.Hack//Virus Protection

[Pilotslover]

As the famous .hackers tackle The Worlds big issues, the other ordinary players have to deal with the momumental changes in their game. Set during the third game, .hack//virus protection follows a group of 'normal' players as they strive to tackle the virused monsters that the .hackers miss.

Or at least 'save' the players being attacked by these near impossible to defeat beasts. Joining with each other over the board, these virus protectors strive to save those that the .hackers simply don't have the time to reach.

[Pilotslover]

Rules:
- No 'twilight' item characters (Like Tsukasa, Kite and Shugo)
- No perversely powerful characters (Like Balmung) all characters should be about level 50 (able to fight the virused creatures but not defeat them.)
- No Godmodding.
- No RPing another persons character unless you have their express permission.
- Replies must be literate, no trucated sentances. Proper speechmarks and other punctuation should be used.
- No mixed classes (A Wavemaster is a wavemaster - a heavy blade cannot use an axe etc.)
- You are allowed a Maxium of two characters with the GM's playing any NPCs.
- None of the .hackers are to be played (This includes the characters from .hack//sign.)
- Characters must be approved before you start play.

Concerning Posting:
- Conventional (In World) Posts should be in auto.
- Board posts (Where a character has posted a message) should be clearly marked (in a colour of your choice.)
- Board messages should be posted in the following way:
Title:
Poster:
Message:
- Ooc (Out of character posting) should be clearly marked with (( )) to show the message.
This should enable us to differentiate between the two.

[Pilotslover]

Characters Sheet:
Your characters sheet could contain the following information:

Name: (Your display name)
Character name: (The characters name)
Age: (Characters age, both in and outside of the game)
in game -
Real world -
Players Gender: (Characters gender in Reality)
Class: (Heavy blade, heavy axe, long arm, Wavemaster, twinblades, blade user)
Weapon: (Type and appearance)
Element: (which of the six types does you character have an affinity with.) (earth, water, fire, wood, thunder, darkness.)
Appearance: (What does the character look like? Is there someone everyone knows that they'll look like?)
Personality: (How the character acts, including over the board.)
Attitude towards the world: (What does your character think of the world?)

~~~ (Because they didn't fit below)

Name: Xias
Character Name: Reina
Age:
In Game - 20
Real World - 18
Players Gender: Female
Class: Blademaster
Weapon: Katana, referred to as 'Shard'. Typical style, with a dark blue handle and blue tinted blade.
Element: Water
Appearance: Has light grey shoulder length hair. The markings on her face are dark blue in colour and curve under her eyes on either side before dropping straight down her cheeks, making on 'r' shape on her right cheek and a mirror image on her left. Her shirt cuts off at the elbow and is grey. Her trousers are long, cover her feet and are dark grey. Wears elbow length gloves with a silver metal plate on either side of each arm.
Personality: Typically quiet yet respectful, Reina doesn't make much fuss and is calm and level-headed. While some of this is genuine personality, the fact that Reina typically prefers to do as she pleases and to work alone or in a pair also counts towards this attitude. Most people tend to blank her when she is in towns or if she is encountered in the field but this has yet to bother her. Even though Reina seems withdrawn and a little unsocial, she has helped newbies in the field in the past with contradicts this. Reina typically keeps to posting on the BBS when she wants to keep in contact with someone, rather than give out her e-mail, and always remains in character.
Attitude towards the world: Reina considers the world an interesting place and while doesn't play as often as she used to when she started up, she still keeps a sharp eye on current events. Reina finds the bugs mysterious and considers them something to investigate at least, if not confront.

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Name: Kerry
Character name: River
Age: 18 (for both)
Players Gender: Female
Class: Twin Blade
Weapon: See Pic
Element: Thunder
Appearance: Pic
Personality: River is very jumpy and shy. She likes to follow people rather than lead!
Attitude towards the world: Likes the world and wants to help save it from destruction with Revolver and his team.

[Pilotslover]

Character Sheets:
Name: Pilotslover
Character Name: Raven
Age:
In Game - 17/19
Real World - 21
Players Gender: Female
Class: Wavemaster
Weapon: Staff. The standed cresented sea shell shaped staff that most male Wavemasters carry, more akin to Elk's then Tsukasa's, it's gem is a dark green in colour.
Element: Fire
Appearance: A generic young male wavemaster, Raven's grey hair frames a pale and slender face; on his cheeks is a single line in green that follows the line of his cheek bone. His eyes are the same shade of green as the gem of his staff; his robes are green toned, the trimmings in duller green.
Personality: There's a form of rigid professionalism about Raven, he acts in a very stuffy and together manner but sometimes it becomes clear this is just how he's playing it. Over the board, he stays in character, it is his first post that leads to the first meeting of the virus protection team.
Attitude towards the world: Raven loves the world, where people offer him respect for the most part.
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Name: unknown
Character Name: Shade
Age: 27
Real World - 16
Players Gender: Male
Class: Blade Master
Weapon: long sword: a shining long sword which has a curved blade that branches out of the main one about half way up.
Element: Darkness
Appearance: A tall and slim blade master who specilises in darkness. has he long purple hair which is suprisingly well kept. dark purple patterns cover his torso, with a white wave like pattern across his chest. He also wears a baggy pair of brown trousers ( pants to you fox ) and black boots.
Personality: A cool headed player who is confident in his abilitys. he tends to be more of a loner but is secretly lonely IRL.
Attitude towards the world: He sees the world as a way of coping with his harsh and lonely life and loves it since it helps him forget all of his worries, Shade also likes to be praised alot so he goes out of his way to fight monsters way out of his leauge to prove himself.
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Name: Shiro
Character name: Kaiu
Age: in game - 18
Real world - 23
Players Gender: Male
Class: Wavemaster
Weapon: Reaper's Staff - a Dark coloured wand that is high in magic attack power and has the death ability. physical defense is negative, therefore the staff does not often get used in physical confrontations.
Element: Darkness
Appearance: Will post a picture of him soon! Just need to draw it and scan it!
Personality: Kaiu is very protective of other players since the appearance of data bugs in the world - he feels responsible for helping any player who is being attacked by them and it would play on his conscience should he ever leave a fellow player in trouble. However, he can sometimes be prickly as in real life he is insecure and can be suspicious of people. Despite this though, he cares about people deep down and really wants people to like him.
Attitude towards the world: Kaiu plays the game because it's somewhere where he feels he is in control, much more so than in real life. He has been playing for a while, and as such is a fairly accomplished character, and the World is his form of Status Quo. Therefore the appearance of data bugs has had a deep effect on him - losing the World could have a very destabilizing effect on him irl.
~~~
Name: Bob
Character name: Revolver
Age: 18
Players Gender: Male
Class: Twinblades
Weapon: Revolver's Blades - Two blades conceled in fists when Revolver presses a button three blades come though the gaps in Revolvers fist!
Element: Thunder
Appearance: Silver Hair, Red Eyes, Wears Black Long Clothes, Which Covers Face, Wears Black Boots, Wears Black Sun Glasses And Black Gloves
Personality: Rowdy, Kind & Carefree
Attitude towards the world: Revolver likes the world and has been playing from the PKing days, hunts down girls for there member addresses (like sora)!
~~~
Name: Shamay
Character name: Shamay Shalace
Age:
in game - 22
Real world - 22
Players Gender: Female
Class: Twinblade
Weapon: Long black blades, with a curved forked lightning style shaped (like lightning but more curved)
Element: Fire
Appearance: Normal height, thin, wears dark red top half and dark green bottom half. Bluey green eyes, and red hair that goes down to just past the sholder. Wears a dark red berrai (or however you spell that). Clothes are plain, single colour with no special patterns.
Personality: Bit sarcastic, and abit dim-witted. Quite bright, but just doesn't quite act it. Can be abit eccentric, but is generally just a normal player in the world, who would normally just be out for fun.
Attitude towards the world: Sees the world as a way to just have abit of fun, and tries to avoid playing religiously. Has gotten sucked in more however with recent irregularities.
~~~
Name: Gin
Character name: Avaritia
Age: (Characters age, both in and outside of the game)
in game - 20-ish
Real world - 16
Players Gender: Male
Class: Heavy blade
Weapon: "Swift" Black hilted, double-edged, katana-style silver blade. Effect: Life Drain. Skills:Ruem-Maxima. Hayabusa.
Element: You mean Wave...? Water....
Appearance: Dressed in black and white (mostly black). Shoulder-lenght black hair. Red rings (all fingers). Gray bandage around waist. Pale green eyes. Silver bells all around neck (on a string)
Personality: Not very social. Better at taking than giving. Doesn't meet friends IRL very often, prefers text-based message services.
Attitude towards the world: A chance at living the way he wants, in a world without 'have-tos'. Fighting bugged monsters feels like the natural course of action.
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Name:rizo299
Character name: rizo
Age:
in game - 21
Real world -21
Players Gender: Male
Class: Heavy blade
Weapon: Big scary zwei hander that apears to be made from the bones of a large monster. Strange swirling markings run the length of the blade. The sword is extremely heavy and must be dragged behind whilst running, and swung with great force. whilst in a ready position the sword is positioned in front of rizo, who strains to hold its wieght.
Element: wood
Appearance: rizo has long black hair, and wears a tin helmet that is longer at the back than the front. positioned on the helmet are some chichéd goggles with which rizo prides himself. Average hieght, average wieght. His clothes are a make-shift armor with one shoulder covered in an over sized spikey metal armor thing (for lack of a better term :P) the same arm is the only arm with metal armor the full length. Over all the metal parts should be silver, and the rest a brown patchy leather, with bits of blue.(why not :P)
Personality: Cunning if not intelligent. Prone to witty comments, able to get extremely angry whilst not being a particularly mean person.
Attitude towards the world: Rizo's moto is "do unto others with your giant heafty sword." While being generaly friendly, Rizo is prone to making snap desisions and dealing with the consiquences later
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Name: Xander
Character Name: Dante
Age:17 (for both)
Players Gender: Male
Class: Heavy Blade
Weapon: Blood Falchion: Straight, dark metal sword with red tint to the metal. Red aura surrounds it (a glow, not the character).
Elemental Affilliation: Fire
Appearance: Dressed in black. Long sleeved shirt with dark red sleeves separated from the black by a band of silver. Green eyes. Medium length, dark bown hair. Large scabbard on back. Chaos symbol pendant thing made of black metal with red crystal in centre. Red symbol of Khorne on chest.
Personality: Not very sociable. takes what he gets and asks for nothing more most of the time, but when he chooses to do something, he WILL do it. Doesn't know whether he should do the right thing, or the thing that will profit him. Always alert and wary of others. Finds it hard to trust people.
Attitude Towards "The World": Does it because there's nothing better to do. Started it to channel his anger into it, now does it frequently. Doesn't really care about what happens to or in "The World" or anybody in it; so long as he gets something out of it (even if it's just bragging rights), he doesn't care.

Name: The Overlord
Character name: Spyke
Age:
in game - 16
Real world - 17
Players Gender: Male
Class: Blademaster
Weapon: Serene (On picture)
Element: Fire
Appearance: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/KKamaro/Spykeomg.jpg (A colour vesion will be coming soon, but for now I'll just say he has a lot of black and red on him)
Personality: Spyke is usually quite quiet around other players and tries to avoid conflict wherever possible. Even though his character model makes him look intimidating and as if he's possibly a tough character. After a few months of playing the game, he's still just a newbie trying to make his way in a game he really dosn't understand.
Attitude towards the world: The World is the first video game that Spyke has ever played (thrown in at the deep end a little bit!) he enjoys it a lot but finds it very daunting at times.

Name: Chris
Character name: Night
Age:
in game - 16
Real world - 20
Players Gender:
in game - male
Real world - male
Class: Twinblade
Weapon:
.. Name; Blazing Claws
.. Appearance; The blades have an handle but also attach to my wrists. The blades themselves are red and yellow in colour, two blades per side straight yet angled. youll see better in the pic.
.. Skills; summon firedrak, twin dragon, blazing storm, fire slash.
Element: Fire
Appearance:
in game - see pic.
Real world - see pic.
Personality: If he sees someone in trouble he helps, often wandering off before he gets asked anything. hes very private and mysterious.
Attitude towards the world: Night is oftern seen in the world, roaming searching for rare items. Normally because the rare items are guarded by high level monsters.

~~~

Cont.

[Balmung406]

Name: unknown
Character Name: Shade
Age: 27
Real World - 16
Players Gender: Male
Class: Blade Master
Weapon: long sword: a shining long sword which has a curved blade that branches out of the main one about half way up.
Element: Darkness
Appearance: A tall and slim blade master who specilises in darkness. has he long purple hair which is suprisingly well kept. dark purple patterns cover his torso, with a white wave like pattern across his chest. He also wears a baggy pair of brown trousers ( pants to you fox :p) and black boots.
Personality: A cool headed player who is confident in his abilitys. he tends to be more of a loner but is secretly lonely IRL.
Attitude towards the world: He sees the world as a way of coping with his harsh and lonely life and loves it since it helps him forget all of his worries, Shade also likes to be praised alot so he goes out of his way to fight monsters way out of his leauge to prove himself.

[Revolver]

Name: Bob
Character name: Revolver
Age: 18
Players Gender: Male
Class: Twinblades
Weapon: Revolver's Blades - Two blades conceled in fists when Revolver presses a button three blades come though the gaps in Revolvers fist!
Element: Thunder
Appearance: Silver Hair, Red Eyes, Wears Black Long Clothes, Wears Black Boots, Wears Black Sun Glasses And Black Gloves
Personality: Rowdy, Kind & Carefree
Attitude towards the world: Revolver likes the world and has been playing from the PKing days, hunts down girls for there member addresses (like sora)!

[Pilotslover]

((ooc: It's my pleasure to say you're both approved, welcome aboard.
I'm going to wait to see if there are any more takers before making my first post.))

[Revolver]

((do we get to chose arenas that we go to or not ?))

[Pilotslover]

Originally posted by Revolver
((do we get to chose arenas that we go to or not ?))

((I haven't decided yet, I suppose we could yes .... I've had a thought.

Three: Careful.

If you wanted to go to a specific place then post it over the board as a player (Put Anon for the player section) and type the request there. Most of their role would be patroling. *shrug*))

[Revolver]

((seems very cool like the idea can i use it to make it a fan game with rm2k (rpg maker 200) seems like it's going to be fun!))

[Pilotslover]

Originally posted by Revolver
((seems very cool like the idea can i use it to make it a fan game with rm2k (rpg maker 200) seems like it's going to be fun!))

((as long as you quote me somewhere with the idea (Like a conceptual artist for ideas) ...

Three: idiot!

... Then that's fine. I can't wait to get it in play.))

[Revolver]

((thanks and i can not wait to play))

[Shiro]

Characters Sheet:
Your characters sheet could contain the following information:

Name: Shiro
Character name: Kaiu
Age: in game - 18
Real world - 23
Players Gender: Male
Class: Wavemaster
Weapon: Reaper's Staff - a Dark coloured wand that is high in magic attack power and has the death ability. physical defense is negative, therefore the staff does not often get used in physical confrontations.
Element: Darkness
Appearance: Will post a picture of him soon! Just need to draw it and scan it!
Personality: Kaiu is very protective of other players since the appearance of data bugs in the world - he feels responsible for helping any player who is being attacked by them and it would play on his conscience should he ever leave a fellow player in trouble. However, he can sometimes be prickly as in real life he is insecure and can be suspicious of people. Despite this though, he cares about people deep down and really wants people to like him.
Attitude towards the world: Kaiu plays the game because it's somewhere where he feels he is in control, much more so than in real life. He has been playing for a while, and as such is a fairly accomplished character, and the World is his form of Status Quo. Therefore the appearance of data bugs has had a deep effect on him - losing the World could have a very destabilizing effect on him irl.

[Shamay]

Character Sheet

Name: Shamay

Character name: Shamay Shalace

Age:
in game - 22
Real world - 22

Players Gender: Female

Class: Twinblade

Weapon: Long black blades, with a curved forked lightning style shaped (like lightning but more curved)

Element: Fire

Appearance: Normal height, thin, wears dark red top half and dark green bottom half. Bluey green eyes, and red hair that goes down to just past the sholder. Wears a dark red berrai (or however you spell that). Clothes are plain, single colour with no special patterns.

Personality: Bit sarcastic, and abit dim-witted. Quite bright, but just doesn't quite act it. Can be abit eccentric, but is generally just a normal player in the world, who would normally just be out for fun.

Attitude towards the world: Sees the world as a way to just have abit of fun, and tries to avoid playing religiously. Has gotten sucked in more however with recent irregularities.

[Revolver]

((shiro, shamay your characters seem cool and i have updated my profile so if you could update mine that you posted please pilotslover!))

[Gin]

((So, how many can join...?
This is just in case, ya....))

Name: Gin
Character name: Avaritia
Age: (Characters age, both in and outside of the game)
in game - 20-ish
Real world - 16
Players Gender: Male
Class: Heavy blade
Weapon: "Swift" Black hilted, double-edged, katana-style silver blade. Effect: Life Drain. Skills:Ruem-Maxima. Hayabusa.
Element: You mean Wave...? Water....
Appearance: Dressed in black and white (mostly black). Shoulder-lenght black hair. Red rings (all fingers). Gray bandage around waist. Pale green eyes. Silver bells all around neck (on a string)
Personality: Not very social. Better at taking than giving. Doesn't meet friends IRL very often, prefers text-based message services.
Attitude towards the world: A chance at living the way he wants, in a world without 'have-tos'. Fighting bugged monsters feels like the natural course of action.

((So, in plebeian tounge: How will this work...? Don't confuse me....:p ))

[Pilotslover]

((all new characters are approved.
Gin - I'm hoping things will slip into place more with my first post.

For everyone - I will probably make Raven's first post tomorrow.))

[night]

((is only to use the new gu char types? or is it set before then?))

[Shiro]

((:p it says it's set during .hack://OUTBREAK!!!!))

[Mad Larkin]

((Im very interested...but whats auto text? is that just normal/standard?))

Name: Xander

Character Name: Dante

Age:17 (for both)

Players Gender: Male

Class: Heavy Blade

Weapon: Blood Falchion: Straight, dark metal sword with red tint to the metal. Red aura surrounds it (a glow, not the character).

Elemental Affilliation: Fire

Appearance: Dressed in black. Long sleeved shirt with dark red sleeves separated from the black by a band of silver. Green eyes. Medium length, dark bown hair. Large scabbard on back. Chaos symbol pendant thing made of black metal with red crystal in centre. Red symbol of Khorne on chest.

Personality: Not very sociable. takes what he gets and asks for nothing more most of the time, but when he chooses to do something, he WILL do it. Doesn't know whether he should do the right thing, or the thing that will profit him. Always alert and wary of others. Finds it hard to trust people.

Attitude Towards "The World": Does it because there's nothing better to do. Started it to channel his anger into it, now does it frequently. Doesn't really care about what happens to or in "The World" or anybody in it; so long as he gets something out of it (even if it's just bragging rights), he doesn't care.

((Will post pics of chaos symbol and symbol of Khorne at some point...if you want that is))



P.S.

Originally posted by Pilotslover
((I haven't decided yet, I suppose we could yes .... I've had a thought.
If you wanted to go to a specific place then post it over the board as a player (Put Anon for the player section) and type the request there. Most of their role would be patroling. *shrug*))

((I dont get it... am i just being thick?

(i know what Three thinks already tho lol.....same as O'malley)))

[rizo_2999]

:D this is cool, i havent been on the forums for a while but !*hopes you dont mind me making a charater profile *

Name:rizo299
Character name: rizo
Age:
in game - 21
Real world -21
Players Gender: Male
Class: Heavy blade

Weapon: Big scary zwei hander that apears to be made from the bones of a large monster. Strange swirling markings run the length of the blade. The sword is extremely heavy and must be dragged behind whilst running, and swung with great force. whilst in a ready position the sword is positioned in front of rizo, who strains to hold its wieght.

Element: wood

Appearance: rizo has long black hair, and wears a tin helmet that is longer at the back than the front. positioned on the helmet are some chichéd goggles with which rizo prides himself. Average hieght, average wieght. His clothes are a make-shift armor with one shoulder covered in an over sized spikey metal armor thing (for lack of a better term :P) the same arm is the only arm with metal armor the full length. Over all the metal parts should be silver, and the rest a brown patchy leather, with bits of blue.(why not :P)

Personality: Cunning if not intelligent. Prone to witty comments, able to get extremely angry whilst not being a particularly mean person.
Attitude towards the world: Rizo's moto is "do unto others with your giant heafty sword." While being generaly friendly, Rizo is prone to making snap desisions and dealing with the consiquences later

[Pilotslover]

((I approve the new characters, welcome aboard.))

((First post ... yah!))

Title: Virused Monsters
Poster: Raven
Message: Greetings all, I am Raven. It has come to my attention over the past few weeks that the number of impossible to kill monsters has risen of late, terroising many new players and generally lowering the playability of the game for conventional users.
Anyone interested in helping me to protect players against these monsters, to act as 'Virus Protection' if you will, are welcome to meet me at the following location at six in the evening in three days time.
Delta - Hidden Forbidden Holyground
Also called the 'Navel of Lake'
Raven

~~~

Raven waited inside the ancient stone church, wondering how many people his little plan would attrach. As annoying as Newbies were, they were the furture of the world and he did not want it to die so easily.

[Revolver]

*gates to hidden forrbiden holyground amd walks in to the church*

Hmm Hello my is Revolver

[Shamay]

Title: RE: Virused Monsters
Poster: Shamay
Message: I've seen afew of those things around aswell. Mmm, I'll help you, after all, need something to do around here, and it's getting impossible to fight as normal with all these things around...

Shamay

~~~~~

*Gates to Delta - Hidden Forbiden Holy Ground*

Small crowd already eh? Small being the keyword there... Oh well, Heelo! I'm Shamay

[Pilotslover]

Raven turned on the spot, facing the new comer, "Greetings, I am Raven," He offered. "If you would be so kind as to wait, I wonder if any others will appear here today,"

[Revolver]

I shall wait we need more than just three

[Mad Larkin]

Title: RE: Virused Monsters
Poster: Dante
I don't know about impossible, but it does mean you gotta spend a little more time making sure youre in a relatively safe area. I'll help.....so long as there's something in it for me.....awww hell....I'll help anyway. Im bored!

*Gates to Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground*

"Heya! Dante Here"

[Shamay]

And then there were four... I hope afew more people see that message, would be a shame to try and help and end up getting ourselves beat.

[Revolver]

indeed i think we should trade member addresses!

[Mad Larkin]

heh...oh ye of little faith.....

do you honestly think theyre that good that we can't stand up to them.....

we already have 1 and a bit parties worth

((ever the arrogant fool eh?))

[Shiro]

Title: RE:Virused Monsters
Poster: Kaiu
I saw one of those the other day, it was attacking another party. I tried to help, but it was too strong for us to beat - we all only just managed to gate out! One of the party members was really shaken up, they said they want a break. It sucks that this is happening. Is it some kind of event?

Kaiu gated into Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground - it was unlike any area he had ever seen before. Before him loomed an enormous stone church. No doubt this area had been created for some special campaign or something. It was quiet and serene, yet he was filled with a sense of foreboding.

Gathering up his resolve, he marched purposefully towards the doors to the church. Would the people inside really be able to help rid The World of this infestation? There was only one way to find out.

He pushed open the door and stepped inside. There was a small group of people in front of him, they were already talking to each other. "Man," he thought to himself, "I've been playing his game for a while. Why do I find it so difficult to introduce myself?". He took a deep breath and walked up to the group.

"Hi....I'm Kaiu..."

[Mad Larkin]

((wow youre good at this.....))

[Shiro]

((lol. thanks. I used to be in an X-Men rp, and I really like rping in storybook style. :) You gonna answer poor Kaiu? :p ))

[Mad Larkin]

((no lol. I'm personally not too keen on story-book Rp-ingf myself. I dont mind if a side-operaordoes t for me, but do myself...never been any good at it.....altho my characters not gonna be giving any feeling (what feelings) away any time soon lol))

"Hmm... Oh, another one. We got ourselfs a regular little army now then huh?"

"Can we get moving?"

[Revolver]

we should wait and we should trade member adresses

[Shiro]

Kaiu looked nervous.

"You... you want my member address? Really?"

He shrugged.

"OK, you there's no harm in that, I guess."

He sent his member address to Revolver, and stood, nervously shifting at the edge of the group.

[rizo_2999]

Rizo had heard the rumours of the growing number of undefeatable monsters and after reading Ravens post he was convinced this was his chance to finaly find and face one.
Rizo was not a conventional player. He had always attempted to play the game....in odd ways. He once tried to become a dealer in rare items, and peddled his goods wherever he could.... That didn't work out (mainly because "rare" wasn't exactly the correct word). And he saw this "virus protection" stuff in much the same way. An interesting way to go about the game. After all, he had the latest norton- whats the odd virus to him he thought.... :rolleyes:
Rizo gated into Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground.
"Theres a church," He thought. He didn't like churches. Nothing against *the* church in general, just the buildings. Especialy ones in games, he just didn't see the need.

"Hello?" he said in a gregarous tone as he stepped inside, to see the group that had gathered.
"wow" he thought
"I wonder if these guy's might buy those oh-no melons i couldn't sell..."

[Mad Larkin]

((was that last one a thought or in speech))

Thinking about it, I probably will gain something out of this

"Hey, you...yeah...bird-dude...raven, whatever...do these creeps drop any special items?"

[rizo_2999]

((thought :p))

"thats a good point!"

rizo thought to himself*if there is i might be able to make some money on the side...*

[Revolver]

if they are what i think they are they are invincable i couldn't get any shots when i finnaly did it just didn't die!! we should be wary

[Shamay]

"Hm, seems we've congrugated into a regular mottly crew, eh?"

Shamay glanced around the room ((and like's the idea of story style RPing :p)) at each of the characters, sizing them up.

"There's six of us now, that's two parties worth. Do you think that's enough Raven, or do we need an really army for this? Course, if we do we're stuffed..."

Shamay sent his member address to each of the people who had arrived.

"So then..."

[Revolver]

i think Raven should choose a leader for group 2 but that is just my way of thinking but work we would in the same dungeon

[Mad Larkin]

Dante looks around the room (also sizing up the others ((and also trying the story style...but feeling like an idiot))), and decides that unless these monsters aren't as tough as we think, we better not be trying to kill 'em.

"They drop anything nice it's mine ok?!"

[Revolver]

i have knowledge of rare items i would like to take a couple of bits and peices

[rizo_2999]

"I've got dibs on any thing cool and shiney though!" said Rizo to Dante,
"Cool shiney stuff sells best..." Thought Rizo to himself as he looked nervously around the church, before settling his gaze once again into the group.
"So what do we plan on doing if we find one of these invincable monsters? I personaly favor the 'swing the hefty sword at it' aproach, but I'm guessing that wont *cut* it this time?"


"I made a pun:p" thought rizo, calming his uneasyness

[Mad Larkin]

"Oy, Revolver. What's the point of having 2 group leaders if were gonna be in the same place anyway? Of course, if we were gonna have 2 group leaders, I suggest either myself or that Shamay do it"

((Still smug and pig-headd))

"And Rizo, if you want it you have to earn it"

"And where did Raven get to? But then, he did say 3 days. Until then, wadda we do? I'm gonna get bored just standing around waiting"

[rizo_2999]

"woah Mr. Xander guy, chill out! here have some oh-no melon on the house."
Said Rizo not wanting to cause any trouble with his best chance at hitting the big money.:rolleyes:

[Mad Larkin]

"Can I eat this thing? I don't even have a grunty on this server? What am I supposed to do with it?

You keep it, no on second thoughts, I'll keep it...and get a grunty on this server":p

[Pilotslover]

Raven listened to the small group talk, "Actually, I think we should create small groups of three, but attack as a whole." He offered, looking at the tip of his staff. "If you would be so kind as to give me your member addresses, I will choose the groups when I soon get off line."

((ooc: You'll have to forgive me, I only get online for an hour each day, around this time. So I cannot be there all the time.))

[Shiro]

Kaiu looked around the group, and nodded at Raven's suggestion. He sent his member address to him too. At least he seemed to have his heart in the right place - some of the party were interested in nothing more than earning a scrap of gold.

"Personally I don't care if those bugs drop anything, or if there's any money to be had from this. The World is too important for us to leave these things running around out there, and if CC Corp aren't doing anything about it then it's time someone else did!"

He moved around the group to stand behind Raven. "Damn," he thought to himself, "I should really learn to think before I speak... they're so going to throw me out of here."

[Balmung406]

Title: Strange Monsters
Poster: Shade
Message:Quite reacently there's been talk of some so called "unbeatable monsters". If thats the case what's true what's the point of their existance? anyway that doesn't matter I say that someone needs to take these things out and I'm more than willing to be the man for the job!


*gates in to hidden forbiden holyground*

hmm this seems to be the place.....

*shade walks twowards the building looking slightly breathtaken and confused by the fact that he had not discovered such a place before, as soon as Shade reaches the door he stops for a brief moment before going in*

Hello there the names Shade! So are we just going to stand around talking or are we going to fight these things?

[Shiro]

((in case anyone wants to see... here's a pic of Kaiu!!!! (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/ShiroHacker/kaiu.jpg) ))

[Mad Larkin]

Originally posted by Pilotslover ((ooc: You'll have to forgive me, I only get online for an hour each day, around this time. So I cannot be there all the time.)) [/B]

((Don't worry about it, i was just making my character seem more nasty lol))

"What you talking about Kaiu....whatever ya name is ((i cant spell that lol))? If "The world" goes down, then another MMORPG will be bought out...but you're right. We shouldn't be arguing about who gets the stuff....

first off, with a group this ragtag we'll never beat one anyway...not even WITH my influence, and secondly... I forgot

here's my Member adress

[Shiro]

Kaiu blinked. It was good that he'd just received another member address, but what was with this guy? How could he be so willing to see the world replaced? "If this place ever does go down," he thought to himself, "I don't know how I'd handle it. I've been playing for a long time, I feel comfortable here."

He looked at Dante, trying to work out where he was coming from. "Uh... thanks."

[Balmung406]

what do you meen with "your Influence"? anyway if anyone needs my member address feal free to ask....

[rizo_2999]

Rizo looked around the group as he passed out his member address, feeling uneasy at the odd looks he was getting. His odd methods of gameplay often resulted in his gaining a reputation as either an eccentric, or a twat. He liked the first one more than the second.

"so when are we gonna' get fighting and what-not? Gung-ho, hoo-ah and all that. :p, and where, pray tell, are we going to be taking part in it? Because this church doesn't realy have much in the ways of invincable virus monsters."

[Mad Larkin]

"or you could jjst give it to us so we can get on with this thing.......buddy?"

"Gee!, im not making any friends here....." I/he/Dante/whatever thought

[Shiro]

Kaiu felt the back of his neck prickle slightly. It looked like he wasn't the only one who wasn't sure what to make of Dante.

"Hey, listen guys, why don't we all just give our member addresses to each other and have done with it?"

[Mad Larkin]

"yeah...ok......and whats wrong with this church.....why are there not only no invincible monsters...but no monsters at all?"

[Shiro]

"Yeah, good question. I guess this place must have been part of an event a while back, and then CC Corp just... forgot about it."

[rizo_2999]

" Ah, so a forgotten area? But what kind of event needs a church?:confused: "

[Shiro]

Kaiu looked around at the architecture, and noticed a strange statue of a girl that was chained where the altar should be.

"I don't know, but I guess it's kind of a cool area. I'm not sure what the deal is with that thing though," he gestured towards the statue. "Whatever the event was, it can't have been too easy."

[Mad Larkin]

"So we have an old church, a statue of a strange girl chained to the floor, and a big ol' lack of enemies...how exciting"

[Shiro]

"Hey, if you really can't wait then why don't you log out and we'll send you a message or something when the monsters turn up. You never know how many people will want to help, they just need a chance to read the board."

[Shamay]

"Well, when it's called HIDDEN, FORBIDDEN, holy ground, it's no wonder they forgot about it, eh?"

((Why am I canadian?))

Shamay looked around the group once more.
Hmm, what a random bunch of people. Guess alot of people think alot more of this game than you'd think. Either that, or don't give a damn and would love some gold. Guess we'll find out once we find one of those things...
Shamay shifted uneasily and looked towards Raven.

"So, we now have 7. Shall we split ourselves up now, then try and find one of these things?

We could check the boards, if someones run into one of these things afew times in an area, we can try and check it out."



Wish we'd just hurry up and get the hell out of here...

[Revolver]

Title: Invincable Monster
Poster: Revolver
Message: At Chosen Solitary White Devil on Omega server i heard there is a invincable monster

[Mad Larkin]

((Im not trying to make my character seem tis mean....ive gotta find a way to make him nicer without him seeming all soppy/changeable lol))

"That sounds good....lets go there...

and we have 7?...god i can't count"

[Revolver]

indeed we should

[Shiro]

Looking around the party, Kaiu could see everyone was keen to start on their quest to rid The World of these data bugs before they spread too far. Still... Raven had called them here, technically it was his decision.

"Raven... do you agree?"

[Pilotslover]

Raven considered his group, "This church as been here since the world was created, do you know nothing at all?" It came across as cold, but Raven was one of the sorts of people who loved the full story of everything he was involved with and the World was no exception.

"Please, can we slow down a bit?" He asked, "I very much intended to get to know those I would be fighting with before your own aims and goals got in the way."

((ooc: yes he is an arse ;)))

[Mad Larkin]

"Ok...

And I get that it's been here a long while. But why?"

((I just noticed ive posted more than any of you other guys..*grins...gets bored of the novelty*))

[The Overlord]

Name: The Overlord
Character name: Spyke
Age:
in game - 16
Real world - 17
Players Gender: Male
Class: Blademaster
Weapon: Serene (On picture)
Element: Fire
Appearance: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/KKamaro/Spykeomg.jpg (A colour vesion will be coming soon, but for now I'll just say he has a lot of black and red on him)
Personality: Spyke is usually quite quiet around other players and tries to avoid conflict wherever possible. Even though his character model makes him look intimidating and as if he's possibly a tough character. After a few months of playing the game, he's still just a newbie trying to make his way in a game he really dosn't understand.
Attitude towards the world: The World is the first video game that Spyke has ever played (thrown in at the deep end a little bit!) he enjoys it a lot but finds it very daunting at times.

[Mad Larkin]

"Another n00b? h wll...the more the....

more distractions"

[Shiro]

((hehhhh.... mad, he didn't make his first post yet. give a guy a chance to post in the rp!!!! :p ))

[Mad Larkin]

((sorry..its so good to be bad....

I dont meanit Overlord, im just being evil for once))

[Revolver]

hmmm sorry Raven

[Shamay]

"Get to know us you say? Maybe introductions are in order... But, I'm not one for lifestories.

If you want to know my reason to be here, there's not much to tell. This games hard enough, but invincible creatures? Besides, helping out the newbies gives me a job here, so anything to make abit of fun.

I've been playing here for a while, so I guess I'm kinda fond of this old thing, and don't want to see it go completely to waste.


Who wants to give up their life ideals next?"

Shamay glanced round the group to see if anyone would offer up. People were generally willing to give out all their details on this game, but this group didn't seem the type to shed their deeper feelings towards their characters home. ((Why the hell am I this deep?))

Couple of hot heads, an peddler, a softie ((Kaiu :p)), myslef, and a leader. Not to mention anyone else who comes along. Not exactly the most trustworthy group...

[Revolver]

I just play the world

[Mad Larkin]

((whos the other hot head...i assumed u meant raven, but then u sed a leader too))

Im me. I play The World. I'm here because I like it. But I don't care about it. That's all you need to know. ((it also saves me making up a life story lol))

[Revolver]

((Me i think))

hmm see you later send me a invite when we get going *gates out*

[Shiro]

((Hey! Kaiu's no softie! he may be insecure, but he can be an ass if he wants to be! lol))

"The World is important to me," Kaiu spoke up, "I've been playing for a while, drifting in and out of parties. This place is special, and we can't let something like these virus things ruin it for us. If they can be stopped then I don't care what it takes! I'll do it!"

[Revolver]

*gates back* hello did i miss any thing?

[night]

Name: Chris
Character name: Night
Age:
in game - 16
Real world - 20
Players Gender:
in game - male
Real world - male
Class: Twinblade
Weapon:
.. Name; Blazing Claws
.. Appearance; The blades have an handle but also attach to my wrists. The blades themselves are red and yellow in colour, two blades per side straight yet angled. youll see better in the pic.
.. Skills; summon firedrak, twin dragon, blazing storm, fire slash.
Element: Fire
Appearance:
in game - see pic.
Real world - see pic.
Personality: If he sees someone in trouble he helps, often wandering off before he gets asked anything. hes very private and mysterious.
Attitude towards the world: Night is oftern seen in the world, roaming searching for rare items. Normally because the rare items are guarded by high level monsters.

(( ill draw pics))

[Pilotslover]

Raven looked towards them, "As you know I'm Raven, I've been playing the world for a long time, infact I've been here since before the incident with the Wavemaster character who couldn't log out." He offered.

"This particular area has no monsters, it is infact the starting point of the game. It is refered to in the online novel, 'Epitath of the Twilight' and I'm afraid that's really all i know."

((ooc: I approve both our new characters))

[Mad Larkin]

"Hmmmm...intersting.....but it actually serves no service....meh...i suppose it does look cool though"

[Revolver]

hmm i have heard that before

[Shiro]

Kaiu sat on the edge of one of the pews.

"So what's the plan? I know we're waiting for people to join us and all, but when they do... how're we going to beat these data bugs?"

[Mad Larkin]

"and if we keep getting more and more people...were never gonna get going....I wanna get moving!"

((no rush PL...just making my chara more obnoxious))

[Revolver]

nice name for them! i am not sure how we shall beat them

[Mad Larkin]

"sounsds like a cheesy name if u ask me...they need a cool name...i mean, they DO kick ass"

[Pilotslover]

Raven looked at them, "I don't intend to beat them," He revealed, "I merely plan to save others from their grasps,"

[Revolver]

what do u suggest then dante

[Mad Larkin]

"Aww....well that's just damn boring...how about we save people from them AND try to, i mean at least TRY to affect them somehow

after all, infinite is just theor- ....isn't a real number"

[The Overlord]

A figure stood behind watching all the other players chat amonst themselves. Using jargon he didn't understand, but felt as though it was intrical to the conversation. He wanted to join in, but didn't want to look an idiot. His long black and red jacket billowed in the digital wind and the sun on his back gave him the air of an experienced player. Which at heart he was, he had been playing "The World" for a few months now but, deep down, he still felt like a newbie.

"..."

[Mad Larkin]

((ooh! nice....i cant do that kinda RP-ing lol.....very fancy))

[Shiro]

"Have you ever tried to fight one of those things?" Kaiu looked at Dante through narrowed eyes. "Sure, you're full of it now, but when I came up against one of them with another 2 parties we struggled to do any damage! One hit from it would have wiped us out! I've been playing this game a year, and I've never seen anything like the bug from that day!"

There was something moving near the entrance. Kaiu looked past Dante to see a figure standing in the doorway, separated from the rest of the group. How long had he been there? Kaiu hoped he didn't think they were ignoring him.

"Hello... welcome to our group! What's your name? Have you been here long?"

[Revolver]

*sees the figure and walks over* who are you then i am Revolver

[The Overlord]

Spyke looked at the people that had addressed him from the group and scratched the back of his head lightly, grinning nurvously.

"Uhh...Hi! Yeah, I'm Spyke! I, uhh...I havn't been here long. I was just intregued by your conversation."

((Hehe, it comes with practice...And I've had a lot of practice ^^;; ))

[Mad Larkin]

"He's the new kid...he got here a while ago...you huys are just inobservant. e wanted to be left alone so i left him alone....

and yes, i have come up against these "data bugs"....no i didnt kill it, but it didn't lok too hard......the big ol' drgn guys look more dangerous than a glowy goblin"

[Revolver]

i faced a big dragon thing that was a data bug also! and they have been enhanced to be extra powerful i presume

[Shiro]

"Hi Spyke! Nice to have you in the group!"

Kaiu sent his member address to the new member of the party, and moved so that he was part of the circle.

"Don't mind Dante, I've only known him 5 minutes, but it seems his view of the world is a little... skewed."

He turned to Dante, and again narrowed his eyes.

"You found one and left it? So you mean you've actually never fought against one then? Take it from someone who has, this is more serious than you're giving it credit."

[The Overlord]

Spyke, out of curtousy, sent his member address back to Kaiu and smiled as he listened to what he said.

"Are you all talking about some new kind of event or somthing? With a really strong bad guy. Because my party and I found one of them a while back! It was wierd and the game started to get very messed up. Whatever it was, I had to run away because it was really, really strong!"

He laughed lightly.

[Revolver]

Spyke i am not sure if this is an event of such but more like a glitch! cc corp will work it out i am sure but mean while we have taken it into our hands!


((Revolver works for cc corp))

[Shiro]

Kaiu smiled grimly at Spyke. He had initially thought that these bugs were boss characters too, but he refused to believe that this sort of a creature could exist in the World. Sure, people complained about CC Corp, but surely they wouldn't make an unbeatable enemy and release it into the game. Only the best players would have a chance to defeat them, and maybe even the Descendants of Fianna, the most powerful party in the game, would struggle in that sort of a fight.

"We're not talking about an event, no. At least we don't think so. These things have been turning up everywhere, and I've heard people say that they can kill even strong players in one hit. It's a good thing that you ran when you did!"

[The Overlord]

"A glitch? What? You mean...It wasn't supposed to be there at all?"

Spyke started to look confused, but hid it quickly.

"Whatever it was, it made me have to restart my game a little while after. It must have given me some kind of odd status effect."

[Revolver]

odd i heard from cc corp that it was hackers that have made them

[Mad Larkin]

"Listen Kaiu...i said i ddnt kill it. Not i didnt fight it!"

[Shiro]

Kaiu nodded. "I noticed that... some of the scenery around the one I saw seemed... I don't know... corrupt in some way. And I swear I saw a string of text go by me."

[Revolver]

brinnary code maybe? what server and dungeon?

[Shiro]

"I think it was Theta Collapsed Unending Corridor..."

Kaiu leaned on his staff, trying to remember how he had encountered the bug in the first place.

[Shamay]

"Hmmm..." Idiots -_-

Shamay looked towards Spyke, and nodded to him. Seemed she'd manage to miss introducing herself, but that wasn't too big a problem, they'd all get to know each other well enough and soon enough.

"These things, they deffinately aren't meant to be here. After all, this is only a game, but who wants to play a game where all they do is die? CC corp deffinately wouldn't have set that up. Makes no sense.

I don't think we have much chance at figuring out what these things are or where they came from, let alone how to get rid of them. I mean, from what Kaiu says, they even distort the game around them. You just can't beat something like that in a game like this.

I say Raven has the right idea. There are lots of people who haven't experienced these "data bugs". The newbies who get caught out will die, but we can at least try and help them."

Man, what have we let ourselves in for...

[The Overlord]

Spyke nodded to everything that was said. Then stopped on Kaiu's mention of the field name.

"Theta Collapsed Unending Corridor?"

Spyke thought.

"Thats where I found it, too! A big monster! Right at the end of the third floo-"

Spyke suddenly stopped himself and groaned.

"Agh...Be right back people, I have to get some chores finished off before my mum flips her lid."

His character suddenly froze as he laft the terminal.

((G2g, peeps! See you all tommorow))

[Shiro]

So that was where Spyke had seen it too? Did these things stay in the same place or move around?

"It would be interesting to see if these things keep appearing in the same place! If Spike saw one on the same field as I did, then maybe they live in certain areas of certain servers?"

[Revolver]

*gates out* hmmmmm *gates in* it's been blocked samne as the one i posted on the board!!!!

[Shiro]

"Huh? What do you mean blocked? Can't you gate in?"

This was worrying - if the area was blocked then this was proof there was something wrong with the game...

[Shamay]

"Well, they are probably corruptions, so it makes sense that certain parts of the game would be corrupted, and so that would be where you would find the data bugs."

Hmm, finally, a start?

"What? Blocked? You've got to be kidding..."

Shamay kicked at the dust beneath her feet. So close to a start, yet so far...


((Hm, I'd aimed for sarcastic, have come out as level headed. Guess thats just who I am :p))

[Revolver]

i know i felt annoyed aswell i hope no one finds out that i work for cc corp

((italic is thoughts))

[Mad Larkin]

"It just occurred to me that the worst that can happen to these poor little n00bs who get owned by these hings is tha...their character dies....Oh Noes!

What a shame....they have to start again from the town...oh boo hoo!"

[rizo_2999]

Rizo, who had been sitting listening to the other members, stood at Dantes comment.
" I've heard of people going into certain areas, and never warping back to town, and when others have tried to go there they find that the area is protected and that they cant get in..."
Rizo looked around.
"Just rumors though, just people trying to make the game seem like it has more to it than you'd think. Like finding the Triforce on Ocarina of time, or unlocking all the actors who played bond on Golden eye 007... The people probably just stopped playing the world..."

Rizo sat back down and continued to fiddle with his sword and listen to the others.

[Mad Larkin]

"Oh, so you do speak....I like you, I like your style anyway...hell i dont even know YOU. But that's a compliment...Im just not very good at those"

[Shamay]

"Never root back you say? Strange... Heh, so these monsters are powerfull enough to make the people who lose to them quit the game?

Wonder if we can get Dante to loose to one? heh :rolleyes:"

((You're right rev, you do suck at story style RPGs :p))

Shamay sat herself down on a pue, it looked like they would be there a while, so she might aswell look relaxed, even if it was just a character.

[Shiro]

Kaiu shuffled his weight from foot to foot, and clasped his wand tighter. He was annoyed, and finding it difficult to keep calm.

"Dante, are you really telling me you don't care about the new players in the game? You were a new player once, and if people thought the same way of you then you'd never have made it this far. We have to save everyone in the World, new players and experienced players alike."

[Mad Larkin]

"Yeah, but i didnt lose. I haven't found any of these in any dungeons lower than level 35 so n00bs SHOULDNT have any trouble with them anyway"

[Pilotslover]

Raven listened to the others talk amongst themselves, leaning on his staff. "Choose whichever course of action you please," He said at length, "I just want to defend those who play this world, I have no interest at all in defeating these things."

This said he turned on his heel, intending to head from the church.

[Mad Larkin]

""Hey, wait up....

Whats going on? your gonna gather this small force and jst walk off? Who the hell do you think you are wasting our time like that"

[Shiro]

For once, even in this short time, Kaiu and Dante stood united on something.

"Yeah, he's right!" he looked puzzled and outraged, "Are you just going to leave?"

[Mad Larkin]

((yay! we agree))

[Pilotslover]

Raven crossed his arms, turned to face them again. "I rather expected this to be more constructive," He said, one eyebrow ached.

"Some of us love this world, and care about the players within it." There was something cold about his tones. "If you are all more willing to work to your own personal goals then I have no desire to work with you."

He was challenging them, daring them to prove him wrong.

[Shiro]

Taking a step towards raven, Kaiu planted his staff on the floor by his side. He was incensed by this remark! Other members of the group had mentioned working for money and their own ends, but had he not expressed the same view as Raven and then atttempted to defend it?

"Then obviously you haven't been listening to the conversation! The World is too important a place to leave for dead. There's nothing you can do alone, and if I was so bothered by these people's view on the place..." he glanced at Dante, "then I would have logged out long ago. But the fact is I don't care if he just wants to work for money, or if anyone else here shares his narrow minded view. If he is willing to help me save the people that play this game I will work with him no matter what! And if you can't see past that then fine. Leave now. You don't belong here."

[Mad Larkin]

"Yeah, so you don't ike my attitude?

I happen to like the idea of geting something out of it. But the way I see it, you NEEd my help anyway. You don't like it? That's tough!"

[Pilotslover]

Raven smiled at Kaiu, laughing to himself happily. "Then you I can work with," He admitted.

"I am willing to work with all of you, but I think it's best the group elects a leader, someone they listen to." He admitted, "If we all keep trying to be heard like this then nothing will ever get done."

[Mad Larkin]

"I can deal With that...I elect Shamay....or me!...but not Kaiu...definitely not"

[Shiro]

Kaiu folded his arms. He'd expected this. Why did no-one ever seem to like him? All he wanted to do was protect the World.

"I see. Of course I'd be utterly incapable, especially seeing as I don't share your materialistic views. I would be happy for anyone to lead, as long as the databugs get what's coming to them."

Deep down, he was devastated. Leading the group was not something he had planned on, and he would not be comfortable doing it by any means, but to be written off the task without even a second thought upset him. No-one had ever seen him fight, and no-one had been there when he'd helped out against that first bug he'd met.... He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself. Letting anyone know he was upset was the last thing he should be doing.

[Balmung406]

((eek some one fill me in via pm! I can't keep up :( ))

[Mad Larkin]

"Hey, it's nothing personal. Just that Shamay doesn't seem materialistic and I like her better. Altho whats wrong with Raven beimng a leader...even i he is a stuck up......"

((shamay is a she in this yeah?))

"Or me even? II may not be too bothered about "The World" but I definitely have the leadership qualities you need....and im not quite as much of an arse as raven"((sorry PL))

[Shiro]

"Well... Shamay does seem to be leader material..."

Kaiu scratched his head. It was hard to choose - he didn't know anyone well enough to pick!

"I'm curious though, Raven, why don't you want to lead the group yourself?"

[Mad Larkin]

"Cos he's a git....I dont want him as our leader...altho im a bit unsure/concerned about shamay now"

((do't ask.......its worrying....horrible images....DRAG QUEEN))

[Shamay]

((Oh for crying out loud dood :p Shamay Shalace is a girl, deal with it, she has :p))


Shamay gave Dante an odd look. Her, the leader? Not that she didn't love the fact that people seemed to like her, but she didn't quite feel like a leader here. Besides, they already seemed to be shifting.

"Well, I don't think voting for myself would quite be fair. I vote Kaiu as leader. After all, unless at least the person in charge cares, the rest of us might be able to be led well enough."

Shamay gave Kaiu a short smile. He deffinately seemed to care more about the place than the rest of them, so despite being abit soppy and having abit of a short fuse, he deffinately seemed to be a good choice for a leader.

[Mad Larkin]

"Gah! I would like t waste my vote on de-voting Kaiu...but since I can't do it, I'll vote for...

Either Shamay or...erm...the Overlord's character...whatever his name is...spyke, that's it

But i cant decide"

Oh! HE's spyke

"hmm...I forgot about shade he seems lie me....but I'm not taking orders anyway...so it makes little difference to me"

[Shamay]

"Well dante, I advise you wait for afew more people to vote. After all, we've had my vote, and that's it for deffinate votes."

[Mad Larkin]

((I need to get to know ur characters more....normall i would have picked Shamay...but not this hamay shalace person...not yet...i dont kno her))

[Shiro]

"Wow... a vote for me?"

Kaiu returned Shamay's smile, and looked nervously on at the crowd. Spyke had logged out a while ago, so he sent him a quick email to let him know the situation. Soon, he thought to himself, they would be able to help put the game back to rights. To how it should be played!

[Mad Larkin]

*nudges kaiu with elbow and whispers: "I think you have an admirer" snigger*

[Shamay]

((OH DEAR GOD THAT'S CREEPY!!! Do not make me kill you >.<))

[Shiro]

(( I second and third that ))

[Mad Larkin]

((your fault))

[Pilotslover]

Raven was surprised to hear his own name come up, "Hmm, I suppose I could," He started to venture, before another comment was thrown into the silence. "That is quite true of course,"

He crossed his arms again, "Nothing says we have to choose today, I suggest we disband for now and reconviene tomorrow, here." He looked around the church. "I think this should be our main base of operation, no one seems to come here very often."

[Revolver]

Base here good idea how about i e-mail cc corp and ask them to secure the area to just us what do you guys think?

[Mad Larkin]

"Errr..You can do that? I didn't know. Isn't that like an admin thing"

[Revolver]

i got there e-mail address so i could e-mail them bout stuff when i had problams with my chara when i started out!

((Larkin clear your pms out))

[Shamay]

"I like the idea of having a base of operations, but having it closed off by CC Corp? For a start, wouldn't happen, it's a main area even if it is unpopular... Besides, whoever happens to come along should be invited to join us, not shut out."

Shamay was rather confused that the idea was even suggested, seemed quite stupid really...

[Shiro]

"Let's call this place our base of operations, but leave it open so other people can join us if need be."

((worked in SIGN. lol))

The distinctive chirp of an email rang and Kaiu raised an eyebrow. He had a new message, but what was it?

"I could do with some good news right about now," he thought to himself. "After everything that happened with the databugs in that other place it would be nice if life could be simple for a while... NO!"

His face had turned ashen, ghostly white, and he had begun to shake. His eyes darted around the church in a state of panic, and he had to steady himself using his staff before he could speak.

"I'm... sorry... I need to go. I'll meet you back here tomorrow... if I can."

Yellow circles of energy moved from his head to his feet and he disappeared from the group, shaken and disturbed.

[Pilotslover]

Raven watched Shiro leave, "I think we should leave it open, I rather intended us to be accessable to players."

[Mad Larkin]

*sigh*

A base of operatiions....that's so lame all things considered.

You mean a place we can meet.

((d'oh, not being obnoxious enough))

and why on earth ould you want to block this place Revolver?

Then again, it would mean there'd be no more risk of getting any more Kaiu-types"

[Shiro]

Two of them? Was that all? It was a good job he'd arrived when he did. Without wasting a second he raised his wand.

"Phal Repth!!!!"

The other two warriors breathed a sigh of relief... but something was still wrong, they were losing their colour, turning black and white more and more by the second.

"It's no good", one of them said, "It's some kind of weird status effect, we can't get rid of it, we've tried everything."

"Go." Said Kaiu authoritatively. "Log out completely. Maybe your data will be back to normal when you log back in."

"But... we can't leave you to..." the other party member sounded distressed, but resigned to having to leave.

"I don't care. Go. GO!"

The two logged out, leaving Kaiu standing in the dungeon on his own. In front of him was a large data bug, shimmering with green energy, and crackling every now and again as the system objected to the strange data it was emitting. Kaiu looked around, and prepared to gate out... but what was that in the background? Through the door came another party of adventurers, all looking curious, and some pointing at the data bug, they obviously hadn't seen one before.

"Damn," he thought to himself. "This is going to cost me..."

The data bug was already turning around to face the newcomers, and Kaiu had the feeling that if it attacked they wouldn't be able to stand up to him for long. Screaming a battle cry, he sprinted towards the data bug and brought his staff down on its back with all his force. The word "Death" flashed up in bright red letters, and Kaiu breathed out a sigh of relief. If only he'd known it could be that easy.

His relief gradually turned back into panic as the bug turned around, completely unaffected by his attack. He screamed to the others.

"Get out of here now!!!! You have to leave!!!"

The data bug was bearing down on him, and he jumped back to a safer distance, readying his staff. The bug levelled an arm at him... what was this? He'd never seen an attack like it!

Three spikes of green energy shot out from around the bug's arm, and everything began to glow. Shooting a quick glance around the bug, Kaiu could see that the other party had gone... he could concentrate on defending himself now. The energy around the bug's arm built up to an intense level...

And then the screen turned to fuzz...

[Gin]

((I only log in once a week, I'm afraid:( Friday is the only day I have enough time.))

*Ap-, and Rig-spells start hailing from nowhere*

Sorry to steal your thunder, Wave master. I'm Avaritia, and you'll have to fight me AND the bug to stop my support. Of course.... There's no way you could defeat me, so let's stick to the bug, ok?

[Mad Larkin]

((huh? what's going on? where'd that come from Gin?))

"Err...Hiya ((forgot Gin's character's name))....what ARE you talking about?"

((oh! shiro. Does kaiu mean black?))

[Revolver]

((He is in the dungeon with kaiu i think))
sorry i was just ment to be e-mailing someone and forgot i was still playing!

[Mad Larkin]

((Oh! I thought it was just shiro/kaiu that went there))

[Revolver]

((I think gins chara was one of the people in the second group))

[Shiro]

((Gin! Kaiu isn't there anymore... he's gone! lol. But what Rev said would make sense... if you were with that second party. lol))

((Also, Kaiu doesn't mean black - Kuro means black. Kaiu means "Unwelcome rain". :) ))

[Mad Larkin]

((Ok, just for fun, Kuro will be my nrew msn name))

[Pilotslover]

((ooc: Kaiu is on his own.))

[Revolver]

((i think kaiu is logged out!))

[Mad Larkin]

((yeh, shiro didn't exactly explain that though)

[Revolver]

((Yeah i know))

It is a bit quite!!

Hey any one want to go beat up some monsters?

[Mad Larkin]

"Dont be thick revolver...we have to wait for our great master to give us permission...."

[Pilotslover]

Raven looked at him, "Do whatever you please, I'll meet you all here again tomorrow."

[Mad Larkin]

"Gawd! how does he control our every move. all this waiting is doing mey head in. you know i haven't leveled up in 6 days"

[Revolver]

ok meet here any time?

[Pilotslover]

Raven looked towards Revolver, "Be sure to email or post on the BBS first," He replied simply before gating out.

[Shamay]

"Well, there's not much point in hanging here. We should all keep an eye out for these data bugs, if one gets located then we should contact eachother and go check it out. I don't think they move, but people do, so just hope you don't get there after afew guys have been killed..."

Shamay looked around, sighed, and gated out.
This wasn't turning out as she'd thought, but it was what she should have expected. segmented group, people wander off...

Peh, not good at all... But maybe we'll be able to make a small difference...

[Revolver]

We shouldn't post on the board because of cc corp admins!

[Mad Larkin]

"Why the hell not you moron. Why do they care what we do? As far as i know we're doing them a favour"

[Revolver]

well the boards that have been posted on the board have been bloacked!

[The Overlord]

Three gold rings suddenly travelled down to the ground and Spyke revealed himself as he logged in and he waved energetically.

"Hi!"

[Revolver]

hello spyke was it?

[Mad Larkin]

((no offence rev, but i think you're progressing this a bot fast. First the developments about people not coming back (as if a survey's been made), then something else that i forgot, now the fact that were being blocked n the forum-thing))

[Revolver]

((larkin was not me who posted bout people not coming back so thre and my post was deleted and so was some other persons one!))

[Mad Larkin]

((hh? when...what?))

[Revolver]

(( i came to hidden forrbiden holy ground and said that i was blocked out of the arena i sent on the board and that my post was deleted and i notecid some one elses posyt had been!!!))

[The Overlord]

Spyke nodded, pleased that he was remembered.

"Yes! That's right!"

He grinned.

"How are you?"

[Mad Larkin]

((oh, but the post hadn't been deleted....never mnind..i is confused))

[Revolver]

((opps i was ment to delete it!!!))

Fine thanks you?

[Mad Larkin]

((huh? u were gonna delete it? huh?))

[The Overlord]

"I've been better"

He coughed lightly.

"But even so, I don't think hellfire and brimstone could get me off this game! ...Any developments regarding the wierd boss-monsters?"

[Revolver]

((just say my post is delleted ok!))

no word! i gonna go level up u wanna come?

[Mad Larkin]

"No, the weird boss-monsters, which still sounds better than data bug, i might add, are still sitting out there, and we're waiting in here for ol Raven"

[Revolver]

Dante, Spyke you wanna come beat some monsters?

[Mad Larkin]

"Yeah, Id love to. But not with the likes of you. I wouldn't mind watching yo get cremed tho'. s sure, why not "

((Rev, dont even think about it. I know u wanna make out that u find a data bug while ur out leveling up but dont go there))

[The Overlord]

Spyke grinned.

"I could give it a shot! But if bad comes to worse, don't be too reliant on me...I'm not that good yet!"

He laughed nurvously.

[Revolver]

((larkin u got it SOOOOO wrong!!!!! lol))

i need your member addresses!

[Mad Larkin]

"You're a level 50 and youre not too good yet? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?"

[Revolver]

maybe like so many he is still a newbie at heart

[The Overlord]

"Well..."

Spyke scratched the back of his head.

"I suppose you could call me a newbie at heart, yeah...I just let everyone else do everything for me, so I can level up and still be clueless! ...So I'm trying to get my independance at the moment, but whenever I go dungeoning alone...I get scared and have to leave..."

[Mad Larkin]

"Oh dear lord! Now you've turned into an agony aunt"

[Revolver]

go with one other person you trust!

((agony uncle!))

[Mad Larkin]

"Now what the heel are YOU on about"

[The Overlord]

"..."

Spyke looked to his list of member addresses...It was empty.

"I would if I could"

[Mad Larkin]

((we all gave u our member addresses ages ago didnt we?))

[The Overlord]

((I appeared just after you all exchanged addresses))

[Revolver]

*Revolver send his member address*

there ya go

[The Overlord]

Spyke's face lit up once again.

"Sweet! Thanks! ...Uhh..."

After a few long moments, Spyke sent his in return.

[Revolver]

Thank you

*invites Spyke to party*

[The Overlord]

He eagarly accepted and grinned.

"Yay!"

Spyke rasied his fist with new resolve.

[Pilotslover]

Raven considered his options when he reached the route town, his staff held loose at his side as he walked the streets and traded some of his items for new things.

'Was this such a great idea?' His played thought. The idea could lead to a clash of ideals and mentalities but at the same time, he could not allow the world to fail.

[Revolver]

So Spyke where are we going you chose!

[The Overlord]

Spyke suddenly looked bemused.

"Uhh...I...I honestly don't mind! But somwhere that isn't too hard...Okay?"

[Shiro]

At his keyboard, Shiro wiped a bead of sweat from his forehead.

"Phew!"

It had been hours since he had reset his computer, and he had been having major problems getting it online again. Fortunately he had a friend on the end of the phone who was good with that sort of thing.

Signing himself back into The World, he hurriedly logged back in, and made his way back to Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground as Kaiu.

Arriving, he saw some of the people who had been there when he left.

"Thank heavens you guys are still here." He looked haggard, but was resolved. "I've just had a heck of a time of it."

He looked at the group. There were less than there had been before, but there were enough to hold a large party.

"Mind if I join you? I feel like I need some company right now..."

[The Overlord]

Spyke turned around and grinned.

"Kaiu!!"

He jumped with joy at the sight of his friend and ran up to him.

[Shiro]

Kaiu smiled wearily. It was nice to have such a warm welcome! He patted Spyke on the shoulder and propped himself against a nearby pew.

"I just got ambushed by a data bug."

He waited for the bombshell to sink in, and took time to rest and enjoy the calm of the deserted cathedral.

[The Overlord]

"Is that what they are called...'Data Bugs'?"

Spyke placed a finger on his mouth.

"...But the one I fought didn't look like a bug at all! It looked like a machine!"

[Shiro]

"They can take any form - they're called bugs because they're a bug in the game."

Kaiu grinned. It was nice to have someone on the team who could keep the mood cheerful. Spyke's outlook on the world was still fairly new by the sounds of things, but he was strong enough to be a valuable asset in the fight against this recent... invasion.

"You can always tell them because they look like normal monsters from the game, but there're green hexagon things around them. And they take no damage when you hit them."

[Mad Larkin]

"AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

You idiot, you expect us to believe that? you went out and just happenned to bump into one, but even though they're sooooo strong, you didn't die..and managed to get back here in time to boast about it.

Pfft!"

[The Overlord]

Spyke looked down at his sword.

"And I just thought it was because I wasn't any good at this game..."

He looked back up at Kaiu and tilted his head.

"So...A bug has gotten into the computers at CC Corp and is messing with everything? You would think they could afford some spray or somthing to get rid of it!"

[Mad Larkin]

"What the hell do you mean it doesn't take any damage!

When I hit the thing it came up with a great big white number floating above its head

and Spyke, get over it, you're about leve; 50, you ARE NOT bad at his game if you're level 50. What are you? Some kinda attention seeker?"

[The Overlord]

Spyke hung his head at the comment.

"No, I just...Don't think I'm very good...Compared to all of you, anyway!"

[Shiro]

"Actually", the grin turned into more of a sour expression, "it's taken me ages to actually get my computer back into a working state. I got an email from a friend who was fighting something 'invincible', asking me to help, so I went to bail him out. It turned out ot be a data bug, and it nearly killed them both. There was some kind of status effect going on I've never seen before, and then the bug used some kind of a charge attack. It was about to fire it at me, but I reset the machine at the switch. No way was I going to let it hit me with whatever that was."

At Spyke's words, Kaiu cheered up again. He laughed.

"That's not quite how it is. Something is wrong with The World." He looked whistful, and was full of regret.

"But never say you're no good at this game, OK? You couldn't have gotten to that level if you weren't!"

[Mad Larkin]

"Oh, so every time you find something you dont understand, you reset the pc? you're pathetic"

[Shiro]

"Where the hell do you get off? If I hadn't then who knows what might have happened. Did you not hear the part where I was saving some friends from a data bug? I made them leave, so I was fighting it on my own. And if whatever that charge thing did made my computer nearly unusable then think what might have happened if I'd let the beam hit! It's about using your brains Dante, you can't just whack everything and hope it's OK."

Kaiu was fuming. He gripped onto the bench he was leaning on to keep himself calm. How could they work as a team with this asshole on board?

[The Overlord]

"Hey, you two...Calm down!"

Spyke smiled nurvously and waved his arms.

"Were not going to smoosh the bug by fighting eachother!"

[Mad Larkin]

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! You have no idea how much im enjoyimng this.

Oh no...a little beam might've hit me...wah wah wah!

Think about it,

first off, this "invincible monster". How do you know it was a data bug. How do you know it was invincible. as far as i know its just because your friends are crap at this game. I reckomn they just found a monster they couldn't beat, so they call Kaiu. And then you bound along to save them like a good little boy.

[Shiro]

Kaiu sighed.

"OK, I'm sorry."

He hung his head slightly, and began checking through his inventory to see if everything was still there.

"By the way, Spyke, that reminds me... you have any of these?"

He got a Speed Charm out of his inventory and offered it to him.

[Mad Larkin]

pssshhhawww

just because he thinks he's crap doesn't make him a n00b. how do you get to level 50 without knowing what one of those is. Not that they're any use."

[The Overlord]

Spyke looked at the speed charm.

"...What's that?"

[Mad Larkin]

((D'oh....you did that on purpose didnt ya...

nice one lol...I'd give you mods, but this forum doesn't use them

that was awesome))

[Shiro]

Kaiu shot a look at Dante.

"Pays to never assume, huh?"

"It's a speed charm. You probably have more use for this than I do... if you use it, it casts Ap Do on you, so you move quicker for a while! Here... I have 3. Why don't you take them?"

He passed the charms across for Spyke to add to his inventory.

[The Overlord]

((xD It just seemed like perfect timing!))

Spyke smiled in awe.

"Oh, wow! Thanks!!"

[Shiro]

Standing up, Kaiu looked around the group.

"So, did anyone decide anything while I was away?"

[Mad Larkin]

((I loved it))

"Hey, didn't yu just say something about not putting himself down...ir something. I wasn't listening. but aren't you putting him down by saying he needs speed charms?"

[Shiro]

"Dante... if I was putting him down by saying he needed speed charms then surely the shops in the root towns are putting people down by selling them. Even the fastest player can use one of those once in a while, or didn't you know that?"

He looked at Spyke.

"Anyway, you're not offended are you? It looks like you didn't know about them, and now you do. So surely that's helpful, right?"

[The Overlord]

"Not at all! I didn't know these things existed! Thanks Kaiu!"

He grinned widely.

[Mad Larkin]

"What the hell kaiu, thats just thick. I mean the shops aren't sayng "Oh, you need this cos youre not as good as me" are they? no, theyre just selling the goods

but thats what you just said"

[Shiro]

"Whatever Dante. Spyke knows what I meant, I was just trying to be helpful."

He fixed Dante with a stare, but he was also smiling...

"And don't worry. If you end up in trouble in the dungeon I'll be sure to help you get out in one piece, okay?"

[Mad Larkin]

Youre only a couple of levels hiher than him. He's not a little kid ok!

he doesn't need re-assuring every bloody five seconds you imbocile!

You've been saying not to put him down and that he's a good player, and then saying youll look after him like hes a little kid!"

[The Overlord]

((It's happened again!! Rofl))

"But, Dante...I AM a little kid."

He laughed lightly.

"I turn fourteen next month!"

[Mad Larkin]

"Yeh, ok. What I meant was that you're not some n00b who only joined yesterday"

((Don't you dare lol))

[Balmung406]

"grrr if this arguing doesn't stop someones going to wind up dead within the next minute, I can garunte it!"


Shade grasps the hilt of his sword with a look of annoyance on his face.

[The Overlord]

Spyke bit his lip.

"Uhh...Yeah! Alright!"

he laughed nurvously again.

((So...Tempting...))

[Mad Larkin]

((noooooooo!))

"Ha! Now THAT I like. But you can't honestly say you agree with that little dipshit?

I know you already. I haven't known you for more than two weeks, you've hardly said 5 words, but I know you.

You're me"

[Balmung406]

"ok so what are we going to do, talk the monsters to death?"

[The Overlord]

"I don't think that'll work, somehow..."

Spyke said, not noticing the sarcasm.

[Mad Larkin]

"No, we have to wait for "Our great lord and master" Raven to come and order us around

Why do we need him anyway, it was all very nice of him to come up with this, but it belongs to us. Dante is mine. He has nothing over me, or any of us.

I say screw him and just get on with it on our own, just me, you and....someone else"


((I just know that someone else will be kaiu...d'oh lol))

[Shiro]

"We don't need to wait for Raven, or for anyone else if we don't want to. Four is enough for a party, and if anyone else wants to join then that's what email's for, right? So all we need to do now is go hunting."

Kaiu took a step towards Dante.

"And for the record, when I said about healing people I meant you. After all, as big and as bad as you like people to think you are there's going to come a time when you'll need a wavemaster to help you out. And guess what? I fit that bill."

He leaned back on his staff.

"And sure, Spyke is only a couple of levels below me, but if there are still things he doesn't know about the World, we need to help him instead of just leaving him to it. I'm not patronising him, I'm doing what's called being a friend, which is something we'll all need to try to be if we're really going to get this show on the road!"

[Revolver]

What about me just leaving me standing here while you lot go off thats not kind :-D

Revolver invites Dante to party

[Mad Larkin]

Dante think s about it.....

((oops! I keep thinking youre a blade shiro lol))

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say kaiu ((nearly called you shiro)). You COULD on the other hand, just not get pummelled. And if I do, I expect you to fulfill your duty the same way I will by kicking arse.

I'm not saying I'll never need your help, but as far as I'm concerned, a good health potion does all the work of a wavemaster and more"

((Im lazy, what class are you again bal?))

[Revolver]

((Balmungs a blade master))

So Dante you coming along with me and Spyke?

[Shamay]

The familiar little circles moved up from the ground as Shamay gated back into HFHG. It seemed that pretty much everyone hadn't moved, and were still just talking.

"Heelo again... So you guys all still here?"

Maybe they'd been planning something, but knowing them (for what little time she had), Shamay decided they probably hadn't.

"So what's gone on while I've been gone?"

[Mad Larkin]

"Kaiu's been preaching again"

((Ok, thanks rev))

"And quit nagging me will you? I'll go with whoever I want to go with.

[The Overlord]

Spyke looked to everyone that was talking, but his expression seemed blank, as if he was't acually concentrating on them.

"..."