Time seemed to be going by just so slowly. It wasn't funny, so don't even think that. With a soft sigh the young girl looked down to the small picture that she had in her hands and almost got lost in it among the non existent noise that was around her in the small shuttle. The picture was of her family back home. She had only been gone a week or so since the...Science fair, which was still totally unfairly judged by the way, and well having to leave home under these circumstances makes one kind of sad, right? Of course she missed home. It wasn't like she did this everyday. And she couldn't go back either. If she did that then she would be arrested..or something.
With another soft sigh she folded the picture up and slipped into any pocket she could find and then let her head rest on one of the windows that was behind her. She looked out into the deep reaches of space and tried her best to see any planets she recognized. She could not recognize any. They all looked like tiny lights.
That's another thing; She was headed to a certain planet that had a rather peculiar reputation. She was headed to Pandora, the infamous planet of bandits and murder on a hourly basis. But, the planet was also said to house these things called "Vaults". If one finds such a vault then they were basically set for life right?
She had always been interested in that idea but she never actually thought she would be going to Pandora. She had the Science Fair..and Marcy..to thank for that.
At that point a small rumble from the ship broke her concentration as she came back from her memory train. The shuttle had broken orbit and now they were rather close to landing on Pandora. The pilot said something that Gaige didn't understand...but that's life right!
As they came close to the Plant they eventually got to the point where the ground was visible. She was looking out with wide eyes in anticipation to see the legendary planet of Pandora...only to be a desolate snow covered wasteland.
She let out yet another sigh and turned back around to sit down in her seat and wait for the stop. But, before she could get fully relaxed there was a loud bang and the ship was jarred from its course causing it to spin around a few times before recovering.
The other people in the shuttle started to panic, and while Gaige was rather nervous she wanted to know what just happened.
As the ship came back on its course she looked outside to see a train speeding by with...Bandits attacking it! The bandits had the train almost down it seemed and a few of their forces were aiming artillery at the shuttle. Why was this shuttle flying so closely to the train anyway?!
Another blast shook the shuttle as it was hit. Sirens in the shuttle started to go off as the people in the shuttle seemed to be just as confused as Gaige was.
After a few seconds of hoping the shuttle would take off again it didn't happen. Instead a burst of static came from the comm in the ship and a small hologram of some..dude was standing in front of them. He gave a small bow that seemed sarcastic in every way. His smile seemed sarcastic too.
"Welcome to Pandora, Vault Hunters!" The hologram said before dissipating.
What did that mean? Suddenly a large deafening explosion was heard and the ship was taken away with the explosion and sent towards the ground.
After what felt like hours Gaige eventually opened her eyes slowly and groggily. She rolled over in the snow and when she did her insides started to ache like crazy. She pushed herself to her feet and started to take slow breaths as she recovered.
At closer inspection she realized what happened exactly. The train they had been flying too close to exploded and in turn caused their ship to explode and inevitably crash to the ground.
She must have been the only survivor.
Well..she had nothing to do now but start walking. With a rather hard first step she set herself in some random direction to start walking. She decided to head towards the rubble of the train and see if she could find just anything.
After a few seconds of walking her head started to pound like crazy and when she tried to bring her arm up to comfort her head she realized that...no arm was there. The arm that she had..cut off and replaced with a robotic arm was now gone.
This caused her to panic. It was still intact she knew that much, no way some measly explosion was going to mess up that arm she crafted. So it was in one piece, just somewhere.
After a few more seconds of walking she started to hear voices. She felt like she was going crazy, as her head was pounding and her muscles were killing her and Oh!, she was missing arm. But you know, no big deal just chalk up hearing voices to that too.
She stopped at this though as she had an idea. She built a safety mechanism for this just in case this happened. See her robotic arm was actually the conductor to summon her project, Deathtrap. She had a beacon activator for her arm...if she ever lost it.
When she activated the beacon her arm let out a small transmission and Gaige found out that it was actually very close. With a triumphant smile she made her way over to where her arm was and grabbed it out of the snow.
"There you are!" She said with a small purr before wiping some of the snow off. The robotic arm gave a few clicks as she moved it around and eventually back into its socket.
Once it was there and set she moved her arm and fingers around to make sure everything was okay. She stopped suddenly after this...as she felt a presence.
She slowly lifted her eyes up only to see a woman, much taller than her, and a robot near her that seemed to be conversing. Or..until she showed up she guessed.
"Umm...uh heh...uh.." She said at an attempt to actually form words. She wasn't expecting survivors out here...
Out here..in the cold.
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I'll post after Lennon :D
Isn't the level system gone in ALO? The anime and light novels heavily emphasize the fairness of the game and the removal of the level system that divides new and elite players. The only level system there should be are skill levels.You are right again. Shows how much I know about this show right? Pfftt. I know my stuff. I have confidence. Pfft, no I'm not just speaking now. Shhhh, you don't know me. I was testing you. Kidding. But seriously, thank you for pointing that out.
Oh yeah, one more thing. What level are we? You mentioned that we were all about the same level.Around the mid to early twenties.
I quite liked the idea of The Rotten as a boss monster. Having played the Dark Souls games on PC (with keyboard/mouse...), having a boss I was already familiar with really helped with writing the battle scenes. What would be nice is an aerial boss fight of some sort, that's something I've never RPed before. :D Though on second thought.... don't know if all bosses are supposed to be in no-fly dungeons.
Well, an open air boss would likely be a dragon of some sort, or something similar.An open air boss could possibly be in the future ;)
Oh, there's been one thing that was kinda bugging me. What was the boss's name, anyway?
I didn't give a boss name since I felt like I was pressed and stuff. Seeing as how I pulled a boss directly from Dark Souls 2 I didn't give a name because I don't want to keep doing that. So its name can be whatever. Or just call it its Dark Souls name, "The Rotten". Every boss from now on will be more creative than that.Oh, there's been one thing that was kinda bugging me. What was the boss's name, anyway?I was just thinking that too. Knowing the boss's name would be nice for the next boss encounter.
Alright! Sorry for taking so long to post :P
But now I figured that since the boss was dead all of our players would start winding down and go their separate ways. Then, the story would pick up the "next day" in the RP.
Now since we are doing this I just wanted to say that we don't have to just strictly follow the main story that I had planned out. We are playing in a MMORPG. I made my character be a smith/crafts(wo)man for a reason. I might one day when the story is kind of slow or just cause have Arina be like, "Would you or (insert players who want to participate) mind helping me go extract some rare material from some dangerous dungeon or area."
You know?
And I will post side quests that we can do periodically so we won't just follow some cookie cutter story.
ALSO. If YOU have an idea for a side quest or for some random thing that your character wants to do then don't hesitate to ask! Send me a PM with your quest or..adventure? Idea and we'll go from there! I will most likely always accept it.
And if we do this and (this is just for an example, sorry Stella, I just see you post above this and I just decided to use you xD) Stella doesn't want her character to go along with this.
Then once we finish our side mission thing we can all come back together and Stella can say her character was off leveling or something so we can all stay on the same field of playing.
One last thing about Quests and stuff: I know it is mentioned in the ALFheim story arc that there are legendary? weapons that players can get after completing some hard quest line. I.e. Excalibur for Kirito. Since we have the Cardinal system in play we can say that it is randomly generating new legendary weapons every now and then. But..not like crazy.
Then say Fuyuko learns of a new legendary war hammer that she wants and wants us to help, we can go do that as well.
I just, don't want anyone to get bored you know? I want us to have as much fun with this as possible and do all the things we want to do, within reason xD.
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But that's my spill for now.
Also, some good character development should be coming soon :P Now that we aren't really fighting we can just have a good time with our characters. That sounds dirty. Only if you want it to be.
Awesome posts, again! Just get used to me saying that okay? You guys are good writers and I love it so bleh. But, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask here! Or PM me..
It's whatever :D
Arina stayed quiet as she listened to a few of her fellow party members retort to the two guild leaders who were arguing earlier. It looked as if some of their words pierced them as the two actually stopped and listened. But the tank, who was the one who was going to file the complain, still had his menu up and had a small message typed up. The words made him stop and examine his message. In the end the words were to no avail as he turned and gave them a could shoulder and continued typing his message.
Now the rest of the small party had arrived and they were beginning to converse and respond to Arina's question. It seemed all of them noted the strange behavior with the boss, like she did. So she wasn't just imagining it. It certainly was different, but she didn't know how to respond. That was her first time fighting that boss so she couldn't really form a solid consensus about what to think. Something was for certain however, the AI of that boss, be it ever updating and advancing or glitchy, was definitely different.
The small party seemed to be disagreeing about what they thought. Some were happy about its AI being like that, while the minority were saying that they AI shouldn't be that way.
Arina had to agree with the minority here.
"I have to agree with Fuyuko. But," She held her hand up in suspense..for emphasis. "I don't want to get into any debate here. I'm all for fun boss fights, but not boss fights that cause you to die or even wipe due to some coding error."
The archer gave a small shrug and shifted her bow in her back a bit as it had fallen down slightly when she raised her hand...for emphasis earlier.
A few players were now teleporting out and those that were staying around were still speaking or starting a trade up to trade the loot they received. Then an idea came to Arina's mind. "Oh! By the way!" She started with a small squeak and then what sounded like a small meow to fit her nature.
"I don't know what all loot you guys got but if it's a weapon and you would like it improved or enchanted then talk to me! I'm kind of the number one crafter in this game."
She sent a wink to all of them before crossing her arms over her chest. She did have high smithing and crafting skills, and she liked to boast about it. "I'm kidding by the way. Well..about the latter. I really can improve your weapons...that part is true." Arina gave a few awkward coughs in an attempt to just try and make the air less..awkward. She wasn't the only Cait Sith here..
The archer then brought up her menu again and went over to the party section and saw all of their names. She clicked on them each one by one and sent them all a friend request. Once she was done she closed her menu with a swipe of her hand and looked up to each of them as she started to teeter on her feet.
"Since we are..done here I'm we are all going to go our separate ways. And I like you guys..so. Friends! But, I know that I am going to head to my shop in Cait Sith territory to deposit some things and then I'm logging off for the night. Pretty sure my dinner is now a crisp...seeing as how that boss fight was longer than I was exepecting. But..oh well. So, maybe we can all play together again sometime? I like to think we make a good party."
Arina stopped teetering on her heels as she was sure it was making them slightly uneasy. Great impression you got going on there. The archer then awkwardly stood there as she waited for responses.
Bump! :D
I'm not sure if a giant-ass cleaver would fit into the RP... maybe the Cardinal system could "transform" the weapon into a different form that's actually meant to be used by a player. Just my thoughts though. Anyways, time to get reading!It's been a long day... Thank you for pointing that out :) The Cleaver will be player size. Not gargantuan.
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