All In
The Game is your new reality.
Disclaimer: This RP is based on any and all game characters by the discretion and interest of those participating. There is a high chance of spoilers for the games involved occurring at some point in the RP. This is an unavoidable fact in this kind of RP. If you are worried about being spoiled for a series you like proceed with caution.
Netherplay Games has come out with revolutionary new Virtual Reality technology. Working round the clock this corporation has remastered hundreds of thousands of classic games from the arcade era all the way till the early twenty first century for use in their new program. People are lining up across the world to purchase or rent these new systems. However something (as with any story regarding VR) goes horribly wrong. Only days after the VR systems are first brought online a malignant virus in the source code causes the various gaming worlds to cross connect over the multiplayer servers creating a massive world amalgamated from ever retro game imaginable. Worse than this however is the fact that anyone engaged in the VR's system at the time of the viruses activation was trapped within world, the fictional backstories of whatever character they happen to be playing overriding their own sense of self. Journey with these video game heroes and villains as they struggle to understand what has happened to them, and the calamity that has befallen their world. Will they ever escape the VR system and regain the personas of those they used to be? Only time will tell.
Alright aside from hitting twelve out of twenty narration and opening cliches that intro might not have been as clear as it could have been so this is the basic idea. An enormous VR network has a massive glitch that has caused it to merge bits and pieces of all of the various video game worlds it has stored in its database. On launch these were "retro" games so basically anything that we have today and everything prior, ranging from arcade games to final fantasy IV to Halo to Mario to Ratchet and Clank to Zelda to Fall Out. Anything you like. We will be playing as the people that were currently engaged in the VR system when the glitch occurred. However as part of the glitch everyone's minds have been overwritten with the backstory and memories of whatever character they were playing as. So essentially this is going to be a giant mash up of whatever various video game characters anyone wants to play. We'll start off at base levels of course and I can make case by case decisions about power levels depending on who you want to play since villains are generally stronger off the bat than heroes. Certain alterations can be made to characters depending on who they are to allow them to more easily exist in this new gaming world. For example, if you wished to play as Wheatley from Portal 2 you might find it difficult as he is a robotic sphere, in that instance we could give him something like a robotic body though any such changes would be new in terms of when the glitch occurred so anyone playing Wheatley he would remember being a Core at Aperture Science and as such would have to become used to his new body.
This RP will be widely shaped by those that join it as it is nearly entirely driven by character development.
I am an avid gamer but I am not an expert on all things gaming. I may make mistakes if you bring a character from a series I am unfamiliar with. If this should happen I would ask that someone point it out to me and I will do my best to make the proper corrections. With that in mind I may end up relying on you guys if our group happens to go into an area from a game I have no knowledge of. I will do my research but Wikipedia can only get you so far.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
If I've missed any categories in the CS that seem important let me know.
