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

[Vulkan]

@PKMNB0Y

I thought it was the latter? And i intended for it to be odd, he doesn't know whats going on. He remembers something about this...and something else...and is trying so hard to put it all together he doesnt notice the proverbial elephant in the room. Everything is all scrambled. For all he knows, it might never have happened at all and might have just been a dream.

Should i start again? I feel I've messed this up. Maybe i should have him find out in a different context.

[Rabidporcupine]

@VitaVitaAR
Ah, yeah, sorry. I don't actually know why my posts are so long here. They're usually kinda short and pathetic, but for whatever reason, just trying to post normally ends up turning into a super long thing in this.

[DocRock]

Could just be strong inspiration if I'm honest.

I know I'm really feeling it, that's for sure.

[DocRock]

@Rabidporcupine
Also that last reply of yours was a beauty to read. In the words of a certain trope, "this is going to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship," least that's how I see the situation with Indy and Danongorf going.

[PKMNB0Y]

@Vulkan: I don't want to force a rewrite, but if your intention was the latter, then it did feel a bit nebulous to me. The second half of the post is fine, of course, but the first half does feel odd.

Though at this point it's perfectly fine to leave it as is, imo.

[TheMushroomLord]

Hmmm... it's tempting to have Hina approach the large group you guys seem to have formed, but that already seems pretty crowded, so maybe I'll wait and see what happens with Kaede, Akimoto or Megumi before posting anything else.

Also, because I was bored I decided to create a list of gathering skills for Chisuikoumori:

Important Skills:

• Gathering: 100/100. The most basic of gathering skills that effects the difficulty and yield of all gathering minigames. Hina has maxed out this skills due to it being necessary to harvest some of the rarer materials and her dedication resource gathering.
• Bloody Harvest: 1/1. A harvesting skill introduced into the game at the same time as the vampire and hemomancer character options and along side a number of cooking skills of a similar nature. This skill greatly increases the amount of blood Hina harvests from creatures and adds a rare chance to gather potent blood, an ingredient used in a select few crafting recipes, from magical creatures or powerful creatures.
• Bountiful Harvest: 12/15. A skill that greatly increases the yield gained from harvesting plant type resources.
• Butcher: 10/15. A skill that greatly increases the yield gained from harvesting resources from once living creatures.
• Careful: 15/15. This skill increases the quality of resources Hina harvests. At the level she has it, Hina usually harvests perfect materials and never anything below high quality.
• Craft Box: 1/1. A common gathering skill, both for gatherers and crafters, that grants a special secondary inventory that can only hold crafting materials but has unlimited capacity for such materials and prevents them from deteriorating.
• Dissection: 3/5. This skill greatly increases the amount of secondary resources Hina can harvest from a corpse.
• Farmhands: 1/1. This skill doesn't do anything for Hina herself, but grants all players she's partied with access to her harvesting skills at a quarter of the level she has them at. As it turns out, not many players want to party up to go on gathering quests making this skill pretty useless.
• Fertiliser: 1/5. This skill causes plants Hina harvests to respawn up to 50% faster.
• Gardener: 1/10. This skill increases the effectiveness of the gardening minigames. Due to never having gotten round to getting a player home in Emerald Odyssey and with it a garden, Hina has never been able to use this skill.
• Garden Warrior: 1/1. More of a joke skill than anything else, that was only available for a short period of time as part of an event. What this skill does is grant proficiency in using gardening or farming implements as weapons. No one really takes this skill as the only effective weapons this skill allows the use of are scythes and sickles which one can easily access through more useful skills.
• Gatherers Cantrip: 1/1. A minor spell with no associated casting cost. This allows Hina to conjure small containers or other similar sized packing mediums around harvested materials. This packing material stays conjured until it is at all damaged or it and its contents are sufficiently separated after which it disappears.
• Hazard Worker: 1/1. With this skill Hina is able to avoid triggering hazards associated with harvesting a material. This only effects hazards that are directly related to the target material and that would not pose a significant risk to someone not directly interacting with the material under normal circumstances.
• Herblore: 5/5. A mostly useless skill that gives additional lore and information on plants gathered, including where they can be found and possible uses. Hina maxed this skill out to help her find locations to grind materials.
• Herb Sense: 1/1. This skill when active highlights all plants ready for harvest in the players vision.
• Macabre Salvage: 2/5. This skill increases the duration Hina is able to effectively harvest resources from a creature.
• Multi-Harvest: 5/5. This skill increases the number of times a player can harvest a resource before it needs to respawn.
• Preserve Material: 7/10. A skill that increases the chances of getting rare items from gathering minigames.
• Quick Loot: 10/10. This skill increases the speed at which Hina can harvest resources and loot bodies or containers. At its maximum level Hina moves at seemingly impossible speeds while performing these tasks.
• Resource Markers: 5/5. This skill marks out resource locations on the uncovered sections of Hina's map and minimap and provides additional information on exactly what can be expected to be found there, what to look for and the abundance of that resource.

[OliveYou]

hope my post doesn't seem too long. also, i took a few liberties with the food mechanics, since i haven't watched log horizon i'm just working off of what Rabidporcupine said -- since the fish is raw, it should retain its taste and texture, but the cooked fish and rice would not.

[VitaVitaAR]

@OliveYou: Not actually how it works here, sorry. ^^;

[OliveYou]

@VitaVitaAR ahh!!! what should i change then!!! I'm sorry ;;;;;

[VitaVitaAR]

@OliveYou: Food is normal. I mean, maybe food that's been "magic'd up" wouldn't be? But food people are selling or made normally would be.

[OliveYou]

@VitaVitaAR normal how? normal tasteless or normal... taste? i'm sorry, you're going to have to explain a bit more.

[VitaVitaAR]

@OliveYou: It tastes like normal food would. It's not tasteless.

[OliveYou]

@VitaVitaAR ohhhh okay.

[OliveYou]

that kinda makes me sad though. it would've been funny. oh well lemme edit my post

[Vulkan]

So...anyone mind if i have Elyan stop eavesdropping and meet the others?

[PKMNB0Y]

I think it'd be fine to do so now, yeah.

(I'd also appreciate the group breaking up and doing your own things elsewhere, because I'm not omnipotent enough to be able to keep up with an 8man party lol)

[DocRock]

No worries.

I was already planning to have Indy drag Ganondorf the Monster Hunter off to the Guild to discuss plans, that or head to the latter's castle. Plans and all. We should probably have one or two of the cast ready to help others process as needed though, heh.

I'll have something up soon, was busy with Smash Ultimate.

[Rabidporcupine]

@OliveYou@VitaVitaAR
Oops, sorry. I guess I just assumed the food thing would be the same... Was he wrong about any other mechanics from the show crossing over too?

[VitaVitaAR]

@Rabidporcupine: I didn't see anything off aside from the food. Like, you can still access the game menus and stuff.

[Rabidporcupine]

@VitaVitaAR
Ok cool. I mean, I can just pass off what Kai got wrong as, well, him being wrong, but I don't wanna accidentally spread any misinformation, ya know?