Pair of Hearts

VRMMORPG (Cheeky Narrator)

Mechanics

Stats

HP
Your health points. It can be recovered by potions, food, resting, and spells.

MP
You mana points. It can be recovered by potions, drinks, resting, and spells.

EXP
Your experience points. It can be gained to level up. It is accrued by combat, elixirs, and interaction.

Cowrie
Currency.

Stamina
Health points denominator.

Strength
Physical attack for Melee weapons.

Endurance
Physical defense.

Spirit
Mana points denominator.

Mind
Magical attack and defense.

Perception
Accuracy of attack.

Agility
Mobility and speed.

Luck
Critical hit, and chance of obtaining rare items.

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Level Up & Skill Points

The automated system of The Nine Worlds allocates the 10 stat points for the player's best interest. Should a player switch class, the stats collected remain intact.

Every level up is granted 2 skill points.

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Class Advancement

When your class is ascended, you gain new skills, passive and active, exclusive to the chosen class. You retain known skills.

Warrior ⇒ Fighter / Page / Swordsman
◇ Fighter ⇒ Crusader ⇒ Hero
◇ Page ⇒ White Knight ⇒ Paladin
◇ Swordsman ⇒ Hexblade ⇒ Dark Knight

Magician ⇒ Caster / Healer
◇ Caster ⇒ Elementalist / Dark Mage
◇ Healer ⇒ Guardian / White Mage

Ranger ⇒ Archer / Gunner
◇ Archer ⇒ Hunter / Protector
◇ Hunter ⇒ Bounty Hunter
◇ Protector ⇒ Sentinel
◇ Gunner ⇒ Sniper ⇒ Gunmaster

You can change class if you drink from the Well of Urd, however, your class is reverted back to the base class (of choice).

Every time someone in the party advances class, the Wild Card will unlock a new class as well due to Wild Card's inherent bonus: "One for All, All for One".

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Final Classes

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Hero
Ultima: Cry of Valhalla
Call up to 5 Valkyries to fight for the Hero. They disappear when their hitpoints reach 0 individually. Each Valkyrie's stats are half of user's.

Paladin
Ultima: Thor's Wrath
The Paladin stands on a protective circle that attacks foes with a lightning chain upon touch. User is invincible for a period of time; surrounding friendly units get physical defence buff up to 50%.

Dark Knight
Ultima: Sacrifice of the Dead
Dark Knight's shadow spreads out to feed on corpses in the battlefield before forming a replica of Gungnir; for every consume, the damage is increased by 50%. Dark Knight takes 10% equivalent to the target's damage.

Elementalist
Ultima (for Fire): Firestorm
Rains down meteors to set ablaze the battlefield. Scorched lands have a 10% fire DOT on all units in affected area.

Ultima (for Water): Healing Rain
A shower descends to bring relief to friendly units. All party members heal for 20% max HP.

Ultima (for Earth): Jord's Embrace
The earth holds onto the target to immobilise it.

Ultima (for Air): Lightning Wall
The user casts a meshed barricade made from pure electricity that fries enemy units upon collision.

Dark Mage
Ultima: Undying Oath
The dead rise again to fight for the user. Summon up to 5 skeleton soldiers. There is a 10% chance to summon Glámr, shepherd of the dead, a draugr warlock that deals fire and dark magic.

Guardian
Ultima: Heimdall's Bridge
The god of knowledge and protection temporarily lends his rainbow to the user and their friendly units. The rainbow allows instant teleportation, and up to 50% magical damage reflect.

White Mage
Ultima: Ragnarök
Revives all dead party members on the battlefield and deals a massive holy damage to all enemy units.

Bounty Hunter
Ultima: Arrow Rain
A flurry of arrows made from quintessence (aether) shoot out from the ground and down the skies to create an inescapable eschewing trap surrounding the main target.

Sentinel
Ultima: Nature's Retaliation
The Sentinel's heart calls out to summon aid from a Ljosalfar, light elf, capable of archery and dispelling magic. There is a 10% chance that a Dokkalfar, dark elf warrior, joins in.

Gunmaster
Ultima: Moving Under Gunfire
The weapon of the user is momentarily imbued with the power of infinity; endless bullets are shot out in vengeance. The bullets ignore magic and physical defense up to 20%, with a 50% chance to knockback.

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Wild Card

Unlike the other base classes, a Wild Card has no higher tier advancements. For every level up, all their stats go up by 1. Each unlockable class comes with a signature move that doubles in effectiveness/duration when equipping the proper weapon/armour.

Bard
• Anthem of Life
A random ally gains Auto-Revive status.
Harp Bonus: Two allies instead of one.

Mystic
• Fast and Furious
The user is so quick their shadow inflicts echoing damage.
Claw Bonus: Shadow is eligible to perform critical hit.

Alchemist
• Need for Science
Upgrade potions to increase their quality.
Glove Bonus: Potions produced are doubled in potency.

Tamer
• Mother's Soothing
Summon an elite child of Fenrir, the legendary wolf.
Whistle Bonus: Summon two wolves instead of one.

Rogue
• Nightwalker
Teleport to a known location through shadows large enough to function as portal.
Sandal Bonus: User can steal from NPCs.

Illusionist
• Houdini's Prodigy
Turn a friendly unit invisible to living, humanoid enemies.
Wand Bonus: Gives user Hover status.

VRMMORPG (Cheeky Narrator)

^{Disclaimer: I own nothing except the funky narration and mashed potato that is this roleplay idea.}
NOTE:
It's okay if you're unfamiliar to tabletop roleplays. I've guided my 40 year old teacher into a science fiction whodunnit roleplay with 5 other teenagers who never heard of 'roleplaying' before on Facebook.

I am willing to guide you and make it easy for you to digest. Relax.

The Story

In the year 203X, VRMMORPGs have become a common thing. After numerous trials and testing, none of the Sword Art Online gimmick occured. Until Insinuous Inc, a company that rides on the coattails of other successful studios, decides to chip in for the VR gaming goldmine too.

Demolishing ideas after ideas, and finally cherry-picking their mockbuster apple of the eye, Sword Fart Online, they launch the game and, as expected, is received quite well. Except they forgot to remove all the dump files stored in the developer folder.

Five chosen ones - how lucky! - who tried to hold out as long as they could before server maintenance booted them out find themselves reborn as new players in a secret, abandoned virtual reality game called The Nine Worlds.

The AI is conveniently a sadistic overlord who puts them through inane tribulations, threatening to fry their brains like fresh eggs if anyone tries to remove their VR headgears. So instead of figuring out a way to shut down the artificial psychopath, everyone in the outside world surrender and hope the hostages survive - because, plot convenience.

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The World

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Base Classes

Warrior

Perk: +50% Melee Damage.
Weak: Slow MP growth.

Final Classes: Hero, Paladin, Dark Knight

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Magician

Perks: +50% Magic Damage.
Weak: Long casting time.

Final Classes: Elementalist, Dark Mage, Guardian, White Mage

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Ranger

Perk: First move.
Weak: None.

Final Classes: Bounty Hunter, Sentinel, Gunmaster

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Wild Card

Perk: Able to equip any weapon.
Weak: Random unlockable classes.

Unlockables: Bard, Mystic, Alchemist, Tamer, Rogue, Illusionist

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Mahz
Thanks so much! Best weekday of May, hands down.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@NuttsnBolts
When you point it out, do they offer to edit?

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@NuttsnBolts
I find it difficult to decline applications. Makes me feel ungrateful or something. Although I also acknowledge a good GM needs to know how to put down a foot. Burgh.

The Asian Ghost Story Collection

"Uh-hm," the raven sombrely nodded, tapping her teal and yellow nails on her white laptop. "I'll give Murphy a call about it and see if she's interested-"

Her ringtone, a snippet from Miss A's hit, "Only You" jingled obnoxiously in the otherwise quiet office. She looked at the ID and stood up, heading out in a hurry. "What a coincidence."

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Murphy's attention was caught by an array of USB adapter cables in the display case next to the cashier and skipped her merry way over, lilac eyes wide with awe.

"Uh, boss?"

"Don't mind me. Just tell Fletcher what you want to tell me," came her jovial response. A female attendant cautiously walked over and tilted her body to the side, her lusciously chesnut-coloured hair cascading.

"Hi, can I help you?"

"Huh- oh, yeah. How much are these?"

The two began chattering amongst themselves.

Marvin, on the other hand, seeing that his usual customer (info broking-wise) was preoccupied, looked less interested in the matter at hand. He sat back down in his seat and opened an unsealed container, semi-transparent- and began using his chopsticks to scarf down the remaining Mee Goreng he ordered takeaway for lunch.

The guy who made fun of Marvin was busy ushering an elderly couple in, probably set on conning them into buying a few things to raise his own commission.

"So," Marvin ruffled his mop of unevenly dyed brown hair behind his hair, looking up at Fletcher like the latter was excess junk, "Colleague, zit? Never see you before. Which state you from? Kedah? You look like Ipoh guy, actually ... you know what Ipoh guys are like?"

The Asian Ghost Story Collection

"Maybe they haunt the object rather than the internet itself," Rainbow mulled over the subject seriously, "You heard of how ghosts were rumoured to be locked in a sentimental belonging if they fail to pass on? This could be what happened. It's just like how some mountain roads have these 'phantom car' legends."

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"Eh, we're meeting up with one of my intel bros."

...

They reached Lowyat.

Specifically, the Mac Studio across a Japanese treat store, next to a Vivo outlet. Its ceiling to floor windows faced the road, which was bustling with pedestrians and cars, and the occasional pedlars that sold counterfeit products of expensive brands like Nike shoes.

The borough was lined up with trees that had lights on them: orange, white, cyan. They glowed brightly, providing the pavement walks a romantic atmosphere.

Murphy seemed unperturbed by the scenery and trudged up the stairs into the mall instead, and with a turn left, she was inside the Apple outlet.

A sales executive in black saw her and instinctively hollered at the counter. "Oi, Muffin! Murphy come look for you liao. Got hear or not?"

A bear of a man, easily twice Fletcher or Murphy's size together, rose from behind the countertop. His skin was dark, almost like a Southern Indian, but his features were distinguishable as your typical Chinese guy.

Despite his intimidating presence, he had a very excited look on his face.

"Ehh, boss. Here liao arh?" His voice was raspy and youthful, like a schoolboy who's wrestling with puberty.

The pinkette solemnly nodded with a terse smile, "Mmmm. I brought a colleague. Fletcher, Marvin. Marvin, Fletcher."

"What orh? Muffin okay already!" Someone in the shop sniggered, much to the tanned guy's embarrassment.

TV Tropes & Idiots

I really like this idea, but the fact that GM suddenly stops logging in for almost a week is a bit unnerving.

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@Rica
I recommend 'Avatar: Legend of Korra'. Straight chick and straight chick like the same guy, then fall in love with each other. The lesbian faction triumphs! //joke-ish

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