Sol Quest

Congratulations, reader! You are part of a selected group who have won an exclusive release of our new Virtual Reality project, Solquest! A copy will be sent to your house, along with a complementary VR set if you do not already own one. Before we can send any of this, however, we need you to register an account to confirm your interest.

What is Sol Quest?
Sol Quest is an open-world rpg where players are able to build their own character, gear, homes, and even cities! Players can also fight monsters, scavenge dungeons, solve quests, and sell treasures to develop and buy materials for more goods. A Pv P and guild system also exists for competitive players and teams of friends to play together and rise in the ranks. If you’re lucky, you may even be able to forage treasures that are exchangeable for real world goods! The greatest of all these are the nine Legendary Artifacts. The nine treasures, when brought together, can grant the user the greatest power - an unlimited wish!

^{What’s this?}  This is a forum game where you play as your own character, except this time you play in a fictional MMORPG that comes out 20 Minutes into the Future. It progresses similarly to Cathari’s Dungeon game or any of the previous Tower games, except this one’s designed to be a bit more open world.

Form:

• Name/Username: Either your name or the the name you want to be called in game.
• Gender/Age: Optional. Put it in if you want to.
• Biography: Optional. May help with deciding class or game progression.
• Starting Class: See below for details. Including traits can help influence your initial stats and skills.
• Starting Weapon Type: As long as it works as a weapon, I’ll accept it. This will also determine your starting proficiency. Fighting with a weapon you aren't proficient with may lower its effectiveness.
• Element Affinity: Pick up to three to start with. Elements available: Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Ice, Lightning, Light/Holy, Shadow, Undead/Drain, Wood/Plant, Metal, Poison/Acid, Paint, None, etc.
• Other: If needed, include anything else here that doesn’t fit in above.

Example:

• Name: Star B.
• Gender: Female
• Bio: (Optional)
• Starting Class: Knight (Defense 3, Attack 3)
• Starting Weapon: Longsword
• Element Affinity: Lightning

Important notes for specific weapon types:

• Unless it’s your starting weapon, thrown weapons like daggers, throwing stars, and bombs are consumables. This also applies for bullets and arrows used by anything other than your starting weapon
• Guns and similar artillery have fixed damage but can be upgraded and enchanted like most other weapons.
• Bombs are also fixed and can’t be enchanted but are affected by strength when thrown.

^{Class Guide}  You can pick any common rpg-like class, and even a few outside the norm, as long as it’s clear what the class does. The only exception is that your class cannot be one that requires a mount or ride by definition of the class, though beastmaster/summoner-like classes are still permitted. If it’s not obvious what the class is, feel free to explain it. Classes may evolve or change a bit as you go on, or new sub-types may become available.

Traits: Pick at least one trait that corresponds with your desired class, and rank them on a scale of 1 to 5 on how much they influence your character’s fighting style. Ranks are usually relative to each other. A rank of 5 is usually very high, at the cost of lowering un-ranked traits, while a rank of 1 is only slightly better than an un-ranked trait. This is mostly for determining stats and skills early on, because your overall arsenal may be influenced by things you do in game as well.

• Defense - Focus on defensive stats
• Magic - Focus on Magical stats and spells
• Strength- Focus on Physical stats and weapon attacks
• Speed - Focus on speed
• Medic - Focus on status and healing
• Support - Focus on buffs/debuffs and other support

edited 10th May '17 8:49:47 AM by StarBee

• Name: Revvy
• Gender: Female
• Biography: A local idiot considered smart somehow from Somewheresville. She is an enthusiast on gaming, specifically on the Eastern side of the industry. Also an aspiring writer who wishes to have her stories become best-selling (somehow) one day. Likes technology.
• Starting Class: Magic Fighter (Magic 4, Speed 3)
• Starting Weapon: Spear
• Element Affinity: Electricity

• Name: Anolis
• Gender: Male
• Age: 18
• Biography: A busy, busy guy, and that's mostly of his own design. Realizing many of his ventures isn't getting him anywhere, he decides to just spend his free time and have some fun instead of spending every waking hour tirelessly working.
• Starting Class: Barbarian (STR 4, MED 1, SUP 3)
• Starting Weapon: Axe
• Elemental Affinity: Poison

edited 10th May '17 9:21:12 AM by BlackMageAnolis

What does the Paint element do?

@Dr No Puma: It's closer to a Normal or Pure element, except with similar properties to water or liquid. Also, it's very colorful.

edited 10th May '17 9:04:59 AM by StarBee

• Name: Bacon
• Gender: Male
• Biography: A simple fellow with simple desires. He tends to be very loud and seems to have a varying fuse. Sometimes patient, sometimes losing it instantly. He wants to tell stories, but unfortunately is too lazy to do so. Interests include playing video games... and that's the big one, really.
• Starting Class: White Mage (Magic 3, Medic 2, Support 3)
• Starting Weapon: Staff
• Element Affinity: Water, Light.

edited 10th May '17 9:17:06 AM by BaconZorp

• Name: Cyber
• Gender: Male
• Age: 20
• Bio: Cyber was an ordinary man, until he found a magical bat. Ever since that, he's been slaying monsters, and rescuing princesses.
• Starting Class: Batter(Magic 2, Strength 3)
• Starting Weapon: Baseball Bat
• Element Affinity: Shadow, Metal

edited 10th May '17 9:16:46 AM by CyberController

• Name: Puma
• Gender: Male
• Biography: A generally cheerful guy who enjoys all things bright and colorful. He's not too keen on violence, and he's not very good at puzzles or riddles, but he's nonetheless excited to go on an adventure. Wants to own a circus someday.
• Starting class: Gambler (Magic 5, Speed 2, Support 1)
• Starting weapon: Mallet
• Element affinity: Paint, Light

edited 10th May '17 10:47:22 AM by DrNoPuma

• Name: Saj
• Gender: Genderless by technicality, otherwise Male
• Bio: ???
• Starting Class: Magitech Brawler / Red Mage (Defence, Magic and Strength: 2, Medic and Support: 1) notify me if there's anything you want ironing out
• Starting Weapon: Power Gauntlets
• Element Affinity: Undead/Earth/Ice

if i'm a bit overpowered or underpowered let me know, Star Bee

edited 10th May '17 10:35:16 AM by StarAndroidJaguar

• Name: Anza
• Gender: Dude
• Bio: A laid-back guy with an affinity for anime, cartoons, video games and cephalopods.
• Starting class: Thief (Dexterity +1, Luck +1)
• Weapon: Whip (i originally wanted a gun, but i thought a whip would fit my cephalopod theme better) :p
• Element: Water, Ice

edited 10th May '17 9:50:51 AM by anza_sb

Username: Cabe

Gender: Male

Age: ~24

Biography: A successful working professional just a few years into his first job, Cabe's player was always interested in MMO design and inter player interactions. As such, upon hearing of this project he pulled some strings to get in and to check it out for himself.

Starting Class: Long Arm (Spearman) Strength: 4 Defense: 2

Starting Weapon Type: Glaive

Element Affinity: Wood

edited 10th May '17 9:48:59 AM by Cabe_Bedlam

• Name: whizzerd
• Gender: Agender, they/them.
• Bio: A young adult with no talent for singing and little proficiency with instruments, until they realised that this is a virtual reality world where anything is possible.
• Starting Class: Bard (Support 4, Magic 2, Medic 2)
• Starting Weapon: Harp
• Elemental Affinity: Paint.

• Name/Username: Cathy
• Gender/Age: Female, 24
• Bio:
  • Grew up in some suburb place. Went on to study engineering at a prestigious university so she could learn how to make decent robots and become an evil genius so she could take over the world. Then she learned about life at college and how there were other things besides school and science and high-class literature, and also became somewhat involved with dorm stuff and dnd. Then she learned she had various issues, and slowly realized she didn't want to be engineer (even though she was okay in classes and stuff), especially since everyone else took stuff seriously and did more stuff than her, though she continued with degree because school was out of state.
  • During later years of college, she discovered tvtropes forums, and eventually went on to gm the roll to dodge thread for 1.5 or so years. She has also run a few other games, some more successful than others. She also has some fondness for reading about history and stuff.
  • Although she has written for a good part of her life, she discovered she likes writing silly and/or somewhat crass stories while at a writing club in college. Although not popular, she does like to write fanfic, especially if they involve stupid ideas and/or Shrek (after having discovered the greatness that was Shrek). She is also fond of strategy games such as almost all of Paradox's most recent titles (eu4, ck2, hoi4, stellaris). She is also somewhat of a critical person.
• Starting Class: Tech Priestess (Magic 4, Support 3)
• Starting Weapon: Staff
• Element Affinity: Fire, Lightning, Metal

Just so you know, Star Bee, I'm bumping my Magic skill up to 5, and in return, bumping Support down to 1.

i've changed my starter weapon

Anza: the stats are in the note at the bottom of the intro post.

• Name: Skiller
• Gender: Male
• Biography: Random guy who likes history, video games (especially Paradox games), and has way too much time.
• Starting Class: Conjurer (pretty much Conjuration magic from The Elder Scrolls) Magic 3, Strength 3
• Starting Weapon: Dagger.
• Elemental Affinity: Shadow, Metal, Fire
• Other: Depending on the strength and size, summoned weapons last at least 5 minutes and at most an hour.

edited 10th May '17 4:52:37 PM by Skiller2

@Skiller: That will probably work, though the weapons will probably be either not permanent or not cheap.

@Star Android Jaguar: This works, don't worry. They'll just be kind of evened out, though.

@Anza: I'd check those traits, 'cause that's not quite how they work here.

edited 10th May '17 11:00:44 AM by StarBee

Alright, edited.

Name/Username: Random.

Gender/Age: Male, 18.

Biography: Random is a totally average dude with delusions of ego, grandeur, paranoia, and the theory that he could totally make things better if he ruled over the world. Over time, he's shrunk that down to North America.

He's into games, works retail, and is generally at the bottom of the pecking order.

Starting Class: Dark Squire/ eventually Dark Knight if classes grow? (Strength 2, Defense 3, Speed 4)

Starting Weapon Type: Rapier!

Element Affinity: Shadow, Water, Paint

i had an idea for my power gauntlets. they could work as both melee and ranged weapons, but the ranged attack instead costs magic to use instead of projectiles

i was thinking more like a cross between the brawling and hand blast weapons from DC Universe Online

edited 11th May '17 8:32:27 AM by StarAndroidJaguar

like Yang's gauntlets, except with magic? sounds great

@Saj: That might work. I wouldn't worry too much about being overpowered, though.

@Revvy: Quick question, when you say Magic Fighter do you mean a Magic Knight kind of character, or a caster who happens to have a spear?

@Everyone: Next Post should be up by tomorrow! If anyone else has any suggestions they want to add before then, well, try to suggest them before I update.

edited 11th May '17 7:21:00 AM by StarBee

• Username: Caladrius
• Gender: Male
• Age: Vague, at least for now
• Biography: A teenager interested in artistic pursuits, writing and acting in particular. Is very good at pretending to know things, and sometimes actually knows things. Suffers from a very serious medical condition known as Chronic Hero Syndrome.
• Class: Prismancer - Primarily uses spells that involve refracted beams of light. Skills tend to be very visually appealing. Focuses mainly on delivering devastating multicolored blasts to enemies and creating prism shields around allies. (3 Magic, 1 Support, 2 Speed)
• Weapon: Twin tonfas (they're real weapons, look them up)
• Affinities: Light, Ice, Air

• Username: Jayson
• Gender: Male
• Age: 24
• Biography: A young man aspiring to be a doctor. He joined Sol Quest for fun and leisure while he is on vacation.
• Starting Class: Combat Medic (Medic 4, Support 3, Strength 2)
• Starting Weapon: Healing Crossbow
• Elemental Affinity: Poison and Plant
• Other: The crossbow works almost exactly like the Crusaders Crossbow from Team Fortress 2 except it has to be loaded with syringes of different effects for it to work.