[OOC] Suddenly, My Favorite MMORPG has Become Real?! — A Log Horizon-inspired RP

[DocRock]

I just put my response up, if I need to change anything regarding how I did Meg the NPC, lemme know, and I can easily make fixes. If anyone else wants to come by the guild in search of help, lemme know, and we can discuss how to make it work!

[PKMNB0Y]

@DocRock: Mmm...
Okay, not that I want to start needling off the bat, but it's kinda unrealistic to assume that a player-made NPC would accept everything stated about the situation at face value. If we're using Log Horizon as a frame of reference, it'd be like the NPCs being told they're just generated constructs in a computer. That ain't right.

Overlord is kind of different, but as those NPCs were written with the notion that they were created, it's a bit more justified.

Also, formatting errors.

Edit: I guess those formatting errors were on my side or something? Or they're fixed idk.

Editx2: Ah, nope, I'm not crazy. Cool.

[VitaVitaAR]

@DocRock: To add to what @PKMNB0Y said, the NPCs are now real people who have real histories. It's be hard for them to accept something like that.

[DocRock]

Understood, I can make those edits. And what sort of formatting errors?

I could just rewrite the end bit, so instead of telling her she's created like that, just say nothing, and instead take time to process stuff? I don't mind any form of needling or whatever, I asked for feedback, so anything is always good. So uh yeah, I can make whatever edits are needed, though Chris would want to tell Meg the full situation, but it's also likely he'd wait, until he was positive that it wasn't some elaborate lucid dream brought on by stress.

Edit 1: To add onto what was said previously, I wasn't overly sure how to frame the first interaction between NPC and player, so this helps me to know how to better frame it, potentially. With the whole real history thing.

[PKMNB0Y]

@DocRock: Yeah, that sort of edit works fine.
As for formatting, one of your tags broke. Fifth paragraph.

[DocRock]

Alright, fifth paragraph? Probably the color tags, since those were the only ones I was really doing, and I could have easily overlooked something. Eating atm, so it'll be a half hour tops before I can get to it. Thanks for the feedback. Since this is my first type of rp in this style, it's a new set of ropes to learn. But I should adapt quickly.

Edit 1: Yeah, I can see the tag break, just forgot a / at the beginning of the end color segment.

[PKMNB0Y]

Tip: use the preview function to check tags. It'll spit out an error if you've got any misaligned or mistyped tags.

In any case, yeah. It's fine to use this place as a testing ground to learn how to forum RP if you need to, and so long as post quality is consistent I'll have no qualms.

[DocRock]

No need to worry, I came from forums, but its been about six years or so since I last used a forum. And yeah, I usually use the preview, but I overlooked it for the color codes this time around. I rp pretty much any chance I get, since its a chance to escape college work...like papers. I mean, I'm a writer by major, but eh, no need to go further. As for overall quality, replies will probably be about the same length, give or take depending on the situation. I tend to write the most when fighting comes up, or during introductions. Or the dreaded...character monologues.

Anyways, yeah, I can meet the requirements, but feedback is always welcome. That's a feature that should be seen more often in rp, tbh.

[Rabidporcupine]

@TheFake
Hey, I'm assuming Kaede isn't planning to be a cold-blooded murderer after the shift, but do you wanna be part of Kai's old 'evil guild'? Like I mentioned in his character sheet, they aren't gonna stay evil once it turns into real life, but it would be cool if he had at least one other friend in the game.

[DocRock]

@PKMNB0Y@VitaVitaAR

Made the edits, and by that, I cut out everything from after Meg checked on him, to the end. How's it look now? Part II will be him arriving in the town center, to meet with other players. I really wish I had a proper image for my muse, oof. I picked a fun class, but I did just look, and found some good ones, so I might add one later, I dunno.

[TheFake]

@TheFake
Hey, I'm assuming Kaede isn't planning to be a cold-blooded murderer after the shift, but do you wanna be part of Kai's old 'evil guild'? Like I mentioned in his character sheet, they aren't gonna stay evil once it turns into real life, but it would be cool if he had at least one other friend in the game.

@Rabidporcupine

that would work, although i was planning on a limited amount of evilness after the shift

[TheMushroomLord]

[@PKMNBOY] Got room for one more?

[OliveYou]

ohhh I CANNOT wait for this story to start rolling. it's gonna be fun.

[PKMNB0Y]

Yeah, always room.

Honestly, while we're talking, I'd like if people who go mia tell SOMEONE if they're going mia so I can continue forward.
If you just dip and I dunno where the heck you are, I give it a few days before we push on without you. Just saying.

[Rabidporcupine]

Ok, so I'm not so sure it was actually that good so much as me just rambling, but it's something. Hopefully you guys can work off that.

[TheMushroomLord]

Okay think I've got everything. I decided to try make a frontliner that would rather avoid melee combat, regrets every decision she's made for their character and enjoys exploration and grinding more than anything else. Because who doesn't love an inherently useless character?

Hina

Name (Former): Ito Hina
Name (Character): Chisuikoumori
Age: 16
Appearance:

When Hina created Chisuikoumori she wanted to play a character that was small and cute, which wasn't so much a problem back when Emerald Odyssey was still a game, but has since proven to be rather annoying and disorienting.

Character Level: 56
Character Class: Hemomancer (Blood Knight subclass)

Personality: Hina seems to alternate between acting like herself and acting out the personality she created for Chisuikoumori. For the most part she tries to be herself but is quick to switch over when that gets to awkward or when interacting with people she's uncomfortable with.
While acting as herself she's incredibly shy and socially awkward, but when she adopts the act of Chisuikoumori however her personality takes a full 180, while she still lacks any clue as to social norms, she acts far more confident and outgoing, with seemingly limitless energy. For those that witness her sudden change in character it can be somewhat disconcerting, but given that Chisuikoumori is still just a act she usually struggles to keep it up for long and generally begins looking for an opportunity to retreat pretty quickly.

In combat Hina would most like to be a frontline fighter, as it's what Chisuikoumori was built for, but due to the detriments of blood frenzy she pretty much always instead sticks to casting blood bolt and thinking up less conventional tactics that allow her to stay as far away as possible from the melee.

Abilities: Being a vampire Hina has a number of abilities:

• Undead: She has most of the standard undead traits including, having no need for and receiving no benefit from food, water and sleep and being immune to most poisons and diseases.
• Vampiric: Hina has a number of abilities commonly associated with vampires, including increased speed, night vision, a bite attack, and the ability to turn into a bat at the cost of blood.
• Sanguine Starvation: Instead of food requires blood, a common drop harvestable from most creatures, failure to fulfil this need results in a starved condition in which she looses most of her vampiric abilities, suffers from severe pain and may enter a frenzy in the presence of humanoids or warm blooded creatures.
• Creature of the Night: When exposed to sunlight Hina gains a debuff in which she will not naturally recover from damage, becomes severely lethargic and constantly looses blood in a red mist.

Skills: While Hemomancers are a spell casting class that use their hit points in place of mana and Blood Knights focus on using their enemies health to augment their physical abilities, Hina's skills seem to be a bit all over the place, with a number of low levelled skills chosen from pretty much every skill tree, seemingly entirely based of if they sounded cool with no concern for any kind of meta. The only consistency in Chisuikoumori being the excessive number of high levelled gathering skills she boasts. Some of her more notable skills include:

• Basic Spellcraft: Due to the HP cost imposed upon spellcasting for Hemomancers, most take very few non-combative skills, making basic spellcraft a skill seldom seen in hemomancers but extremely common in a number of other classes. What this skill allows Hina to do is create simple magical effects like sparks or lights, the most dangerous this skill can get is to produce a candle sized flame.
• Blood Bolt: The most basic skill in the Hemomancers arsenal. By expending some HP Hina can launch a mid ranged projectile comprised of her blood at a target. This skill has relatively high damage for its level, however as low as Hina has levelled it that's still realativly little.
• Thaumaturgy: Another basic spellcaster ability, this one next to entirely useless, but popular with some newer players. What thaumaturgy does is create arcane effects around a player that essentially function to make them look cool. They might make their eyes glow red, their cloak billow or their voice boom.
• Thicker than Water: A Blood Knight unique skill usually not taken in favour of armour, what this skill does is make Hina more durable and resistant to injury while she is outside of armour and reduces bleeding damage she takes by half.
• Haemophilia: A rather common Blood Knight skill that causes Hina's weapon attacks inflict a DoT bleeding effect on top of whatever damage they would normally deal.
• Blood Frenzy: One of the few non-gathering skills Hina heavily invested into and the only choice in creating Chisuikoumori she regrets more than being short. Blood Frenzy is a rather potent passive skill that triggers whenever Hina deals damage with a melee weapon or someone damages any creature within a close proximity to Hena. Whenever this skill triggers Hina gains a temporary cumulative boost to her stats, speed and damage up to a maximum level.
  Unfortunately along with the rest of the Emerald Odyssey becoming real, the frenzy part of this skill also seems to have taken on a more literal interpretation which can quickly result in some borderline suicidal rampages should Hina ever engage in melee combat.

Backstory: Hina for the most part was never really more than your average student, with the most noteworthy thing about her having to be her overwhelming social awkwardness. It wasn't like people disliked her but it wouldn't have been an understatement to say she had no friends, which is why a few years back when she decided to give Emerald Odyssey a go she immediately fell in love with the games world as a place where she could act as she pleased and talk to people without feeling embarrassed. Hina always intended to at some point follow Emerald Odyssey's main storyline at some point, but for the most part always ended up getting distracted with exploring the games expansive world, grinding and completing side quests, particularly enjoying the gathering mini games of which she never seemed to get bored.

Other: Due to Hina's playing habits and being a long time player of the game she is incredibly high level for her progress in the Emerald Odyssey's storyline and subsequently lacks a lot of the knowledge generally expected of someone if her level. On the flip side her tendency to exploration and gathering has left her a significantly wealthy player with a fair portion of knowledge on much of the games wilds.

[VitaVitaAR]

@TheMushroomLord: Vampires were actually one of the things we did work out details about for reasons, so let me just double-check to make sure that everything falls in line. ^^; Sorry for not mentioning this before!

Aside from vampires being their own thing separated from most undead, you fall perfectly in line with what was planned so... yeah!

Accepted, just edit that and you're good!

[Vulkan]

Did my post! Hope it's alright. It's been a looong time since I did one of these .

[OliveYou]

@Vulkan hm, it's a little unclear to me. he starts by acting as if he's a player in a video game -- "reaching for his inventory pack" and last night being presented as real life, not video game -- but then it reads like he still thinks he's in reality? and then comes to the realization he's been transported? I dunno, it kinda confused me.

[Vulkan]

@OliveYou

He's got a hangover, that's the joke. He doesn't know what's real. At least in that moment of waking up. Hes forgotten that hes supposed to be out of the game, and that he shouldn't technically even have a hangover in the first place.

Sorry though, should i edit it?