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CyberConnect Corporation ([personal profile] cccorp) wrote in [community profile] touchgrass2023-07-14 09:26 pm

THIS SHINDIG LOOKS LIKE THE BOMB DIGGITY.


//WELCOME TO "THE WORLD."


It’s the year 2000 and no aspect of life has been left untouched by the rapid advancement of technology. Wherever you are on Earth, you’ve lived a life where connection through digital spaces is the optimal way to stay involved with friends and family all around the world. Terminally online? That’s you and everyone you know.

In a world dominated by virtual reality and cutting edge digital experiences, people are always on the lookout for new ways to push their real lives further and further out of mind. One such opportunity comes in the latest offering from the notorious CyberConnect Corporation: Fragment, an MMORPG that promises full one-to-one synchronization of one’s consciousness with a vibrant and expansive fantasy world.

The privilege of participating in the testing of such cutting edge technology is one only a select group of randomly selected people from across the world will get to experience. You’re one of those lucky few... but is lucky really the right word? For better or worse, the experience promises to change you forever, and if you’re particularly blessed, you may even survive it.

The World is a short-run, panfandom alternate universe game inspired by the .Hack series. With elements of horror and mystery, The World is a plot-centric game wherein characters will participate in the beta test of Fragment, a mysterious MMORPG that transfers their consciousness from an increasingly dull reality into a flourishing fantasy world where nothing is quite as innocent as it first seems. Player choices play a critical role in shaping the plot and determining the final outcome of the game.

Questions? Check out our FAQ! Main navigation here.

//WHAT IS THE WORLD? WHO CAN JOIN?


Welcome to The World! This is a short-term game set to run for a period of four months from July 29th to December 2nd. Welcome! This is a private game open to those on milky's (shitpost), Amb's (stellazzio), and Lavender's (revelries) plurk lists and those directly invited by the rest of the mod team.

If you aren't a friend of either head mod but are interested in checking out the game, feel free to request an invitation via the mod contact page. Friends and +1s are given first priority when processing and accepting applications, but if the concept interests you, don't hesitate to let us know!

//DO I NEED TO BE CANON FAMILIAR?


Do you know what an MMO is? You do? Good. You know all you need to know to play in The World. While this is a game based off of the .Hack franchise, all one needs to know to join are the basics. Any canon-specific terminology and information will be introduced to you through events.

//INTEREST CHECK & AU PLANNING


Help us gauge interest by filling out this handy little form and posting it below! This is also for you to crowdsource ideas for your character's AU and make tentative plans with your fellow nerds.

Name: Who are you?
Contact: Where can others reach you?
Invite: Who invited you? If you aren't on the mods' friends lists but would like to express interest in joining, let us know here!

Considerations: Who are you thinking of bringing?
AU planning: If you'd like to brainstorm ideas for your character's AU self, this is the place to do it! To help you along, take a look at our handy section on character building on the FAQ. You can discuss your ideas with others or talk about the plans you've already made.

Questions: Do you have any questions for us? Need help plotting or planning? Let us know! If your question is relevant to other players, we'll add it into the FAQ.

Anything else? You know what to do. Drop your best meme.

arsenist: <user name=albarose> (ka90)

[personal profile] arsenist 2023-07-18 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
UGGGGHHH I ended up going with Akira but... but Joshua... touches the ground 😭😭😭
knightdreams: (angry; honestly sylvain!!)

[personal profile] knightdreams 2023-07-18 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
Don't make her suplex you.
boarwitness: ('Cause it just makes me want to cry)

[personal profile] boarwitness 2023-07-18 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
unbelievable, censored for speaking the truth, never done anything wrong

knightdreams: (default; at a glance)

[personal profile] knightdreams 2023-07-18 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
is that so.

rosehecate: (Did you mean it?)

[personal profile] rosehecate 2023-07-18 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
dfkansgrsne oh shucks thank you very much! I'm going to sit and tweak the concept a little in my head before I app but I'm really happy to see the enthusiasm for Anthy, she definitely deserves a Better Than Canon AU even if it's only by increments
secondthoughts: (Default)

[personal profile] secondthoughts 2023-07-18 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
YES THIS IS HAPPENING NOW. I WANT THIS CAITIE

and unfortunately they end up friends anyway
rosehecate: (Hi!)

[personal profile] rosehecate 2023-07-18 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
no thank YOU for making a cool game concept that everyone on my plurk timeline wanted to check out! Also that's two for Anthy omg
secondthoughts: (Default)

[personal profile] secondthoughts 2023-07-18 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
sighs and puts on my life jacket fine. let's go
rosehecate: (You seem upset...)

[personal profile] rosehecate 2023-07-18 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
THAT'S THREE FOR ANTHY you're all making me really keen on her now, I can't not try going for it

OH YES NEW FRIEND time to tell someone all about her tiny friend at home, Chuchu the...well we don't know what he is, he might be a tiny lemur, he might be a tiny monkey, he might be a tiny mouse, he might be all three of these things but he is HER friend and he's great :3
boarwitness: (Can't look too far ahead)

[personal profile] boarwitness 2023-07-18 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
uhhhhhh well that could've been anyone
marmoron: by request of the icon creator, pls do not take (Default)

/slide sin late with starbucks

[personal profile] marmoron 2023-07-18 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Maru
Contact: [plurk.com profile] partyraven
Invite: Coco!

Considerations: HMM so I'm debating between Keith from that space lion show, or Jinx from Arcane???
AU planning: I haven't decided on any concrete AU plans, open to all kinds of suggestions.

cw: illicit drugs
For Jinx, I like the idea of AUing her into an underground crime family. Similar to canon, she's the adopted daughter of some major drug lord who runs a distribution ring for uppers. She's in her late teens and probably has a warrant out for her arrest due to some... incident that I haven't decided on yet lol. She could be a fun pick for some chaos.

For Keith, HMM. I'm pretty flexible here and unsure. I could see a disgruntled survivalist, ex-military type who got booted for insubordination. But maybe wilding out with some totally out there AU could also be fun :|a

Questions: none for now!

Anything else?
Edited 2023-07-18 15:20 (UTC)
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[personal profile] rebelles 2023-07-18 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: mae
Contact: [plurk.com profile] ahlyo
Invite: lumi's +1!

Considerations: haru okumura (persona 5), prospera mercury (gundam witch from mercury)

AU planning:

haru is the teenage daughter of a wealthy CEO who heads okumura foods, a company most well known for their prolific fast-food burger chain (and questionable labor practices). her father is gifted an early access ticket from his business partners and haru tries the game out of curiosity. she's a sweet and polite girl whose life has been largely controlled by her father, down to her impending arranged marriage. turns out she's more than a little sour on the prospect of being married against her will and finds hacking up monsters in the MMO quite therapeutic for venting her frustrations! she goes by the name 'noir' online and has fashioned herself a masked vigilante type of persona different from the reserved girl she is offline. i'm very open to au planning and/or people who might recognize her in high society circles seeing through her charade

an ambitious businesswoman and single parent, prospera is the head of a small robotics company researching neural synchronization similar to the technology deployed by the new MMO. in the past, she used to work for a medical tech lab until the lab was sabotaged by an opposing group. gwitch spoilers follow! in the "accident", prospera lost her husband and coworkers, and her daughter ericht was left comatose. she changes her identity and goes into hiding, spending the next two decades pursuing science for eri's recovery at all costs. an upstanding mom!...if not for participating in sketchy science and manipulating people including her second daughter to further her cause. prospera joins fragment to investigate if the technology can be used to restore eri's consciousness in the digital world if not the physical one

Questions: none atm!
Anything else? writing this and getting flashbacks to my youth playing the flyff mmo. hi nice to meet you all, excited for the game!
curvaceous: (kara04)

[personal profile] curvaceous 2023-07-18 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
MARU... hi it's coco

reaches for both of your picks. your chaos has no bounds and i am excited
fatalitea: ((four))

[personal profile] fatalitea 2023-07-18 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much!! I'm really happy to hear that you like our ideas for her au so far, its been so long since I played in an au game so its very reassuring to hear that we are doing good for coming up with stuff for Mami here.
fatalitea: ((six))

[personal profile] fatalitea 2023-07-18 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww thank you, I'm happy to hear that Mami is being seen as a good choice to bring. \o/
fatalitea: ((seven))

[personal profile] fatalitea 2023-07-18 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Reaches back...!! Thank you, I am glad you approve of steam gunner Mami.
dissimulative: (pic#15305377)

[personal profile] dissimulative 2023-07-18 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
bangs table for dreamer

GFL GFL GFL GFL
microtransactions: (ι'll never ғorgeт yoυ)

[personal profile] microtransactions 2023-07-18 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
time to figure out a new un for her because the pun i nabbed doesn't work in an au where she isn't an ai, oops--
diq: ( ʀᴏsᴇʙᴜʀsᴛs ) (✦ ᴏʜ?)

[personal profile] diq 2023-07-18 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ logs out immediately ]
diq: ( ʀᴏsᴇʙᴜʀsᴛs ) (✦ ʙʀᴇᴇᴅᴀʙʟᴇ)

[personal profile] diq 2023-07-18 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
EYE would wanna make sylvain hit on prospera,
ganymed: (I won't)

[personal profile] ganymed 2023-07-18 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi-hi Mae, it is me, a Lum \o/

These picks sound bueno nodnod
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[personal profile] cryomancer 2023-07-18 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Bill
Contact: Easiest way of contacting me is through Discord (alchemistsavant) but I also have a Plurk! ([plurk.com profile] nabios)
Invite: Seto's +1!

Considerations: A gigantic bag of OCs! No really, there's too many in here. But I'm probably going with a trash man named Leo.
AU planning: Leo is a 26 year old chronic shut-in that graduated high school and didn't do much else after that. He's incredibly lazy, a bit of a slob, and doesn't really do socializing IRL. Somehow he landed a gig where he gets paid to write guides for video games - specifically how to accomplish all of your in-game goals with as little effort as possible. It's very popular with adults that still want to game but have limited leisure time, so his username (Faunus) is rather recognizable in gaming spaces. I imagine he's invited to Fragment by CC Corp so he can get a head start on writing a guide, which could be a good entry point for more fickle players to join in and get CCC that sweet sweet casual money in the future. As for class, I could see him picking Shadow Warlock. Debuffing the enemy and letting others do the dirty work sounds like a good strategy for him.

Questions: None at the moment!

Anything else? I'm kinda new to this (still somehow, after a billion years of attempting to join stuff), so apologies in advance if I do something dumb every once in a while. Also, obligatory meme:
Edited 2023-07-18 21:17 (UTC)
mobagehell: (🔥 smile)

[personal profile] mobagehell 2023-07-18 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Bro.
notfunny: <user name=vindagnyr> (Default)

[personal profile] notfunny 2023-07-18 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: robin
Contact: pm this journal
Invite: requested from mods... ty ✨

Considerations: primarily interested in cyno but i have others in mind if need be... (twst or mhyk)

AU planning: for cyno, i was thinking along the lines of someone who was a competitive and championship TCG player for a very long time before retiring so that he could focus on his studies? even though he's pretty disciplined when it comes to his time, video games ended up being a primary focus while working on his undergrad and grad degrees and he ends up dropping out so he can focus on content creation instead! could also flex into other possibilities but the main takeaway point is that he is the kind of player who would enthusiastically suggest strategies that look dangerous but are very efficient (100% uptime or disband)

Questions: i got nothing.

Anything else? why can't you run through a campground? you can only ran, because it's past tents.
Edited 2023-07-18 21:53 (UTC)
veardant: (180)

[personal profile] veardant 2023-07-18 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
YELLS

ahem hi yes please app, grabby hands

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