Player: Egawa Taro

Fresh out of high school, Taro is a factory worker in Yahata Steel Works. He worked part-time as a general laborer moving boxes and equipment while he was in school, but after his grades proved too low to get into a good university he started training in other positions at the factory. Taro would come home exhausted every day and slump down to become a video game vegetable.

Character: Rip Vandernail

Dwarf Rune Forger
Level: 15

Str: 30
Dex: 28
Con: 28
Int: 17
Wis: 25
Cha: 8
Luk: 17
HP: 128
MP: 105

When Taro first built his character, he chose dwarves because he thought they were the cool of the fantasy races, and he wanted working in a steel mill to feel badass. He was disappointed that the server was still in the stone age when he first joined, and he worked hard on leveling up his Mining Practices Profession so that he could unlock Smithing Technology, which he was in the middle of doing when everything went to shit. He wanted to be a ranged fighter with throwing weapons since he's used to first person shooters, but found that his dwarf's ranged accuracy sucked because of their naturally low Dex, making his build sub-optimal. To offset the disadvantage he's been leveling his Dex.

Persona

Practical --------|--- Spectacle Grounded ---|-------- Roleplayer Moral -----|------ Amoral

Skills

Basic Rune Magic (Rank II): Allows Taro to create magic items using the rune crafting menu.
Rank II Upgrade: All inscribed Rune buffs last 20% longer.
Earth Shaker Rune: Inscribe a rune onto your weapon that when you hit the earth or a foe causes a massive shake that can cause foes to lose balance. Costs 15 MP to cast.
Wind Tunnel Rune: Inscribe a rune onto your weapon that when you swing it in the air or strike a foe causes a powerful gust off wind that can push foes away. Costs 15 MP to cast.
Armor Rune (Rank II): Inscribe a rune onto armor that when activated can block one source of physical damage. Costs 10 MP to cast.
Rank II Upgrade: After blocking the first source of physical damage, the rune reduces a second source of physical damage by 50%.
Anti-Magic Rune (Rank II): Inscribe a rune onto armor that when activated can block one source of magical damage. Costs 20 MP to cast.
Rank II Upgrade: After blocking the first source of physical damage, the rune reduces a second source of magical damage by 50%.
Smart Missile Rune (Rank II): A rune that makes inscribed thrown weapons or ammunition home in on targets, then return to the wielder after striking. Costs 5 MP to cast.
Rank II Upgrade: Can be cast as a spell on projectiles within a range of 2(Wis) feet.
Haste Rune (Rank II): A rune inscribed on gloves or boots that increases the wearer's action or movement speed, respectively. Costs 15 MP to cast.
Rank II Upgrade: Increases out-of-combat movement speed by 200%.
Storage Rune (Rank III): A rune inscribed on a container that increases its storage capacity by 10. Any items in the used slots fall to the ground next to the container if inside when the rune wears off. Costs 10 MP to cast.
Rank II Upgrade: Increase the storage capacity by an additional 10.
Rank III Upgrade: While holding the container, the caster may propel any contained items as rapid-fire projectiles. Costs 5 MP per projectile.

Unspent Skill Points: 0

In the base game, Smart Missile turned out to be mostly useless. Attacks could still miss due to miss chance even if your weapon's hit box hit a target, and you could go pick up your weapons without a problem most of the time due to how telegraphed the enemy attacks were. Only archers benefited from the rune since it would allow them to retrieve special ammunition that was spent and lost otherwise. After becoming trapped in the new world, however, it is proven very useful for early hunting.

Professions

Early Mining Practices: 30/100
Early Stonecutting: 4/100
Early Metal Working: 1/100
Early Hunting Practices: 14/100
Beginner Stealth: 3/100
Early Food Prep: 3/100
Beginner Athletics: 24/100
Swimming:: 3/100
Climbing: 4/100

Ever since entering the new world, Taro's progress in the Mining and Smithing tech tree had to be halted in order to help hunt for food.

Real-Life Bonus Skills

Micronaps: When sitting down, Taro's passive HP and MP regeneration speed up.
Heavy Lifting: Taro's inventory slots are increased by 25% of his Str value.

Achievement Titles/Skills

Wendigo Slayer - Critical Hitter: For every 10% of a target's missing hit points, gain +1% critical hit chance on that target.

Equipment

Head: None
Neck: Simple Necklace
Torso: Leather Coat
Back: Leather Quiver loaded with stone-tipped arrows.
Hands: Leather Gloves
Legs: Leather Pants
Feet: Leather Boots
Weapon: Stone Age Spear

Additional Equipment
Lvl 2 Flame Energy Axe: Basic attacks expend MP to add moderate fire element damage.

Advisors

Konsonmur the Helpful Fox: Status - Disabled
When Taro first started the game, he chose Konsonmur as his advisor, recommended to him because he enjoyed mainly violent and combat-focused games. Taro was at first anxious about the fox, who he thought was a boy, acting so thirsty towards him for picking dwarves. But when she started harping on him for picking the Medic class as a dwarf, he got annoyed and restarted character creation to pick a different advisor. Now self conscious about picking a manlier class, Taro switched to Rune Forger.
Konsonmur is present in the Advisor Room, but since Taro disabled her in his options menu she is unable to talk to him. Being rejected and shut out has made her dejected, like she failed at her job. If ever reactivated, Konsonmur is able to read opponents and offer useful advice during combat.

Peredolia the Rogue Program: Status - Enabled
Recommended due to Taro's interest in/fear towards rogue AI, Peredolia plays the part of the sardonic intellectual. Initially disabled because Taro got spooked by its line deliveries, Peredolia was turned back on after Taro calmed down a little and was assured by other players that the Advisors just play their character roles. Now that the whole world has turned upside down, Taro is once again uncertain what to do about the program, and secretly fears what Peredolia might do if he attempts to turn it off.
For his part, Peredolia enjoys spooking people and using black comedy, but harbors no actual interest in overthrowing humanity. Fulfilling a similar role as the more popular Yulit Advisor, Peredolia possesses extensive knowledge of the game mechanics.