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Owww that hurt. Right in the feels.

You know, it also raises the question of what exactly the rest of the playerbase would do if they wanted to stop the black swordsman. Let's be frank Kirito is likely in the top five for fighters in the whole world here. I see the playerbase more treating him like a WMD . Something you stay the hell away from. Which could lead to an interesting development that Kirito values the npcs more than the players for interaction

Edit: calling it right now. Kirito has a serious hate on for that reaper. How many of you think that CARDINAL might make it a recurring creature that Kirito keeps running into?
 
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RevenVrake said:
Owww that hurt. Right in the feels.

You know, it also raises the question of what exactly the rest of the playerbase would do if they wanted to stop the black swordsman. Let's be frank Kirito is likely in the top five for fighters in the whole world here. I see the playerbase more treating him like a WMD . Something you stay the hell away from. Which could lead to an interesting development that Kirito values the npcs more than the players for interaction
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That's actually a pretty interesting idea. I could definitely see guilds set up to actively hunt him down while pretty much everyone else stays away from him except to bring him in to take down Zone Bosses or other major raid bosses. Which of course leads to him taking on the persona of some kind of hardcore "fuck with me in the slightest way and I'll kill you all" type with a hugely overblown reputation for being hyper-lethal.

Ridiculously Average Guy said:
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You know, I can't help but wonder how long it took to make that...
 
...uh...huh...

Okay, wild mass guessing time.
When the Reaper shot Sachi with those chains, it didn't kill her. It merely put her 'out of play'. Kirito goes and gets the resurrection item but he can't bring Sachi back, as he has to first kill the Reaper and then use the Resurrection item before a short timer runs out.

Cue Kirito chasing that damn thing all over the world, with his pursuit becoming part legend.[/I]
 
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RevenVrake said:
...uh...huh...

Okay, wild mass guessing time.
When the Reaper shot Sachi with those chains, it didn't kill her. It merely put her 'out of play'. Kirito goes and gets the resurrection item but he can't bring Sachi back, as he has to first kill the Reaper and then[/u] use the Resurrection item before a short timer runs out.

Cue Kirito chasing that damn thing all over the world, with his pursuit becoming part legend.
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The resurrection items have been disabled, though.
 
So he said yes.

But honestly, given what the Admin has done...would you take anything he said at face value?
In the original he also said that death was permanent. And then Kirito finds a short term phoenix down that can bring someone back.
Let me have my delusions okay? :p
 
Depending on how much of a dick Kabaya feels like being:
The Item doesn't bring you back if you died within 5 minutes, it brings you back when ever. But only for 5 minutes.
Either on purpose, or because it takes that long for the system to take effect.

It also serves as a less asspully way for Sachi to pass on that final message.
 
So, sort of like the Resurrection Stone in HP. Which actually makes sense in this rebuild, since the "dead" players' consciousnesses are trapped somewhere in the server. This would be very, very nasty if the player in question had been isolated long enough to go insane.
 
ghost792 said:
So, sort of like the Resurrection Stone in HP. Which actually makes sense in this rebuild, since the "dead" players' consciousnesses are trapped somewhere in the server. This would be very, very nasty if the player in question had been isolated long enough to go insane.
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Do we know that people are both saved on the servers and are aware during that time? I don't recall that ever being confirmed.
 
I don't remember that part either.

edit: found it

"All revival spells and items have been disabled permanently," Kayaba went on. "You will not respawn at the town church. If you die, you will not be given another avatar. What it will be like, trapped without stimulus of any kind in the bowels of the server, I can't possibly imagine.
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Yeah, I'd take that to mean you would be unconscious.

In VR you don't need a body, because it's not your real body and your sight doesn't actually rely on you having eyes, it's just data streamed to the brain.

If no infomation is being transmitted to your mind, then how would you even know time has passed?

You probably can't be considered conscious.
 
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If no infomation is being transmitted to your mind, then how would you even know time has passed?
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"No information being transmitted" does not equate to no information being processed.

Have you ever drifted off to sleep, dreamt a dozen scenarios, went on a journey to save a kingdom, contemplated the meaning of life, and then abruptly woke up to find that no more than 5 minutes had passed?

At best, your mind adapts to save itself from the total sensory deprivation and makes you imagine instead that you are sensing something, maybe from your dreams. Something like phantom limb pains, only on all 5 senses.

Also, think of Inception: time move much much slower in your dream state. So if that 8-12 hours of flight time in the waking world lasted for 50 years in the dreamscape, how long would the dead players be dreaming until the game is cleared?

The worst scenario is "I have no mouth and I must scream". The victim's mind failed to adapt, and would be locked in an endless cycle of blank catatonia and gibbering, screaming insanity form the total lack of input.

If the victims do wake up again, scenario A would have them wake up as several hundred year old minds, totally disconnected from the world around them, still wondering if they are still dreaming.

Scenario B would have them scream their throats bleeding raw, claw their own eyeballs out, before (if they are lucky) expiring from an heart attack and/or similar deaths caused by extremely high stress.
 
I'll admit, I'd take following around unaware friends/random strangers as it would be better than total sensory deprivation. Could have privacy issues pop up, but I'd still take it for the fact I wouldn't go insane over it. It's a near-guarantee I would for TSD...as would most others.
 
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I'll admit, I'd take following around unaware friends/random strangers as it would be better than total sensory deprivation. Could have privacy issues pop up, but I'd still take it for the fact I wouldn't go insane over it. It's a near-guarantee I would for TSD...as would most others.
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What, like if you die in a videogame and you have to go into "spectator mode" until you can respawn?

that would actually be pretty funny.

you die, but instead of a horrible "and I must scream" fate, or just IRL death, you turn into a "ghost" and get to cycle though every single still living player to spy on.
 
Yep, that. Problems arise when you follow someone when they're changing. It'd be...awkward. Particularly if that LN scene about "maturity mode" or whatever is canon in this rewrite :)
 
Considering Kayaba wanted to punish all the players, it's likely the sensory deprivation route :(
 
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