[OOC] Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

[KoL]

@Caits

We've finished that collab, you can post whenever you want.

[TheWendil]

@VarionusNW

Accepted. Please place her into the Character Tab.

[MarshiestMallow]

Okay then I'll post soon

Let me just...get rid of this headache

[Ryonara]

@KoL I posted. I forgot to mention you in my post so I'll do it here instead.

[Lord of Evil]

Say, do autonomous summons still obey commands after the user logs out?

[KoL]

@KoL I posted. I forgot to mention you in my post so I'll do it here instead.

@Ryonara

No worries.

[KoL]

Say, do autonomous summons still obey commands after the user logs out?

@Lord of Evil

They shouldn't keep materialized while you are logged out. It would qualify them as bots and these are illegal.

[Lord of Evil]

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They shouldn't keep materialized while you are logged out. It would qualify them as bots and these are illegal.

@KoL

Alright, I can work around it.

[KoL]

@Ryonara

Whoah! Hibiki is awesome, she doesn't even know how close she got to nailing Itsuko's whole character on that last post. She just picked the wrong feline, that's all.

[Lucius Cypher]

@Lord of Evil You know, it wouldn't be hard for you to figure out Eris’s true identity. The email she sent to Arms Slave and his crew was practically plastered all over the web after one of his friends got it.

[MarshiestMallow]

Just about finished my post! Im not too sure about it and i applogise for any grammer spelling etc mistakes, still getting use to using my tablet since my laptop died

[Lord of Evil]

@Lord of Evil You know, it wouldn't be hard for you to figure out Eris’s true identity. The email she sent to Arms Slave and his crew was practically plastered all over the web after one of his friends got it.

@Lucius Cypher

Honestly, I kinda figured. :\

I was gonna work it in the next post though, so thanks.

[TheWendil]

When did the game become more important then being human? When did it become okay to treat people like this? When did it become okay to treat people based on their avatars, and not who they are?

@Caits

Um...since the game kind of determined your fate <.<

[MarshiestMallow]

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Um...since the game kind of determined your fate <.<

@TheWindel

I didn't write that well...

I couldn't get what I actually meant out...like...well when I was in high school doing well, there were some students that struggled with some stuff but they were being ignored, and I noticed...and helped them out. I didn't think oh well not my problem....

I shall think about how to change that

[OldManWong]

Back from rowing in Canada. Sorry for the sudden disappearance, I thought I would have wifi and data but I had access to neither. Time to catch up.

[Ryonara]

@Ryonara

Whoah! Hibiki is awesome, she doesn't even know how close she got to nailing Itsuko's whole character on that last post. She just picked the wrong feline, that's all.

@KoL

Thank you. I imagine Hibiki as the curious cat who doesn't know what danger is, so she would be the type who'd play with a tiger without really knowing what she's getting herself into. Which is why she's made herself the enemy of players like Corpse Collector and Moon Rider.

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I didn't write that well...

I couldn't get what I actually meant out...like...well when I was in high school doing well, there were some students that struggled with some stuff but they were being ignored, and I noticed...and helped them out. I didn't think oh well not my problem....

I shall think about how to change that

@Caits

I understood what you meant, though unfortunately I can also tell you that outside of highschool, competition hits you hard. I didn't like the whole dog-eat-dog mentality when I tried to get a job in journalism, and you either acted as stooge for someone who'll vouch for you or you kept knocking out the competition because being "better" than them wasn't enough. Even if you just wanted to help, at best they'll take advantage of your kindness, or at worse they'll let you take a fall for something you were helping them with.

I'd imagine things are even worse in Deep Ground since that actively promotes social darwinism. Which is what Hibiki is trying to fight against.

[Mega Birb]

Alright, shortest post on this page! And I just found the perfect spot for Jiro to work at. *Laughs maniacally* *Chokes on a fly*

[MarshiestMallow]

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Thank you. I imagine Hibiki as the curious cat who doesn't know what danger is, so she would be the type who'd play with a tiger without really knowing what she's getting herself into. Which is why she's made herself the enemy of players like Corpse Collector and Moon Rider.

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I understood what you meant, though unfortunately I can also tell you that outside of highschool, competition hits you hard. I didn't like the whole dog-eat-dog mentality when I tried to get a job in journalism, and you either acted as stooge for someone who'll vouch for you or you kept knocking out the competition because being "better" than them wasn't enough. Even if you just wanted to help, at best they'll take advantage of your kindness, or at worse they'll let you take a fall for something you were helping them with.

I'd imagine things are even worse in Deep Ground since that actively promotes social darwinism. Which is what Hibiki is trying to fight against.

@Ryonara

Even now, despite the crap I've gone through trying to get a job as a nurse if I see someone struggling with the stuff in my pharmacy degree I'll help them. I tell them about jobs because if I can't get it I'd rather know it went to someone else in my degree and not just some random whose done a few short courses in drugs.

I like being able to help others.

Cassie...she dislikes the game because...it's not what should be considered. Someone sucks at the game but does exceptionally well could not achieve what they're meant to...

I don't know...Cassie is idealistic.

[Ryonara]

@Caits I feel that Cassie and Hibiki have a sort of "Opposite side of the same coin" feel about them. Both are idealistic, but Hibiki accepts Deep Ground for what purpose it serves. She just thinks that everyone would benefit much better if they worked together instead of keep screwing each other over. Of course, Hibiki isn't entirely innocent of screwing people over, as Corpse Collector could attest.

[KoL]

@Ryonara@Caits

Is there such a thing as a three sides coin? Eris' opinion about DGO is of the same vein as those two, but she has her own vision of it.

Over and above all else, Eris hates the word fate and the meaning it entails. It's a bit deeper than that, since she believes that everyone is born with the right to decide their own destiny and that the potential to do great things is inherent of the humankind as a whole.

Explaining it all would be hard, since it would be a mashup of philosophical babble mostly influenced by Nietzsche's works, but in the end a lot of it can be summed on this speech that made Sora instantly raise to my fave list's top:

And what is going through Eren's head on this scene (I admit the edginess, but it's true, none can deny it):

Living in a world where people willingly subject themselves to the whims of a machine instead of striving to get what they really want? That's no living at all for Eris. It's just people that fear the inherent possibility of failure that comes with trying but, without risking it, how can you ever know what the outcome will be?

People can call Eris edgy and insane, but her vision is probably the most humane of them all. Mankind, all over the world, through all of history, shed rivers of blood to protect their freedom, to fight for what they believed in, even if it turned to be wrong. No body had the right to take it from humanity, they just grew coward and forgot because the world is a comfortable one. It's about time that people wake up and see what they are doing of their lives.

What kind of parent would like to see the life and dreams of their children ruined because they can't play a video game very well? That's just one thing that nags on Eris' mind, nobody gives the least second to think about the future about more than their own lives. People are rotten and, despite knowing this, Eris still tries her best, not because of the individuals, but because she believes in humanity as a whole.