Character_Creation

"you make it sound kind of ***, man," you say.\n\nSeeing the word censored makes you wince. What would your cousin say if she caught you using it like that again?\n\n"??" the Paladin emotes. "Guess you're not the flowers-and-bunnies hippie type."\n\nHe gifts you 5 gold and a full set of Beginner's Leather Armor. This is also pink, but it also means not spending several hours hunting down Pig'mi Warthogs on the Outskirts for parts. You decide you're man enough to put up with the Paladin's atrocious lack of style.\n\n"I bet you like leather more, anyway," the Paladin says.\n\n[["ill take any free gear man"|DomeDescends]]\n

(Trigger Warning.)\n\n(Any resemblance to actual MMOs is entirely coincidental.)\n\nWelcome to Supreme Conjunction Adventure: MMO Edition!\n\nLet's create your new account.\n\nPlease Enter Your Real Name: [[William|Password]]

!Tutorial City\n\n!!Home and haven to 1st level characters of all shapes and stripes.\n\nA lot of 2nd-15th level characters hang out here as well, idling between the towering marble columns of the Starting Plaza. The game rewards ''Kudos'' to those who help new players get up to speed, and 1st level characters need assistance in spades.\n\n//It's dangerous outside//, one sign reads. //Take what help you can get.//\n\nA Human Paladin in high-level armor (it glows purple) stands right next to the New Player Portal.\n\n[[Approach the burly human|ApproachBurlyHuman]]\n\n[[Continue onto the marketplace|BlockedByBurlyHuman]]\n

You press the button marked //Put On New Equipment// and the new boots -- tiny wings and all -- appear on your character's feet in a puff of pixels. They look dapper on your man of the woods, but you plan to trade them out for a non-pink pair soon.\n\n[[Follow the Paladin|FollowPaladinToFavoriteSpot]]\n\n<<set $woreShoes to true>>\n\n

"ill take any free gear man thanks," you type. "is everybody this generous here?"\n\nThe Paladin's character is busy waving his gauntlet-wearing hands in the air as particle effects flit between them.\n\nYou hear the distinct //ching-ching-ring// of ''Kudos'' being spent.\n\nIt's the first loud sound that you've heard in a while. Panning the camera around, you realize that you're half a kilometer (or "half a dragon's stride" here in //Supreme//) away from Tutorial City. The Paladin must have leveled quite a bit before he met you, because the local fauna and other players give him a wide breadth.\n\nStarting as a pixel of light overhead, a translucent yellow dome descends around you and the Paladin in an instant. You pound the key to run when you see a particularly nasty Deadly Wolf rush towards you from outside, but it disappears as soon as it touches the dome. The creature reappears on the opposite side, where it continues after another player.\n\n"Only for cuties like you," the Paladin says.\n\n[[Consult the Manual|ConsultManualDome]]\n\n[[Leave the Dome|TryToLeaveDome]]\n

"dude i dont have breasts im a dude" you type as you can. You're half-surprised the word isn't censored, unlike most of the ones that the Paladin starts to type.\n\nTo your utter astonishment, the Paladin voices his four-letter complaints on the public channel. He calls you out for being a "tease" and other names, but that's not the strange part. No, it's lines like "//She's// going to **** with you," "//She'll// take your gold and laugh in your face," //She// does this or that thing which not only have you not done, but which make no sense when you have a male character.\n\nThe Paladin casts //Fire Sphere//. His armor absorbs the blow without a scratch. Your character is charred to a cinder.\n\n[[Log Out|LogOut]]

You hit the //Walk// key and send your character across the virtual grass and toward the edge of the dome. The Paladin does not follow. He doesn't have to. The dome retracts and your character starts to walk in place when he reaches the edge, drawn backwards toward the Paladin as the dome's diameter decreases.\n\n"this isnt cool dude," you type.\n\nYou double-check the wiki, which points you to a bug report: the developers haven't gotten around to adding a way for players to leave before the dome's spell wears off. They have left a note in the bug report about only entering the dome with trusted parties, but you didn't know that the bug report system existed until a few minutes ago.\n\nBy the time you switch from your browser and back to the game, the dome has retracted so tightly as to squish your character against the Paladin. He continues performing a dance that would have been funny outside the dome, but which now leaves you slighty queasy.\n\nYou check the chat log. You blanch. In the space of a few minutes, the Paladin asked about your age, your location, whether you didn't mind if he got closer, whether you didn't mind if he roleplayed putting his hand on your shoulder or on your leg -- taking your silence as consent -- and even about putting his grubby gloves on your "honking breasts."\n\n[[Your what?|YourWhat]]

The Paladin casts //Moonwalk on the Wind// and intercepts your path before you can get five steps out of the portal.\n\nYou side-step to the left and he moves to match.\n\nYou side-step to the right and he moves to match.\n\nThe throng of other new players on either side blocks your path.\n\n"Welcome to Supreme, newbie!" the Paladin says.\n\n[[Approach him|ApproachBurlyHuman]]

!Credits\n\nThe first Twine game written by James Holder (@thirdtruck).\n

You're surprised that a random player can send you private messages without friending you first. You check the online manual. It turns out that players with enough ''Kudos'' earn the ability to do so, since they're so helpful.\n\n"So do you want to go already or not? Geeze. Making a guy wait," messages the Paladin.\n\nYou have to close twelve other private messages from similarly helpful players before you get to his message. He sent you five messages before that, while you were researching.\n\nThe Paladin gifts you 5 gold and a pair of Amateur's Boots of Speed.\n\n[[Put the boots on|PutBootsOn]]\n\n[[Follow the Paladin|FollowPaladinToFavoriteSpot]]

The Paladin gifts you 5 gold and a basic set of armor after you draw a few steps closer. You were expecting to get your starter gear from that classmate who invited you to the game, but decide not to look the gift loot in the mouth.\n\n"It's a nice day for grinding, isn't it?" the Paladin says. "I wouldn't mind gaining some XP, either."\n\n"haha :)" you reply\n\nThe Paladin sends you a private message. "Let me take you to my favorite spot."\n\n[[Close the message window|CloseWindow1]]

Character Creation: Destruction

!Welcome to //Supreme Conjunction Adventure: MMO Edition//!\n\nPlease Enter Your Real Name: ''William''\n\nPlease Enter Your Password: [[t0t@lbr@dud3|AccountCreated]]

!Welcome to //Supreme Conjunction Adventure: MMO Edition//!\n\nPlease Enter Your Real Name: ''William''\n\nPlease Enter Your Password: ''**********''\n\nAccount created!\n\nLet's create your first character! //Please note that// Supreme Conjunction Adventure: MMO Edition //is still in beta.//\n\nName: ''AllTheSwag''\n\nRace: ''Elf''\n\nGender: ''Male''\n\nClass: [[Ranger|EnterWorld]]\n

A dialog box pops up, inviting you to "auto-follow" the Paladin. You click //Yes// and your Ranger starts strutting across the polygon cobblestones and after the other character.\n\nHis path takes you past goblins with giant, glowing swords, NPC guards with komodo dragon heads, and away from the incessant din of the pavilion.\n\nYou wonder if you should have gone out and bought a bow or hunting knife or something for your dude first. Did you start with one? It turns out that players are gifting you these things left and right anyway, so you click the button that equips all of your new best gear automatically.\n\n"Don't worry about that cheap ****," the Paladin says, his message censored by the game. "I'll treat you to the nice stuff later. Let me get you out of that uncomfortable crap first. ;) ;)"\n\n[["dude"|Dude]]\n\n[["duuuuuuuuude"|Dude]]

You can feel your manhood slipping away as you resort to reading the manual instead of figuring this dome out on your own, but this guy's seriously weirding you out.\n\nYou find the entry on the game's wiki:\n\n''Charity Dome''\n\n//An enchanted space that seals two more players away from the rest of world, allowing more experienced players a chance to train newer ones without interference. Costs ''Kudos'' to create.//\n\n"You got all quiet," the Paladin says.\n\n[[Leave the Dome|TryToLeaveDome]]

!Welcome to //Supreme Conjunction Adventure: MMO Edition//!\n\nPlease Enter Your Real Name: ''William''\n\nPlease Enter Your Password: ''**********''\n\nAccount created!\n\nLet's create your first character! //Please note that// Supreme Conjunction Adventure: MMO Edition //is still in beta.//\n\nName: **AllTheSwag**\n\nRace: [[Elf|Gender]]\n\nGender: \n\nClass:

James Holder\n@thirdtruck

!Welcome to //Supreme Conjunction Adventure: MMO Edition//!\n\nPlease Enter Your Real Name: ''William''\n\nPlease Enter Your Password: ''**********''\n\nAccount created!\n\nLet's create your first character! //Please note that //Supreme Conjunction Adventure: MMO Edition //is still in beta.//\n\nName: [[AllTheSwag|Race]]\n\nRace: \n\nGender: \n\nClass:

Congratulations on creating your first character! We hope you enjoy your time on //Supreme Conjunction Adventure: MMO Edition//!\n\n[[Enter Tutorial City|EnterTutorialCity]]\n\nName: ''AllTheSwag''\n\nRace: ''Elf''\n\nGender: ''Female''\n\nClass: ''Ranger''\n

Not much point in resurrecting your character, you discover. You try it once before you decide to quit, just to go back and figure out what's going on, but several other characters are waiting at the spawn point. They slay you with an excessive volley of arrows, fired with timing so simultaneous that even you -- a new player -- can tell they're bots. This happens an hour later, when you try again.\n\nWhen you try once more the next morning, before school, you survive for a few seconds before the volley annihilates you. This time, you last long enough to get a good look at your avatar. Unlike yesterday, it has a female body instead of a male one.\n\nYou check your character sheet, and it does show a different sex than the one you remember choosing. A check of the bug reports reveals a database corruption issue: the game sometimes defaults to female characters, but still shows a male character for as long as the player remains logged in for their first time.\n\nYou're just glad that was the free demo, because you decide to never play again.\n\nFIN\n\n[[Credits|Credits]]