Elder Tales was originally an American MMORPG created by Atharva Inc., a Los Angeles-based company. Over time, as Elder Tales popularity grew, the number of servers expanded up to 13, when Elder Tales became a fully-global MMO with a server on every continent. Each server has its own company running the game, coming up with their own special events, classes, and subclasses. However, transferring to another server is as simple as taking a Teleport Gate or a Fairy Ring to another server, having no restrictions. Furthermore, to allow better communication between players, there is a highly-accurate automatic translator that works even for voice chat.

The world of the game, Theldesia, is based on ours only at half scale, mirroring many cities and landmarks in it’s own unique style. It is built on what is essential a post apocalyptic earth with run down, overgrown buildings and skyscrapers littering the land.

Elder Tales functions as most MMO’s, offering the player to choose a race, class, and one of several subclasses that are usually roleplay centric. In this RP, Race won’t have very much impact other than character appearance, but Class and Subclass have benefits worth pondering.

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Our story: It has been about a month in game since the apocalypse, which refers to the event on May 3, 2018 that trapped all players who were logged in inside of the game.
It was triggered by the release of the game's twelfth expansion pack, Homesteading the Noosphere. Among its most immediate effects was trapping over several hundred thousand players worldwide. The NPCs, known as Landers or People of the Land, were also affected by this incident. Depending on the perspective, either they suddenly gained memories, personalities and backgrounds. Things were rough at first, with no idea whether one would respawn anymore and all the food tasting bland and all liquids tasting of water, but over time the adventurers adapted. Cooking foods without the in game menu gave them flavor and a brave, stupid, or suicidal adventurer discovered one could even respawn.

In the last month, the people of the land have gotten more bold and bitter toward the adventurers, players are in disorder and have taken to killing others as opposed to the monsters, and guilds have started becoming the pseudo government. One guild, Neon Colossus, headed by the Elven Summoner with the Noble subclass known as Parks, is known for ruling alongside several other guilds that act as a pseudo-government for the area known as the Cleftlands, near the great lakes. Other guilds in this alliance include an formerly purely roleplay guild known as The Knights of Bahamut who take Lawful good to new levels and act as the police of the city, headed by Platinum Knights who act as sheriffs, and several other crafting, raiding, and merchant guilds, none with more power than another.

When making a character, feel free to make them the head of a guild other than Knights of Bahamut or Neon Colossus or just a member of one or even guildless! Feel free to be any level, 1-92 as very few will have had time to get higher without socially isolating themselves and hard grinding. Being in a guild will have no affect on your power level in game. You can even make a Lander character who just happens to hang out with us, or even a Lander turned adventurer.

In the wake of an event that happens every december, players are taking advantage of a recurring quest where the landers send out gifts to be delivered by adventurers for a small amount of experience. The problem is, these presents were usually represented as mules with bags of gold, weapons, armors, and potions that the players would get a cut of upon delivery. Without the game mechanics that would normally bar access to these inventories without completing the quests, the adventurers have started accepting the gifts and taking them for themselves leaving the people of the land upset, the monsters spawned by the quest left to roam, and has only increased player killing for the promise of nearly free rewards.

The North Wen Alliance has started enlisting scribes to post wanted posters for known player killers and some adventurers find this cruel, as dying means losing your memories. Unrest among adventurers, landers, and monsters alike is at an all time high this holiday season. Can our brave group manage to calm the server with the highest population in the game?

Username: Ch0p Ch0p "Chopper"
Real Name: Ntaj Yaj
Gender: Female (In Game), Male (Out of Game)
Age: 22
Race: Ritian
Class: Youxia
Subclass: Food Fighter
Level: 76
Appearance:

Background: Ntaj was just a young college student playing Elder Tales when the apocalypse happened. He didn't have much going on with him; he was just an average Joe playing games for fun. Something of a roleplayer, though he's never really stuck to a community long enough to be remembered. His only noticeable trait is his love for sea food; a big fan of sushi, crustaceans, and other barnacles. There is something about him however that's not quite normal; before the apocalypse happened he was using a VPN to take his characters into different servers in order to obtain unique items in different dungeons for his build. He was in the middle of one such excavation when the Apocalypse happened, trapping him in the America server. Stuck in America, he's now gotta figure out what to do with himself.

In Game History: So far things aren't too bad here in America. Having already obtained 3/5 of the items he needs for his build, he's been debating journeying to the other lands to obtain the rest of his equipment. However travel is difficult due to the turmoil across the land; even if he tries to travel on his own, he'll often get overwhelmed and forced to retreat or even killed. And so now Ch0p Ch0p, also known as "Chopper", has been doing mercenary work in an attempt to form a party willing to accompany him on his world-wide treasure hunt.

Guild/Position: No Guild

Personality: Easy going but ambitious. Chopper doesn't seem to have much in the ways of a goal in life, but when he sets his sights on something, he'll often go above and beyond to obtain it. Still he keeps himself in check and tries not to get obsessed over things out of his reach. He has enough self-awareness to realize when it's time to work on long term goals and when it's time to accomplish short term things. Doesn't particularly care for politics in the sense that he'll get involved, but if asked he would have some passionate opinions about it. A darker side of him is a manipulator and cheater; all too willing to spread rumor and insults about others, but doesn't have the courage to face them head on. At least not without stacking the odds in his favor first. A self-proclaimed liar who enjoys the paradox of telling honest lies to mess with people, obfuscate his true purpose, and generally try to seem more interesting than he isn't. Rather enjoys being a girl too.

Class Skills:
Vacuum Slash - A weak range attack that sends out a blade of air pressure, good for getting the attention of foes too far to attack in melee.
Big Whirlwind Slash - A melee AoE attack that does heavy damage to all foes around Chopper, though it has a long cooldown.
Whirlwind Vacuum Slash - A wide-range AoE attack that causes enemies around Chopper to become paralyzed for a few moments. Also a very long cooldown.
Dihngwōng Fósehk - A unique ability from the Youxia class. This ability allows for rapid fire strikes that, while doing no additional damage, will guarantee to hit the opponent first even if Chopper and her opponent attack at the same time or even if her opponent is statistically faster than her. Highly accurate and has a high priority over other attacks. Can be chained with other skills.
Màahngon - When Chopper strikes an enemy with this skill, it changes their health equal to Chopper's own percentage, even if she is at a higher health then her opponent. Useful for against allies an enemies; if she's at low health she could strike an enemy with this attack and make them just as wounded as she is, or if she's at high health she can hit an ally and bring them up to her strength. However this ability has a long cool down.
Gitsaht - A passive ability. If Chopper is brought down to 0% health when she is at 100% health, she is instead brought down to 1% and can immediately retaliate with a single attack or ability. She cannot use this ability again however until she is back to 100% health.
Sīnchéung Sīnyìhng - A counter skill, if Chopper is being attacked by a melee skill, she can immediately cancel the skill and attack using the same skill. However it has a very long cool down and can't be used on the same skill twice in a row.
Sīnkyut - A defensive skill that allows Chopper to know specifically what kind of attack is going to be aimed at him and increase his dodge chance to avoid it entirely, even if it's an Area-of-effect attack. While it has a low cool down, successive use of this ability deceases it's effectiveness and making any sort of offensive move will remove all the evasion bonuses.

Subclass Skills:
Glutton - Consume items faster.
Iron Stomach - Nullifies the effect of poison.
Taste of a God - Appraise items by their taste.

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Equipment:
Dragon's Enlightenment - A unique set consisting of five items: Gauntlets, Boots, Headgear, Body Armor, and a Cloak. Each item comes with a unique ability and a skill, however these features can only be used when the character is using no other items except ones part of the Dragon's Enlightenment. However they can use weapons and accessories unrelated to the set without incurring these drawbacks. Thus, Chopper has less-than-normal stats due to not using any sort of body armor or cloak accessory, otherwise she won't gain the benefits of her current incomplete set.


Shell Bell - An uncommon low level items that introduces the idea of health absorption for aspiring Scarlet Knights. Attacks made by the user equipped with a Shell Bell restores health equal to 1/8 of the damage dealt. Fairly weak compared to higher tier accessories, but it's the only one that Chopper needs thanks to it's low rarity making it easy to stockpile.

Bardiche - A seemingly plain bardiche. While magically enchanted to do additional damage and being more durable, there isn't really anything unique about it. Chopper just likes it and hopes to one day find some way to upgrade it into something more fearsome.

Fun Facts:
Chopper's primary goal is to seek out the Dragon's Enlightenment, a set of five items that will grant her great power when they're all used together. Currently she has obtained the helmet, gloves, and boots. All she needs now is the armor and the cloak. The only trouble is that each piece is located in different country-locked servers; ideally Chopper can trade for them, however now she needs to personally go and travel to these distant lands if she wants to complete the set. Chopper's real character, Ntaj, currently lives in Thailand and has been altering his VPN in order to freely switch to different servers around the world to make it easier for him to get the items, but alas he was in America when he got stuck in the game. He first obtained the Wyvern's Might in the Chinese Server, the Dragon's Roar in the Yamato Server, and the Wyrm Step in the North America server. He knows the cloak is in the West Europe Server, however the chest armor he isn't too sure about. Last he heard before he was stuck in Elder Tale was that it could be found in the Russian server, but he never found out where or how.

Ch0p Ch0p isn't the only account Ntaj has. He actually had a few Bot accounts that were also being used when he got trapped in the Elder Tales. He's not sure what happened to them and he's never found them. Last he knew was that they were in the Chinese Server gold farming.

Ooh I totally forgot an equipment section

I am interested in this RP, I will try and have a cs up by Thursday at the latest, I want to learn more about the source material to see how it all works first so I started the anime because it is Def something that interests me

I am interested in you the roleplay I will begin working on a character sheet promptly and post it on the thread soon.

@Lucius Cypher
Looks about right for a high level MMO character! Go ahead and add it to the Character channel!

Here's a link to a discord so we can organize better!
Link also in the post 0

discord.gg/rMFEjSQ

Note: the Character sheets getting posted in the characters tab have been approved by me via discord or DM, post them here or DM me if you have questions and I'm almost always in the discord!

Username: BurntBlackBlademaster “B3”
Real Name: Delilah Lee
Gender: Male (In Game), Female (Out of Game)
Age: 17
Race: Elf
Class: Assassin
Subclass: Poison User
Level: 24
Appearance:

Background: Delilah was just joining Elder Tales on recommendations of her friends who wanted to start an assassins guild, what with her and her friends being total edgelords. It was pretty fun at first and her group enjoyed being “assassins”, but only Delilah seemed to stick to the theme. It wasn’t long before the rest of her friends either stopped playing Elder Tales or just started doing things other than assassinations, causing her to seek out new friends. It was hard though as most groups were too high level and wanted nothing to do with a newbie with delusions of grandeur, thinking her methods of assassinations were weak compared to simply doing as much as damage possible as an assassin should. But those people were singing a different tune once the Apocalypse struck...

In Game History: When Delilah ended up stuck in the Elder Tales, she was fearful at first. However thanks to her class abilities she was able to avoid the chaos initially, and her skills in poisoning became a much more notable ability. Players, unable to taste food, could be easily tricked into consuming poisons which left them debilitated and weakened for Delilah to steal and kill from. She began to rob and assassinate people for personal gain until one day she was caught. But instead of getting killed she got hired by the guild of her dreams: a guild for assassins and hired killers.

Guild/Position: The Eight Precepts - A guild for assassins and hired kills. Not everyone in the guild is of the assassin class, but rather their job is to kill others. Neither good nor evil, they simply kill anyone who pays them to do so. Though since they’re willing to kill anyone they’ve been branded as an outlaw guild since they have a few high profile murders to their names. It has many members however most are newbies who often end up quitting due to the difficulties of being an assassin, so only a small group within the guild are core members who enjoy the full benefits. B3 is one of such members since she’s professional enough to get the job done without the usual hangups. Though not high enough to make any important decisions she has access to various guild facilities to make her poisons, get assassination contracts, and improve her equipment.

Personality: A quiet fellow who doesn’t like to get too close to others. He’s a silent killer but has a sense of professionalism that ensures that he doesn’t go too overboard with his work. He enjoys killing others but dislikes senseless slaughter; he sees the act of murder as an artform and thus strives to make the best art everytime he goes to work. Personally however B3 is just scared of being alone and what would happen if all of his sins were to come back and haunt him. He wants to believe that what he’s doing isn’t wrong, it’s just business, and that there are no hard feelings for what has to be done. So desperate for friends that B3 willingly works with a violent group for their approval, as he knows that if his past is learned by others they would reject him for his history.

Skills:
Vanishment - A basic assassin ability that allows B3 to vanish from sight and triple his movement speed. The vanishment is dismissed if he attacks someone.

Sneak Attack - A basic assassin ability that has increased accuracy and damage if used on an enemy who doesn’t detect B3. It can also be used against enemies who are heavily debilitated by status effects, such as if they’re panicking, paralyzed, asleep, poisoned, and so forth.

Wire Knife - A unique mobility skill that allows B3 to throw a dart attached to a wire. If used against an opponent it can bring B3 directly towards them. B3 can also throw the knife at various obstacles or objects to pull himself towards things or pull the objects to him.

Swift Hands - A unique item skill that allows B3 to apply poisons to his weapons instantly as long as he has poisons in his inventory.

Detect Poisons - A subclass skill that allows B3 to instantly identify any poison in his view, including what the poison does, how it was made, and even who made it.

Craft Poisons - The primary skill of the Poison User subclass. By collecting various ingredients B3 can make different poisons of different potency and effects. Even without any ingredients he can make generic weak potions that can afflict different status effects or simply do minor damage-over-time. These poisons can come in different forms such as contact (I.e. coated on a weapon), inhaled, consumed, and so forth.

Signature Design - The capstone of the Poison User subclass. This skill allows B3 to be able to make one specific poison every day even if he doesn’t have the materials for it, and the materials needed for said poison are reduced. This poison is also more effective than normal and can bypass usual poison immunities.

Equipment:
Ninjato - The ninja sword. Shorter than a katana but longer than a tanto, this sword can strike fast and precisely. The key thing about the ninjato is that their sheath is longer than the blade, allowing an assassin to hide things in their sheath. B3 puts poison in his sheath so that whenever he draws his sword it’s always poisoned.

Shurikens - Throwing stars that require much skill to use. Compared to kunai Shuriken do far less damage, but they are capable of more complex maneuvers through the air, allowing them to strike enemies at unexpected angles with great speed. Because of these qualities shurikens are great as poisoned weapons. Multiple shurikens can be held in a single hand to be thrown simultaneously.

Robe of Glamour - A low rarity magic item. It is a simple cloth robe that can change its appearance into any sort of outfit or armor, however it only has the protective quality of a cloth robe. Good for disguises on the run though.

Poisons - B3 carries various poisons that he has made himself. Though his character level is low, his subclass level is maxed out, allowing him to craft and utilize poisons well above his level. Most of the materials he gets through his guild however he would occasionally go out and get some personally.


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Fun Facts:
Like any ninja, B3 often disguises himself as a simple farmer. This is actually how he maintains his supply for poisons, working at his guild’s secret garden to grow ingredients for his more powerful poisons. He has different aliases everywhere he goes, even among Landers.

Unsurprisingly B3 does have a bounty on his head but only as one of his alias, back when he was still a solo assassin. It’s a small bounty since he hasn’t done bandirty in a while but low level bounty hunters might still go after him.

B3 doesn’t personally advertise his services to others. He usually gets assigned or offered jobs via his guild. He’s done everything from hunting down a few annoying players to killing guild leaders, though never in a straight up battle. Usually by poisoning their food and letting the poison get to them.

B3 intentionally tries to keep a low level. She believes that if she got too strong people might notice her more and that would make it harder for her to assassinate others. If she had bothered to level grind, she would actually be around level 88.

Imma have to say no to this, I already explained on discord but there was a lot of discussion so I'll post my reasons here.

I know you intended this to be a villain but the concept just doesn't work. Being level 24 in an MMO isn't just an aesthetic choice, there are a lot of setbacks they would have to deal with that a high level subclass wouldn't help with. In almost all MMOs, crafting is tied to your subclass so making these poisons is totally viable but powerful items are tied to your character level, and being level 24, the poisons you can use are going to do very little against even the lowest level party member so far who is level 48. The weapons they have would be level locked as well making their attacks just do very little damage in general and it just doesn't work for this kind of RP, sorry.

I could make him into a higher level character, he would have been level 88 if he wasn't trying to keep his level low for the purpose of going underneath the notice of other high level characters. I don't know if in Log Horizon other players can "see" each others level or if there's any way to obfuscate it. I suppose if he's higher level he might be able to access abilities that would disguise those things anyways.

Hey, if there is room, I would like to join. If that's cool that is.

Yeah, we're still accepting!

@Experiment 249 Here's my guy.

@Denny Approved! You can hop in the discord to get faster responses outta me, haha. Move it over to characters and put it in a hider!

Username: Anubis
Real Name: Claire Monroe
Gender: Female (In and Out of game)
Age: 26
Race: Half-Alv
Class: Cleric - High Healer build
Subclass: Alchemist
Level: 91
Appearance: Anubis
Background: Claire Monroe works as a nurse in North America. She had just graduate from nursing school two years prior when she learned of Elder tales from one of her co-workers. Claire wasn't much into gaming but after hearing how fun the game was she bought it as a distraction. After learning the mechanics and participating in a few dungeons and raids with her friend, Claire took a real liking to the game. While most of her friends have left the game, Anubus since then she has been an advent player.
In Game History: Since the catastrophe Anubis has kept to herself, observing her new environment. Many guilds have tried to recruit her but she has stayed out of their grasp. She was selling her potions to a few merchant guilds but after some went under new management she has been weary to approach them. Since then Anubis has been investigating what might have brought them to the game of Elder tales and gaining whatever she can on lore of the world. At the present her investigations has been very limited.
Guild/Position: Not Affiliated
Personality: Anubis is a kind and helpful young woman who, generally keeps to herself. She takes the game very seriously. She loves to gather information and clear any new dungeons or raids presented. If a coordinated raid group is presented she will gladly join it. Although Anubis has yet to join a guild she keeps well know contacts on the North Wen server. She values information that can help her find rare items, locations on new dungeons, and mechanics. She is also a very high tier Alchemist and made good money selling potions to other players and people of the land. Though after the catastrophe she has taken to making gold in other way since a number of players have turned to PKing.
Skills: Cure - A basic cure magic that removes negative status effects from a single ally. It consumes little MP and has the ability to remove negative status effects regardless of type, but higher skill ranks allow shorter casting times for this skill.
Healing pulse - Healing pulse is a low level restoration spell. It is relatively weak but has a short cast time and is often used to bridge the gap while waiting for higher level skills to cool down.
Sanctuary - A magic square spreads out from the caster, transforming the surrounding area into sacred ground. Allies that step inside this zone are blessed with increased physical and magical defense. In order to maintain this zone, the caster is prohibited from moving away from the point of activation. For this reason, setting up Sanctuary requires careful planning of battle formations beforehand.
Magdala Curtain - When cast, Magdala Curtain has a wide range of recovery; anyone underneath its pale aurora will be healed, even if there are a hundred people under it. Out of all the recovery skills, only Magdala Curtain is geared specifically for raids. This move pays homage to Cross Marian
Equipment: Shadow Sorceress Garment - Woven from threads of moon drip silk it is a cleric-class dress exclusive to women. Originally it was a fine magus robes, but after being passed onto its successor the material has since been re-tailored into a healing robes. This robe can only be acquired and woven with specific material from select dungeons and raids. Bonus stats - Critical stats chance of heals.
Dark Majestas A rare item drop cleric class weapon. Its material is made from the pure obsidian and forged by a Weapon's Crafter during the time of the Alvs. Its main stats are increasing maximum MP and elemental resistance.
Shadow Garnet A ring that blessed the holder with reduced cast times and increased vitality.
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Fun Facts: Anubis took up alchemy as subclass but in the real world likes to cook. Red herbal tea is her beverage. She loves reading and studying the lore. Her username is based off of one of her favorite Egyptian pantheon.

WIP I will finish later.

@Euphemia
Oooh I dig the spooky cleric vibe! Approved!

Oh cool can I move my profile to the Characters tab now?