Death and Memories

OOC Information: This information is being provided in goodwill by the admin at the onset of this game. This is not known in-character information, and will see revelation through the plot. Consult the Codex entry on death for the status of public information.

Premise

As this is a world of MMORPG, death is not permanent for most, though the initial fallout of the Apocalypse would certainly prove that there are many nuances around this matter. When a character dies, they return to their associated respawn locations; Their allegiant Kingdom, or the Town of Beginnings at the base of Aincrad Tower. However, death is not without cost.

Common Death

Each time a character dies, they lose a bit of their memory. Sometimes, these are important and defining moments in their past, like the marriage to a loved one. Other times, these are minor memories, like the name of their pet cat.

The importance of the memory lost tends to scale with the mental or emotional strain in a moment or state of a character upon loss.

As death usually only comes at the hand of Combat, we have added a feature to the Combat System that allows you to 'wager' your memories during such an event - or choose to retreat safely, placing this choice in the player's hands.

What happens when all memories are lost, or much of it, will be revealed before it should become relevant for most characters.

Ultimate Death

It must be noted that there are paths to 'true death' for a character. Suicide is one such path, though the results there-off are met with some measure of skepticism by those in the world due to various strange in-world artifacts that surround such a deed. The topic of some of these ways is dark, and generally something that consent-wise, is fully in the players' hands. However, further exploration of what these other paths are, and what this means, is left to be found out in-game.