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SpyPoet: Created page with "Sword Art Online-1: Theme Information This page's purpose is providing all necessary information needed to portray Sword Art Online in the Multiverse, for both FCs and OCs. I..."

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 ==== KIRITO: Celestial Blades ====
-''TYPE:'' Weapon Skill, Dual One-Handed Swords
+''TYPE:'' Weapon Skill, Dual One-Handed Swords<br>
 Born (RE-born?) from Kirito's sheer dedication of endlessly trying to re-create the 'Dual Blades' Unique Skill of SAO using the Original Sword Skill system, Celestial Blades is a Weapon Skill for equipping a One-Handed Sword in each hand. This configuration boosts parry notably and attack power through the roof, slightly lowers the cooldown time of One-Handed Sword Skills, and enables a slew of special dual wielding Sword Skills such as Cross Block (defensive), Locus Hexedra (7-hit), Starburst Stream (16-hit), and The Eclipse (27-hit).
 ==== LISBETH: Weapon Ascension ====
-''TYPE:'' Crafting, Weapons
+''TYPE:'' Crafting, Weapons<br>
 Year after year, Lisbeth's put her whole heart and soul into every blow of her blacksmith's hammer. She has proven worthy of the Unique Skill 'Weapon Ascension', which confers numerous abilities ordinary Crafters do not receive. Though a pain in the ass to grind, at maximum level it grants a +20% success rate to enhancing Weapons and raising the maximum success rate cap to 98% from 95%. She may also choose to 'Reforge' a Weapon, improving its tier/rarity for a massive stat boost, and resetting its Enhancement status for a new round of reinforcement attempts. Reforging cannot fail, but requires phenomenal mounds of rare materials and Yrd.
 ==== TOMOE: Righteous Cross ====
-''TYPE:'' Weapon Skill, One-Handed Sword and Shield
+''TYPE:'' Weapon Skill, One-Handed Sword and Shield<br>
 (to be written)
 ==== REKER: One Man Army ====
-''TYPE:'' Weapon Skill, Firearms
+''TYPE:'' Weapon Skill, Firearms<br>
 (to be written)
 ==== SILICA: Beast Master ====
-''TYPE:'' Support Skill, Beast Tamer Enhancement
+''TYPE:'' Support Skill, Beast Tamer Enhancement<br>
 (to be written)

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 New dive gear designed to prevent another SAO had since entered the market, alongside the release of Alfheim Online. Both were produced by RCT Progress, buyer of Argus' assets. The heroes who cleared SAO exposed Fulldive division head Noboyuki Sugou's illegal imprisonment of the remaining players for mind control experiments... and seemingly crackpot ways of 'bringing data into reality'. He released his work open-source to the world during arrest, to mixed reception. It was coupled with the enigmatic open-source release of the masterwork VRMMO SDK 'The World Seed' though, propelling FullDive technology into a golden age.
-Unbelievable events overturned every effort to suppress Sugou's research. <DATE HERE>, after the Multiverse fractured and reassembled, strange advertisements about a new Augmented Reality earpiece-visor, or 'Augma', promised to unite everyone with virtual reality in grand new ways. Accompanying it, a puzzling list of pre-approved beta testers: the usernames of some hardcore VRMMO players.
+Unbelievable events overturned every effort to suppress Sugou's research. April 23, 2029 (25AU), after the Multiverse fractured and reassembled, strange advertisements about a new Augmented Reality earpiece-visor, or 'Augma', promised to unite everyone with virtual reality in grand new ways. Accompanying it, a puzzling list of pre-approved beta testers: the usernames of some hardcore VRMMO players.
 Beta day saw the entire world flashing with wireframe textures and 'reload.' Alfheim emerged in the Devil's Sea south of Japan. SBC Glocken and Gun Gale Online's post-apocalyptic wasteland appeared west of North America. All the most popular VRMMOs saw representation. Pockets of what have come to be called 'Game Zones' (or just 'zones') further dot the landscape of all nations, with towns, ravenous monster lairs, and fantastic environments all filled with uncannily intelligent 'NPCs' slowly encroaching on the world everyone knew. In some cases it nicely co-exists or even improves living conditions. But for others...
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 This does have its limits though. Avatars cannot fully protect the flesh underneath them from damage. Although avatars can APPEAR to endure cartoonishly exaggerated injuries like being cleaved straight through vertically (and remaining entirely intact, the damage showing only as a decal) such blows are partially reflected upon the underlying flesh. A stab through the gut might result in a shallower cut. Being buried under tons of rocks can mean bruises, even broken bones.
-Permanent crippling injury is rare - even if the avatar's arm is chopped off, this is handled as the Amputation Status Effect (regenerates after 3 minutes) like in the game. The 'real' arm is still there underneath the transformation, but might be paralyzed through nerve shock, sprained, broken, or otherwise unusable. However, REPEATED injury to the same locations or damage from epic sources are another story.
+The avatar serves as perfect prosthetics for arms, legs, fingers, toes, but while its own limbs regenerate from amputation as appropriate, the flesh 'beneath' does not. In other words, it's possible to lose a 'real' limb when you lose a transformed one. The limb grows back transformed, but the real one stays gone.
 Injuries mount up, becoming ever more severe. Pain mounts up. Even the greatest of Augma users cannot fight forever, no matter their Avatar's HP meter. Game effects such as Healing Magic and curative items are much more effective at keeping avatar HP up than fleshy health - they provide very diminishing returns for the latter, and are no substitute for proper rest and recovery.
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 A phenomenon hearkening back to SAO, 'Unique Skills' have appeared for a rare few Augma Users. These simply show up in the Skill List one day, along with a System Message. Who has designed them, what their ultimate purpose is, and the unlock requirements are all ICly a mystery. What IS certain is that everyone who has one is exceptional in some way, and these Skills are 'gamebreaking' within ALO's context. Unique Skills must be leveled up like any others, but do not take up a Skill Slot and can only be Disabled, not Deleted.
-OOCly, Unique Skills are inspired by the original concept in SAO but are now meant to be much more commonplace where PC's are concerned. Any PC Augma User is a candidate for a Unique Skill, but this should definitely be derived from and a part of the character's Defining attributes. For instance, Lisbeth is primarily a Crafter - her Unique Skill will have to do with crafting. The 'unlock requirements' can be considerably more abstract and narratively flexible than the original Unique Skills of SAO's design, such as emotional devotion or freakish devotion time to some task or Skill.
+OOCly, Unique Skills are inspired by the original concept in SAO but are now meant to be much more commonplace where PC's are concerned. Any PC Augma User is a candidate for a Unique Skill, but this should definitely be derived from and a part of the character's Defining attributes. For instance, Lisbeth is primarily a Crafter - her Unique Skill will have to do with crafting. The 'unlock requirements' can be considerably more abstract and narratively flexible than the original Unique Skills of SAO's design, such as emotional investment or freakish devotion time to some task or Skill.
 ==== KIRITO: Celestial Blades ====
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 ''TYPE:'' Crafting, Weapons
 Year after year, Lisbeth's put her whole heart and soul into every blow of her blacksmith's hammer. She has proven worthy of the Unique Skill 'Weapon Ascension', which confers numerous abilities ordinary Crafters do not receive. Though a pain in the ass to grind, at maximum level it grants a +20% success rate to enhancing Weapons and raising the maximum success rate cap to 98% from 95%. She may also choose to 'Reforge' a Weapon, improving its tier/rarity for a massive stat boost, and resetting its Enhancement status for a new round of reinforcement attempts. Reforging cannot fail, but requires phenomenal mounds of rare materials and Yrd.
 == Foreigners ==

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 === Health ===
-Since a transformed player is a fusion of flesh and digital matter made manifest, Augma Users do need to eat and drink and deal with other bodily needs. Death from starvation and dehydration are problems, and lack of sleep is crippling as always. However, being transformed seems to protect users from most diseases and health worries that can't be rendered into a Status Effect. Chronic health issues are held at bay and missing limbs are restored as the Avatar's state of health takes primacy.
+Since a transformed player is a fusion of flesh and digital matter made manifest, Augma Users do need to eat and drink and deal with other bodily needs. Death from starvation and dehydration are problems, and lack of sleep is crippling as always. However, the transformed state's 'heroic health' powerfully contests mundane health hazards like disease through sheer vitality. Thus, chronic health issues are held at bay and missing limbs are restored - since the avatar does not lack them.
-This does have its limits though. As avatars take injury, an amount of it reaches the flesh and blood body at its core. This 'real damage' is marked as a slowly growing 'blacked out' zone at the end of an HP bar that temporarily caps Maximum HP. As the user's health suffers and injury mounts up this 'black damage' grows. The greater this bar the more intense actual pain becomes. At 50% black or greater, pain and exhaustion start becoming overwhelming, and one's 'real state of health' shifts more towards primacy.
+This does have its limits though. Avatars cannot fully protect the flesh underneath them from damage. Although avatars can APPEAR to endure cartoonishly exaggerated injuries like being cleaved straight through vertically (and remaining entirely intact, the damage showing only as a decal) such blows are partially reflected upon the underlying flesh. A stab through the gut might result in a shallower cut. Being buried under tons of rocks can mean bruises, even broken bones.
-Game effects such as healing magic and items can do nothing to cure this 'black damage.' Only rest and real recuperation and tending to one's real body does.
+Permanent crippling injury is rare - even if the avatar's arm is chopped off, this is handled as the Amputation Status Effect (regenerates after 3 minutes) like in the game. The 'real' arm is still there underneath the transformation, but might be paralyzed through nerve shock, sprained, broken, or otherwise unusable. However, REPEATED injury to the same locations or damage from epic sources are another story.
-Those who transform back while suffering Black Damage see the full effects of that damage. A lost arm in avatar form results in a bloodied arm covered in cuts which refuses to move due to an overwhelmed nervous system (which will usually recover) even if the arm regenerated while transformed. Cuts and bruises, stabs and burns. Sometimes these injuries can be life-threatening, and so it's usually smartest to NOT transform back while suffering Black Damage. Thankfully, enough time recovering while Transformed seems to be enough to mend these injuries.
+Injuries mount up, becoming ever more severe. Pain mounts up. Even the greatest of Augma users cannot fight forever, no matter their Avatar's HP meter. Game effects such as Healing Magic and curative items are much more effective at keeping avatar HP up than fleshy health - they provide very diminishing returns for the latter, and are no substitute for proper rest and recovery.
-At 0 Avatar HP (which is NOT linked with MCM's combat system) the transformation comes undone and users are forced to deal with the amount of Black Damage they've accrued, which rises sharply as a death penalty. This is a death sentence when fighting monsters, as most will continue to attack. Critical life-threatening injuries are also nearly certain in this scenario. The transformation is put on a 24-hour cooldown for people who do survive.
+At 0 avatar HP the transformation comes undone, and cannot be used again for the next 24 hours. Without the transformation's power, users must deal with the reality of all their pain and agony, which by this point might well be life threatening on its own even without an enemy looming over them.
 === Multiplaying ===

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 ''TYPE:'' Crafting, Weapons
 Year after year, Lisbeth's put her whole heart and soul into every blow of her blacksmith's hammer. She has proven worthy of the Unique Skill 'Weapon Ascension', which confers numerous abilities ordinary Crafters do not receive. Though a pain in the ass to grind, at maximum level it grants a +20% success rate to enhancing Weapons and raising the maximum success rate cap to 98% from 95%. She may also choose to 'Reforge' a Weapon, improving its tier/rarity for a massive stat boost, and resetting its Enhancement status for a new round of reinforcement attempts. Reforging cannot fail, but requires phenomenal mounds of rare materials and Yrd.
 == Foreigners ==
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 == Reality Interaction Principles ==

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 == Collaborative Nature of Theme==
 This page will be updated as new circumstances and concerns arise, to maintain cohesion in the Multiverse. Additionally, while it follows the straightforward story of Sword Art Online, active cast can collaborate to hash out things that might have happened or not happened, or happened differently, to make way for new developments or past developments - this is particularly helpful to the applicants of OCs who might wish to have ties to events. Of course, post unification, all future developments are going to be very different than what happens in canon... though this is normal for the Multiverse, it bears noting that this theme will be very different from normal canon due its special nature of making the virtual into reality far beyond what the official canon ever does.
 [[Category:Themes]]

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-Sword Art Online-1: Theme Information
+{{CastPage
+|Desc=This page's purpose is providing all necessary information needed to portray Sword Art Online in the Multiverse, for both FCs and OCs. It will avoid spoilers, and is maintained by Mouvar - current player of Kirito - in collaboration with active cast.
 This page's purpose is providing all necessary information needed to portray Sword Art Online in the Multiverse, for both FCs and OCs. It will avoid spoilers, and is maintained by Mouvar - current player of Kirito - in collaboration with active cast.
 Virtually all of the information on this page was directly compiled from active study of the anime and light novels. Some of it is extrapolated, other bits are common sense, a few parts are adapted to better fit the Multiverse theme, but it stays as true to presentation as possible.
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 NOTE TO READERS: Please refer to [[Alfheim Basics]] for a simplified version of everything.
+|Cat=Themes
 = Section One: The Technology=

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	== Collaborative Nature of Theme==		== Collaborative Nature of Theme==
	This page will be updated as new circumstances and concerns arise, to maintain cohesion in the Multiverse. Additionally, while it follows the straightforward story of Sword Art Online, active cast can collaborate to hash out things that might have happened or not happened, or happened differently, to make way for new developments or past developments - this is particularly helpful to the applicants of OCs who might wish to have ties to events. Of course, post unification, all future developments are going to be very different than what happens in canon... though this is normal for the Multiverse, it bears noting that this theme will be very different from normal canon due its special nature of making the virtual into reality far beyond what the official canon ever does.		This page will be updated as new circumstances and concerns arise, to maintain cohesion in the Multiverse. Additionally, while it follows the straightforward story of Sword Art Online, active cast can collaborate to hash out things that might have happened or not happened, or happened differently, to make way for new developments or past developments - this is particularly helpful to the applicants of OCs who might wish to have ties to events. Of course, post unification, all future developments are going to be very different than what happens in canon... though this is normal for the Multiverse, it bears noting that this theme will be very different from normal canon due its special nature of making the virtual into reality far beyond what the official canon ever does.
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		+	[[Category:Themes]]