you could call this the uncoloured cover page I guess...
Chapter 1:Relooking
Crow looked at what he was.2 years before,he had been happier than he thought was now possible.Back during R:2,the second version of the world,he had everything.That was before,then the game was ripped down,before he could solve "his" final mystery,and he was ledt lost in a sea of thought,alone and un noticed.
He opened his eyes.It was a strange sensation,one he had gotten used to,just floating though the air.That was all he could do,in an area like this,void of anything except a giant flower bulb,from a belladona,the "Naked lady" as it was called.
He had been sleeping for a long time,he knew that,and he knew he still had not woken up.
He looked towards the emptiness he was floating in.
"I'm here...for you..."he said to himself.
He had often came here in the past,just to think,but now he had a perpose here.
"I'll be back.."
Crow gated out.
Crow was a veteran player in the world,and Adept rouge of the "new world" as they called it now.It was called Multiweapon now,a class that could use many weapons,only with a handicap compared to those who use the real weapon as a main weapon.
This was "The new World" the third version of the popular online game,"The world" which had been the most popular online game for years.
This was an area in the game,an unrachable land,controlled by an AI or player who exists inside.
"I have to go now,goodbye."
Crow warped out of the area.
Warping is a term used to idebtify the movement from one area to another,usually from a server to an area,or vice versa.
He arriced in mac anu,a root town,also called a "Server".
From servers,people could use the chaos gate,a transportation device,to go to there servers,or to area's.The root town part also had guilds,shops,guild shops,quest shops,npc's,and other things related to the game.
He walked out into the street of mac anu,from the dome that the chaos gate was located in,he walked around,listening to the various conversations as he passed by.He was always looking for new characters,who needed help in the game,not that he 'helped" them in the conventional sense.
He looked up"Today is.."Crow muttered to himself"..the 2nd anniversary of this "new world"...and our 6th anniversary....."
He walked around more,and heard 2 characters talking.
"So,your looking for training items?Alright!!"Said one"By the way,what's your name?"
The other one,the one crow was looking at more intently,was a beast character,wolf design,with drk fur,and a patch of black hair on his chest,which was barly visable underneath his hoody looking shirt.
"My name.."He started"Is Loco!!!"
Thi is what I have so far.It will get more exciting eventually,and I'll be putting in pictures of things as I go along.
Tell me what you guys think.
By the way,There are obviosly going to be other characters,male and female,so if you like any certin pair,post it,and I'll try to tie it into the story,as long as it dosn't interfere with anything in the plot line
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I'm basing it on what has happened to crow in most of the RP's he's in.
The 'New World" thing was the name I've been planning for a while,but sense you used it,I'd decided to base it around your idea of twhat the world has become.
The character that was looking for training items was one named Loco,a beast character,and the player helping him was named Hizumi.
They had,at this point,gone into private chat,so crow couldn't hear them.
"Hmph"he said to himself,he let them talk for a moment,then changed his system quota to allow him to hear waht they were saying.
"Oh,I've go the perfect place!!!!"Hizumi said.
Crow looked back through the chat log,and saw they were talking about getting trinaing items for Loco.
"(This could work to my favor)"Thought crow"(I've got an enthousiastic one here.")
They had discussed an area word,and Loco and Hizumi took off towards the chaos gate.
"Well then...I'll go"thought Crow.
He went to the chaos gate,and warped to the area.
They had been avoiding almost no monsters,but crow never deft any data dormant,so as he wandered through the area,he looked for any creature that may have been there.
He found a neglected party of monsters,three goblin knights.
They saw his,and one lunged at him with a charged up attack.
He pulled his sythe out,and blocked,then put the sythe head to the ground.
The second and third goblin charged,and he cleft upwards through the first goblin as they advanced on him,cutting it in half throught the middel,from the bottom up,then,before the data could vanish,he used the momentum to swing around and cut the third one through the shield,then the arm,killing it.
the second one hit him,but did only 5 damage,then it quikly summoned another one to aid it in battle.
Crow cleft through it's head,then,as it rolled through the air,he threw the sythe to the ground,with the blade cutting into the ground,then he use it to get unough leverage to jump into the air.
As the fourth goblin appeared,he pulled a steam gun out from his back during mid jump,then shot aoart the monsters sheild as he came down,the used the blad part of it to cut it's head and left arm to shreds.
The battle was over.
He collected his weapons,and put them away,then continued along.
He did not encouter anything on the way to the gott statue,and found the two party members there.
There were many chest down there,and Loco was opening them one by one.
He lifted the lid of the last one,after looking at it for a second,then looked happy.
Crow out his back against a wall,out of site.People often took him more seriously if he seemed to just "Appear" around them.
"So,your looking for a training item?"Crow said
Loco and Hizumi spun around,suprised but what Crow could tell.
"Of course I want training items,but who are you?"Loco asked
"Don't worry about that."Crow said
He pulled out a pedant item,then tossed it to the ground betwwen him and loco.It landed with a cold clunking noise.
"This is called the wraith endant"Crow started"....a quest item of sorts,take it,and go to <Delta reciting remembering Carnival house>"
He kept talking,not allowing inturuptions from Loco or Hizumi
"you will find monsters there that resemble dopplegangers,with 9999 hp,if you kill them with this equipped,they can't do damage to you,and they will give high exp."He smiled,and thought again about himself
"You can have it if you want,but you can also throw it away."He muttered
I'll contact you again eventually,to check on you."
He logged out of the area,not letting any of them talk.
"He plans on starting a guild....I read that in his logs..hope it goes well for him...however wll the idea of a "trading" guild will go..oh well...TAN was succesful."
He thought about TAN for a second
"Well...they were succesful for a while anyway...."
He walked around mac anu,thinking.
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I'll be introducing a few female characters soon,just to bring up the mood.
The nice theing about this is,the more RP's I put Crow in,the more space I can fill with meaningless encounters and quests.
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He wandered around mac abu,waiting for a sign thatb his "Harvest" was ready.
For 2 years he had been trying to realize the connection between data in "The world" and human conciousness.
He had found out that many connections were present.
"I'm just going..to go over what I know..."He thought to himself.He often recalled what had happened to him,to remind himself of what he was doing.
"I know that loss of data due to irregullar power in the game can cause a sudden induction of a comatose stat,on the real player,and that data links itself to players,being as strong as the will that holds it...and that a human's concious mind can become stronger by consuming data,but that the strenth found this way was pron to fade away..but one kind of da-"He was cut off,as a character bumped into his.
"I'm sorry!!!!I didn't mean to do that!!!!"She yelled,as it was aparant from the voice that this was a girl.
Crow looked around,turning to face her.
"I apoligize!!"She said"My name is Deity."She was a quite unusual character.
She was smiling an almost real smile,as real as they get in online games,her blue eyes held no saddness,no fear,not even coution,just the desire to see as she should.
Her hair was Down to her neck in the back,barly going down to her shoulders at it's longest point,and the front had several bangs that came just aroun her eyes.
She had a very strande outfit as well,all blue,like her hair and eyes,with some bandages under her shirt,exposed through the crease in the front,with a large fan on her back,and two smaller one's on her right shoulder,and left backhand.
"You seemed like you were thinking deeply...I'm sorry.."She said.
"I know,I'll make it up to you!!!!!!Your profile says your name is Crow,so the crow,do you want to do seomthing?"She was obviously kind to a fault,and oblivious to the fact that she had been the only one that had falled down when they collided.
She got to her feet,and asked again"Well?Do you want to do something?"
Crow thought for a second."Yah"he said,looking away from her"This."
He gated out,then in,so that he reappeared at the chaos gate in mac anu.
"She was strange.."He thought to himself."Almost like I was..a long time ago....."
He decided to check up on those he had met.And he needed to check a lead for an area he was investigating.
" I think..I'll contact Loco again......."He readied an E-mail,then sent it.
Then warped to an area that had a lead on a creature that was called a "Data Bug".
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end of chapter 2.I'll be putting pictures up soon,as well as a cover for the story,which would be on it if it was an actual manga,or book.
I'm looking forward to checking the poll,and I'm open to critisizm.
Gimme your best.
What do you mean,"Something original".I was the one who thoguht of that stuff in the first place.plus everything I write for crow is canon to his character,so I have to do it in his story,as it willinvolve most of the charceters he's met,new ones and they will act roughly th same.
The story adds detail into personalitys,mosre exciting scenes(no more "He eaisly dealt with them")and once I get caught up to the RP's then I will begin to branch off and make it more interesting.
But I have to include that stuff in the meantime.
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Chapter 3:Returning
He went to an area,called <Delta retracing one's long path>,a level 74 area,with a desert terrain,with cliffs for walls.
The area had only one floor,being only a feild.
"Well....Alright then.."
He began walking throught the area,coming up to the first land mass,the first groove in the walls.
There were three Alche gaze knights there,each with a huge sword in one hand,and a harberd in the other.They looked like armoured holy eaters.
He drew his twin blades,the charge clarity,and waited.One of them charged an attack,then shot towards him.
He jumped into the air,and landed on the creatures sword,as it swung.He cleave the sword,knowing it counted as part of the creature,then jumped a second later as it swung it's halberd over top of the sword.
he lunged down again,striking it's head,stopping as he landed behind it,charged,then rushed right through it,causeing 5 strikes to hit it,dropping it entirly.
The other two both cast the same spell at the saem time,sending two huge boulders at him.He sheathed his blades,then drew in an ark,cutting the boulder as he did,his broadsword.
Then he rushed at the second on,crushed through the second boulder,amd used his momentum to slice the beast in half.
Then his attention turned to the last one,he drew out hissythe,and broke the monsters weapons,then cut it ff at the knees.It fell over dead.
He seathed his weapons,then continued on to the next area.
He stopped mid way.He remembered that he had once faught one of these creatures with a party,and almost died trying.
"That was..a long time ago....."He kept walking.
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I'll keep working on this chapter after.
Its Okay. What I meant by origanal is something new, not just what a character of yours did in a RP. Like what Crow did when he started the game or something.
Crow walked through to the third area.The second had nothing in it ecept for a lock that required a mini games to be played to open it,which was a simple matching game.
The thrid one was the second last,it was quite strange.the desert area turned into a beach area here,there was a blue circlular barrier in the middle of the area,with the flashing red word Battle area written across it.
This meant that a character or a party of characters were fighting a group of monsters,or other players.
Hw walked up to it,and entered.He already knew who was inside.
A female Harvest Cleric he had met long ago was inside,figthing a Organvas',which looked like a giant blue dragon,usually a boss monster.
He thought to himself.
He could use her assistance in his plans for Loco...
He saw that she was losing badly,even though he had given her one on the items that matched the one he gave to Loco.
He drew his steam gun.
The creature's right wing,which had a claw on it,came flying down at her,untill three shots broke the wing strait off the body.
He jumped on top of it's head,and into the air.
The cleric looked up,to see Crow helping her fight,and she thanked him once again.She had long admired players who helped others without reason,and Crow seemed to help all the players he could,especially by giving then items that helped them win much easier.
She had also admired crow especially,as how his fighting style was hs and his alone.
He was graceful,and easy to keep up with,but when against him,you ralized how hard it was to keep track of his movements,and how much power he had in his attacks.
She looked up to see that crow had alreadyblasted apart the creatures right arm,tail,and left hind leg,and that it was almost dead.
He took one final swipe with his steam gun,breaking the creature into the black smoke that monsters became when they died.
Crow looked over at her.
Her name was collection,a Harvest cleric he had saved from a small band of PK's a long time ago.He had also given her a pendant to help her.
She was dressed in mostly white,with a dress that went down to her middle lower leg area,with a split down each side.
She had green eyes,like crows,and very long black hair.
She was always telling Crow haw great he was when she was around him,as she had no real skill in the game and thought he was amazing,but he only found her annoying at best.But she was one of the only people he would talk to.
"Th-Thanks!!!!"She said,shocked that they would both meet in an area,as he usually called her when he wanted to meet her"You kow,that was amazing!!I've never seen anyone fight like you.You must have a gift."
He started talking"Listen,later I want to meet you in THe morrigue barrow wall,but you have to leave here right now."
She knew what that meant"You mean..your investigating something here?"She had been finding out everythinf she could about him for 3 strait months,and found out that he often followed leads to where a legendary creature called a"Data Bug" was rumoured to be.
She figured it was some kind of powerful hidden event monster.
"Forget about it."He said,putting away his gun.
I'll meet you later,no more questions until then."
"Alright."She said"I'll meet you later."Whe warped out.She never tried to argue with people she respected.She wanted to make the best immpresion she could after all,she didn't have anyone else on the outside of the game.
Crow looked ahead,after watching the blue circles surround and warp out Collection,he turned his attention to the next segment of the area.
The area type was changed,and a boss monster appeared out of place,which were signs of data corruption.which meant one thing odf meany could have happened. The area gliched,causeing a backup file from another field to fill the data gap,the designsers tried to unseccesfully delete that area,which was almost a never failing process,or the most likly thing.
A monster was overriding game code,absorbing and mutating the surrounding data.A monster known as a "Data Bug"
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Once again,I'll say that the chapet is not done yet,and I will finish it soon enough.
If I get into it,we may have a very long battle coming up here.
I'm nowhere near a scanner,so the pictures still have to come,but be patient(not that anyone's really waiting for them)
your gonna be waiting a LONG time if you mean the end of the entire series.
I'm planning on priting this off and making it into a book,so it ain't gonna be short.
Cuto's on your patience though.
Crow walked through the final gate.He walked through with his eyes closed,just lestening to what was around him.
He heard his footsteps,rustling in the sand,change to the clunk of walking on top of metal.
He heard the roaring of the ocean turn into hollow silence.
He heard the lack of life turn into a single dis-jointed growl.
He looked up,and opened his eyes.
A creature was in front of his,that looked like a chimera,but with each of the front legs ending with a dragins head instead of feet,and 3 tails,each one a different coloured snake.
The head that chould had been that of a lion was narrowed,and covered in scale,with two huge teeth on it's upper mouth.
The creature was covered in green patch's,each of which has a hole where the texture data should have been in the middle.
One of these patchs had already destroyed the goats head,leaving only hafl of it left.
This was normailly called a
charvanion,bt that name was lost,as this creature was now past the systems peramitres.The cratures new name,was "data bug".
He drew his twin blades,knowing he would have to be fast,as this creature could attack quikly with one of the total of 8 heads it had.He lunged,just noticing the area he was in.
It was a distorted mechanics shop,wide open,with metallic walls,although the appearent identical data rip opened holes in it.
There where also peices of metal simple floating in the air,and a balcony the size of half an arena above.
He flew at the crature,junping in front of it,and as it's three main heads crashed down on the grond,he lunged up,just out of reach,striking the main head as he went.He flew upwards,as the cloud of dust the creatures strikle had kicked up vanished,the saw an oncoming wing flying at him,from the creature,with 3 hooked claws on it's end.He blocked them with one of his blades,then swirled around,to land on the flip side,then dug his other blade into it's wing,so that he could stand on the vertical angle the wing made.
The crature flew into the air,with him attatched,and the data on the wing began to phase,so Crow jumped upward again,as the data on the wing exploded,deleting all the metal fragments around it,then reformed,completly undamaged.
"Dam..this one's advanced....It can Writhe..."
Writhe was the name crow gave to the ability to detonate,destroying eveything arounf it,then reform.
The blast didn't actually delete data,but instead gave that appearance,while it really absorbed whatever the blast touched.
Crow landed on one of the floating metal shards.Being close was to dangerous now,so he put away his twin blades,then eqquiped his steam gun.
He shot several blasts at the creature,which was now soaring towards him.
The blasts made contact,but dissolved several inches from the haggered texture of the monster's skin.
He braced himself,chargeing an attack,then at the creature was close to himhe shot it.The blast did no damage to this creature theat had infinit hit points,but it altered it's caurse to the left slightly.
As it passed by him,crow ripped the side of the monster open with his weapon's blade.
The data bug let out a huge scream,from it's main head.
Crow braced,knowing what that meant.
It turned towards him,and a light og golden white charged in from of it,then fired into beams of data,firing in every direction.They mostly misfires,hitting walls and flying metal,causeing the area to invert for a second,but dozens flew at Crow.
He put his gun away,then leapt onto the dull side of one of the beams,avoiding it's tip,then ran along it headiong for the monster.
The remaining beams tried to hit him as he sped along the beam,but he would jump to another each time one struck,and he was eventually within 10 feet of the creature.
He jumped along the data blade,and began drawing his sythe.
As he was close enough,he used the momentum from the action of drawing his sythe to cut through the entire crature,temporarily slicing it in half.He was on the other side of it,soaring through the air,as he loked back.
He saw a shining light inside the goats head,before the creature restored,but it was to late by this point,as the creature was at his mercy.
This is waht Crow lived for,this was his reason to play the game.He got no enjoyment out of it,not even satisfaction.He didn't care that he had unique skils,or that the games arena's player paled in comparison to him.
He didn't care about stealing life from the creature,he didn't care that by attaching his name to countless rumours about him,he could become a legend in an instant.
He was what he was,that's all there was to it.He was Azure Crow,the Grace of Life,This is what he did.Without question.
He put his sythe away,still flying through the ait,then held his right arm at the shoulder.
What seemed like peices of a data cannon formed on his arm,first at the wrist in on type,the forearm in another,then the elbow and upper arm in a third sytle of data.
He landed on the yip of the balcony,and prepared to act.THe creatures data source had mixed with a virus,and was distorting the monster.The data sourse was located in the goats head,which is all he had fought it tho know.
He aimed the cannon,which was like the extention of a braclet he wore,and a light charged at the cnter of it,just outwards of hs his hand.
It fired,in eight arks of light,crushing through the monsters goat head,and it fell to the floor.
The data around it begane to close in,began to become thinker,as it stood up,and tried to register the situation.
Crow could hear his heart beating as he wathced the creature panic,as if his heart was one with "the world".
The monster cumbled away,and the dust it became turned onto pure un restricted data.
It colected at his hand,and vanished,along with the "braclet" that had formed.The sata patched began to repair,the area returned to the fourth room in a desert terrain,instead of the last room of a mechanical dungeon,and the warp pony formed in the far corner.
There were more rooms,but he wouldn't bother with them.
He looked over,towards the warp pont,which was usually used to warp out of dungeons.He didn't need it.He gated out.
He arrived back at mac anu.
He thought for a second,then wrote a message to Loco.Before he was done,he remebered his plan for collection.
"Right..."he thought"I have to meet her."His arm was throbbing,as he held it,the throbbing turned into fiery pain,but soon subsided.
He prepared to Warp to morriguw Barrow,and lost land,which even Admins couldn't touch without hacking first.
He sent the E-mail to Loco.
To:Loco
Sender:Crow
Subject:Fame or power
Body:I wonder,do you want power,or fame?
If it's power,continue using that item I game you against players and monsters,or,for fame,go to the quest shop,look for an event called"Revival of life"
At your level,completing it would be a topic of discusion on the boards.
It involves a small tournament of players,6 rounds,with the winner fighting a creature called neversense.
use the item I gave you,and the players won't touch you,so beat them,them beat the creature.
It relies heavily on magical attack,and poison,so bring wizard seals.
Also,I'll send a harvest cleric named collection with you,for healing.
good luck either way,you can meet collection at the mission shop,she will ALWAYS be waiting there.
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Done of Chapter 3,although I need to edit one more thing in.
Tell me what you think.
I edited it in,nevermind.
I still want to hear what you all say though.
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Crow warped to the morrigue barrow wall.
The area was a huge wall,with a ragged shaped scar on it's brick and stone like surface,and a vally was located below the cliff he was standing on.
He knew these scars had once made quiet a commotion in the world,as a "Legendary PK" named tri edge had once been thought to have carved them into the very data of the world R:2.Some of them apparantly remained in the world,even after it's upgrade.
Of course,the rumours were falsified in a way,but that didn't concern him,or that was to say,he didn't bother with what had come to be known as the epitaph incedend,or more famously,the epitaph legends.
The vally had also once held a full body of water,until a giant four eyed beast laid dormant in it.
This didn't matter anymore though.
He looked towards the wall.There was several ruins of old walls near it,and collection was leaning against one of them.
She had been looking at the wall,with her arms crossed,weapon sheathed,not that that suprised him.
"Collection,turn around."He said,and supposed he may have said it to suddenly,as she almost fell over in suprise as she did.
"C-Crow...?Your here!!!"She yelled,and ran right up to him,almost getting right in his face"I was waiting for you!!!So,how was that dungeon?Did you have fun?"She had here hands behind her back,and moved her face even closer to his.
"I didn't finish it."Crow said,he had mastered the art of lying and not lying at the same time long ago"Listen,I have a favor to ask."
She reached over,brushing the hair out of his face with her hand."This guy needs to keep the hair out of his eyes...I wouldn't have to get so close to see his face otherwise...."she noticed that his left eye was almost always covered by his hair.As she did this,she wondered what he must have been thinking,he always just stood there and let her do this.
"Anyway.."He said suddenly"I have an aquantance named Loco,who I just gave one of the pendants.I told him to compete in a quest that would be way to strong for him normally,so would you please go to the quest shop?
I would like you to stay with him through until the last battle of the quest."
She thought for a second.She always found it so hard to open up to strangers,and always treated them like they were dirt..she supposed this was because of how she was treated by people,but that was something she would think about another time.
"Ummm.."She said,trying to make Crow think she wouldn't do it,as she LOVED to make him worry"....Ok,I'll do it!!!
I'll help your friend!"
She walked towards the warp point,accidentally brushing against the cape he wore around his left arm all the time,and wondered if he noticed.
She warped out,and went to the quest shop.
Crow looked at the wall for a second.He remembered this place too.He remembered his guild had once liked to come here alot.He pushed all but one of his memories back,the one he would never be able to erase.
"I...I..."
His head started throbbing.He fell to his knees,as he listened to his head pulse with what seemed like it's own heartbeat.
Images of an adept rouge and harvest Cleric flooded his head,along with images of a steam gunner,with a huge canon on his left arm,and a three eyed creature rushing towards him.Then he whited out for a second,falling to the grass at his feet.The last thought he had was of a young blue eyed edge punisher.....
"What was her name again..?"He asked himself"..right..It was Deity......"
He woke up,still on the ground there,with a familiar smile staring at him,although his eyes were blurry.He didn't have the energy to look up past the chin of the person who was kneeling down beside him,and he whited out again soon after.
When he regained conciousness again for the second time,he was leaning agains the ruin wall,saitting with one leg planeted on the ground,and the others outstreched.
He looked up,and as he did he noticed the IN-game clock show that over an hour had passed sense he was out.He looked beside him.Deity was lying against the wall beside him,leanig in his direction,his her eyes closed,breathing lightly.
A series of healing items lying at her feet.
"This girl..she put me here...against the wall...I wonder why she was here...."His mind was back in order now"When that happens...my HP always goes down to zero....and it happens over the course of 5 minutes for half an hour...this girl must have wasted a small fourtune on healing items to save me...I wonder why she..."Deity character feell over,her head landed o his shoulder.The motion ahppeing to the character wouldn't have wokn up the player at the control unless they could feel the games movement,which they couldn't.
He still couldn't move,and he could feel the warmth of her hair against his shoulder.
"I guess..I'm going to be like this for a while...."
He relaxed,as he wathced her rest.Don't worry,I won't let anyting bad happen to you.....not while your rsting like this..."
I'm not sure if I'm goin to break off the chapter here to start the new one,or continue getting to know Deity a bit better in this chapter or the next....
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