[OOC] Suddenly, My Favorite MMORPG has Become Real?! — A Log Horizon-inspired RP

[DocRock]

@PKMNB0Y
Made changes, removed or changed cash shop references to making more in game sense, and tweaked the skills for Artificer, going for a more descriptive approach rather than a specific list of stuff. If Abilities need that treatment too, I can change things around as needed. Plus as we go down the line in story, I can probably expand on abilities or spells as needed. I have a bit of a plan for what's gonna happen from my end at least in story, until other elements occur, and make for new plans. Gotta be prepared for anything, aye?

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Okay, form eval, form eval...

@Rabidporcupine: Well, like I said to DocRock, you don't have to be that detailed with abilities/skills, but it's fine if you want to keep it as it is. I'll be lenient.
But otherwise? Hell, I'd say accepted.

@DocRock: Yeah, you gucci. Accepted.

And... I guess I'll put out my character. May or may not have been poking at Ranma and stuff.

Character

• Name (Former): Takefumi Jun
• Name (Character): Deneb
• Age: 21
• Appearance: "Why my alt? Why not my main?!"
  When not disguised, Deneb stands at about 5'5" tall.
• Character Level: 52
• Character Class: Ninja
• Personality: Deneb isn't particularly outgoing in any sense of the word, and prefers to remain quiet if not disguised as someone else. To strangers, she remains polite and cordial, and to allies and friends, she is more talkative, but as a whole the whole 'stuck in a girl's body with a girl's voice' thing is still uncomfortable.
  Bring it up, though, and she'll put you on a hitlist of people to make miserable for the near future.
  That doesn't mean that she's the type to go off brooding in some corner, though; her current situation is one that spurs her on to actively seek a solution, even if that means pushing her to go and find people to possibly help in her personal quest.
  In combat and strategically focused scenarios, though, Deneb tends to be the shotcaller and leader, which is both odd given her class and understandable given what her situation used to be. She's stubborn and headstrong in that regard, but when it comes up to trying to find strategies and diffuse tensions she's actually quite flexible.
  As a (former) long-time player, though, Deneb knows a lot more about the content waiting for her at the higher levels, which promptly makes her more cautious in some cases and more confident in others. Her experience as a leader also makes her more likely to chew people out if they act out of line or put people (not just others, but also themselves) in needless danger. She isn't a know it all, though, and only speaks extensively with regard to what she knows best; if someone comes to her asking for advice on class builds, for example, she'd direct them to a wiki or another high level player instead.
• Abilities: As she is a human, Deneb has no inherent abilities to speak of aside from the superhuman speed and dexterity bestowed upon her by her class. That being said, though, Deneb has one ace up her sleeve that isn't explicitly a part of her class.
  As a reward from a gachapon, she has a small charm that can be used to summon another character on her account (in other words, Laoli) for a short period of time, have them unleash a single high-level skill, and disappear. It has infinite uses, but must cool down for a day after being used.
• Skills: Deneb has a variety of skills focused around the debuffing of and manipulation of enemies, ranging from things like magically disguising oneself and short distance teleportation to more classic things such as manipulation of poison, proficiency with daggers and ranged weapons, and instant traps such as caltrops and oil slicks. Aside from these, though, one skill that Deneb has, often ignored by the playerbase at large for its lack of use in most scenarios, is [Mimic]. With this skill, it is possible for Deneb to copy the skills of another character (that do not use items) with a lower proficiency than the original (but not their statlines) so long as she is disguised as them. Any injury past a certain threshold, of course, renders the disguise null and void, and thus returns her back to 'normal'. The [Disguise] skill itself, though, has a long internal cooldown and a relatively short duration at its current level (1, which is what most players with the class invest into it, if at all), which makes utilizing [Mimic] even more difficult than it might otherwise possibly be.
  Aside from that, the judo that she remembers, while not registered as a skill of any sort within the game, is still perfectly usable... Just not as any meaningful skill.
• Backstory: Jun is (or, rather, was) a college student at Tokyo University, and often spent his free time at arcades or playing Emerald Odyssey rather than attending any major afterschool clubs. Even so, his penchant towards academics (read, multitasking and studying while playing) and occasional attendance to the judo club led to his admission... Somehow.
  When he entered college, however, a few of the new friends he had made admitted that they wanted to try the MMO he had spent so much time on, and he was happy to oblige their request and teach them the ropes; after all, who better than an old veteran of the game to do something like that?
  That being said, Jun didn't want to use his main character, a Martial Artist by the name of Laoli, for that task; it wasn't fun to either simply stand by or crush all the enemies in front of him without a thought. The next best option was, of course, to make a new character entirely to help those people out.
  The next few years came and went, and as the others began to get more sporadic in playtime due to the pressures of higher-level education, his progress on Deneb began to falter as he had to spend more time on Laoli. News of the new expansion, however, reinvigorated those friends to start playing once more, and so the last day before its release was spent raising the ninja. Again.
  What the young man didn't expect, of course, was to be trapped... On the wrong goddamn character.
• Other: Is rightfully mad at the world for dropping her in as a ninja instead of the martial artist she spend the last few years working on. In essence, her current goal is to either get home or, at the very least, switch to that character.
  Additionally, Jun's main also owned a small training hall located off to the wayside, and used it as a hybrid base/warehouse. Both characters have made use of it actively, and Jun has written a few sentences in his spare time while waiting for... Well, everyone else to get online.

[DocRock]

That's a nice character sheet! Mine feels lazy in comparison, haha. I actually based my character's personality on my own to a bit, as I'm a pretty shy person in real life. And well, I love dragons, and playing around with them. Our characters should meet up eventually, if that's fine?

Be ready for a good time, because its Indiana Jones the Magic Dragon time.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

I mean... I'd assume most characters would meet up eventually, so yeah?

Though given the initial interest size and people spinning forms up, it might be reasonable to expect to have to split up the initial group up...

[DocRock]

Well of course, some splitting or solo play would be expected. Factions developing as interests evolve. But if you wanted to work together, that's an option. My friend Bone Daddy when he has time, might make his character a pal of mine, so we at least have each other watching our backs.

The current setting of the game does give me ideas for what we can try. Leonardo Da Vinci may get channeled at a point or two. I'll uh, wait to make my first IC until either you or some others go. Slight stage fright is never fun.

[Bone Father]

@PKMNB0Y I'd like to ask for clarification, what is the different between skills and abilities?

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

@Bone Father: Abilities are inherent, skills are learned. More or less.
There's some weird exceptions, but a lot of things that aren't directly of the player's learned skills should also be placed under abilities (thus why that pendant is filed there on my sheet; it's not a 'skill' as much as it is a special item).

[Anza]

@PKMNB0Y

Not-a-gamer girl

Name (Former): Kai Yoriko
Name (Character): Viridian Daeva
Age: 27
Appearance: "Hmm? Is there a problem?"
Her character model (including horns) is about 6'2''
Character Level: 60
Character Class: Cleric
Personality: Viridian (or ‘Viri’ for short) is a casual in every sense of the word. Before getting stuck in the game she was the kind of person who’d only log in once or twice a week for an hour or so at a time, and did whatever she felt was fun rather than seriously grinding at all. Rather than affiliating with any particular clique or guild, she’s fine partying with whoever needs a healer, though it can be hard to get her to stick around for more than a couple of dungeon runs at a time.
In spite of her class, or perhaps because of it, Viri is a woman of almost infinite patience. She’s very forgiving of people who make mistakes, and doesn’t seem to mind getting chewed out herself, though no amount of angry berating is likely to make her change her ways. She’ll sometimes gently scold people for being childish or petty, but in general is very mellow and relaxed. It’s hard to get her excited about anything, and hard to make her really angry or frustrated.
As a player she’s a fairly passive support, staying out of the fight and topping up health bars where needed. She’s effective enough at her role, but never really changes or adapts her tactics much, preferring to stick with the strategy that normally works rather than pushing herself to excel.
Abilities/skills: Even for a Cleric, Viri is heavily specced into healing and support, with virtually no damaging spells at all. She can throw ranged projectiles and area affects that restore health, create temporary magical barriers to eat enemy attacks, and command up to three small spirits to attach themselves to specific players or enemies to provide buffs and debuffs respectively. She also has a mobility spell that lets her teleport to an allied player after a short channel, a powerful regeneration buff that remains active so long as she’s in physical contact with the target, and a debuff cleanse applied through a kiss. Last but not least, she can revive a downed player with up to half of their maximum health, though doing this eats up all her mana and leaves her pretty much useless until it regenerates.
Backstory: Yoriko was never the kind of person who played video games much. She only got into Emerald Odyssey because one of her boyfriends was excited about its release and wanted to play it together. She ended up dumping him a couple months later, but by then she’d already made an account, and over the next few years she kept logging on from time to time whenever she felt like it, leveling up her character step by tiny step.
It was sheer coincidence that she logged on right before the release of the new expansion— she didn’t even know the expansion was coming that soon. All she wanted to do was relax for an hour with a silly game after a stressful day of work… but instead she got trapped in a fantasy world?! Ah, she wasn’t expecting something like this…
Other: She keeps quiet about her identity and occupation in the outside world, though it’s known that she at least has a degree of some sort. Her inventory is full of old items that she never uses or sells, including some quite rare ones that she doesn’t know the value of.

[Bone Father]

Shinon

Name (Former): Nanami Kusou

Name (Character): Shinon

Age: 26

Appearance:

Character Level: 48

Character Class: Archer (Hunter Variant)

Personality: Shinon named her character after one of her favorite archers in video games. Shinon enjoys hunting monsters in game and enjoys collecting their heads and body parts as trophies. In a house she bought, she has a room where she has some of her most impressive kills displayed. When denied of a hunting trophy, she get extraordinarily upset, feeling as though she’s been cheated out of a reward she deserves.

Abilities: As a human, Shinon does not have any inherent abilities, however due to her class she has superhuman eyesight and excellent hand eye coordination, allowing her to shoot from almost a kilometer away.

Skills: Shinon’s skills primarily focus on her hunter build for the archer class, having skills and some spells that allow her to track, trap, or take down her prey.

「Marking」: A skill that allows Shinon to magically mark a creature she can see, this allows Shinon to sense where that creature is up to 3 kilometers away. Furthermore, this skill also allows Shinon to deal extra damage to a marked creature.

「Whittle Down」: This is a passive skill that kicks in when Shinon attacks a damaged enemy. If Shinon hits an enemy with an attack, and that enemy is below it’s hit point maximum, Neia deals additional damage.

「Hail of Thorns」: The user expends some of their MP, the next ranged attack they make with a bow is enchanted with magic. When the arrow is fired, it divides into several smaller arrows that deal the same amount of damage as the parent arrow. These arrows can hit multiple enemies that are tightly packed together, useful for crowd control.

「Ensnare」: The user expends some MP, the next time they hit a creature with a ranged attack, a magical rope binds around them, immobilizing them for a short moment, useful to get off some damage or to make an escape. Has a long cooldown.

Backstory: Shinon adored archery, and participated in the Archery Club in highschool, her team managed to make it pretty far in the national competition, but they fell short. Nonetheless, her passion for archery didn’t diminish, she even began taking up bow hunting, this is where her passion for hunting animals and collect their trophies originates from. Just like in the game, she would throw a fit when and if she felt like she had been robbed of a trophy she deserved.

Other: After being transported to this world, Her ultimate goal is to hunt all monsters and get trophies of at least one of each species.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

@Anza: Fine. Accepted.

@Bone Father: Ah, I see. it's Neia.
(It says a lot that I recognized the character the second I saw the image lol)
Assuming the name's a FE9/10 reference? Anyways...

Minor nitpick: 'Whittle', not 'widdle'.

Otherwise I think the character's fine. Accepted post-edit because that'll bug me otherwise.

[Bone Father]

@PKMNB0Y Yes, it is indeed Neia, the best girl. And indeeed it is a FE/910 reference. I shall change the spelling error as well. Thank you very much!

[Rabidporcupine]

So... Anyone wanna be one of the old members of Kai's 'bad guy' team, or alternatively, join up when he turns it into the monster hunting battle chef guild? I kinda wanna start recruiting now so I don't just have to make up a bunch of player characters...

[Vulkan]

Just to be clear, any fantasy races that are off limits?

Sorry for the dumb questions, this is my first RP in a whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiile.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

@Vulkan: Er... Not off the top of my head, but honestly? Just throw a race up and we'll see.

[OliveYou]

here's something, hope you like her~

Atlantis's Songbird

Name (Former): Akimoto Yae

Name (Character): KitKat Winters

Age: 19

Appearance:

Character Level: 56

Character Class: Dancer

Personality: Akimoto, or "Kitkat" as she is more often called, is a go-getter kind of girl--a girl who knows what she wants and goes for it. More often than not, this turns out to be a sparkly outfit, or a pretty (and expensive) item, but it's the thought that counts--and the effort KitKat puts into pursuing her "rewards" is a sight to behold. She's easily attracted to shiny things and before the expansion spent most of her in-game time mining rare items and ignoring "real" combat. But KitKat isn't just a shallow girl--she's a confident and sneaky one. She excels at getting what she wants, no matter the cost, and it is with ease that she manipulates the outcome to her favor. Her favorite game? Playing the part of an "in-game" girlfriend to collect money and gifts for her collection. But, now that she's no longer hiding behind a screen, how will her bargains play out?

Abilities: As a Naiad (water-based spirit), KitKat has a few tricks up her sleeve:

Aquatic Affinity -- Encompasses a Naiad's ease of sensing water, conversing with water-based creatures, and the occasional calling forth of a sudden blast of water.

The Four Strokes -- KitKat's enhanced swimming ability comes in handy when adventuring underwater, as does her heightened sight. In addition, she doesn't need to come up to the surface as often due to her "oxygen storage."

Skills: KitKat's class, Dancer, gives her high speed, low defense, and a variety of tools to aid her teammates. Most of her usefulness comes from her book of buff, debuff, and AoE spells, giving her the title of support.

These spells take the forms of various dances and songs, from the peppy and re-energizing Cheer Up! to a mournful melody the freezes enemies in their tracks. Couple this with KitKat's theatrical nature, and her performances are a sight to behold. Being a natural performer pays off, in more way than one, and KitKat has mastered those ways; out of battle, she can use skills like Flirt and Barter to turn the tide in her favor.

And while KitKat will usually stay off of the battlefield and aid from the sidelines, she holds onto a slender lightweight dagger and can quickly dart in between enemies to deal a little damage. One of her most prized skills, Pickpocket, gives KitKat the ability to approach an enemy and try to steal something off their person. It doesn't always work, though, and it leaves her open to future attacks.

Backstory: Alone. Young. Broke.

Those words fit Akimoto rather well--at the tender age of nineteen, she was kicked out of the house and left to fend for her herself. Not in the cruel, orphan way, but more in the "couch potato who needs to move out" sort of way. And at first, that's exactly what Akimoto did. She lazed around. She ate ramen for breakfast, lunch and dinner. She surfed the web. Despite being quite a bubbly girl as a child, it seemed to Akimoto that those days were over--that her fate was to die alone. Relationships with her family turned sour as her bad habits continued, and as far as she was concerned, it was for the better. A loser like her was worth nothing.

And then, she discovered Emerald Odyssey. For the first time in her life, she felt something--that is, she felt like she was worth something. In reality, she shopped at 24/7 convenience stores and lived on the bare minimum of wages, but online, she was special. She was loved! People liked her, liked her character's liveliness and liked her! This, above all, was what changed Akimoto's perception of life for the better. The further she got in the game, the more confident she felt with herself. She started taking risks--making bargains, a little bit of flirting here and there--and soon, this moved beyond just her online self.

Six months after purchasing Emerald Odyssey, she called her parents for the first time in three years.

Tears were shed as relationships mended and Akimoto leveled up higher and higher. Her online self was no longer just a personification of what she wishes she was--now, it's what she is, online and offline. However, as her confidence grew, so did her attachment to the game--at one point, she logged on every morning and every night, feverishly clicking away in the dead of night. Things were reaching a critical point. Akimoto lived each day wondering when the choice would come up--real life or Emerald Odyssey--and when it did, what would she choose?

And then the choice was made for her. Stuck in the body of her avatar (not a horrible tragedy, considering her, shall we say, assets) and without a way to contact her family, KitKat, formerly Akimoto Yae, is ready to begin anew. This is her life now; she's determined to never make those mistakes again.

Other: Possesses several impressive, if useless, achievements such as "Most Wedding Proposals Rejected" and "Most Pet Jaguars Owned."

[DocRock]

Oh boy, a dancer now? The cast of characters we might have is getting more and more colorful. I mean we got Ganondorf earlier, so this is gonna be fun!

[Vulkan]

Ohh....fuck. I spend over three hours on a character and its exactly the same as that one thats just been posted...

Not entirely sure what to do now. Mines based on the warhammer wood elf wardancers.

[Vulkan]

Well, i hope this is alright. I swear i had no idea what the person before me was writing.

Katsuro Takuma/Elyan Sarel

Name (Former): Katsuro Takuma

Name (Character): Elyan Sarel

Age: 23

Appearance:

A really emo looking picture.

(Hes actually a natural blond, but dyes it to avoid the awkward looks)

Character Level: 53

Character Class: War Dancer

Personality: Elyan tends to keep to himself, speaking rarely unless spoken to, and preferring to keep a professional attitude at all times. Despite this, he is still capable of fairly low key snark now and again, often confusing people if he is being serious or not. This is due to a mixture of shyness in the real world and secretly just not liking people very much. He prefers to do his job, get paid, and leave. He always looks out for number one, believing others are idiots for thinking otherwise...

Abilities: Elyan is a Sidhe, making him slightly smaller and weaker than the average human. However, this is offset by an incredible boost to his speed and reflexes, which is only amplified by his class and simple training. This can result in some extremely amusing feats of athleticism.

Skills: His skills are fairly simple, revolving around eliminating people one at at a time as quickly and simply as possible, all the while avoiding any attacks sent his way with his speed.

War Dancing: Elyan's graceful, athletic fighting style can give off a sense of inspiration to those on his side, helping them fight harder. Due to being alone most of the time, this is never, ever made use of.

Combat Meditation: This skill allows him to go into a sort of trance, in which he cannot concentrate on attacking very well. However, it gives him much greater sense of what is going on around him, allowing him to see attacks coming around him the absolute instant they happen, making him able to dodge things he might not have been able to do so otherwise, even with his natural speed. Attacking will break this trance, however.

Feather Dance: Temporarily, he is able to drastically lower his own weight for a few moments, aiding in various acrobatic maneuvers. This makes him even more stupidly fragile than he usually is, though.

Vortex Impale: Concentrating as hard as he can, Elyan can thrust his spear forward. Should it connect, it will release a shock wave capable of blowing down heavy doors or even walls. Using this, however, will exhaust him for a good minute, making him unable to use any other skills.

Backstory: Coming from a incredibly wealthy family with Japanese and British roots, Katsuro was groomed from a young age to go into business, like his parents, who ran a incredibly successful real estate firm that stretched across Japan. They separated when he was four, leaving Katsuro with his mother, who made sure he had the absolute best education possible, leaving him with very little to do to try and make sure he turned out exactly how she wanted.

All of this came to an end when Katsuro was nineteen, when his parents and multiple other board members were arrested for multiple counts of fraud. Following a media circus of a trial, it was revealed that the company had hit some hard times, and they had burned down one of their buildings for the insurance money. Many people also came forward, claiming that they had been threatened with violence into leaving their homes by the company.

His mother got eight years, and his father six. Left alone, and a social pariah, Katsuro rarely even went outside, speaking only to his tutors and anyone else when he needed to. Though a trust fund had prevented any money troubles, the social pariah that his name brought prevented him from having any sort of normal life, and eventually, he gave up on trying to get one. It was at this point, he turned to gaming, which he had not been allowed to do when growing up. He quickly got addicted to it, and one day noticed an interesting looking MMO...

Other: Katsuro cant take a hit. At all. Even lower level attacks can cause a problem if they are able to connect. He never learned the value of money in real life, and the game is no exception. He will usually blow all the money he makes from his work in a matter of days, despite the astronomical charges he asks for. Still, they usually pay up. One of the few decent investments he makes with his money is making sure his name is known.

[DocRock]

I mean, having variants of the same class isn't an issue in my mind.

If anything, the more we have of a given class, the more fun, perhaps?

[Vulkan]

I know, but...they seem really similar to me, backstories are even polar opposites.