[hider=Alpha Testers]
Alpha Testers are players whom have been through both alpha & beta testing. Those people are chosen randomly from citizens or prisoners. They are dragged from their homes to be tested on pain, death and time dilation continuously. They're ill-treated like lab rats and have been through a virtual hundred or even thousands of years through the testing. Unlike the players, they enter the world through a portal that sends them into the world of Aincrad itself instead of simulating it. (And they don't even know that normal players use nervegear, knowing that its outdated by decades)
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[hider=Beta Testers]
Beta testers are a group of people who tests the game map and the gameplay. They've no significant advantage as compared to the players except for knowledge they have.
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[b]General Setting:[/b]
Aincrad Online is a VRMMORPG with a map of the Tower that consists of 100 floors. Each floor have a landmass within, each with different maps, environment & mobs. To ascend or descend a floor, a boss mob of the floor have to be defeated. The higher it is, the harder the floor is (usually). The game is played using a Virtual Reality Headgear which simulates the 5 senses into the virtual world, that being sold out to 10,000 players globally. The game have an auto-learning function of English, and it isn't exclusive to humans. Thus, there're rumors of animals like cats, dogs or even pandas playing the game and talking to people~
 
You're amongst the 10,000 players of the 1st batch, . The 1st floor starts at the Town of Beginnings. There are 3 main roles, Fighter, Magician and Archer.

Oh, the real world? Its the year 2061, there're only 3 countries currently, Oceania, Eastasia, Eurasia. The warring era is known as the Dark Ages, which is mostly erased from history and unknown, only that it happened around the 2020s. And... the governments aren't as kind as how they had been back before the September 11 attacks~ It is said that all countries have backed financially & politcally the VRMMORPG Aincrad...
 
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Everyone have an attribute, and in contrary to what most people think as "random", its based on the one element that they are closest the most. For example: A bird who always flies have wind attribute; A person who lives in a desert will most likely have fire attribute. Magician can use magic of other attributes, though they would be weaker, especially the opposite elements.

There're 7 main attributes: Fire, Water, Air, Lightning, Light, Darkness & lastly Earth.

Everyone can use magic, though non-magicians (who are weak in using magic) would usually enhance their killing power with the use of mana (Which consumes MP), instead of using the attribute due to higher efficency~
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Trivia:
[hider=Mythical beings & Ruler]
Just if you're wondering, Mythical beings are allowed. There're two ways of being one,
1)Get involved in a shady government mutant experiment that renders you into a mythical being.
2)Get into a contract with the Ruler of 1F to change one's race. However, there're warnings that they are permanent and wouldn't change even when you get out... The appearance will always be identical/near-identical to the real life appearance.

[b]Rulers:[/b] Transcendental beings who rules one of the Floors of the Tower. Most Floors have a Ruler, and they have godlike powers, managing the biome & terrain as well as design of that place. Similiar to GMs, but killable
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[B]Character Sheets[/B]
Name: (Your char's name, if IRL name is different from in game name, state both)
Status: (Alpha Tester/Beta Tester/ Normal Player? Citizenship of which country? etc)
Age: (How old are you?)
Appearance: (You can put an image, or describe your appearance of your char, or both)
Personality: (How does {s}he feel towards a certain situation? How does {s}he act? Sad? Happy?)
History: (Basically what happened to your char)
Race: (Human? Cat? Dog?)
Gender: (Male/Female)
Attribute: (Fire/Water/Lightning/Earth/Air/Light/Darkness)
Role / Weapon Type: (Fighter/Magician/Archer? And what weapon you use?)
Others:(leave blank if none~)

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Name:

Status:

Age:

Appearance:

Personality:

History:

Race:

Gender:

Attribute:

Role / Weapon Type: 

Others:
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[B]Notes & Rules:[/B]
Just have fun, there isn't much enforced & strict rule in the RP. You're allowed to write freely like hunting which mobs or maps, etc. But no godmodding like killing the 100th boss in floor 1 which is basically impossible O.o .

Read my posts, since it contains info about the setting & story, if you find it too long, you should at least read the plot summary & the latest posts~
 
The real life appearance and the avatar are identical, if not near identical at the least. There's no exception for the golden rule. Hope there's somebody interested and I will make the IC thread in a day or two after making my own character ^_^ . And feel free to ask any questions here :) ~