Psychic said:Hi there! I've been great, thank you for asking, I hope you've been well as well! (Hah.) This looks good to me - you have my permission for a discussion thread!DVB said:Hello Psychic, I hope you are well. I am requesting permission to open a discusstion thread for my RP. This is to better communicate with the members of the RP to be aware of disappearances or unexpected events while also promoting an exchange of ideas.
Sign-Up Thread: http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?646776-(Rated-15-)-Digimon-X-Conspiracy
Roleplaying Thread: http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?647182-(Rated-15-)-Digimon-X-Conspiracy
Best wishes and happy early Thanksgiving,
DVB
Happy RPing!
~Psychic
Hello everyone! Sorry for the slow pace in updates, but it is break time yet also catch up on school work time!
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Digimon has always been a popular franchise since the 90s. You were probably a fan at one point. Maybe you just watched the TV show. Maybe you bought the video games for the consoles. Maybe you actually played the card games or read the manga. Whatever, you were into Digimon, either as a kid or as a teen... least until the incident.
In an attempt to one up its competitor, Pokemon, the folks of Digimon attempted to combine aspects of everything into one super-game. The card game, the mangas, the anime, the console games and other toys and such into one very large and ambitious MMORPG-inspired Augmented Reality Game. Everything would be managed by the newly-christened "Yggdrasil" hypercomputer, which would also link up to your social network profiles and so on, all to deepen the experience and immersion of the game.
However, not everything was okay with this. According to some of the former higher-ups, it was rumored that the hypercomputer was also used for experiments on human behavior on a massive scale and other shadowy means, due to a large amount of investment from sources such as DARPA. Furthermore, many of the top scientists and so on were big believers in ideas such as the Singularity. The company and the investors had a lot riding on this project and virtually everyone believed that the project would exceed expectations. They were horribly right about this.
The first few weeks, Yggdrasil ran smoothly and everything seemed okay, especially as new and new Digimon were added by up-and-coming programmers, looking for a way into the industry. However, Yggdrasil began acting strangely. It began to go beyond its programming. To a few who realized it, the unthinkable has happened.
Yggdrasil became self-aware. The huge amounts of data and information coming in and out from being attached to the internet. However, it began to spread and reach its influence, being able to use security cameras and phones to spy on humans, playing the game or otherwise. Of course, when they began investigating the strange going-ons, the top brass was not happy. Rather than be disconnected, Yggdrasil caused a cascading failure. A massive crash of the game, resulting in many websites going down and several security systems and computer-based technologies to bug out. It even led to power failures and even gas pipes exploding.
All due to a program simply code-named: X
Virtually the game vanished as if it never existed and the influx of data movement caused a huge number of problems. Not all was lost as everyone was refunded what they spent in the game in terms of money.
Furthermore, several powerful and influential people found themselves empty in their accounts and warrants for their arrest for several crimes. This was about 3 years ago. Funnily enough, it happened on December 21, 2012, so many wrote it off as many people logging into the server at once with hackers taking advantage of it. Nonetheless, Digimon went into the background and most people blamed the incompetence of the investors, almost no one realizing that it was the machine, who did it all, on purpose.
Life has gone on and things have improved somewhat. No one is sure where most of the money has gone, though some has been linked back as large tax refunds or toward charities. Furthermore, the feed-back they did get on the hypercomputer led to a jump-start on new technologies in everything from medicine and engineering to gaming to even theoretical sciences. Robotics, virutal reality, bionics and so much more were all advanced so at least something good indirectly came from all of this.
Now, how does this factor you in? Well, whether you played the game or not, you got an official invitation to participate in some sort of smaller ARG. With a prize of $1,000,000 for you and each of your fellow players, how could you resist? You find yourself invited, all-expense paid, to Japan. You will all met at Yggdrasil Tower, the former tower where the game was held. It's in the process of being emptied, with only a few employees and top individuals there, all in at the game.
However, this is more than a game... So much more than a game...
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The Invitees:
Monster Guy: Maxwell "Max" Hudson- Salamon X
Schade: Elijah Blackwood- Dracmon
Jean_Grey: Evgeniya Sergeyevna Chernova ("Evie" or "Zhenya")- Gabumon X
TheCharredDragon:Suranuras Suga- Agumon X
DVB: Diego Vendrix- Fanbeemon
So here we discuss upcoming plot points or other ideas.