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4 years ago
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Featured Characters
- Addo
- - - R1: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41498506/
- - - R2/X:
- - - Force Era:
- Skeith
- - - R1: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41498410/
- - - R1:
- - - R2/X:
- - - Force Era:
- Mikey
- - - R1: solo image in progress, for now: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41431382/ [right]
- - - R2/X:
- - - Force Era:
Additional Art
Addo & Mikey R:1 https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41431382/
Merrows https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41603124/
Timeline & Plot points
2007
- The World R:1 is released.
- Addo is 17, Mikey is 18. Both are in their senior year of high school. Skeith is 14, in his junior year of high school.
- Addo and Mikey begin playing R1. Both are avid players, quickly achieving max level and duo-ing through many top-tier dungeons and events. They both play the game in an RP style, acting out their respective characters whenever they are online. Addo portrays himself as a lax, but devout priest of Merrows, the setting's water god. Mikey plays the role of a legendary hunter and noble thief, styled off the character of Robin Hood.
2008
- Skeith begins to play R1 as a casual player.
- Addo and Mikey graduate and get an apartment together. Both work the same shifts at a local plaza. Addo works at a bookstore/cafe and Mikey works at a gym. They live local enough that they walk to and from work, and often are able to have lunch together in the plaza courtyard. They game away in R:1 most nights, and grow to become renowned with their characters within small communities in the game. Still, they lack the global fame of other prominent R:1 figureheads.
2012
- Addo and Mikey meet Skeith in a dungeon raid in R:1. They have great synergy in combat and great chemistry in personality, and two take Skeith under their wing. The trio becomes fast friends, and begin to frequently party together.
2013
- Skeith graduates and moves into the local area. He finds a job at the same plaza at a pizza shop, and aligns his schedule to hang out with Addo and Mikey. Eventually he begins to chill at their apartment and the trio game together in person most nights.
2014
- Incident. While gaming one night at the apartment, the trio respond to a series of rumors and distress messages on the BBS. They begin investigating sightings of supposed anomalous monsters. Believing these anomalies to be an event, they seek to defeat one of these "unbeatable monsters" and make legends of themselves, like the Descendants of Fianna. Their search leads to an encounter with a cluster of twilight vagrants.
The fight is a struggle. Eventually one of the monsters launches a lethal strike at Addo. Mikey intercepts the attack, body blocking and taking the blow himself. As he is suspended in paralysis from the ensuing data drain, he is struck by a second and then third twilight vagrant data drain.
Mikey's real world body collapses beside Addo and Skeith. Skeith quickly force-logouts. Addo drops his gear to check on Mikey, inadvertently and narrowly avoiding being data drained himself (though his character is struck while he is AFK - now reformatted and reduced to level 1).
- Mikey is hospitalized and remains comatose.
- Skeith continues to play with Addo and he re-levels as they continue investigating the anomalies, hoping to find a way to put an end to them before anyone else becomes a victim as Mikey had. They learn briefly of the dot hackers and their triumphs, however, Mikey still has not awoken.
2015
- Mikey's parents discontinue life support.
(Mikey is unable to awaken as other coma victims have; the multiple simultaneous data drains had fragmented his mind too severely.)
- Addo falls into a deep depression.
- Skeith moves into the apartment and takes care of Addo. Over the year, Skeith slowly eases him out of the depression. Slowly, he returns Addo into a gaming lifestyle, helping him become gradually more social, less reclusive again, return to work, and begin taking care of himself once more.
- R:1 ends.
- R:2 is released.
- Addo and Skeith both join R:2
2016
- Addo becomes the target of an inquisitive AIDA, drawn to him by his buried sorrow. It bubbles around Addo, often probing his memories. The AIDA takes the form of R:1's water god, Merrows. Addo thinks of the AIDA as a glitched event, because the old gods are no longer included in R:2.
- As the AIDA learns more about Addo, it becomes more and more attached to him. It finds that, through its network with the AIDA wave, it is able to locate fragmented remnants of a mind program from Mikey, and then incorporates them into itself. It fills in gaps, embodying Mikey to the best of its ability based on the retrieved data and it's surveillance of Addo's memory.
- Addo and Skeith learn about the AIDA infection through other reports on the BBS.
- Addo begins to truly shine once more.
- AIDA-Mikey infects both Addo's phone and his server robot.
- Addo and Skeith both create their own respective and allied guilds.
- Addo creates the PillowFort@Home, and holds open recruitment, drawing in casual players. His .@Home becomes a lowkey hangout where guild members chill and relax, helping each other with item trades and quests, but never really worrying about anything too intensive. The guild largely lacks a primary focus (which is part of the point of the guild) and members can come and go freely. A small few members remain in the guild for any real longevity.
- Skeith creates the MoonGuard@Home, a group founded for cooperative loot-hunting. The MoonGuard similarly holds open recruitment, but their ambitious drive breeds strong members, and over the course of the year they become a formidable and renowned guild with many allies.
2017
- Addo modifies his server robot's casing to match the aesthetics of Merrows.
- Addo and Skeith become high ranking combatants in the R:2 Arena. While they never take the Emperor title, they nearly always rank highly and become famed as skilled participants in their own right.
2018
- Addo and Skeith are married.
- R:2 ends
2020
- R:X is released
- Addo and Skeith begin playing R:X
2020
- R:X ends
2024
- Force Era is released
- Addo and Skeith begin playing Force Era
2030
- Force Era ends
- Armed Conflict is released
- Addo and Skeith begin playing Armed Conflict
Full Image Gallery: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....9332/Dot-Hack/
Featured Characters
- Addo
- - - R1: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41498506/
- - - R2/X:
- - - Force Era:
- Skeith
- - - R1: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41498410/
- - - R1:
- - - R2/X:
- - - Force Era:
- Mikey
- - - R1: solo image in progress, for now: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41431382/ [right]
- - - R2/X:
- - - Force Era:
Additional Art
Addo & Mikey R:1 https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41431382/
Merrows https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41603124/
Timeline & Plot points
2007
- The World R:1 is released.
- Addo is 17, Mikey is 18. Both are in their senior year of high school. Skeith is 14, in his junior year of high school.
- Addo and Mikey begin playing R1. Both are avid players, quickly achieving max level and duo-ing through many top-tier dungeons and events. They both play the game in an RP style, acting out their respective characters whenever they are online. Addo portrays himself as a lax, but devout priest of Merrows, the setting's water god. Mikey plays the role of a legendary hunter and noble thief, styled off the character of Robin Hood.
2008
- Skeith begins to play R1 as a casual player.
- Addo and Mikey graduate and get an apartment together. Both work the same shifts at a local plaza. Addo works at a bookstore/cafe and Mikey works at a gym. They live local enough that they walk to and from work, and often are able to have lunch together in the plaza courtyard. They game away in R:1 most nights, and grow to become renowned with their characters within small communities in the game. Still, they lack the global fame of other prominent R:1 figureheads.
2012
- Addo and Mikey meet Skeith in a dungeon raid in R:1. They have great synergy in combat and great chemistry in personality, and two take Skeith under their wing. The trio becomes fast friends, and begin to frequently party together.
2013
- Skeith graduates and moves into the local area. He finds a job at the same plaza at a pizza shop, and aligns his schedule to hang out with Addo and Mikey. Eventually he begins to chill at their apartment and the trio game together in person most nights.
2014
- Incident. While gaming one night at the apartment, the trio respond to a series of rumors and distress messages on the BBS. They begin investigating sightings of supposed anomalous monsters. Believing these anomalies to be an event, they seek to defeat one of these "unbeatable monsters" and make legends of themselves, like the Descendants of Fianna. Their search leads to an encounter with a cluster of twilight vagrants.
The fight is a struggle. Eventually one of the monsters launches a lethal strike at Addo. Mikey intercepts the attack, body blocking and taking the blow himself. As he is suspended in paralysis from the ensuing data drain, he is struck by a second and then third twilight vagrant data drain.
Mikey's real world body collapses beside Addo and Skeith. Skeith quickly force-logouts. Addo drops his gear to check on Mikey, inadvertently and narrowly avoiding being data drained himself (though his character is struck while he is AFK - now reformatted and reduced to level 1).
- Mikey is hospitalized and remains comatose.
- Skeith continues to play with Addo and he re-levels as they continue investigating the anomalies, hoping to find a way to put an end to them before anyone else becomes a victim as Mikey had. They learn briefly of the dot hackers and their triumphs, however, Mikey still has not awoken.
2015
- Mikey's parents discontinue life support.
(Mikey is unable to awaken as other coma victims have; the multiple simultaneous data drains had fragmented his mind too severely.)
- Addo falls into a deep depression.
- Skeith moves into the apartment and takes care of Addo. Over the year, Skeith slowly eases him out of the depression. Slowly, he returns Addo into a gaming lifestyle, helping him become gradually more social, less reclusive again, return to work, and begin taking care of himself once more.
- R:1 ends.
- R:2 is released.
- Addo and Skeith both join R:2
2016
- Addo becomes the target of an inquisitive AIDA, drawn to him by his buried sorrow. It bubbles around Addo, often probing his memories. The AIDA takes the form of R:1's water god, Merrows. Addo thinks of the AIDA as a glitched event, because the old gods are no longer included in R:2.
- As the AIDA learns more about Addo, it becomes more and more attached to him. It finds that, through its network with the AIDA wave, it is able to locate fragmented remnants of a mind program from Mikey, and then incorporates them into itself. It fills in gaps, embodying Mikey to the best of its ability based on the retrieved data and it's surveillance of Addo's memory.
- Addo and Skeith learn about the AIDA infection through other reports on the BBS.
- Addo begins to truly shine once more.
- AIDA-Mikey infects both Addo's phone and his server robot.
- Addo and Skeith both create their own respective and allied guilds.
- Addo creates the PillowFort@Home, and holds open recruitment, drawing in casual players. His .@Home becomes a lowkey hangout where guild members chill and relax, helping each other with item trades and quests, but never really worrying about anything too intensive. The guild largely lacks a primary focus (which is part of the point of the guild) and members can come and go freely. A small few members remain in the guild for any real longevity.
- Skeith creates the MoonGuard@Home, a group founded for cooperative loot-hunting. The MoonGuard similarly holds open recruitment, but their ambitious drive breeds strong members, and over the course of the year they become a formidable and renowned guild with many allies.
2017
- Addo modifies his server robot's casing to match the aesthetics of Merrows.
- Addo and Skeith become high ranking combatants in the R:2 Arena. While they never take the Emperor title, they nearly always rank highly and become famed as skilled participants in their own right.
2018
- Addo and Skeith are married.
- R:2 ends
2020
- R:X is released
- Addo and Skeith begin playing R:X
2020
- R:X ends
2024
- Force Era is released
- Addo and Skeith begin playing Force Era
2030
- Force Era ends
- Armed Conflict is released
- Addo and Skeith begin playing Armed Conflict
Full Image Gallery: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....9332/Dot-Hack/
I'm still in limbo with this project. Waiting to see what becomes of it. At the moment, I have a lot of different plot points that would occur along the timeline, but the meat of the story hasn't been created yet. Might write some narratives, or play through some RP, or a mix of both. We'll see
Either way, I'm hoping to do more illustrations in the setting ^w^