It is the suitably near future. Virtual reality allows us to enter and participate in...
GAMERGIRL: Morbid Misadventures of a Digital Kind
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UPDATE 1: Post-Mortem
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
It is the suitably near future. Virtual reality allows us to enter and participate in communities across the internet. For millions who have nowhere else to turn, it is a dream come true. Using universal virtual avatars and simple implants you can interface with the whole world from the comfort of your bedroom.
What happens though, when the body dies and the avatar lingers on? What happens when it is left behind, abandoned in the corners of code and the deep parts of the internet, fragments of memory and personality the only thing staving off a break into active malevolence?
Once upon a time, you were a young girl attending a normal American high school, at least to your classmates. Online, though, you were something else, something greater. The internet allowed you to be far more than you felt you could ever be in real life. An idol, a cultural icon in communities that your classmates had never even heard of. A memequeen. Whatever the specifics were, the internet was your outlet. Your real life, far away from "real life". You might as well have been immortal.
You never could have predicted your time would have been cut so short. You never predicted death at all, actually. The internet doesn't tend to prepare you for death, but how can you be prepared for an inattentive truck driver? Only otakus are genre-savvy enough to keep an eye on the road, and knowing them half the lot would throw themselves in front of the truck purposely so they could go to a world where their fantasy waifus would fawn over them.
So now you're dead. But- but not really. Sure, you're dead, but you're not dead. Some part of you is still alive. Some part of you is still gasping for breath, still demanding more time, still yelling at the unfairness of the world.
And it's that part of you that's activated in a shadowy server room in an undisclosed location. Elsewhere, something stirs. It is time. The project has begun.
Welcome to the digital world, GAMERGIRL.
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lol yeah this is happening magical girl cyberspace quest
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???: Hey.
???: How are you feeling?
???: Well I suspect you are feeling pretty dead at the moment. You can barely register what I am saying right now. You're all over the place, and that's not just a figure of speech. That truck did a number on you.
YOU: ....
???: That's alright though, that's why we're here. We can rebuild you. We have the technology.
YOU: ...
???: That's Robocop. Great movie. A classic. Not the remake though. I try to be open to new experiences but I just could not get into Kinnaman as Robocop and the new shiny-looking tech, I actually think it had a negative effect on the overall performance. Every Frame a Painting had a great bit on it and the issues the movie had.
YOU: ...
???: But enough about that. I can impress on you the need for a good taste in film later. Let me turn off my veiling.
[ShiftySpooks has entered the chatroom]
ShiftySpooks: Hi. You're probably feeling a little bit under the weather, I suspect. And plenty worried, too. It's not everyday that we get an Avatar that survives so intact, but that also means you've got a lot of consciousness roiling around in there. What I am going to do for you is help you regain some semblance of self. That's how you survive online when you're disconnected. You keep that semblance. It's like in the Matrix with Neo. You have to know yourself and then you know the world. Just don't expect to fly around. We're not doing anything that dull here. Absolutely not. They always ask about the flying first. And that's the last time we'll reference the Matrix. Even that one was a little bit risque. Have to take precautions or they'll notice.YOU: ...
ShiftySpooks: So let's just start small. The hard stuff will come later. Tell me your name and a little bit about you. A little background. I'll even give you some hints. You're from America, you're a girl that's about sixteen years old. The rest I want you to figure out yourself. Jeopardy rules, start with "What is...".YOU: ...
Article: A fragment of sanity whispers to the shattered remnants of yourself: Remember. The Dali masterpiece of your mind dutifully obeys.
[] Write-in name.
Preset choices of background. These choices are not firm but a basic idea of your character's background open to further interpretation and adaptation later.
[] Social Shut-in. You just felt better in the online world than the real world when it came to socializing with people. It was easier, more relaxing, and less stressful to find people, even people across the globe, who shared your interests and cared about you. Your first relationship was online, and contrary to stereotypes, it was good and nice. One day they stopped talking to you. You don't know why, but that's how things can go. The online world is a fantastic place to disappear, but it also makes it harder to find someone who doesn't want to be found. Regardless of how you behaved offline, online you are gregarious and friendly, a model of friendship and camaraderie. Oh god, do...do they even know?
[] The Creative Type. Dreams of galaxies swirled in your mind before you knew how to say your own name. When you found out that a whole world of stories existed online, vast and infinite, you latched onto the internet like a gamer to doritos. You wrote and you read, and oh my god there was so much to read. Always too afraid to express what you really wanted to say, you suffered in school but made up for it with the delights that the world wide web could provide, an accomplished author with a cult following online, knowing that no matter what your works and your creative effort could find fruit. You had a small, burgeoning patreon before your untimely demise, and a wicked talent for the pen. Or the keyboard, you guess.
[] Professional Internet Rebel. There is an old internet legend that seconds after the activation of ARPANET there was already an Israel-Palestine debate about three years old, with six participants banned on both sides (they kept a running tally). While you stayed away from the most controversial subjects and never really assigned yourself to a specific partisan group, your strong sense of justice and complete disillusionment from actual politics drove you into deep arguments about whether it was right for the message board to have moderators with the power to change topic titles. Your contrarian, rebellious streak has made you skeptical to all kinds of authority. It also gave you something of a gift for oratory and argument- you wouldn't get anywhere if you didn't have followers, after all. The discourse was your stomping grounds, and you made sure that people heard you loud and clear.
[] Escapist Extraordinaire. Play it, watch it, meme it, roleplay it. You went online to escape from the real world and the real things that hurt you. You went online to see a magical place where it could all go away, even if it was just for a few hours. You went online because in the online world the dreams in your head still had currency, and your imagination could fly away with the planes you crashed into mountains. Okay, maybe that's a bad metaphor, but you know the meaning. For you, what the online world was for, really, was to allow you to get a grip after a day of hard work and frustration. It was your place. When you died, you had an impressively large collection of games and an impossibly wide knowledge of obscure shows and manga. For you, even internet culture was its own form of escapism, and you know much of it inside and out.
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- England
[x] Escapist Extraordinaire. Play it, watch it, meme it, roleplay it. You went online to escape from the real world and the real things that hurt you. You went online to see a magical place where it could all go away, even if it was just for a few hours. You went online because in the online world the dreams in your head still had currency, and your imagination could fly away with the planes you crashed into mountains. Okay, maybe that's a bad metaphor, but you know the meaning. For you, what the online world was for, really, was to allow you to get a grip after a day of hard work and frustration. It was your place. When you died, you had an impressively large collection of games and an impossibly wide knowledge of obscure shows and manga. For you, even internet culture was its own form of escapism, and you know much of it inside and out.
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FIR- DAMNIT SECOND
Also we are doing Magical Girl Keyboard Warrior we must
[X] Julianne North
[X] Professional Internet Rebel. There is an old internet legend that seconds after the activation of ARPANET there was already an Israel-Palestine debate about three years old, with six participants banned on both sides (they kept a running tally). While you stayed away from the most controversial subjects and never really assigned yourself to a specific partisan group, your strong sense of justice and complete disillusionment from actual politics drove you into deep arguments about whether it was right for the message board to have moderators with the power to change topic titles. Your contrarian, rebellious streak has made you skeptical to all kinds of authority. It also gave you something of a gift for oratory and argument- you wouldn't get anywhere if you didn't have followers, after all. Twitter was your stomping grounds, and you made sure that people heard you loud and clear.
Also we are doing Magical Girl Keyboard Warrior we must
[X] Julianne North
[X] Professional Internet Rebel. There is an old internet legend that seconds after the activation of ARPANET there was already an Israel-Palestine debate about three years old, with six participants banned on both sides (they kept a running tally). While you stayed away from the most controversial subjects and never really assigned yourself to a specific partisan group, your strong sense of justice and complete disillusionment from actual politics drove you into deep arguments about whether it was right for the message board to have moderators with the power to change topic titles. Your contrarian, rebellious streak has made you skeptical to all kinds of authority. It also gave you something of a gift for oratory and argument- you wouldn't get anywhere if you didn't have followers, after all. Twitter was your stomping grounds, and you made sure that people heard you loud and clear.
chibipoe
May I tell you of the glory that is Catradora?
- Location
- Astoria, Oregon
[X] Professional Internet Rebel, Artist Edition.
From as far back as you can remember, your dreams were filled with images that dazzled. When others were out playing, you were always drawing, patterns and designs that blossomed from crayons on the wall to paper, from scribbles to stick figures to lavish figures as your expertise grew.
Your teenage years saw a brief decline as you became more politically aware, turning your interest in art toward words, commanding legions on twitter as you opposed issues that you found repugnant, crusading against injustice with words that were as sharply tuned as the edge of your pen when drawing. Your renown doubled as you turned your art skills in that cause as well. Or at least some of them.
Under another name, you pursued other interests, fanart, OCs, commissions, furry porn. You name it, you've drawn it at one time or another. Your skills there haven't atrophied, letting you depict brilliant landscapes or detailed portraits that convey meaning as effectively as your razor-sharp wit does.
[X] Lucinda 'Lucky' Oliver
Changed mine around, thanks to @Strunkriidiisk
From as far back as you can remember, your dreams were filled with images that dazzled. When others were out playing, you were always drawing, patterns and designs that blossomed from crayons on the wall to paper, from scribbles to stick figures to lavish figures as your expertise grew.
Your teenage years saw a brief decline as you became more politically aware, turning your interest in art toward words, commanding legions on twitter as you opposed issues that you found repugnant, crusading against injustice with words that were as sharply tuned as the edge of your pen when drawing. Your renown doubled as you turned your art skills in that cause as well. Or at least some of them.
Under another name, you pursued other interests, fanart, OCs, commissions, furry porn. You name it, you've drawn it at one time or another. Your skills there haven't atrophied, letting you depict brilliant landscapes or detailed portraits that convey meaning as effectively as your razor-sharp wit does.
[X] Lucinda 'Lucky' Oliver
Changed mine around, thanks to @Strunkriidiisk
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[X] Anna Muldoon
[X] The Creative Type. Dreams of galaxies swirled in your mind before you knew how to say your own name. When you found out that a whole world of stories existed online, vast and infinite, you latched onto the internet like a gamer to doritos. You wrote and you read, and oh my god there was so much to read. Always too afraid to express what you really wanted to say, you suffered in school but made up for it with the delights that the world wide web could provide, an accomplished author with a cult following online, knowing that no matter what your works and your creative effort could find fruit. You had a small, burgeoning patreon before your untimely demise, and a wicked talent for the pen. Or the keyboard, you guess.
[X] The Creative Type. Dreams of galaxies swirled in your mind before you knew how to say your own name. When you found out that a whole world of stories existed online, vast and infinite, you latched onto the internet like a gamer to doritos. You wrote and you read, and oh my god there was so much to read. Always too afraid to express what you really wanted to say, you suffered in school but made up for it with the delights that the world wide web could provide, an accomplished author with a cult following online, knowing that no matter what your works and your creative effort could find fruit. You had a small, burgeoning patreon before your untimely demise, and a wicked talent for the pen. Or the keyboard, you guess.
Terran Imperium
[French]
- Location
- Southern France
Let's go for something simple as a name for once.
[X] Callista
[X] The Creative Type. Dreams of galaxies swirled in your mind before you knew how to say your own name. When you found out that a whole world of stories existed online, vast and infinite, you latched onto the internet like a gamer to doritos. You wrote and you read, and oh my god there was so much to read. Always too afraid to express what you really wanted to say, you suffered in school but made up for it with the delights that the world wide web could provide, an accomplished author with a cult following online, knowing that no matter what your works and your creative effort could find fruit. You had a small, burgeoning patreon before your untimely demise, and a wicked talent for the pen. Or the keyboard, you guess.
[X] Callista
[X] The Creative Type. Dreams of galaxies swirled in your mind before you knew how to say your own name. When you found out that a whole world of stories existed online, vast and infinite, you latched onto the internet like a gamer to doritos. You wrote and you read, and oh my god there was so much to read. Always too afraid to express what you really wanted to say, you suffered in school but made up for it with the delights that the world wide web could provide, an accomplished author with a cult following online, knowing that no matter what your works and your creative effort could find fruit. You had a small, burgeoning patreon before your untimely demise, and a wicked talent for the pen. Or the keyboard, you guess.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
ShiftySpooks: And just in case you folks were feeling left out, I'll get to you in a bit, don't you worry, you miserable scraps of code. Don't think this is going to be one of those backseat rides where you get to be the pilot and face none of the consequences. After what happened last time, you're all in for it bad if you mess this Avatar up.So please be nice and keep your bits and bytes inside the ride at all times.
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eep. that's worrying.ShiftySpooks: And just in case you folks were feeling left out, I'll get to you in a bit, don't you worry, you miserable scraps of code. Don't think this is going to be one of those backseat rides where you get to be the pilot and face none of the consequences. After what happened last time, you're all in for it bad if you mess this Avatar up.
So please be nice and keep your bits and bytes inside the ride at all times.
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Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
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- Across the Horizon
ShiftySpooks: Of course it is. It should be. You folks messed up bad last time and this is your last chance to make it up to us. Stitches can be undone just as easily as they're sewed. Sewed? Sowed? I don't know. Either way you know what you did and what the consequences are. Don't mess this one up, or you're going to be sitting in a supply closet hard drive in Fredricton faster than you can output "01".
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No, I mean I wasn't expecting you to directly talk to us. I have no idea how these people may have fucked up the last poor soul under their command.
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Terran Imperium
[French]
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- Southern France
We'll make it up for last time! We SVers are known for not staying down. Whatever mistake we did. Always need to look at the bright side of things.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
ShiftySpooks: ...That probably shouldn't be happening. Well- Too late to think about it now! Thinking is for less fast-paced businesses. Zuckerberg can afford to think. But that's not really our specialization.I do have to say though, this is turning out to be more disappointing than the Total Recall remake, and the poor girl hasn't even been able to remember her name yet. If this is the trajectory that things are going on- well- it's going to be hard, I'll tell you that much.
ShiftySpooks: Whatever you say weird...fragment...thing. Just...keep that enthusiastic spirit well away from me. And ask any questions you want! Just do it...less enthusiastically.
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your taste in movie is so pretentiously basic yet also so basically wrong, shifty
[X] The Creative Type. Dreams of galaxies swirled in your mind before you knew how to say your own name. When you found out that a whole world of stories existed online, vast and infinite, you latched onto the internet like a gamer to doritos. You wrote and you read, and oh my god there was so much to read. Always too afraid to express what you really wanted to say, you suffered in school but made up for it with the delights that the world wide web could provide, an accomplished author with a cult following online, knowing that no matter what your works and your creative effort could find fruit. You had a small, burgeoning patreon before your untimely demise, and a wicked talent for the pen. Or the keyboard, you guess.
[X] The Creative Type. Dreams of galaxies swirled in your mind before you knew how to say your own name. When you found out that a whole world of stories existed online, vast and infinite, you latched onto the internet like a gamer to doritos. You wrote and you read, and oh my god there was so much to read. Always too afraid to express what you really wanted to say, you suffered in school but made up for it with the delights that the world wide web could provide, an accomplished author with a cult following online, knowing that no matter what your works and your creative effort could find fruit. You had a small, burgeoning patreon before your untimely demise, and a wicked talent for the pen. Or the keyboard, you guess.
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Threatening people with a prolonged stay in a dusty supply closet is already a bad start to this whole operation. No wonder we failed last time if this is the kind of leadership we can expect.
[x] Professional Internet Rebel.
[x] Julianne North
[x] Professional Internet Rebel.
[x] Julianne North
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You actually did it. Huh.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
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- Across the Horizon
ShiftySpooks: And yet you CANNOT remember what happened last time. So yes, I may have confused some of the facts of film- to be sure, I do not call myself an expert, but I get the important things right. But don't let that distract you from the fact that in 1998 The Undertake threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
ShiftySpooks: ...
ShiftySpooks: This is the part where you compliment me on my meme.
ShiftySpooks: ...Well I thought it was funny.
ShiftySpooks: In Fredriction! Don't forget that part. Everyone always forgets Fredriction. And oh, are you frustrated with my leadership? That's alright. Let me just get my boss on and he can discuss my performance.[ShiftySpooks changed his name to BossSpooks]
BossSpooks: Oh wait! I am my boss. I love my job.
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Who died and made you boss? You weren't even existing 50 minutes ago.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
[BossSpooks has changed his name to ShiftySpooks]
ShiftySpooks: Specifically, this girl right here. Amazing how you get promotions in this business. Thank goodness for truck drivers and shut-ins who can't look both ways when they cross the street or we'd be out of work.
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I assume most people in charge of isekai-type adventures and stories wouldbe.[BossSpooks has changed his name to ShiftySpooks]
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Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
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- Across the Horizon
ShiftySpooks: I don't know what an Isekai is, but whatever fits your bit, fragment. And please don't explain it to me. I do not like unsolicited explanations. ...Did, did my icon just expire? God I hate image hosting. Give me a second.
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mothematics
How wide is the concept of "you"?
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this is the worst and i'm so here for it
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
ShiftySpooks: Okay. All better now. Icon's back. That was close. Almost lost my intimidating glare.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
ShiftySpooks: I was not responsible for that outage.
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I dunno, that glare is pretty intimidating, spooks.
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ME A FEW HOURS AGO: This is going to be a blast and I'm so excited.
ME NOW: This is going to be a fucking trainwreck and I'm so excited.
ME NOW: This is going to be a fucking trainwreck and I'm so excited.