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Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

It was still dark when Alex arrived at school and the doors were still locked. In the year since he logged in to Deep Ground Online there seemed to be a lot more hours in the day that needed to be filled. Alex mostly took up a new hobby every month or so. This month it was origami. So Alex sat down and took out a ream of paper. By the time the teacher first arrived he had a regular zoo of little paper animals surrounding him. Slowly picking them all up he followed the teacher in and placed the little animals on top of the doors. Horses, giraffes, swans, monkeys, elephants, penguins, dogs and cats. They were just everywhere. Bookshelves were the easiest place to put them.

Soon students started filing in and talk was of some catastrophe in Deep Ground and how there was student assembly later that day. Alex usually didn't go to assembly's, but he still liked to pretend he still played Deep Ground. If anyone found out he was the Unrelenting Jukebox he would probably die from embarrassment. From what he'd heard a lot of the newer players believed the Unrelenting Jukebox was an old event character built by the Devs, which suited Alex fine. No one looks in the real world for an event character. Alex finally arrived at the auditorium and settled in, making a little paper tiger to pass the time.

Sitting quietly Alex saw the student body president approach the podium. Sitting in a position that looked like attention, Alex continued to make his paper tiger. He only shot up to attention when he heard about the death of four of the Kings.

What. Four are dead? Green? That's what I'm a part of. What's going on!

His left eye twitching and he payed complete and utter attention to what the president said. Then the speech went to the subject of war and Alex felt for the first time anger. Not annoyance or frustration, Anger. Sure it made strategic sense for the Black King to attack now and Alex couldn't fault them for that. It was the Sweepers that were supposed to be neutral that angered Alex. For the first time in over a year Alex felt like going back into Deep Ground Online. He was only a mid-level player, but he had to know what was going on.

It was a while later when Alex realized that he was now alone in the auditorium. Standing slowly he made his way to the dorms and found his bed. Locking the door and lying down and then he entered Deep Ground.

[WELCOME BACK UNRELENTING JUKEBOX, YOU'VE BEEN MISSED]

The "You've been missed" confused Alex, now jukebox, but as soon as he spawned in a building just outside the Green Section his ability activated. It didn't normally do it on his login, but being away for over a year must have made it a 'significant event' and so as he walked through upwards through the building in the a song played resounding throughout the area to let everyone know that he was there. Alex thought that whoever decided the music for his ability must have a sense of humor.



Jukebox did admit the song put a smile on his face and a spring in his step. While it played Jukebox checked his equip screen. It had his old bowie knife... thing. It was somewhere between a bowie knife and a short sword, that was what was important. He also had his favorite pistol, the Walther PPK. He liked it mainly because it had a fun effect with his music ability. Checking that the grenades were equipped, Jukebox made it to the roof and two low level 2 Sweepers were there.

They looked so confused, there was music playing and this guy was walking towards them with hand outstretched like wanting a hug. It had to be a rare event or something right? and just like that the Unrelenting Jukebox pulled the pin on the closest Sweeper's grenade and Sparta kicked him off the edge of the building. The explosion of fireworks surprised the other Sweeper and for a second too long didn't aim their gun at Jukebox. Long enough for Jukebox to tackle them to the ground and make good use of his knife... thing.

When Jukebox could catch his breath and look around he was shocked. The Green Section was gone.
"Well this might be the worst thing ever."



"You said it disembodied music. War sucks."

Jukebox couldn't see any Fanged Rangers, but the sound certainly got the attention of the Dissolutions milling about and they certainly weren't happy. Sitting on the edge of the building, legs dangling over the edge, Jukebox started dropping grenades down to the Dissolutions and admiring the firework colours and explosions, wondering what to do with himself. I came here to figure out what is going on. Why attack the Fanged Rangers? They're Switzerland! A neutral party!

Standing up and dropping one more grenade of firework-y goodness Jukebox decided to pretend he was a rare event character like he'd heard that the younger characters thought he was. Hopefully information will come to me and with that he stood up and jogged along the rooftop border of the former green section.

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

I hope it's okay, but I'm having it so that some people mistake the Unrelenting Jukebox for a rare event character (honestly a guy with joke abilities like the Jukebox how could it be anything but an event?)

EDIT: there we go. I think it's a good start. Let me know if there are any issues and I'll do my best to fix them

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

Okay. That was big. Should I be aware of any other big posts coming? Also is the green section just leveled as the "Salt the Earth" implies? Or are there some buildings left standing?

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

Well I'll try get mine up before that, if it doesn't work out that way, no worries. I'll just make a bigger post :)

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

Sounds good. I'll do that

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

Sweet! Would it be better to wait for the big collab posts to go up so that I don't accidentally throw any wrenches into the works?

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

Good Morning everyone! (It's 11am here) Before I start writing up a post I would like to confirm whether or not Alex Coleman has been accepted. My last edit added a guild and buffed his "Motivational Music" skill.

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

I've been reading over the IC and the Kings Char Sheets, but I'm still a bit unsure

The policies that I have determined are:

Black is World Domination, Red is a "take all comers", Blue is a group of trolls, White is VENGEANCE WILL BE MINE, Green is Switzerland and Orange is sinister and aggro. Did I get that right? Also, what is Yellow's deal? They're the only one I can't seem to get a handle on policy wise.

EDIT: I bit the bullet and decided it would be in Alex's nature to have joined the Fanged Rangers, polite and considerate after all.

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That makes sense, I was concerned because it theoretically could buff a whole lot of people at once, but I'll drop the cooldown to an hour maybe?

Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

NOTES: I'm still deciding on the Guild to join, I won't post until I decide. Also I'm a bit concerned with the balancing of the "Motivational Music" ability so I gave it a 1 day cooldown and a 3 minute charge, let me know if it's still too powerful.

Appearance (Real Life):
Height: 165 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Name: Alex Coleman
Age: 15

History: Alex was a quiet kid. He didn't fuss and he didn't complain regardless of what happened even that one time he was hit by a bus. When he finally turned 13 Alex was able to enter Deep Ground and was quite surprised. He chose the Assassin class because he figured the Avatar made for him would reflect how he was, hidden and unnoticed, but instead it gave him abilities to do with what he desired the most instead. Alex wanted to be seen and to be noticed to be a part of the world, to be the center of attention, so he got the ability "Soundtrack of Life" making his Avatar emit music whenever he performed a significant event.

This led to him being somewhat notorious as the Noisy Assassin. When Alex made it to Level 2 and he got a new ability he hoped it would be something more useful. Spoiler Alert: It wasn't. It was "Encore" an ability that made the music play longer for each successive kill. Level three finally came and since stealth was out of the question Alex became a Hitman and attained the ability "Fireworks" that changed the cosmetics of all explosions he causes into fireworks with a random colour, it is also notable for having the first decent effect: a 5% increase in an explosions splash damage. Eventually Alex made it to level 6 and as soon as he did he stopped playing. This was mainly due to the new avatar ability "Motivational Music" that basically turned him into a Bard. Having never actually used it and fearing the mobbing from "Friends" he would suffer if he did use it he just quit. One year later the Black King declares war and Alex decides it's probably for the best to get re-involved in Deep Ground again.

Personality: Considerate, polite and withdrawn. The withdrawn gets replaced with cheerful and welcoming while playing Deep Ground

Appearance (Avatar):
Avatar Class: Hitman
Avatar Title: Unrelenting Jukebox
Avatar Level (Initial): 6 (Now 7)
Avatar Guild: The Fanged Rangers

Avatar Abilities:
Perks:
Vicious Strikes: Melee damage increased by 20%
Grim Stride: Support skill that doubles your movement and attack speed. Lasts 10 seconds, with a two-minute cooldown.
Deadly Aim: Critical hit rate doubled.
NEW Engineer: Enables the Assassin to create remote-detonated explosives, smoke bombs, and grappling hooks. These items can be used by any class, but only Assassins can craft them.

Skills:
Soundtrack of Life: Fitting music plays when Jukebox performs a significant event
Encore: The music plays for longer for each kill made
Fireworks: Give explosions a firework cosmetic, a random colour, and a 5% increase in splash damage
Expanded Playlist: A larger variety of music is unlocked
Perfect Pitch: An activated power. Throwing weapon range, power and accuracy is improved by 20%
Motivational Music: Can only be activated when Soundtrack of Life is playing. All allies in audible range of the music increase movement speed, attack speed, rate of fire and reload speed by 25% 1 minute charge with a 1 hour cooldown.
NEW Dance Battle: The targeted character is forced into a dance battle with Unrelenting Jukebox. This cannot be interrupted by external players or enemies. No damage can be done to either player for the duration of the battle. Weapons and Abilities cannot be accessed for the duration of the battle. A list of 5 random songs appear and the other player chooses. The players dance off and are scored (think like the Just Dance games). The difference between the winner's final score and the loser's final score is dealt as damage to the loser. 1 point = 1 hp. 5min cooldown Can only be used on a player with equivalent levels of health with a 10% leeway.

Other: My favourite colour is green, but I do look rather awefull in a green shirt