[quote=Stella]
Nobody ever sees a ninja, but a ninja sees everything.... Thanks for catching that mistake about the Color Cursor. I replaced that sentence with this:I actually had to re-read the SAO wiki page on the Color Cursor a couple of times to see that even a single player-kill caused a permanent orange icon. Personally I think that's a very weird rule for any MMO but what's canon is canon.The reason I thought that player-kills caused temporary orange status was that at the time I was re-watching the episode where Kirito and Silica are ambushed by Rosalia, Kirito says something along the lines of "I'm a solo player, I don't care about having an orange cursor for a few days". This whole time I thought that he was basically saying that he was only sparing Rosalia's life to honor the wishes of the guild leader character (who wanted her jailed, not slain), not because he was too afraid to kill someone. So I guess thanks for indirectly clearing up that wrong idea too. :)
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Assaulting a green player gives you orange for a couple of days, but actually killing them gives you orange for life. Why hurt and kill have the same colours I don't know. Leaves you wondering if they got that orange accidentally flailing their sword about, or if they gave someone a steel enema.