D&D, experimental new free form RPG. (A mysterious New World. (Amnw))

[AwsomeGuy]

In the year 2022, the world has succumbed over Coronavirus, everyone is staying home, nobody works anymore, leaving the world to a standstill.

Famous scientists and leaders have all died from this mysterious disease, even with a 98% survival chance.

Humanity has made a last stand, and found that biologically we will be no match towards the mighty virus, so they constructed a new lab.

In this lab they will place people in pods, where they can travel into cyberspace.

The selection has been very random, from famous TV idols, towards Olympic athletes.

You have been selected for this rare opportunity, where you will enter a pod in a military base, where the greatest super computer of mankind exists, which is run by a complex artificial intelligence.

This artificial intelligence will make use of the subjects presented to it, to create a new shining world.

After you arrive you are asked a series of questions, you are unsure of it's use, and most of them seem completely random, afterwards you are lead towards a medical facility within the base, and prepped for being hosted in the pods.

You get a cool suit, which seems like a wetsuit, that completely covers the body, except the head, you get a special "fish bowl" type helmet for that.

Nothing is really explained, you arrive, get questioned, examined, suited, and then loaded into the pod.

You have a breater on your mouth, and they you are asked to place your hands into two bracelets.

*The pod starts closing, and fills with a liquid, it's completely dark, and you see nothing.*

After a while, when you felt the liquid completely fill the pod, you feel afloat, able to turn and twist, without any hinderance, almost lighter and better then you did before.

The breather gives you a whiff of some chemical, as first the pod starts to shine, enveloped you in light. Then the helmet does the same, to the point you are completely enveloped in the matrix.

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Voice:

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"Hello, I'm Gaia, and I will be your assistant during the trials."

"First of all, we will start with character creation, you are allowed to create anything your mind can control and create."

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You get an extensive character creation program which mainly functions around using your mind as a creation tool, it being very sensitive towards your thoughts and feelings, yet focuses on what is on the surface, not further.

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After character creation, you get a small moment on a simulated grid to test out your new body, you are allowed to use a limited editor, with a very bland, basic, and limited physics.

However your body does feel fully functional.

You can take a while to adept and edit your body accordingly.

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*You spawn in the center of a great hall, hundreds of people walking about, the roof of the hall, is so far up, you don't even know if it goes outside or not, all you know, there is a light like the sun, at the top.*

There are desks, stairs and teleporters, everyone seems quite busy.

You clearly notice that everyone working behind a desk, is dressed in the same types of uniform, and have the riggedy of what you are used of Artificial intelligence or NPC's.
While everyone else seems very unique, chaotic and incoherent.

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This is where your story starts!

Good luck, and have fun!

-AwsomeGuy.

[Highland Sniper]

Done

Spoiler: Doriouse Stark 

Spoiler: reality 

Gender: male
Age: 20
Physical description: 6ft, 165 lbs.
Skinny with shoulder length, durty blond hair and hazel eyes.

History: member of the LDS church since childhood, and was getting ready to serve a mission before everyone was shut down due to covid.
A nice guy all around, though he tends to get into a few arguments. Tries to do th right thing.
Has a small YouTube channel with just over 100 subscribers, contents mainly d&d gameplay with other videos in the mix.
Tends to play female characters. Is straight.
No criminal records.

Spoiler: AMNW 

Avatar;
Alias: Dylen Stark
Gender: female
Age: 19

Physical description:
5' 5" and slim with small, yet noticeable curves that give her a small hourglass figure. Red and white wolf ears sit attop her head with wavy red hair reaching to just above her red wolf's tail. Her ember eyes soft, and her smile on the edge of playful.
Presently wearing black knee high boots, a knee length, black, pleated skirt, a very decorative wolf short, with a jean jacket. A dark wolf choker adorns her throat while numbers of small metal loops are pierced through her lupine ears.

Spoiler: extra 

"Really interesting vibes from this" Doriouse muttered to himself as he put on the suit they had handed to him. It was a little tight.
They had told him to take a shower before putting it on, saying that he'd probably be in the suit a long time, and that they didn't want a bunch of bacteria to get him sick. Alright.

He grabbed the fishbowl helmet, holding it under his arm, and walked out to where all the chambers were.
"Big fallout vibes," he muttered. Everywhere he looked there was either a guard or a scientist checking equipment or helping some with a suit or explaining what was going to happen.

He took a deep breath to still himself as he felt that small grip of anxiety. Something like the feeling you get when you were about to jump from a high place. Or even just looking down.

He leaned against an empty pod. Pod 44. He wasn't allowed his phone, and so it was left at the entrance. He was a little annoyed he had little to do while he waited for some scientist to give some instructions.

"Alright mister..." a scientist started as he approached, looking at a clipboard, "Stark. Huh... are you ready?"

"Yeah," Doriouse said, though with a bit more ease than he felt, "what do I need to know?"

"Just step inside, and we'll strap you down. And make sure to put the breather in." He said.

"Ok," he said, feeling his anxiety rising a little as he stepped into the pod and got everything in place before his hands were strapped down.

It was about another minute of his sitting there before the hatch closed.
He started to breath a little iraticly. This is another fallout4 he thought to himself as the pod started to fill with liquid. And he had the urge to hold his breath as it reached about where his chin would be. He didn't start breathing again until he was fully submerged, and almost choked on the chemical that was pumped in through the breather.

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The voice came first, and he felt this strange sensation like tiny pinpricks on the inside of his skull.

"Loading...
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"Hello, I'm Gaia, and I will be your assistant during the trials." The voice said. "First of all, we will start with character creation, you are allowed to create anything your mind can control and create."

"Great, so this is one massive RPG. This is friggin' SAO," Doriouse said, and was a little surprised to find his voice wasn't his own.

Besides a few small screens and what appeared to be mirrors, the who place was one giant white field. It didn't even feel like a box, it just looked like it went of forever.

After examining the place a bit, as well as the screens and mirrors, he toyed with them. Started thinking about what he wanted and found that it happened.

He had little sense of time as he came up with a few ideas and finally narrowed it down to one.
A nice looking, red headed wolf girl a bit shorter than he would be in reality.

After that, he started messing with his brand new avatar.
He ran around, twitched his ears and tail, and felt himself up and down.
"Alright... let's do this," they said with their brand new voice.

Not but a moment later, they found themselves in what they could only think to describe it as a lobby...

[Enigma]

For your consideration.

Jane Xaviera Smith

Spoiler: Reality 

Gender: female
Age: 27
Physical description: 4' 7" tall, 124 lbs weight
This girl makes you think of a dangerous vampire. She has beady gray eyes. Her jet black hair has been trimmed to a buzz cut. She is short and has a slender build. Her skin is china-white, except for a port-wine birthmark that covers the left side of her face. She has a crooked nose and is paralyzed from the waist down. Her wardrobe is severe and institutional - an international-orange jumpsuit with "DHS Z009013" stenciled front and back plus a cheap pair of blue slip-on canvas flats.

History:
Born Anastasiya Stepanova.

Ostracized by her classmates for her birthmark, she turned to the Internet for companionship and eventually took up hacking, showing off a few exploits she discovered. She was later recruited by the Nameless hacker collective.

Stolen files from the HEIMDALL server were traced to █████ Mall, ██████████. Homeland Security discovered a closed tenant space rented by "Nameless" and conducted a raid. In an effort to capture Ms. Stepanova, Nameless hacker, Special Agent Henry Ford (no relation) fired a warning shot that richochet off of an overhead pipe bracket and struck the hacker's spine at the T12 level, paralyzing her from the waist down.

Special Agent Ford was reprimanded for discharging his firearm in a reckless manner.

In questioning other members of Nameless, it was discovered they were looking for "hidden information about the 9/11 attack."

Reviewing the stolen files recovered on an external drive Ms. Stepanova was carrying, it was discovered she had managed to decrypt two of the Lighthouse files. Under a plea agreement with DHS, charges would be suspended while she was assigned to the Lighthouse project, with a dismissal of all charges at the discretion of DHS.

For her protection following her treatment, Ms. Stepanova issued the alternate identity Jane Xaviera Smith and was transferred to the Hailey Facility and given access to a dedicated tempus workstation.

Following a classified briefing on Lighthouse activites, Magnate's CoS inquired as to meeting the analyst decrypting the files. DHS made the decision to transfer Xaviera to the military's AMNW project as a test subject.

Spoiler: AMNW 

Avatar:
Alias: Jonathan Xavier Smythe
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Physical Description: 5' 10", 145 lbs.
This clever gentleman has almond-shaped coffee-colored eyes. His silky, straight, blue-black hair is medium-length and is worn in an utilitarian, severe style. He is tall and has a broad-shouldered build. His skin is light-colored, except for a port-wine birthmark that covers the left side of his face. He has bushy eyebrows. His wardrobe is strange and businesslike, with a mostly black color scheme.

Spoiler: Extra 

The delivery truck pulled up to the loading dock and sat there for a moment, just idling the engines while the driver had a quick quiet conversation with a walkie-talkie, then turned the engine off.

Inside the loading dock, the gate rolled up, then the man inside leaned out to knock on the truck's rolling door. "All clear," he called out.

Anastasiya scowled as the rising door revealed him.
"Come to finish the job?" she snarled at Special Agent Ford.

He, however ignored her, speaking to the four men with her.

"We've got a pod near the back door and we've got screens around it, so we can just roll her through here and into the other room with nobody but the guards here to see anything and the technicians to hook her up."

"Good, let's get this over with," the more portly of the four said. "George and Andrew, take point, Stanley, you push the chair."

Ford joined the leader, following behind as slender Stanley pushed her out into the loading dock and towards the interior door.

"She give you any problems, Ben?" Ford asked, making sure his voice would carry.
"Naw, just wanted to know what was going on."
"And what did you tell her?"
"Ta shut it. I'm glad to be rid of her, honestly. I shudder to think what might have happen if she joined us with two good legs."
"Ana, have you been giving Ben and his detail a hard time?" Fred asked, then clucked his tongue.
"███ off and die!" she called back.
"I don't do requests," he shot back.
"Why am I wearing this budget astronaut suit? This isn't your ISS plan again, is it?" Anastasia demanded.
"No, too expensive and too many questions from the Russians. We found a cheaper alternative."

The twin doors leading out to the main floor were pushed up by the first two guards, and she found herself facing the pod and some people in lab coats.

"Gentlemen," one of them said, staring at her with a frown. "This is your... VIP?"
"That's right. Get her plugged in. Oh, and Ana?" Ford added, brandishing a taser. "DO be a good girl for these people."

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""Hello, I'm Gaia, and I will be your assistant during the trials." The voice said. "First of all, we will start with character creation, you are allowed... allowed..."

"Great..." Ana sighed,

"System override," the voice said. "Selection made."

In the Character Creation mirrors, she could see a man looking back at her. Tall, serious - and with her birthmark plastered all over the left side of his face. He scowled at her as she spoke.

"Who the..?!"

"Now now, it wasn't our decision," the voice replied. "Our lord and masters wanted to make you different enough incase others get in here, but they wanted to make sure they could track you visually."
"Ford," she scowled, glancing over his shoulder. "You do realize I'm going to be the only one in there with a facial birthmark?! I'm going to stick out like a sore thumb."
"We're hoping anyone who does come after you will assume you're just an obvious decoy and go looking elsewhere."
"Yeah, right. Meanwhile my body's going to be in a box where anyone can find the real me."
"Enjoy!"

[AwsomeGuy]

Alright! Thanks for joining in!

I think I'm going to wait till Monday to see if anyone else is interested.

After that, I will post the ingame thread, with a little bigger opening scene.

Any interest for any additional expansion on the starter? Or any other requests for the start?

Anyways, glad to have you, excited to begin!

[Highland Sniper]

Not sure about requests yet.
But it would be nice if you would look over the characters and officially ok them.

[AwsomeGuy]

Heya, didn't read the spoilers before, I never do.

Anyways, nice one Enigma, really millennial, felt like it could have happened irl.
Would have liked to know how she left about the program, yet maybe you will add it (as I assume thats what WIP means.)

Snipe, love the description, totally unintentionally, yet it indeed was super fallout 4, probably unconsciously happened! Haha!
That your keeping your backstory and psych pattern hidden, is great, will love to see how you play that out!

Usually I leave this for ingame, yet seeing as I'm delayed, and it's actually more cannon, I'm just gonna add;
When Gaia said she is here to assist you during character creation, it literally means she is there to answer any questions you have, during and even after character creation, hence if you guys would like to add a few questions you asked before spawn, you are free to do so!

Anyhow, sorry I missed tapping the spoiler section, not used to these forum things

Ttyl!

[AwsomeGuy]

https://role-player.net/forum/showthread.php?t=96663

[Highland Sniper]

The IC thread?
How wonderful.

[AwsomeGuy]

Glad you like it

[Enigma]

So this has changed from a strict D&D style fantasy to something more modern?