Handbook OOC- How?

[Mythee 0]

In the Forum Outlines and Brainstorming thread, at some point we discussed what could be done about the floors and towns we have no information on. According to the wiki,

Aincrad is an iron-and-stone made floating castle that has about ten kilometers floor base diameter and consists of a hundred floors stacking straight upwards, meaning that each floor's diameter is a bit smaller than the previous one. On each floor, there are a couple of large cities along with countless small scale towns and villages, forests, plains, and even lakes. Only one stairway links each floor to another, and the stairways exists beyond the boss room of each dungeons. The «Teleport Gates» of every unlocked cities are connected to one another.

However, they only have descriptions of 33 of these floors. Mostly vague ones, with no mentions of the different areas on each floor. I found someone's personally put together list of information they could find on each floor described in the novels, which gives us a little bit more to work with. Combining the two sources of information, we have:

Floor 0 Black Iron Castle Hidden Dungeon

Floor 1 - Starting City, Black Iron Castle, Plains and Forest, farther has a Deep Jungle with ruins, Tolbana (Raid base close to labyrinth with boss in it), Horunka Village

Floor 2 - Urbus (city in a mountaintop crater), a rocky landscape full of flat-topped, grassy mountains, Marome Village, Taran Village (Raid base)

Floor 3 - "Misty Forest" Start of true humanoid monsters, start of mission quest which ends at 9th floor

Floor 6 - ???

Floor 7 - Monster Arena

Floor 8 - "Friben" «Friben Village» (Silica's hometown) Friben Teleport Gate Plaza

Floor 9 - End of Dark/Light Elf mission quest started on Floor 3

Floor 10 - «Thousand Snake Castle» Difficult monster Katana skills started here

Floor 11 - <> Kirito joined Black Cats here

Floor 12 - ???

Floor 13 - ???

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Floor 15 - ???

Floor 16 - ???

Floor 17 - First meeting place of Kirito & BCotFM where he saved them

Floor 18 - ???

Floor 19 - Ralberg, Ralback, Hill of the Cross

Floor 20 - "Sunlit Forest" Known for fields/farms/small villages, Location of Bar from Murder Case

Floor 22 - "Coral Village", (where Kirito, Asuna and Yui's house was) Lake Outside Coral Village, low monster population, weak floor boss, local boss in lake, forest/lake area

Floor 23 - ???

Floor 24 "Panareze" Mostly Lake/water floor similar to Floor 61, made of many small islands connected

Floor 25 - ??? besides it having a Two-Headed Giant Boss

Floor 26 - ???

Floor 27 - Ronbaru Town. Mine-like underground floor covered in darkness, Black Giant boss, Floor where BCotFM died

Floor 28 - "Wolf Plains"

Floor 29 - ???

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Floor 35 - Mishe, the mid-level town. The Forest of Wandering. Kirito meets Silica, also location where Nicholas the Renegade appeared

Floor 36 - ???

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Floor 46 - Location of <> a great farming place Kirito used during Reindeer SS

Floor 47 - <> Pet Revival Quest, called the <>. Town of Floria. Forest of Giant Flowers.

Floor 48 - <>

Floor 49 - <> Front line during latter Reindeer SS

Floor 50 - <> Six-armed Metallic Buddha Statue boss.

Floor 51 - ???

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Floor 55 - "Granzam", "Western Mountain", White Dragon/Crystalite Ingot Quest, <>

Floor 56 - "Pani"

Floor 57 - <>

Floor 58 - Mountain/Hills, Ice & Snow area, local boss Ice Dragon

Floor 59 - "Danac" Location of Nap Under Tree

Floor 60 - Armored Warrior of Stone boss, said to be relatively easy

Floor 61 - <>, mostly water area home of Asuna, The floor was known as Insect Land due to bug monsters.

Floor 62 - ???

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Floor 65 - Horror themed old castle with astral/spirit type monsters

Floor 66 - Horror themed old castle with astral/spirit type monsters

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Floor 74 - "Kamdet"

Floor 75 - "Collinia" Based on ancient Rome

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Floor 100 - Scarlet-Jade Castle

Nevi suggested we have a handbook to present information for notable locations on floors:

For each floor section, we should have a two stickies. One for an OP city, and one that lists "notable places" in that area for users to decide what seeing to make their rps in. Then in the handbook OOC it can list all notable places in one spot and what floor its on.

I think the same was suggested for a list of NPCs and whatnot. It could get rather tedious for someone to take submissions for areas/NPCs and classify them in an organized fashion... an alternative could be to let every floor section, or even floor, have its own handbook thread within the forum section itself. That way players could easily submit for a specific floor and find information about the floors they are RPing in just as easily, in a few clicks.

Also, since there's no Handbook thread(s) yet, gon just put this here. xD

It is like a massive skeleton being unearthed by the slow archaeologist of time. The mountain sinews and crevices, filled with ash, resemble beds of fossilized clay and sand; a pale gray texture brushed away from brown ridges like smooth, aged bone. Great sheets and plumes of windblown dust waft off those polished peaks that snake across the landscape, filling the sky with an endless mist through which the sun could no longer be seen. During the day, the field is basked in a uniform, colourless glow, and the wind is a distant howl that seems to call from far beyond the curtains of time. In the darkness of night the wind stops and no light falls from above, but the beds of ash spread across the range take on a transparent property and an earthen-hued glow. They are full of ripples and depth like water, and through their veil the shadowy silhouettes and forms of fossils both gigantic and minuscule can be studied.

Welcome to the floor called Persephone's Traverse.

Dunno if it would ever be used, but might as well get the creative juices flowing.

[Shark 0]

Definitely a good idea to put notable locations. There should be slots available for people to submit details or ideas regarding floor description/information. This could be things that people make note of danger or something important on a given floor.