Me: ITS BEEN FIVE STORIES MARIO PAY UP!
Mario: FUUUUUUUDGE! *gives Fire $50*
Me: Woohoo! Now for my OC Signup story, I've been noticing these pop up once in a while.
Crystal: What's it about?
Me: You and Mario doing a play-through of the game Elsword.
Mario/Crystal: ...
Elgang: What about us :'D?
Me: Oh you guys will be characters played by them and the other OCs.
Elgang: *mumbles* They better choose us...
Me: And now for Elsword Fanfiction's upcoming 400th story anniversary, CHAPTER 1 BEGIN!
Chapter 1: Invitations and a Lets Play
*Yawn*, man I'm really bored. Mario covered his yawn with his hand, using the other to scratch his hair. He sifted through the cabinet where he keeps his games and scanned through the name labels, hoping to find one to play (and with friends so he isn't lonely). Left 4 Dead 2, nah it gets tiresome to play after the billionth Versus match. Kid Icarus Uprising, I keep owning people with the Sagittarius Bow anyway. Elsword...hell why not.
The black haired teen booted up the computer with the hard disc of his desired game in hand. I only tried and maxed out my Lord Knight, the other classes seem interesting. After the computer starts up the usual programs immediately boot up: Skype, Steam, Google Chrome. With three clicks of a mouse Mario pushed the red X to close all three and opened up the disc slot on his processor. Pushing the Elsword disc into the slot and closing it (by the way the image showed base Elsword in his promotional art holding an El Crystal) the computer processed the game data and updated the client, giving Mario a brief explanation on what he missed on the past 6 months.
What the hell? A new Guardian coming May 1st? Mario checked the date, April 30th. H-Hold up that's tomorrow. Who the hell is this Guardian? As the computer updates in a snails pace, the 16 year old boy opened up Google Chrome and stumbled back in his chair at the alarmingly fast rate the browser popped up. Typing in the URL, Mario visited Elwiki and scrolled down to the NA character list. Oh so the Transform classes are finally coming to the our version huh? He silently mumbled to himself as he checked out the six classes. Sheath Knight the fast dual wielding swordsman, Battle Magician the up-close-and-personal magical girl, Trapping Ranger the kicking, sword-wielding, and archer with arrow traps, Weapon Taker the flaming Crow Mercenary, Code Electra the electrifying Queen, and Shelling Guardian the Protector with heavy Artillery- Wait what!? Mario eyed the Shelling Guardian's appearance, Chung's Transform class, and the blackened poster of the (still updating) client. The two look near identical with the exception of the latter in Awakening Mode.
I never really liked Chung to begin with anyway, I prefer the faster classes. Mario shrugged off the new Shelling Guardian's upcoming appearance the next day and closed the browser as the client (finally) finished updating and popped into the log in screen. Typing in his Username and Password in rapid succession thanks to the TAB key, Mario watches as the client loads much faster, sending him to the servers. Tch, still only one server to choose from huh. He thought slightly bummed as he clicked the "Solace" Server button, bringing him to one of eight channels. Naturally Mario chose Channel 1, as it gives characters level 1-18 extra EXP. He typed in his six letter security code and basked in the look of his awesome (and rusty) level 60 Lord Knight.
Elemonade, Level 60! Mario chuckled at the username he chose for his LK, he drank lemonade when thinking of a name for him. However he didn't PvP much, only bothering to go up to D rank, and had clothes you'd typically get in dungeons. There really isn't anything special in his accessories either. Mario glumly took a look at his LK one last time and clicked on the "New Character" slot.
Instantly he was brought to the character selection screen: a mainly black background with pictures of the six playable characters comic-book style and six little boxes indicating the six avatars. The red Knight Elsword, the purple Magician Aisha, the green Ranger Rena, the black Taker Raven, the pink Another Code Eve, and the Guardian Chung. He sat there reclined in his chair racking his brain on who to choose for his second journey.
There's Elsword's Rune Slayer and Sheath Knight path, oh wait Void Princess for Aisha seems interesting, no wait I could try out Grand Archer since I love me some rangers, no how about Blade Master he knows how to handle a sword, or maybe Code Empress to have servants fight for me. Or...Chung's new Shelling Guardian path, it looked interesting even if the teaser for it only featured him blowing stuff up with one special active. He rapidly scratched his hair with both hands and pounded the computer desk in frustration. Wait...I still gotta name my character and maybe have them go to a guild. I don't want to be alone for the entire journey like my Lord Knight...
Suddenly the phone rang, bursting Mario's nearby eardrums with its loud ringing and nearly having the spooked teen jump out of his seat. Irritated, Mario mumbled to himself as he answered the call. "Hello?"
"Mario why are you not studying?" A feminine voice coldly greeted him with a monotone voice. "Don't we have that Math test coming up?"
"Oh Crystal it's you again." Already in a bad mood, he hissed at her through the mobile device. "Anyway I'm already readying myself up for it right now!"
"Oh really? Why are you on the computer, thrashing about a second before I called you?" He froze.
"HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!?" Mario shouted both in his mind and out loud at the phone, really creeped out.
"Look outside your window." Mario turned to his right outside the four panel glass. A girl around the boy's age perched atop a branch about a meter away from the building waved at him with her phone in hand. Crystal, with her long brown hair tied up into a ponytail, brown eyes, and casual clothing glared at Mario from the window.
The poor boy really collapsed out of his chair and ran towards the closed window, pulling it up and shouting at her. "WHY DID YOU CLIMB THIS HIGH!? DON'T YOU KNOW WE'RE IN THE 3RD FLOOR?!"
"Yes I know, move out of the way please." Crystal calmly ordered him. Grumbling, Mario moved out of the way and heard some leaves rustling. The acrobatic girl swooped through the window, still with her school backpack on, and landed right in front of the male teenager.
Mario made a "O_O" face and yelled at her while closing the window. "W-WHY DID YOU DO...WHEN DID..." Damn I knew she's pretty athletic and acrobatic during Gym but this is just... "INSANE!"
"Thank you for the compliment." She unzipped her backpack and unloaded her stuff onto the conveniently placed bed in the room. Two textbooks, a pencil case, and a calculator fell through. "Now sit and we shall study together."
Mario ignored her and sat right back down at the computer. "Look I'm just bored so I got this game out to play." He motioned the girl over to the game Elsword.
"Oh yes I believe you told me stories about this before." Crystal pondered in thought. "An MMORPG beat-em up 2D side-scroller as you put it?"
Mario felt a tense of excitement as his friend remembered. "Yeah I've been starting to play this game again. Too bad no one's willing to play..." He put his head on the desktop.
"I'll play with you." Mario shot up at Crystal's request.
"YOU WILL!?"
"Under one condition." The robot-like girl pointed one finger at Mario's face. "Once a week, you invite me over to study for the test."
"B-But that test is in 9 wee-"
"I'll walk through the door and introduce myself to your family then."
"WAIT!" Mario blocked her path through the closed door, his face reddening. With much thought he made up his mind. "Fine...but you'll need a laptop and an account to play the game."
"Done." She unzipped another part of her backpack to reveal the necessary items. "I have a laptop and the charger right here."
Mario stood shocked and eerily sat back down. "I...I don't even know what to say anymore."
Suddenly Mario looked at the phone still in his hand and hatched a bright idea. Like a madman he pushed buttons to call up another person. "What are you doing?" Crystal questioned his motive.
"Well if you and I are playing the game together, why not others as well?" Mario's imaginary light bulb lit up and he immediately grabbed paper from the printer and a pen from the pencil cupboard. "You know those videos on YouTube where people perform a commented walk-through of a game?"
"Ah yes I heard of it." Crystal understood and glared at Mario darkly. "...You don't mean..."
"Oh I mean!" He finished writing and showed the paper to Crystal:
ELSWORD LETS PLAY!
...What is this idiot even thinking? She thought as she face palmed herself upon reading the "poster". "Are you even planning to upload this into a video series Mario?"
"Oh hell yes Crystal!" Mario glanced left at the closet door. "My dad's a professional photographer so he should have some pretty decent video equipment to record through a screen." He scribbled some more into the paper:
CONTESTANTS!
Mario
Crystal
He bit onto the end of the pen (not the ink mind you). Now how many people do I want for this Let's Play... Mario shrugged. I'll figure out as I go.
Upon hearing the Elsword Channel jingle from Crystal's laptop, Mario knew they were both creating new characters. He finished dialing the number and put the phone to his ear.
Now...let's see how many people I can get to play with us!
Me: Wow I came up with this in a pretty short time...
Mario: If only you had that kind of enthusiasm with your other stories Fire...
Me: Shut up here's the criteria:
Name (Just guess what you have to do here):
Age (They're all Mario's friends so anything goes. 14-18 go to his school):
Appearance (I might only write about it when Mario calls them up but do it if you want to anyway):
Character chosen (No Ara since this is NA version, characters can be shared by different OCs):
Character Name (No one can have the same character name. Since this is Elsword, 12 character limit. Mario is MarioFireRed and Crystal is SilverDia):
Path chosen (yes there can be more than one of each class, just no 2nd job Transform class since they're not out yet...unless you guys change my mind):
Elsword Gaming Expertise (like Newbie, Rookie, Regular, Veteran, Master. Mario's a Master and Crystal's a Rookie. I'd rather have more inexperienced people so we won't have OCs dominating dungeons and have them learn throughout the game):
Personality (I want to stick to the OCs personalities as thought up by the original owner):
Race (As long as they can operate a computer and feel human emotions I'm fine with anything. Mario and Crystal are human):
Me: I'm not sure of the limit, but I'm hoping to have at least 10 people sign up for the story. This way we can all fit into a conveniently placed guild and so I don't cycle through the same 4 people every single time. PM me or leave a Review of your OC :D!
Elsword: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!? SIGN UP AND CHOOSE ME TO BECOME THE ULTIMATE BADASS!
