[OOC] Elder Tale. (Sanquin / EveIris)

[EveIris]

Ah okay. Welp my bad, will correct it later on. Thanks for pointing it out.

[sanquin]

Are you still alive over there? :P Haven't heard from you in a bit. Probably busy right?

[EveIris]

I just posted! Sorry about that. Happy new year btw :)

[sanquin]

So...question. Do you want to rp them going to the beach town first, or should we skip that and get to higher level rp?

[EveIris]

Hm any sort of events there? Or maybe we could add an event there but they aren't a higher level for it so they fail when they attempt or something? I'll be posting tomorrow sorry for the delay again lol.

[sanquin]

Didn't really think of anything like an event. We could do something, or we could leave that for after the skip as well. I was thinking that the first dungeon would be a beach one. I was just asking since you seemed to look forward to travelling to the next area a bit ago. And now we'd basically be skipping over that.

[EveIris]

Oh right then that's fine we can skip it leave it till later. Sorry, I'm down with a stomach bug.

[sanquin]

I understand. :) It's not like my post speed has been that fast lately. :P

[sanquin]

So, you okay hun? Haven't heard from you in a while again.

[sanquin]

Well, that was just about the longest post I've written ever I think. xD Sorry it's so long...I felt I had to write down certain details about what the city and other adventurers had been up to during the skipped week. There's more to it, like some trouble brewing under the surface, but my post would have been a lot longer if I had written it all at once. :P And I figured they would meet their future guild during their trip to the beach. I already have something planned. ;)

So...any ideas of your own you would like to add after they meet what will be their guild? Like, maybe idea's for what happens in the dungeon? Or a quest/small story they come across after that? I mean, I could think of the entire story myself most likely. Plenty of MMO experience for that on my part. But we're doing this rp together after all.

[EveIris]

No worries, I enjoyed it. It was definitely informative haha.

Hmm, well I haven't any real solid ideas for it, but I'm curious to if they plan on figuring on how to get out of the game, if that is the main plot or are they stuck there forever. Haha I do want to come up with some ideas but I don't have any in mind. D:

[sanquin]

The general plot is that they indeed find a way to return to the normal world. And even better, to 'connect' the two worlds so people can travel between them.

To explain it in a little more detail:
Aliens have come to earth. Only these aliens live in the digital world. When they arrived, they happened to stumble across the elder tale game, and the game going online for the first time looked like an entirely new world was created just as they arrived. So they entered it. However this had unintended side-effects. Part of the physical world, and thus players that were online at the time the aliens entered, got pulled into the world as well. So eventually they find out about the aliens, and that it's possible to go back to the physical world. And maybe to even connect the two worlds through a portal or something.

Also, dying in the fantasy world does have a negative effect. You lose a memory every time you die, starting with the memories from the real world. Could be something as simple as what your room/apartment/house looked like. Or could be as serious as forgetting a family member. Though it pretty much always starts with less important memories. This happens because when you 'die' you get sent to the moon in that world. On that moon, there's a huge lake of some kind filled with memories. And if you want to resurrect, you have to offer a memory of your own to do so. Only you don't remember having been on the moon once you're alive again. And these aliens feed off of those memories as a kind of energy.

I didn´t think of this overarching plot myself by the way. It´s from an anime called "Log Horizon". (I recommend it if you like mmorpg's! :P) What has happened so far in between was mostly my own idea though.

[EveIris]

Ahh, alrighty that does clear up things, it sounds pretty solid. I like that, however I am curious over to how it would work with clerics. Since my character has the ability to revive a fallen player, does this mean that memory trade concept still apply?

[sanquin]

Yup, it still applies. Though there are high level items that prevent exp loss on death, which also prevent memory loss in this case.

[EveIris]

Sorry for the late response. I should be able to get a post up tomorrow!

[sanquin]

It's fine really. I used to be that guy that came asking why someone wasn't posting after 24 hours at most, but I've calmed down a lot. :P I generally start asking asking what's going on around 10 days since that's about my limit on being patient. ^^;; Not counting special circumstances of course.

[EveIris]

Yeah I used to be like that as well. Used to be able to give replies in a few hours actually, but my pace has slowed down incredibly for all my rps. I now reply once a week, which is something I've been wanting to stop, but life has been getting in the way :(. I don't like making people wait.

[EveIris]

Sorry for the delay, I've got loads of deadlines coming up, I'll try and get something out soon. :(

[sanquin]

Was already wondering if something was up. :)

[sanquin]

Sorry it's taking me longer now. Just came back from a LARP weekend. ^^;;