IzurichI was talking with a friend and he convinced me to post this.
Preface: this is an old ficlet idea I wrote in 2016. The idea is still good and the quoted segment is a perfect display of what the setting is planned to be like. It is not and will not be planned to be an erotic rp. I'm sorry but I'm not comfortable with that given a setting where most human characters are likely to be underage.
Essentially, going off of some official settings where humans think that the Digital World was a video game, or was actually tied to a video game but the setting tossed the human in Isekai style but into a world that only mirrored the game in specific locations (fighting arenas), I thought it would be fascinating to explore a world where Digimon are actually treated like a video game with all the implications of standard player behavior.
In this, we have a MMORPG come to life and all the horror that idea entails from the MMOworld's side of things.
This is not and will not be intended as an 18+ Adult RP. There can be adult human player characters, but trying to jump to sexual content is not planned or intended.
The setting will be fairly dark but it is intended to have paths to a happy resolution. Just because everything is stacked against the Digital World it does not mean that heroes can't arise. After all any of the shows or games or manga shows us that even a Rookie can, with LV and planning and maybe some special items, be capable of taking out an eldritch god-like force of unholy power.
Characters will be human. Digimon in your party can range the gambit in Type except for anything Holy but until the effect breaks they'll be little more than RPG mobs. Starter would only start to act normal (be it malevolent or protective) if the human is inside the 'game world'.
Posts would be preferred to be a couple paragraphs as it would be enough for detail and interaction; longer post lengths can written as needed for combat or when a character is introspective.
If this is a 1x1, I'll be tending to the RP like a DM and handling the player's Starter and the Villains.
If this is more than two other people, I'll take the role of another Human Player and we'll explore the game together as either a Team or Guild.
The idea can be tweaked if needed depending on interest in this but here you are.
Preface: this is an old ficlet idea I wrote in 2016. The idea is still good and the quoted segment is a perfect display of what the setting is planned to be like. It is not and will not be planned to be an erotic rp. I'm sorry but I'm not comfortable with that given a setting where most human characters are likely to be underage.
Yuurei was excited. The new expansion for Monster Brawler was coming out! The company Lucigami was tight-lipped over the storyline but the teasers for the location were amazing. A new zone will be made available, this time it will be a Jurassic Kaiju jungle full of dinosaurs and titanic beasts! There has been more than a few naysayers as many players didn't care for the previous release of a Halloween-themed zone with a Dracula storyline and cheesy haunted mansions. Monsters such as Pico Devimon were rather pathetic but it was worth it if you wanted a Wizarmon.
His own lineup was decidedly Dark-heavy. Honestly? Many players favored that Field. The Wood types were... well, trees and walking flowers and that one Fairy line. The Bug designs are cool but not very powerful. Another fan-favorite are the Metal types. Aerial and aquatic Monsters vary in popularity but no one can deny that the rare Dragons are amazing. One of the rarest types, Holy, swings between too cheesy for him to stomach or amazing. It does not matter much since they aren't available for player teams yet. Just in arena battles. There is some interest but Yuurei supposes the company is having difficulty in coming up with unique designs or something.
It's been a while but the one constant on his Team is his wonderful Tsukaimon. Or rather Ice Devimon. The company can be forgiven for some of the dumber reskin jobs since the movesets and stats are sufficiently different. Such as how there's an entire branch of Bakemon who's key visual difference is wearing an oversized witch's hat.
This is why no one likes the Bakemon. Soulmon. Whatever.
It's still a wonderful game. But...
About a week ago Yuurei there was some sort of glitch or something. He screenshot it but the guys on the game's forum all claimed it was fake or edited. One of the wild Monsters during a standard 'beat x and harvest y item' quest, instead of shouting the usual roars or 'Die [Player's Monster]' had instead asked why he was doing this. It couldn't be part of the quest, there had been dozens just like it before and more if you include the Dailies. But before he could figure out what was going on, Ice Devimon attacked on his own to kill the Gabumon.
He didn't know what to think. Did he trigger some sort of easter egg? Was it a hint for the upcoming expansion? Is it a flag for a hidden quest? A left-over from some unfinished code? Ice Devimon hasn't done anything unusual since...
Yuurei supposes he'll find out sooner or later.
Essentially, going off of some official settings where humans think that the Digital World was a video game, or was actually tied to a video game but the setting tossed the human in Isekai style but into a world that only mirrored the game in specific locations (fighting arenas), I thought it would be fascinating to explore a world where Digimon are actually treated like a video game with all the implications of standard player behavior.
In this, we have a MMORPG come to life and all the horror that idea entails from the MMOworld's side of things.
- You design your character, the tutorial NPC gives you a starter, and you go out and beat the living daylights out of other monsters either to the death or until they drop items that let you make/hatch your own copy of them.
- Many players tend to go for the "cool" monsters (heaven knows that my lineup is very Dark in the Digimon rpgs), which in this case would fall under Nightmare Soldier or Dragon's Roar families. This paints things as how its specifically geared towards what Types you're able to collect.
- Each player's party is led by a Starter who is in on the charade. Some Starters might come to like their foolish human. After all, they are being given rapid growth in power thanks to the humans! But there are strict penalties for breaking away from the "Script" so unless the human somehow enters the Digital World, the Starters are ill-inclined to Break the Fourth Wall. Lucimon has eyes and ears everywhere and you never know if whatever means that lets a human interact (in a limited way, to boot) with the Digital World can let Lucimon's Digital Moderators spy on you directly.
- The game gains Expansions as Lucimon's grasp on the Digital World grows thanks to using deceived humans to do much of the dirty work (and also souring Digimon trust in Humans to boot). His Endgame is rather clear for the Digital World but what does he have planned for the Human World?
- The Arena Pit's challenging fights are more of a Gladiator Arena with powerful Digimon captured and forced to fight for their lives.
- Holy Types are rare, which says much of his earlier campaigns before Lucimon gained some way to either influence or directly enter the Physical World.
- A lot of the other players in-setting would regard the whole "Digimon is Real" thing as people RPing in-game or a rather weird ARG. This is blatantly taken from .hack//SIGN. If this idea takes off then people would be RPing as humans who stumble across the truth or are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
This is not and will not be intended as an 18+ Adult RP. There can be adult human player characters, but trying to jump to sexual content is not planned or intended.
The setting will be fairly dark but it is intended to have paths to a happy resolution. Just because everything is stacked against the Digital World it does not mean that heroes can't arise. After all any of the shows or games or manga shows us that even a Rookie can, with LV and planning and maybe some special items, be capable of taking out an eldritch god-like force of unholy power.
Characters will be human. Digimon in your party can range the gambit in Type except for anything Holy but until the effect breaks they'll be little more than RPG mobs. Starter would only start to act normal (be it malevolent or protective) if the human is inside the 'game world'.
Posts would be preferred to be a couple paragraphs as it would be enough for detail and interaction; longer post lengths can written as needed for combat or when a character is introspective.
If this is a 1x1, I'll be tending to the RP like a DM and handling the player's Starter and the Villains.
If this is more than two other people, I'll take the role of another Human Player and we'll explore the game together as either a Team or Guild.
The idea can be tweaked if needed depending on interest in this but here you are.
