Sword Art Online (SAO/Fantasy/VRMMORPG/AWESOME/OOC/Open)

[Conjoined Empire]

This RP will be taking place within the world of Sword Art Online.

The IC

Just a little history of the Anime.
Sword Art Online, is itself not a game as the name would suggest. It is in fact a relatively new anime (Not all the episodes have even been dubbed). It takes place within a game called Sword Art Online (The first half in any way) where players have been trapped. Over ten thousand players joined the game, and it was then announced on it's official opening, that no one can now log off. In addition, anyone that died within the came, is dead in real life as well.

The Setting
The RP starts right after the game master disappeared after making his announcement. You start out at level 1, with only the SINGLE weapon your character is given (You get to choose), and no skills what so ever. You will be playing against other characters, both NPC's and PC's. All the rules within the anime count in this RP as well.

The Conditions and Rules.
Just a short word. The rules may sound like a lot, but it's merely to tell you how the game works.

Original Rules as found in the Anime:
1. Towns and Villages are safe zones. Players can't kill or damage each other's HP when within a town or city. However, any strike still hurts.
2. Duel wielding is a skill that ONLY Kirito has.
3. If you die, your character is deleted and is dead, for ever.
4. In order to advance to the next level, you have to defeat the Level's Dungeon Master.
5. Guild can be formed from anything more than 2 players.

Rules Added for the RP:
1. If a Guild Leader dies before he has named a successor, the Guild is disbanded and cannot be reformed. All the money, weapons and Items stored in Guild Storage, is given to the most senior member (Determined by time spent in Guild).
2. Players cannot kill another character without it's owner's permission.
3. Money and Item drops are to be kept within realistic limits... If I find you killing a level one monster and getting a million Coal, I'll reject the kill. Same goes for Items.
5. NO GOD MODDING! You are NOT invincible, you are not undefeatable!
6. Leveling up is limited. You cannot level up beyond 3 levels above the highest level conqoured by any one of the players. i.e. If only the first ten levels have been conquered, none of the players can level up beyond level 13, until level 11 has been cleared.
7. Dungeon Master fights will happen on preset dates, roughly once a week.
8. You can buy items and property. Post what you want to buy on the OOC, and I'll give a price. If you have the money.
9. No swearing, or blasphemy! It just ruins the mood for everyone.
10. ALL CHARACTERS THAT ARE FOUND WITHIN THE ANIME ARE NPC's. They will later be granted to selected RP'ers who have proven themselves reliable, loyal and most of all, fair.
11. HAVE FUN!

If you are still reading, then I assume you are interested in join up. Well, if that is the case, then let me show you how the application will look:
I'll be using my own application as an example.
Jut some things to know when applying:
1. Please don't post a name that's long.
2. Speciallities: Archer: Rather self explanatory. - Archers have a disadvantage when fighting Shinobi.
Mage: essentially a spell caster. - Mages have a disadvantage when fighting Templars.
Shinobi: A stealthy warrior, not great at defence and has little armour. But it has a mean attack, and is capable of limited ranged attacks, in addition, it is hard to detect and very fast. - Shinobi have a disadvantage when fighting Mages.
Templar: Templars are the behemoths of the game. They have impeccable armour and shields, a decent attack, but due to their heavy padding, they are slow, hard to hide, and stand out like a sore thumb in the field. - Templars have a disadvantage when fighting Archers.

Application:
Character Name: Setsuna
Character Speciality (Archer, Mage, Shinobi, Templar): Shinobi
Character Personality: Setsuna is a seventeen year old boy with dark hair and a tanned skin. He has ice blue eyes. He is a cheerful, happy and loyal. He has trouble letting people in, and often distances himself from others. But once you have gained his trust, he is an invalueable friend and ally. He is a strong leader, with great respect for others, and he helps where ever he can.
Character Look (Pic or link if possible): http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/ ... 32sxpd.jpg
Character starting weapon: Katana
Weapon name: Eien no Hono (Eternal Light)
Weapon ability description: A simple Katana in early levels, but once the character has leveled up beyond level 20, it's second form, or Shikai (FIrst release) is unlocked. This replaces the blade with a black beam of light. The final release, or Bankai, is unlocked at level 60. It is a light sword wielded with two hand or one.
Weapon stats (At beginning, will obviously improve with time.)
Attack: 10
Defense: 8
Deflection: 4
Armour Piercing: 2

Overall character stats: Based on your weapon and class, I will assign you stats points. But here are my character's
Stealth: 5 (1 + 4 speciality boost)
Attack SKill: 9 (4 + 5 speciality boost)
Ranged: 3 (1 + 2 speciality boost)
Meneuvrebility: 12 (2 + 10 speciality boost)
Armour: 1 (1 + 0 speciality boost)
Magic: 2 (1 + 1 speciality boost)

That's it. I hope you apply soon.

[Videssos]

Nice. I think there was another SAO RP I joined a little while back, though it didn't last very long.
And that was before I actually watched the series. I just joined it because it sounded interesting.

I spent quite a bit of time yesterday and today to go through all the episodes.
All I need to hope for now, is a second season which'll come out sooner or later.

On another note, how come there's magic in this RP? I'm pretty sure there wasn't any magic in SAO, though there was in Alfheim Online.

It looks like someone's dragged stuff from Dragon Age, Naruto, Bleach, and a bunch of other things, into a SAO RP.

[Conjoined Empire]

It does, but this RP plays out in the entire universe, it is a combination of the Sword Art Online Game in the Series, and Alfheim. Though magic will be limited in terms of it's use. Accept for Mages, though their magic lies mainly in empowering items for battle... I'm still working out the finer details of the dynamics. But I should have things ready and finalised soon. Tough the biggest thing is finding people to join the RP. That's the main hurdle I need to overcome right now.

[Psycentric]

Maybe.... maybe....

[Boriem]

I've watched some of SAO, but never finished the series. I think I got up to episode 9 and stopped. Can someone wield a weapon other than a sword?

[Videssos]

I've watched some of SAO, but never finished the series. I think I got up to episode 9 and stopped. Can someone wield a weapon other than a sword?

Obviously. There's bows, maces, batttleaxes, spears and pretty much anything else you'd find in a traditional fantasy game, like World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, Two Worlds, TES, Age of Conan, etc,etc. Some of those, but not all, being MMORPGs. And Sword Art Online essentially being a Virtual Reality MMORPG. (FYI,that means Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game).

[Boriem]

Application:
Character Name: Aeon
Character Speciality (Archer, Mage, Shinobi, Templar): Templar
Character Personality: Aeon is a hateful, ruthless man of unknown age(It is assumed he is in his early twenties, however.). He is sharp and can understand complex ideas and would make an invaluable ally-if anyone could tame his personality. He is a loner who does not enjoy company.
Character Look (Pic or link if possible): http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2 ... Golbez.jpg (But with lighter, less intricate armor. Finding a pic for my character wasn't the easiest task in the world.)
Character starting weapon: Metal Claws
Weapon name: Chi no Tsume(Claw of Blood)
Weapon ability description: A claw which as the user deals more damage improves their power. If the user does not use them at least once every two days the claws will instead hurt their owner. The only way to get rid of the claws is to have them metamorphose into a more power pair of claws. Or to have someone kill you.
Weapon stats (At beginning, will obviously improve with time.)
Attack: 13
Defense: 7
Deflection: 2
Armour Piercing: 6

[Conjoined Empire]

Application:
Character Name: Aeon
Character Speciality (Archer, Mage, Shinobi, Templar): Templar
Character Personality: Aeon is a hateful, ruthless man of unknown age(It is assumed he is in his early twenties, however.). He is sharp and can understand complex ideas and would make an invaluable ally-if anyone could tame his personality. He is a loner who does not enjoy company.
Character Look (Pic or link if possible): http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2 ... Golbez.jpg (But with lighter, less intricate armor. Finding a pic for my character wasn't the easiest task in the world.)
Character starting weapon: Metal Claws
Weapon name: Chi no Tsume(Claw of Blood)
Weapon ability description: A claw which as the user deals more damage improves their power. If the user does not use them at least once every two days the claws will instead hurt their owner. The only way to get rid of the claws is to have them metamorphose into a more power pair of claws. Or to have someone kill you.
Weapon stats (At beginning, will obviously improve with time.)
Attack: 13
Defense: 7
Deflection: 2
Armour Piercing: 6

Accepted. Your character stats are as follows:
Stealth: 1 (1 + 0 speciality boost)
Attack SKill: 7 (3 + 4 speciality boost)
Ranged: 0 (0 + 0 speciality boost)
Meneuvrebility: 4 (2 + 2 speciality boost)
Armour: 10 (3 + 7 speciality boost)
Magic: 1 (1 + 0 speciality boost)

[Videssos]

Application: Ishimaru
Character Name:
Character Speciality (Archer, Mage, Shinobi, Templar): Shinobi
Character Personality: Despite his apparent outside personality, Ishimaru has a darker streak, and that part of him can be shockingly manipulative, cold and ruthless, evidently contrasting with the usual appearance of a not particularly assuming guy, who's relatively shy and tries to appear calm, and helpful. He also tries to not get in the way of others who loose their temper, and who have the habit of commanding those around them. Might also be a bit uncomfortable around women.

He is a very pragmatic person. Extremely intelligent, he can decipher the true natures of people. However, he seldom holds regard for the feelings of others, and ends up hurting some of them due to his nature of being frank and direct, yet at the same time, cautious, wary and generally distrusting of others. He tends to be quite and sometimes unemotional when dealing with other people. Some might even say paranoid. He tends to like thinking things through, being uncomfortable with being forced to act prematurely.

He is rather odd at times. Said oddness is apparent in the variety of different personalities he seems to have. Sometimes he can be brutal, impulsive, excessively-violent and possessing of a lethally-short temper. However, despite his aggression and obvious blood lust in battle, he can possess a feral cunning and has a knack for quickly exploiting any opening his opponent reveals. In addition, he can be blunt, sarcastic, and quite sadistic, revealing a psychotic grin or laughing maniacally whenever he becomes excited sometimes, or eerily silent, cold and disdainful at other times. He is also very rude and quite disrespectful at times, and mockingly polite, cunning and manipulative at others. He's often serious, yet at the same time disdainful of others, often laughing when opponents claim that they can defeat him, unless they tie in with things he's come to fear. He possesses both a superiority complex and an inferiority complex. He sometimes considers most other people weaker, and beneath him. He treats them as you might expect, yet when he believes others to be stronger- a rare thing indeed, or they have proven themselves to be stronger, he obsesses over them, wanting to become as strong as them, yet also seeming fanatical towards them, and perhaps as scared of them. And he can often be a far cry from disdainful, being rather the opposite on other occasions. On the rare occasion, an older self of his can appear, which seems friendly, cheerful, good-natured, and tends to acts very carefree, masking many of his real feelings with a smile. He is usually emotionally distant, refusing to allow anyone to become too close to him.Sometimes, he seems like a carefree character, never serious and always smiling, though that's fairly rare. When needs be, however, he can also be sinister and dangerous.

Ishimaru is extremely talented with gaming, and uses his skills to good use. He tends to act reserved with his feelings, making him seem like an extremely mysterious person. He tends to stay away from other people. It is said that he became like that after his friends shunned him from a project because they were jealous of his intelligence, which caused him to be wary of friendship, though it's clear that several other factors also contributed in that part of his personality, often including his past.
Character Look (Pic or link if possible):

Character starting weapon: A katana.
Weapon name: Jigoku no Kīmasutā
Weapon ability description: Since Bleach references were already made, mine will have 'em, too. In Shikai, it's a double edged katana with hook shaped serrated teeth on its backside. The hand guard of Jigoku no Kīmasutā is shaped like a pentagram and it has a short black-steel spike that protrudes from the bottom of the hilt. Its release command is "open the gates of hell" ("地獄の門を開き"). Though instead of unlocking Bankai at a certain level, he instead has to kill five player characters to unlock it each time, since after a certain time, the Bankai returns to the blade's previous form, with lesser abilities. When Jigoku no Kīmasutā’s bankai is released the pentagram hand guard glows red and disappears in a flash of light before forming a large energy pentagram, from which demons/monsters that serve him can be summoned, among a few other minor abilities. The blade itself also increases in size, and glows with a mix of red and black reiatsu. A key ability that allows Ishimaru to survive even when thought dead, is what could perhaps be a glitch, or something else. If his health reaches 0 and he begins to dissipate, his sword will fall to the ground, and his essence will continue to exist inside the blade, being regarded as an "immortal item" according to the system. The next person to grab Jigoku no Kīmasutā’s hilt will be transformed into Ishimaru. When this happens, barbs shoot from Jigoku no Kīmasutā’s hilt and bond to the victims hand before transforming the victim into Ishimaru. The stronger the victim is, the longer this process will take. The only way to stop the transformation is to cut off the hand of the victim before the transformation is complete. Of course, if someone ditches the blade in a corner somewhere, and no one tries to wield it, then he's gonna be waiting a long time stuck there.
Weapon stats (At beginning, will obviously improve with time.)
Attack: 14
Defense: 6
Deflection: 5
Armour Piercing: 4

[Conjoined Empire]

Certainly a very interesting character. I can't wait to see what dynamic he will add to the RP once the IC is up and running. I will be opening it once we have five accepted members. So if you want to start RP'ing as soon as possible, then recruit some members for us.

Your stats:
Stealth: 6 (2 + 4 speciality boost)
Attack SKill: 8 (3 + 5 speciality boost)
Ranged: 4 (2 + 2 speciality boost)
Meneuvrebility: 10 (0 + 10 speciality boost)
Armour: 1 (1 + 0 speciality boost)
Magic: 2 (1 + 1 speciality boost)

Just one condition. The whole keeping your soul in the sword... Here is the condition on which I will allow that.

WHen the character is killed, in order to allow him to maintain his life force within the sword, he needs to strip everything he has, Items, skils, XP, upgrades etc. You essential start over from scratch.
I think this is fair, otherwise you just die, and pick up where you left off, which is akin to godmodding...

[Videssos]

Certainly a very interesting character. I can't wait to see what dynamic he will add to the RP once the IC is up and running. I will be opening it once we have five accepted members. So if you want to start RP'ing as soon as possible, then recruit some members for us.

Your stats:
Stealth: 6 (2 + 4 speciality boost)
Attack SKill: 8 (3 + 5 speciality boost)
Ranged: 4 (2 + 2 speciality boost)
Meneuvrebility: 10 (0 + 10 speciality boost)
Armour: 1 (1 + 0 speciality boost)
Magic: 2 (1 + 1 speciality boost)

Just one condition. The whole keeping your soul in the sword... Here is the condition on which I will allow that.

WHen the character is killed, in order to allow him to maintain his life force within the sword, he needs to strip everything he has, Items, skils, XP, upgrades etc. You essential start over from scratch.
I think this is fair, otherwise you just die, and pick up where you left off, which is akin to godmodding...

Okay.
Striping all the items, save the sword, obviously.

Since I've done a few other characters in different RPs with a kind of resurrection ability, there's another thing which one could also see as a disadvantage coming into play. Though it's more psychological, it is a virtual reality simulator, and dying would still not be something that feels very nice. Hence, one's sanity meter could decrease every time one dies, so to speak. And by that, I mean he'd probably become more unstable each time. Not to mention having to earn everything again would be something he'd consider being a pain in the ass.
Just a little something else I thought of.

Oh, and on another note, which appearance in the app, do you think I should go for?
'Cause I kinda ended at an impasse in deciding, myself- with both being fairly cool.

[Conjoined Empire]

The first image set sketches a more heroic, mysterious character. So based on the description you gave, I think the second would work best. It instead sketches a dark, secretive, emotionless, heartless image. It is much more befitting the character you described.

Just my opinion though.

I am still looking for three more players. Once we have 5 in total (myself included) we can begin the IC. But until then we are stuck here. So if possible, would you recommend the RP to anyone you know would enjoy it? I am desperate to open up the IC.

[Videssos]

The first image set sketches a more heroic, mysterious character. So based on the description you gave, I think the second would work best. It instead sketches a dark, secretive, emotionless, heartless image. It is much more befitting the character you described.

Just my opinion though.

I am still looking for three more players. Once we have 5 in total (myself included) we can begin the IC. But until then we are stuck here. So if possible, would you recommend the RP to anyone you know would enjoy it? I am desperate to open up the IC.

Thanks for the input. I think I'll go for the second appearance, then.

Hmm.
I might have a look at the old SAO RP I was in, and see whoever was in that.
And perhaps a few other people I know that mentioned it in another RP or two.

[Psycentric]

I cant post pictures

[Conjoined Empire]

Doesn't matter. Most of the time Images are too big to be posted. Just post A link and I'll check it out.

[Psycentric]

Application:
Character Name: Madison
Character Speciality (Archer, Mage, Shinobi, Templar): Archer
Character Personality: Madison is focused but has tendencies to fall into clumsy behavior. Shes always worried about her footing (being an archer) so she tendeds to avoid rocky area. Yet she somehow finds a way to fall over. Shes nice but aggresive when provoked.
Character Look (Pic or link if possible): [url]http://media.photobucket.com/user/noelle_2008_2008/media/anime%20girl/largeAnimePaperscans_Littlebusters.jpg.html?filters[term]=Anime%20little%20girl&filters[primary]=images&filters[secondary]=vidoes&sort=1&o=70[/url]
Character starting weapon: Bow and arrows
Weapon name: Shiren contoni (Shining Stinger)
Weapon ability description: Shiren is a simple short bow without a arm guard. Its light blue and shoots farther when the drawstring is pulled back to maximum tension (obviously but this means it fires farther than most bows) The bow gets its name from the fact that when it hits the arrow goes completely through (unless it hits bone) the target. The bow itself is light weight which means it is very easy to carry.
Weapon stats (At beginning, will obviously improve with time.)
Attack: 13
Defense: 2
Deflection: 4
Armour Piercing: 10

[Conjoined Empire]

I am unable to find the link. It continues to give me error 404. But I think I can trust you not to have a too offensive look. Accepted.

Overall Stats:
Stealth: 3 (1 + 2 speciality boost)
Attack SKill: 6 (3 + 3 speciality boost)
Ranged: 8 (3 + 5 speciality boost)
Meneuvrebility: 8 (4 + 4 speciality boost)
Armour: 1 (1 + 0 speciality boost)
Magic: 1 (1 + 0 speciality boost)

[Videssos]

Application:
Character Name: Madison
Character Speciality (Archer, Mage, Shinobi, Templar): Archer
Character Personality: Madison is focused but has tendencies to fall into clumsy behavior. Shes always worried about her footing (being an archer) so she tendeds to avoid rocky area. Yet she somehow finds a way to fall over. Shes nice but aggresive when provoked.
Character Look (Pic or link if possible): [url]http://media.photobucket.com/user/noelle_2008_2008/media/anime%20girl/largeAnimePaperscans_Littlebusters.jpg.html?filters[term]=Anime%20little%20girl&filters[primary]=images&filters[secondary]=vidoes&sort=1&o=70
Character starting weapon: Bow and arrows
Weapon name: Shiren contoni (Shining Stinger)
Weapon ability description: Shiren is a simple short bow without a arm guard. Its light blue and shoots farther when the drawstring is pulled back to maximum tension (obviously but this means it fires farther than most bows) The bow gets its name from the fact that when it hits the arrow goes completely through (unless it hits bone) the target. The bow itself is light weight which means it is very easy to carry.
Weapon stats (At beginning, will obviously improve with time.)
Attack: 13
Defense: 2
Deflection: 4
Armour Piercing: 10

Methinks that even for me, that link leads to a dead end. Copying over the link doesn't really work- since "http://media.photobucket.com/user/noelle_2008_2008/media/anime%20girl/largeAnimePaperscans_Littlebusters.jpg.html" leads to a pic on photobucket that's apparently been deleted or removed.

[Psycentric]

I am unable to find the link. It continues to give me error 404. But I think I can trust you not to have a too offensive look. Accepted.

Overall Stats:
Stealth: 3 (1 + 2 speciality boost)
Attack SKill: 6 (3 + 3 speciality boost)
Ranged: 8 (3 + 5 speciality boost)
Meneuvrebility: 8 (4 + 4 speciality boost)
Armour: 1 (1 + 0 speciality boost)
Magic: 1 (1 + 0 speciality boost)

that suck took a while to find it..... thanks though shes around Silicas age

[Conjoined Empire]

Yes well. As I told Videssos, we need two more members to begin the IC. So if you know anyone that might be interested... LET THEM KNOW! I'm dying to begin the RP. But it would be senseless to start with so few people.

[Videssos]

I am unable to find the link. It continues to give me error 404. But I think I can trust you not to have a too offensive look. Accepted.

Overall Stats:
Stealth: 3 (1 + 2 speciality boost)
Attack SKill: 6 (3 + 3 speciality boost)
Ranged: 8 (3 + 5 speciality boost)
Meneuvrebility: 8 (4 + 4 speciality boost)
Armour: 1 (1 + 0 speciality boost)
Magic: 1 (1 + 0 speciality boost)

that suck took a while to find it..... thanks though shes around Silicas age

Hmm. I wonder how you could've found a pic that photobucket tells me is a dead/removed image?

[Psycentric]

that suck took a while to find it..... thanks though shes around Silicas age

Hmm. I wonder how you could've found a pic that photobucket tells me is a dead/removed image?

i dont know T_T

[Conjoined Empire]

DOn't worry about it. Once we're up and running it won't matter all that much. Especially once we begin fighting.

[Firstaria]

Sorry, but how much is our pool for the stats? Where is the blank app?

[Conjoined Empire]

I used my app on the OP as the example. You just erace my details and enter your own.