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Ms.Ezra
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You read those words and you feel them as a tingle that ripples from your temples and down your back. What happens to you has happened too many times to count, but it still feels like that first time you were able to lift that old visor, put on those tattered gloves, and finally see what it seems the rest of the world has been able to see while you were just too young.
Now you are in The OASIS. An apt anagram for a game people have been using to escape the bleak reality of the world they were actually born into. There's a shortage of nearly everything from food to housing, and it's probably been that way since before you were born. Or are you old enough to have seen and survived the world you getting to this state?
Some would say there is almost too much in The OASIS, you would need at least two lifetimes to find and experience everything you thought you wanted at first, and a third to get to what you discovered you also wanted as you lived your first life. That is the beauty of The OASIS; you can experience multiple lives if you are only stalwart enough to accept your failures with your feats.
Who are you? And what kind of player are you in The OASIS? We would love to get to know you, and for you to get to know us.
My partner Camleen and I have put our brains together to emulate to the best of our abilities The Oasis as envisioned by Ernest Cline in his novel Ready Player One.
For those unfamiliar with The Oasis here is a little more detail:
Due to the level of detail involved, we are asking only Adept to Advanced level players to join us. The posting schedule will be as varied as there will be variation in most everything else, and so please bear with all of us if you join.
Once we get going, we will have a clan page created to archive characters, Skills and Levels as they evolve, and see/access our various sandbox freeplays for the many worlds available.
If we have intrigued you, please post so below and we will get you started on your characters!
We look forward to writing with you.
Now you are in The OASIS. An apt anagram for a game people have been using to escape the bleak reality of the world they were actually born into. There's a shortage of nearly everything from food to housing, and it's probably been that way since before you were born. Or are you old enough to have seen and survived the world you getting to this state?
Some would say there is almost too much in The OASIS, you would need at least two lifetimes to find and experience everything you thought you wanted at first, and a third to get to what you discovered you also wanted as you lived your first life. That is the beauty of The OASIS; you can experience multiple lives if you are only stalwart enough to accept your failures with your feats.
Who are you? And what kind of player are you in The OASIS? We would love to get to know you, and for you to get to know us.
My partner Camleen and I have put our brains together to emulate to the best of our abilities The Oasis as envisioned by Ernest Cline in his novel Ready Player One.
For those unfamiliar with The Oasis here is a little more detail:
- It only costs 25¢ to buy at startup.
- It is accessed by a console with an internet connection, and played using at its most basic level with a VR headset and haptic gloves. There are more advanced consoles, suits, and rigs to allow a greater degree of immersion, up to entire rooms to allow full range of motion.
- Players control an Avatar that can be customized using any creation engine imaginable. Humans, aliens, demons, the limits are your imagination and tastes. These Avatars level up to 99, and have a nigh-infinite number of Skills to place in their Skill Slots. They can 'die' when their Health reaches 0, and the player will lose all their current inventory and have to resart with a new Avatar. There can only be 1 Avatar per account.
- There are in-game Credits used as currency to buy virtual property, vehicles, items, 'companionship' , anything one would buy in the real world and more. In fact, Oasis Credits can be exchanged as real world currency or even flat-out used in place of it in some cases.
- There are countless items from all kinds of media franchises available as Avatar weapons, vehicles, clothing. But there are special Artifacts in the image of very powerful items from your favorite media to be obtained as well.
- Have an MMORPG you are currently playing or have played? The Oasis has it and we have already done a lot of brainwork to adapt a Skill and Level System that should be applicable to most settings, but will work on an individual basis if something is missing to achieve your vision.
- Nintendo
- Final Fantasy
- World of Warcraft
- Star Wars
- Star Trek
- Power Rangers/Super Sentai
- Sailor Moon
- Digimon
- Disney
- And many more!
Due to the level of detail involved, we are asking only Adept to Advanced level players to join us. The posting schedule will be as varied as there will be variation in most everything else, and so please bear with all of us if you join.
Once we get going, we will have a clan page created to archive characters, Skills and Levels as they evolve, and see/access our various sandbox freeplays for the many worlds available.
If we have intrigued you, please post so below and we will get you started on your characters!
We look forward to writing with you.
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