Meet, Greet, and Plot.

[nervegear]

So how many characters will this be after Kayaba's announcement?
«Meet and Greet»

Applications and reserves are closed. The first floor information post is now up. Along with the game officially starting on Saturday. That means it's time to Meet and Greet! Doubles as a chance to plot for CR and shenanigans while we're at it too.

«Your Name» What you would like to be called by.
«Contact» Your preferred method of OOC contact.

«Character(s)» Include their usernames and what canon they are from.
«Personality/AU Information» Just a quick and short rundown to give other players a general idea.
«Plans for character(s)» Are they going to leave the Starting City? Stick it out in the city for a week? Or just remain in denial and hang around hoping help will come? Try and level for the first floor boss fight? A short and quick run down is fine.
«CR you would like» Basically, is there any kind of CR you would like to see for your character(s)? Positive CR or Negative CR? Things like that.

«<b>Your Name</b>» What you would like to be called by. «<b>Contact</b>» Your preferred method of OOC contact. «<b>Character(s)</b>» Include their usernames and what canon they are from. «<b>Personality/AU Information</b>» Just a quick and short rundown to give other players a general idea. «<b>Plans for character(s)</b>» Are they going to leave the Starting City? Stick it out there for a week? Or just remain in denial and hang out hoping help will come? Try and level for the first floor boss fight? «<b>CR you would like</b>» Basically, is there any kind of CR you would like to see for your character(s)? Positive CR or Negative CR? Things like that.

And, just a small message from the mods, welcome to the game! We hope you have fun here.

Comments

[withheart]

Won't leave the starter city without people to party with? Rinoa can fix that, yes she can.

Though admittedly, Rinoa's the sort who'd probably refuse to let her help in the boss fights even if Rika had wanted to come along. It's dangerous and you're so little, no can do.

Un-CR related, but Rika would be the cutest little beast tamer.

[miiracles]

Yes, Rinoa. Come party up with Rika. She'll think Rinoa's useful. mO_Om She's mostly partying up with other people because she'd rather have others get their hands dirty for her EXP LEECHING??... and it also ensures her survival in the game.

I'm hoping to have Rika develop in-game as someone who is less dependent on others, more concerned about other peoples' lives (instead of viewing them as useful, disposable pieces LOL) and more willing to go to a boss fight in the future. For now though, she's staying the hell away from the front lines and doing her best to survive. Haha.

I've actually thought about having her as a beast tamer too! ;A; But at the moment, I'm not sure how I'd go about that ICly.

[withheart]

Rinoa's super useful, even if she's just as lowly leveled as everyone else right now. Does this game even have exp leeching? I don't remember if it' come up in the anime, but I know not all games have it. Only one of the reasons why GW2 is so boss. That's what Rinoa's there for! To help people get stronger and help ensure that they survive!

Somehow I'm not sure if she's going to be willing to let people that young come for boss fights later either, especially since they're just going to get harder the higher up they go. Though I imagine she can be convinced if they're determined enough, she's not entirely unreasonable. Her name isn't Squall after all

I'm sure something will work out. Sounds like it's not the easiest thing, but if nothing else can Rika resist the allure of "A cute monster who does things for me"?

[miiracles]

Oh good. :D Rika will be finding plenty of useful people in SAO. Hmm. I'm actually not sure if they have EXP leeching. I think there's the Last Attack Bonus though. I'd imagine Rika would at least try to deal a few hits and get the Last Attack Bonus on monsters or something. Not sure if it applies to non-boss monsters though.

Rika might grow into the RECKLESSLY DETERMINED type one day. It would be good for Rinoa to try stopping her.

WELL If she finds out that cute monster can heal, she might wanna get in on that.

[withheart]

I've noticed there seem to be a bunch of people who've apped "useful and outgoing" type characters this round. Which is probably convenient for Rika.

I'm not sure about the LAB, they didn't exactly explain the game mechanics as thoroughly as I would have liked. Though maybe that was in the LN which I haven't actually read yet. I'm thinking about it though, now that the anime has moved onto the second arc, but I might just wait until the anime is done.

Convince her you're capable and then they can be RECKLESSLY DETERMINED together! Sisters in arms!!!!

I've actually toyed with Rinoa eventually being a beastmaster as a nod to Angelo so depending on how things go maybe that's something they can pursue together.