progress the game and help others. However, during a leveling trip through a dungeon, they got surrounded by a larger mob then they were used to, although they managed to fight through, a swordsman and bow user who panicked and attempted to flee died in the process. This caused a large amount of tension in the group, with Jack's friend attempting to blame him for not taking the damage as a tank in this kind of game normally would. This fall-out caused Jack to leave Rising sun, although his gear still bares the mark. Since then, Jack has focused on his side abilites, leveling his blacksmithing, fishing, and appraising as much as possible to support players, all while attempting to recruit new players for his own guild so he would have a group to level his combat with again

Here's what I have so far, still a WIP.

Apologies if he seems OP, but I wanted to go for a Guild Leader-type character from the beginning to help with how the RP evolves. Plus I don't plan on having him fight against any of you guys. I was thinking of declaring war against PKers. Predominantly Laughing Coffin, but also other Guilds who may have followed suit. It wouldn't be straight away, there'd obviously be a gradual build-up. But the declaration would come eventually. I plan to have him recruiting more members at the beginning to prepare for the inevitable war.
Also, I don't plan on leveling him up at the same rate as everyone else, simply because he's already a high level and he needs far more experience.

I guess that's my suggestion towards a Storyline. :P

[Double Post]

Aerandir said
Assallya, your character would have known the announcement (I forgot to put this in) but it's only the first 10000 players that logged on, no others ever came in. Think about it would you go into a game that 10000 people never logged out of In six months? If you can change that please that would be great.

Ah, from what I remembered, there were denials, government cover ups and other factors keeping the inability to log out from being made public. I'll make the changes, flesh out some more background and up the character level. Six months is a fair bit of time after all.