[OOC] SAO: Living in Aincrad

[Lennon79]

And she's done. Again.

[MarshiestMallow]

Pyotr

RL Name
Todoroki Akiko
IG Name
Pyotr
Age
17
Gender
Female

Equipment
Pyotr wears a mix of leather medium armour with heavy armour pauldrons, bracers and greaves in plate.



She wields an elegant but fairly small sabre with a sheath at her waist, modelled after a Cossack's shashka.

Skills

Profession and Related Skills
N/A

Non-Combat Skills
- Fishing
- Skinning
- Cooking
- Sales Negotiation (To be learnt)
- Armour Appraisal (To be learnt)

Combat skills
- Parry
- One-handed Curved Swords
- Medium Armour Proficiency
- Heavy Armour Proficiency

Sword Skills
- Arc (Single curving strike, 1-hit, Can be used to extend a 2 or 3 hit combo attack by 1 extra attack, Post-attack slowdown and cooldown time are increased after boosting a combo)
- Hilt (2-hit strike, first with the hilt and then with the body of the blade)
- Ura (1-hit charge attack with a moderate chance to knock target down)

Stats
Level - 2
Health - 425
Strength - 5
Agility - 8

Bio
The adults of the Todoroki family both worked in shipping, mainly between Sapporo and Vladivostok, taking the family to various countries for business trips. Their oldest daughter Akiko, already something of an internet addict, eventually became obsessed with Russian pop culture and history after one too many trips to Moscow. Taking up the pseudonym 9rota, or Pyotr online, she quickly made a name for herself on Russian chatboards and MMO servers as a hardcore russophile, eventually picking up the language through local TV and midnight Skype chats. Her entry into Sword Art Online was nothing special, bar that she took the decision to create for herself male avatar, tall, proud and sporting the most exaggerated Soviet features she could get her mitts on. In real life she is rather less striking, with a short and rather plump form that evokes a relaxed air and casual personality.

Personality
Akiko tends to be upbeat in a half-hearted way, preferring to cheer others and provide support rather than get stuck in herself. This philosophy applies to her social life as much as combat, as she tends to drift to the edge of the social group. That said, once she is comfortable in someone's presence, Akiko will comes out of herself to be both more useful and talkative. Regardless of how well she knows someone, they will likely be on the receiving end of her sarcasm and occasional perverse joke.

Fin.

@Lennon79

All good!

[Animal]

Name in Real Life: Evan Winters

In Name Game: Cam-Cam

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Looks

Short Bio: Evan is more odd in real life than he is in the game. He has a hobby of sewing up costumes or little animal beanies that he wears out in public. People thought it was weird at first, but he just so happens to travel with his twin sister Lily to cover for him. He adores his sister very much and made a pact to never stray too far away from her. Evan thought it was pretty fun dressing up as something else and wanted to expand on that by creating a character in SAO. So he named himself after the first animal costume he has ever sowed, the chameleon.

Personality: Evan is a cheerful, energetic person who will often invade someone's personal space for a simple hello. His goal centrals around to having the perfect adventure. Doing so, he will have to complete all a hundred floors. At first, he had his fun by exploring what the game had to offer. At some point, he began to take the game more seriously as he started to really get into his newly created character by treating it like a second life. A life he does not want to get away from, a place where he can escape the boring reality. The game is slowly corrupting him, making him forget the vow he made to his sister in order to start a new life here...in Aincrad.

Skills:

-Scythe Skills

Combat Skills
-Parry
-Leather Equipment

Passive Skills
-Acrobatics
-Listening
-Tracking

Non-Combat Skills
-Sewing

Preferred weapon and Armor:
Light Leather Armor. (Chestplate, Boots, Gauntlets, and Tasset)

Scythe

Stats
Health: 425
Level: 2
Strength: 6
Agility: 7

Okie Dokie, didn't know if there was a limit on how many skills we can have, but I chose seven. I guess I can add/learn more as we go on xD Hope I did the stats right...

[MarshiestMallow]

It looks good to me. Pretty sure you did the stats right!

[Little_ninja]

Things seem fine
With the skills
You can list as many as you like, but that's like which ones you will be focusing on
Anyway, you equip only two at the start (weapon skill counts as one)

[Lennon79]

Just a heads up, but I'm away til Tuesday, so my first few posts may be delayed.

[MarshiestMallow]

That's okay, thanks for telling us!

[Ebil Bunny]

Rihito Fumitaka

THEME
Clicky

IGN
Ritaka

AGE
17

GENDER
Male

STATS
Level - 3
Health - 600
Strength - 8
Agility - 8

SKILLS
- One Handed Sword
- Light Metal Equipment

- Parry
- Sprint
- Hiding

- Familiar Recovery
- Familiar Communication

- Purchase Negotiation
- Sales Negotiation

EQUIPMENT
- Sting
- Default Light Metal Chestplate
- Defualt Leather Wear
- 2 Health Crystals
- 1 Message Record Crystal (Used)

PET (to be)
NAME: Nixie
TYPE: Riverbow Bird
APPEARANCE: Clicky
DESCRIPTION: Riverbows don't help in battle situations like most other pets, though their abilities are just as useful. When somebody tames a Riverbow, they have the ability to see through its eyes, allowing them to literally have a birds eye view. However, SAO has an invisibile barrier about one third of the way up to the bottom of the next floor that can not be passed except through dungeons. This makes was mainly made for making it possible to kill flying monsters with ranged attacks, who would normally just fly out of reach of knife throwers and rain death upon all.

BIO
Rihito was the only son of Gyousei Fumitaka, one of the higher-ups in the NerveGear company. Saying his family was rich would be an understatement, but in no way did that make Rihito's life perfect. In fact, it was far from it. His father expected much from Rihito from a young age. Private Tutors were hired to teach Rihito as much about Math and Science as he could possbily learn, and then some.

Rihito was very protected, bearly ever leaving the large expanse of property that was owned by the Fumitaka Family. His father forbid him, telling Rihito that he didn't want him to "pick up the childish ways of the childish people".

Rihito turned inward, and became timid and quiet like his mother. He really loved his father, and wished to please him, but he didn't feel like there was anything he could do. He wasn't strong like his father. He was just Rihito.

He turned to video games, and though he enjoyed a lot of different genres of games, he really got into MMORPGs. There, he could be whoever he wanted. Timid Rihito became strong, independant, and powerful Ritaka. Ritaka could do whatever he wanted, banishing powerful demons, and rescuing damsels in distress.

Rihito always had a NerveGear, as his father worked for the company, but he didn't really use it much. However, when he found out his mother had secretly signed him up as a beta tester for SAO, and he had gone through, he was overjoyed! He quickly wizzed through his studies every day so he could go to that other dimension where Rihito and Ritaka became one person.

Rihito played as much as he could, becoming one of the most powerful beta testers. He tried everything he could, from spear fighting to sewing, just so he knew for sure what he wanted to go for when SAO was released. He decided on Beast Mastery, because it heald so much experiances that no other type of play style had. He researched as much as he could, and found out about all kinds of tamable beasts, but none of the lower floor tamables were as appealing to him as the Riverbow.

PERSONALITY
Although Rihito acts shy in real life, when he becomes Ritaka, he becomes a strong leader like his father. He keeps his cool in most serious situations, and is always ready to lead, or be led, into battle.

Though he's serious about a lot of things, he's not unkind. No matter the circumstances, he's always willing to help someone learn the game a bit better, or listen if they had a bad day. Whenever someone comes to him for aid, he feels honored and happy to help.

Rihito thinks that Ritaka is just a character. The truth is that Ritaka is Rihito, but with the ability to act the way he feels in a comfortable environment. Sword Art Online is Rihito's freedom, not his cage.

[KoL]

I wonder if I can join in too? I realy love SAO, but it's been ages since I RPed for the last time, so I maybe a little rusty. But this picked my curiosity, since I always wanted to make a living on Aincrad type of game.

Anyway, here goes nothing!

-"I Don't mind if you're god or not, as long as I have his memories with me, beating this game won't be a problem!"

Name in Real Life: Alice Kirishima
In Name Game: Alyss
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Looks:



Short Bio: Alice is a half-British girl who came to live on Japan along with her mother after her father, who's the CEO of a big pharmaceutical group back on England, remarried with a woman 20 years younger than him and started to strange himself from the rest of the family. Once she began attending classes at an all-girls middle school, two years ago, she was mercilessly bullied by her class mates because of her utter lack of understanding of the japanese language and culture and soon became disinterested and started to skip classes and isolate herself from the outside world. It wasn't until her mother finally convinced her to enroll on the same public high school from where she graduated over a decade ago that Alice started to see the life in a new light.

The source of this change was her meeting Kouta, a boy that was know as a delinquent by everyone on the school because of his wild looks and the fact that he didn't cared for other people's opinions. Their encouter palyed almost as if it came straight out of a shoujo manga, when the rough boy saves the bullied heroine from the other girls and, at the same time, drives her to do something for herself. It didn't took long before Alice's maiden heart belonged only to Kouta and they started dating and sharing all the things they liked, including Kouta's love for MMORPGs and action games, in fact, Kouta was one of SAO's beta testers. However, unknown to to Alice, Kouta had a very small time left to live because of brain tumor and before they had to part, he used every second he had to instill in her to will to live for herself, as well as, his strong sense of justice. When the time finally came, Alice vowed between her sobs that she wouldn't let Kouta's efort be in vain, she would live for both on them and when the time to meet him again finally came she would have no regrets.

A few weeks after Kouta's death, ALice received a package sent by him, inside of it where a brand new NerveGear, a beta tester copy of SAO, and a post card with a picture of his smilling character along with his beta test party on one side and the message "Have fun, even if I'm not there anymore" on the other.

Putting the NerveGear on, and reading herself for a new chalenge with a smile on her lips and tears in her eyes, Alice vowed to clear this game not only for helsef, but for the one showed her a new way on life.

Personality: Alice inherited a strong sense of justice from Kouta and as such she is always very straightforward in her actions, always fighting her foes head on, never using any sort of deception or dirty trick and loathing those who do. She does her best to protect her friends and allies, but don't care to save people who pursue their own undoing thanks to greed or jealousy. However, she too has her girly streaks, like her love for sweet things and fondness for love stories and dramas.

Skills:

Support Skills
>Acrobatics
>Search
>Sprint
>Straining

Combat Skills
>Parry
>Battle Healing
>Light Metal Equipment

Sword Skills
>One Handed Swords Skills
>Martial Arts

Preferred weapon and Armor: Medium metal armor who offer solid protection while still alowing a measure of mobility and heavy one handed swords, paired with some ocasional martial arts moves (specially grabs and tackles, if it's allowed).

Stats

Level 3

Heath 600
Strength 9
Agility 7

[Lennon79]

Just reading through these CS's and watching the edge level grow sequentially...

[Ebil Bunny]

@Lennon79 The what level?

[Lennon79]

Just the amount of pain and/or suffering in their backstories. Doesn't particularly matter, it's just... interesting.

[Stale Pizza]

I'm interested in the RP and will get an application set up tonight. ( Hope this isn't first come first serve...it often takes a while to make quality apps. )

Just the amount of pain and/or suffering in their backstories. Doesn't particularly matter, it's just... interesting.

@Lennon79

Character tragedy is fine, but it's really hard to get people to sympathize your character if you don't do a good job of it. Some RPers think that it's a shortcut to make a character more interesting, though it really isn't.

[_Middle_]

Sorry for not getting my CS up. I have been pretty busy, and hadn't had enough time to be able to work on it. I will definitely get one up today. And with all the new people, I have a feeling this is gonna be a lot of fun :D

[Little_ninja]

@Ebil Bunny
It's good
Just a few minor details
The health you should have is probably 600 instead of 675
Also, you have one stat point left to use.
And another would be, the pet, will probably have to come in afterwards. You will probably need to find it and tame it later.

@KoL
<<Martial arts>> are an unlocked skill from the 2nd floor.
You have too many stat points as well, remove 3 points.
Base is 5 for strength and agility (level 1) and then 3 points per level. So a total of 16.
Once you have finished your skills it should be good.

@Stale Pizza
You are welcome to join us!
Make a CS and we will look over it

@_Middle_
It's okay
Take your time

[Ebil Bunny]

It's good
Just a few minor details
The health you should have is probably 600 instead of 675
Also, you have one stat point left to use.
And another would be, the pet, will probably have to come in afterwards. You will probably need to find it and tame it later.

@Little_ninja

I fixed it. The reason I had my character have a pet so early is:

- The game would be released approximately at 8:00 AM, the same time the stores that sold copies opened in the morning. (This is an assumption. It makes sense, but I have no evidence to back it up).
- The announcement was made at 5:30 PM. My reasoning for this is because Klein found out that they couldn't leave because he was trying quit to receive the pizza that was to arrive then.
- There are probably very few tamable beasts on the first floor, so if anyone was to get one, they'd have to beat every other player that wanted one. I thought my character would have gotten on, created his character, and gone straight to tame his pet. It would probably take some time getting there, but probably not nine hours.

And the stat point and health were just plain derp miscalculations XD

But yeah, I fixed it :)

[Little_ninja]

Well, the thing is, you can't just walk up to one and feed a beast and then tame it
The beast must take an interest to the player
It's something that happens on a rare occasion
And the tamable beasts in the game are limited in the first place, so there is a possibility that the first floor has none in the first place
I think it is most reasonable for the tamed pet to come into play later, rather than from the start

Anyway, I think it's good to go in the character page.
With the tamable beasts, I will check with Caits whether you can start with it or not. But, as I said, it's supposed to be rare, so it would be unlikely to occur so quickly.

[Ebil Bunny]

@Little_ninja Alright moved it over. And yeah, I see where you're coming from. I always saw the Beast Mastery as there are set beasts in the world that if you go up to them and have high enough Familiar-related skill, and you don't already have one, they like you.

[KoL]

@Little_ninja

Done with the changes.

[Little_ninja]

@Ebil Bunny
Glad you understand
Don't mean to like pick on you or anything
I in fact wish to have my character tame a monster at some point
We can both be tamers!

@KoL
Next time wait for the approval of the fixes before throwing it in KoL
Sometimes I request you wait for Caits to approve too, when I am feeling there might be something I missed
This time I think it is fine
Please be aware of this next time