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Ooo! This is good. This is really good! I like this idea. It's very inventive, and I would be very interested in playing it. Trapped in a video game as one of the Sonic characters...It will be fun.

I did a certain RP like this on another board, titled 'Tales of the RP Dome'. It was essentially sort of like replicating the IC-tech of the MFW's RP Guild, except with a more .hack twist (like, for instance, one could say 'CODE: OOC!' to halt the IC action and bring all characters involved back to the main lobby.

Either way, intriguing idea; I'll see if I have tie to participate.

I like the sound of this!

The thing that first struck me about it when you were explaining it was the thought of being trapped...for starters, the characters would be really excited etc, but when they realised they were trapped they would go out of character to the charater they were playing and become themselves, but in a heroe's body. For that, it would probably be best having characters outside of the game, like for eg:

James, a 19 year old collage student, who is very shy and reserved. He joins the game and becomes Knuckles, because he likes being powerful, and plays the part in character, but when he realises he's stuck he reverts to his natural state.

Something along those lines, so the characters would be in the bodies of the heroes, but have their own personallity.

Is that what you were meaning? That's what struck me anywho. The playing of the real world reacting to their situation has potential too, although I'm not sure how the characters in game would interact with the real world.

As far as character selection goes, I'd say first come-first served would be reasonable. If you wanted to be really interesting, you could even have people joining the computer game as bad guys, and suddenly they realise they may have to injure the other players to play the game. Same for the Heroes, they descover they have to kill Robotnik to end the game (or something), but aren't sure if it will kill the human playing him.

I'd definitely be interested in this!^^

YES! Wraith, that's a major part of what I'm imagining for this RP, I think you're hitting on what I'm meaning! That's the beauty of this RP, the players themselves may start out enjoying the thrill of taking on the role of their favorite character, and will essentially be that character with all of their powers and such. But after they realize that they're stuck, yes, they lose the enthusiasm (or gain more, depending on the player!) and they revert back to their natural personalities.

This of course creates innumerable possibilities. Imagine a timid Knuckles, or a hot-tempered Tails! And of course, this then opens up the possibilities for intercharacter relationships. When I say that, I mean the full range from full-blown love to deepest and utter hatred. Any two of the characters could have a rivalry, could be the best of friends, could fall in love, or enjoy insulting each other as they work together as a great team. This could be further complicated by the players' real life identities, who might be far older or younger than the characters they are playing as! Not to mention social station and gender, although I don't feel like it should get too off-track with silliness like all the guy characters are being played by girls and vice versa or something like that. That's why I'm debating the gender restriction, to reduce possible confusion. The idea of the gender switching came from .hack's main character who was a boy in the game but turned out to be a girl in the real world, if I understand it correctly.

But even though they'll have their personalities, they'll also have the powers of whatever character they chose. I personally imagine that Knuckles, for example, will be more in tune with the Emeralds due to his connection with the Master Emerald. Not to mention fists harder than steel and the strength to back them up! Sonic would be able to create enough rotational force to literally shred through targets and run at sonic speed, and Tails could literally fly almost freely. Of course, the list goes on and on, but these people will have powers that may either work well with or conflict with their personalities.

But, like in games like Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, or other games and cartoons where characters are thrown into a fantasy world, some of the characters may never want to leave the game. It may be because their normal lives were just dull, or they didn't see life as really worth living. In this fantasy world, they could have more meaning than in the real world, and might even resist the idea of getting out of the game. After all, if the game is more exciting than real life, it may be the achievement of their dreams to be permanently stuck into the game. Obviously not everyone will feel that way though, as others will remember family and friends they left behind, or other important things that they have to attend to.

So yes. And as for the idea of people playing as bad guys, I was thinking that primarily it would be good guys and strictly official characters, but it would possibly also include Rouge and Shadow, who aren't strictly "good" but are still not necessarily with Eggman either. And as for Eggman, I was thinking that the players might think that he's just part of the game itself, and might or might not find out that it's actually a real human player near the end. It could be a fellow player like themselves, or it could even be one of the people who designed the console, and is the real reason why the game is malfunctioning and not letting anyone out!

So there you go. Any other comments, questions ideas and whatnot are welcome.

OOC: There were 2 0f these on this board awhile back. I'd be interested to say the least.

I'm limited on time at this given momment so yeah.

Wow. Tergonaut, just wow.

I was just reading through the roleplay list to check for updates and make a post on some that i'm in, and most fortunately, this caught my eye.

The way i understand this, there could be players who adopt the roles of characters such as Sonic, play them out well, but then once they realise they are stuck within the game, they revert to their normal personailites, but as do so while being trapped inside the body of their favourite game character from the sonic the hedgehog series. It would be very interesting to see someone play as Shadow but be incredibly cuatious of using any of his abilities in fear of hurting anyone. Or even someone who plays as Tails, and decides to create machines more thoroughly geared toward combat purposes than what Tails himself would create. Can you see cute fuzzy little tails walking around with two laser pistols holstered onto him? cute... but deadly. XD

Come to think of it, if i were to participate in this RP, i'd probably either be Shadow or Tails and play under those circumstances.

Tergonaut, this RP is an interesting idea, i love the key themes that are involved here.

Unfortunately, i seem to be low on RP time as of recent, with end of year exams being about 4 weeks away. Although, i am spacing out my study and i am trying not to stress myself out, and i have been working hard to ensure i have little to no homework altely, giving me more time for study and more time for play. So as far as balancing time goes, i should be okay. I have been told by many people, including my parents, that i am a person with good time management skills.

This is a fantastic RP idea and i really don't want to pass up this chance. You cna understand my dilemma, but as mentioned, i should be able to efficiently balance out some time. If i do participate in this RP, then one condition will have to be that i cannot write posts as long as those that i normally would write in 'Forest of the Future', or 'The Rise and Fall', i don't intend to write short posts with a single action or a single quote from my character, although i cannot write my usual 'story length' posts either. i will find a compromise.

That aside, i would like to ask, of the two character scenarios i mentioned above, Shadow and Tails, which of the two would you all rather see within this RP? I know that i cannot have both these characters, nor do i intend to take both, but i really can't decide. Although to be honest i think i might end up with Tails, mainly because i can just see EVERYONE wanting to play as Shadow. Not that i mind, because Tails is just as cool a choice for me.

So yeah, opinions please. Also, anyone who wants to be Shadow, please speak now or forever hold your peace.

Thakns for your time everyone, this RP looks ot be a very promising one!

I want to play Shadow. So there. I said it.

I'd like to slip into the RP, perchance, to get myself back into RP flow. :3

'course, given this is only a prelim RP Idea's post, I'll not have a whole lot to say...but I'll always have a vested interest in the part of Sonic's player. 😛

~Slinks into the shadows of lurk, to see what else is thought of~

That was quick Froggy22651 XD

Tails for me then please!

Hmmm... I'd ask for Amy or Rouge, but that would be too predictable, and you'd expect me to get it on with Froggy. Again.

Baggsy me Knuckles, then. Just so that I get to beat the crap out of all of you, especially whoever plays Sonic.

I'll be either Sonic...or Rouge. (thinks of the possibilities)

EDIT: It seems springheart's picked Sonic. I suppose I'll be the seductress then. 😛

This sort of thing always has a character left out, and someone needs to take that characters' place. I can see Amy being left player-less and Tergonaut having to NPC her. Of course, that also depends upon how many characters we all decide on, as Big and Cream might be in it as well.

We all should know that going ballistic with a cast of 101 characters from every corner of the Sonic universes is a bad idea. Does anyone have particular suggestions for how far the cast list should go?

Anyway, my other point, which I started getting at in the first paragraph, is this: I will take a 'leftover character'.

My opinions:
Sonic: I can never play a good Sonic.
Tails: Too easy for me to play as.
Knuckles: Same as Tails.
Shadow: Same as Sonic.
Amy: I think, if I partake of root bear floats (for insanity), pop music (for mood), and have a distinct lack of sleep (just 'cause), I could play an Amy that I would like.
Rouge: I always want to play as Rouge. Don't ask me why.
Big: I'm neutral on Big. If he'll be there, I don't have any reason to not take him.
Cream: I...don't like little girls.

I'll stick with what I said earlier, that I'll take whoever's left. I just thought I'd toss in my opinionated blargle.

Of course, my character-based opinions mean nothing if I'm playing a character who is trying to roleplay one of them. It is totally dependant on the character I make. I could make a character who wants to be Amy, but just can't get the roleplaying down right. That would work wonderfully for me, and save me from 24-hour parties with root bear floats and pop music.

Given that I Rp Sonic a whole lot, it'll be an interesting take to play as somebody ELSE Rp'ing him. 😛
It'll almost be like playing myself...but not quite.

Good to see all the interest! I figured this would be an intriguing idea, but I'm also glad I started working it out this way instead of just starting it.

As for everyone picking characters right away, I think character selection should be made when the RP actually begins. That will help prevent people picking a character now and then never showing up when the RP itself starts, for whatever reason. Obviously everyone wants to pick favorite characters - but one of the questions might be, is it just limited to those characters, or should we extend it to Archie/SatAM characters, or strictly SegaSonic characters, or both? I'm thinking SegaSonic, but looking at the wide variety of characters including the Chaotix. At the same time though I don't want too many characters to choose from because I'd like to avoid leaving any characters out, like Amy. I'd actually be willing to RP Amy, I certainly would need a character of my own to participate in my own RP. 😛 But yes, ultimately I'd like a list of characters to select from, not too many characters but certainly not too few. I'll make a sample list, others are free to do the same.

Wraith, James, Wayfarer, thanks for your input! I am looking for more ideas to spin onto this core concept, and your comments are certainly appreciated to get a better idea of how people see this.

James has got the right idea about contrasting personalities. Don't think that you have to have a character with a contrasting personality, however - your character may literally HAVE the personality of the character they play as! But that should not be the case for everyone either, something I've noticed is that many people do better with a character who is only partially different from themselves, rather than either the same or directly opposite of their own personality. So there should be differences between all of the characters in the way they treat their roleplaying as well as actually dealing with the situation.

Here's the sample list:

Sonic
Miles "Tails" Prower
Knuckles
Amy Rose
Shadow (tentative; might be only available as an NPC)
Rouge
Cream
Big

I might not be thinking of all the characters I'd like, but this seems to cover a wide spread while keeping it down to maybe eight different RPers maximum.

If there's still room left in this RP,
I request that I be able to play as Metal.
If not, then I'll take whoever's left-- if any.

Here's another thing to consider; as things with the virtual reality go wrong (as we know they will), there's another thing to consider: foriegn material. To be frank, I'm speaking of computer viruses.

After all, a VR world as advanced as this one would have to be connected to a computer terminal of some sort. As a matter of fact, that could be how the players become unable to log out to begin with; the virus prevents them from doing so.

For that matter, what would happen if the virus downloads ITSELF into the players? (runs before rampant ideas begin)

OOC: Since Fang/Nack is a offical character in terms, I'd like to play him. Heh.

Ok as to characters that I would want to play, here's my 10 cents:

Big and Cream ~ Sorry, but no. Just...no.

Sonic the Hedgehog ~ Yeah maybe, but I don't think I could do him justice.

Rouge and Shadow ~ Again maybe, but I'm afraid I haven't seen any of the Sonic Adveture series, so my experience of the characters would be limited to Sonic Heroes. This could result in mistakes.

Any of the Chaotix crew ~ Yeah, especially Espio...I'd love to play him, but again I haven't seen the game they starred in, so my experience is limited to SH. That being said, these characters were also in the Fleetway StC, which I was a fan of, so I could draw on them from that, butit may not be 100% true to the Sega characters.

Amy ~ Eep...ok if nessecery, but I'd rather not.

Knux and Tails ~ These characters are the ones I've had most experience with, so they'd be most accurate, and I wouldn't mind playing them too, if ness.

Needless to say I'm open to negotiation...I'll even go so far as to play Amy if I can get into this RP, but I'm afraid my experience wih some characters isn't very detailed.

Same goes for SatAM and Archie characters...I haven't yet read any of the Archie comics (although I'm now trying to collect them) so I don't really know anything much about Sally, Rotor, etc, apart from the bits of comic strips that I've seen in various places.

That being said, maybe experience wouldn't really matter that much in a story like this...it's concievable that one of the characters wouln't even have played Sonic, and has just joined the game since he won the compo or something...idk.

Anywho yeah, I'll keep my ear to the ground and just slot in wherever I can...so long as I get to be in the story I don't care wether I'm the guy that polishes the floor in Robotnik's base lol^^

Okie...here's how I would feel about characters. I'm a bit versatile, so I can do practically any of the main characters.

Sonic the Hedgehog: Fast, care-free, and anti-Eggman? Check.

Tails: Innocent, a genius, a brave soul, yet somewhat timid initially? Check.

Knuckles the Echidna: Rough, tough, proud, bad social skills and intelligent (yet lacking in common sense?). Check.

Amy Rose: Sweet, Sonic-crazy, easy to scare, yet pulls out a hammer when push comes to shove? Check.

Big the Cat: Dopey, naive, yet inexplicably walks right into the hands of the enemy in the process of resucing a friend in need? Check-a-roonie.

Shadow: Angst, calm cockiness, angst, bad memories, and more angst? Check.

Rouge: Sexy, sly, a smooth talker, and not afraid to tell it is (or to use all tools at her disposal)? Check.

The only ones I'm not sure about are the Chaotix crew and Cream...because I have not played a game with them in it.

The chaotix would be a must-have, since they seem to be canons now. Also, I'd liek to give a whack at Vector.... since Mike seems interested in Fang. Anyway, this RP is an excellent idea and I'd like to see how it turns out.

-Mega

I already said I want to be Knuckles. Come on! It's pounding time!

This role play idea sounds good I will participate, I see that Nack was already taken so I think that I will use Nic the sister of Nack or Omega if im not alowed to play as Nic, is that okay Tergonaut?.

I guess that leaves me to Espio then, so long as no one minds me filling in a little of Fleetway with it.

The Fleetway Espio was baised on the Sega one, so he should be pretty close

Da Chamelion is claimed.

if Shadows not taken then I'd like to fill in with him...
Someone aloof, apart from the rest but still interacts with them when needed and likes things a little darker anyway...

Looking back over the topic...

But if Froggy still wants him then, seeing as this is meant to be a test of a online Sonic game and there will be loads of characters I officially claim Blaze.

Which means that depending on how her character comes out in Sonic Rush could severely affect my chances...

I made my choice, I will play as Omega.

This sounds almost exactly like a Ragnarok Online anime idea I had. Which means, it sounds totally awesome. =P

Unfortunately, I seem to be at a miss for interest characters... I guess I'll pass.

Terg, I'd kiss you, but that's acrio's job. I've been wanting to see an RP idea ever since I read kill-o-byte. for reasons of my own, (and That i'll probably PM you about, as I don't want to give it away >_>) I'd like to go as any possible open baddy, with Chaos 0 at the top of my list, but if you can't have him, any one with a fairly malicious streak I'd like. Dang you people for calling Shadow and nack! *shakes fist*

Then I guess I'll be Vanilla.

...

Wait, maybe not. I'll be Big, then, since all the 'cool' characters are taken up. :p Actually, Big might be some fun.

Really appreciate all of this enthusiasm! Though I was hoping for more suggestions about the range of characters to choose from and less on who wants which characters. Besides, unless you count me snatching Amy (and I think someone wanted to RP her too), you didn't leave me anybody to RP with! 😛

I'm thinking that extraneous characters, like Chaos 0 or Metal Sonic, shouldn't be options. Shadow himself is also sort of iffy since he is clearly a popularized fan favorite (for good or ill). And Vanilla doesn't strike me as an action character that would be chosen. Blaze, I don't know when Sonic Rush will be released, but I'm leery of allowing her since we hardly know what she's like at all and so we might not know how to RP her at all, though it is true that no experience is necessary. I don't like limiting possibilities since it could expand roleplaying potential, and I'm not trying to pick on people here, but my "canon sense" is just telling me not to go off and allow every character and their mom to be playable characters for this. That's why I suggested a list, and defining it, so we could then get an idea of how many players and which characters we'd have.

I'm not planning on starting this RP this week; but when I do, I think I might open two threads for it, one here, and one on the Eliteboard MoFo. That way, multiple people could choose the same character, but in different threads. Of course, that would obviously create a huge workload for me if I tried to heft it on my own, so now that I think about it, I probably won't. But if someone else wants to open up another thread on Eliteboard and go over there, they are certainly welcome to.

When would everyone like to start? And I'd imagine this RP wouldn't be too long of one, there would be plenty of adventure and RPing opportunities but this should be short enough to achieve within a few months, depending on how often people post. I don't want to start this thread only to either see it die or only get a few posts after this and then hardly get one or two posts every week. Which means, if you pick a character and you join, I would expect a certain level of commitment. If someone had to drop out, they could do so, but preferably they'd at least let me know so we don't wait eons for someone who dropped to post again.

And Ultra's point about viruses might come in, though I'm thinking the main threat will come from the game itself. However, it could be a virus that makes the situation more complicated indeed...

Anyhow, there's another post from me. More input on how you feel about this idea and ways to improve it are encouraged, especially about starting time and such.

If possible, this weekened at the earliest. Judging from posts on this thread, people are starting to feel itchy.

As for starting point of the RP itself...let's have it so that it starts right after the winners of the contest have been announced, so we can get right into the virtual action.

Well, I was thinking about the other characters which should be available, and well, this is what I came up with:

Mighty the Armadillo
Ray the Squirrel
Heavy
Bomb
Bean the Dynamite Duck
Bark the Polar Bear (Interesting note about him, I was playing Sonic Champsionship, and he was noted "Bark the Polerbear", but anyway...)
E-102 Gamma (Could be a possiblity, if Terg was to allow it)
Charmy Bee

Now, those listed are all which have appeared in at least one Sonic the Hedgehog game, so they're all SegaSonic. Though, I'm pretty sure there's more, but they're not coming to mind right now.

Archie Sonic has a wide range of characters, as most of us should know. For some reason, I just don't see most of them being able to tie-in with this type of RP, though I'm pretty sure it is possible.

Fleetway. Ah, sweet Fleetway, how little I know about you. This is pretty much ditto as the above.

Sonic Underground. There's another possibility, someone acting as Sonic's long-lost brother and sister, Manic and Sonia, respectively. Or even Sleet and Dingo, two of the villains from that series.

I'm almost as blind to Sonic X as I am to Fleetway, as I haven't seen much of it, only the first 9 DVDs, and I'm unaware of all the characters in it, human or not.

And there's even the good ol' Sonic OVA, where there is the memorable character of Sera, and her father, the President.

But, yes, there's my two cents worth.

And to answer your question, Terg, I'm ready to start whenever you're ready to get this thing in motion.

Starting time...whenever's good for me^^

As far as characters, I agree Terg that it would be a good idea to limit certain characters, but to be honest, just look at the interest here. Do you really think you'd be able to put any sort of major limitation on it without someone getting squeezed out and ending up not being able to join?

It's a difficult one, that's for sure, and if there were a few less people I'd be tempted to say do it and just appoligise to those that don't get in, but with so many replying, I really don't know what to sugest o.O

I think that a limit of charas woudl be a good idea. A nice list, IMO, would be all teh heroes cast, Fang, Bark, and Bean. As for a start date, it doesn't matter to me. I just wanna have fun with his puppy. =D

>.O! Why'd I have to come so late. I wanted Espio. ;_;

Oh well. I'll probably take Mighty. Awesome idea, Terg!

Let's not forget the external world of reality: People like teh Game's staff an' such monitoring the kids on behalf of the parents - and making sure they don't get sued of course. :3
After all, it's not just the internal world fo the game where the action'll be...parents will be concerned, the Media will be working for on-the-spot emmy's, and all the while the game's programmer's will be working effortlessly on whatever prolems arise during the course of the 'interactive' trip the kids are on - it'd be interesting to see how those reactions an' interactions would go!

Also, how about some kind of interactive, but externally controlled navi for the benefit of the kids...maybe shoehorned in as the game goes awry, and the outside needs to communicate with the inside...but since no one person is hooked up to it, there's all sorts of chances for sabotage an' deception by the wrong people. :3

And one more wacky idea for the road: Some kinda Private messaging method...so when the kids inserted into the software start hearing the voices of whoever's talking to them, none of the other kids can be sure if they really ARE getting messages or are just cracking up or reacting badly to the experience?
Think of the way that'd cause a l'il mistrust in the ranks...somebody LOOKS like they're cracking up and hearing voices 'til somebody else gets it too, then another.
At what point would they start really accept what's going on and work together after the initial cracking of the team spirit?

I don't think I've communicated the ideas well, but if ya backtrack an' read then think about it, it should make a lick of sense at least. ^^

<Ticks off 'contribute to RP ideas' off of his 'To-do' list, and strolls off. XD>

Dang, it sucks that I've only just came into the discussion of a really interesting and exciting potential experience. As such, many people have already shown a wide interest and 'bagged' characters as such, whilst at the same time a limit is also wanted as well, which, I have to agree is a good idea otherwise too many people means a greater chance of people dropping out, making the RP go wrong, or just the sheer high level of confusion it also brings to an RP if there are so many players.

It's also a shame to see so many of the more popular characters already chosen and thus leaving the more less desired characters left, which is a shame to say, at least.

I really want to join this RP, but the fact that it does have so much attention is a bit worrying. If at all possible though, given how little choices there are left anyway, I'm fine with Charmy.

And lastly, Segasonic should be the most ideal universe to keep within, as from the results here it shows everyone knows about it, whilst introducing other universes that some people aren't so knowledgable on only helps to add to confusion as well as a whole universe of characters as well.

Villains are an interesting idea, but in my opinion should be kept as either NPCs or characters controlled by the topic creator.

Again, Shadow is a very interesting character with a lot of interesting potential for such an RP as this, but if not roleplayed very well would just end up as overly powerful and cheap. He shouldn't be a player character unless controlled by the topic creator, or left as an NPC (or maybe even just kept out of it altogether).

...and that's my thoughts.

...or maybe you could just trust me to not screw up, eh?

Thanks for all of the interest! I'm glad to have gotten some more input, really appreciate the thoughtful comments. These are all steps towards making this RP an overall better one as it is set up with the kind of insights that have been presented here in this thread.

I just went back and counted how many people in total are interested...and counting myself, that runs up to 16 people. That means sixteen characters, not including NPCs. I'm sure that no one will have more than one character in this RP, so at least we don't have to worry about supplementing more than that, assuming everyone who displayed an interest is still ready to go when this begins.

Now, before we go any further, I gotta apologize for all of the confusion over picking characters - please stop picking characters before we even begin the RP, since it's not yet been determined just which characters would be allowable. I didn't make that 100% clear and by now everyone's pretty much picked their characters, but if you'll be patient I'll need your help.

So! What I need help with, is assembling together enough characters to supply everyone, while not necessarily choosing just any character that comes to mind. I think everyone agrees on using purely SegaSonic characters, which does limit our range by quite a bit but should be a ton easier to work with and would be more realistic for SEGA to make a game with anyway. Not to mention that's what everyone seems more familiar with overall. However, for those characters with only one or two game appearances, it's okay to draw on other sources (the comics, etc.) to expand on how to RP the character "in character."

However, another limitation on characters: No villain characters. This means Metal Sonic, Eggman, and Chaos are out, specifically. Ideally, all of the characters should be "good guys" or at least neutral, so I'd say someone like Nack might be okay, it might be conceivable for someone like him to be hired or otherwise given the motive to play for the good guy's team this round. I think I'll reverse my decision on Vanilla, as we're going to need all the help we can get at this point and not all of the characters have to be combat-capable to participate, though ideally the characters should have some kind of role they can play to assist or something.

Trying to extend the list as far as I can without resorting to aforementioned "banned" characters, here's what I got:

1 Sonic
2 Tails
3 Knuckles
4 Amy
5 Big
6 Rouge
7 Shadow
8 Cream
9 Vanilla
10 Omega
11 Vector
12 Espio
13 Mighty
14 Charmy
15 Nack
16 Nic (am I spelling that right?)

Okay, I managed to cobble that up (Was Nic ever in any of the games or was she a character in one of the comics?) on my own, but I need some input on this, are there any characters that you'd prefer be on this list, and if so, who would they replace? Blaze for example might be used to replace Vanilla, since Vanilla seems to be less a "playable" character. Shadow is also still iffy and I'm not sure it's such a good idea in the long run, but I'm including him because he's been used in several games already and he's clearly a "playable" character by SEGA's standards. But let's hear what people think.

Also, each of the characters will have to have some kind of story or explanation for why they are/should be involved in this VR game. Some of them are fairly easy (Sonic is always up for a fight against Eggman, for example, he doesn't need much more reason than that), but others can be more complex (like Rouge, Nack, the Chaotix). Not all of the characters have to start out with the rest of the players, and in fact they may even start in "teams," not in the Sonic Heroes sense but in the sense of their motivations. But then again, maybe there's a good reason that even shady characters like Nack would work together with upstanding heroes like Sonic. And of course, some kind of explanation should be given for Knuckles and him going away from the Master Emerald.

Note! These are merely in-character in-game explanations, they don't have to be very complex at all generally speaking. Heck, SEGA does even less with some of their games and providing reasons why some of the characters are involved in the ways that they are. And this will ultimately not matter anyway, but for the sake of game "realism" it would be nice to have at least some basic explanation.

Also, just something to think about, you'll have to come up with a basic idea of your "player's" personality. You'll need to post it as an OOC reference, not some huge thing but just a basic idea of your character summed up into maybe a few sentences or even words. This helps everyone get to know your character better and can serve as a guide for everyone later on. Don't post it yet, but keep it in mind for the future, I'm thinking of engaging this RP sometime this next week if the attention holds, no sooner than Wednesday though to give time for more discussion.

I'm going to try to take everyone's input into account when starting the first post for the RP, so keep it coming!

Also, if someone doesn't like how this is being handled and really wants to play as a certain character...well, honestly I'd say go ahead and start an RP of your own in this manner. I'd obviously say don't rip off the idea entirely - maybe vary the character loadout to whatever character you want, and maybe have a slightly different way to handle it, like some kind of MMORPG or something, I don't know. Or you could start an RP of this very same premise and general idea on the Eliteboard.

AAAAAnd I hate making these long posts when I'm just saying a few things, but okay I'm done.

Nic only appeared as Nack's sister in the Archie Sonic storyline, Terg. And I was kind of joking about Vanilla, in the first place. c.c; But, oh well.

But on to playable characters, I had mentioned before that both Bean the Dynamite Duck and Bark the Polar Bear had appeared in a Sonic game (Sonic the Fighters/Sonic Championship), but on second thought about them, their characters haven't really been introduced all that well, for their personalities to have been built up.

And with the new Sonic Riders approaching around the corner, and the introduction of more characters, Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow, and Storm the Albatross, AKA Team Babylon. Maybe these three could be playable characters, as well. Though, this is just me voicing my opinion.

Having a look at your list which you compiled, there doesn't seem to be many problems with it, except maybe for Cream and Vanilla, as I doubt many forummers would prefer being either of those two. But, I'm sure they can be worked around as being NPC's.

And for the record, it won't matter to me as to who I get, as long as there is a playable character left, or Big. u.u I like the idea of playing as him, now.

So you know Nic is a character of the Sonic comics, so after seing it only has to have SegaSonic characters I chosed E-123 Omega, now helping you asemble more sega characters there is Ray, Flicky and if you opened the posibility to play them as playable characters the brothers of E-102 Gamma, you know E-101 Beta, E-103 Delta, E-104 Epsilon and E-101 Mark 2 I didnt mentioned E-105 Zeta because it cant move around, I know alot of those robots abilitys so I will tell you if you allow them as playable characters, hope this helps Tergonaut.

The robots mentioned by Alex are all null and void and cant be playable anyway, they were all destroyed just as much as Gamma was and their hosts (the Flickys, various animals and etc) were all freed, so they cant be used.

Personally I dont think Nic should be allowed as she is an Archie creation only, and as is understandable, not everyone has experience of the comic and thus using her is a bit unfair to others.

Vanilla does seem a bit of a interesting choice though, especially given we dont really know much about her other then her parental nature, a surprise then that she might be considered allowed whilst others such as Blaze, Team Babylon, Ray etc cant be allowed. Although I could imagine her having limited healing abilities, perhaps.

In my opinion, Nic (and perhaps Vanilla) should be removed and instead added with Ray (another potential Chaotix member, given that Ray shared a game with Sonic and Mighty in Segasonic Arcade and that Mighty has been identified as a Chaotix character before), Bean and Bark.

Understandably, none of these characters have very distinctive personalities set up for them in the games or either in other media forms, but they still seem as much more possible game characters to use. And at either rate, after the players find out they are trapped in the game, they would resort to their true personalities anyway, so a little creativity on establishing a fitting Sega personality for them, for a short while until such a revelation, is a good idea.

Until then, they could be seen as Neutral wildcards, or maybe even affiliate with other groups, such as Ray being with the Chaotix, and Bark and Bean together, separately, with Nack, or maybe people such as Rouge?

All possibilities. I think though that these represent the best choice of potential characters as they are all anthro forms alike Sonic, Tails etc (barring Omega) and thus make a bit more sense to me at any rate to be in it, as well as already previously being in a released game so far. (Which is also a notable point as some of their moves and ability sets have so far been shown, i.e Barks strength, Beans bombs although Ray though is bit more ambiguous, given that his appearance in SegaSonic Arcade was with a move set identical to both Sonic and Mighty)

So those are what Id suggest, Terg, getting out Nic and possibly Vanilla and adding in Ray, Bean and Bark.

Well I just tought it was a good idea Pachamac, since the brothers of Gamma are balanced and not for strong like Metal Sonic, also you could never Know if in this Virtual Sonic the Sega programers wanted to bring them back as playable characters, I leave it to Tergonaut to decide.

That's some good bringing together Terg! lol I'm impressed, I'd never have been able to organise it like that!

Sorry for the picking character confusion...I saw it and kinda jumped on the bandwagon. At least we know what people feel their limitations etc are now.

The list looks good...I have to admit a number of characters, like Nic or Vanilla, I've never seen, so I don't know about them, but I'll trust you and everyone else in regard to them.

As far as story is concerned, maybe Knux's motivation could simply be the old skool "Robotnik steals the Master Emerald and Knux wants it back", but it could be more complex if we wnated. That's just off the top of my head (I'm tired atm). The others I'm not sure, but if I come up with anything I'll let you know^^

In terms of who will be playing which character, I sugest everyone trust Terg to make the desision for them. Targ looks over everyone's preferences above and picks characters for everyone to play. I'd certainly go with that one.

Nice list of charas, Terg, but I agree about Vanilla and Nic. Perhaps replacing them with B&B WOULD be a good idea. And as for characters for people, perhaps getting RP members before the start would be a good idea. A casting call would help keep things more organized. Well, that's just my though. Anyway, as far as the game's plot goes, it doesn't have to be TOO complex, but at teh same time, appealing to the players who join the virtual thingy. I'm sure you'll think of something.

-Mega

Ugh. My coffee's burning out, so I'm tired. Just wanna confirm I'm still in this and I've yet to pick a character. I don't really care who its is just no females and no tails. kthxgnight.

If we wanted to make this story really realistic and completely true to the SEGA way, we must provide no reason whatsoever for all the supporting characters to be in the story!!! It's what they do after all!

In all seriousness, I agree [with Wraith]. Reasons would only be needed for when people gather, and even then, those reasons need only be paper-thin. We only need to start with cardboard cutouts, and we can flesh them and their personalities out as we go along.

Besides, since we would be playing characters playing as the SegaSonic+ crew, exact personalities established for each SegaSonic character is pointless. Odds are one of the players of this game has never heard of, say, the Chaotix before, and that player happens to choose Vector because he looks cool (or is tossed with Vector through chance. whatever). The player then makes up the personality as he goes, either from cues, such as Vector's apparent affinity to music (via observing the headphones), or from scratch, making a whole new Vector. It might even be funny to see other characters whisper to him, "dude, that's not how Vector acts! Do this instead!"

And, on claiming characters, I haven't claimed anybody, and honestly, who I would want to play as would depend on the time of day, whether the Cardinals and Yankess won their last games, my mood, how long it's been since my last hospital stay, and how much sleep I got. So, the end result is that I really don't care what method is used to decide who gets who, and if I got the opporunity to choose, I would wait until most, if not all, of the characters had been chosen. This is my Way.

Hmmm... The thng is, any and all characters MIGHT be allowed for a single reason: It's a pre-release of an online game, no? So, since it's online, and obviously they are all connected, SEGA would want as many characters as possible in the game to allow for Perhaps THOUSANDS of players to play once the game comes out. It helps to be realistic in that aspect. ^_^

You could argue that Sega would be planning for everyone to make their own characters, and part of the thrill of the compo was that you'd be able to play as one of the official characters...everyone else would have to make their own.

But yeah, it's a good point Silv