Holy Relic

Holy Relic is a Journal Roleplay set in The World R:2 with a few differences.

Most importantly, the characters are physically in the game world rather than using a head-mounted interface, much to the chagrin of any .hack// characters that find themselves there. Instead, everything that would be handled using an overlay menu is taken care of using a steampunk iPhone-like device called a Relic, which despite the name of the game, is not holy in any way. It also isn't a phone.

Oh, and they're in different outfits.

It used to be on Livejournal, but moved to Dreamwidth after its mods noticed that people were having trouble staying around.

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Tropes used in Holy Relic include:

• Most of the gameplay and setting tropes exhibited by .hack//G.U.
• Calling Your Attacks: There's no other way for a character to use a skill from their class. It's optional with regards to powers that characters brought from home.
• Clingy MacGuffin: The Relic, which will just reappear in its owner's bag if it's lost. Which is a good thing, because it's borderline necessary.
• Continuity Nod: The names of the communities used are all keywords from G.U.
• Cute Bruiser: Rena
• Death Is Not Permanent: What else do you expect from an MMORPG?
• Holiday Mode: Many of the game's events are holiday-based.
• Genre Savvy: Sonic, much to his chagrin, as he feels he just isn't cut out for RPGs.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Blade Brandier is by far the most common single class, and also a common choice on Adept Rogues.
• Humanity Ensues: Amaterasu and Tachigami. Amaterasu eventually got the ability to change into her full wolf form back.
• Mega Crossover
• Staff Chick: Harvest Clerics, including male ones such as Hope Estheim and Dave Strider.
• Summon Magic: Entirely averted. Summoning is the only power from other worlds that stops working in The World, except if the thing being summoned is connected to the user him/herself, such as a Persona.
• Trapped in Another World
• Translator Microbes: Everyone comes in with an earpiece enabling them to hear everyone and everything else in their native tongue.
• Weapon of Choice: More or less how the classes are divided up. Adept Rogues choose two in any combination, unlike the point-buy system used in .hack//G.U.
  • BFS: Edge Punisher
  • Cool Sword: Blade Brandier
  • Dual-Wielding Knife Nut: Twin Blade
  • Dual-Wielding Battle Fans: Macabre Dancer
  • Blade on a Stick: Lord Partizan
  • Power Fist: Tribal Grappler
  • Simple Staff: Harvest Cleric
  • Sinister Scythe: Flick Reaper
  • The Gunslinger: Steam Gunner
  • Throw the Book At Them: Shadow Warlock
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Roy Greenhilt, and to a lesser extent Shinon.