[i]Hello RPG! I would like to present an idea I've had on my mind for a while now (and my very first RP). As the title suggests this is .Hack and SAO inspired. Hope you like it :)[/i]

So without throwing out overwhelming information on the interest check, I will outline some key points of this idea:
-Instead of being trapped inside of a virtual reality game, I would like to be able for our characters to log out for real world interaction as well for the first "act" (Meaning if we make it that far I do plan to continue the story). So our characters would have to be relatively from the same area. They don't necessarily have to attend the same school or live in the same city. This is to give the online world a little break for some fun under the sun, attending a festival, or meet up to talk about in game relations.

-Races: I noticed that in both (with the exception of illegally modded avatars in .hack) avatars are human. In this RP I am going to give players the one of two options from 3 different races. Beasts, Elves, and Humans. For example, one could play a high elf or drow. There will also be a rare race for each of the three.
           -Rare races in the story would have been obtained by random as an event for the games release. Those with a rare race happened to pick up the copy of the game with the special code. Of course they don't know it's special until they log in.
           -OOC the rare races will be chosen on a first come first serve basis and will be limited. Currently I'm thinking of only having 5 rare players

-In game world: I want the world to have more of a .hack look/feel to it, but to show SAO some love I will also include the idea of having multiple floors. Which you would have to defeat a boss to move up to the next floor. Though I am going to try to make things a little interesting. Instead of being able to make an attempt at the boss whenever you'd like, you have to look for pieces of the key to the door. There will be gates which you will enter three words that will transport you to another map. Where you will search for a piece of the key. 

-Classes: I would like to keep those of .Hack (or we could go for basic class options)

Finally! There will be a surprise awaiting the final floor. Dun dun dun :P This is just the gist of things and again I hope you guys like the idea. Feel free to ask questions and make suggestions.