Lost Paradise

storybook: This time I'm going with more of a sci-fi theme. In the not too distant future VR (virtual reality) is all the rage. An experimental system allows people to exist in a completely alternate reality, they can live out the fantasy life they have always dreamed of. This program is called Paradise, it fuses elements of all the worlds, both imaginary and real. Fantasy worlds where you gain magical powers, a Jurassic era, a futuristic world of space travel. These and more exist side by side.

However what the general public doesn't know is that a virus has been deliberately embedded in the program. The virus acts on the human consciousness, pulling certain players into the game, and leaving their bodies in comas. While their mind takes on a real physical tangibility, it's as if they really exist inside of Paradise. However monsters run amok in the game, though they are different from place to place, carnivorous dinosaurs, cutthroat pirates, goblins and orcs and so much more.

Trying to survive in this new and strange world you and the companions you meet at the Origin Point, quickly learn the situation you're in. Soon after you realize that the person who leaked the virus is somewhere in the game to. Your ragtag group sets out to find him but you soon learn that if you die in the game, you die for real, game over really means Game Over.

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rules: The typical stuff applies here. No god-moding no killing off characters without permission that stuff. and you are limited to two characters. Keep in mind in this world anything and everything, can and is possible, though it depends on the Area (world type) that you are in.
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character: Please follow this character outline. Keep in mind when you're pulled into the game you literally Become your avatar. If it's a dwarf then you become a dwarf, and if its a twelve foot giant you become a giant.

name-
age-
gender-
race- (if relevant)
type- (list your type of fighter, Ex: gunner, swordsman, mage, etc.. Their aren't really any limits for this just don't make your character too strong)
appearance-
personality-
weapons/abilities- (list weapons and both magical and non magical abilities)
other-

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*This is my character.*

name- Azrayel (Ray)
age- 17
gender- male
race- half elf
type- magic swordsman
appearance- http://sayael.deviantart.com/art/Original-Ares-63851499 His eyes are mismatched, one a fiery red, the other a crystal blue.
personality- Smart, but a reckless hot head that will follow his heart before his head. He often gets himself into deep trouble. Prideful but loyal to a fault. He hates having to run from fights.
weapons/abilities- He wields a pair of scimitars. Through one he channels the power of ice, through the other the power of fire, anything else I'll explain as the story progresses.

other- Up for love. Ray actually suspected something was up with the game, although he didn't expect to get pulled into it. Three months ago his twin sister fell into a coma while logged into Paradise. And she hasn't woken up since, hasn't even stirred. Believing that there was a lead in the game Ray started playing Paradise, and shortly after the same thing happened to him. Now while hunting for the culprit, he also searches for his sister, only problem is he doesn't know what her avatar looks like.

Name- June Cairo

Age- 17

Race- Elf

Type- Elemental Sorceress (channels the elements: fire, air, water, earth)

Appearance- http://miae.deviantart.com/art/Blonde-hair-73236923with bright green eyes. She wears short, white robes.

Personality- Quiet and thoughtful, but lethal on the battlefield. She has a cunning mind, and a fast-moving chain of thought. Usually, her intentions are kind--unless you're behind enemy lines.

Weapons/Abilities- She has a snake tattoo that can peel itself off her arm and become real. It will then attack with deadly swiftness, and fatal venom.
Her magic ability is strong. Besides elemental magic, she can also perform a swift maneuver known as the Devil's Strike, which involves magically cutting a major artery, and immediately killing the victim.

Other- June is up for love. She got sucked into the game after her idiot of a best friend told her how fun it was. Now they're both in bodily comatose states, and stuck in the game (anyone can be her best friend.)


*I hope more people join*

This sounds interesting. And an interesting plot needs an interesting character =) I'm going to edit the bio format a little to make some things clear:

Real Name= Tom Kyrvoshki
Age= 28
Gender= Male
Personality= In real life, Tom is a solitary person who spends much more time playing computer games and virtual reality games than socialising with people. He's got few friends, he's not had a girlfriend for seven years and he lives alone in a small apartment. He's got a degree in I.T and was working for a virtual reality company that actually helped create the virus. He got suspicious when there were so many people falling into comas while playing the games and started asking questions. He found out too much (though in his opinion not enough) and was asked to test out a new setting for the virtual reality game. Tom knew he couldn't refuse and hoped to find out more information so he agreed and logged on using a character created for him by his co-workers. It was only after he had entered the game that he realised his mistake. But he also knows that for the virus programme to keep running, its creator must remain inside the game. He knows who the creator is, what the creator looks like and where he works. Unfortunately, he knows nothing of the creator's character.

Character Name= HotBabe331
Gender= Female
Race= Elf
Type= Cleric
Appearance= Beautiful with long, black hair and mid-blue eyes. Her body is well designed, the sort of body that no male can resist looking at, even if it is on a game character and she's dressed in a very tight fitting white dress with revealing cuts. She's the sort of character that no one takes seriously and certainly not one that would be expected to fight well or have an intelligent mind behind.
Weapons= She carries a dagger in each hand and has a long bow and an assortment of arrows.
Abilities= She's a below average fighter but has brilliant stealth and speed so Tom spends most of his time either running away from monsters or running and then turning and shooting arrows with increasingly bad aim while trying to make people listen to him about the virus.
Magical abilities= For what she lacks in fighting abilities, HotBabe331 makes up for it with her brilliant spells. She can heal minor and major wounds with ease and even bring characters back to life but while doing this restores a person's character and the person's consciousness, it is later discovered that in the real world, that person remains dead and the player's consciousness holds only memories of playing video games and is forever trapped inside the virtual reality console.
Other= Tom finds his character's body very attractive and is sometimes distracted by himself.

Name- Lucy 'Ayric' Darigun (Goes by Ayric)

Age- 19

Gender- Female

Race- Gryphon morpher (Gryphon who can turn into a human for limited amounts of time)

Type- Defense magic and natural weapons

Appearance-
Gryphon:
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q272 ... lley-1.jpg
Human:
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q272 ... y_Saim.jpg

Personality- Ancient beyond her years. Ayric likes to think things through. She's one of the people who always seem to know what to do and keeps her cool through the toughest of times. She likes to let go and have some fun sometimes. When Ayric feels threatened she lets all hell break loose. Her tongue is sharper than any sword imaginable.

Weapons/abilities- Strong in defense magic (ex. force fields, barriers, illusions) but she uses her claws, talons, beak, and body mostly.

Other- Ayric was the first person to be sucked into the game due to the fact that she's a game tester. Ayric loved Paradise to no end and was given an unlimited supply of log-ins. In exchange she was told to write reviews about the game and had to report to the company whenever she found glitches. Ever since she's explored every world and has created dozens of characters. Unfortunately, since she was trapped by the virus Ayric cannot access any of her other characters.

will join soon,,,, this sounds a lot like DOT HACK....

name- Fayne
age- 21
gender- Male
race- (if relevant) dark elf
type- (list your type of fighter, Ex: gunner, swordsman, mage, etc.. Their aren't really any limits for this just don't make your character too strong)- double blade swordsman, wields 2 long blade katana's
appearance- tall and thin. He weighs in at around 120lbs, and at the height of 6'2, he looks underfed.
personality- Cynical and a smart ass, he normally keeps to himself and prefers solitude. Hides his true feelings, and far too often lets his head and common sense overcome feelings.
weapons/abilities- (list weapons and both magical and non magical abilities)- weaponry- 2 long blade katanas, mastered through practice. the ability to shape change into a dire wolf.
other- Fayne rarely speaks, he's the strong yet silent type. His clothing covers almost all of him, wearing primarily black. He wears a hood to cover his face everywhere. His left arm is completely tattooed in black ink, but no one can decipher the meaning of the runes. He hides his past from everyone, no one but he knows how he got to the world, and he makes sure that no one finds out. He is the creators little brother, but he doesn't know what his brothers avatar looks like. Fayne listens to his mind and doesnt let his feelings show, and doesnt let anyone get too close to him, making him not up for love.

In normal form- http://mincedniku.deviantart.com/art/So ... y-25498357

In dire wolf form- http://wildspiritwolf.deviantart.com/ar ... n-48211897

name- Haithing Nutrila
age- 19
gender- female
race- Dark fairy (Fairy in human size)
type- Can cast spells on people but prefers to use her weaponry skills to anything. ( she has many a blade concealed on her person)
appearance- pale skinned, black hair, black eyes. She tends to wear black too but it isn';t her choice. It helps her blend into the dark places she must go in order to stay alive.
personality- More laid back than anything and doesn't care what she has to do. If she has to do it she has to do it so that's that. You tell her she need to go kill some ugly dino she won't bother to ask why but she'd go and kill it anyways.
weapons/abilities- As said above many blades concealed on person.
Cast spells(simple ones like sleep) on other players.
other- She has a younger brother who also found this game out.

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name- Dareing Nutrila
age- 16
gender- male
race- elf
type- shape shifter
appearance- http://photobucket.com/image/elf%20boy/ ... l.jpg?o=17
Exactly how he looks.

personality- Tends to stray form his older sister quickly as son as they enter Paradise and tends to love it there anyways. Very out going and quite outspoken. He's usually the one to give orders or just being on his own to do things. He doesn't know much of having others around to much so he'd think them burdens than anything.

weapons/abilities- He tends not to change much from his elf form but his other half likes to get out anyways. He's kinda wolfish and gets annoyed when he changes with out warning. He also has a bit of power. Not much but enough to keep the baddies away.

other- Lost and confused as both him and his sister fall into a comma and can't get back he wonders now if he is to find his sister alive or worse as they are now at opposite ends of Paradise.

*Yeah, this is easily like Hack. Good book by the way. *

Sister appearance:

*alright before we start a few issues. When the people get trapped in Paradise they all end up at the same place. Basically the Origin Point. Just start the story from just before your character gets sucked in. Oh and Kitty, since you can revive characters just so you know their's like a ten minute time lapse between when the mind "dies" and the body dies. If you can revive them within that time limit they won't die.*

Azrayel-

Ray glanced around the room, noticing the picture of himself and Ceria on their fifteenth birthday. Arm in arm the twins looked identical, but now things had changed, Ceria was wasting away, and Ray would be damned before he watched his sister die without doing anything.

Sighing Ray picked up the streamlined goggles from the table. He pulled out the dark gray antenna and inserted the game chip before slipping the goggles on over his head. The world flashed rainbow colored as the game loaded his senses attuning to the new world. Then the opening message played in his ears.

Welcome to Paradise. The World of Dreams.

Then lightning flashed across the screen and Ray's world went black.

Fayne-

Fayne sat in the shadows of the trees, sliding his fingers up and down his left arm. he glanced around, looking for any signs of life, but none yet. It was rare for new players to show in the origin point, and Fayne was regularly keeping watch. What he watched for was a mystery, he didn't even know why he couldn't leave the point of beginning. Was there something he hadn't done? Or was there some other scheme, one luring him in even deeper than he was? He didn't know, all he could do was wait, and hope.

Sylver: Oooh, I like that. Thank you =)

Tom

Tom opened his eyes slowly, scared of what he might see. What if they'd changed the configuration settings and plunged him into the pits of hell with a newb character? Why had he agreed to this after knowing that they knew that he knew? How could he have been so stupid? Slowly, slowly he opened his eyes and was relieved to find himself at the familiar Origin Point with surprisingly good eye-sight.

"So that makes me... a girl?" The character's seductive, feminine voice surprised Tom and he was almost afraid to study his character's body until he reminded himself that this was just virtual reality... except that it wasn't, was it? All those people falling into comas, the hushed up deaths, the company secrets. No, this was much more than virtual reality.

And yet, it was the same, beautiful Origin Point, though much quieter than usual with most players listening to the news flashes about the possible risk of playing. The grass was soft underfoot, the trees were pleasant to look at and the soft sound of animals drifted on the gentle breeze.

Tom looked at his body. Tom stared at his body. Tom began to strut about the Origin Point with a ridiculous grin on his face.

"I'm hot!" Tom declared to no one in particular and then he decided it was time to get serious. "But can I fight? What am I?" He blushed as he examined his outfit, looking for clues. The two daggers tucked into the thin strip of leather about his waist were drawn out and examined. They were cheap, standard newbie weapons but they had cool Celtic symbols running along the edges and that made him... a cleric. He made his way across to the shallow oasis just the other side of the origin point and stared down at his beautiful face and body, delighted to find that he was an elf. But... a cleric? How was he supposed to fight evil and save the world as a cleric?

Then Tom saw the bow and arrows. "Sweet, I can shoot things!" With his elf ears, he suddenly realised the rustling he'd been hearing for a while now was someone moving about in the trees and no monsters could get to the Origin Point so that made it another player!

"Hello there, I'm..." Tom hesitated, realising he didn't know his character's name and he searched inside his memory for both name, background and fighting ability. Disapointed he finished with, "HotBabe331? What sort of name is that!"

*When you said the different worlds existed side by side, did you mean that a character from one can just as easily jump into the next, or are there crossover points? And if a character did change worlds, would they change abilities and stuff or be the same as they were originally?*

name- Jason Moriarty

age- 19

gender- Male

race- (if relevant) Human

type- Soldier

appearance- Tall and athletic, with short black hair, green eyes and pale skin. Usually wears armour, but the rest of the time just wears a white t-shirt and jeans.

personality- Pretty rash, thinking he can throw himself into a situation and come out of it without a scratch. He applies this kind of logic to just about everything. However, he becomes silent and removed when something really serious comes up, and sometimes needs to be yelled at before he'll snap back.

weapons/abilities- Duel pistols and a scimitar (As the picture). His armour is shielded with a weak force-field and has the ability to blend in with its surroundings for short periods of time. As a last resort, he can shift into a monster form (Again, as the picture), but remaining that way for too long can kill him.

other- Up for love.

((Ayric))

The brush glided along Ayric's feathery form as she straightened. One of the newbies had finally entered the game. She had looked herself over, with too much enthusiasm, Ayric though, and finally noticed she wasn't alone.

"Hello there, I'm..." her alluring voice trailed off, her face laden with confusion, "HotBabe331? What sort of name is that!"

Slowly Ayric pushed through the shrubs and sat, sweeping her tail neatly around her talons. HotBabe331's face quickly turned into fear. "Monsters can't make it into the Origin Point! It's impossible!"

HotBabe331 messily unsheathed her dagger. She got a good grip on it and aimed it at Ayric. Ayric chuckled deeply, the thrumming noise sounded more calming than threatening but nonetheless HotBabe331 tightened her grip. "Foolish child. You know you are safe here and yet you start your new life by making enemies."

The voice coming out of the strange gryphon's beak took the elf by surprise. It was obvious she hadn't thought Ayric was an actual player. Ayric chuckled again. "Here let me show you."

Suddenly stats and a picture popped up above Ayric's head. Her name was stated, race, age, level...

"Holy crap. How long have you been playing this game?"

"A while."

She nodded approvingly as the stats disappeared, "It shows."

Ayric loosened her wings, letting then expand to their full span. She shook them out and snapped them back into place. HotBabe331 fell back in surprise, her dagger clattering to the side. Before she could recover Ayric was on her feet, picking up the blade with her beak. She hesitantly took the blade from Ayric and stood.

"Don't worry, you'll get used to it. Sooner or later you'll gain your memory and so will your character. Now, can you function well enough or will I be carrying you?" Ayric asked mockingly.

HotBabe331 scowled and wiped the dirt off herself. When she realized what she was doing she looked down and blushed. Ayric smiled as only a gryphon could. "I believe you are are boy, correct?"

HotBabe331 nodded.

"Once again, you will get used to it. Let's make our way to the Core of the Origin Point. Most of the players should be there. I know all the veterans like myself, they're the ones who sent me to round up all you newbies."

Ayric butted HotBabe331 in the back with her beak. She stumbled on the heels she was wearing but quickly recovered. Ayric nodded approvingly as she took the lead, it looked as though she was remembering already. HotBabe331 needed a new name perhaps, but she could definitely be useful.

[Fayne]

Fayne smoothly stepped around a tree stump, trying to make his way around in the darkness without alerting the two girls of his presence. Crouching, he examined Ayric and HotBabe331. So, Ayric has been here as long as I. He thought to himself, standing back up and leaning against a tree. Fayne adjusted his hood and the two blades on his back, and slowly made his way forward, head facing down, right hand on the hilt of one of his blades.
Ayric was the first to notice him, her sharp gaze looking him up and down. She stood up, in a defensive pose. Fayne could tell this would be an interesting journey by her side. He let go of his blade, resting a hand on his hip as he came to a stop. HotBabe331 lunged at him with her dagger, almost hitting skin, but Fayne dodged and knocked the blade from her hand. He shook his head, picking it up and placing it back in HotBabe331's hands.

"Nice name." He said in a cynical tone, crouching down. Ayric walked in a circle around him, eying his blades. Her gaze switched to his hood, and the black lines on his un-gloved left hand. He could tell both of them were eying him, checking him to make sure he wasn't an enemy.

"A Drow who isn't evil?" Ayric finally said, sitting down in front of him. "And why do you wear the hood?"

Fayne let out a silent laugh. She, they, would get the answer, eventually.

*This sounds so cool!*

Name: Bernie baxter
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race: human
Type: Gunplay
Appearance: blue eyes, short brown hair, always wear's a black and white suit.
Personality: A average college boy, likes to look at things throughly.
Weapons: Sniper rifle, Revolver, Motor bike.
Other: He was taking a class for weapons in his class when he was sucked into the virus's world.

**I'm in ^_^***

Name: Kelsey
Age:16
Gender:female
Race:human
Type:swordsman
Appearance:brown hair, green eyes, pale paper skin, tall, slim.
weapons/abilities: swords, daggers, she can also grow her nails so if she short handed.
other-up for love...