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    ⬣//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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Name: zazo
Contact: matchre @ plurk zazozaliad @ discord
Invite: piggybacking off of lavender hi

Considerations: Kuja because I'm predictable, Jennifer from RoR, Terra FFVI or Kefka FFVI, my oc Fluorite

~~I have a giant .hack//scum villain au thats been burning a hole in the back of my pocket for ages but I'm too shy~~

AU planning:
Kuja is a never-breaks character roleplayer "prithee, my lady," type & a pretty high level player who flaunts that. He runs a guild but foists tons of the unfun work off on his two immediate color-coded clown subordinates.

Irl he is the stressed unfavorite oldest child of an authoritarian nutjob. There is so much family drama here it is unreal and in particular he has never been forgiven by his father for ~~having a personality~~ the role he played as a kid in his younger brother being lost, for good.

Kuja's account is all set up and I check it constantly so I'd probably be most active with him.

Jennifer is a very nervy neet who uses The World as her primary contact with... the world. She's all alone irl and is a children's book author/illustrator, except lately everything she tries to make comes out too...

Upsetting, for her publisher.

She's got some Repressesed Shit bubbling to the surface lately ~~every since she read part of the Epitaph of the Twilight for the first time getting passed around the net~~ but it's . . Fff. fine.

kefka would be here to be a horrible griefer clown ✌️ probably a hacker. thinks Deadly Flash ruled actually

Tentative ideas for Terra... she found her account by chance after getting amnesia'd to shit, it's cleaned out slash super Cursed and has mysterious bullshit going on with it. Pre-extant cr for her pre-.hack-typical mindwipe would be cool

Finally Fluorite is. Simple. She's just a funny clown who is definitely not weird and datawarped. You will run into her in places you were pretty sure ought to be completely abandoned but it's fine she has a fairy ocarina if you need one just let her /dance at you a few times

Questions: ~~NOT AT CURRENT, MORE INEVItably~~ can I have Zorn and Thorn npcs as kuja's guild officers

Anything else? I am pogging so hard over this game existing

Edited 2023-07-15 21:42 (UTC)

always on RPer....... oh my GOD

He is so fucking annoying and that is a promise. Also his avatar totally still has a long fluffy tail on the base model that's usually hidden by his equipment .... he as the player put it there on purpose and he as the character hates it

OH... in the AU he would be both the player and the character! so it's kuja and his avatar in the game, so he can be the cringefail one! just in case that wasn't clear b/c AU games always handle things seriously... but nods fast, there is a beast race option for character creation in the AU at least!

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OH I GET IT I'M CRYING my brain is melting it's so Hot here

gamer kuja like "you know what my mmo oc would hate? a tail. :)" is the vibe which i think is hilarious if so

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finalbows - 2023-07-15 21:58 (UTC) - Expand

AH TOOK ME A SEC I figured it was the same character I was playing in full on both sides, but. Brain going very fast

but also now I am considering

The tail being an accident during character creation and it irls the hell out of him. That is in fact even better

grips your hands we are doing our best out here in this world

sometimes you just fuck around and find out in cc and it's a feature, not a bug

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energypoints - 2023-07-15 22:04 (UTC) - Expand

OH MY GOD, the never-breaks-character rpers in mmos are my absolute favorite, yael would clown on kuja so hard

re: your question, sure! kuja can have zorn and thorn as his guild retainers.

Excellent. In this setting they exclusively talk in rhyme when he specifically is around because he makes them but they will in fact talk to you like a normal person when the guildmaster isn't watching the chat, which is why they are the retainers and he is the beautiful no-life leaderboard topping figurehead

that's so perfect... kuja's not letting anyone forget that he's the one in charge!! ngl i'm super excited for kuja (if you do decide to app him, that is!)

THE BLORBO BIAS LEAN IS H E A V Y

hehehe i'm glad you're excited!!!

also your choices all sound delightful... i love the idea of kuja never breaking character

THANK YOU confession I literally. Was like hm maybe this time I will play someone else. Typed everyone else first. Noticed I was logged into Kuja still and was like oh hell he would be cool too and the longer I typed the more invested i got

THAT'S JUST HOW IT IS SOMETIMES!!! sometimes we simply cannot resist

PRITHEE oh my god

This is very important: I'm spitballing names for his stupid guild now because I am no longer pretending he's not my primary consideration

- Scions of Terra
- Iifa Tree _{(yes this is a Moon Tree reference)}
- Angel Wing
- Mist

- suggestions / guildies welcome

the moon tree reference is just too good, i cast my vote for that one

griefa tree-- no

Hello, I am here to suggest what I also just suggested to the potential Ardyn player and that's what if all the AU FF villains were in a guild together?

sparkles. I'm leaning to iifa tree for sure now

This is going to be the worst guild. Someone would absolutely cite these guys as a reason the crimson knights exist one day

Edited 2023-07-16 17:51 (UTC)

tbh I wouldn't be shocked if someone made a counter-PKer guild during the short run itself lmao but griefers gonna grief

🙏 god I hope so

I'm like mulling a toss up btwn Flick Reaper, Harvest Cleric and Wavemaster for his class ftr because while reaper Vibes are ofc the best,

Heals You But Is Evil is so funny to imagine

trollophoroi - 2023-07-16 18:28 (UTC) - Expand

GENTLY TOUCHES KUJIE...

Kuja being a super serious RPer who speaks Olde Timey in the chat is sending me, I love this nerd

The speech patterns are MUSE INTEGRAL!!!

Edited 2023-07-16 22:01 (UTC)