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* PlayerVersusPlayer: Participants in this rendition of the death game are just as capable of fighting amongst themselves as in canon, with racism springing up between the players possessing Humanity – and thus a human form – versus those currently Hollowed. Even the NPC are getting into it.
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* PlayerVersusPlayer: Participants in this rendition of the death game are just as capable of fighting amongst themselves as in canon, with racism springing up between the players possessing Humanity – – and thus a human form – – versus those currently Hollowed. Even the NPC are getting into it.
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* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: The average player's luck when going up against a BlackKnight – they have all the skills lore says they should, and are just as dangerous as expected because of it. It took a full raid party to take one down, and it took out half of them in the process. [[spoiler:Naturally, when they encounter a second one in Chapter 41, they freeze in terror.]]
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* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: The average player's luck when going up against a BlackKnight – – they have all the skills lore says they should, and are just as dangerous as expected because of it. It took a full raid party to take one down, and it took out half of them in the process. [[spoiler:Naturally, when they encounter a second one in Chapter 41, they freeze in terror.]]
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** (f all the bonfires are extinguished, then no player can come back to life. Everyone dies. For reference, a single piece of humanity buys a bonfire a week at one of the bigger places, but a checkpoint bonfire wouldn't last more than three days in the Asylum.
** If the players make it to the Fifth Year without completing the game, [[spoiler:Kingseeker will shut it down.]]
* NoRomanticResolution: The story ends [[spoiler:without the Herald making a choice]]. Subverted [[spoiler:in the Epilogue, where he does make a choice, but it is not revealed who it is]].
** If the players make it to the Fifth Year without completing the game, [[spoiler:Kingseeker will shut it down.]]
* NoRomanticResolution: The story ends [[spoiler:without the Herald making a choice]]. Subverted [[spoiler:in the Epilogue, where he does make a choice, but it is not revealed who it is]].
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** (f If all the bonfires are extinguished, then no player can come back to life. Everyone dies. For reference, a single piece of humanity buys a bonfire a week at one of the bigger places, but a checkpoint bonfire wouldn't last more than three days in the Asylum.
** If the players make it to the Fifth Year without completing the game,[[spoiler:Kingseeker Kingseeker will shut it down.]]
down.
* NoRomanticResolution: The story ends[[spoiler:without without the Herald making a choice]]. choice. Subverted [[spoiler:in in the Epilogue, where he [[spoiler:he does make a choice, but it is not revealed who it is]].
** If the players make it to the Fifth Year without completing the game,
* NoRomanticResolution: The story ends
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* AGodAmI: Kingseeker has this opinion of itself.
** Seath the Scaleless as well.
** Seath the Scaleless as well.
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* AGodAmI: Kingseeker has this opinion of itself.
**itself, as does Seath the Scaleless as well.Scaleless.
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* AwfulTruth: Andre reveals to Kirito in Chapter 34 that if a [[DecapitatedArmy Covenant Leader dies their members die]], since it is a pact on their soul. [[spoiler:The fact that Solaire hasn't shown up means that he has to be a Hollow or captured.]]
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* AwfulTruth: AwfulTruth:
** Andre reveals to Kirito in Chapter 34 that if a [[DecapitatedArmy Covenant Leader dies their members die]], since it is a pact on their soul. [[spoiler:The fact that Solaire hasn't shown up means that he has to be a Hollow or captured.]]
** Andre reveals to Kirito in Chapter 34 that if a [[DecapitatedArmy Covenant Leader dies their members die]], since it is a pact on their soul. [[spoiler:The fact that Solaire hasn't shown up means that he has to be a Hollow or captured.]]
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* TheBartender: Agil.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The Way of White members led by Asuna and sent to the portrait return in Chapter 38 with Priscilla.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: BigDamnHeroes:
** [[spoiler:The Way of White members led by Asuna and sent to the portraitreturn return]] in Chapter 38 with Priscilla.]]
** [[spoiler:The Way of White members led by Asuna and sent to the portrait
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* CastingAShadow: Kalameet in Chapter 49.
* CatapultNightmare: Kirito in Chapter 48.
* CatapultNightmare: Kirito in Chapter 48.
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* CuttingTheKnot: By the time Chapter 52 rolls around, the players start doing this. If there's a boss ahead, they'll use cannons to blow through the walls and drop the ceiling on it. Kingseeker, on the other hand, relishes the challenge.
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* CuttingTheKnot: CuttingTheKnot:
** By the time Chapter 52 rolls around, the players start doing this. If there's a boss ahead, they'll use cannons to blow through the walls and drop the ceiling on it. Kingseeker, on the other hand, relishes the challenge.
** By the time Chapter 52 rolls around, the players start doing this. If there's a boss ahead, they'll use cannons to blow through the walls and drop the ceiling on it. Kingseeker, on the other hand, relishes the challenge.
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* [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Did You Just Scam Kingseeker]]: In chapter 46 [[spoiler:Kirito asks Kingseeker to release the elderly and children from the game, and for those who didn't have bodies anymore, to go to someplace they can be happy for Sugou. Once Kingseeker kept his part of the bargain, he blew Sugou up.]]
* DifficultySpike: After the 1.01 Patch the enemies actually get harder than before, with Assassins learning how to break the player's weapons and changing the path routine, unable to see health bars, lower means of communicating, among other things.
* DifficultySpike: After the 1.01 Patch the enemies actually get harder than before, with Assassins learning how to break the player's weapons and changing the path routine, unable to see health bars, lower means of communicating, among other things.
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* [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Did You Just Scam Kingseeker]]: DidYouJustScamCthulhu: In chapter 46 46, [[spoiler:Kirito asks Kingseeker to release the elderly and children from the game, and for those who didn't have bodies anymore, to go to someplace they can be happy for Sugou. Once Kingseeker kept his part of the bargain, he blew Sugou up.]]
*DifficultySpike: After the 1.01 Patch the DifficultySpike:
** The enemiesactually get harder than before, before after the 1.01 Patch, with Assassins learning how to break the player's weapons and changing the path routine, unable to see health bars, lower means of communicating, among other things.
*
** The enemies
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* [[DoNotTauntCthulhu Do Not Taunt Kingseeker]]: It's actually in the Newbie Manual that you do not tempt or challenge the AI Kingseeker, because it responds to challenges in ways you do not want. See TemptingFate for the reason.
** Kirito in Chapter 35 points out that, not even in jest, were to do this:
--> '''Kirito:''' Do not pronounce, not even in jest, 'His' name. Do not do it. The very future of our Covenant, of our lives, rests on the success of this operation. We cannot attract his attention. We must not do so."
** In a meta form, when the second black knight showed up, several readers challenged it. The very next chapter put special focus on their deaths facing it... and they were brutal.
* DoYouTrustMe: [[spoiler: Kirito asks this to Silica's summoned shade when it proves sentient because of Kingseeker in 42. She does]].
* {{Dracolich}}: The dragon in Chapter 56.
** Kirito in Chapter 35 points out that, not even in jest, were to do this:
--> '''Kirito:''' Do not pronounce, not even in jest, 'His' name. Do not do it. The very future of our Covenant, of our lives, rests on the success of this operation. We cannot attract his attention. We must not do so."
** In a meta form, when the second black knight showed up, several readers challenged it. The very next chapter put special focus on their deaths facing it... and they were brutal.
* DoYouTrustMe: [[spoiler: Kirito asks this to Silica's summoned shade when it proves sentient because of Kingseeker in 42. She does]].
* {{Dracolich}}: The dragon in Chapter 56.
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* [[DoNotTauntCthulhu Do Not Taunt Kingseeker]]: DoNotTauntCthulhu:
** It's actually in the Newbie Manual that you do not tempt or challenge the AI Kingseeker, because it responds to challenges in ways you do not want.See TemptingFate for the reason.
**Kirito points this out in Chapter 35 points out that, not even in jest, were to do this:
-->35:
---> '''Kirito:''' Do not pronounce, not even in jest, 'His' name. Do not do it. The very future of our Covenant, of our lives, rests on the success of this operation. We cannot attract his attention. We must not do so."
** In a meta form, when the second black knightshowed shows up, several readers challenged it. The very next chapter put special focus on their deaths facing it... and they were brutal.
* DoYouTrustMe:[[spoiler: Kirito [[spoiler:Kirito asks this to Silica's summoned shade when it proves sentient because of Kingseeker in 42. She does]].
* %%* {{Dracolich}}: The dragon in Chapter 56.
** It's actually in the Newbie Manual that you do not tempt or challenge the AI Kingseeker, because it responds to challenges in ways you do not want.
**
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---> '''Kirito:''' Do not pronounce, not even in jest, 'His' name. Do not do it. The very future of our Covenant, of our lives, rests on the success of this operation. We cannot attract his attention. We must not do so."
** In a meta form, when the second black knight
* DoYouTrustMe:
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:'''YES!''' It took everything they had, but ultimately the ending brought everyone who died and didn't have their plugs back to life. Those who did have their [[BrainUploading souls]] moved to an online paradise of their choosing. Even Priscilla is online in a virtual sense.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:'''YES!''' It [[spoiler:It took everything they had, but ultimately the ending brought everyone who died and didn't have their plugs back to life. Those who did have their [[BrainUploading souls]] moved to an online paradise of their choosing. Even Priscilla is online in a virtual sense.]]
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* EliteMooks: The Draggers in the Sewers are the first of their kind and have regenerating health and take twice as much damage to put down, so they presume them to be these.... then they meet a giant version of it wandering around.
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* EliteMooks: EliteMooks:
** The Draggers in the Sewers are the first of their kind and have regenerating health and take twice as much damage to put down, so they presume them to be these.... then they meet a giant version of it wandering around.
** The Draggers in the Sewers are the first of their kind and have regenerating health and take twice as much damage to put down, so they presume them to be these.... then they meet a giant version of it wandering around.
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* EmptyShell: The completely hollowfied [=NPC=] and [[spoiler:players that remain in hollow form too long.]]
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* EmptyShell: The completely hollowfied [=NPC=] and [[spoiler:players that remain in hollow form too long.]]long]].
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* FantasticRacism: The game itself encourages this since a number of NPC only interact with Human players, most being shopkeepers, while Hollowed players are instantly hated by them and can only communicate with each other and will have to steal humanity. Since the more skilled players hold onto their humanity, earlier on they take souls from the less skilled Hollow players and intend to use them as an expendable army.
** The Way of White Covenant, for example, only takes human players and uses Hollow Players as slaves to clear it out. The leader of them, an NPC named Petrus of Thorolund, kicked all non-covenant Hollow Players out of the Firelink shrine and had the members of their covenant do slave labor and such. After the leader is dealt with, they claim they've changed, but Hollowfied players are reluctant to buy that.
** The Way of White Covenant, for example, only takes human players and uses Hollow Players as slaves to clear it out. The leader of them, an NPC named Petrus of Thorolund, kicked all non-covenant Hollow Players out of the Firelink shrine and had the members of their covenant do slave labor and such. After the leader is dealt with, they claim they've changed, but Hollowfied players are reluctant to buy that.
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* FantasticRacism: The game itself encourages this this, since a number of NPC [=NPCs=] only interact with Human players, most being shopkeepers, while Hollowed players are instantly hated by them and can only communicate with each other and will have to steal humanity. Since the more skilled players hold onto their humanity, earlier on they take souls from the less skilled Hollow players and intend to use them as an expendable army.
**army. The Way of White Covenant, for example, only takes human players and uses Hollow Players as slaves to clear it out. The leader of them, Their leader, an NPC named Petrus of Thorolund, kicked all non-covenant Hollow Players out of the Firelink shrine and had the members of their covenant do slave labor and such. After the leader is dealt with, they claim they've changed, but Hollowfied players are reluctant to buy that.
**
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* FunSize: Priscilla after leaving the Painted World.
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--> '''Sugou:''' [[spoiler:There are thousands of players, of all countries, and key personnel of their military echelon-there are secrets in the head of the people in here that Kingseeker has read, because he can-because I made him capable of discovering your deepest fears and turn them into reality, because I gave him the ability to peer through your very mind and find out what makes you tick-because I did this-because I did...there is no world to return to, not the one we left anyway. Maybe-Maybe they're all dead...maybe we are all dead-maybe there's nothing left at all!]]
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--> '''Sugou:''' [[spoiler:There are thousands of players, of all countries, and key personnel of their military echelon-there are secrets in the head of the people in here that Kingseeker has read, because he can-because I made him capable of discovering your deepest fears and turn them into reality, because I gave him the ability to peer through your very mind and find out what makes you tick-because I did this-because I did...there is no world to return to, not the one we left anyway. Maybe-Maybe they're all dead... maybe we are all dead-maybe there's nothing left at all!]]
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* HesBack: [[spoiler:Solaire in Chapter 37. The players who recognize him, as it had been several months, can't help but praise the sun and join him in battle.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Crysheight cuts the Seath boss fight immediately using what amounts to a hack. Kingseeker deletes him from existence for it, but it allowed them to head to the final battle.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Crysheight cuts the Seath boss fight immediately using what amounts to a hack. Kingseeker deletes him from existence for it, but it allowed them to head to the final battle.]]
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* HesBack: [[spoiler:Solaire [[spoiler:Solaire]] in Chapter 37. The players who recognize him, as it had been several months, can't help but praise [[spoiler:praise the sun sun]] and join him in battle.]]
battle.
* HeroicSacrifice:[[spoiler: Crysheight [[spoiler:Crysheight cuts the Seath boss fight immediately using what amounts to a hack. Kingseeker deletes him from existence for it, but it allowed them allows the players to head to the final battle.]]
* HeroicSacrifice:
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* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:Silica is sacrificed to the Moonlight Butterfly to tame it in a cutscene. This results in the death of her real body, as Kingseeker showed. More players follow suit, making this the one way to kill someone for good.]]
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* HumanSacrifice: HumanSacrifice:
** [[spoiler:Silica is sacrificed to the Moonlight Butterfly to tame it in a cutscene. This results in the death of her real body, as Kingseeker showed. More players follow suit, making this the one way to kill someone for good.]]
** [[spoiler:Silica is sacrificed to the Moonlight Butterfly to tame it in a cutscene. This results in the death of her real body, as Kingseeker showed. More players follow suit, making this the one way to kill someone for good.]]
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* KickTheDog: Kingseeker [[spoiler:summons a shade of Silica for the Blue Sentinels for the boss fight after it sacrificed her.]] Even the NPC calls this a dick move.
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* KickTheDog: KickTheDog:
** Kingseeker [[spoiler:summons a shade of Silica for the Blue Sentinels for the boss fight after it sacrificed her.]] Even the NPC calls this a dick move.
** Kingseeker [[spoiler:summons a shade of Silica for the Blue Sentinels for the boss fight after it sacrificed her.]] Even the NPC calls this a dick move.
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* KilledOffForReal: [=NPCs=] and True Hollows don't come back if killed. [[spoiler: So when Oscar is killed in Chapter 42, it's even more bitter.]]
** [[spoiler:Kingseeker later starts patching in circumstances where players die permanently.]]
* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: Oswald of Carim was inside the Cathedral when it burned down. That means there's no way for players who've accumulated sin to erase them, leaving it easier for the Dark Moon covenant to sniff out traitors and spies for Argo to deal with. They don't respawn either.]]
** [[spoiler:Kingseeker later starts patching in circumstances where players die permanently.]]
* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: Oswald of Carim was inside the Cathedral when it burned down. That means there's no way for players who've accumulated sin to erase them, leaving it easier for the Dark Moon covenant to sniff out traitors and spies for Argo to deal with. They don't respawn either.]]
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* KilledOffForReal: [=NPCs=] and True Hollows don't come back if killed. [[spoiler: So when Oscar is killed in Chapter 42, it's even more bitter.bitter]]. [[spoiler:Kingseeker later starts patching in circumstances where players die permanently.]]
* KilledOffScreen:
**[[spoiler:Kingseeker later starts patching in circumstances where players die permanently.]]
* KilledOffScreen:[[spoiler: Oswald of Carim was inside the Cathedral when it burned down. That means there's no way for players who've accumulated sin to erase them, leaving it easier for the Dark Moon covenant to sniff out traitors and spies for Argo to deal with. They don't respawn either.]]
* KilledOffScreen:
**
* KilledOffScreen:
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** [[spoiler: Strea and Yui in Chapter 46.]]
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** [[spoiler: Strea and Yui Yui]] in Chapter 46.]]
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* LoopholeAbuse: Kirito's faction believes this is why Yuuki has been able to skate by the game on her own. Because the system is testing humanity it focuses on the largest factions, covenants. Because she's alone, it doesn't go out of its way to hamper her.
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* LoopholeAbuse: LoopholeAbuse:
** Kirito's faction believes this is why Yuuki has been able to skate by the game on her own. Because the system is testing humanity it focuses on the largest factions, covenants. Because she's alone, it doesn't go out of its way to hamper her.
** Kirito's faction believes this is why Yuuki has been able to skate by the game on her own. Because the system is testing humanity it focuses on the largest factions, covenants. Because she's alone, it doesn't go out of its way to hamper her.
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* TheLostWoods: The forest, where EverythingTryingToKillYou and does so in a way to lead to a CruelAndUnusualDeath. And may the Sun help you if you light a fire, because then the forest gets '''[[UpToEleven mean]]'''.
--> The terrain shifted, the trees moved, the beaten paths turned to dirt and gravel and new ones sprung. Chests with treasures burst with malice and poisonous explosions, and rocks moved to unleash terrifying creatures that held precious twinkling titanite within their frames, and yet it all came at a price.
--> The terrain shifted, the trees moved, the beaten paths turned to dirt and gravel and new ones sprung. Chests with treasures burst with malice and poisonous explosions, and rocks moved to unleash terrifying creatures that held precious twinkling titanite within their frames, and yet it all came at a price.
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* TheLostWoods: The forest, where EverythingTryingToKillYou [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything wants to kill you]] and does so in a way to lead to a CruelAndUnusualDeath. And may the Sun help you if you light a fire, because then the forest gets '''[[UpToEleven mean]]'''.
--> The -->The terrain shifted, the trees moved, the beaten paths turned to dirt and gravel and new ones sprung. Chests with treasures burst with malice and poisonous explosions, and rocks moved to unleash terrifying creatures that held precious twinkling titanite within their frames, and yet it all came at a price.
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--> '''Kayaba:''' You hide your true selves behind a facade of politeness. You betray and backstab at the slightest opportunity, and you boast your humanity as if it meant anything, as if 'being human' was your fundamental right, your most cherished point of pride. Well...I have decided it is not. What happens when your life is hanging on the line? What happens when your very soul is the price to pay? I have decided you will be tested, all of you, all fifty thousand players of SAO, and I have decided this because I have the power to do so.
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* MadScientist: Grosstoad.
* MarshmallowHell: Strea to Kirito (several times), much to The Shipper Pact's delight.
** Apparently she does this to anyone, as Asuna can attest.
* MarshmallowHell: Strea to Kirito (several times), much to The Shipper Pact's delight.
** Apparently she does this to anyone, as Asuna can attest.
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* MarshmallowHell: Strea to Kirito (several times), much to The Shipper Pact's
**
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Asuna throwing herself against the Raid-boss in Chapter 26 results in them only one humanity when the rest of the groups participation ensured eighty had any of the rest killed it. She then burns it in order to talk to Kirito rather than risk losing her humanity by killing herself or working with chalk. The net result is that they've had to ban lighting checkpoint Bonfires because their supply is running out, as [=ArsPoetica=] points out, which doesn't endear the already agitated warriors to her because of everything the Way of White has done to this point.
** Kirito actually made Kingseeker crash with his gambit in Chapter 47, but as the program itself said:
--> '''Kingseeker:''' "I am happy. You killed him. You made me-me-me-me crash. But you gave me more power! I wanted to thank you. Now-I can give more ''feelings'' to everyone."
** Kirito actually made Kingseeker crash with his gambit in Chapter 47, but as the program itself said:
--> '''Kingseeker:''' "I am happy. You killed him. You made me-me-me-me crash. But you gave me more power! I wanted to thank you. Now-I can give more ''feelings'' to everyone."
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Asuna throwing herself against the Raid-boss in Chapter 26 results in them only one humanity when the rest of the groups participation ensured eighty had any of the rest killed it. She then burns it in order to talk to Kirito rather than risk losing her humanity by killing herself or working with chalk. The net result is that they've had to ban lighting checkpoint Bonfires because their supply is running out, as [=ArsPoetica=] points out, which doesn't endear the already agitated warriors to her because of everything the Way of White has done to this point.
** Kirito actually made Kingseeker crash with his gambit in Chapter 47, but as the program itselfsaid:
-->says:
---> '''Kingseeker:''' "I am happy. You killed him. You made me-me-me-me crash. But you gave me more power! I wanted to thank you. Now-I can give more ''feelings'' to everyone."
** Asuna throwing herself against the Raid-boss in Chapter 26 results in them only one humanity when the rest of the groups participation ensured eighty had any of the rest killed it. She then burns it in order to talk to Kirito rather than risk losing her humanity by killing herself or working with chalk. The net result is that they've had to ban lighting checkpoint Bonfires because their supply is running out, as [=ArsPoetica=] points out, which doesn't endear the already agitated warriors to her because of everything the Way of White has done to this point.
** Kirito actually made Kingseeker crash with his gambit in Chapter 47, but as the program itself
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---> '''Kingseeker:''' "I am happy. You killed him. You made me-me-me-me crash. But you gave me more power! I wanted to thank you. Now-I can give more ''feelings'' to everyone."
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** [[spoiler:Kingsekker erased Crysheight for hacking the game to beat Seath.]]
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** [[spoiler:Kingsekker erased erases Crysheight for hacking the game to beat Seath.]]
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* NonstandardGameOver: In-story example, but if all the bonfires are extinguished, then no player can come back to life. Everyone dies. For reference, a single piece of humanity buys a bonfire a week at one of the bigger places, but a checkpoint bonfire wouldn't last more than three days in the Asylum.
** [[spoiler:If they make it to the Fifth Year without completing the game, Kingseeker will shut it down.]]
* NoRomanticResolution: [[spoiler:It ends without the Herald making a choice.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted in the Epilogue,where he does make a choice, but it is not revealed who it is.]]
** [[spoiler:If they make it to the Fifth Year without completing the game, Kingseeker will shut it down.]]
* NoRomanticResolution: [[spoiler:It ends without the Herald making a choice.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted in the Epilogue,where he does make a choice, but it is not revealed who it is.]]
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* NonstandardGameOver: In-story example, but if examples:
** (f all the bonfires are extinguished, then no player can come back to life. Everyone dies. For reference, a single piece of humanity buys a bonfire a week at one of the bigger places, but a checkpoint bonfire wouldn't last more than three days in the Asylum.
**[[spoiler:If they If the players make it to the Fifth Year without completing the game, Kingseeker [[spoiler:Kingseeker will shut it down.]]
* NoRomanticResolution:[[spoiler:It The story ends without [[spoiler:without the Herald making a choice.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted inchoice]]. Subverted [[spoiler:in the Epilogue,where Epilogue, where he does make a choice, but it is not revealed who it is.]]is]].
** (f all the bonfires are extinguished, then no player can come back to life. Everyone dies. For reference, a single piece of humanity buys a bonfire a week at one of the bigger places, but a checkpoint bonfire wouldn't last more than three days in the Asylum.
**
* NoRomanticResolution:
** [[spoiler:Subverted in
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--> '''Sugou:''' I swear I didn't know about this! I was the Game Master Kayaba quieted down! I was supposed to welcome you all and then test you from the shadows, but you were all supposed to be able to log out! The true purpose was to see after how much a human player would stop playing a game that didn't adequately reward him!
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* ThePurge: Argo carries one out against spies and traitors in the Way of White and Warriors of Sunlight in Chapter 34.
** [[spoiler:All of the Gravelord Servants were player purged when Nito was defeated in Chapter 35, becoming NPC Hollows.]]
** [[spoiler:All of the Gravelord Servants were player purged when Nito was defeated in Chapter 35, becoming NPC Hollows.]]
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* ThePurge: ThePurge:
** Argo carries one out against spies and traitors in the Way of White and Warriors of Sunlight in Chapter 34.
** [[spoiler:All of the Gravelord Servantswere are player purged when Nito was Nito's defeated in Chapter 35, becoming NPC Hollows.]]
** Argo carries one out against spies and traitors in the Way of White and Warriors of Sunlight in Chapter 34.
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* SoloCharacterRun: [[AvertedTrope Not here.]] The setting is way too merciless for anyone sane to pull the Solo act like Kirito did in canon. Enemies swarm and health drops really fast.
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* YouShallNotPass: YouShallNotPass:
** Ashaeron and his group hold the line to protect Solaire. [[spoiler: Ashaeron makes a HeroicSacrifice to keep them pinned down, sacrificing himself and being killed off permanently.]]
** Ashaeron and his group hold the line to protect Solaire. [[spoiler: Ashaeron makes a HeroicSacrifice to keep them pinned down, sacrificing himself and being killed off permanently.]]
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* DoYouTrustMe: [[spoiler: Kirito asks this to Silica's summoned shade when it proves sentient because of Kingseeker in 42. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming She does]].]]
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* DoYouTrustMe: [[spoiler: Kirito asks this to Silica's summoned shade when it proves sentient because of Kingseeker in 42. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming She does]].]]
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* CrapsackWorld: They're in the DarkSouls world. Let that sink in.
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[[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/souls-art-online-ds-sao.17289 Souls Art Online]] is an AU fanfic of the popular anime and light novel series ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', by [=Shadenight123=]. The game this time is an MMO take on the first Dark Souls game, seen through Kirito's eyes as the first days pass, he helps newbies and somehow becomes the head of a guild. Dark Souls is living up to the name as monsters become tougher, racism fractures players between the 'undead' and 'alive' sides and the game itself appears to be aiming to screw people over, whether it's from making particular mobs live up to their lore or devise dastardly traps for people to wander into.
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''Souls Art Online'' is an AU FanFic of the popular anime and light novel series ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3864170/Shadenight123 Shadenight123.]] The game this time is an MMO take on the first ''VideoGame/{{Dark Souls|I}}'' game, seen through Kirito's eyes as the first days pass while he helps newbies and somehow becomes the head of a guild. ''Dark Souls'' lives up to its name as monsters become tougher, racism fractures players between the "undead" and "alive" sides, and the game itself appears to be aiming to screw people over, whether it's from making particular mobs live up to their lore or devising dastardly traps for people to wander into.
The story, now completed, can be found [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/souls-art-online-ds-sao.17289Souls Art Online]] is an AU fanfic of the popular anime here]] and light novel series ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', by [=Shadenight123=]. The game this time is an MMO take on the first Dark Souls game, seen through Kirito's eyes as the first days pass, he helps newbies and somehow becomes the head of a guild. Dark Souls is living up to the name as monsters become tougher, racism fractures players between the 'undead' and 'alive' sides and the game itself appears to be aiming to screw people over, whether it's from making particular mobs live up to their lore or devise dastardly traps for people to wander into.
The story is now completed.
[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11411017/1/Souls-Art-Online here.]]
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: A fair number of players develop this mindset, especially when the game is capable of inflicting a death lasting hours before you finally shatter into pixels. At least a OneHitKO is painless.
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** [[spoiler: Havel the Rock appears to take on Kalameet with the Way of the White and Sunbros.]]
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** [[spoiler: Havel [[spoiler:Havel the Rock appears to take on Kalameet with the Way of the White and Sunbros.]]
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* {{Badass}}: Lore makes it clear that Havel is a goddamn beast and one person they shouldn't fight if they don't have to.
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** [[spoiler:Subverted in the Epilogue,where he does make a choice, but it is not revealed who it is.]]
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* NoRomanticResolution: [[spoiler:It ends without the Herald making a choice.]]
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* NoRomanticResolution: [[spoiler:It ends without the Herald making a choice.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Several players in the game no longer have bodies to go back to, meaning only their consciousness' survived.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:'''YES!''' It took everything they had, but ultimately the ending brought everyone who died and didn't have their plugs back to life. Those who did have their [[BrainUploading souls]] moved to an online paradise of their choosing. Even Priscilla is online in a virtual sense.]]
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** [[spoiler:The surviving members of the raid pull this to stop the Black Knights from interrupting the duel between Kirito and Gwyn.]]
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* TheChosenOne: Kirito receives this title in Chapter 30.
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* TheChosenOne: Kirito receives this title in Chapter 30. [[spoiler:It turns out to be important because ''only'' the Chosen One can face Gwyn. To everyone else, he's an immortal object.]]
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** [[spoiler:Kingsekker erased Crysheight for hacking the game to beat Seath.]]
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** Seath the Scaleless as well.
* BerserkButton: '''Cheating''' for Kingseeker. It doesn't mind when you TakeAThirdOption, but dicking around with the system to mess with the fluctlight is the one thing that essentially drives it mad with rage enough to eclipse its intrigue in humanity.
** [[spoiler:Crysheight just erases the fluctlight connection with Seath, causing it to die instantly and open up the path for the Warriors of Sunlight ahead of time.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Crysheight cuts the Seath boss fight immediately using what amounts to a hack. Kingseeker deletes him from existence for it, but it allowed them to head to the final battle.]]
** [[spoiler:Kingseeker later starts patching in circumstances where players die permanently.]]
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** Chapter 57 [[DramaticIrony ironically]] has Ars do this, leading where mass permanent deaths would occur in the next fight, and [=FengLengshun=] ''flips out'' and pushes him over the edge of the cavern, onto an invisible bridge.
--> '''[=FengLengshun=]''': "It's in the '''FUCKING MANUAAAAALLLLL!'''"
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* {{Dracolich}}: The dragon in Chapter 56.
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* FromBadToWorse: Chapter 56 in a nutshell. [[spoiler:It starts with an army of Black Knights and ends with an {{Dracolich}}.]]
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Most [=NPCs=] like Priscilla act how they see fit by Chapter 50. [[spoiler:Kingseeker itself included, now enjoying the challenge presented by the players.]]
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* IntriguedByHumanity: [[spoiler:Kingseeker admits this much in Chapter 54.]]
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* EldritchAbomination: Kingseeker decided to add Chthullu to the game when the group invaded the Duke's Archives.
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* ThrowAwayGuns: [=OhIAmSlain=] practices this with his crossbows in Chapter 54.
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* TomeOfEldritchLore: The channelers in the Duke's Archives somehow got their hands on the {{Necronomicon}} and summoned a Chuthullu-esque monster until a bunch of the Warriors of Sunlight got their hands on it and [[HollywoodAcid melted it]].
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* CuttingTheKnot: By the time Chapter 52 rolls around, the players start doing this. If there's a boss ahead, they'll use cannons to blow through the walls and drop the ceiling on it. Kingseeker, on the other hand, relishes the challenge.
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* WhipItGood: FrakirsBrother managed to perfect a [[ElementalWeapon Fire Whip]] spell, which he uses in battle to grab enemies and slam them into others.
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* WhipItGood: FrakirsBrother [=FrakirsBrother=] managed to perfect a [[ElementalWeapon Fire Whip]] spell, which he uses in battle to grab enemies and slam them into others.
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* BloodSplatteredWarrior: Priscilla in Chapter 51. Note that it ''doesn't'' deter her worshipers.
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* ConjoinedTwins: Quelaag and her sister were conjoined in the real world, before ending up in the game.
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* DeathSeeker: Ceaseless Discharge wants them to kill him and ease his aching and suffering due to his body.
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* HappyPlace: A notable amount of the people raiding the Chaos Servants are in this sort of mindset. Kirito has to tell them to stop taking Grosstoad's drugs.
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[[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/souls-art-online-ds-sao.17289 Souls Art Online]] is an AU fanfic of the popular anime and light novel series ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', by Shadenight123.[=Shadenight123=]. The game this time is an MMO take on the first Dark Souls game, seen through Kirito's eyes as the first days pass, he helps newbies and somehow becomes the head of a guild. Dark Souls is living up to the name as monsters become tougher, racism fractures players between the 'undead' and 'alive' sides and the game itself appears to be aiming to screw people over, whether it's from making particular mobs live up to their lore or devise dastardly traps for people to wander into.
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** [[spoiler: Havel the Rock appears to take on Kalameet with the Way of the White and Sunbros.]]
* CastingAShadow: Kalameet in Chapter 49.
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Kalameet refused to stay down until they utterly destroyed his heart.]]
* TheDragonslayer: Havel the Rock. [[spoiler:Asuna receives the title as well in Chapter 49.]]
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** The Stone Knight in the forest is normally a group-size boss, and tough on its own. The moment someone uses fire, it become Balrog and starts smiting them. This is the first clue that using fire is a no-no inside the forest.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Asuna throwing herself against the Raid-boss in Chapter 26 [[spoiler:results in them only one humanity when the rest of the groups participation ensured eighty had any of the rest killed it. She then burns it in order to talk to Kirito rather than risk losing her humanity by killing herself or working with chalk. The net result is that they've had to ban lighting checkpoint Bonfires because their supply is running out, as [=ArsPoetica=] points out, which doesn't endear the already agitated warriors to her because of everything the Way of White has done to this point.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Asuna throwing herself against the Raid-boss in Chapter 26 [[spoiler:results results in them only one humanity when the rest of the groups participation ensured eighty had any of the rest killed it. She then burns it in order to talk to Kirito rather than risk losing her humanity by killing herself or working with chalk. The net result is that they've had to ban lighting checkpoint Bonfires because their supply is running out, as [=ArsPoetica=] points out, which doesn't endear the already agitated warriors to her because of everything the Way of White has done to this point.]]point.
** Kirito actually made Kingseeker crash with his gambit in Chapter 47, but as the program itself said:
--> '''Kingseeker:''' "I am happy. You killed him. You made me-me-me-me crash. But you gave me more power! I wanted to thank you. Now-I can give more ''feelings'' to everyone."
** Kirito actually made Kingseeker crash with his gambit in Chapter 47, but as the program itself said:
--> '''Kingseeker:''' "I am happy. You killed him. You made me-me-me-me crash. But you gave me more power! I wanted to thank you. Now-I can give more ''feelings'' to everyone."
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted, Kingseeker was designed to test people using more and more extreme methods.
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* KidnappedByTheCall: Shortly after the beginning of the story, Kirito is kidnapped by a [[GiantFlyer giant raven]] and sent back to the Asylum, where he gets a quest to escort players out of the area. This becomes the first step on a path that turns Kirito into something he didn't intend to be: A leader.
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* KillerGameMaster: Kingseeker doesn't just want you to die; it wants you to ''suffer''.
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* YouBastard: Kingseeker does this to players in-universe. [[spoiler: It shows them images of player's dying in the real world. It's not clear if the images are real or not.]]
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* DamagerHealerTank: The builds have this, with the Chaplains (High-Faith builds) being healers, the mages being damage, and the other players being tanks primarily.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Sugou, [[spoiler:after he realizes the extent of how far Higa's ArtificialIntelligence extended.]]
--> '''Sugou:''' [[spoiler:There are thousands of players, of all countries, and key personnel of their military echelon-there are secrets in the head of the people in here that Kingseeker has read, because he can-because I made him capable of discovering your deepest fears and turn them into reality, because I gave him the ability to peer through your very mind and find out what makes you tick-because I did this-because I did...there is no world to return to, not the one we left anyway. Maybe-Maybe they're all dead...maybe we are all dead-maybe there's nothing left at all!]]
--> '''Sugou:''' [[spoiler:There are thousands of players, of all countries, and key personnel of their military echelon-there are secrets in the head of the people in here that Kingseeker has read, because he can-because I made him capable of discovering your deepest fears and turn them into reality, because I gave him the ability to peer through your very mind and find out what makes you tick-because I did this-because I did...there is no world to return to, not the one we left anyway. Maybe-Maybe they're all dead...maybe we are all dead-maybe there's nothing left at all!]]
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--> '''Sugou:''' I swear I didn't know about this! I was the Game Master Kayaba quieted down! I was supposed to welcome you all and then test you from the shadows, but you were all supposed to be able to log out! The true purpose was to see after how much a human player would stop playing a game that didn't adequately reward him!
--> '''Sugou:''' I swear I didn't know about this! I was the Game Master Kayaba quieted down! I was supposed to welcome you all and then test you from the shadows, but you were all supposed to be able to log out! The true purpose was to see after how much a human player would stop playing a game that didn't adequately reward him!
