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Arrrgh, I want one so badly! But then I'd barely be able to play with it outside, for fear of some violently arachnophobic person smashing it. XD

BUT SPIDERPS.

Whoa Mari! You belong on TV and on the covers of magazines! Dat polished stylishness. I see a bunch of peeps in here who really know what they're doing with that hair/makeup/etc. xD 

I'm the most unstylish person on Earth, but I still admire dem skillz. >O

It's my 100th post, so I'm dedicating it to you guys by posting here. You all look fantastic! And I like the cheerfulness in a lot of these pics 8D (Also, yay Soccer! You go, Shin! And Keith looks like the younger version of one of my friends. The resemblance is uncanny. Aaphi looked metal with long hair. Baldur's FB wedding pic looks like it belongs in a black and white espionage movie, it's great. And I'm jelly of his hero costume. Mari! I have a budgie too! His name's Nuage! YEE BUDGIES)

Ohh dang! For some reason I thought that it was the old avatar system. I had forgotten how they looked, so... xD

Rinmaru/dollmaker games are pretty useful for character design. ouob

Thanks!

Welcome! I hope you'll enjoy yourself ouo  (You should totes join Alfheim! *shot*)

Wow, "PM a GM" sounds like one of those kinds of rhyme to help remember things. I feel like it should be developed into a classic limerick/saying. I might play a short tune on the ukulele and sing it out loud.

Duuude! I lived in Sweden for three years. Gillar du falukorv? 8'D *makes little U shapes with fingers while saying this*

I miss seeing those. quq

That aside, welcome! MAY KEITH LEARN TO DREAD AND RESPECT YOUR (very civilised) VIKING (with good health care) PROWESS! MUAHAHAHAAAA

Welcome, and nice to meet you!

Methinks there are other aussies on this website~ 8D Your timezone is mean to me, I have a hard time catching you guys for chat sob quq

I'm only gonna RP in Alfheim for now, but uh... mind if I ask how you got to the avatar creater? XD

One of Zin's buddies here, reporting for duty! XD (And to hijack your introduction thread with a hello-I-am-here instead of making my own thread, huhuhu.)

I rejoined after a long absence. I was only here for the beginnings of the site~ (it was fun, why did I stop RPing?! I DON'T REMEMBERRR)

Thanks for giving us all an excuse to do this Rene. U BRAVE SOUL.

The rest thing is pretty interesting. Before Kirito could afford a house, it seemed like he spent his nights in inn rooms, like most people. I'm guessing regular returns to the city would be made unless you were willing to risk yourself

As for skills and inventory size, inventory size being treated like a skill may be cool. Or item-dependent, with access to more storage for moolahs by getting a bigger 'bag' and whatnot?

My thoughts on how skills should level are still about the same... through some kind of system where you allot points from leveling up/RP. I'd rather not some saint have to spend weeks developing specific stats and such for every single skill, but if we could just RP things out from having a description of what a skill can do at each proficiency level, it would work for me!

HAIL BRITTA- *cough* NEVINA! XD /CodeGeass

Love the faint Yui we see where we're editing our posts.

The random dice system looks great! Edan so pro 8D It doesn't state what kind of dice was rolled though o3o

I agree that we don't want anyone RPing Canon characters, since we're trying to create our own story here. >O Yui may be an A.I. present in the game's structure, but methinks if she gets involved it ought to be as an NPC, either mod-controlled or controlled by someone who is helping a mod with the plot n stuff.

However, if the same guild name is used, it won't mean we've got the same background/motivating/story elements at play. It's less original and fun than people making up their own guild names, too, so I don't think we need to worry about official guild names being used since it's likely everyone would prefer original ones anyways. Seems like something a rule isn't necessary for, but if someone had a reason to use a canon guild name I'm sure it wouldn't be bad either.

In the Forum Outlines and Brainstorming thread, at some point we discussed what could be done about the floors and towns we have no information on. According to the wiki,

Aincrad is an iron-and-stone made floating castle that has about ten kilometers floor base diameter and consists of a hundred floors stacking straight upwards, meaning that each floor's diameter is a bit smaller than the previous one. On each floor, there are a couple of large cities along with countless small scale towns and villages, forests, plains, and even lakes. Only one stairway links each floor to another, and the stairways exists beyond the boss room of each dungeons. The «Teleport Gates» of every unlocked cities are connected to one another.

However, they only have descriptions of 33 of these floors. Mostly vague ones, with no mentions of the different areas on each floor. I found someone's personally put together list of information they could find on each floor described in the novels, which gives us a little bit more to work with. Combining the two sources of information, we have:

Floor 0 Black Iron Castle Hidden Dungeon

Floor 1 - Starting City, Black Iron Castle, Plains and Forest, farther has a Deep Jungle with ruins, Tolbana (Raid base close to labyrinth with boss in it), Horunka Village

Floor 2 - Urbus (city in a mountaintop crater), a rocky landscape full of flat-topped, grassy mountains, Marome Village, Taran Village (Raid base)

Floor 3 - "Misty Forest" Start of true humanoid monsters, start of mission quest which ends at 9th floor

Floor 6 - ???

Floor 7 - Monster Arena

Floor 8 - "Friben" «Friben Village» (Silica's hometown) Friben Teleport Gate Plaza

Floor 9 - End of Dark/Light Elf mission quest started on Floor 3

Floor 10 - «Thousand Snake Castle» Difficult monster Katana skills started here

Floor 11 - <> Kirito joined Black Cats here

Floor 12 - ???

Floor 13 - ???

Floor 14 - ???

Floor 15 - ???

Floor 16 - ???

Floor 17 - First meeting place of Kirito & BCotFM where he saved them

Floor 18 - ???

Floor 19 - Ralberg, Ralback, Hill of the Cross

Floor 20 - "Sunlit Forest" Known for fields/farms/small villages, Location of Bar from Murder Case

Floor 22 - "Coral Village", (where Kirito, Asuna and Yui's house was) Lake Outside Coral Village, low monster population, weak floor boss, local boss in lake, forest/lake area

Floor 23 - ???

Floor 24 "Panareze" Mostly Lake/water floor similar to Floor 61, made of many small islands connected

Floor 25 - ??? besides it having a Two-Headed Giant Boss

Floor 26 - ???

Floor 27 - Ronbaru Town. Mine-like underground floor covered in darkness, Black Giant boss, Floor where BCotFM died

Floor 28 - "Wolf Plains"

Floor 29 - ???

Floor 30 - ???

Floor 31 - ???

Floor 32 - ???

Floor 33 - ???

Floor 34 - ???

Floor 35 - Mishe, the mid-level town. The Forest of Wandering. Kirito meets Silica, also location where Nicholas the Renegade appeared

Floor 36 - ???

Floor 37 - ???

Floor 38 - ???

Floor 39 - ???

Floor 40 - ???

Floor 41 - ???

Floor 42 - ???

Floor 43 - ???

Floor 44 - ???

Floor 45 - ???

Floor 46 - Location of <> a great farming place Kirito used during Reindeer SS

Floor 47 - <> Pet Revival Quest, called the <>. Town of Floria. Forest of Giant Flowers.

Floor 48 - <>

Floor 49 - <> Front line during latter Reindeer SS

Floor 50 - <> Six-armed Metallic Buddha Statue boss.

Floor 51 - ???

Floor 52 - ???

Floor 53 - ???

Floor 54 - ???

Floor 55 - "Granzam", "Western Mountain", White Dragon/Crystalite Ingot Quest, <>

Floor 56 - "Pani"

Floor 57 - <>

Floor 58 - Mountain/Hills, Ice & Snow area, local boss Ice Dragon

Floor 59 - "Danac" Location of Nap Under Tree

Floor 60 - Armored Warrior of Stone boss, said to be relatively easy

Floor 61 - <>, mostly water area home of Asuna, The floor was known as Insect Land due to bug monsters.

Floor 62 - ???

Floor 63 - ???

Floor 64 - ???

Floor 65 - Horror themed old castle with astral/spirit type monsters

Floor 66 - Horror themed old castle with astral/spirit type monsters

Floor 67 - ???

Floor 68 - ???

Floor 69 - ???

Floor 70 -???

Floor 71 - ???

Floor 72 - ???

Floor 73 - ???

Floor 74 - "Kamdet"

Floor 75 - "Collinia" Based on ancient Rome

Floor 76 - ???

Floor 77 - ???

Floor 78 - ???

Floor 79 - ???

Floor 80 - ???

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Floor 90 -???

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Floor 95 - ???

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Floor 97 - ???

Floor 98 - ???

Floor 99 - ???

Floor 100 - Scarlet-Jade Castle

Nevi suggested we have a handbook to present information for notable locations on floors:

For each floor section, we should have a two stickies. One for an OP city, and one that lists "notable places" in that area for users to decide what seeing to make their rps in. Then in the handbook OOC it can list all notable places in one spot and what floor its on.

I think the same was suggested for a list of NPCs and whatnot. It could get rather tedious for someone to take submissions for areas/NPCs and classify them in an organized fashion... an alternative could be to let every floor section, or even floor, have its own handbook thread within the forum section itself. That way players could easily submit for a specific floor and find information about the floors they are RPing in just as easily, in a few clicks.

Also, since there's no Handbook thread(s) yet, gon just put this here. xD

It is like a massive skeleton being unearthed by the slow archaeologist of time. The mountain sinews and crevices, filled with ash, resemble beds of fossilized clay and sand; a pale gray texture brushed away from brown ridges like smooth, aged bone. Great sheets and plumes of windblown dust waft off those polished peaks that snake across the landscape, filling the sky with an endless mist through which the sun could no longer be seen. During the day, the field is basked in a uniform, colourless glow, and the wind is a distant howl that seems to call from far beyond the curtains of time. In the darkness of night the wind stops and no light falls from above, but the beds of ash spread across the range take on a transparent property and an earthen-hued glow. They are full of ripples and depth like water, and through their veil the shadowy silhouettes and forms of fossils both gigantic and minuscule can be studied.

Welcome to the floor called Persephone's Traverse.

Dunno if it would ever be used, but might as well get the creative juices flowing.

NOW AND HERE I SWEAR FEALTY TO OUR QUEEN AND REGENT NEVINA *KNEELS AND HANDS SWORD TO BE KNIGHTED lmao okay yeah as if I haven't already done this before XD* You're doing a fine job luff <3

Let's do this mon.

Summary of events

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I think we should simply say any bladed weapon or weapon with a pointy metal end goes. If you saw a bow & arrow in the SAO game trailer, then I figure it's canon?

With axes and such available, I'm sure Naginatas would be as well.

Since there's no pure hand-to-hand I'm going to be boring and probably just use a one-handed greatsword (together with a shield when on foot, if I can have one). Basically standard knight regalia? I'd like to ride into battle, but horses are apparently expensive. Well, gonna up my riding skills anyways... who knows when they'll be useful, and I dunno if anyone else would be willing to waste their points on something like this. xD

That's what I gather Kay meant. Since beast taming is rare, though, I really don't see how anyone who gets a beast simply having the specific species of it by their posts would be too much work.

I like the top one more!

Also, the forum logo looks nice up there, but I can't help but feel it would be even nicer centered.

What about the idea where it gets inserted in the area beneath the avatar, rather than in the avatar itself? Kind of like where a lot of forums like to put badges and achievements?

Glad that worked out. 8'D *high fives SJ*

@Crim: There's an Aincrad in this picture, but I get the feeling it's too much of a lump shape to really look good behind the logo... xD

Why do I keep thinking of LSP?

Edit: Oh, except if it's kept at a really big size compared to the text. Then it might look good o-o

Hey, that turned out great! Thanks SJ 8D

I thought Namine meant to have it both horizontal and at a flat angle (right now, the right side of the logo seems nearer than the left side, as if it's on a 3D plane tilted toward us. But I like it that way, it's cool.)

I don't think there's really room.

But yeah, I'm all for familiars having their own stats and post in a character's page. Having to make a list would add a barrier before we could start implementing the system which I don't think is necessary- but I like the take it as we go idea (making creatures that suit the floor and season, perhaps?) Sounds like excellent fun.

I don't think having a familiar appear in that information area below avatars next to people's posts takes much work to implement, but maybe they could be put into signatures instead.

Maybe I could make a mockup of what I mean sometime!