ALFheim Online: Stuck in Limbo

[DontCallMeZelda]

Now I know what most of you are thinking. "Oh look. Another SAO RP interest thread thing. As if that hasn't been posted before." To that I say, "Yeah..you're right." I have seen a large number of SAO themed RPs pop up around this site and some of them end up taking off...but too many times I've watched them tank or not even get started. I would know because I was a part of one that didn't even get past the Town of Beginnings portion. If you did click on this thread then you obviously enjoyed the show and would like to participate in a good SAO style RP. Or..you were just curious about what the title was about. If you are part of the latter...welcome! Now go watch the show! Now I was rather hesitant to try and start this up but I kind of made a last minute decision on the idea of, "What could happen?" So, here goes. I am going to try and start up an SAO RP but I am going to implement a few changes into the theme a bit. For starters, this RP will not be taking place in the actual Sword Art Online game. But, it will take place in ALFheim Online a few months after the end of Season 2. Or..well the last episode we have. I know it's kind of split on which game is better than the other but personally I prefer ALFheim. It has more races and MAGIC. So yeah. This RP will have a definite plot. I'll just post a short version here and let it actually develop in the actual RP. The plot is based around strange occurrences happening in the ALFheim game. It all started with a noticeable glitch in the Cardinal System that runs the game. The glitch seemed to cause no problems and the engineering team was able to remedy the problem fairly quickly with the game only being down for two to three hours of scheduled maintenance. Weeks passed after this glitch happened and small reports started to come up that a few people who were using the new Amusphere to play ALFheim were not waking up after they logged out. These individuals who were reported in were taken to the nearest hospital and it was there they discovered these patients weren't dead. They were simply stuck in a coma, with the Amusphere stuck in a permanent "On" state. One doctor reported that even when he pulled plug on the Amusphere the lights stayed on and it continued to operate. As if it had no battery life anymore. The numbers of patients stuck like this are very very low at the moment. Estimated about 100 players or so stuck like this. But that's not the end. Friends of these players would report seeing their old avatars around various locations where they spent most of their time. Such as, dungeon planning spots, player homes, Guild bases. But their avatars seemed bland and as if they didn't remember anything. No one is sure why these things are happening to players. But that hasn't stopped the millions from playing the game on a daily basis. --- And basically it will be up to our characters to figure out what is going on! Like I said, that is the short version. Since this is just an IC I won't post any Character Sheets or anything until I have a few players interested in doing this. Please comment below or PM me if you are interested. Also, post your questions or comments or anything! Thank you for stopping by if you did :D --------------------------Edit---------------------- Addition of Character Sheets Name: (IRL name) In game name: Age: Gender: Appearance: Race: ( Race List: http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Races_of_ALfheim_Online ) Weapon of Choice: Magic Spells: (Only if you want to use Magic) Personality: Skills: (Since all of the skills basically carry over ((and I couldn't find a ALFheim skills list but shhhh)) here is the SAO skills list: http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Skills ) I'd say choose..five. We are going to be in the mid teen or early twenty range for levels. ------------ Accepted characters: Tora - Hebigami Shiho Fuyuko - Lennon79 (Unfinished though?) Kite - GrandzHelios Alex - LordSanta --No longer Accepting Characters--

My Character

My App: Name: Rhett James In game Name: Arina Age: 20 Gender: Male Race: Cait Sith SO WHEN I WAS MAKING MY APP MY COMPUTER WAS ALL, "NOPE. LOSE ALL YOUR PROGRESS. I LOST MY PICTURE SO NOW I'M ANGRY BECAUSE IT WAS HARD TO FIND. SO I QUIT AND RESORTED TO USING A PICTURE FROM MY PROFILE PICTURE BUT WHO CARES. CAUSE YOLO. Also..kind of copied Lennon here..don't hurt me! I just saw too much sausage coming up so.. reasons. Appearance: Except in game his avatar won't actually have the same armor set up..obviously. Ariva's armor is a solid white all around and allows for quick movement. Also that picture doesn't have cat ears or a tail, but I'm sure we can just...imagine them there. Weapon of Choice: Bow and Arrow Personality: Rhett has been playing MMOs for as long as he can remember. Or..well when they actually became popular and available to him. When he found out about ALFheim online he was all over it. He created his female avatar because he is not one to care about what others think if they found he he was really a guy. All it is about is having fun in the game. It's not like he is going to meet the girl of his dreams playing a VRMMO right? So no reason to worry. That being said, he is one to really delve into character as soon as he logs in. He will only go by his name and really try his best to play the part. He made his character as a DPS and he takes pride in knowing the massive amounts of damage he can cause to bosses and enemies. He always prefers to fight with others and will always try to party up. He loves parties and having fun but he can get serious when it comes to dungeon raids and bosses. When in combat he prefers to keep quiet. But out of combat he is rather talkative. Magic: Cait Sith class skill: Beast Tame, Accuracy Buff Spell, Healing Buff Spell Skills: Acrobatics Woodcrafting Leather Equpiment Metal Refining Mediation

[Hebigami Shiho]

Okay... I just want to say for starters that I've been wanting to try and ALFheim RP for a lot of time, but, well, college didn't let me until recently that my schedule has become a bit more leisurely paced, so yeah... Anyhow, I must agree with you in the fact that I think ALFheim has much more lore to part from and a bit more cool system, with the additions they made in SAO II and I wanna throw my interest in. But this raises a question, though, the 'new' NerveGear you talk about here is really the AmuSphere, no? It just got me a bit confused there, so I just wanna clear up that. :P

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[DontCallMeZelda]

Okay... I just want to say for starters that I've been wanting to try and ALFheim RP for a lot of time, but, well, college didn't let me until recently that my schedule has become a bit more leisurely paced, so yeah... Anyhow, I must agree with you in the fact that I think ALFheim has much more lore to part from and a bit more cool system, with the additions they made in SAO II and I wanna throw my interest in. But this raises a question, though, the 'new' NerveGear you talk about here is really the AmuSphere, no? It just got me a bit confused there, so I just wanna clear up that. :P

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Hebigami Shiho

Awesome! Yes! Thank you! When I was writing this up I typed Nervegear and I just stopped and I was like.."Wait..is that right? It changed didn't it?" But I just couldn't remember what the new one was called xD And I call myself a fan of SAO D: But seriously, thank you for that simple fix!

[Card Captor]

Sounds like it could be fun. To be honest; the whole premise of a game with only melee weapons/skills really bothered my inner gamer. In fact, I think it would be safe to say that SAO's (the VRMMO, not the Anime) only real selling point was that it was a VR game. As someone who's gotten used to playing RPG's that have lots of varied class, I found SAO (once more, the game itself) to be a let down that was saved only by it's VR technology. ALFheim to me felt like SAO done right, at least from a character design point of view.

[Stella]

I'm a recent SAO fan and I have some interest in this RP. As a long-time ex-MMORPG player, I've also been put off by the lack of magic in SAO and its RPs so I've been looking for one based on ALFheim. But since I'm a strictly one-RP-at-a-time RPer and I'm currently interested in another RP, I have 2 quick questions for our GM so I can decide which to join: 1. Because magic spells were introduced to ALO and it's unlikely that every spell in the game was named in the anime or the light novels (and other sources), what's your stance on player spell selection: A - Strictly stick to canon spells, B - Allow player-made spells. Same question applies to non-magic skills. 2. Because it's unusual for players of different races to work together due to the race vs race PvP, what would our character's motivation to work together be? (since people are most likely going to be picking varying races for their characters). There doesn't have to be a concrete answer to this question, we could just RP it out and improvise of course. Thank you.

[DontCallMeZelda]

I'm a recent SAO fan and I have some interest in this RP. As a long-time ex-MMORPG player, I've also been put off by the lack of magic in SAO and its RPs so I've been looking for one based on ALFheim. But since I'm a strictly one-RP-at-a-time RPer and I'm currently interested in another RP, I have 2 quick questions for our GM so I can decide which to join: 1. Because magic spells were introduced to ALO and it's unlikely that every spell in the game was named in the anime or the light novels (and other sources), what's your stance on player spell selection: A - Strictly stick to canon spells, B - Allow player-made spells. Same question applies to non-magic skills. 2. Because it's unusual for players of different races to work together due to the race vs race PvP, what would our character's motivation to work together be? (since people are most likely going to be picking varying races for their characters). There doesn't have to be a concrete answer to this question, we could just RP it out and improvise of course. Thank you.

Stella

For the magical spells I was going to allow players to choose from a pool of known canon spells and then maybe one or two..or three spells of their own creation. Those spells made my players will be under heavy scrutiny though as to make sure they aren't too OP. I wouldn't allow someone to have a spell that just instantly wiped out a huge group of mobs or something. Or a spell that put a permanent status effect on another player. Things like that. For the second question I haven't really thought about that. I was planning on having all of our characters spoken to by an official who is looking into issues, Like Kirito for GGO, but I quickly decided against that. I was hoping player backstory would come into play somewhat here to help develop it. But other than that I was just wanting it to develop over time. I hope that answers your questions :) I appreciate you looking into this thread :D By the way, I like your avatar :D

[Lennon79]

I'll lodge my tentative interest and a question; since the entirety of SAO was just one massive emo clusterfuck, will we be dealing with insane amounts of edgeiness or is there a preference for more human characters? I like the idea you've got for the plot, but I'm concerned that it might devolve into omg mah gurlfrend is in cooma emo darkshit angst etc etc. In other words, will we have to deal with Kiritofag expys and OTT drama? I understand that this might come across as confrontational or mocking, but it is a serious point that kills a hell of a lot of SAO RPs.

[AiyvaGuard]

Im also SAO fan. <3

[DontCallMeZelda]

I'll lodge my tentative interest and a question; since the entirety of SAO was just one massive emo clusterfuck, will we be dealing with insane amounts of edgeiness or is there a preference for more human characters? I like the idea you've got for the plot, but I'm concerned that it might devolve into omg mah gurlfrend is in cooma emo darkshit angst etc etc. In other words, will we have to deal with Kiritofag expys and OTT drama? I understand that this might come across as confrontational or mocking, but it is a serious point that kills a hell of a lot of SAO RPs.

Lennon79

First I have to say that this post made me laugh. Like..I couldn't type at first because I kept looking back up at your post and I would just lose it. You didn't come across as mocking to me! I actually understand where you are coming from. I hated the whole emo feel in SAO. When it wasn't present was when I really enjoyed the show! I suppose it could be that if something does happen to a character that has a significant other they can either make a short post about it or..I dunno talk about it PM. While I would like to see some emotion I don't want the RP to be ALL emotion. By emotion I mean that emo stuff xD I don't really know if that makes sense. So basically all I can say is that No, it will not turn to something like that lol.

[DontCallMeZelda]

Im also SAO fan. <3

AiyvaGuard

Well welcome :D

[Lennon79]

I can't tell you how big a relief that is to hear. Since SAO itself could pretty much be dubbed over with Linkin Park lyrics and not lose any of its meaning, a lot of RPs go way overboard with the drama. I'd love to join a thread where the characters aren't all either whiny 15 year olds or maddeningly superior chuunis. At any rate, you have my cigar.

[DontCallMeZelda]

I can't tell you how big a relief that is to hear. Since SAO itself could pretty much be dubbed over with Linkin Park lyrics and not lose any of its meaning, a lot of RPs go way overboard with the drama. I'd love to join a thread where the characters aren't all wither whiny 15 year olds or maddeningly superior chuunis. At any rate, you have my cigar.

Lennon79

I appreciate it. :) I might actually start it up soon. We have a few people interested and I don't know if I was a huge group of people. I was mainly aiming for about four. Or five :P Edit: By start it up I mean post CS and all that lol

[Hebigami Shiho]

I can't tell you how big a relief that is to hear. Since SAO itself could pretty much be dubbed over with Linkin Park lyrics and not lose any of its meaning, a lot of RPs go way overboard with the drama. I'd love to join a thread where the characters aren't all wither whiny 15 year olds or maddeningly superior chuunis. At any rate, you have my cigar.

Lennon79

I appreciate it. :) I might actually start it up soon. We have a few people interested and I don't know if I was a huge group of people. I was mainly aiming for about four. Or five :P Edit: By start it up I mean post CS and all that lol

DontCallMeZelda

Yay! We getting the CS's now. :D

[DontCallMeZelda]

Alright guys! I went ahead and just edited my post to put up the Character Sheets. I tried to just start up an OOC thread and tie it to this one, because I know you can do that but my computer was all, "NO YOU CAN'T." So I just put it in my first post. But I have a question: Do we want to start at level 1? This isn't SAO so we don't have to worry about dying...though it's not recommended. Or do we want to have our characters all be roughly around the same level even though they don't know each other? Like say..30 or 40 or something?

[Lennon79]

I'd say early levels, but experienced enough to understand the mechanics; levels in the mid teens to early twenties perhaps? Also makes them high enough to be dipping toes into the early game raiding scene, hence a good way to meet each other.

[DontCallMeZelda]

I'd say early levels, but experienced enough to understand the mechanics; levels in the mid teens to early twenties perhaps? Also makes them high enough to be dipping toes into the early game raiding scene, hence a good way to meet each other.

Lennon79

That's good! I like that! Thanks!

[Hebigami Shiho]

Soooo... What will be our age range? Or are we free to put whatever we like?

[DontCallMeZelda]

Soooo... What will be our age range? Or are we free to put whatever we like?

Hebigami Shiho

I'm fine with whatever. Just not like...79 or something. Or 7 xD

[Lennon79]

I'm a bit early and it doesn't look... complete to me, but here's a rough draft.

Fuyuko

Furuya Manabu Fuyuko Standing in at barely 4"2" in game, Fuyuko is quite intentionally the smallest he could possibly be. Age 21 Gender Male Race Cait Sith Weapon of Choice Using a one-handed warhammer and tower shield, in addition to heavy armour, Fuyuko is specced and kitted out to be a pure tank with only a handful of damage dealing abilities. When soloing he relies on his pet iguanodon Aoi to deliver the majority of his DPS. Magic Spells <<Tame Beast>> Cait Sith Racial Spell, attempts to tame targeted Beast type enemy. The chance of success depends both on the level of the player and the beast. Only one beast maybe tamed at a time. Channelled, 30 seconds. Personality Fuyuko is not what she seems. As one of the many male players to use a female avatar, Fuyuko is the personification of Manabu's easygoing personality and adult sense of humour. It probably helps that he is often drunk while playing and treats everyone to a positive, no-fucks given attitude and a sense of universal goodwill often forgotten in PvP online games. That isn't to say that he is a pacifist. Fuyuko loves nothing more than a good dungeon run, working the front lines as the most midgety tank in history. Despite his status as an... eccentric, Fuyuko is a well-meaning and generous young man, though he often hides this behind a veneer of dry humour and an almost tsundere degree of fuax denial. Skills <<One-handed Blunt Weapons>> <<Shields>> <<Heavy Metal Equipment>> <<Howl>> <<Drug Mixing>> <<Herbalism>> <<Familiar Recovery>> <<Familiar Communication>> <<Musical Instrument - Banjo>>

[DontCallMeZelda]

I'm a bit early and it doesn't look... complete to me, but here's a rough draft.

Fuyuko

Furuya Manabu Fuyuko Standing in at barely 4"2" in game, Fuyuko is quite intentionally the smallest he could possibly be. Age 21 Gender Male Race Cait Sith Weapon of Choice Using a one-handed warhammer and tower shield, in addition to heavy armour, Fuyuko is specced and kitted out to be a pure tank with only a handful of damage dealing abilities. When soloing he relies on his pet iguanodon Aoi to deliver the majority of his DPS. Magic Spells <<Tame Beast>> Cait Sith Racial Spell, attempts to tame targeted Beast type enemy. The chance of success depends both on the level of the player and the beast. Only one beast maybe tamed at a time. Channelled, 30 seconds. Personality Fuyuko is not what she seems. As one of the many male players to use a female avatar, Fuyuko is the personification of Manabu's easygoing personality and adult sense of humour. It probably helps that he often drunk while playing and treats everyone to a positive, no-fucks given attitude and a sense of universal goodwill often forgotten in PvP online games. That isn't to say that he is a pacifist. Fuyuko loves nothing more than a good dungeon run, working the front lines as the most midgety tank in history. Despite his status as an... eccentric, Fuyuko is a well-meaning and generous young man, though he often hides this behind a veneer of dry humour and an almost tsundere degree of fuax denial. Skills <<One-handed Blunt Weapons>> <<Shields>> <<Heavy Metal Equipment>> <<Howl>> <<Drug Mixing>> <<Herbalism>> <<Familiar Recovery>> <<Familiar Communication>> <<Musical Instrument - Banjo>>

Lennon79

Even though you said it doesn't look complete to you I really like it! A tank standing at 4'2...genius.