OOC
Character Sheets
"So, you consider yourself a gamer, huh? Why do you play, hmm? Do you play for fun? Do you play for the challenge? Or maybe it's for some other reason? Is it an escape? Some sort of wish fulfillment, perhaps? Have you ever trying playing a game... to escape the game?"
"...What's that, you say? That's impossible?"
"You're about to find out how wrong you are."
IC
The year is 2018. Honestly, nothing much has changed. There have been no huge jumps in technology, no breakthroughs in science, or culture, or anything like that. It's about as present day as present day can get. For most people, the world goes on as it has, and as it will be.
You love to play video games. Some would use the term 'gamer' to describe you, but most people see it as a somewhat outdated term. After all, so many people play games at the very least casually that using the word 'gamer' to describe such a huge group is meaningless.
But no, you love playing video games. And you may play for different reasons. You might play it because it's relaxing, you might play to escape from the monotony of the real world. Some of you might place gaming as a higher priority than socializing, hygiene, and the like. Some of you might even be normal. But still, playing games is a passion for you, not just a hobby.
And you've watched the anime, or at least heard about it, right? Sword Art Online or, if you're really classy, Log Horizon? Those tales of players getting stuck in their game world and fighting to escape? No problem, you'd think. You'd go to town with an opportunity like that, right? But, technology hasn't progressed that far, and even if it did, there would be safety measures. There was no way the scientific community would allow something like SAO to happen.
There was no way some sort of supernatural force would do just that.
There was no way you'd be taken in your sleep.
There was no way it would be a game no one's ever seen before.
March 12th, 2018: A user on a popular message board discovers the website "www.resetreality.com".
Most people see the minimalistic website and laugh. Most of the discussion passes it off as a terrible joke, or a very bad attempt at an alternate universe game. The discussions only last about 3 pages before most forget about it.
March 31th, 2018: Another user discovers a change on the website.
Many users note the strange timing of the update. The general consensus becomes that it is a bad attempt at an April Fools joke.
Someone discovers a hidden link on the page, hidden in the period at the end of the first sentence. For most people, clicking the link simply returns a "server not found" error. For a small amount of people, however, this page appears.
Those who share this information with the rest of the board are dismissed, as, for the majority of the board, this doesn't happen.
April 1st, 2018: Several people from around the world, mostly teens, suddenly enter a coma in their sleep.
OOC
You play a character who goes to sleep one day, only to wake up in a video game. The characters won't necessarily know each other. To escape back to the real world, your character has to beat the game, by reaching the level cap and beating the final boss. However, it will soon become apparent that the game isn't... working as it should. And the rest is spoilers.
This will be a character focused RP; the main point will be the characters reacting to the changes that happen, both when they first get transported to the world, and when world slowly deviates from how a game is supposed to work. The game world is fantasy, but with more modern elements than what most think of when they think fantasy. More info will be revealed about the world as the players progress and level up.
Character Sheets
"So, you consider yourself a gamer, huh? Why do you play, hmm? Do you play for fun? Do you play for the challenge? Or maybe it's for some other reason? Is it an escape? Some sort of wish fulfillment, perhaps? Have you ever trying playing a game... to escape the game?"
"...What's that, you say? That's impossible?"
"You're about to find out how wrong you are."
IC
The year is 2018. Honestly, nothing much has changed. There have been no huge jumps in technology, no breakthroughs in science, or culture, or anything like that. It's about as present day as present day can get. For most people, the world goes on as it has, and as it will be.
You love to play video games. Some would use the term 'gamer' to describe you, but most people see it as a somewhat outdated term. After all, so many people play games at the very least casually that using the word 'gamer' to describe such a huge group is meaningless.
But no, you love playing video games. And you may play for different reasons. You might play it because it's relaxing, you might play to escape from the monotony of the real world. Some of you might place gaming as a higher priority than socializing, hygiene, and the like. Some of you might even be normal. But still, playing games is a passion for you, not just a hobby.
And you've watched the anime, or at least heard about it, right? Sword Art Online or, if you're really classy, Log Horizon? Those tales of players getting stuck in their game world and fighting to escape? No problem, you'd think. You'd go to town with an opportunity like that, right? But, technology hasn't progressed that far, and even if it did, there would be safety measures. There was no way the scientific community would allow something like SAO to happen.
There was no way some sort of supernatural force would do just that.
There was no way you'd be taken in your sleep.
There was no way it would be a game no one's ever seen before.
March 12th, 2018: A user on a popular message board discovers the website "www.resetreality.com".
Most people see the minimalistic website and laugh. Most of the discussion passes it off as a terrible joke, or a very bad attempt at an alternate universe game. The discussions only last about 3 pages before most forget about it.
March 31th, 2018: Another user discovers a change on the website.
Many users note the strange timing of the update. The general consensus becomes that it is a bad attempt at an April Fools joke.
Someone discovers a hidden link on the page, hidden in the period at the end of the first sentence. For most people, clicking the link simply returns a "server not found" error. For a small amount of people, however, this page appears.
Those who share this information with the rest of the board are dismissed, as, for the majority of the board, this doesn't happen.
April 1st, 2018: Several people from around the world, mostly teens, suddenly enter a coma in their sleep.
OOC
You play a character who goes to sleep one day, only to wake up in a video game. The characters won't necessarily know each other. To escape back to the real world, your character has to beat the game, by reaching the level cap and beating the final boss. However, it will soon become apparent that the game isn't... working as it should. And the rest is spoilers.
This will be a character focused RP; the main point will be the characters reacting to the changes that happen, both when they first get transported to the world, and when world slowly deviates from how a game is supposed to work. The game world is fantasy, but with more modern elements than what most think of when they think fantasy. More info will be revealed about the world as the players progress and level up.
