Saori gave a sigh as she clicked through the various tabs she had open in her browser. She figured she had enough GBO for one night, and needed something to distract her in the meanwhile. Thankfully, 2channel and some of the forums she frequented were good places to visit for a quick laugh. One particular 2ch thread, however, left a bad taste in Saori's mouth.

"are any of the gbo players here with female characters actually girls irl? i cant go 2 matches without finding an insanely stacked chick with an ak47 or other such assault rifle"

"OP, I hope you realize how the internet works"

"i do. girls are guys in real life" Saori couldn't help but chuckle, but it still left a bad taste in her mouth. This kind of problem needed immediate attention.

"Girls have means of escapism, too, y'know. Some of us just share them with guys. There's a reason the character I play as doesn't have big boobs like I do." Immediately after posting that, Saori realized she had made a big mistake.

"big boobs? hot"

"haha, funny joke, tell us about the one with the running refrigerator next"

"And here I thought the thread wouldn't get any more degenerate once someone spoke up. I'm out" Saori felt the same way, and decided to back off of 2channel for the night. Instead, she figured it'd be wise if she checked for any news on the upcoming Bullet Break tournament. A better use of her time, for sure.

Name: Rei Otto; @kissshot
Age: 21
Gender: Female

Short Bio: Star of her highschool basketball team, Rei 'Kiss Shot' Otto was famed for her ability to swish 3-pointers consistently. Often taunting out towards the camera with a wink and a kiss after a shot to show she knew just how perfect she was. Though, she only did this in fun and was always respectful towards her peers and opponents. She ended up not doing anything with her natural talent, refusing to pursue anything that could ruin the fun of the game. Eventually, she moved on with a more comfortable job as a fitness instructor. Not in her top pick of jobs, but she's able to remain in shape and she has enough income to cover her small expenses. Rei keeps an active routine staying in shape from sunrise to sunset. But after being introduced to the joys comfort of the virtual world; she took it on as her guilty pleasure for when just didn't have anything better to do. Signing in under her old highschool moniker, Kiss Shot, and even going as far as creating an @channel name to keep in touch with any of her new in game friends. Although she has currently made zero acquaintances from her previous careers in other games, she hopes GBO would let her expand her social view some. Never mind the fact that she's already level 85 without any progress.

Name: Kiss❤Shot

Gender: Female

Level: 85

Specs:
01 - Standing Shot: You can shoot heavy weaponry (anti-materiel rifles, rocket launchers, etc.) while standing without any penalties to your accuracy.

15 - Improved Speed: Improves your character's movement speed. Can be taken multiple times.

30 - Improved Strength: Improves your character's strength, allowing them to carry heavier loads, deal more damage with melee attacks and bows, etc. Can be taken multiple times.

45 - One Handed Wonder: Can freely wield and manipulate weapons and items using only one hand without any penalty (regardless of any other operation requirements).

60 - Tactical Volley: Greatly improved accuracy and range when throwing or firing explosives in an arc.

75 - Hardened: Take reduced damage from all explosions.

90 - N/A

Style: Kiss❤Shot prefers switching between two distinct play styles as she sees fit. Firstly, she dreams to make the 3-point shot by lobbing her nukes as far as possible and hitting her target dead on. If she can send a volley of explosives at her target and the explosion be covered by her outstretched thumb, another kiss at the camera is in demand as she just proved once again her skills are unmatched. Alternatively, she likes to swing her sword with great authority. Slipping in close to slice down her opponent where they don't have any room to outmaneuver. But her general love of explosives is especially apparent in her close quarter fights. Often ducking in and out of combat while leaving randomly placed explosives in her wake.

Skill:
Close Quarters Combat: 1000
Explosives: 1000
Maneuvering: 1000
Shield: 501
Throw: 743
Catch: 743
Other: 13

Weapons:
NightBlade - Her new sword
M202 FLASH rocket launcher
Wakizashi
15 ET-MP Grenades

Inventory:
Shielded Gas Mask with Auto-tint Lens
Shielded Grenade Belt
4 66mm Incendiary Rockets
8 66mm Cluster Rockets
23 Hot Cocoa
1,342 Credits
127 Photonic Crystals

Sample Post: A sip of cocoa celebrated the smoldering field that stretched out in front of her. NightBlade sheathed into the ground at her side and FLASH sprawled across the ground, spent after discharging its massive payload time and time again. It was a fine way to start the morning, although her time was about up. Her alarm notification grabbed her attention as she dismissed it and packed away her weapons. Logging out to meet another alarm on her bedside table. 5:01 am flashed in annoyance until being silenced by her gentle touch.

Rei usually started her day at 4am; though since her introduction to Gun Burst Online, she's shortened her morning workout to only the trip to and from her gym. These few hours were as monotonous as could be compared to the thrill of the virtual world. She almost wondered how she enjoyed working as much as she did before the video game craze. But there was a certain peacefulness to her time offline as well. It gave her time to think, strategize, and prepare for future GBO outings; but it also let her reflect on her life. Her @channel still remained dormant and she didn't have anyone she knew with any shared interests. She was the only one of her friends who actually enjoyed physical activity; and, although the last of them to sign on to the virtual world, the only one not knee deep in, well, waifus. Most of the people she knew were boys, or 'perverts' as she constantly reminded them.

Regardless of her daily thoughts, early afternoon came once again and she found herself already gearing up for another dive into the warzone.

Misc: Anything else that doesn't fit with the above categories like character themes (if you want to use them), bits of trivia you might find interesting, or anything else. If there's no additional information to describe, you can leave this field blank.

GBO Character

Name: Hex

Gender: Female

Appearance:


Level: 90

Skills:
-Exotic Weapons (Energy pistols). (1000) max
-Explosives Proficiency. (1000) max
-Stealth. (900)
-Trap Making. (600)
-Melee weapon proficiency. (450)
-First Aid. (400)
-Lockpicking. (300)
-Exotic Weapons (Wrist Launcher). (250)
-Salvaging. (100)

Specs:
-Eagle eyes: (1 max) This spec allows the player to see in far better detail. It also allows the user to see much farther and is the same as using a 4 times scope. Can only be taken one time.
-Hyper Hearing: (1 max) Improves characters max hearing range but also allows them to pick up on sounds they otherwise wouldn't hear. Can only be taken once.
-Night sight: (1 max) Allows user to see in much lower light levels than you could normally see. Almost making you able to see like a cat or owl.
-Fast Aim: (2) You can aim your attacks faster.
-Improved Reflex's: (2) Improves your character's reaction time. Can be taken multiple times.

Signature Weapon/Combat Style:
Ideally Kasumi likes to soften up or kill her opponents with various traps. Afterwards she then lays an ambush usually launching a few RPG rounds in their direction before switching to her energy pistol. If they get close she uses her special wrist mounted weapon to surprise them while still using her energy pistol. If needed she will go close combat and kill the opponent with the phrase death by a thousand cuts being apt. Further more she likes fighting in darkened areas or at night in game.

Wrist Launcher: This very uncommon item is very versatile having several different types of dart that can be loaded into it. For example there are poison and sleep darts, however she doesn't use any of these preferring to use explosive darts. Though these darts have very short effective range of only 20 meters with a max range dart can travel is 30 meters. Also they explosive yield is much less than any grenade. Launcher only holds five darts in total. Equipped to her left arm.

RPG: Has an RPG which is carried on her back with one in the chamber and along with a warhead backpack with three reloads. Doesn't carry any more as she doesn't want to loose mobility.

Tanto: Usually attached to her belt behind her back the item is nearly all black except for some gold inlays on handle that continue up the blade.

Plasma Blaster Pistol: This is Kasumi's most treasured and rare piece of equipment. It is one of the few energy weapons she has ever seen. It fires a plasma shot which has a fairly short maximum range. This is due to the plasma shot dissipating after 100 meters. The only way we can shoot it out to it's max range is due to her maxed out skill and eagle eyes. It does a medium amount of damage inflicted on impact however it will cause heat damage over time. It needs a reload after fifty shots. A new energy cell is loaded into the back of the gun after you remove the old cell.


Inventory:
-110,000 Credits
-2700 Photonics Crystals
-Assortment of grenades both smoke and normal
-Booby trap wires
-Plastic explosive and detonators
-Swiss army knife with tools
-Lock pick set
-Motion scanner is a wrist mounted display that can sense motion within 200 meters and give you general direction and estimated distance. However it can not distinguish numbers so it could be a group of people or just one. Keeps this on her right arm.
-Exoskeleton legs. These are not made to increase strength but they do give a minor boost to that stat. Instead they are built to increase her speed state.
-Shadow Stealth Camo increases users stealth stat in all environments. In dark places there is an extra Bonus to stealth. It also has a minor armour value but can't take much light arms fire and it doesn't do really anything against heavy weapons.
-Headphones for when she is just beating on npcs.

The “P-Bolter M-1” has a firing capacitor and a main power cell. The power cell must be charged from a city power grid. It cannot be recharged in the field. It holds enough power to empty five firing capacitors. However, the weapon requires the gas charge from the capacitor as well as the energy from the power cell to fire. Each capacitor holds enough reactive gas for 120 shots. 8 shots per second = 480 BPM.

The Charge Compressor can be equipped on the thigh, or low back, preventing other gear from being carried there. It replaces the reactive gasses used in making the plasma lance by drawing in and filtering surrounding atmosphere. It takes 30 minutes to recharge one firing cell and the charger only fits one. This charging rate is unaffected by specs or stats but is dependent on the wearer being in an air atmosphere. Charging ceases underwater or in areas with pervasive atmospheric contamination.

Preferred combat style:
Mid-Range rifle engagement interspersed with intense and fluid melee combat, often without switching weapons.
Heavy weapon reserved for situational use and chokepoint defense.

The wind cast ripples across the tall grass that covered the deck of the aircraft carrier. It was tilted at about 30 degrees but Grave Trench didn’t mind. He was crouching just upslope from the bridge tower and the evening sun kept him in shade. The large spiders that had turned this area into their colony had a solid habit of dropping valuable materials used in Med Injectors. Most players preferred to buy their meds, but Grave Trench had been hunting this area for the past several hours. Staying uninjured in this kind of area was almost impossible. Only the most specialized characters could pull that off.

It wasn’t that the spiders were all that powerful. The actual challenge was that when the nest was disturbed, the dominant spider would order the whole nest to swarm the area. That meant that hunting parties couldn’t use explosives without getting overwhelmed. Then again, the zone did a mob behavior reset every five hours. The last one finished 2 minutes ago.

He shifted his weight and pulled his P-Bolter M-1 from his back and settled it on his shoulder. This wasn’t his first time hunting this spot and he knew that the Master of the nest dungeon spawned in one of three chambers. He knew the coordinates of those chambers. It took a moment to line up the shot. The tunnel that opened at his feet led deep inside the nest. It was the straightest shot between his location and the Master’s room. If this worked and he attracted the attention of the whole nest, he could handle them all as they funneled through this one tunnel.

He depressed the first trigger and felt the weapon’s vibration as a hum in his bones while the indicator in his peripheral vision transitioned from uncharged to ready to fire. Then he took a breath, checked his line of fire, and pulled the second trigger. The shot was a little anti-climactic. There was less vibration than an LMG class weapon usually delivers and almost no recoil. The smell of ozone was strong, the muzzle was hidden by a continuously oscillating blue flash, and a bright stream of plasma bolts flew down the tunnel to skip off the walls and explode with just enough force to shake the dust from the tunnel ceiling. Drifting red damage sparks glittered in the dark where a couple lucky hits had brought down patrol spiders. He took a moment to pop out the capacitor and swap it with the one in the charge compressor on his left thigh. He had learned not to start this kind of event before having both charged and the Master and his swarm should be coming soon.

His caution paid off. The spiders on the surface raised their forelegs to the sky and shrieked before jumping off the ship to rampage over the surrounding field zone. He lined up his sights along the same line as the first burst as the deck under his feet began to tremble with the movements of an entire nest of giant spiders. Unlike the gardener spiders outside who immediately try to swarm the surrounding field zone, the spider types inside would follow the shortest possible route straight to him. With most attacks that would mean all the nearest entrances to the dungeon zone would be active exit points and the spiders would be coming from many directions. However, this was both the most direct tunnel and the furthest one from the center of the nest. It was an expressway that connected every level of the nest straight to Grave’s location. They all used it.

He waited as the glowing green eyes of the leading spiders came closer and closer. The indicator read ‘ready-to-fire’. The first spider came within ten feet. He fired. The tunnel was suddenly transformed from a dark hole dotted with the glowing eyes of an unstoppable swarm of charging spiders into a narrow kill box where one spider after another was cut to pieces by tightly controlled pulses of plasma bolts. It would be another 8 minutes before the charger would finish recharging the cell he used in his first burst. By that time, he’d be done with these monsters, but the Master would be another story. He knew the tunnel was clear when the last few shots lit the walls all the way to the bottom before harmlessly bursting on the tunnel floor.

He secured the P-Bolter on his back and readied his rifle, sighting down the tunnel. He needed to be able to move and the heavy weapon wouldn’t allow that. He waited ten seconds. Then he started firing. His first shot disappeared into the dark. The second struck sparks from something partway down. The third hit something closer. The fourth made the distinctive sound of a critical hit and something in the tunnel popped up a “Dead” indicator before dissolving into damage sparks. The body had been destroyed by something passing through and smashing it.

The Master was coming. He kept shooting, watching the damage sparks as they marked the Master’s progress.

Bam! 80 meters.
Bam! 76 meters.
Bam! 72 meters.
Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! 40 meters.
His rate of fire was four shots per second. The Master was advancing four meters per shot. Contact in three seconds. He kept shooting until one second to contact. Then he lunged forward, dashing and jumping across the tunnel mouth and another ten feet past it before the crashing sound behind him indicated that the Master had arrived.

“Master on deck!” Grave announced with a distracted smirk as he spun around and brought his rifle to bear. The Master had the same movement profile as its minions. It could run quickly in a straight line and would jump if its target was farther away than 50 feet but its turning rate was comparable to an underpowered tank.

Grave stayed just out of reach, firing only when he could hit a critical zone. The fight was fairly one sided. Grave only had to reload once before the master finally trembled and collapsed, yielding to digital oblivion until its next resurrection. Grave Trench collected the loot and then made for the road that led back to the city. He would be busy making Med Injectors later. But, for now, the hunt was over. It was time to get back to reality, there were bills to pay.

Ichiban, sorry “Lemon Soda”, was looking up at a half-ruined building and specifically a particularly sturdy looking piece of rebar sticking out of a wall ten stories above his head. As was fitting for a war zone map, the stairs were half destroyed and instead of a north east corner roof there was a hole. Tying his digital shoelaces out of habit more than any in game effect it would bring Lemon summoned his two Guardian Assault Drones and had them enter the building ahead of him. No shout of shock or surprise at the drones entering the first floor seemed like a good sign so MAC-11 loose in his hand, he wandered the bottom floor.

The first floor itself was where all the debris and crap from the upper floors naturally settled. However, the way the boxes were arranged under a hole leading to the second floor raised an eyebrow, activating his tracking Skill the scrape marks made by the box moving that had been hidden under concrete dust glowed with a pinkish red light. Not just level design. Someone went up. Going back outside Lemon looked at the second-floor window and clambered up a busted streetlight nearby, not feeling confident enough to just follow a potential player’s path. His two levels of Improved Jumping making it so that he easily stepped through the outside window and landed on the floor. Accidentally kicking some rubble as he landed Lemon froze as he waited for a player to react to the sound and wasn’t disappointed. Around near where he thought the player made path to this floor was he heard the distinctive sound of a rifle being raised and boots creeping towards him.

Calling one of his drones to his back right shoulder, Lemon had the other slowly float up from the hole the player turned their back on to inspect the noise. Banking a flashbang of a door frame and into the room the sound of a player yelling “Fu-!” could be heard before his started ringing and the drone at the player’s back opened fire. Stepping out into the room, Lemon emptied an entire clip from his MAC-11 into the player and watched them pass into the digital afterlife as an timer went off in his ear.

“Shit, I won’t make it in time for the Golden Hour… I suppose I better come back tomorrow…”