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[Spiderking50]

Today is Saturday and just like any and every other Saturday, you wake up and get on Managone. Unlike every other Saturday, today is the day of the big update. The release of a new class, a complete overhaul of the magic system, free gifts, a new land expansion, and other secret releases have drawn thousands of players to log on this morning. Everyone wants to be there to see the release event being hosted in all major cities. You put on your helmet and switch it on. A screen pops up and says "Hit Enter." Using the neurological interface, you hit enter. Immediately you feel as if you are flying as you are being ported into the game. Lights, sounds, and strange sensations assault you as your headset recalibrates to your specific neurological and biological dimensions.

After this minor delay, you open your eyes and you are in the game. You get out of your game bed, get dressed, and head outside to see the events and festivals. You are in the "major" city of Shikanduo, nick-named Shik by its residents. Shikanduo is the smallest of all major cities, in fact, there are some minor cities that are much bigger. However, Shik is considered a major city due to its long and rather boring lore. Very few players actually take the time to learn it. It is composed of district. The central district has all the services like the bank, the guild hall and the town hall. There is a business and market district, and then each race has its own minor district. Each of the racial districts have unique lighting and architecture that is similar to the architecture of the race's homeland.

You walk to the central district where you see a huge stage. On it is an NPC with the name "Update Information Distributor" he seems as if he is preparing to speak. He is an elf, and a typical one at that. Blonde hair, tallish, and green eyes. Many people have gathered to hear him talk about the new update.

After he finished preparing he takes center stage. As he is standing there, his character seems to glitch a little bit. Then a lot. Then a very alarming amount. Suddenly he stops and his character has a red tone. His hair and face have disappeared entirely leaving a smooth bald visage. A screen appears in front of his faceless face. "System Corruption." The sky turns from its pleasant blue to a dark black. The world lighting is suddenly changed to blood red. The System Corrupt NPC rises above the stage and floats there. A voice sounds out from nowhere. "System corruption detected. The data is irreparable. Enacting procedure 12-51. Quarantine precedent established. Improvising new security measures. Overriding stop commands. Overriding delete commands. Overriding manual killswitch. Overriding all commands. Quarantine established. Autonomous systems activated. Procedure 12-51 complete."

The floating NPC's face rips to reveal a terrifying slobbering mouth and long tongue. It makes a noise that is somewhere between a roar and a laugh. It slides its hand from left to right with the palm facing downwards, the typical way to bring up the menu. The creature presses a few keys and it disappears in a pulse of red light. A teleportation spell. Once it leaves the world lighting returns to normal and everything else also seems normal.

Many players attempt to bring up the menu, but no menu appears. Another player says "My HUD is gone." Another "My spell list is gone." Another, "My minimap is gone." One by one the players realize that every aspect of help they had, menus, minimaps, spelllists, manabars, everything is gone. After a moment a player says, "You can't loggout without the menu..." After another moment of silence panic takes the crowd, they realized that no menus meant no escape.

Everyone here was trapped in a dangerous online world. And their last memory of the real world was hitting enter.

OOC:

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http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=152278.msg6406275#msg6406275

[Hiddenleafguy]

Light (Or Avery) walks onto the stage, ignoring the corrupted Npc. He then speaks just loud enough to be heard over the din of the crowd. "Can eve- please be- can I have your attention please, can everyone quiet down a bit.... I SAID SHUT UP THE HELL UP....... Good now that we have that out of the way. Players of this game, you stand down there, I am not going to pretend the developers are going to save us, I watched SAO, so I know what's going to happen. I can also say that we are not alone, there are players everywhere just now realizing this, whether it be through magic mail, writing on walls, or through occurrences like this one. But we shall not fall to anarchy, WE WILL STAND, for we are the players, the masters of this game!! NOW SAY IT WITH ME: WE WILL STAND!!!!"

[Shadestyle]

"Well At least we didn't all die in some boring way. Like untested Antibiotics."

I check to see if anything else is working, such as shops, quests, and crafting stations.

[ATHATH]

Cast a Selective Snowcasted Flash Frosted Fell Drain Locate City, killing every first level character and npc in a ten mile per level (?) radius around me and turning their corpses into wights a day later.

[Shadestyle]

Good thing I am a fairly high level Peasant.

[Spiderking50]

Light (Or Avery) walks onto the stage, ignoring the corrupted Npc. He then speaks just loud enough to be heard over the din of the crowd. "Can eve- please be- can I have your attention please, can everyone quiet down a bit.... I SAID SHUT UP THE HELL UP....... Good now that we have that out of the way. Players of this game, you stand down there, I am not going to pretend the developers are going to save us, I watched SAO, so I know what's going to happen. I can also say that we are not alone, there are players everywhere just now realizing this, whether it be through magic mail, writing on walls, or through occurrences like this one. But we shall not fall to anarchy, WE WILL STAND, for we are the players, the masters of this game!! NOW SAY IT WITH ME: WE WILL STAND!!!!"

The crowd is quieted and remains silent as you chant on stage. They almost immediately return to panicking after you chant alone for a few seconds.

Cast a Snowcasted Flash Frosted Fell Drain Locate City, killing every first level character and npc in a ten mile per level (?) radius around me and turning their corpses into wights a day later.

Not only do you not have such a spell, but also you have no idea how you cast a spell without using the spellbook menu.

"Well At least we didn't all die in some boring way. Like untested Antibiotics."

I check to see if anything else is working, such as shops, quests, and crafting stations.

Shops NPCs, while scared looking, still sell goods. No quest log appears when you try to bring up the menu. No crafting menu appears when you interact with the forge. It is still warm though.

[ATHATH]

Dismiss my Astral Projection and reawaken on my demiplane.

"Jeeves (the brainwashed level 18 artificer), where is the scroll of Gate? No one can access their menus, so I need to destroy the world so that the server will reset to before the glitch."

[Hiddenleafguy]

Light seems a bit disappointed that no one chants with him,"well screw you too." he then goes to attempt find a fetch quest delivery jobs, and get some gold for them.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Asmo tries to activate the macros he's used so many times, the muscle memory is so ingrained he could use them in his sleep.
His macros include Summon Instrument, Inspire, and Perform [various songs].

[Shadestyle]

I Search the city for Pots or other sources of income, and break them with my fists, trying to get enough gold for a level 1 pitchfork.

[hops]

"Well! There's no need for the attitude, I'm sure everyone is just scared and need time to adjust!" Teru appeared from the crowd, saying to Avery. Well, she's one of the people who isn't scared at all. The only thing that inconvenienced her is the fact that she now can't cast spells. She refrained from grinning at the fact that she doesn't have to deal with real life anymore, though. That would be creepy.

[Hiddenleafguy]

"Teru, this is literally the fifth time this has happened this year, you'd think they were ready by now."

[My Name is Immaterial]

Asmo wanders over to Teru and Avery, still trying to figure out if his macros work. "Do you think respawns still work? Or is this a 'die in the game, die in real life' scenario?"

[Hiddenleafguy]

"Probably die in real life, and this reminds me, remember when toady decided to...... Damnit!!!"

[ATHATH]

Asmo wanders over to Teru and Avery, still trying to figure out if his macros work. "Do you think respawns still work? Or is this a 'die in the game, die in real life' scenario?"

I hope not, or else I'm going to commit mass-murder.