The Virtual Calamity (.Hack/SAO Inspired Freeform Game) (Interest Check!)

[Tokyorose627]

The Story

In the year 2020, located in the heart of Technological Advancement, stands Japan, taking the world by storm thanks to their advancements in holographs and Augmented Reality. Used mainly in media and forms of entertainment for everyday use and life, augmented reality and virtual reality have become possible with the main form of entertainment that has swept all across the world, video gaming. With multiple branches from different companies dabbling in the art of augmented and virtual reality, many games have come out across the span of 8 years, with some varying to poor to moderate success in realism and playability.

However, in the up and coming year, the newest game known as "The World:Renew", a fully immersive virtual reality game that allows gamers to dive into a new and exciting world that allows them to become a new person, and 'renew' their old live in the real world, into the lives they wish to have in the virtual world! With the immense amounts of popularity and media surrounding the game, gamers and curious folks alike are all ready to immerse themselves in the game known as "The World:Renew".

With the games overwhelming launch success, people all around the World begin to play, even as strange occurrences begin to occur. From strange glitches, to some hospital cases of headaches and dizziness from players surfacing, the game takes a turn for the worse when players begin to fall into comas, all for unexplainable reasons, with some players even claiming that victims in the comas are still in the game, logged in. The Company responsible for the game, known as "Augment", has been working constantly to figure out the sudden cases of players falling into comas, however with no such luck. However, when it becomes apparent that someone is involved, and doing it on purpose, and the police too concerned with the Company then the individuals directly involved, it's up to a certain few to rise and bring an end to the Calamity, before people they care about, or they themselves, fall victim.

The World:Renew

"A Fantasy world filled with wonder and excitement; Experience The World:Renew, and create a new legacy like none other!"

Races

Humans

Fae (Half Human/Half Elf Race)

Nekyojin (Half-Human/Half-Cat Race)

Weapons

Swords

Staffs

Maces

Knives

Spellbooks

Overview

I plan for this game to have two Main locations: Inside The World:Renew, and in the Real World. I've seen many games that tend to stick within the game world and they end up becoming a bit slow paced due to the location never truly changing. I want players to interact "In Game" with other players, and have their character interact with others out in the real world, to meet the RL counterparts to their friends, and enemies, that they could encounter.

With this game, players will be interacting with others in the Game world and experiencing the sudden occurrences of players being afflicted with comas, and ultimately, some even being trapped in the Game itself. With these circumstances in place, characters will be on the lookout for information regarding the individuals responsible, both inside and outside the game, and may even come to encounter such individuals.

Your character can choose to help find out the cause, and try to help put an end to the horror, or they could be apart of the evil, and be the Mastermind behind everything, all for the sake of your own plan.

The choice is yours in The World:Renew.

This game will be freeform, and for now will be in an interest check to see if anyone is possibly interested in a game like this. Writing up to two to three paragraphs is required, as well as having correct grammar and spelling in order to be accepted. I want people to be creative with both their In Game character, and their Real World counterpart, and make a fun and exciting game that have tons of mystery and suspense, with fun scenes to balance everything out!

[pdragon]

Would definitely be interested in playing this.

[Kimmy]

Definitely interested, are we limited to just those couple of races? Or will the world be expanded as it draws interest? I'd love a chance to apply with a darker race...

[Metraxa]

Hm, seems like an interesting idea.

[Tokyorose627]

Definitely interested, are we limited to just those couple of races? Or will the world be expanded as it draws interest? I'd love a chance to apply with a darker race...

It would depend on the interest and what people want and how I want the world to be shaped. I feel another race could be added if more interest is shown

[Kimmy]

@paws@ So I need to kidnap people and hide hem in this thread to generate interest?

[Tokyorose627]

@paws@ So I need to kidnap people and hide hem in this thread to generate interest?

lol nothing that drastic. xD

just enough that it's not just only three or four people; maybe around 6 or 7 just to be safe in case people drop suddenly.

I want people to be able to create interesting characters, not just heroes, I'd also really like people to create villains, individuals that are woking for the manipulative side of the incident that goes on in the Game. Even morally questionable characters could be fun; not knowing if they are good or evil.

[Revna]

I will see where this goes

[Broken]

Putting interest down.

[Tokyorose627]

We got a good amount of interest so far; I'll be leaving this interest up for another day to see if any others are interested, and then I'll go gong about making a recruitment thread. If anyone has questions about the Game or ideas such as classes or races for characters, feel free to contact me and I'll see what I can do.

[Gardsorm]

Put me down for interest. I love .Hack and the recent announcement of the remastered G.U trilogy's got my spirits kindled once more. o=

[Kimmy]

Is the game just a VR interface like the .//Hack Sign series or will there be Augmented Reality sections where people can interact in more limited ways in some areas of the real world- a bit like a more advanced Pokemon Go? Just since you mentioned it I was wondering if there may be an AR setup to let people try the game before hey buy the big expensive VR gear or if there are incharacter bonuses for doing AR quests (Collect X from every major park in your city -maybe to try n promote gamer exercising etc)

My though was it might be a way you can try the game before you buy into it fully, so it would be a part of character history.

And can you expound a little bit on your ideas of the ingame story? The setting for the game? Maybe a little more on the races?

[Tokyorose627]

Is the game just a VR interface like the .//Hack Sign series or will there be Augmented Reality sections where people can interact in more limited ways in some areas of the real world- a bit like a more advanced Pokemon Go? Just since you mentioned it I was wondering if there may be an AR setup to let people try the game before hey buy the big expensive VR gear or if there are incharacter bonuses for doing AR quests (Collect X from every major park in your city -maybe to try n promote gamer exercising etc)

My though was it might be a way you can try the game before you buy into it fully, so it would be a part of character history.

And can you expound a little bit on your ideas of the ingame story? The setting for the game? Maybe a little more on the races?

I imainged the game to have the same VR interface much like SAO, where a device allows a user to fully dive into a virtual world. We could always have VR demos for people that were able to be tested for interest in the game, for backgrounds and such. As for AR we could try that to, but it would be very limited, such as seeing sections of the in game world through a real world device, much like a phone. For example, someone in the real world could talk with someone that was in the virtual one by use of a phone if they have the program installed.

As for quests outside of the game, that could be interesting. It could even work in the sense of getting info on dungeons or other events that happen in game.

The in game story is much like .Hack, where a group of individuals, lead by one person, are using the game to make people fall victim of hacking, and thereby subjecting them to comas due to experiments that police are unable to fully comprehend or clarify to the public. After multiple cases, a group of inviduduals would begin to notice the signs, and would band together to find the culprit and stop them, before they themselves fall victim.

The setting of the RL world would be Tokyo, while the in game world would be the game "The World:Renew". Though that doesn't mean that some characters could be in other countries, or could travel to meet others.

As for races, I only have the ones I put up for now as an idea, basic for now until we get more interest. If others want more races, just PM me and give me the idea or pitch for it.

[Kimmy]

Mm lots to think about! All I have left to ask it is the storyline for the fame world - the Tokyo::Renew game plot-  of the comas but the actually plot of the game itself. Since that I'll affect our "IC role play" inside the game world before the incidents begin. It will also give an idea of guilds, factions & in game prejudice. For when our characters are playing inside the game world and interacting with other players in the group world.

[Gardsorm]

Well, original .Hack had an acceptable number of classes/weapons to use, but .Hack//G.U put in a greater variety that might draw in more players, perhaps. This would include adding Greatswords, Long Swords, Scythes, War Fans, Gunblades, Knuckles/Gauntlets... Mostly just throwing this out there to help expand the mechanics a bit. I'll let others concentrate on what races they want. =p I'm comfortable playing almost anything, so long as I can find a good picture.

I am definitely leaning into playing a more magic-oriented character, since more often than not I lean to melee and the like...

[Tokyorose627]

Mm lots to think about! All I have left to ask it is the storyline for the fame world - the Tokyo::Renew game plot-  of the comas but the actually plot of the game itself. Since that I'll affect our "IC role play" inside the game world before the incidents begin. It will also give an idea of guilds, factions & in game prejudice. For when our characters are playing inside the game world and interacting with other players in the group world.

As for the "Game" plot of The World:Renew, I haven't really come up with one. I was thinking about having it be similar to SAOs, where there's a number of floors to beat and whoever reaches to the top wins an ultimate prize. Players can faction with groups to go through dungeon raids and beat floors faster, or play solo to earn more of the prize rather then sharing it with others. However you can still enjoy all the floors and what they have to offer, as well as all the Towns and the locations that are within the Game. I do like the idea, as well, to have players in The World to also have PKers, simply so that others can make characters that are possibly like that, especially when things start to take a turn for the worse and people begin to fall into comas, and ultimately, get stuck in the game like in .Hack and SAO.

As for prejudices, I don' have any for Races or anything like that, anyone can be what they want and there won't be penalties if you choose a certain race. I do plan on having a section in the Character sheet template however that allows each game character (player), to have one unique ability for their game character. Such as they can dual wield weapons, or they can have a shield the makes a target invulnerable for a short period of time. Something that makes your character unique that they could obtain during a crucial character moment, or something that their character has due to winning an event. Things like that I find could be interesting and fun to add for others to enjoy and be creative.

However, due to these ideas, not everyone can be a "loner", or rather, most of the characters in the game will need to know some others, or else nothing will get done if others just wait to meet everyone that joins the RP. As well, I hope people take the advantage to come up with exciting characters, not just for The World:Renew, but their RL counterparts as well. What are they like, what got them in to the game?

[Tokyorose627]

Just letting everyone know, that the recruitment thread is up!


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