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Your vision blurs. Too much blood was lost, and your sword lays in pieces within you, having shattered from the monsterโ€™s blow with such force that it pierced through your own armor. Behind, beside, and beyond, your comrades continue to fight, mixed cries of rage and terror sounding everywhere. Celestial fires scour the field, mythic steel strikes scale, and the invocations of a dozen Nuclei resound, singular abilities manifesting to strike down the being before you. But that creature too, was unique. The first of its kind, the last of its kind, an Anomaly in the truest of sense, granting glory and wealth upon its defeat, but carnage and despair in its victory. Your hometown lies behind you, five thousand souls watching this battle from a distance, their fates balanced on a bladeโ€™s edge.

A head flies through the smoky air, bouncing, then rolling to a stop beside you. Your loverโ€™s head, transfixed in a resigned, apologetic smile. Less than half the party was still alive, commands and orders turning into panicked requests and blame-shifting, even as the Anomaly devoured the last of the front-liners. The last bit of hope died with them, and you close your eyes, accepting your fate.

โ€˜Welp, maybe someone else can deal with it.โ€™

Your vision goes black, and you open your eyes to the familiar sight of your bedroom ceiling.


On a certain day of a certain month, Cacophony Concord was released, a VRMMO designed for a new console that boasted promises social media influencers derided as grossly overexaggerated and overhyped. Until then, no full-dive game was so bold as to claim fully-sentient AI and realistic physics, nor anything as insane as a whole continent for players to explore. An exaggeration, perhaps, for a nameless studio to grab some attention. Marketing hype, perhaps, when the reality of it would be like No Manโ€™s Sky upon launch.

There was no lie. No fabrication.

Within the first month, 70% of compatible Full Dive Devices were subscribed to Cacophony Concord. In three months, sales of FDDs increased by 40%. Within half a year, the game boasted the largest active player population of any MMO game in the market, and had yet to require any patch or server maintenance. An in-game translator enabled seamless communication between players, regardless of their nationality, and there never seemed to be any server lag or glitches. The world of Cacophony Concord truly was like a real world, in both physical size and cultural complexity, and with thousands of different classes available to mix and match, the possibilities were endless for character creation. Sentient NPCs acted in a way almost indistinguishable from players, and the time dilation put into place enabled one to enjoy the game at whatever pace they desired. It was a second life in a fantasy world, a life where you could live out those dreams of your childhoodโ€ฆso long as you could afford it.

The game never crashed. The game never glitched. The game never sent players comatose, nor trap people within it. It continued to run perfectly, thwarting any attempts to hack it, and there were security systems put in place to prevent distasteful actions between players. There was neither any downtime nor any patches.

Thus, no one really noticed or cared when the studio that made Cacophony Concord quietly disappeared.








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Details for Horogi's shenanigans will be worked on tomorrow or something, and perhaps an explanation upon the Class System as well.

Deadline for posts is next week, Wednesday. If you have any particular questions, feel free to ask 'em here.
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@ERode I've got a few questions for ya' boss boi.

Voice Pitching: does that start off from your character's base voice, and then you adjust the pitch from there?
Perception: Would fantasy still be pseudo-realistic where as anime is straight 2D- or is there some overlap?
Combat Action: What's the difference between manual and stylish- same thing with spell incantations?
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Voice Pitching starts from base voice at 0, yes.

For Fantastic Perception, think of it like western video games, where most people still look hot af, but there's a realistic slant to their anatomy and proportions. Anime is even more exaggerated and whacky.

For Combat Actions and Incantations, Manual is where you're in full control, complete with semi-sad flailing of limbs when you have no idea what you're doing, while Stylish is were the system aids and guides you, based off your intent, to pull of things that you're physically capable of, but don't have the creativity/muscle memory/actual technique to do.

For example, a dude with an ax, in Manual, could swing with it, but has no proper posture or form. In Stylish, his posture and form would be corrected, to more efficiently perform the action and to just look good. Ofc, Stylish is more predictable than Manual, which may make it less desirable for PvP.

For another example, Incantations basically just have word requirements. In Manual, if you wanted, you could just say "Ha ha ha ha ha ha!" and have a spell go off, because you're creatively bankrupt and don't know shit. In Stylish though, you could communicate your intent as something like 'hm, I want to say something about the earth bending to my will and erupting...' and the system would do all your ghostwriting/talking for you, creating something like "My Rage is of the Earth's!"

Gonna answer another couple of questions here...

If your character image has some interesting attire, like a mesh bodysuit, you can still use it; just that starting equipment doesn't really look like that so you'll have to work for it ICly.

Feel free to take liberties with your interactions with Minerva. Any questions will be answered in the tone of someone reading from a FAQ.

Nudity Personal is the option where your own nudity is censored, but others aren't (unless they're players that also have Nudity Personal or Off).

You don't start with any Class; you get those in the game itself yee.
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Oh yah, if it wasn't obvious, add the Character Creation and User Experience stuff into your CS once you've posted.

Also wew, 20 HP madman...
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Sorry, I didn't have anything to compare with. ;w;

EDIT: I put in the char stuff in my cs on the char tab.
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If you did the math, there are 80 points, split between 8 attributes. The average normal human being on planet Earth would have 100 HP, going by that.
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I don't wanna do maths ;w;

But hey, at least i can run as fast as two humans running together in a field.
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For Minerva questions should we ask them here first before adding them to the interaction in our post?
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Yeah. I'll give you the hard deets, and then you can modify Minerva's actual speech, keeping in mind that it'd sound like they're reading off a FAQ.
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If thereโ€™s any tips or tricks he could tell me as an admin? How common cosmetic changes are in the game if at all? I guess those are the only questions Iโ€™ll have at the start.
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General tips and tricks will be to do what you want, so long as you're aware of the consequences behind your actions. Freedom and all. Attribute spread is generally recommended to be evenly split, for maximum versatility. Farming mob monsters gives better EXP than farming bosses, but the latter gives loot and gear in exchange for low EXP gainz. Walkthroughs and recommended builds are all trash due to differences in Nuclei, so literally just follow your heart.

Cosmetic changes are common in the same way that plastic surgery is common, except it's magical rather than just cutting you up.
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Horogi lore is up. For those who are done with their posts, now is a good time to figure out how y'all know each other and establish pre-existing relationships of love and hate.

Haha, upon asking, there will be another slider for Alys to interact with in User Experience.
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To clarify, the Mora-Sho are implied to be necromancers, right?

Also, is there any actual advantage to turning pain setting all the way up? I assume just having it on even lowered is useful for being alerted that you're being attacked.
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They practice necromancy, yes, but it's not like necromancy is uncommon elsewhere either.

There is no obvious advantage, naw. You'd have to be a real masochist to have it turned to 100%.
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There is no obvious advantage, naw. You'd have to be a real masochist to have it turned to 100%.


Welp.
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Can combat option be changed during the game once your character is made? Like trying to take the training wheels off?
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User Experience options can be altered in-game
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o3o oops. ty.
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Right, just a note to those struggling with big braining about stats and all... You'll be getting more stat points outta the wazoo. Like, potentially thousands, so don't worry too much about small baby numbers.
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