Hmm... Never joined an SAO rp before, but I have watched the anime. Good stuff, that. Interested, if you'll still have me.

Real Name (Optional): Carmilla Hollstein
Character Name: Princess Melody

Age: 19

Gender: F



Appearance: Like pic but with dark brown hair

Beta-Tester?: Yes(ish)

Personality:
Carmilla is one of the last people you would expect in a VRMMO. She isn't particularly interested in video games, especially ones that require a subscription fee and expensive VR machines. Lazy isn't quite the right word to describe her with, more like indifferent or void of optimism. She really doesn't give a damn about much, at least she doesn't act like she does. Even she she speaks, words flow out slowly and seductively like she is putting in minimal effort to talk. Getting on people's nerves' seems to be a specialty of hers, and she has a weird habit of giving people nicknames either to subtly insult them or because she can't be bothered to remember names. Yet at the same time she has a way of attracting people and flirting. She gives off a cool vibe that makes people want to know her.

Brief Real Life Background:
After her parents got divorced Carmilla moved in with her father. But due to his busy work schedule he sent her to a prestigious and uptight boarding school. That's where she met her roommate and best friend Laura. Laura is kind of a nerd, playing video games, watching anime, etc. Carmilla describes her as "adorkable". The two became practically inseparable, except when Laura spends hours playing VRMMO's. In attempt to get Carmilla to play games with her, Laura convinced Carmilla to try out Sword Art Online by using her account.

Game Background:
The first time she entered the game war jarring since she was using Laura's character, Princess Melody. Melody had blond hair with a touch of pink and bright colorful clothes, the complete opposite of Carmilla's black and red wardrobe and dark hair. She didn't understand what the big deal was the first couple times she tried the game, but after some tips and explanations from Laura she started to get the hang of it. But before she knew it the character she borrowed from Laura took on her real appearance and she was locked in the game.

3 Main Skills:
-Beast Taming
-familiar communication
-familiar revival
-Musician
-One handed swords
Special skill?: She can call nearby beasts for temporary assistance. Success depends on skill level. (This way the creatures will eventually become a hindrance themselves and therefore balances it out a bit)

Other skills:
-Tailoring
-Hunting
-Cooking

Current Weapon:
Carmi - Her pet cat that for some reason shares her name.

Vampiric Sword of Light - A sword that gives a small amount of health to the user. Also absorbs light.

Current Armour: Standard Light Armor

Play style (Optional): Lazy Beast Tamer

Psst. There's no magic in SAO. Weapon skills only.

Unless of course we're breaking off from the canon game mechanics.

The Silver Paladin said
Romulus Aquilus
Medicine
Battlefield medicine
Unless you have images of the armor of The Blood Dragons

Accepted. I'm going to take Medicine as a mod for drug mixing and battlefield medicine as a mod for first aid? It's worth pointing out that my SAO knowledge is limit so I encourage players to point things out if they aren't cannon (or are overly non-cannon). I did actually have an image in mind for the Blood Dragons Armour, and the helmet is believed to exploit a bug which prevents the users name from being visible.

Hoosier1124 said
Umikaze Umiko

Your character is fine, however could you please replace the non-existent pic? You've not included her background either, which is fine if you want to keep it hidden until later or if you're waiting for me to give more information about the rp.

Nallore said
Ray The Red Knight

Accepted

Master Crim said
Holy expletive! I am totes interested but don't have the time! T_TI will sub and read the whole thing, and if you don't mind I would like to be able to chat with y'all in the OOC when it comes.

That's completely fine. I don't think I'm going to bother putting a player limit on this rp either, meaning there'll always be a spot there waiting for you :)

Konica said
Princess Melody

I really like your character BUT as Borei point out: there's no magic in SAO (or at least not outside of items and such).

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Also this is to everyone. Whilst most of the grammar I've seen has been fine, I think everyone (including myself) is prone to making some mistakes here and there. I'm not incredibly fussy but I would like it if people could do their best to appeal to my inner grammar nazi. If people post terrible grammar (e.g. "The group took there shield and went to the woods and found monsters, the monsters were red and mean, Kisheto poped at them and then they went home".) I will give them a strike. Three strikes and you're out. Might seem harsh but I personally think that awful grammar can actually ruin an rp sometimes.

Also just so everyone is aware; only beta testers have been in the game before. When the game was released 10,000 people logged in, once in the Virtual world they found that they couldn't log out. So unless your character was a Beta tester, this is still everyone's first time in SAO. Also Fat's is right, players cant use magic. There are items with magical abilities such as teleport crystals or revive items, yet these are limited. Teleporters can only be used to area's where teleport gates have been activated and reviving items have limited condition's (pets can be healed with a magic flower, players are almost impossible to revive as there was only ever one such item loot dropped).

It might be worth noting that a great deal of information can be found here-
Click Me

I'd recommend having a read through, there's descriptions of most floors too which may help you map out your story.

TheGodfather said
Also just so everyone is aware; only beta testers have been in the game before. When the game was released 10,000 people logged in, once in the Virtual world they found that they couldn't log out. So unless your character was a Beta tester, this is still everyone's first time in SAO. Also Fat's is right, players cant use magic. There are items with magical abilities such as teleport crystals or revive items, yet these are limited. Teleporters can only be used to area's where teleport gates have been activated and reviving items have limited condition's (pets can be healed with a magic flower, players are almost impossible to revive as there was only ever one such item loot dropped). It might be worth noting that a great deal of information can be found here-I'd recommend having a read through, there's descriptions of most floors too which may help you map out your story.

This is true. Though I will say not to rely on the wiki for too much. For a start this server is not exactly the same. Some floors will be different and there will be bugs. Also, there were around 14.5 thousand players on this server and after the 7 month timeskip around 5 thousand of them will have died. I'll be putting the OOC up in the next day or so, and so you'll be able to see more information about the world, plots and guilds.

Thanks, I will enjoy watching the game unfold and players evolve!

The image was showing up alright on my side, so I just found a smaller image just in case. Let me know if you still can't see it though, then I'll probably just leave a link to the image instead. =P

Hey, I just want to know if it's ok for me to sign up. In the anime, I've only reached about episode 17 of SOA1! I have reached the point where they're out of the game (and everything is making me depressed *sigh*) so I don't know if it should be a big problem!

Hoosier, your picture is working now :)

NarcissisticPotato said
Hey, I just want to know if it's ok for me to sign up. In the anime, I've only reached about episode 17 of SOA1! I have reached the point where they're out of the game (and everything is making me depressed *sigh*) so I don't know if it should be a big problem!

You don't need to have watched the Anime at all, although it certainly helps. Any knowledge past the completion of SOA is unnecessary anyway.

I need to post the twin brother.
Also i the order of the Divine, can there be a feud between Catholic Players and Protestant players?

The Silver Paladin said
I need to post the twin brother. Also i the order of the Divine, can there be a feud between Catholic Players and Protestant players?

That would certainly be one of the many internal feuds. When the OOC goes up I'll be providing more information about the guilds and plotlines.

Borei said
Psst. There's no magic in SAO. Weapon skills only.

Fat Boy Kyle said
I really like your character as Borei point out: there's no magic in SAO (or at least not outside of items and such).

Fixed. Made her a Beast Tamer. Lucky for me I didn't have to change much.

Ah damnit, I was making a Beast Tamer. :/

Konica said
Fixed. Made her a Beast Tamer. Lucky for me I didn't have to change much.

Idk how much alchemy there would be seeing as from the anime there are remedy stones like there are port stones. I never saw anything about making your own medicine, it was kind of a one thing covers all depending on poison type and strength.

Master Crim said
Idk how much alchemy there would be seeing as from the anime there are remedy stones like there are port stones. I never saw anything about making your own medicine, it was kind of a one thing covers all depending on poison type and strength.

Its more for making perfumes for people and scents that attract and scare away mobs.

Edit: changed it to musician

Again my knowledge isn't brilliant but can't anyone potentially be a beast tamer without having a skill for it? Isn't just feeding a monster that happens to take an interest in you? If so perhaps replace it with Familiar communication or similar? If anyone knows more about this feel free to give input.

Also could please elaborate on what you mean by 'Small Weapons', because for example one-handed dagger and blade throwing are two different skills.

Fat Boy Kyle said
You don't need to have watched the Anime at all, although it certainly helps. Any knowledge past the completion of SOA is unnecessary anyway.

Awesome! Thanks! Also, just a head's up, is anyone making a Katana character right now because that's my current idea but I can change it if need-be!

Ok, to help with my knowledge(if you all want it)--

Alchemy: Alchemy is a valid skill, though it is not called or classed as Alchemy. In this game it is the concept of mixing poisons, or perfumes in this case. There are "Antidote" Crystals, but they vary upon the type of poison. Players in the Manga and Anime both spoke of how the players focusing on it were developing more and more powerful types of poisons that caused the Antidote Crystals to delay. They couldn't ever stop being effective as the game programmed them to be permanent, however the stronger the poison the more the crystal needed time to fully work out the poison.

Beast-Taming: In the SAO universe Beast-Taming explanation was similar to the special skills. "One day it just happened to be there.." This happened with Silica in the fact that she randomly happened to befriend Peta when she met her, due to her skill. Beast Tamers get the skill in their list, but it is also somewhat random. There is in-lore debate that the reason it is given is for people who attach themselves to certain monsters, or animals. In my character's case it is his being a hunter both out-of-game and in-game. He will have spent the largest amount of his time in-game becoming a better predator, and thus eventually got the Beast-Tamer skill.

Fat Boy Kyle said
Again my knowledge isn't brilliant but can't anyone potentially be a beast tamer without having a skill for it? Isn't just feeding a monster that happens to take an interest in you? If so perhaps replace it with Familiar communication or similar? If anyone knows more about this feel free to give input. Also could please elaborate on what you mean by 'Small Weapons', because for example one-handed dagger and blade throwing are two different skills.

Changed small weapons to swords & daggers, didn't know what else to call it. Just basic weapons I guess. I'd use bows/crossbows but I dunno if they're allowed.

Like ManoftheNorth said: "Beast Tamers get the skill in their list, but it is also somewhat random." So I'll keep it as a skill unless you say otherwise.