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 Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:49 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:57 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:22 pm
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.//ARCHIVE
Background
On December 24, 2005 the Pluto's Kiss virus causes all network connected computers worldwide to malfunction and crash. Though the network recovers 77 minutes later, this exposes the fragile nature of the worldwide network. The virus writer is found to be a 10 year-old grade school student.
The United Nations' World Network Council (WNC) meets again, and endorses the Altimit OS operating system, as it was the one operating system not vulnerable to Pluto's Kiss. By Summer of 2006, Altimit has become a worldwide name and with this, many core developers leave to form the CyberConnect Corporation (CC Corporation).
Fragment
In that same summer, CC Corporation was established and they were approached by a German programmer Harald Hoerwick, who presented an MMORPG named Fragment. Though network games are heavily restricted by the WNC, due to the relative newness of the new world network, the WNC grants special permission to the CC Corporation in May of 2007, hoping to revive the network games market.
By July, the beta product known as Fragment, has the largest amount of network users online. As its popularity grows, rumors begin to circulate of its connection to a long lost net-distributed text known as the Epitaph of Twilight.
The World
By October, after nearly all of the servers in the world are now running Altimit OS, the WNC decides to remove all restrictions from the new network starting December 24, 2007 and declaring that day as a new holiday to be known as Virgin's Kiss. CC Corporation announces that Fragment would officially be launched on that day, as the game The World. Over the next few months, a flurry of reservations caused CC Corporation's stock to surpass even Altimit Corporation. Downloads began at midnight, December 24.
As of 2008 it has over 20 million players.
Revision 2
After a fire in the main CC Corp. building in the year 2015, The World servers and much of its data, including character data, was destroyed. It was later spliced with another project CC Corp. was working on at the time and re-released as The World R:2 in 2016. However, many old players were upset when they found they could not use their old characters and quit playing the game. Fortunately, the new version attracted many new players and over twelve million copies of The World R:2 were sold worldwide.
By 2017, Player Killers have overrun The World R:2
Basic Gameplay Structure
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Select your course of action.
.// M A I N M E N U
.o1.//desktop
.o2.//n e w s c a p t u r e
.o3.// n e w s a r c h i v e
.o4.// r u l e s /&/ a p p l i c a t i o n
.o5.// d e s i g n a c h a r a c t e r /&/ r e a d y m a d e c h a r a c t e r s
.o6.// l o g i n
.o7.// i n t e r n e t b r o w s e r
.o8.// f o r u m
.//Info::
You've selected rules and application. Is this what you want? Click continue.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:50 pm
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.//RULES AND APPLICATION
.//RULES
.o1.//Post application in the OOC thread.
.o2.//Standard Roleplay Rules and Etiquette, subforum rules, and guild rules (Which can be read here)
.o3.//You must roleplay as provide "IRL" actions as well as gameplay.
Example: -Kiri turns on the computer, lazily typing in her password, and logs on. Immediately she clicks the shortcut icon for "THE WORLD" and signs in. She checks the forums really quick, scanning for anything useful, and then she logs into the game. Upon logging in, she opens her menu and checks her inventory. A few health potions, she needed to restock. She pushes up on the analog stick of her controller and her onscreen avatar moves forward. Kiri directs her character to the item shop and purchases a few more health potions. She types in the command to make her character smile and blink, then she scans around for any familiar friends or interesting looking players.-
.o4.//No auto-killing, even if you are a player-killer. (PK) There still needs to be an action sequence if you are killing another character.
.o5.//Your post doesn't need to be really long, it just needs to get the point across. But please don't make it less than 3 sentences.
.o6.// Commit. Don't say you will join, apply, and then not bother. Tell me if you have to drop out.
.o7.// Use different colors or symbols to differentiate between "IRL" actions, "forum" posts, "e-mail" posts, and gameplay actions, please.
.o8.// HAVE FUN~!
.//APPLICATION
GAIA USERNAME:
CHARACTER NAME:
"THE WORLD" USERNAME:
CHARACTER AGE:
CHARACTER GENDER:
"THE WORLD" CHARACTER GENDER:
"THE WORLD" CHARACTER CLASS: (If an adept rogue, also state the three character classes you've chosen)
"THE WORLD" CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: (No wings, angelic features, fairy features, demon features, etc. Unless you can come up with an in-game event in which you received those event-only items.)
PARAGRAPH SAMPLE OF ROLEPLAYING: (This can be your introductory post if you wish, it's just to see if you understand the concept of being a character playing a game and being the character they've created. xD)
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Select your course of action.
.// M A I N M E N U
.o1.//desktop
.o2.//n e w s c a p t u r e
.o3.// n e w s a r c h i v e
.o4.// r u l e s /&/ a p p l i c a t i o n
.o5.// d e s i g n a c h a r a c t e r /&/ r e a d y m a d e c h a r a c t e r s
.o6.// l o g i n
.o7.// i n t e r n e t b r o w s e r
.o8.// forum
.//Info::
You have selected design a character and ready made characters. Is this what you want? Click continue.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:20 pm
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.//DESIGN A CHARACTER AND READY MADE CHARACTERS
Design a character
Character classes
Twin Blade: This class may utilize two long edged blades/daggers. Twin Blades are speed-oriented and are able to deal quick, successive blows. They have more attack styles than any other class.
Edge Punisher: A character class that uses two-handed heavy weapons to fight, usually broadswords. Some swords have mechanized "secondary weapons" on them, such as the chainsaw on the Centipede broadsword. Their attacks, while powerful, are slow.
Lord Partizan: A Character Class that utilizes various pole-arm weapons. Attacks are slower than other classes, but can deal the most immediate damage. Lord Partizans have lots of monster-oriented skills including Armor-Piercing and Aerial skills.
Blade Brandier: A character class that uses a one-handed sword or a dagger to fight. They are swift, agile, and accurate.
Macabre Dancer: This unique character class uses a pair of sharp fans as weapons and fights with a fluid dancing motion, they are known in The World R:2 as 'Flowers of the Battlefield'
Flick Reaper: A rare Character Class that wields scythes or large axes. Class itself excels in speed and strength, but lessens in defense. They are designed for sweeping attacks, meant to literally "flick" enemies away before they can get within attacking range. Of course, a Steam Gunner or Lord Partizan could get at them easily.
Tribal Grappler: A Character Class that utilizes their fists, claws, feet and various wrestling-type manoeuvers to fight.
Harvest Cleric: A Character Class that use staffs and specializes in defensive and healing magic, powered by a staff/wand, instead of direct fighting. This class focuses on support magic.
Shadow Warlock: Character Class in which the character uses offensive magic, powered by a large spellbook, instead of physical attacks to defeat the opponent.
Steam Gunner: A Character Class that uses a rifle with a sword-like bayonet running the length of it. This class specialises in both long-range and close-quarter fighting.
Adept Rogue: A rarely used Character Class which utilizes multiple weapons, and various skills. Adept Rogues have the unique ability to use up to three varieties of weapons which they select while creating their character using a point allocation system. The player is given 4 points and must distribute them between the desired Classes, which vary in terms of point value:
.//Twin Blade: 1 Point
.//Edge Punisher: 1 Point
.//Blade Brandier: 1 Point
.//Tribal Grappler: 2 Points
.//Flick Reaper: 2 Points
.//Lord Partizan: 2 Points
.//Steam Gunner: 3 Points
.//Macabre Dancer: 3 Points
.//Harvest Cleric: 3 Points
.//Shadow Warlock: 3 Points
However, they can't use them all from the beginning. At first, they can only use the first weapon type; the others are sealed. By completing exclusive quests, these abilities are released, and the character's appearance changes. This is the Adept Rogue's "Job Extend" ability. However, the downside to being an Adept Rogue is the slower job levelling and the slightly different stats. For example, a Level 10 Twin Blade is a better fighter than a Level 10 Adept Rogue with Twin Blade weapons.(This is because an Adept Rogue generally uses different types of weapons more than another, and so, their skill isn't as high as a player with just one class.) At most an Adept Rogue can only have access to three classes; certain players have hacked their PCs to break this rule and gain access to a fourth form.
Affiliated Terms
AIDA: AIDA stands for Artificially Intelligent Data Anomaly
Player Killer: Characters that prefer to kill players for fun. Also, some like to kill them to steal their items to add to their collection. Many like PKing newbies because they're pushovers and easy targets. TaN is a guild composed of PKs. Tri-Edge is an infamous and legendary PKer fearfully rumored on message boards abroad: that when this mysterious phantom player kills a target, the unfortunate players that "die" from his attack don't ever come back.
Player Killer Killer: Players that kill PKs. They sometimes kill PKs for revenge or to protect others. Haseo became a PKK in means of revenge for Shino after she fell into a comatosed state by the hand of the deadly Tri-Edge. Many state that PKKers are no different from PKers, and are looked down upon just as much as PKs, sometimes even more, as they do little but cause further instability among the player community.
Guildmaster: The leader and usually creator of a particular Guild. Guildmasters control Guild shops and have their own Grunty which takes on their master's characteristics and assists in the running of the Guild. Gabi, Zelkova, Silabus, Haseo, Yata, Taika, Kuhn, Tabby, Piros the 3rd, Ovan, and Naobi either are or have been Guildmasters at some point.
The Lost Ones: Refers to players in a coma, they are in this state because Tri-Edge used Data Drain on them. Shino is one example of a Lost One. Also referred to as Unreturner in some preliminary English episode listings.
AIDA-PC: AIDA-PCs are PCs that have been infected by an AIDA in one form or another. The AIDA affects the Player mentally as a result of its infection, and can also have a number of side-effects within the game. Endrance was an AIDA-PC.
See this list
Check the list if you wish, and in the ooc thread please consult me if you'd like to be one of the characters. I'll have to deny a good portion of those characters, being that they might be dead, comatose, dissappeared, or from a different time period in the series.
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Select your course of action.
.// M A I N M E N U
.o1.//desktop
.o2.//n e w s c a p t u r e
.o3.// n e w s a r c h i v e
.o4.// r u l e s /&/ a p p l i c a t i o n
.o5.// d e s i g n a c h a r a c t e r /&/ r e a d y m a d e c h a r a c t e r s
.o6.// l o g i n
.o7.// i n t e r n e t b r o w s e r
.o8.// forum
.//Info::
You have selected login. Is this what you want? Click continue.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:25 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:31 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:35 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:34 pm
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-Kiriko slides into her swiveling chair and takes a sip of her soda. She flicks the computer on, listening to it whirr and beep as it starts itself up. "Altimit OS" it flashed for a few seconds, before leading her to a light green page with only a white box in the middle. 'Please log in' the computer spoke, and she pulled her keyboard near her and keyed in the password only she knew. 'Welcome to the desktop Kiriko Schwartz-sama. You have 2 mail messages.' Kiri ignored the emails for the moment, wanting to go check on THE WORLD. She clicked the icon for THE WORLD and listened to the smooth whirr of the computer again. She put on the headset she deemed necessary for this game, now unable to see anything but what was on the screen of the headset, or hear anything that wasn't coming from the headphones on them. She quickly adjusted the microphone, and grabbed the two handed controller. A smile creeped across her face as she dropped her name Kiriko for the moment, becoming Kuchi D. Zuke, and immersing herself in her favorite hobby.
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Kuchi looked around at Mac Anu, smiling contently. Her inventory was full, and her drive was high. She was going to meet some new people to form a party with today, she could feel it.-
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:46 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:01 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:13 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:26 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:34 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:55 pm
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