Damiann47

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

So pretty much everything is falling into war and chaos from what gather, well I'm in.

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

Richard Ryner

Richard was running at full speed down the hallways frantically trying to remember where the auditorium is. He had no idea how it happened but his alarm didn't go off that morning, no matter how advanced technology has gotten there was always the human error of somehow literately sleeping through an alarm. By the time he got to the auditorium it was already empty, save maybe for a few students still hanging around. Richard least to say was disappointment, the announcement should have been pretty interesting, partly since he heard it had to do with the kings' deaths. He walked up to one of the remaining people left in the room, Richard had no idea who he was for all he knew the guy was just some background character.

Richard wanted to know what happened so he asked, "Hey there, so uh kinda missed the news, could you maybe tell me what happened?"

The other guy just looked at Richard as if he lives under a rock, which made sense since he did miss some of what could have been earth shattering news. "The Black King declared war on everyone else, I mean the Ebony Strikers have even allied with the Sweepers. Don't know about you but that's some pretty bad news." With a shake of his head the guy pushed past Richard. Well earth shattering was right, he didn't expect everything to escalate this quickly where full out war was declared. Maybe more then ever it was important to find a guild, Richard had a feeling that even solo players were going to be affected by all this. He had no reason to stay in the auditorium, seems the trip was wasted effort, with a sigh Richard decided to go home. He opened the door into his room, as usual he didn't have anything planned so a quick jump into DGO seemed nice.

Enduring Survivor

Survivor shook his body around, it always felt weird when first logging in, he wasn't sure if this was a common problem or just him. He pulled his rifle over from his shoulder, the weight felt familiar after all he has been using this one gun for a while now had plenty of sentimental value to it, although while Survivor didn't want to admit that he had to replace it soon the rifle was just becoming too outdated. Survivor shouldered the gun bringing the strap over his head, he took a quick look around trying to get his bearings. After a few moments Survivor started to make his way to one of his favorite spots, typically it didn't have too many people which make it a great place for some practice. As he got closer to the spot he noticed that unlike usual there seemed to be a few people here, a level 1, a level 5 and a level 9 surprisingly enough. The meeting just seemed odd with the difference in level between the players, but Survivor decided to ignore them for now it wasn't really his business to get involved after all.

He jumped down to an alley nearby, he found this place quite sometime ago back in his first year playing. The alley was filled with rubble making it quite difficult to navigate but also made a great improvised firing range with all the targets scattered around. Survivor took his rifle in hand and crouched down giving him a stable firing position, he as done this so many times that it seemed like second nature at this point. One could also point out that this exercise was a waste of time, but Survivor like to at least practice once a week, he had to rely on his marksman skills more then other gunners or even armsmen so he liked to keep them sharp. After taking a few seconds to line up his first target, a small rock balancing on a pillar, he took his shot firing a short controlled burst. He then switched targets after knocking the rock off, again he fired a short burst. This continued for a while, Survivor was focusing on both speed and accuracy, so far doing pretty well and hasn't missed once yet.

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

Gah, alright I gotta make a post right now have so much to catch on it seems.

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

Right got him all wrapped up, and here he is. Won't lie I'm still not sure about the abilities even after going over them a few times, must be how a game dev feels kinda hard coming up with good abilities then balance them.

Appearance (Real Life):

Height: 5’9”

Weight: 157 lbs

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Brown

Name: Richard Ryner

Age: 17

History: Richard's career started pretty much like anyone else he got DRO on his thirteenth birthday. Richards actual life was very plain, one mother, one father, and no siblings in a standard middle income apartment. School life was more less the same, average grade wise and not much of anywhere on the radar, other than a few fair weather friends he generally kept to himself.

Now his life in DGO is much more interesting. He goes by Enduring Survivor, while Richard himself had never been able to figure out why that became his name, he like it anyway. After four years of playing it was no surprise that he reached level five, he never burned through the levels by dueling but he did spend plenty of time online so leveling up through other means had been more then enough to supplement him. Now that's not to say he's a stranger to player on player combat, when offered to a duel he usually accepted, it was a much better challenge than the normal. Through his actions online Richard had earned himself a reputation of always fighting to the death, he had never run from combat once in his entire history. He was hardly famous, however if someone were to do some research on him, or rather his avatar, they would undoubtedly find a lot of information, he teetered on the edge of the unknown and the realm of the known.

Richard had never really considered joining a guild, he just was simply content with sitting on the sidelines as a solo player. Also he had a distaste for kingdom politics, never quite understood the need for the fighting and conquest between the guilds. Still with the recent death of the kings, the foundation of the virtual world had been shaken, everything was going to change and Richard knew this. Maybe it was about time to take a stand, time to fight alongside side with a king.

Personality: In a few short words Richard could be described as, stubborn, persistent, and defiant. In a social setting Richard could be considered average, no so much as a hermit, but also not a social butterfly. Typically prefers to stay solo, but he's not arrogant, he recognizes the value of teamwork and is more than willing to work with others if needed.

Appearance (Avatar):

Avatar Class: Gunner(Armsman)

Avatar Title: Enduring Survivor

Avatar Level (Initial): 5

Avatar Guild: Solo

Avatar Abilities:

Endless Barrage: Increases fire rate by 100% and gives unlimited ammo. It lasts 20 seconds, but also reduces accuracy by 50%. This allows to fully suppress an area but not to kill specific targets. 15 minute cooldown.

Tactical Awareness: Reveals the general location of all players in a 20 meter radius. There is a slight delay between the apparent position and the actual position. The effect lasts for about 5 minutes, also it can only detect players standing from about waist high. (Think like the Halo radar.) 3 minute cooldown.

Stockpiled Arms: The user is able to summon any ranged weapon. The quality of the weapon is dependent on amount of sacrificed heath, i.e more health lost the better the weapon. User cannot be killed by effect. Ammo is limited, once out of ammunition the weapon disappears. 1 hour cooldown.

Unorthodox Methods: The user decides how much health to sacrifice. For every percentage of max health lost, damage is increased by 2. No combat regen until the effect ends, the effect lasts for 2 minutes. The user cannot be killed by the effect. 5 minute cooldown.

Heavy Round:The next shot has a 10% increase in damage and ignores armor. Only the one shot after the ability is activated counts despite the weapon. To explain more with a rapid fire weapon only the first shot would have the effect and all preceding shots act as normal. 15 minute cooldown.

Perks: Field Medic, Combat Armor.

Other: For his main and practically only weapon Richard wields an assault rifle, the specific one he uses has been in his service for a long time. Through modifications and the like, the rifle performs on the level needed course with its age it might need to be replaced soon. Otherwise he has a knife but no other side arm.

Uh… I’ll pick Jade as my color, no real reason other than I like the word itself.

Edit: Usually I hide the entire CS but got quite a few in here already that its kinda confusing to poke through now, so just going to leave it like this.

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

You know what this has had me interested for a while, mind if I reserve a spot just as a bit of insurance? Also... Hiya Yandere and Drewccap, pretty neat finding you guys here.

Lantern

Think its time to do some lore building.

Lantern

Randold practically collapsed once ashore, so much has happened in such a short frame of time, well considering if time held the same value. None if this made any sense, but Randold was sure of a few things by this point. One being that many creatures here, even plants, may be sentient. While he wasn't too sure about the wolf, the owl clearly had a spark of intelligence, also normally vines don't attack people. Though it all however the group was still standing, minus the boy unfortunately, still Randold had no reason to believe he was dead, not yet anyway. There was also the subject of his own mortality, upfront he wasn't too concerned about it, the survival of the others meant more then his own, but deep in his mind Randold was distressed just that he was not aware of it perhaps. They needed a break, if the evil within this land didn't end them, then fatigue would instead.

Randold looked over to the other two, the fireflies darting around gave off just enough light that he could see their figures. They needed to keep going, if they broke down then all would be lost, so Randold decided to talk. "We're still alive, despite what has happened here we are with air still in our lungs." Randold waited for a few moments, maybe giving Arise or Hania a chance to say something before he continued. "It would do us good to rest here, wherever we are it is certainly safer then the woods above. For the time being I say we pass the time with stories, unless anyone has one themselves I have one myself."

Lantern

I'm in, think we need a break, I mean Randold is slowly dying and all that but think not getting killed by a evil, evil forest for the moment is good for a bit of a talk.

See No Evil

Micheal completely forgot about a student dropping by, although in his defense his superior only decided to tell him just that morning. Lugging around a student always seemed to be a pain to Micheal, just that it wasn't his choice in this case, like at all. Still her papers seemed to be real, and maybe it did explain why the receptionist direct Minae to him without too much convincing, much unlike how it went with Shea. He didn't have any other choice he had to allow her to follow him around, despite Micheal doubted she would learn anything.

Micheal shook Minae's hand, "Then you'll be following me for the rest of the night. You are not going to be seeing much action tonight, unless an emergency call comes in I'm afraid all you will be doing is watching me fill out paperwork." Micheal wanted to keep this simple and straight to the point, strictly business as always. There was one last thing Micheal almost forgot to address, "Oh, and in terms of sensitives, we won't be going into that at all. What goes on in your personal life around this of course should stay with you and vice-versa, doubt you want to know my affairs with the angles and demons anyway." Micheal then continued to make his way to the ER, "Come on."

See No Evil

Micheal mentally sighed to himself, he glanced over his shoulder, not much to his surprise it was the woman from just before. Micheal decided that he needed to talk with the receptionist about directing random people to him all the time. Again like with Shea he found it odd that someone had come to his work just to meet with him, he hoped it was not another recruiter for a completely different hunter group, well that is if there were other groups in the first place. He had to get his paperwork wrapped up, so he wanted to get this encounter finished soon as possible.

He turned around fully to talk, "I'm not a proper doctor, I do not have a PHD, I work as a paramedic, however I am Micheal Hothor. Is there something I can do for you?"
It was true, Micheal was not considered an actual doctor officially through a complex system of laws and regulations however he was qualified to practice medicine of course. He wondered who this woman was, he really didn't expect anyone else other then Shea, and even then he didn't expect her at first.