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Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

Eris Reinhardt
^{Murasaki City Mall ❖ Food Court}

The trip back home was longer than expected, in no small part because the streets became suddenly crowded with an influx of students, result of the World Government's decision of shutting down Deep Ground for the third time in a month. Seriously, someone should be more sensible when planning those maintenance times. Then again, Eris had an inkling of an idea that this had something to do with all the hacking reports. Indeed, it was only natural when one thought about it.

The second reason for Eris' lateness was in her hands as she made her way to the residents' lobby of the apartment complex which shared its lower floors with Murasaki City's Mall. "I hope that Eins still likes Chinese food," the platinum-haired girl thought as her chest rose and sunk with each breath, causing her mouth to water in anticipation of the delicacies inside the warm paper box she was carrying.

Nevertheless, the call of a voice not totally unknown to her yanked Eris' attention as she was walking by the food court. When she turned to look, it became evident that a blue-haired girl with quite the figure for her apparent age was the one calling. Only after the girl's introduction that Eris connect the her memories to the voice. "You really aren't very different there and here, huh? I'm pleased to make your acquaintance, Miss Kanbaru," Eris said, politely avoiding to mention Deep Ground or Kanbaru's online persona as she approached the more endowed girl, holding her takeout box before her. "That's quite a fortunate meeting," Eris complimented, smiling charmingly as she spoke, "I have been meaning to thank you for today's efforts. While I realize others' loss, it really means much to me that I can help Chiyo achieve her objectives."

"Nevertheless, I hope you do not mind but I'll have to— Ahhh!" Eris was just about to turn down Kanbaru's offer, given that she had dinner planned in very short order, when she was suddenly interrupted by a pair of hands covering her eyes from behind. The young transfer student didn't even need to turn to know who was attached to the other end of those appendages, "E—Eins!? What are you doing here?"

"What? Can't I come down to greet my dear sister, or buy something to eat, though I see that you have already taken care of it," Eins said cheerfully, crossing her arms around Eris' shoulders and smiling mischievously to Kanbaru. "Mint talked well about you, Miss Bro— I mean, Kanbaru. Hehe! By the way, I'm Enyo, Eris' older sister, but you can call me Eins, or Argent Maiden, whatever floats your boat." The sight of the two sisters, so unlike and yet complimenting one another perfectly was an exquisite spectacle to most who knew them. It was no wonder that the Reinhardt twins made such a big name for themselves back at their homeland.

"What do you say of ordering some of those buns you mentioned and coming over to our place for dinner?" Eins asked, still clinging to her sister with a vice-like grip, "I may like Chinese food, but I think that Sis bought a bit too much for just the two of us. That is, it's of your taste. What about it, Miss Kan. Ba. Ru?" Eins asked joyfully, while Eris could do little but blush in embarrassment, her face tinged in a crimson as vivid as the eye color shared by both of the Reinhardt Twins.

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KoL's Test Thread

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

@ERode

Even though a summary is nearly useless, to say the truth, have it here: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/160571-deep-ground-online/ooc. The only additional thing is that the Festival Ended and there have been a major battle between the White/Green guilds vs the other three, ending in the temporary victory of the two aggressors. DGO is shut down for maintenance and we are on Friday evening, right after that.

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

@ERode @Gemini Token

Just to make sure you two didn't missed it. You guys can begin posting in the IC at any moment. Right now we are supposed to be in the Weekend (more specifically Friday's evening) following the School Festival and the 1st Round of the War.

Other than logging on DGO at the moment, you can do whatever you want.

Tin Dragon Detective Agency

As promised, there's my post. I hope it is good, at least the delay allowed me the chance to interact with our new "heavy weight" companion.

Tin Dragon Detective Agency

Rhea Heimlich
^{Timbermoren ✚ Inn's Front}

"Miss Alice Pines, huh? That’s really an exquisite name," Rhea thought as Alice went on her own quest for information while Rhea was left with the mission of fishing yet another roommate, to complete a happy trio. "Well, I guess that I should do my part on this story as well. There’s nothing to gain by dilly dallying."

After setting her luggage besides the door, where she could keep an eye on it, Rhea walked to where Jenna was talking with the driver, not long before the old man began packing his things to go do the rest of his chores. Right about the same time an ogre, or whatever else kind of gigantic humanoid came in, offering suspiciously familiar looking cookies. "Ara ara, I hope I'm not disturbing your... sweets distribution event?" Rhea said, raising a finger to her chin while cocking her head aside, her mischievous smirk still gracing her lips as she continued, "I'm here to invite you to room with us, Miss—" however, she came to a halt when she noticed that she hadn't introduced herself.

"I'm very sorry for my lack of decorum," the mismatched-eyed woman said correcting her posture, "I'm Rhea Heimlich, a humble bookseller and coffee connoisseur, pleased to make both of your acquaintances."

"Now, where was I, again? Ah, yes," Rhea's eyes were like a cat's as she took every detail of the two before her into consideration, before continuing, "My charming, newly acquired roommate and I, thought that we could fetch a third lady to round our numbers. You seem to be the best candidate around, so... what do you say about it? Ah, but before we dismiss the companionship of our muscular friend here and enjoy a little ladies-only fun, let me be sure of one thing."

Rhea skirted around Uwen before stopping in front of the giant, smiling playfully, "As I made my way here, I could overhear the driver mentioning that Mister Kenver disappeared behind that boulder there," she pointed to the large rock, being sure to grab Uwen's attention, "What do you say, my size-advantaged friend, do you think that you could move it so that we can investigate any possible clues over there? If you do that... I'll have a special treat just for Y.O.U.~"

@Mimik @Gareth @TheWindel

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

"I spent all that I had while I was fighting on my own here," was Tiger's reply to Reodath as she was freed of the stun, with a Health Bar so far down the red that it might as well be negative at this point. At least the wall crashing put out the flames that would have killed her for certain, so it as not a total loss.

Shaking her ample golden locks, Tiger looked around, narrowing her gaze. She was clearly searching for Blossom who had, somehow disappeared in the middle of the battlefield's chaos. "We gotta find Shortcake before she finishes us. Like hell I'm gonna lose to her. What da—" before Tiger could finish her statement, a thick cloud of noxious red smoke rose up, blinding the duo of Fanged Rangers.

"Haha! Suck that green beans," Blossom taunted as she got out of her cover, after throwing a tear gas grenade at Tiger and Reodath, meanwhile running to another cover, behind a windowsill at the second floor of a building across the street, with her Lightning Bolts ready to snipe them as soon as they stepped out of the choking smoke.

@Awesomoman64

After Faust's confirmation that she couldn't find anything suspect in the nearby area, making it even more evident that hacking was involved in this bombarding issue, Argent Maiden let out a sigh, both of relief and frustration, before relaying the following message to all the Ivory Masks yet on the Blue City, "Good work, everyone. Thanks to all of your effort we did the first successful siege of a major guild in years. Today's objectives have been fulfilled, you are free to do as you wish until our King calls on you once again."

"You as well, guys, thank you. I guess we will see each other tomorrow, right? Try not to have too much fun without me!" Maiden added, to her teammates, before requesting a vehicle and going back to the White City, so that she could log out and wait for her younger sister in the real world.

Yuuno Kurogami
^{Purple Crown Academy ✨ Student Council Room}

Yuuno spent most of the short trip to the Council Room thinking about what was happening. In fact, she didn't held anything against any of the two boys, except that they were truly examples of brute oafs who couldn't help a girl safeguard her dignity until someone else appeared. That said, this kind of behavior was normal these days, it was nothing to be really alarmed about.

When they arrived there, the first thing Yuuno did was go in along with Maribel, "Wait here for a moment, please. Bel-sama need to change to some dry clothes," Yuuno said to Alex before going in with the Blue King.

Once Bel was done changing, Yuuno called Alex in, setting a cup of freshly brewed tea on the Council Room's meeting table, before each of them, along with a pack of rice crackers. "Well, things seem to have gone all kinds of wrong, haven't they?" Yuuno asked, rhetorically, before continuing, "Let me tell you what I have to say first, I think it may have to do with your explanation, Bel-sama."

Yuuno didn't even touched crackers, even though she took a long gulp of her tea, before finally deciding what to say, "I'm sorry to say this, Bel-sama, but the Blue City was taken by the Ivory Masks. I did my best to defend it, but almost no one answered the call for help. I'm sorry that, because I couldn't be a better leader, we took such a loss," she said apologetically. "Either way, that's was all that I had to say. What about you, Bel-sama and, hmm...?" Yuuno's question trailed off when she noticed that she didn't even knew he name of the boy who followed them, despite having seen him beside Maribel more than once before.

@MCFazzer @TheWindel

And so it was over, the sieges at both the Blue and the Red Cities were all but done as the day was coming to an end and the shadows of the night threatened to once again engulf both Deep Ground and the real world. If anyone else was still involved in any remaining skirmishes, they would be done soon either of their own choice or not, given that as soon as the night came DGO's servers were shut down temporarily, under the excuse of a 'routine maintenance'.

How much truth those words held and what would happen when DGO was rebooted were things yet to be seen. For the time being, it seemed that all but the most battle addicted players had their fill. A break would be more than welcome.

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Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

Ok, now that Alex replied, I can go ahead and do my own post, moving things forward. Expect the time skip to come yet today.

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

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It's more of a case where Vicious Strikes was taken because there's literally no value in any other feat. 10% armor piercing for ranged attacks, when her ranged attacks specifically do no damage? Double damage from sneak attacks when her skills are optimized towards longer, drawn out battles? And yeah, I read the whole round thing. Think it's weird that each round takes up an entire minute for a maximum of two attacks, but eh, whatever.

@ERode

It was in fact one of my ideas to correct this time discrepancy and make it kinda like how it's on D&D, for example. A round lasting only a few seconds, instead of a full minute, but it wouldn't really matter in the gran scheme of things, thus I never touched this issue. Just try to handwave the duration mentally, after a bit you get used to it.

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Also a question. How does attack speed factor in to stuff? So far, stats just seem to be a rather nebulous thing, cause there's no point system or anything here, but the ability to hit multiple times per single action is a keystone to my character's ability to fuck shit up, so yeah...attack speed, how's that work?

@ERode

Hmm, this is another question that's really a matter of abstraction, just as you say. I never thought that an Attack Action should be just one hit, for most avatars, it really but also it must be something that is kept within reason. I know that it's a bit to nebulous to work by these standards, but give that we don't have any hard rules on this RP, that's how it should go. A character like yours certain would be able to attack 3~4 times in Round, at least I think so.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

Oh, that was fast!