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No worries. Thank you for your hard work. I'll get started on my character draft then.

Awesome! Thank you all for your interest in playing!

>>>I think an equally important parts of your characters probably lie outside the mechanics...
>>>Who is the person playing the MMO. Why did they choose the Class they chose? How do they relate to others playing the game? Do they like MMOs or were they just following the Internet hype? Who or what is going to get left behind?

None of these questions have to be written in stone before we play. It's just food for thought in character design.

Here's a question I'd like to pose to you all:

Would you like to have known each other (a little or a lot) before The Apocalypse? Or would you rather be independents who were suddenly thrust together?

I don't mind. Maybe we know each other in the game but not what we do IRL.

Yeah, I think we could have known each other in the game, perhaps we could have belonged to the same guild? But often for MMO friends, we may not exactly know much about each other's private lives. This would give the party a good reason to band together when the apocalypse happened too. I don't mind if other people prefer it another way though.

@Dmbrainiac Thoughts on what Class you'd like to play?

Sorry, I was busy yesterday and didn't get a chance to check things out. I will probably play a weapon master, either an assassin or swashbuckler. The Grim Reaper style seems pretty cool, KO-ing mobs with a giant scythe! :D

Thanks for the update!

Assassins are great damage dealers in a lot of ways & Swashbucklers are good combatants with enhanced criticals and hand out Negative Status effects with successful weapon hits.

Thank you for the invite.

Thinking about making a Catfolk (Partial Slider) Monk, but could be convinced do do another class.

Feel free to play whatever catches your eye. As I've said in a post or two above, some of the character creation stuff is written from an in-game perspective.

I'm finishing up the Pirate and Sorcerer Classes. Monk is next up to go in so it should be in for you to check up on tomorrow.

Everyone can feel free to go ahead and Submit their character sheet. It can be edited at any time so you can continue to work on it after you submit it. Submitting it will let you start to Post as your character.

Anyone unfamiliar with the process? I can walk you through it, if so. It's a pretty easy process.

I've submitted my character sheet. Please let me know if there's anything that seems out of place. I'll have a look at Pirate when all the skills are up. Would appreciate a ping when it's ready :)

Pirate should be all up! Working on Monk and Assassin now.

I submitted a placeholder character for now, I'll fill out the information when I have some time in the next few days. Still debating which class to choose.

Awesome! Thanks for the update!

How long has it been since we have been isekai’d into our characters? Did it just happen as the game starts or has it been awhile?

We're going to start with it just having happened.

Cool, that's what I was hoping for. I'm still going to wait to see the swashbuckler abilities before I confirm my class choice. :)

Here's what I am thinking for my character:

Player Name: {TBD-Male}
Character Name: {TBD-Female}
Identity: Complete Noob
Theme: Identity
Persona: {TBD, once I think of something short enough}

The (former) child of conspiracy wackos, this is (was?) his very first video game. (It was on his CPS supplied computer as bundled software.)

Assassin and Swashbuckler are going up tonight so they should be available for you soon.
I'm assuming they're a minor? (Just to clarify). Sounds like the character will have lots of good plot hooks!

I've got a few more logistical questions:

What does the world around us look like? Is it a realistic version of the game, or is it clearly still a video game world? Do our new bodies look like real people or stylized video game characters? Do we see floating HP bars, monster levels, menu pop-ups and such, or are those things just behind the scenes?

Oh, and do we start with any equipment?

Equipment? Certainly!
That's something we'll discuss once characters care a bit more solidly definite. Equipment should be fun and flavorful! Also, useful.

To answer your other questions:
•The new world will be as real seeming as this one...other than the obvious additions like monsters, magic, cat/wolf/fox people and the like. It's a post apocalyptic world that resembles modem day in a lot of ways but is crumbling, fading and wildly overgrown. (I'll AI up some examples and post em for you.)
•There is a UI (User Interface) that the characters discover and it does feature HP/MP bars, Monster levels, and a host of other information that a player would have access to. How it works is part of the discovery process. It's not a constant thing though; not always visible.
•Characters are on the stylized side... Not 8-Bit sprites but definitely not 'normal' human looking. The images in the "8 Good Races" drop-down in the Character Creation Thread are a good approximation. J-Pop and Anime influenced, as if made from the game's character creation screen, but with details the creep through from the player.