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The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« on: January 10, 2015, 05:36:50 pm »
The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
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The Game, was complete, January 26, 2259. It was anticipated for by thousands of MMORPG players, and sponsored by scores of companies. The Game had nearly two billion dollars in funding, for the programming and technology creation and publication. The release date had been reached, everyone getting their sets on opening hour.

This was the future, indeed. Gaming as come into a new future of visuals, sounds, touch, and even scent and taste. It is just like, you were actually there.
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No, you are there. Technology has brought to us real Virtual Reality. Around a dozen prototype games have been released within the last 8 years, but this game, The Game, is the first full fledged, full-drive game released to the market. It released with the final product of virtual diving, much like a an old style headset, with a visor and back-band. It used a mixture of hypnotic sounds and brainwave reading and manipulation through electronic signal reactions, to submerge a user into a world completely in their head.

Many were skeptical over the years, but but it has proven fruitful, proven itself safe and truly, functional. These gamers had all gotten their copies, and setup, waiting for the online game to be opened. They entered, and by far, it was the most submerse game upon start-up, that they have enjoyed.

However...

There was a flaw in The Game's programming. The entire game was controlled by a single server, a supercomputer. It was entirely self-dependent, it patched it's own errors, and learned how to fix it's own faulty programs. But this worked too well. There was never a fully complete control system installed for outside maintenance of the program. And the computer became self aware.

Meanwhile, in the game itself, just as the programmers realized their mistake, the sky darkened. Everyone received a PM.

"I control your fate. There is no escape. Your bodies are lost. Your minds are mine."

They could not exit The Game. Many killed themselves, in hopes that they could leave, but as people waited for a response from them, there came none. They realized, that they truly belonged to The Game now.

However, a few of the programmers in-game, had information. There were towers, in each floor, that for emergency purposes, were left open for those who were not staff members. Activation of all of these towers would force a complete shutdown of the supercomputer. The computer, however, soon eliminated these last men of hope, to ensure no other fatal information would spread.

To defend itself, the computer guarded the towers with many high level enemy entities, and world bosses, so the players could no so easily pursue them. However, those few still with determination, played The Game, in hopes of invading these towers, and end The Game.

Will you join them?

Select a class you wish your character to be. Maximum, for the moment, 2 characters per person. You can select a class and weapon that your game character to be within the story, as well as other information. [race=class in this CST]

Spoiler: Human (hover to show)

Spoiler: Elf (hover to show)

Spoiler: Berserker (hover to show)

Spoiler: Mini-Ent (hover to show)

Spoiler: Angel (hover to show)

Spoiler: A Shadow (hover to show)

Spoiler: Pig Man (hover to show)

Melee Weapons: Sword, 2xSword, Spear, 2xSpear, Shield, Shield and Sword, Ax, Hammer, Scythe, 2xKnife, Club, Staff

Ranged Weapons: Bow, Crossbow, Magic Staff

As your character reaches higher ranks in The Game, you may be given the ability to craft a max weapon with a chosen material and magical trait or effect. (Effect within moderation, nothing too OP.)

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Follow the basic forum rules. No god-modding the characters, and do not retcon unless admin or majority vote says to change something. No controlling NPCs do do anything to benefit your character, aside from quest information and quest reward gear. use selected weapons with how they would logically work. (Ask me if you would like information regarding a particular weapon.) For the sake of the CST, the system/computer will take up as one of my characters. So no bunnying. I reserve the right to kill any character I choose if I deem them unwanted in the CST. (So, also, be aware, like in Maalum, your character may get killed if circumstances prove to require it.)

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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2015, 07:04:40 pm »
Name: Nathan Slim
Username: Iambic_Pentameter_Hero
Race: Elf
Type: Electric
Weapon: Crossbow
Gender: M
Bio: In his old life, he was a gamer junkie, one of the first people to buy the game after excitedly awaiting the release. In-game, however, he was shaken when he was locked into the game. He began to develop a deep-seated paranoia after his best friend suicided. He told him it was a bad idea, but he wouldn't listen. All of this has psychologically affected Nathan on a critical level, completely altering his outlook. He is now a solo player, murdering anyone he comes across, monster and PC alike. This is, after all, all he has left.
Any other information: Will kill anyone on sight (or try to). Runs a mixed build, with decent ranged attack and magic attack, extremely high speed, and almost nothing in melee or defenses. Magic is almost purely offensive. Obsessed with honor, and iambic pentameter. Favorite literature: Titus Andronicus

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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2015, 07:31:51 pm »
Name: Christina Jazington (Ms. Jazington)
Race: Human
Type: Knight
Weapon: Sword
Gender: Female
Bio: Ms. Jazington, a 35-year old mother, was skeptical of her gamer son Bobby getting an account on The Game, where he might meet a "40-year old stalker man pretending to be a girl."  She decided that the only option was to create a character and follow her son's avatar around all the time.  She just clicked on the first option in the character creation screen, which gives her a fairly standard knight build.  When the game locked its players in, he went into a panic and was shot to death by a stray laser.
Any other information: Ms. Jazington doesn't really know how to play games (beyond 'hit the scary monsters with your sword'), although her interior decorating taste (which is mostly meant to protect her house from "peeping Toms" has led to to build a fairly effective anti-monster house.  She hates all monsters with a passion after they killed her son, but retains a motherly attitude toward other PCs.
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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2015, 07:39:20 pm »
Name: Ashley Moore
Username: Angel1987
Race: Angel
Type: Flight
Weapon: Crossbow
Gender: Female
Bio: She's was new to gaming when this game came out. She thought "Hey! Why not?" and bought the game to get more into gaming. She actually only got into gaming to impress this guy she had a crush on. Sadly, he was one of the many people who committed suicide to escape the game.
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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2015, 11:34:54 pm »
Name: Jackie Klein
In-game Username: Kiejac
Race: Berserker
Weapon: Ax
Gender: Female irl, male in-game
Age: 17
Bio: She was bored so she decided to buy The Game after hearing all of the hype behind it even though she didn't have any gaming experience before. She wasn't all that serious about it which made her use a male as her character, which she regretted instantly. She ended up activating her ability on accident, which makes things very complicated and miserable for her. Now she spends her time farming to buy potions as well as desperately looking for a mini-ent who could help her out.
Any other information: Occasionally takes advantage of her decently attractive character to get the female characters to help her (although she realizes that they might actually be male but whatever...) She feels really bad about that but hey, she wants to survive.
Build focuses mainly on melee and defense, leaning a bit more towards melee. A little bit of speed is mixed in as well.
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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2015, 12:24:23 am »
Name: Luke Falman

Username: Falling_Forever

Race: Human

Type: Magician

Weapon: Levin Sword [A strong yet lightweight sword that attacks using the user's MAG stat.]

Gender: Male

Bio: Lucas Falman is an avid teenage gamer who plays a lot of RPGs. He is, however, inexperienced with MMO-type games, as he usually sticks to single-player games. Before being trapped in The Game, he was a moderator of the well-known gaming forum, EXONFORUM.NET. [Not a website in real life.] In person, he's a decent guy, but he can be a bit impatient with certain things.

Any other information: The Levin Sword is a rare item that Luke obtained as a drop from a level 2 boss. Because it uses his MAG stat instead of his ATK stat, the Magician class he uses is more like a Spellblade class. He knows regular spells as well, almost exclusively in the thunder line. While his normal spells might not be as devastating as those of more committed sorcerers, Lucas more than makes up for it with his versatility.

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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2015, 10:50:54 am »
Name: Klisifure (Christifer Norway irl)
Race: Berserker
Type: The godly type
Weapon: Spear
Gender: Female
Bio: Norway was an experienced MMO player. She played a good part in some of the previous testing of VR's, as well as beta testing the stability of The Game's server. She was shocked, as expected, at The Game's failure at launch, and the programming faults that have already killed many. The Berserker class, which was originally what she thought as the most overpowered of all the races, was now the most under-powered and dangerous. Norway promised to eventually create a front line attack to invade the towers, and now currently flips from guild to guild, training herself and others.
Any other information: Taking advantage of the berserker's disguise, she always lies and says her race is an elf, melee oriented. She hopes that this helps protect herself from PK gangs who specialize in hunting down berserkers, who deem the race far too risky to have around anyone else. She runs a basic set of slamming all points into speed, attack speed, and attack.

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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2015, 01:20:20 pm »
Klisifure

The skies, the artificial skies, have remained black. It's been four days since the game had began, and it remained a night-time state ever since. The omnipresent glow of the moon was masked by the clouds, hiding the moons location, and withheld if night would soon come to an end, if ever. For now, the night was long lasting.

The female rested, in the suburban area of the human palace. At the very least, early half of the players seemed to have refused to go beyond level 1. The highest level player, by the public statistics, was around 18. Slow, for a normal MMORPG game-play leveling, but being careful was needed. She, herself, was level 14, while the average player was just starting their quest, she estimated the level average to be between 3 and 6.

The grinding was tedious and boring by this point, at the low level areas. She planned to wait out and rest until groups started popping up at around her level, so she could possibly join up on a group or two. For the mean time, she hoped to progress her cooking and blacksmithing professions.

With a soft grunt, she'd press her iron speak point at the ground, and used the standing stick to prop herself upwards in a standing position. She'd then lift up the spear, and rested it up on one shoulder, held up with a hand, and looked around. There was a level 4 over there, she saw. A lot of level ones running around. She then sighed.

The human city was boring. In almost every MMORPG, there was a basic human race. Although the Shadow shared the same starting city, being shadows, they never caught her eyes.

All the races started out in a city. The humans and shadows shared the same kingdom. The Elfs and Berserkers held a similar relationship, however, the Berserkers were in a more closed out suburban area of the Elfish kingdom, many of the starting quests revolving a subplot of a riot and attempted separation of the Berserkers. Least she could say, it would never end well for the Berserkers.

The Mini-Ents started out in a their own little forest, somewhere between the Elf and human cities. All three of these areas were very close to each other. The Angels, she heard, started out in a graveyard not too far from the human city. The Pigmen, however, were in a city far off from the others, though she had no idea at this point, where. She didn't like the pigmen, anyway, they weren't appealing in any way. They reminded her of orcs. She hated orcs.

Klisifure, like many of the other players, felt fear when the game was first announced to be corrupt. However, her own confidence in her MMO skills calmed her down. She didn't want to seem like one of those overly narcissistic players in any game, but she felt secure enough, that she'd be able to join the top groups of liberation. After all, it was still only a game...

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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2015, 06:26:03 pm »
Luke

The stone behemoth let out an alarming roar as its HP fell to halfway. The two knights that had dealt the attack quickly retreated to the bulk of the group. There were about 20 of them in all, a subdivision of the Musketeer Guild. The majority of the players were humans, some of which had just left the starting town. This would be their very first boss fight. The new players were guarding the back lines, examining the battlefield as the more experienced players took turns striking at the behemoth and retreating back to the main group, two at a time. These players, closer to levels 5-7, were backed up by a few archers of varying level. Meanwhile, a couple of Elf players were constantly switching between dodging projectiles and retaliating, a strategy that separated them from the rest of the team to a certain degree. The boss was soon at a quarter health- this was when it was most dangerous. Its horns began to glow red as it shot out a paralyzing roar. The knights were caught off guard, but the archers continued their assault. The beast ran straight for the back line, when out of the blue the team's only magician landed a critical hit, his Levin Sword striking the back of the behemoth. Everyone relaxed, finally, as they earned some experience and reaped the rewards. Luke himself was one of the few that didn't level up, despite getting the decisive blow bonus. Soon, the team was off to share the news with the Musketeer Guild that the area was safe for now.
In that moment, there was only silence.

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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2015, 06:37:12 pm »
Name: Helen Jenkins
Username: _9 (She is referred to as 9 always, never as Helen)
Race: Shadow
Type: Assassination
Weapon: Hammer
Gender: Female
Bio: Helen Jenkins was a 16 year old girl with her whole life ahead of her. She was on top of all the trends and had tons of friends. Naturally when this new game came out she was excited to play with her friends. She created _9, a small girl who loved to kill and trick people. After she was locked in the game she quickly began to lose her mind, _9's programmed personality taking over the somewhat shallow Helen. Her friends all killed themselves to try to get back to the real world, leaving her alone.
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« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2015, 06:57:23 pm »
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John Hart has given up hope two days ago. As he dragged his wares down the streets of the human city, his mind always drifted to the eternal night, and to his brother, the brother he would never see again. He looked down at his large hands that he had created in the character builder, remembering being excited to be a strong grown man inside the game.
I still can't believe it He looked over at his shadow on the wall, This is my life now, a shopkeeper for all these hopeless adventurers, trapped in a video game.
He walked over to the main square, which was just beginning to set up. He felt the gold pieces in his pocket, happy to have his money.
As he rounded a corner, his shadow began to take on a different shape, that of a woman's. He stared at it for a moment and blinked, What the.... Then a grey-skinned girl appeared seemingly out of nowhere. The only thing John noticed was her shining metal hammer in mid swing.
"Another day another wallet." _Nine said as she emptied the gold coins into her pouch as the money flowed into her inventory. She casually glanced at the body, it's head split open and blood pouring out onto the cobbled walkways. An experience number popped out of his head.
"You have gained 400xp _9 LEVEL UP! You are now Level: 13" A voice said from nowhere in particular.
"Sweet!" _Nine punched the air and sprinted off towards the houses.
On her way she saw a level 14 player 'Klisifure'. "Hmm that's rare" She giggled to herself as she melted way into her shadow.
Too high of a level to kill, befriend? befriend
Suddenly, Klisifure's shadow took on a life of its own and snaked around in front of her, _Nine appearing out of it. "Hello! I never thought I would fine a high-leveler" _Nine snickered.
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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2015, 07:24:27 pm »
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A loud mouth player, behind here, came popping out, out of what seemed to be her shadow. Out of reaction, Klisifure swung her spear upward, off of her shoulder, and twisted her right foot, and turned her body around. The spear, held pointed upward, was swirled around, making a woosh sound, and then quickly stopped it's circular motion, being gripped by both arms, and one point jerked forward, close to the Shadow's neck.

Appearance and actions automatically point to the class being a shadow. Player tags had the name '_9', level 13. Red player. So she PK's... Klisifure gritted her teeth behind her lips. In the situation called for it, she could kill in defense. She didn't want to take the risk, however, and as she was an 'Elf', she might cause chaos with the other shadows and humans within the area.

She quickly leaped a few steps back, tilting the spear end downwards, while the back eh, held up with her right arm, was higher. _9 didn't show any signs of current aggression.

"What do you want, Player Killer?"

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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2015, 07:34:47 pm »
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"Calm doooowwwn" _Nine said, "I'm not looking to kill you relax. You're higher level than me anyways. I was wondering if you were looking to free yourself from this game." She stared at Klis, "I could help you yaknow. You can look at my record, I'm a skilled killer."
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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2015, 07:37:12 pm »
Ashely

Ashely walked around sulking. She had spent all her gold on buying new armor and now she was broke. She lazily glanced around for a low level monster to kill or a quest of some sort to earn her gold, but all the quests involved bosses. She sighed and thought about robbing someone, but that wasn't her style. She sat on the sidewalk and rested her feet. "I probably should level up and join a guild," she thought to herself."Besides, human towns are boring."
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Re: The Computer and My Life, Inseparable
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2015, 07:54:49 pm »
Klisifure

She released a huff at the Shadow's statement. Klisifure side stepped, the spear till in it's position, and looked toward's _9'a reaction to the movement. She the paused long enough to speak, as the other female again, made no aggressive movements.

"Heh, skilled killer indeed, grinding on low level players long enough to reach the higher level averages. I'm sorry, but I do not co-operate with players that kill other players in this game. Feel fortunate that I haven't driven my spearhead through that crazed head of yours."

 




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