Fantasy Trapped in a (magic) video game

[welian]

An idea I've been mulling over recently.

Take the basic premise of Sword Art Online and other "trapped in a video game" stories, combine elements of:

• The Matrix (trapped in a virtual world, get woke, learn to manipulate the virtual world to save the real world)
• Ender's Game (tricked into a battle simulator but it turns out to be a real battle)
• Homestuck (the video game is magic and everyone is gay)

And then bludgeon gently massage the setting until it is 90% fantasy genre.

Or, to put this a little more narratively...

There is an old, shitty MMO that is going out of business. As a last hurrah, the developer has created one final event before the server shuts down for good in two months. It's a stupidly difficult, buggy, game-breaking raid boss. Honestly, players are just throwing themselves at this boss for shits and giggles, and to get sweet karma by posting funny glitches to Reddit.

A few people have won, though! As their prize, the developer is emailing these players a letter of appreciation, and a $500 Visa gift card that they can redeem just by clicking this totally-not-suspicious link in their email that definitely is not glitched in such a way that it resembles a summoning seal.

Turns out being dragged across dimensions is itchy as fuck.

Fantasy - Luxerna: NG+ OOC

 

[Lemon Boy]

Lame.
I'll join.

 

[Meredith]

I'm heckin down tho like let's light up this joint. Hell yeah.

 

[StoneWolf18]

>_>

<_<

>_>

 

[Gaius Danius Griinia]

I AM KIRITO

 

[The Oldest Blueberry]

This sounds stupid and absurd, so I'm in.

 

[NightMoves]

Heck yeah. I love opening up definitely not suspicious e-mails. Count me in!

 

[Melanie Moonlight]

I'll join

 

[The J]

I'm interested. So long as you ban this Lemon Boy loser.

 

[Proletariat]

I'm interested.

 

[welian]

I turned away for twenty minutes to make a doctor's appointment and I come back to this many people already???

I thought I wasn't cool anymore!

 

[Proletariat]

I turned away for twenty minutes to make a doctor's appointment and I come back to this many people already???

I thought I wasn't cool anymore!

Don't get too excited. We all know how the retention rate is low from interest to three posts into a roleplay.

 

[welian]

Don't get too excited. We all know how the retention rate is low from interest to three posts into a roleplay.

How dare you use my cynicism and love of statistics against me

 

[Proletariat]

How dare you use my cynicism and love of statistics against me

Who said it was yours? I was using mine.

 

[Gaius Danius Griinia]

Proletariat
Don't trust this potato

 

[SP3CT3R]

bethesda's new marketing strategy

 

[welian]

bethesda's new marketing strategy

k so like

my RP is also going to have dragons

and the edge of the world will be a wall of icebergs

and there's MULTIPLE volcanoes

but your characters will have the ability to double jump

and also technically from the POV of your characters, y'all are playing the game twice

 

[Proletariat]

k so like

my RP is also going to have dragons

and the edge of the world will be a wall of icebergs

and there's MULTIPLE volcanoes

but your characters will have the ability to double jump

and also technically from the POV of your characters, y'all are playing the game twice

WHAT? Actual physical barriers instead of invisible walls full of disappointment of what could have been? I'm out.....

 

[Gaius Danius Griinia]

k so like

my RP is also going to have dragons

and the edge of the world will be a wall of icebergs

and there's MULTIPLE volcanoes

but your characters will have the ability to double jump

and also technically from the POV of your characters, y'all are playing the game twice

"Wait I have to SERIOUSLY play this game?..... WE'RE ALL DOOMED"

 

[welian]

LOL!!!

The developer's screenname is Warlock. He is, in fact, an actual warlock, he knows magic first and programming second. Those glitches and bugs? That's him not knowing the right code and filling in the gaps with magic. By defeating his raid boss, he's determined that you guys are the most skilled warriors he could possibly summon.

 

[Gaius Danius Griinia]

LOL!!!

The developer's screenname is Warlock. He is, in fact, an actual warlock, he knows magic first and programming second. Those glitches and bugs? That's him not knowing the right code and filling in the gaps with magic. By defeating his raid boss, he's determined that you guys are the most skilled warriors he could possibly summon.

"Earning that rare item multiple times? Nah bruh...DUPE GLITCH"

 

[BLK]

you had me at gay.

 

[welian]

you had me at gay.

There's nothing gayer than MMOs.

 

[Transparent]

Oh boy here we go again.
Stupid bandits

 

[WolfSol]

Sounds like a clusterfuck..... count me in.