Varkai Online
Based off of original idea by Xano for Souhait Online
It’s been a year since so many people disappeared, all at once; no bodies, no notes, no trace of them being gone, except…they were. Over time the outrage as to the mystery faded, as all tragedies do in the minds of humans. No one had any leads, but plenty of conspiracies were proposed—none of them seeming at all probable.
You now happen upon the old virtual game, Varkai Online, which had lost its luster after being discontinued and banned, their warnings that the game hadn’t been properly calibrated scaring people away from playing it anymore. Since the game makers refused to fix their coding, it was officially restricted from being played across the world. It had been long expected—the first actual virtual game that allowed you stay in your gear and experience everything: sounds, scents, feelings, tastes.
Your curiosity sparks, and for whatever reason, you pop it into your laptop, placing your virtual gear slowly on your head, shushing that voice in your head that tried to remind you why the game had been banned.
Spoiler: Plot!Varkai Online, a game that had been sold by multiple gaming companies all over the world, was the reason for those disappearances, though no one but those who had disappeared knows that. It pulled people into the game a few months after its release, refusing to let them out until people won the game. Still, no one has won; no one has returned from the dead.
Unknowing people popped in the game, and were first prompted for the wish function (explained in paragraph below), and then prompted to customize their avatar--their appearance as well as their wardrobe. After a few months of playing this game, people logged in one day and woke up a few hours later, in strange clothes and a strange body in a strange place--Varkai Online, in their Avatar's body and with their abilities.
Six of you will be first time players in this game, unskilled and not versed in this game when you first come in, as you’ve never experienced it before. When you first start the game, before you get pulled in, the game asks you to enter a Wish Function. On the game box, it states that what you enter in this box will determine your player’s character and personality, but in reality every player is given a special power of some sort when entering the game and it is based off of what the player entered in the wish function. Your player will not know this when entering the game. They also will not know how their wish got construed in the game, so they will have to figure it out and learn as they go. I, the GM, will decide what your power will be in the game depending on your wish function--just as if you were actually playing the game. I will PM each of you about this, and of course you will have the opportunity to request a different power, but your reasoning cannot be that you want to be stronger--every character will get stronger and learn new things along the way.
From there, plot will be revealed to you as the RP goes on, much like it would if you were playing the game yourself. You will have the opportunity to make your own choices, which affect not only your player but the players around you—choose wisely! If you die in the game, you die forever.
Spoiler: Rules: sadly they must be laid1) No powerplaying. Your character will be very weak and unknowing at first and take a long time to learn the skills needed to survive in the game. They will more likely than not miss their targets and be too slow to dodge a hit. You control your player, no one else’s. You do not control NPCs, and you do not make up your own rules in this world.
2) I understand swearing will seem natural, in fact, I will probably have my character swear often, but keep it to what’s necessary, there’s a reason this RP is not in the mature section.
3) Romances are encouraged, but don't get too intense. Again, not a mature RP.
4) Keep all out of character thoughts, questions, and dialogue to this OOC. Please please do not clutter the IC.
5) If you are going to be absent for a while, let me know and I’ll figure out what to do with your character. By a while I mean more than a week. If you’re gone for more than two weeks and don’t respond to any messages or post anything in the OOC I will find a way to kill your character or to somehow take them out of the plot.
6) Have fun. Or I will kill you. Ha. Ha.
Spoiler: Character Sheets!Real Name : (Keep this logical, please. If your character is from Africa give them an African name, and so on. Last names included.)
Username:
Gender:
Age: (Keep this between 18 and 25, that’s the age group this game appealed to)
Personality:
Real Appearance: (Description/picture)
Game Appearance: (Description/picture)
Other Info:
Wish Function: (Try to keep this creative. Doesn’t have to be entirely out of the box, but also not “I wish I could read minds.” This wish should be something attainable. E.g. “I wish I had better communication skills with my peers,” which might then translate into being telekinetic in the game, but could also be translated to many different kinds of powers)
***NOTE: PLEASE DELETE WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN IN PARENTHESES WHEN WRITING YOUR CS***
Spoiler: Accepted Characters!
Spoiler: Ancient_Legacy (Dark)Real Name : Chris Kurtsen
Username: Ancient_Legacy
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Personality: Chris is extremely kind and shows the occasional leader trait once in a blue moon. Once you get to know him, Chris is surprisingly funny and tries his best to make light of certain situations but knows when it isn't the time.
Real Appearance:
Game Appearance:
Other Info: Very caring towards friends/allies and believes in redemption. If Chris' trust has been lost, there's little to no chance of getting it back.
Wish Function: "I wish there is more that I can do to help those who I care about, even if it means taking on a new form entirely, putting on a mask that I know is false, or even becoming something that I am not, or ever will be. Even if it makes me into a animal, I have to help somehow!"
Spoiler: Lavender67 (not active; Griffin)Real Name: Sarah Dobson
Username: Lavender67
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Personality: Has a gruff and blunt exterior, but when you get to know he you'll see her softer side.
Real Appearance:Spoiler: Large Image
Game Appearance:Spoiler: Large Image
Other Info: Is protective and motherly, but isn't the smartest.
Wish Function: I wish that I could protect people that I care about.
SARAH DOBSON'S POWER
Seeing as the wish function was to be able to protect people you care about, one way that protects people is to forget the past that pains them, so your power at its strongest would be to modify people's memory. At its weakest, you can make people momentarily confused or hesitant. As you learn your power you can hone it to affect only one person or completely change a memory.
Side effects: You will often take on the emotions of those around you. You will sometimes be bombarded with painful memories of others without wanting it. While modifying a memory, you will be incapable of doing anything else. You often are affected by your own powers--frequent confusion, forgetting old memories or changing them around completely. That latest side effect occurs mainly when you are weak. Once you are stronger it is much less frequent.
Spoiler: Cough Drop (Ayros)Real Name: Ayros Feron
Username: Cough Drop
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Personality: Always a joker, Ayros tries to be as witty as he can whever he can. If he can get just a single laugh out of someone, he feels accomplished. He tries to make the world just a little better by doing little thing to help people out. He's also a hopeless romantic, a flirt and a good one at that.
Real Appearance: Thin, but not too tall or short. Long black hair that just barely reaches his brown eyes, and acne scars all over his cheeks. Thin lips and fairly big ears, and a tan that shows up orange in the sunlight/
Game Appearance: Extremely pale skin, red eyes, and black hair that falls over one eye. Still thin, but taller. Small ears (As that's the only part of Ayros' body that he wish he could change) and still fairly thin lips. He wears a red sweatshirt with a plain white T and black jeans.
Other Info: Though he seems extremely laid-back, Ayros actually has a lot of things on his mind. And he wishes that someday he could spread his opinion so people might realize that he could be right.
Wish Function: I wish someone would listen to me for once
AYROS FERONO'S POWER
Your wish was that "someone would listen" to you. Your corresponding power will be this: players who have died in the game, who are now just pieces of code floating around in the ether, can now create ghost files of themselves that can speak to you within the game. At its weakest, your power will be to hear faint screams. At its strongest, these ghost files can encrypt their voices so that only you can hear them. You will never be able to see them, for that information has been lost to the computer. Remember that these files are simply copies of the original. Some of them are corrupt, and will try to throw you off. Others have gone insane. Others will have just forgotten their pasts almost entirely. You will be responsible for what you believe and what you do not.
Side effects: Paranoia and isolation from your peers, constantly plagued by characters past. You will have restless nights. Ghosts will also try to lead you to kill yourself (off a cliff, eat the wrong berry) because they are simply angry.
Spoiler: Silverfeather (Wolves)Real Name: Enya Silverwood
Username: Silverfeather
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Personality: Enya's name means little fire, and it describes her as well. Enya is a brave and reckless young adult that always rushes into trouble sometimes not thinking. She has a aggressive character and is hard to talk to because of that. When in a group, she mostly doesn't follow orders and has the habit of back talking. She has much courage though.
Real Appearance:https://i5.asn.im/beautiful-blonde-blue-eyespretty-doutzen-kroes-_tiiv.jpg
Game Appearance: https://www.testedich.de/quiz36/pictu...27303049_1.jpg
Other Info: She doesn't like attention.
Wish Function: I wish people didn't always see me.
ENYA SILVERWOOD'S POWER
You wished to not be seen. Your power would be to control weather-like actions so long as it serves the purpose of masking you. (E.g. you could create fog, or a intense heat to make a forest fire that you could use to hide you while you run away or hide) At its weakest, your power is simply to never draw attention to yourself. (You can use this power to steal weapons, etc.) At its strongest, you can...control the weather, kind of.
Side Effects: You find it hard to be heard. People do not take your ideas seriously, and you can do nothing about it. You are often forgotten and left behind during quests or when important decisions are being made. You also experience nightmares occasionally as you get stronger, often of drowning or burning, nightmares related to weather.
Spoiler: FireFrost (inactive; draconius)
Real Name : Rei Kureshima
Username: FireFrost
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Personality: Rei is a rather quiet and submissive girl. She tends to give up easily. In group scenarios she typically lets others think for her to avoid conflict. She will go out of her way to please people, and blames herself for things that go wrong whether it was her fault or not.
Real Appearance:
Game Appearance:Spoiler:
Other Info:Rei is a closet Bisexual.
Wish Function: I wish that I could stand firmly by my own decisions.
REI KURESHIMA'S POWER
You wished to stand firmly by your own decisions. In order to decide on a subject with certainty, one must know all there is to know, past, present, and even future, about the issue involved. You have the power of inheritance. You will be able to live the life of someone in the past or future for no more than ten seconds, at your strongest. While using your power, anything that happens to the person in those ten seconds will happen to you--physically and mentally. If they are stabbed, when you return to your body you will have the same wound. If they are being tortured, you will also be similarly tormented. But you retain any and all memories gained during that time. At your weakest, you will receive brief visions, or flashes of images, of events that have happened around you however long ago in the past or future--to brief to make too much out, but still pretty valuable depending on what you see. At your strongest, you will physically and mentally live another person's life--you won't know who it is or what will happen, you only know how far back or forward in time you go, and that the event happened where you are at the moment. The farther away in time you go, the more energy it takes from you. If you attempt to go back before the game began, you will die.
Side Effects: You suffer from hallucinations and frequent lucid dreams, whether good or bad, you can't decide on your own. Every time you live the life of someone else, you acquire a trait of theirs for a few days whether a personality trait or physical trait, again you can't decide (I'll let you use your own discretion on some of your traits acquired, but I'll also be guiding you on what scenes to see and what traits you will get). While using your power, your body is essentially lifeless. Therefore, every time you return to your body, you suffer mild pain for an hour or so before returning to normal.
Spoiler: KhaosTheory--found dead on arrival, The City (TheDuchess)Real Name: Maxine "Max" Oliver
Username: KhaosTheory
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Personality: Patient. Reasonable. Hardworking. Hopeful. Quiet. People orientated. Stubborn. Doesn't listen well. Loyal. Shy (comes off as standoffish.)
Real Appearance:
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Game Appearance:
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Other Info: American. Was attending college to major in physical therapy; minoring in psychology.
Wish Function: "My wish is to be able to stand up and fight for those who feel they cannot."
MAX OLIVER'S POWER
You wished to be able to stand up for those who cannot. Part of the reason certain people cannot stand up for themselves is due to the dominance of others. You are given the power of paralysis. By drawing on your own reserves, you can stop people from moving, talking, and in the most powerful cases, from thinking. At its weakest, your power will be to "mute" people who are dominating others. At its strongest, you will paralyze people. Pretty self explanatory
Side Effects: When trying out your power, especially when you are still learning, sometimes you affect yourself. Meaning sometimes you stop yourself from talking. It's much more temporary on yourself, however. You are also unable to remain in a sound sleep for extended periods of time.
Spoiler: Midgardsomner (LiveVoltage -- not active)Real Name: Alexander Vander
Username: Midgardsomner
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Personality: Quiet and generally keeps to himself, though not one to shy away from a conversation. He can be a bit of a smart ass and snarky to boot but means well and would never insult people in a hurtful way on purpose unless they deserved it.
He is somewhat distrustful of people he doesn't know and is quick to put up walls around himself, but once his friend, he trusts others with most things. Feels as if he has a duty to protect the relationships he has as he has few friends and relatives.
Spoiler: Real Appearance
His eyes are an unusual hue of red due to a genetic defect.
Skinny but tall. Stands at about "5'7".
Spoiler: Game Appearance
Blond Hair with Brown eyes.
His skin color looks Pale Salmon.
Stand at about '6'4' in-game.
Other Info: Russian. Has long left the care of his parents and makes a living as a white collar hacker. Avid fan of MMO gaming and the Dark Knight class in them if there is one.
Wish Function: “I wish for strength against all thing’s.”
ALEXANDER VANDER'S POWER
Your wish was to have strength against all things, and strength lies a lot on who you know and what they can do for you. Your power will be appeal. Every single person you meet will like you, because you will automatically know what to say and do to turn the situation in your favor. That is not to say that you can't still go against that knowledge and say the wrong thing so as to make someone your enemy, but if you so wished, you could make people trust you and like you enough to fall under the persuasion of your charisma.
At the strongest, your power would be to immediately know a person's wants and needs and how to fulfill them (this will come especially handy for quests, when knowing that what a person wants is a plant that grows in a special place that no one knows where it is. You will be granted the knowledge of knowing where that plant is, since it is a want of the person). At its weakest, you exude charisma that makes people drawn to you without much effort on your part.
Side Effects: You will never know who your true friends are and who is under your spell. So you will either be trusting blindly or distrustful of everyone, however you want to play your character. You will often be looked to for leadership and should you fail, blame will be placed on your shoulders. You will also have to constantly deal with people asking for your advice, giving you advice, and coming to you with their concerns, and if you still desire to be liked and known by all, you will have to respond in kind. You also suffer from insomnia due to the stress of your position.
Spoiler: Nullius Neminis (Tibia)
Real Name: Styrk Skúlason
Username: Nullius Neminis
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Personality: Styrk views the world as a big, complex machine. And as with every machine, every part of it is interrelated. As an analyst, Styrk excels in making sense of these connections, seeing how seemingly unrelated factors tie with each other, a byproduct of his unrelenting imagination. These connections couldn’t be made if Styrk was under the impression that he knew it all - he’s highly receptive of alternative theories, so long as they’re supported by facts. In more subjective matters, he remains neutral, with a “none of my business” sort of attitude. However, when a new idea piques his interest, Styrk can be very enthusiastic. If he finds another that shares an interest, he can become downright excited about discussing it. More likely, though, the only outward evidence of this excitement is his constant pacing and his staring into space. Styrk’s analysis, creativity and open mind aren’t tools for his emotional validation. Rather, he acts as a conduit for the truths around him, so far as they can be expressed, and he is proud of this role as a theoretical mediator. Lastly, Styrk is a harsh critic; to know one thing and say another would be incredibly insincere - Styrk doesn’t go around intentionally hurting feelings, but he believes truth to be an important factor, and he expects that to be appreciated and reciprocated.
Real Appearance: Tall, pale-skinned man with unkempt blond hair and blue eyes. He wears rectangular spectacles and a messy beard.
Game Appearance: Slim young man with a square jaw. He has his short black hair swept back, and grey eyes, with a short beard growing around his face. Thin nose, short eyebrows.
Other Info: Swedish, born to an Icelandic father. He possesses an insatiable hunger for knowledge and has dreams of becoming a great scientist.
Wish Function: "I wish to share knowledge of all things."
STYRK SKULASON'S POWER
You asked to be able to share all knowledge. Knowledge is preserved in memory and emotion. You will be able to transfer memories and emotions of yours to others, and once you do so, that person can do the same to you. This only works with humans as they are self-realized and are able to receive the information. At its weakest, you will be able to influence the emotions of those around you to a certain extent. At its strongest, you will be able to send specific thoughts and feelings to other people but only through physical contact. For example, during a fight you will not be able to send the feeling of peace to the other person unless you are able to gain a stable physical hold on the person.
Side Effects: You suffer from an instability of emotion and thought process. Your attention span is limited, and you will struggle to communicate coherently with those around you. This causes you to be more of the pack follower than the pack leader, but makes you invaluable when negotiating deals with others or when a quick transfer of information is necessary. Your experience hallucinations and night terrors, more frequently while you are weak but with less routine as you gain more control over your powers--but it is always present. You do not trust your own senses because of this.
Spoiler: Heilige (deamon)Real Name : Geharde Vrijheid
Username: Heilige Klinge der Ehre ("Holly blade of honor"... translated by Google)
Gender: male
Age: (20)
Personality: in a word, Tinkerer. He always is messing with something that has caught his interest. Whether it be something as common as a pencil, or as complex as an engine for a high-powered vehicle. He takes immense satisfaction in getting something working if it was broken or improving it if it wasn't. Though he's not the most sociable one, he does make friends rather easily and is rather relaxed most of the time.
Spoiler: Real Appearance:him in prop clothing for a play his town had the week before he got the game. He's got rather unique eyes, being this color.]
Spoiler: Game Appearance:
Other Info: His hands are almost always moving, even when idle. Has a strange habit of trying to sleep in the strangest of places, though...
Wish Function: I wish for the ability to create what is needed and fix what is broken.
GEHARDE VRIJHEID'S POWER
You wished to create what is needed and fix what is broken. You will be able to conjure images and sounds that satisfy people's needs at the time. You will also be good at fixing physical things, more intuitive than anyone else. (Whether inanimate or living, like fixing a boat vs. fixing a broken bone) At its weakest, you will be intuitive at fixing physical things, and you will be able to get close to people so that they tell you their problems. At its strongest, you will be able to temporarily fix that problem through your illusions.
Side Effects: Your power will not work in the slightest on yourself. You will always doubt yourself and your fear of people and objects around you is immense. You will not be able to follow people's orders easily, and you will be hesitant about everything you do.
Spoiler: Wolfgang (TheExiledChampion)Real Name: Loren Gray
Username: Wolfgang
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Personality: Mildly anti-social, quiet, artistic, patient, smart.
Real Appearance:
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Game Appearance:
Spoiler: The red eye marks the damage left eye is in real life.
Other Info: Was currently taking art classes, both digital and non-digital. He also half blind on the left side due to a incident, which left him with half of his vision from the damage to Loren's left eye. Glasses help, but not so much when things are further than arm length. So Loren try and succeeded without them, sadly he can't drive because of it though.
Wish Function: I wish to see things that others cannot.
You wished to see things that others could not. Your power will be to understand the emotions and reasoning fellow players have for making any decisions. That is to say, past and present. You will know the purpose of any tool or weapon or building you encounter, you will know all its secrets (and glitches--it is a virtual game!). When you are in a battle you will be able to foretell a player's next move a split second before they execute it, which is quite useful. At its weakest, your power will be to be naturally level-headed, a leader, and intuitive about anyone or anything you have to deal with. At its strongest, you will have "epiphanies" about actions, emotions, and thoughts about the reasoning behind other people's actions and materials.
Side effects: You find it hard to care too much about anything. Everything can be reasoned out for you, and because of this your peers fear you and don't open up to you about everything. You also suffer from regular headaches, but they are usually dull and in the background--not mind breaking migraines. It is, however, basically a constant existence and can be tiring. And finally, sometimes the emotions of others affect your own. When you have these epiphanies you are mentally vulnerable.
LOREN GRAY'S POWER
You wished to see things that others could not. Your power will be to understand the emotions and reasoning fellow players have for making any decisions. That is to say, past and present. You will know the purpose of any tool or weapon or building you encounter, you will know all its secrets (and glitches--it is a virtual game! ). When you are in a battle you will be able to foretell a player's next move a split second before they execute it, which is quite useful. At its weakest, your power will be to be naturally level-headed, a leader, and intuitive about anyone or anything you have to deal with. At its strongest, you will have "epiphanies" about actions, emotions, and thoughts about the reasoning behind other people's actions and materials.
Side effects: You find it hard to care too much about anything. Everything can be reasoned out for you, and because of this your peers fear you and don't open up to you about everything. You also suffer from regular headaches, but they are usually dull and in the background--not mind breaking migraines. It is, however, basically a constant existence and can be tiring. And finally, sometimes the emotions of others affect your own. When you have these epiphanies you are mentally vulnerable.
Spoiler: NPCs
Spoiler: NyxTheNightName: NyxTheNight
Spoiler: MiraMaybeName: MiraMaybe
Spoiler: GreyScarName: GreyScar
Spoiler: JokerBoyName: JokerBoy
Spoiler: KilljoyBName: KilljoyB
Spoiler: KillianName: Killian
Spoiler: OpiAddictName: OpiAddict
Spoiler: KryName: Kry
Spoiler: JackFrostName: JackFrost
Spoiler: PiyuliWarriorName: PiyuliWarrior
But not so naked and exploited.
Spoiler: AyuName: Ayu
But not undressing.
Spoiler: AvaName: Ava
Spoiler: RazeTheGroundName: RazeTheGround
Spoiler: ElijahName: Elijah
Spoiler: YuriName: Yuri
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