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Magnus the Great

"Swords? Real men fight with maces."

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a character in “Sword Art Online: Aincrad Arc”, as played by Zalgo

Description

Player Name: Phillip Bird
Avatar Name: Magnus the Great
Avatar Image:
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Gender: Male
Age: 22
Height: 6'6"
Build:

IG - Tall, Broad shouldered, muscle bound.
IRL - Tall, Broad shouldered, really out of shape.

Sexuality: Straight

Level: 16

Weapon Skill: One-handed War Hammer

Non-Combat Skills: None.

Passive Skills: Extended Weight Limit

Combat Skills:

- Heavy Metal Equipment
- Battle Healing

One-Handed War Hammer Skills

  1. Power Attack: A powerful overhead strike which hits with significant force. Only hits once and only effects a single target but it deals more damage than a single hit from most sword arts.
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  2. Staggering Blow: A hit which staggers most enemies, interrupting enemy special attacks and sword skills. This attack has a cooldown period which was implemented to prevent the user from completely shutting down all their enemies attacks. As well as interrupting special attacks and weapon skills attacks this attack also causes the foe struck by it to be very briefly stunned.

(Once discovered more skills will be added.)

Equipped Armor: Starter's Plated Chain-mail
Equipped Weapon: Starter's Mace.
Inventory: A shield.
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Demeanor:

He is a neurotic little man. Saying he is antisocial doesn't begin to cover his dislike of the outside world in general. His childhood left a severe mark on his ego which he compensates for by having an absurdly large one in-game. He can't be happy unless he is constantly winning, leading him to obsessively grind and number crunch until he has the best of everything and can defeat anything without effort.

PKing (Player Killing) is not his style as it distracts from his grinding but he has PK'd in the past when somebody else tries to steal his kills. Surprisingly though he is quite hard to antagonize, keeping his head even when everyone else is either freaking out or trying to troll him. He is quite intelligent and when put to a task he can be quite resourceful should push come to shove. His main weaknesses is his hubris and that he does not cooperate with others very often as it forces him to divide the rewards which is detrimental to the sole purpose of his gaming.

Offline he is a quiet person who talks rarely and mostly avoids contact with anyone he doesn't have to interact with. He spends most of the day when he is not online counting the seconds until he is online. Something he tries not to show online but someone can sometimes see when talking to him, especially in real life, is glimpses of the sullen bitterness and self resentment he has been accustomed to over the years.

RP Sample:

Right from the start he hit the ground running. The world rushed in, his senses absorbing every detail. Every aspect of the land surrounding him was a tad overwhelming, disorienting him momentarily as he adjusted from the quiet darkness of the loading screen to the flood of light and sounds and textures. He stood in the middle of the starting city, right nearby a fountain where many players were chatting with each other, most marveling at the sophistication of the game's graphics. He spared not a moment of time, racing in as straight a line as possible to the blacksmith. This was not his first time working through this routine.

True to his nature Phillip had hit the ground running as soon as he got into the beta. He orchestrated a strict regiment to conduct his questing on, reducing the amount of time he had to spend between grinding mobs and completing quests. Regardless of whether or not his character was permanent he power leveled like a madman. He used up all the vacation time his work offered, bought himself a months supply of caffeinated soda and snack foods and did absolutely nothing else but grind levels. By the time beta was over he had gained twenty pounds and his whole house reeked of cat urine but it was so worth it for that one last level he might not have gotten if he chose to sleep that one night he felt tired in between caffeine highs. He ignored almost everything that was not relevant to leveling. Quest dialogue? Beautiful scenery? Interaction with other players? PVP? Forget that noise, leveling was where he was at.

Before the NPC could even begin it's dialogue he ran through a blur of select phrases for navigation. "Menu! Basic Mace! Basic Shield! Plated Chain! Here's the pay, I'm gone!" Before it could even get out a coherent response he had taken the desired gear, leaving basically all of his starting fund with the large character as he darted from the store.

The only time he wasn't manically running was when he was donning his equipment. Clutching his iron mace in one hand, his medium sized metal shield in the other, he dashed towards the starting zone where the mobs lived, his chain links rattling all the way as they bounced from his hurried footsteps. His plan was to level his skills in one handed mace and shield. The sword was only really for utility purposes such as cutting through foliage but would still prove useful for combat should an enemy ever disarm him of his mace somehow.

He stood valiant in face of his opponents. Many a dire boar and dire snake had met their grizzly end at the head of his mace. The pummeling he had doled out to the mobs served him well, delicious experience points bringing about a good few levels towards his mace and shield skills. Levels, that all addicting reward which brings such bliss with every one he earns. After he grew exhausted from dishing out pain he simply sat, marshaling his constitution while he bathed in the glory of his first few levels. His ecstasy for gaining levels was tempered only by the knowledge that other people might be getting them too, closing the gap between their levels and his own. That would not do.

As he was about to continue he was dragged from the green surroundings of his mob farm to the starting city. It was there that the creator unveiled his great deception to the horror of many gamers. Many except Phil. He did not see the threat of death as much of a threat. He was already unsatisfied with his real life as it was. To experience death in the virtual world he'd probably want to be dead for screwing up so bad anyways. The fact he wasn't able to log out was little but an inconvenience. He had his apartment set up ahead of time so he could survive for a long time plugged into this world without needing to exit.

It was after the creator finished his tirade that Phil swore to defeat all the floors and the final boss. His intent was not to rescue the other players from being trapped in the game as that would result in being kicked from the game world, something he had little to no intent in doing in the first place. He resolved in ascending the floors and defeating the final boss simply to prove he is the best. In his mind it truly was victory or death.

"Meh. If I die at least Chester can eat my corpse."

So begins...

Magnus the Great's Story

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Kirito observed the strange player who had just dropped in front of him. That was quite the entrance he thought but pain not mind to him. He enter the shop and placed a bunch off small books on the table writing a sign that said guide book for free. He then walk up to the bar and order a small Tea, he waited as he saw the through his menu if anyone had send him a reply. He saw Miyer would be grinding soon and when the battle took place they would go together. He then took a look through his inventory he had two blades the anneal blade with + 6 enhancements and the blade of infinite MP. He had a hard time deciding which one to take to the boss battle but finally decided upon taking the anneal blade. He then receive his tea and drank it he left 20 Col on the bar and walked away. The fields were being picked cleans as he took a break but he knew the best spots to grind due to his beta tester back ground. He headed toward that direction hoping to see the field with the level 15 monsters and while he was going solo he could handle them as long as they didn't swarm. He pulled out his blade and began grinding his level slowly increasing. He decided to take a break from all the grinding and then walked back to the town thing were a lot calmer now people understood the vitality of being able to survive. He saw the strange boy again, then another girl with a similar blade to his, there was a couple that just had starting grinding, then there was a tank obvious player, he saw last a another blue haired boy all of them determine as he was to win.

( anyone wants to join me in the following quest for now kirito will be sociable and approachable so please I would like to get to know each and every single one of your character before Friday.)

The setting changes from Sword Art Online to Floor 1-100

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Here is your 15 daily quest

1. The 3 Bear rampage. ( there was a case of breaking and entering the victims three bears who are now rampaging through the forest chasing the responsible assailant, capture the assailant or kill the bears is up to you ) Level: 5 Xp Yield: 100 Reward: The house in the forest ( if bears kills ) The pick of locks a pick that allows to pick low level door without with ease. ( if the assailant is kill)

2. The bird wonder ( there is a justice bird trying to save his mentor an old bat from a hyena's attack ) Level :4 Xp: 75 Reward : the boomerang spear ( a spear that returns to the user if thrown.)

3. The living blade ( there is a cursed blade in the forest if anyone tries to pick it up it will sap their energy however if the swords deems you worthy it will become the sapping blade of the king which allows a energy sapping skill when contact with the skin of the enemy is made.) Level :6 Xp yield: 150 Reward: Sapping blade.

4 . The first rule of rpg ( there is a swarm of monsters appearing through the meadows they are rumored to give a lot of XP the draw back is they swarm the opponent effortless killing them) Level :6 Xp yield: 175 Reward : Double xp

5. The Creed is sacred ( a group of mysterious assassin' s just open up a spot for a single new comer who can bring them the head of the monster called the Temple a monster twice as high as any player with a huge cross in its chest ) Level: 7 Xp yield: 175 Reward: Cloak of the assassins + sneaking and Dagger damage

6. The golden ape ( there is a monkey giving information about a sword skill called the turtle slash his name is sung wukong but he will only reveal his secret to a strong opponent who can best him and his magical pole) Level: 4 Xp yield: over 90 Reward: Sword skill the turtle slash

7. The chief and the arbiter ( there is duo giving a quest to destroy a poisounous plant that is turning their friends into zombies slay the plant and do not become a zombie ) Level: 18 reward: Light Blade a blade composed of a bright metal makes it look like if it wasn't a tangible thing

8 The Psy ( There is a dancing npc that is willing to teach a moved called the side step counter if you can show him you can get down) Level:5 Xp yield: 50 Reward: The side step counter

9. The Mischievous fox( there is a fox deep in the forest that is nimble and agile trying to keep himself alive he will bestow a fast dodging skill to his next apprentice will it be you ) Level:4 Xp yield: 80 Reward: The nine tails, allows to the user access to a running skill that allows quickly movement at the cost of being down on all fours and not being able to use weapons.

10. The trishotgun ( there is a charismatic outlaw hoping to turn his life around all he need is for you to pay his debts if you do then he will give you the triblade a blade that give a +3 attack if used on bandits.) Level:5 Xp yield: 100 Reward: The tribalde

11. The stacking miner ( there is a miner that has re imagine a way to mine his pickaxe can now pick blocks of 1 meter by 1 meter up he is willing to pay you a lot of Col if you keep the explosive nepents away from him. ) Level: 5 Xp yield: 125 Reward: 3,000 Col.

12. The preparations for winter because it's coming ( there is a small feathery dragon who has landed in the mountain the NPCs want him death because once winter come he will attack their cattle do not attempt alone. ) Level:8 Xp yield: 400 Reward: The scale chest plate + 10 attack and hp

13. The wrong turn on Tolbana ( by mistake a rare mob has appeared outside tolbana it's name the grey rabbit if you can catch it and kill it I will grant you rabbit meat a meat capable of healing any status ) Level:5 Xp yield: 110 Reward: The docs meat

14. This is dot way to similar ( there is a new teleporting gate in the forest rumored to lead to a small new floor called the dot new floor it is rumor there is a small girl there giving the dot hack slasher blade ) Level:6 Xp yield: 175 Reward: The dot hack slasher a blade with better flowing combos.

15. The forever battle ( someone though it would be funny to start a few between butterfly cocoons and salmon fish the result a never ending battle please finish it and let there be a winner ) Level: 5 Xp yield: 60 Reward: The powders of status effects ( if salmon kill ) or The mountain leap an extra jump skill that allows a much higher jump ( if cocoon killed )

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The creator had finished speaking, sinking back from whence he came.

There was a hush over the crowd. Everyone had a mirror distributed to them, Magnus among them. The gruff, muscular warrior looked down at the odd new addition to his inventory. The creator, Kayabe Akihiko, had just told them all they were liable to die in the real world with an implausibly difficult challenge standing between them and the exit and yet this had barely even phased the herculean Magnus. What he saw in the mirror however sent chills down his spine, unnerving him to the core. This wasn't the fearless and proud Magnus looking back at him, it was him! The player behind the head gear, Phillip.

His masculine face had gruesomely transformed into this disgusting, sweaty and poorly groomed mug which he had the misfortune of calling his own. The rest of the body was no different, his amazing musculature having transformed back into this large lumpy thing with poor posture. He was frozen as he stared into the beady blood stricken eyes, no doubt a result of his lack of sleep as a result of his constant gaming, of his all too real reflection. He slowly placed the mirror back into his inventory and looked up to where Kayabe once hovered.


"Screw you! You pompous git!" He bellowed out, his words quickly lost into the sounds of panic which had now swept over the crowd. "Bloody heck. I gotta get out of this town." Before anyone sees me He added, albeit in his own head. Ducking his own head down he made his way out of the city whilst trying to avoid been seen through his helmet. Some guy was curled up in the fetal position on the floor directly in his path, around him crowds frantically running about and screaming about this and that. "I don't want to die... I don't want to die..." The guy in his path was repeating to himself while crying.

"Get out of my way. Bloody casuals." He pushed the guy out his way with the heel of his boot. The guy only shuddered and curled up even tighter as Magnus stepped pass him. Bloody heck, With all these casuals panicking like this it's gonna be a real pain getting around. Not that I need these idiots to beat this game. I could probably solo about most of it.
Magnus left the city, negative thoughts swirling about inside his head.

He spent quite a bit of time simply traveling. He was angry, rightfully so. Not only did this guy go and trap them all inside this game, an inconvenience without a doubt, he had the gall to reset their avatars to their real forms. Not far from him he saw a herd of wild boars idly grazing, paying no mind to him since they were generally neutral npc's. The boars stood out from the regular boars he had fought up until then. These ones were all black with white stripes (Or perhaps white with black stripes). Drawing upon his hard earned knowledge from the beta he recalled a mention of there being such mobs known as Zeboars, named of course from a portmanteau of zebra and boar. Being a rarer mob they were larger and it was rumored they offered more xp than regular boars.

Perhaps it wasn't a wise decision. No, it pretty much wasn't wise in any real sense. Being as angry as he was though he wasn't in the frame of mind to make smart decisions. He just strode on up through the grazing mobs, stepping over the viciously mauled corpses which lay strewn about the field which really should of been the first warning sign. Dead center of what appeared to be a veritable swarm of these mobs was the herd leader, a particularly large warty Zeboar with jagged tusks. He had his chance to turn around. None of the Zeboars seemed interested in him, their leader eying him lazily while it chewed it's grass. He could of turned around at any moment and left.


"I am the greatest!"

The leader's eyes narrowed as Magnus brought up his mace and in one swift stroke he struck the Zeboar on the back of it's skull, a weak point for boar mobs. It staggered to the ground momentarily, trying to regain it's composure. His arm back up high he hammered down yet again upon the sensitive part of the Zeboars head. It was seeing stars now, it's world now blurry and painful. His arm raised up once more and slammed into the large Zeboar's fractured skull for the last time, breaking it's head in like a chocolate egg during Easter.

The experience was euphoric. It was true what they said, that these mobs offered more exp than regular mobs. Magnus's moment of glory was cut short however as he noticed the sea of eyes watching him this very moment. "REEE!" The collective squeal of the surprisingly large herd of Zeboars filled the air, nearly deafening him. This wasn't something that usually happened. Most of the mobs in the area around the starting zones didn't tend to respond to attackers in their collective groups. At worst, one or two more boars would of been aggroed had these been normal boars. Instead, as he quickly realized, the entire herd of these Zeboars had aggroed to him.


In a frantic struggle he started running, smacking aside boars with his mace and trying his hardest to try and deflect the many boar tusks which where coming at him from practically every side. He knew he wasn't fast enough to outrun the boars since his skills were more appropriated towards standing and fighting not running like crazy. Still, he gave it his best effort as the stampeding herd of wrathful Zeboars closed in on him. Not long after the chase began he felt the tusks of a charging Zeboar come up under him. The tusks stabbed up, coming into contact with his leg armor. Even though it didn't penetrate the armor the force with which it hit him still hurt, taking some points off his health nonetheless.

That's when things got weird. The force of the Zeboar rearing it's ugly head under him had actually lifted him off the ground. Watching his feet stop touching the floor he figured he was a goner. The minute enough of those hogs surrounded him even with all his armor he could wave life goodbye as they'd maul him to death. Flailing his arms as he fell he reached out for something, anything to grab onto. Before he knew what was even going on he grabbed onto something that wasn't the ground. This was something he'd of never counted on happening in any way. Some way, somehow he managed to land on the back of the Zeboar which had brought it's tusks and subsequently it's head right up underneath him. The force of the Zeboar's attack had propped him up onto itself.

In a wild panic the Zeboar continued to run, bucking and jumping as it tried to shake Magnus from it's back. He wasn't letting go, he had a death grip on the Zeboar's monochromatic mane of long, coarse hair. As the Zeboar continued to charge in the direction he had initially been fleeing towards the rest of the herd followed, stampeding in the same direction. Their destination: Tolbana.

"How did it even come to this!?" He managed to cry out in between screams as he rode the frenzied Zeboar, not entirely in control of his own fate by this point. Anyone within an earshot's distance from the town and everyone within it could hear the sounds of hooves pounding and Magnus yelling.

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Kirito was surprised that shiro knew his name " Have we meet before huh ? " He said trying to recall his face but was unable to. He decided to find out about how this guy knew him so decided to bring him along. " Listen I'm after this quest that has extra xp wielding abilities " He said as he asked with an invitation to join a party. After he accepted they began walking towards the location of the quest then they heard it blood curling screams. Kirito rushed to see a lone player being trampled by the zeboars idiot you shouldn't have gone alone he thought. He was hesitant to draw his sword because he knew even with his level he wouldnt be able to protect two players if it came down to it. He finally decided and rush towards the man using the vertical arc he took care of the mobs closer to the player and lift him up by his arm. He wanted to dig through his inventory and heal him but it would consume so much time and they didn't have time. He knew hat he had to do he drew all the attention to himself , he was afraid of dying but to him dying with someone else was better than living alone. He took the mobs away from him as they started to swarm him he carefully dodge and attack. He gave Shiro the time to heal the player as he deal with the zeboars luckily there was something good about the zeboars they made him level up twice allowing him to keep his health high. He learned a new skilled called the vertical square and horizontal squares he used them swiftly trying to fight them off but even with his levels they would soon overwhelm him. " Get him the hell out of here shiro " Yelled kirito as he took down another zeboar their number diminishing but not fast enough

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Tolbana outskirts November 7, 2022

Kirito was relieved that the other players were safe and now focused on killing the remaining zeboars in order to get the xp to take on other quest. He continued to dispatch them a lot easier now that he had support from shiro and magnus. He finished the remaining ones and smile wiping his forehead even thought there was not sweat he was exhausted. He walked over to Shiro and MAgnus and smile " Thank you guys this quest would have been a lot more difficult if I did it alone anyway I hope you guys got enough experience to take on other challenges without this happening." He said thinking of how close to death they were. He wave them good bye and began to walk back to town in order to take another quest so he could level up faster out of the 10 zeboars he must have killed at least 4 of them at 175X2 experience he had gain 1400 XP enough xp to level up to level 7 he was now in route to becoming stronger and being able to survive the game of death. He excused himself and walked back to the place he was renting in order rest a bit. He was walking when he realized he had used his sword so much it probably now needed to find someone who would repair the equipment. He walked to town looking for a smith that would be able to help him without cleaning out his col supply. He however was distracted when he saw Argo the info dealer making her money by selling information he decided to check out what information she could have that could help him. He smiled as he saw her cat markings and then decided to inquire about the info she didn't have much he didn't already no so he decided to leave her to her business.

( again this week I want to get to know every single character in my rp so please don't be shy and join me in a quest just a quick introduction will suffice.)

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tolbana 9 pm November 7,2022

Kirito look up at shiro again " Do you need any more help friend ?" He asked a little worry that he might have run into troubled. He sat in a bench and waited for him to talk as he looked through his menu and accepted the quest to kill the dragon winter is coming" Hey how do you feel about fighting a fire breathing lizard " He said as he smiled but realized even if they were in good levels fighting a dragon would require more than two players he decided to use the system quest to post one on his own. Anyone seeking to gain good xp and favorable reward please meet me in the outskirts of tobalna I will share the details of this quest once you arrive. He send the quest to the nearby players, and then turn to Shiro " Let's go we need to meet people in the outskirt of this town." He said as he started walking and then realized this guy had been calling him by his name the whole time. " Hey have we meet before, or how do you know my name I don't believe I ever told you it" He said a little worry this guy had been buying players names from argo because only two type of players did that the PKers and the traps for the PKers. He tap hi sword and sight hoping this guy wasn't one of them even thought he would do anything to survive killing someone would not weight lightly in his conscious. He arrived to the place he was supposed meeting them and waited for the players to arrive there this quest would be the most difficult one yet. He equipped his Anneal blade and packet all his healing potions and crystal as well as the corridor crystal in case things when wrong.

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Tolbana outskirts, Time: 2100, November 7, 2022.


While he sat atop the wild Zeboar he held on for dear life. He wasn't exactly sure about how he was going to handle this situation he put himself in. Almost as if to answer his question a swordsman came and slew the Zeboar he was just riding, sending him dropping to the floor quite unceremoniously. Before he knew it two other players were tackling the mobs
he was fighting. "Hey! What on earth do you two think your doing?" He asked, somewhat angry but mostly just confused.

The kid instructed the older guy to get him out of here. Needless to say, he was quite shocked at all this. Not the fact they were helping him though that was a bit puzzling too but rather the fact that they just swooped in and were planning on cutting him out from getting the kills. The older guy was blabbering about healing or some other nonsense.
"Just what do you think you are trying to pull!?" He responded to the other guy's offer to heal him by turning his back on him and charging straight back into the fray.

Because the other two had joined the fight the damage was distributed between them. Thanks to his battle healing he was able to sustain himself through the Zeboar's assault, laying waste to about three more before the herd was no more. He knelt down to rest, his body battered and exhausted from the running and fighting.

"Thank you guys this quest would have been a lot more difficult if I did it alone anyway I hope you guys got enough experience to take on other challenges without this happening." The kid said to them. He was quite upset with them now. "Without this happening!? I totally had that all under control until you both showed up! Stealing my kills like that is the worst thing you could of possibly done right there. That's such a noob thing to do I just- Hey! Where you all going!?
Hey! I wasn't finished talking!" He was yelling at them. Towards the end of his rant there the two had already been walking away, almost as if they weren't even listening to him to begin with. Yeah, he didn't really have that situation with the mobs under control but he was never going to admit it, even if they were to try and beat it out of him.

"Well I'll just move on then... Bloody people." He cursed them under his breath, pushing his tired frame up. He dragged himself from the scene and continued onwards down the road. The only upside to his evening so far had been that he had gotten enough exp to put him at level seven. "At least I leveled finally. Still, I need to do more quests to stay ahead of the curve." He was mostly talking to himself, laying out his plan in his mind as he traveled. His whole body groaned with pain, reminding him that even though exp is important it still craved rest like any other normal human being.

He walked for a while down one road then another. He sort of lost track of time in his doldrums. Down the road he saw a city he recognized not too far away. Horunka city, not a bad place to level. It had plenty of woods with a rather scarce population of people there usually. He strode into town and looked around, evaluating the population of players present. So far it seemed pretty thin, making this place ideal for leveling. The less people to steal his kills, the better.

There was the occasional player around. The closest one was a very short girl concealed by a black cloak, little showing but her face, most notable features of which were her brown hair and rather bright green eyes which stood out in the dim light. She seemed to look lost though he really couldn't tell. Normally he couldn't care less about what weaker people did but he didn't see the harm in giving a couple directions. It would only take a couple seconds of his time or so he believed.

"You lost?" He asked the young girl. He only approached until he was within decent talking range. Even as socially awkward as he usually was he knew it was poor form to loom over someone so short. Even at the distance he stood he seemed to dwarf her by a couple feet or so but at least he wasn't towering over her.


Total EXP Earned: 350, Total Col Earned: 0, Level After Total EXP: Level 8.

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November 7, 2022--12:19 AM
Floor 1, Horunka


The Anneal Blade was notably longer and heavier than the Starting Sword, and Hisui found it was hard for her to even carry it--the red scabbard nearly touched the ground while it was on her belt, and she found it a bit hard to balance while it was there. I hope it doesn't end up being a problem next time I have to fight...

Of course, right now she probably should be trying to find the inn. Horunka wasn't a big village, but in her exhaustion, Hisui had no idea where the inn could be. She couldn't even remember which buildings she had gone into...

"You lost?" She heard a voice coming from her right, and turned to see a tall, fat man standing a few meters away. He carried chain mail and a mace on his belt. And his eyes were fixed on her, so that question was definitely directed towards Hisui.

"M-me? Um...y-yeah, I-I guess," she stuttered, instinctively backing away. Hisui's social skills were utterly horrible, but she had even less experience with boys in real life. Which made things even worse with the "There are no girls on the Internet" stereotype, because there were probably more male players. "I-I, um, well..."

Can you PLEASE get a word out, idiot?! she screamed at herself internally, but all she did in real life was wrap her cape a bit more tightly around her body. "Y-you see, um...I-I'm, ah, l-looking for the inn. D-do you know where, um, it is...?"

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Horunka Forest, Time: 12:20 AM, November 7, 2022.


The girl seemed to trip over her words a lot but eventually she did answer his question, more or less. Magnus shifted his armor onto his good shoulder while she struggled to ask where the inn was. "Yeah. It's just over there." He pointed in the general direction of the inn. His directions were not very helpful as the inn wasn't immediately in view, being around a few buildings and such.

He covered his mouth as he yawned. Just how late did it suddenly get? I wasn't walking for that long was I? Huh. He was silently weighing his options. On one hand he didn't plan on being left behind in levels but on the other hand he hurt all over and he was starting to feel quite tired. Apathy wins today I guess. He finally resolved his internal struggle.

With his mind made up he turned towards the direction of the inn and started on his way towards it. He looked over his shoulder to see if the young girl was following him, seeing as how she was looking for the inn and all. An interesting detail caught his eye as he glanced back over to her. The blade she was wielding was the Anneal Blade, a sword that was the quest reward for the Secret Medicine of the Forest quest. "I take it the Secret Medicine of the Forest quest is already done?"
He asked a more or less rhetorical question, gesturing to her new sword with his mace hand.

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(OOC: To those of you whom it might concern, I think you can still do the "Secret Medicine of the Forest" quest if you feel like it. I started and finished it before Kirito even listed it, so don't feel like you're locked out of that quest. Besides, I remember reading from a side story that "Secret Medicine of the Forest" can be done by all players, and as many times as one wants.

GM: The quest can do four times by four different player this is so we have a fair leveling system. )

November 7, 2022--12:21 AM
Floor 1, Horunka


The man pointed her in a certain direction, and started walking that way himself. Figuring he probably was equally tired--humans aren't exactly nocturnal, after all--Hisui followed him. As she was walking, the man glanced at her once and asked, "I take it the 'Secret Medicine of the Forest' quest is already done?"

"Hm? A-ah, yeah...I-I completed i-it just a f-few minutes ago," Hisui replied. "W-why do you ask?" She wasn't quite sure how he realized, until she realized he had been looking at the sword hanging from her hip. So he had recognized the quest reward? That caused her to question something else. "W-wait a moment. H-how did you know about that quest? H-have you done it as well?" But the man didn't have any Anneal Blade on him, and Hisui had never heard of Beta Testers yet.

They finally reached the inn just as she finished her last question. Hisui paused walking for just a moment, waiting for the man to walk in before her. At the moment, she didn't really know what to think of him...he hadn't said much to her yet, at any rate.

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( To does who are not happy about the RP i been trying really hard to make it pleasing to everyone but Does it really cost that much effort to just look where you are posting ? I made this two places because floor 1-100 is where the non cannon happens, and here sword art online is where the cannon happens.)

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Horunka Forest, Time: 12:23 AM, November 7, 2022.


"W-wait a moment. H-how did you know about that quest? H-have you done it as well?"

Figures. He didn't expect much out of someone who wasn't a beta tester. "Saw that same blade on a guy I partied with during the first floor dungeon. Fairly interesting guy but he got all hacked up when he aggroed a pat during a pull." He explained to her using MMO jargon. He didn't really take into consideration the possibility that she might not understand some of the abbreviations. He also didn't consider the fact that he just told her about how some guy got violently killed during a dungeon run without establishing a proper timeline for when this incident took place which was back during the beta.

He remembered the good old days of beta. Back when there was no urgency and he could grind and level at a steady pace,
no worries about permadeath or any of that nonsense. The recent addition of the risk of dying was annoying but it still didn't annoy him as much as when he removed everyone's avatar. Back then he was Magnus the Great. Now he was just Magnus.
The kill stealers from earlier were the metaphorical salt in the already grievous wound to his self esteem.

When they were at the door to the inn they both seemed to be standing there, neither one entering the establishment. It was beginning to feel a bit awkward as neither one of them moved for the door. After the tension got too thick he was obliged to speak. "Well, this is the inn. You going in?" He stepped further aside, gesturing to the door in an attempt to spur some sort of response in this lull in activity.

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November 7, 2022--12:24 AM
Floor 1, Horunka


"H-hold on, w-we've already found the, ah, d-dungeon by now? And...um, I-I'm sorry, b-but what?" Hisui knew almost no MMO terms whatsoever, so she just couldn't understand what happened (other than the fact that that other Anneal Blade wielder had gotten hurt badly. Hopefully he had gotten out alright...).

Apparently, both she and the man had been intending to wait for the other to walk in first. After a few awkward moments, the man stepped back further and asked if she was going in. "A-ah, yeah..." Embarrassed a little, Hisui went in through the door, holding it open for the man as she did so.

At the reception area, she checked out one room, and stood back for the man to do the same. Right now, Hisui wanted to ask the man a bit more about SAO, seeing as he was rather knowledgeable about it, but she knew they both would need sleep. It was past midnight. "Well, ah...g-good night, sir," she said with an uneasy smile. "Um...l-let's do our best tomorrow...o-okay?"

Turning on her heel, she started walking up the stairs to her room. But she probably wouldn't see that man the next day, since Hisui knew by the time she woke up tomorrow, it would probably be almost noon.

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Horunka Forest, Time: 12:26 AM, November 7, 2022.


"H-hold on, w-we've already found the, ah, d-dungeon by now? And...um, I-I'm sorry, b-but what?"

The girl clearly had no idea what he was talking about. He placed his palm to the front of his helm in a mock face-palm followed by a sigh of despair. Yeesh, she didn't even read up on her gaming lingo. Is this her first time playing an actual video game? Her chances of surviving this game were looking lower and lower to him. "No, we haven't found the dungeon yet. They moved it since they closed beta and started the pre-orders for the NerveGear headsets." He set her information straight.


As she went in he was not far behind, coming inside right after she did. "Thanks." He thanked her for holding open the door for him. She was a nice young girl, he felt a tad sorry for her knowing that between her lack of gaming knowledge and absence of any apparent armor she was due for an early grave.

She had payed for her room first, the key to her room placed in her inventory. He stepped up to the desk as she proceeded towards the stairs. "Well, ah...g-good night, sir," He nodded to her in response. "You have a good night too." He bid her the same well wishes. "Um...l-let's do our best tomorrow...o-okay?" "Right. Plenty of kills to us both."


He turned around to address the inn keeper behind the desk. "I'd like to check out a room please." He asked the friendly looking npc. "Alright sir. That will be twenty Col." She asked him in a polite manner. "Here, just let me..." He said as he opened his inventory. In it the Col counter blinked with a nice big round zero. He just remembered that he had spent all his money on his gear. While that had helped him grind harder than everyone else, putting him ahead of the curve, it had also left him without a single Col left to spend. He was counting on some of the mobs he was hunting to have something he could sell but he had no such luck. "Oh dear." He said, starting to pace back and forth in front of the slightly puzzled npc.

His brain burned as he fought with himself. He tried to think of something, anything he could sell to cover for the cost. He was not willing to part with any of his gear as that would set him well behind in cash spent versus cash earned and force him to fight at a handicap to try and buy back what he would need to sell. On the other hand besides that there was little to no other conceivable way for him to make the requisite amount of cash and still be able to sleep in any reasonable span of time. He briefly considered sleeping outside but with the new rules on dying in place that put him at a huge risk. After all he was a very deep sleeper, capable of sleeping through almost anything. There was only one choice left and it really boiled his ego to even consider it.


Slowly he approached the young girl who he was just speaking with just a minute ago. "Ah, uh... I was wondering, no, Perhaps if... Since you er... I just thought... Maybe-" He struggled to force himself to say it, his pride fighting him every inch as he tried to speak making most of what he was saying awkward and without point. He knew there was no way he could phrase this and still retain his gravitas but it still almost physically hurt him to say it.

"I can't afford a room. Can you..." The word had grabbed onto his tongue and was refusing to let go. With an audible gulp he swallowed his pride and spoke. "Help me out? I swear I'll pay you back." He finally did it. He asked someone else for help.
This game had officially broken Magnus the Great, reducing him to groveling to newbies for pocket change. Of course, he was blaming the game for all this when in actuality it was his own poor fiscal choices which put him in this position.

I swear... When I find the lowly scum who removed my in-game appearance I will stop at nothing to destroy him and everything he knows and cares about. He will rue the day he messed with Magnus the Great like this!

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November 7, 2022--12:27 AM
Floor 1, Horunka


Just as Hisui was unlocking her room, she suddenly saw the man from before approaching her. Despite the rather composed way he had been talking to her before, the man now stammered in a manner as pathetic as that of Hisui herself. "Um...I-I'm sorry, what?" She asked, lowering her left hand with the key in it.

Finally, the man manged to speak up. "I can't afford a room. Can you..." He gulped, seemed to struggle with himself and finally blurted out, "Help me out? I swear I'll pay you back."

Honestly, his change in behavior was so drastic that Hisui had to work hard to suppress a giggle. "I-it's alright, sir," she replied, calling out the menu and pressing a few buttons. A moment later, a trade window popped up in front of her, reading "Hisui > Unknown Player" above the list of objects they were trading. While Hisui was surprised that it would say "Unknown Player" rather than the man's username, she still prepared to send a good amount of Col to the man.

"W-well...I obtained quite a bit of gold-um, no, I mean...col while I was doing the, ah, quest in the forest," she told the man with a shy smile. "S-so I think, um, I-I'll be fine for now. N-no need to worry about, ah, p-paying me back any time soon, sir." She knew that getting the room only costed 20 Col, but it was likely he would need more for tomorrow. 250 Col should do the job...

Hisui pressed the "Confirm Trade Request" button, and the Col was transferred. "Well, g-good night, sir," she said to him again, before entering her room and closing the door behind her. As soon as she unequipped her gear and cape, she lay down inside the bed and began to sleep...or, she would have, if it didn't take so darned long for her to fall asleep in real life as well.

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Horunka, Time: 12:30 AM, November 7, 2022.


She traded him the two hundred and fifty Col. It was a bit more than he had asked for but he wasn't going to complain.
"Thank you. I'll be sure to pay you back." He knew she said he didn't have to pay it back right away but having to owe a debt to anyone would drive him crazy before long. He typically worked on a 'Do for others what you would want done for yourself' and he knew he'd be rightfully annoyed if someone owed him something and didn't honor their deal. He was enemies with quite a few people back in the real world long after they've forgotten the original deal. He had never forgotten and he had never forgiven them, carrying his grudges long after it would be considered sane to do so.

"Goodnight." He bade her a good night once again. He returned down the stairs and paid the friendly inn clerk the fee for a room. With a key now in his inventory he proceeded back up the stairs and into the hallway where he was just talking with the girl who's name he didn't even know yet. Turns out the number on the key corresponds with the number on the door just across from the black cloaked girl's room. What a coincidence.


He unlocked his room, stepping into it and locking it behind him. He definitely did not need anyone sneaking into his room at night. With that done he unequipped his armor and weapons before sitting at the edge of the bed, reflecting on his day. Looking down at his body he saw a mark on his leg where a Zeboar had gored him. It was the systems way of leaving a signature for every time a person takes a significant blow. It helped players remember where they screwed up so they could remember to avoid such attacks in the future as well as serving as a fashion statement. After all, scars are cool.

It was probably a reason for why he geared himself for a tank build. He always found something heroic about being the one to stand at the very front of the group, taking the brunt of the damage and standing in defiance to the great beasts before him. It was almost everything he wasn't. It was brave, it was glorious, it was epic, it was selfless, it was essential,
it was everything he wanted to be. Why else would someone play a video game if not to escape reality after all?


His mind was going way too deep into such philisophical nonsense. Before he distracted himself with flights of fancy any longer he retired to his bed for what was to be a long night's sleep. Very quickly he drifted off to slumber land, an escape from this escape from reality. As he slept his snoring was like the sawing of wood. It could be heard all the way from the lounge downstairs, it was that bad. He was in no way shape or form a delicate sleeper as the reasons became clear to everyone near who could hear him snore.

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Diavel will hold the meeting for the boss fight tomorrow

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Horunka Forest, Time: 2:40 PM, December 1, 2022


Long were the days of grinding and questing. So many days and yet they seemed to just flit by as he leveled. Level fifteen, that was what his indicator now showed. He had done little else but effectively farmed the most exp efficient mobs he knew, only pausing to sleep at night. Throughout all this one might think he'd of gathered a lot of Col from all the killing he did but somehow he was even more broke than before. On December first, he awoke in a bed up in his room in the inn. That room cost him the last twenty Col he had on him.

Bloody heck. I need to turn up some dough fast or I'm gonna be sleeping on the forest floor tonight and I do NOT want to be shanked in my sleep thank you very much metaphorical person who I'd be talking to if I were even talking to anyone. He had his convoluted little mental conversations with himself as he traveled. He had heard of a quest being offered from a village which offered a good chunk of exp. Yeah, the Slenderman quest. They don't call him Slenderman but who are we kidding it's bloody Slenderman. It's almost as if the creator of this game couldn't be asked to write actual quests for this game so he decided to go on 4Chan and asked them what memes were. The idiocy is so prevalent it's infuriating really.


Magnus arrived at the aforementioned village, his mood still rotten after having spent his last money on a bed to stay in. It was a small little off-shoot of a settlement, nothing in it but NPC's. No shops or blacksmiths or anything but farms really. Magnus strode into town, the hushed whispers of npc's as they marvel at the arrival of a well armed warrior in their time of dire need. Yeah, as if they haven't seen three other guys like me do the exact same thing. Bloody npc's.

"Greetings traveler! Welcome to our humble village. We would be celebrating for today is the day we reap our harvests but sadly a deep sorrow weighs heavy upon our hearts. You see, long ago-" An elderly man, presumably the town elder, had approached him with a large golden question mark over his head and was already announcing their plight to him all too eagerly. "-Yeah, yeah, I get it, great sadness and mean monster stuff. Get to the point already." He interrupted the elderly person right in the middle of his spiel. "Uh... Yes, a monster plagues us. Will you help save our poor children from this-"
"-Yeah, sure just shut up and point in the general direction of the thing so I can kill it already."


The feelings of the surrounding NPC's were mixed at this point. The elder himself had a rather puzzled expression, taken a bit back from this strange character's unusual behavior. Without much delay the elder pointed in the direction he needed to go. Not saying another word Magnus had accepted the quest and was now on his way into the forest to do battle with the obviously ripped off Slenderman. He breathed a heavy sigh, still evidently vexed with his crippling inability to properly manage money leaving him in such a pinch.


(Adjusted Magnus's level for the time-skip.)

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Tolbana December 2, 2022.

A month has passed since Kayaba Akihiko told the players about the death game and the consequences. Over 2,000 players had already died and the 1st Floor was yet to be cleared, i used to be a beta tester but even i don't know where the boss lair is located. Today we are finally holding a meeting to discuss how to find and defeat the floor one boss.

On December 2, 2022, a self-proclaimed knight Something everyone laughed at, Diavel, called for a meeting at the town center of Tolbana. He announced that the Boss room in the labyrinth had been located.

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When all the attending players are asked to form groups, Kirito panicked as he saw parties beginning to form. As the groups formed, Kirito noticed a hooded girl alone and asked her to form a party with him.( Waiting for Asuna answer )

The meeting was interrupted by Kibaou, one of the players in the meeting. Believing that there were Beta Testers in the meeting, he stated how they had "left the beginners" to die, and refused to help the starters. He then stated if there were any beta testers in the meeting, they should give up all of their items and money, otherwise they would not be trusted by the others, Kirito feeling guilty was about to raise his hand a declare himself a beta tester. However, Agil intervened and defended the Beta Testers, stating that they should not be fully blamed for the tragedies of the fallen players as they had already helped by distributing their knowledge of the game through a manual and that everyone had equal access to the information, and Diavel and the rest of the attending players were revealed to have a copy of the book. After the commotion ended, Diavel read the information book to the players in the crowd, telling them that the boss on the floor was Illfang the Kobold Lord, and that he had minions, called Ruin Kobold Sentinels. He also told them on his last bar of HP, the boss would discard his weapons and equip a Talwar and use a different combat style. Thinking that the book was completely correct, the attending members decided not to scout the boss to check if there was any mistake on the book and planned to battle Illfang the next day. The Meeting was dismissed and the players went their different ways preparing themselves for the fight.