This is the start of a roleplay based on Log-Horizon. The idea is that I am entering in Tyria as my character with everything he has right now.
But from now on every time I die I lose a "memory" (a utility skill) (there are 45 utility skills) (the utility skill will be randomly selected).
Also I lose a skin and I can only replace it with items I collect in game. Doing heroic tasks award a random skin, themed as the task completed.
After I lose all my memories, I will have to go through the Ritual of purification (reset the character) and the Ritual of Ascension (getting to level 80 and unlocking all Hero points).
If I want to recover a memory, I can fight for it against the Mists Monstruosities (win a pvp match, or kill 20 players in WvW, or complete a t4 fractal, or complete a raid) I can use 2 magic armors that allow me to get in the mists (one for pvp and raids, the other for wvw and fractals), but they lose magic when they receive severe damage (die) and they only have 20 charges of magic each. After they lose all their magic they can only be recharged with the Ritual of Ascension.
(Exo suit can be used in any human char)
(Mystic forged can be used in any norn char )
Continuation of the story at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PaD6lMaqkSf56Acw_xl3YGk1zmQCPV8BNCMhlL7q4gE/edit?usp=sharing
Once in the jungle, his plan was to reignite his electrical magic flow to imbue it in his hammer, for that he thought going to the Leyline confluence point would be his best chance.
He arrived and saw a node of magic in the air, he summoned his skyscale and flew to that node, as he went close the node started resonating with Raikou's own energy patterns and started manifesting an electric aura. He reached it and felt how the magic in within was lit up again.
With his magic inginted again, he decided he would go to upgrade his jade bot with gyroscopic functionalities, and new the place where such knowledge was kept was in Rata Novus ruins. In the ruins he had to evade all the multiple traps left behind by the asuran geniuses that hid the knowledge from outsiders.
He finally arrived to the hidden consoles and the hidden laboratory, and started studing the notes he found. Suddenly the knolwedge came to him in a rush, like a turrent, and he remembered how to create the gyroscopes. Then he used the devices in the lab to upgrade his jade bot.
Having recovered all the abilities he knew he had from back when he was in the other world, he thought it was now time to go back to his home and think what was going to happen next. He programmed the asuran gate in the lab and he ventured to see where it would take him.
Having finished his holo suits, Raikou used his portal scroll to the gilded hollow guild cave, where he rested for a few days before starting his new trip into the magumma jungles in search of Rata Novus the recently rediscovered asuran city where he knew he could upgrade the protocols of his jade bot to include gyroscopic functions. Also he wanted to tap into the leyline confluence to re awaken his electrical magic.
When he was ready to depart, he used his portal scroll to Doric Lake, went to his home in Divinity's Reach withdrew some clothes and went to the tailor and leatherworkers to make it fit for the jungle. Then he went back to the gilded hollow and he set off.
Raikou arrived back to the forge and using the crystals, and the technomagic knowledge he was able to craft his photon belt. The exalted master forger inspired by his accomplishment gave him an armor in which both of them did their ultimate magic engineering work to implement the photon forge on it as well.
He kept going south and in search of heavy magic spots
His final stop would be the rock of Ascencion where the most potent magic could be found in the whole crystal desert.
With the crystals fully imbued with magic he started his trip back to the thunderhead peaks
As he headed south to the heart of the desert he came across with the zephyrite settlement and just as he was passing by the zephyrites had an accident with their air element crystals, and produced a rougue elemental, Raikou offered his help and the zephyrites gave him special gloves with air crystals to capture the magic of the elemental.
The gloves were given to him as a present for sacing the zephyrites, Raikou was greatful about the present since it would be a source of wind to refresh himself in the smoldering desert.
Raikou knew from his experienced in the other dimension that he would find the knowledge and weapons he needed from the Djinn forgemaster in desert highlands, so he started his trip there.
After proving himself worth with the Djinn, it agreed to share his knowledge and weapons, and then Raikou proceeded to go find the crystals he needed.
Soon after departing towards the desert, he had to dodge a group of harpies and hid on a small cave where the skelk seemed to have nests, it was there where he found a necklace that he picked up.
He kept going east in search of the next human settlement, as he needed to change his snow clothes for something fit for the desert heat. He found an springer ranch and there a girl recognized the necklace he was carrying. It was her mothers necklace, and as gratitude she offered food and clothes.
Ready to head into the desert he departed.
In Amnoon Raikou was able to buy better clothes and with them he went in search of places with power to imbue the crystals he had collected
After finishing his businesses in the jade quarry, Raikou used his portal scroll to go back to Arborstone from where he used Lions Arch asuran gate, and then Divinity's Reach gate. His new adventure would be going to the southern shiverpeaks and Elona to build the photon forge toolbelt that he used to have back in his dimension. He knew the best way to get there was through the nobles gate to Ebon Hawk and down the tunnels from the former Jalis kingdom.
As he arrived to the thunderhead peaks he went to the ancient forge where he convinced the master forger to share the knowledge of the solid light. The master forger saw he had a lot of technological knowledge based on seeing his techno skimmer, his jade mech and jade bot, so it decided to share its knowledge. Although Raikou would have to go find the crystals needed to use fro the photon belt as well as the weapons to shape the holo weapons from.
Then Aurene said it was time, she helped Soo Won get up and both of them flew up into the sky. Raikou wanted to follow them he knew what was supposed to happen but he was wondering if he could change something. He summoned the skyscale but they were no match to the elder dragon's speed. Both dragons arrived the harvest temple and a jade green light flashed from the summit. All the void magic started flowing from the surroundings into the machine and then towards Aurene. The sky turned bright once more and Soo Won glided downwards followed by Aurene.
When Raikou arrived, Soo Won was saying good bye, and the same way she had passed her elemental magic into the shield, she passed her own vital elemental magic into Aurene to achieve in her balance for all the magic.
Aurene set off flying and just as sudden as it all had begun, it had now come to an end.
Raikou didnt want to draw attention to him or his shield, so he decided to return sneakily to the quarry to finish the jadite trade.
It worked, the beam stunned Soo Won long enough for the air troops and ground troops to go into the tallest building in the whole jade sea, the Harvest Temple, from there they would do their last fight. Aurene and the aircrafts would make sure that Soo Won stayed within range of the troops in the temple. Raikou would try to support the troops by intercepting void magic beams with the maw core.
The maw core started to crack due to the unbalanced magic it was receiving, Aurene noticed this and gave Raikou a crystal made out of her very same magic, with the ability to reflect and filter the chaotic magic.
When the core touched the crystal they fused and Raikou attached the resulting gem to his shield. The shield and the gem merged and shared properties. With this shield he was able to keep repeling the void magic.
The fight continued until the army eventually calmed down the elder dragon's rampage. Soo Won retreated back to a sanctuary followed by Aurene, the troops spread the orders from above, the new order was to retreat and let the cientific team prepare the magic extraction device, Aurene would bring Soo Woon to the device as soon as it was online to extract the void corrupting her.
Raikou felt curiosity because on his other world memories the Commander was a key part on this event, yet in this world there seemed to be no Commander, he couldnt help but think perhaps he was supposed to be the Commander. He hurried and followed Aurene.
When he arrived to the sanctuary he heard Soo Won telling stories to Aurene. She sounded very weak. Both dragons noticed when Raikou landed and were surprised to see him there.
Soo Won instantly recognized the magic in the shield gem, and realized that during her rampage, in the little consciousness she had left, she remembered a flying electrical warrior bonded to a skyscale, defending the troops against the void magic beams. She reconized his virtuosity and told him the shield would not hold on for long just as Aurene wouldnt either because balance was not yet achieved in the magic within, one element was missing, her element.
With some struggle she removed one of her last pure scales, and gave it to Raikou, the scale was pulled into the shield gem and merged with it emanating a radiant light and a comforting aura, the gem was no longer cracked and looked pristine. Soo Won said to him that the shield he know possesed had become legendary, and nothing would ever be able to break it, she entasked him to use it to defend the world form harm just as he had defended his allies from the void.
Raikou knew that if he planned to fight strong enemies with the mech he would probably break some of its parts, so he decided to go visit the jade sea quarries to buy some shipments of jadeite.
When he arrived, he saw people running everywhere, and he heard alarms go on, people were shouting "the jade maw is back" and men at arms were gathering. Raikou asked where was the maw and rushed there with his hover bike.
He was planning on taking this opportunity to help the jade quarry people, so he would be able to strike a good deal for the jadeite he wanted.
When he arrived he saw the monster and he went quickly into action. He knew the maw could only be killed by removing its core. An ultra hard core inside its body that was used to process the jade it ate. It had some of these cores all over its tentacles as the cores also gave the limbs energy to move. He knew the tentacles had to be cut off and he had to use the cores to reflect the energy beam that was its main attack. All this knowledge was still fresh from his other world memories.
With help from the locals he managed to defeat the Maw and swiftly he took the main core as his trophy.
Having earned the gratitude and respect of the miners he proceeded to go back into the shipment zone to start the negotiations.
He was negotiating the jadeite trade, when suddenly the whole sky went slumber. A heavy rainstorm poured down. And suddenly a massive gust pushing from northwest. He tried to hang on to anything he could, but he missed. Going airborne he summoned his skyscale, and with it he was able to soar the winds. When he lloked back to see the source of the wind he almost fell off the skyscale as it quickly descended without a warning, the reason came clear just a second after: a giant snake-like dragon rushed flying from the same direction the wind had came from, the rain seemed to follow it, and when it passed above Raikou he almost felt as if he was underwater. The only difference was a heavy strong pressure that felt as if he was being pushed from all directions, a dark magic was radiating from the dragon and discharging in the ground all around him. It was Void magic.
He unsummoned the skyscale as he knew that dragons eat magic. He used his gliding skills to land and as he did he equipped his legendary armor. When he landed he saw a big army of all sorts of races coming by ground with siege turtles, raptors and other mounts. They were also coming from air by airships, choppers and griffons. They were all meeting up in a central plaza, and they were keeping track of the dragon.
Raikou approached the army and he discovered this dragon was the Elder Dragon Soo Won the last of the Elder dragons. And it was corrupted due to the excess of magic released by the other Elder dragons that had been defeated by the Commander, Dragonwatch and the Pact.
Raikou remembered that story from his past world, but he had never imagined he would encounter it. He knew how the history was suppossed to end but he didnt want to take any chances so he decided he would join.
Suddenly the rain stopped and the void magic fluctuating around went upwards as trees growing towards the sun. A shinny glimmering dragon was flying above them absorbing the void magic. It was Aurene.
With the field turned back into normality the troops started to charge. And Raikou went with them. They were trying to get to Aurene who had gonne chasing Soo Won, to get to her they had to fight countless void creatures. Raikou skipped the fights with an amazing display of flying riding on the skyscale he had summoned again. And he got to Aurene first.
Soo Won had created a void magic zone to shield from the army chasing it. When Raikou arrived Aurene spoke to him, she was impressed by his early arrival. She told him Soo Won was in pain and was trying to hide from the world to prevent more destruction. Raikou asked what was the plan, and Aurene said she would create magical crystals imbued with the magic she had absorbed from the void and she would filter each crystal to harness only one of the elemental magics so they wouldnt corrupt. She wanted the army to channel all the void magic into those crystals to discharge the field surrounding Soo Won.
Raikou thought about his Maw Core and asked aurene if it would be of any use, Aurene saw in ground that the troops were struggling getting all the magic into the crystals and figured it wouldent be done on time. She worried even more when she heard from a telepathic communication with her champion that the main airships were not coming due to the heavy storm surrounding the area. Her plan changed and she asked Raikou to prepare the core, she would go to dissipate the storms for the air troops and then she would come back using whatever magic stored on the crystals she would try to absorb it, and by having the maw core in the path of the magic it would instead reflect it as a beam, that they would use against the void field.
Now that he knew how the hero challenges worked, raikou decided he would go collect them to fully unlock his memories. Without much effort he moved through the city on his Synergetics Gyrocycle. Although he didnt think about it, his asuran technology was quite innovative in the eyes of the Canthan people and the hero challenge keepers were eager to trade information and parts for the mech, in exchange for him letting them analyze his machine. After collecting all he could he decided he would go to Shing Jea to get the rest of the components he needed.
Once he had all the components needed he went back to arborstone to upgrade his mech. then he set off to the spiritual points in the forest where he would imbue his signets with magic.
He was successful at imbuing magic in the signets and he finally completed his jade mech mastery.
He still remembered one of the strongest summons of the engineer was the mech bot, so he decided to go for it first. He withdrew his portal scroll from his invisible inventory pouch and by focusing a bit on it, he made a magic sign appear from it, before he knew he was standing in Arborstone
Just as he expected the hero challenge npc was there, he was of course sentient as well, and after a small chat it encouraged Raikou to train with it. It was then when Raikou learned that in this world the skill knowledge unlocked like a dream you are trying to remember, much like the cooldowns of skills, except that you needed a magic mind and body sign that you would receive from the hero challenge master. He carried out the training and he received his first memory, he learned how to leap with a mace and produce a magical wave to regenerate.
During the training he and the teacher received wounds but he found out that in this world much like the game, wounds would self heal if they were not fatal by doing a simple magic sign that required calmness. He was curious about dying but he thought it would be awkward to ask about that and it would rise suspicion about his origins. Also, he didnt really want to test out a death.
With the hero challenge teacher he also learned that his legendary armor was very rare and the teacher admitted that was why she accepted to train him, he was told it would draw attention from miles, so he decided he would only use it when a fight was imminent.
Thinking about the best place to find hero challenges related with knowledge about the mechs, he decided to go to New Kaineng next.
When he arrived there he saw the shrine of another hero challenge he remembered this time he just touched the magic sign in it and the knowledge rushed in like a stream. He learned the magic signs to imbue his mace with an electromagnetic field to cause confusion on enemies.
Next he decided to go to the hero challenge of the ministry of archives, it was just logical that the knowledge about mechs would be in the archives, but he knew as a foreigner they wouldnt disclose their secrets, so using stealth magic with smoke fields and elixirs he got inside inside the library and took the books. The books were sealed with magic, but at the top of the library he found a hero challenge whose magic unlocked the first book, he read it and learned the knowledge to build the mech, it was funny just how easy it was now that he had acquired the knowledge, something in the back of his head knew it wasnt normal that he would find all these mathematics and physics and magic easy, but he had already accepted his enhanced intelectual abilities.
He now needed to go buy the pieces, luckily for him he had a lot of gold stored, and he went to another master of hero challenge where he knew he would find a workshop to assemble his mech.
He did it and finally he was able to create his mech.
He went to bed one night and in his dreams he started seeing mathematical equations and symbols he didnot understand at first but somehow felt familiar the more he saw them, the symbols and functions started to make sense and he realized they were the physics behind mechatronics and chemestry, and soon images formed in his mind, turrets, gadgets and elixirs... thats when he realized he have seen that before in his game.
He woke up, he was not in his room, nonetheless he could easily recognize the place, he had been there many times before, he was in his bed at his guild hall... he couldnt understand how it was possible but he was sure he was inside the game. He looked at his body, but he had made his avatar as similar to himself in real life as possible so he couldnt find any significant difference, he wanted a mirror, but he didnt need it his clothes were exactly those of his avatar and the place was just the same. there was no doubt. The walls gilded as they were showed him his reflection and he saw the face of his avatar, similar to his own yet recognizable different.
He kept checking out his body looking for something, his hand went by his hip and he found what he was looking for. An invisible case tied to his hip, a magical sign formed floating in front of where the case would be and he thought about gold, suddenly a golden coin appeared from the magic sign and dropped to the floor, he grabbed it and looked at it, it felt as real as anything has ever felt. He repeated this process for several minutes until he was convinced everything he had in his game was present and he only needed to think about it when placing the hand on the sign to withdraw or deposit it. He went to the crafting stations and he found the guild npc's, they were no longer npc's they were sentient, and recognized him as the guild master. When he arrived to the crafting station he found a magic sign as well and he was able to confirm the bank items were there as well.
At that point he realized somehow his memory was really clear about the contents of his bank and inventory, it was so easy to remember that it fell strange. As he started testing his memory he felt an odd feeling: he knew he was not from this world but he could not remember his old life and world, the more he tried to remember the less he could, so he decided to stop. Unncanny enough his thoughts were full of information on how to build turrets or prepare elixirs or use crafting magic, as he started focusing on a single turret, the calculations appeared in his mind and suddenly a magic sign appeared in front of him summoning the turret. After summoning the turret he went blank, suddenly he could not remember the calculus of how it had been built, he only remembered how to make it blow up, when he focused on blowing it up a magic sign formed in his belt and upon him pressing it, it exploded.
During the next days in guild hall he experimented on every skill and item he could, luckily for him his portable provisioner device was in his inventory and it would teleport food using the credit currency he had stored. he learned how to create the magic signs for each of his core skills, but he noticed he didnt have any of the elite skills he used to have back when it was a game.
So he decided he would go find the hero points and see if they worked. Before leaving he learned how to summon his mounts and how to activate the magic sign to glide, he also made sure to grab a jade bot from the guild workbench before leaving. And he learned how to activate his legendary armor and the magic sign to instantly switch it.