Welcome to SAO - Canon Start

[dual_wield_hax]

A forum? On SAO?

[This was the first Kirito had heard of this function as he scrolled along the menu, his finger using it like a touch screen as he continued to scroll along it. His brow furrowed at the sight of some of the messages, since they didn't seem to be game related.

A screen popped up with the message: Do you want to connect to the Community? Yes/No.

Pressing Yes, Kirito found himself looking at a video screen and he gasped.] A link... to the outside world?

[Scrolling rapidly, he started to write a message.]

[Text]

If anyone is reading this, this is a player in Sword Art Online, my online handle is Kirito. Please help us, we're stuck in this death game, and people are already dying. Please, if there's way to disconnect us safely, please notify the authorities. I repeat, this is Kazuto Kirigaya, character name Kirito in SAO.

Comments

[brigading]

Is Sword Art Online some kind of weird MMO?

( PRIORITIES.... )

[dual_wield_hax]

Huh? Yeah, it's the first Virtual Reality MMO.

[brigading]

Virtual reality? As in you can actually jump into the game and stuff like that?

[dual_wield_hax]

Yeah, you use a device called a NerveGear to fully dive into the game. Your own reflexes count towards the method of playing the game.

[Sort of a little sullen at that. Since he was sporting his own face in-game now. Even if Klein said he looked 'cute'.]

[heavenlyhome]

Welcome to the community, Kazuto-san. I'm sorry that you're involved in such a thing. I'm sure that there is something that we can do for you.

[dual_wield_hax]

Thank you, but unless you know how to get me and over 10,000 people out of a game, I don't think there's much that can be done.

[heavenlyhome]

[Goodness, that was more than she'd expected.]

Oh, my. I'm sorry. We'll certainly help in any way we can.

[dual_wield_hax]

Well thanks I guess. And uh, call me Kirito. I feel weird not using my online handle.

[oceanicbreak]

A death game? What's going on?

[dual_wield_hax]

It's a bit of a story, but basically 10,000 people logged into a VR MMO, Sword Art Online three days ago, and now no one can log out anymore. Respawn is off, and if we die, a strong pulse is sent to our nerve gear, and people die.

[oceanicbreak]

How could anyone do that?

[dual_wield_hax]

I don't know his reasons, that man who made the game. I'm hoping someone finds him in our world, before any more deaths happen. Too many people are dying every day.

[fairyofwind]

Wait, what? Dying?

[dual_wield_hax]

Dying. [he had come to realize not many people on this place so far seemed to know about SAO.] I'm trapped in a game where if you die, you die for real.

[fairyofwind]

But...how did that happen?

[dual_wield_hax]

On launch day, 10,000 users logged into a game using a device called a nerve gear. The game, Sword Art Online was meant to revolutionize video games and Virtual Reality. However, we soon discovered the Logout button was missing from our menus, and the creator explained that in no uncertain terms that this had become a death game.

[lookstairs]

I really don't think the police would care too much about characters dying in video games...

[dual_wield_hax]

You obviously don't know about SAO then. If we die, we die for real, in life.

[lookstairs]

And...how exactly does that work?

text;

[entreats]

... How are we supposed to know how to disconnect you? You're connected to other worlds like this, you know.

[ might as well deliver the news.. ]

Re: text;

[dual_wield_hax]

I'm finding this out rapidly. But if someone could get a message to the authorities in my world, well... but disconnecting myself doesn't take priority over the others.

[entreats]

I'm sure someone is already on it. [ She's not in the position to do so, either way, and she wouldn't be first in line.. although she would help eventually, just not as the first to hop in. ]

Do you really think it'll help though?

[video]

[scanningutterly]

"Death game?"

Re: [video]

[dual_wield_hax]

[Kirito was getting a little tired of explaining it but he continued.] Yeah. In 2023, my time, the first VR MMO was created, Sword Art Online. However, it's trapped 10,000 people in it, and we need to clear it to escape the game. Respawn is off, and if we die, the NerveGear will send a pulse to kill us.

[video]

[scanningutterly]

What the hell kind of gear are you using?