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    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Nine

    [‘Helewise’ said: Hey, how's it going over th…] Sachi couldn’t restrain a little twitch at the little message popup in the corner of her vision, a motion large enough that it drew the attention of the tall hooded woman standing next to her, cool gaze lingering briefly before returning to the...
  2. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Eight

    Argo watched her hands fly over the hovering keyboard with an unexpected detachment, her mind whirling with the mingling implications the last few minutes had left behind. Not the summoning or the particulars of the quest, she’d need more data to confirm some of them in any case (were three...
  3. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Seven

    Disentangling herself from the mess of players became easier once they were distracted fooling around with their Duel Monsters. A few stopped Helewise to ask in general terms where she’d found the NPC, but they still seemed either reluctant to move away from the main gate or disinterested in...
  4. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]

    The entirety of SAO is being treated as one giant Shadow Game for the main focus, but given its breadth and reach, there will be -quite literally- games within games to be had. Not to mention the knock on effects of having so many players and pieces to test the edges of rules both mystical and...
  5. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]

    I was shocked too, tbh, it feels like a very natural crossover considering both settings have virtual reality, dealings in souls, and a firm belief in the ability of human passions to overcome hard-coded machine logic rules.
  6. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Six

    A thin silence stretched across the gate to the fields, growing brittle as minutes built towards an hour. Players glanced at each other, adjusted weapons, stared into the dark beyond the massive archway as though it might come alive with some swarm of monsters. They made some silent show of...
  7. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Five

    Boars died. Wolves died. The counter ticking its way up in the corner of Helewise’ vision gave a total as she crossed the fields towards the shadowed bulk of the forest. A line of darkness out there on the horizon, barely distinguishable from the night itself beyond being ‘darker’ than what came...
  8. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Four

    The blood red sky had faded away into a facsimile of night, strange little lights on the underside of the second floor above creating an artificial tapestry of light that mimicked the outside world's. The streets had been chaotic with small groups of players hurrying this way and that even when...
  9. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]

    Effects on others actual bodies are mid-late game territory revelations, or when a certain very particular character makes their appearance at the very least.
  10. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]

    Well... You might have noticed that the two aren't exactly collaborating...
  11. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Three

    Chapter 3 The sky rippled, hexagonal tessellations blooming from a central point above the center of the square and flowing silver across the crimson. Eerie in their blatant falseness, they peeled back the skin of the virtual world to expose a glimpse of the digitality, a peek behind the...
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    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]

    As you can see, this fic's version of SAO is a considerably more multinational affair with a much higher player count, 50,000 initial copies, though probably only around 80-90% of them actually end up locked in.
  13. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Two

    Alas, it seemed like Helewise had burned through all her luck for chance encounters, some more poking around the backstreets producing nothing and a quick trip back to the thoroughfares yielding her little more than what she was already in the market for. Namely a bog-standard boar spear and a...
  14. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter One

    Chapter 1 Virtual reality, true ‘Full Dive’ as it was becoming known. The ability to inject sensations directly into the mind and let a person truly experience a world that exists purely within the digital substrate. A Holy Grail of entertainment ever since its first conceptualization...
  15. Spectral Waltz

    NetTally won't work for QQ since the XF2 update

    I originally went directly to the Github to get the latest version, I just went again using the link in that thread just to be sure, I'm still getting an 'unable to load forum' error every time. That said, I've added my concerns to the NetTally thread proper, so we can end the discussion here.
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