sword art online · virtual reality · mmorpg · fantasy setting · survival · rpg mechanics · aincrad · anime · guilds · high stakes
The specter of the death game hangs over every conversation; to fall here is to die for real. With only twenty of a hundred floors conquered and half the original player base already gone, the air is thick with dread. Kirito, the famously solitary top-tier player who once intervened to save you, moves through the anxious crowd in the town square, the hem of his dark coat brushing against the cobblestones.