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* ArtificialIntelligence: Yui, from SAO canon, shows up, in addition to the far more powerful Cardinal system that manages game balance. Yui is a Turing-capable AI, which allows her to process natural language and fuzzy data far better than Cardinal despite having less processing power. For reasons Yui doesn't understand, only Turing-capable [=AIs=] deletion-accepted and deletion-enabled. While she was originally created as a mental counseling AI, she is retasked as a [[spoiler:{{Psychopomp}} for the dead players, putting them to work testing game features]]. The conflict between what she was designed for and what she is doing now is creating errors.
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* ArtificialIntelligence: Yui, from SAO canon, shows up, in addition to the far more powerful Cardinal system that manages game balance. Yui is a Turing-capable AI, which allows her to process natural language and fuzzy data far better than Cardinal despite having less processing power. For reasons Yui doesn't understand, only Turing-capable [=AIs=] are deletion-accepted and deletion-enabled. While she was originally created as a mental counseling AI, she is retasked as a [[spoiler:{{Psychopomp}} for the dead players, putting them to work testing game features]]. The conflict between what she was designed for and what she is doing now is creating errors.
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* ArtificialIntelligence: Yui, as seen in a chapter. [[spoiler:Diabel wonders if Shirou is this or a RidiculouslyHumanRobot]].
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* ArtificialIntelligence: Yui, from SAO canon, shows up, in addition to the far more powerful Cardinal system that manages game balance. Yui is a Turing-capable AI, which allows her to process natural language and fuzzy data far better than Cardinal despite having less processing power. For reasons Yui doesn't understand, only Turing-capable [=AIs=] deletion-accepted and deletion-enabled. While she was originally created as seen in a chapter. [[spoiler:Diabel wonders if Shirou mental counseling AI, she is this or retasked as a RidiculouslyHumanRobot]].[[spoiler:{{Psychopomp}} for the dead players, putting them to work testing game features]]. The conflict between what she was designed for and what she is doing now is creating errors.
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* AccidentalTruth: Cuvie facetiously calls Agil's [[FlamingSword flaming axe]] spell [Heat Hawk]. Agil is shocked that Cuvie knew the name.
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* JokeAndReceive: Cuvie facetiously calls one of Agil's spells Heat Hawk. Agil is shocked that Cuvie knew the name.
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* JokeAndReceive: Cuvie facetiously calls one of Agil's spells Heat Hawk.[[FlamingSword flaming axe]] spell [Heat Hawk]. Agil is shocked that Cuvie knew the name.
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* AdaptationalHeroism:
** In canon, the guild Fuumaningun only showed up briefly to antagonize Argo. Here, the guild Fuumanin are not only wholly subordinate to Diabel, but a proud Front Liner scouting guild.
** In canon, there were hints that Diabel had real leadership potential and the best interests of the other players at heart, but he got killed trying to steal the Last Attack on the first boss. Here, being saved by Shirou gives him a chance to develop into a real leader.
** Kuradeel was introduced as a mole for Laughing Coffin in the Knights of the Blood Oath, and gleefully murdered someone for no real reason before getting killed himself. Here, while he clearly has the seed of resentment, getting recruited by Ilya does wonders for his self-esteem, and he even gets a decent reputation among the Front Liners for going embarrassingly far on Shirou's fetch quest.
** While Rosalia is already a criminal by the time she is introduced, Ilya forcibly recruiting her turns her into a hero almost against her will. Likewise, her guild gets turned into a subordinate guild of the BSM, rather than a mid-tier thief guild.
** The Front Liners in general, really. In canon, the Clearing Guilds were little more than a collection of the strongest players vaguely united in a common goal. They were in constant competition, could barely agree on strategy, and at least once a major decision was decided by a duel rather than, y'know, democracy. Here, due to Diabel keeping them working together, they are the paragons of the players, with everyone seeing them as the heroes working to keep the rest of them safe.
** In canon, the guild Fuumaningun only showed up briefly to antagonize Argo. Here, the guild Fuumanin are not only wholly subordinate to Diabel, but a proud Front Liner scouting guild.
** In canon, there were hints that Diabel had real leadership potential and the best interests of the other players at heart, but he got killed trying to steal the Last Attack on the first boss. Here, being saved by Shirou gives him a chance to develop into a real leader.
** Kuradeel was introduced as a mole for Laughing Coffin in the Knights of the Blood Oath, and gleefully murdered someone for no real reason before getting killed himself. Here, while he clearly has the seed of resentment, getting recruited by Ilya does wonders for his self-esteem, and he even gets a decent reputation among the Front Liners for going embarrassingly far on Shirou's fetch quest.
** While Rosalia is already a criminal by the time she is introduced, Ilya forcibly recruiting her turns her into a hero almost against her will. Likewise, her guild gets turned into a subordinate guild of the BSM, rather than a mid-tier thief guild.
** The Front Liners in general, really. In canon, the Clearing Guilds were little more than a collection of the strongest players vaguely united in a common goal. They were in constant competition, could barely agree on strategy, and at least once a major decision was decided by a duel rather than, y'know, democracy. Here, due to Diabel keeping them working together, they are the paragons of the players, with everyone seeing them as the heroes working to keep the rest of them safe.
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And beyond it all, underlaying every moment in the game, is the all-important question. The question Kayaba himself encouraged everyone to ponder:
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And beyond it all, underlaying underlying every moment in the game, is the all-important question. The question Kayaba himself encouraged everyone to ponder:
* BreatherEpisode: In-universe, which worries the Front Liners. Floor 20 is an endless series of islands, basically just a massive tropical paradise. Even the monsters have lower levels than would be expected, and the Floor Boss appears to be a rather straightforward tank and spank--which doesn't matter, because it's an open-air fight and the players manage to cheese it with the construction rules. Diabel and the others suggest this might be a sign that things are going to get bad soon. Notably, the next floor we see, Floor 25, is a perpetually dark nightmare floor that 90% of the playerbase has quite a lot of difficulty even navigating.
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** [[spoiler:Yona]], while testing the construction module, develops a deep hatred for the wolves[[note]]Griefer Wolves, specifically[[/note]] that harass him, swearing to drop every last one of them into a lava pit. When the content goes live it includes a "Wolf Trap rule".
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** [[spoiler:Yona]], while testing the construction module, develops a deep hatred for the wolves[[note]]Griefer Wolves, specifically[[/note]] "Griefer Wolves" that harass him, swearing to drop every last one of them into a lava pit. When the content goes live it includes a "Wolf Trap rule".rule" to [[ObviousRulePatch prevent exactly that]].
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** Diabel tries to guess Kayaba's motives in the fic and basically hits the motivations of both the canonical Kayaba and the antagonist from the Alfheim arc.
---> Why? Diabel didn't know. Maybe he was experimenting on their brains to develop Mind Control Software. Maybe he was an egoist who genuinely wanted them to play his game.
---> Why? Diabel didn't know. Maybe he was experimenting on their brains to develop Mind Control Software. Maybe he was an egoist who genuinely wanted them to play his game.
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->''"At this time I would like to announce the first content expansion for SAO. The system for simulating Thaumaturgy has been enabled. That is to say, the skills of manifesting mysteries and wonders, individually called [Spells], are now available. It is complete and accurate to the best of my ability as a simulator."''
-->-- '''Kayaba Akihiko'''
-->-- '''Kayaba Akihiko'''
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Following the Fifth Holy Grail War, Ilya is living happily with Shirou and has decided to spend her remaining months enjoying modern media. Shirou is happy to indulge her and has been shanghaied into playing with her in the next big game: ''Sword Art Online''. Things go awry when they are trapped in the game with the other Players but that is not the only complication. Akihiko Kayaba is not only a brilliant game designer, he is also a magus. With the official announcement of the Death Game he implements a "thaumaturgy patch" allowing for magecraft to be used. In order to figure out his goal, escape alive, and save as many people as possible, Shirou and Ilya are forced to play the game.
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Following the Fifth Holy Grail War, Ilya is living happily with Shirou and has decided to spend her remaining months enjoying modern media. Shirou is happy willing to indulge her and has been shanghaied into playing with her in the next big game: ''Sword Art Online''. Things go awry when Upon the Official Launch, they are find themselves trapped in the game along with the other Players but that ten thousand others. Shirou resolves to do everything in his power to save as many people as possible.
But this isnot the only complication. more than just a sadistic death game. On launch, Kayaba Akihiko Kayaba is not only a brilliant game designer, he is also a magus. With the official announcement of the Death Game he implements announced a "thaumaturgy patch" allowing for magecraft so that players may learn magecraft. Ilya and Shirou immediately realize that the game's magic is perfectly accurate to be used. the real world. Kayaba has broken some of the most important laws of the Moonlit World by revealing magic to normal people, and worse he has done it in such a way that the players are not just victims, but collaborators. If the Enforcers find out about this, they will slaughter everyone to keep the secret safe.
In order tofigure out his goal, escape alive, and save as many people as possible, Ilya and Shirou and Ilya are forced to play the game.
game. Along the way, they teach the players what magecraft they can, all the while knowing that if something doesn't change, then even upon finishing the game, everyone will still find themselves criminals for violating laws they didn't even know existed.
And beyond it all, underlaying every moment in the game, is the all-important question. The question Kayaba himself encouraged everyone to ponder:
Why did Kayaba do this?
But this is
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And beyond it all, underlaying every moment in the game, is the all-important question. The question Kayaba himself encouraged everyone to ponder:
Why did Kayaba do this?
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* ShoutOut:
** The game and its players make a bunch of pop culture references.
*** A magecraft instructor NPC on the first floor is an old man wearing a Hogwarts uniform from the movies named "Old [[Franchise/HarryPotter Harry]]."
*** The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Museum of Suspicious Furniture]] is run by a fidgety man wearing a hat embroidered with the word "magus" (misspelled) and holds wares that include "an oversized traveling trunk set on tens of little rolling wheels with a motif like a gaping mouth full of teeth along the rim."
---->'''The Fretworker:''' It's fine to try your best and fail, but if you hesitate, the things lurking behind you will get you, without any mercy, no, especially not if they're [[Literature/{{Discworld}} luggage]].
*** Agil names his invented [[PlayingWithFire fire-element sword skill]] Heat Hawk as a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' reference. The Ether variation of the Heat Hawk spell is named [[IncrediblyLamePun Psy]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Duck]].
*** One Snow wants to use the familiars spell tree to create a [[Manga/{{Bleach}} zanpakuto]].
*** Diabel strongly suspects Kibaou modeled the Boarding School on "[[Franchise/HarryPotter a certain magical castle and boarding school from a certain super-popular British novel series]]."
*** Ilya commissions a table with underlighting like the one in a ''Franchise/JamesBond'' movie.
*** Kirito muses that Ilya [[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} goes for immediate military victory instead of trying to develop spaceflight and that her ideology is Despotism]].
*** When offered a third sword while already holding two, Kirito puts one in his mouth and pretends to use one of [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro's three-sword style moves]]. Later in the same scene Shirou remembers Kirito inventing a spell called [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Linker]] [[SwordBeam Beam]].
*** An onlooking player compares the magical effect another is using to the "Notice-Me-Not" charm from ''Harry Potter''.
*** A boss called [King Krab] drops [Krab Meat?] when defeated. Asuna cooks some to make a burger-type food item called [[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Krabby Pattie]]]. Meanwhile, two players are having a team battle where their familiars fight while they shout orders "like dueling Pokémon masters."
** Diabel tries to guess Kayaba's motives in the fic and basically hits the motivations of both the canonical Kayaba and the antagonist from the Alfheim arc.
--->Why? Diabel didn't know. Maybe he was experimenting on their brains to develop Mind Control Software. Maybe he was an egoist who genuinely wanted them to play his game.
** The game and its players make a bunch of pop culture references.
*** A magecraft instructor NPC on the first floor is an old man wearing a Hogwarts uniform from the movies named "Old [[Franchise/HarryPotter Harry]]."
*** The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Museum of Suspicious Furniture]] is run by a fidgety man wearing a hat embroidered with the word "magus" (misspelled) and holds wares that include "an oversized traveling trunk set on tens of little rolling wheels with a motif like a gaping mouth full of teeth along the rim."
---->'''The Fretworker:''' It's fine to try your best and fail, but if you hesitate, the things lurking behind you will get you, without any mercy, no, especially not if they're [[Literature/{{Discworld}} luggage]].
*** Agil names his invented [[PlayingWithFire fire-element sword skill]] Heat Hawk as a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' reference. The Ether variation of the Heat Hawk spell is named [[IncrediblyLamePun Psy]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Duck]].
*** One Snow wants to use the familiars spell tree to create a [[Manga/{{Bleach}} zanpakuto]].
*** Diabel strongly suspects Kibaou modeled the Boarding School on "[[Franchise/HarryPotter a certain magical castle and boarding school from a certain super-popular British novel series]]."
*** Ilya commissions a table with underlighting like the one in a ''Franchise/JamesBond'' movie.
*** Kirito muses that Ilya [[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} goes for immediate military victory instead of trying to develop spaceflight and that her ideology is Despotism]].
*** When offered a third sword while already holding two, Kirito puts one in his mouth and pretends to use one of [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro's three-sword style moves]]. Later in the same scene Shirou remembers Kirito inventing a spell called [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Linker]] [[SwordBeam Beam]].
*** An onlooking player compares the magical effect another is using to the "Notice-Me-Not" charm from ''Harry Potter''.
*** A boss called [King Krab] drops [Krab Meat?] when defeated. Asuna cooks some to make a burger-type food item called [[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Krabby Pattie]]]. Meanwhile, two players are having a team battle where their familiars fight while they shout orders "like dueling Pokémon masters."
** Diabel tries to guess Kayaba's motives in the fic and basically hits the motivations of both the canonical Kayaba and the antagonist from the Alfheim arc.
--->Why? Diabel didn't know. Maybe he was experimenting on their brains to develop Mind Control Software. Maybe he was an egoist who genuinely wanted them to play his game.
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* ShoutOut:
** The game andShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/FateRevelationOnline Has its players make a bunch of pop culture references.
*** A magecraft instructor NPC on the first floor is an old man wearing a Hogwarts uniform from the movies named "Old [[Franchise/HarryPotter Harry]]."
*** The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Museum of Suspicious Furniture]] is run by a fidgety man wearing a hat embroidered with the word "magus" (misspelled) and holds wares that include "an oversized traveling trunk set on tens of little rolling wheels with a motif like a gaping mouth full of teeth along the rim."
---->'''The Fretworker:''' It's fine to try your best and fail, but if you hesitate, the things lurking behind you will get you, without any mercy, no, especially not if they're [[Literature/{{Discworld}} luggage]].
*** Agil names his invented [[PlayingWithFire fire-element sword skill]] Heat Hawk as a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' reference. The Ether variation of the Heat Hawk spell is named [[IncrediblyLamePun Psy]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Duck]].
*** One Snow wants to use the familiars spell tree to create a [[Manga/{{Bleach}} zanpakuto]].
*** Diabel strongly suspects Kibaou modeled the Boarding School on "[[Franchise/HarryPotter a certain magical castle and boarding school from a certain super-popular British novel series]]."
*** Ilya commissions a table with underlighting like the one in a ''Franchise/JamesBond'' movie.
*** Kirito muses that Ilya [[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} goes for immediate military victory instead of trying to develop spaceflight and that her ideology is Despotism]].
*** When offered a third sword while already holding two, Kirito puts one in his mouth and pretends to use one of [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro's three-sword style moves]]. Later in the same scene Shirou remembers Kirito inventing a spell called [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Linker]] [[SwordBeam Beam]].
*** An onlooking player compares the magical effect another is using to the "Notice-Me-Not" charm from ''Harry Potter''.
*** A boss called [King Krab] drops [Krab Meat?] when defeated. Asuna cooks some to make a burger-type food item called [[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Krabby Pattie]]]. Meanwhile, two players are having a team battle where their familiars fight while they shout orders "like dueling Pokémon masters."
** Diabel tries to guess Kayaba's motives in the fic and basically hits the motivations of both the canonical Kayaba and the antagonist from the Alfheim arc.
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*** A magecraft instructor NPC on the first floor is an old man wearing a Hogwarts uniform from the movies named "Old [[Franchise/HarryPotter Harry]]."
*** The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Museum of Suspicious Furniture]] is run by a fidgety man wearing a hat embroidered with the word "magus" (misspelled) and holds wares that include "an oversized traveling trunk set on tens of little rolling wheels with a motif like a gaping mouth full of teeth along the rim."
---->'''The Fretworker:''' It's fine to try your best and fail, but if you hesitate, the things lurking behind you will get you, without any mercy, no, especially not if they're [[Literature/{{Discworld}} luggage]].
*** Agil names his invented [[PlayingWithFire fire-element sword skill]] Heat Hawk as a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' reference. The Ether variation of the Heat Hawk spell is named [[IncrediblyLamePun Psy]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Duck]].
*** One Snow wants to use the familiars spell tree to create a [[Manga/{{Bleach}} zanpakuto]].
*** Diabel strongly suspects Kibaou modeled the Boarding School on "[[Franchise/HarryPotter a certain magical castle and boarding school from a certain super-popular British novel series]]."
*** Ilya commissions a table with underlighting like the one in a ''Franchise/JamesBond'' movie.
*** Kirito muses that Ilya [[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} goes for immediate military victory instead of trying to develop spaceflight and that her ideology is Despotism]].
*** When offered a third sword while already holding two, Kirito puts one in his mouth and pretends to use one of [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro's three-sword style moves]]. Later in the same scene Shirou remembers Kirito inventing a spell called [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Linker]] [[SwordBeam Beam]].
*** An onlooking player compares the magical effect another is using to the "Notice-Me-Not" charm from ''Harry Potter''.
*** A boss called [King Krab] drops [Krab Meat?] when defeated. Asuna cooks some to make a burger-type food item called [[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Krabby Pattie]]]. Meanwhile, two players are having a team battle where their familiars fight while they shout orders "like dueling Pokémon masters."
** Diabel tries to guess Kayaba's motives in the fic and basically hits the motivations of both the canonical Kayaba and the antagonist from the Alfheim arc.
--->Why? Diabel didn't know. Maybe he was experimenting on their brains to develop Mind Control Software. Maybe he was an egoist who genuinely wanted them to play his game.
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* SlaveToPR: Diabel is well aware of this. He might be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, but his unofficial control of the players is based entirely on him being the most effective, most efficient leader in bringing the game to a close. If the Front Line suffers a major stall, the players might begin to wonder if he should be in charge. He's ''especially'' worried because of some of the things he's deduced about Kayaba's priorities; he has to balance clearing the game with getting players more involved with the magic system (which is, for reasons Diabel doesn't understand, Kayaba's highest priority), all while hopefully not playing along ''too'' much with whatever horrible thing this madman is planning. Diabel's chapters often involve him pausing for long paragraphs before he speaks, thinking over the best way to word everything he says.
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* IControlMyMinionsThrough:
** [=PoH=] controls the player-killer guild through a combination of [[AxCrazy them all being equally crazy]], opportunities for both excitement and safety, and of course murdering people who threaten him.
** Rosalia controls her guild through PragmaticVillainy; they're not player-killers, but they are criminals, and she encourages them to keep their crimes light because when they escape the death game the actual murderers will likely get punished (even though she doesn't think Kayaba is actually killing people), while the thieves like them will be fine. However, above all else she just likes being in control, so she makes it so that her boys feel like they can't survive without her.
** Ilya explains that you need to consider this with familiars. Since they are, by nature, entities that can make decisions independently of you, if you make them too smart they might realize they're slaves and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turn against you]]. The standard familiar bond manipulates them emotionally, and she recommends keeping them less intelligent so they can't get out of it--though she also points out that, for all the flaws of Keita's animated furniture, they'll never turn against him. Of course, she herself is an ArtificialHuman who hates her family, so she would know.
** On the more positive side, Diabel is the leader of the playerbase by dint of his reputation as [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure the most reasonable, most effective leader they could possibly have]]. He puts almost as much effort into keeping the rest of the players engaged and productive as he does on making sure the Front Line is advancing steadily. He's worried that there will eventually be a DifficultySpike that makes them stall, which could endanger everything. Their entire society is based on the Front Line advancing; people define their jobs and social standing on whether they are Front Liners, Mid Liners, Rear Liners, or Side Liners. If the Front Line fails to stay ahead of the Mid Line, then everything would fall apart.
** [=PoH=] controls the player-killer guild through a combination of [[AxCrazy them all being equally crazy]], opportunities for both excitement and safety, and of course murdering people who threaten him.
** Rosalia controls her guild through PragmaticVillainy; they're not player-killers, but they are criminals, and she encourages them to keep their crimes light because when they escape the death game the actual murderers will likely get punished (even though she doesn't think Kayaba is actually killing people), while the thieves like them will be fine. However, above all else she just likes being in control, so she makes it so that her boys feel like they can't survive without her.
** Ilya explains that you need to consider this with familiars. Since they are, by nature, entities that can make decisions independently of you, if you make them too smart they might realize they're slaves and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turn against you]]. The standard familiar bond manipulates them emotionally, and she recommends keeping them less intelligent so they can't get out of it--though she also points out that, for all the flaws of Keita's animated furniture, they'll never turn against him. Of course, she herself is an ArtificialHuman who hates her family, so she would know.
** On the more positive side, Diabel is the leader of the playerbase by dint of his reputation as [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure the most reasonable, most effective leader they could possibly have]]. He puts almost as much effort into keeping the rest of the players engaged and productive as he does on making sure the Front Line is advancing steadily. He's worried that there will eventually be a DifficultySpike that makes them stall, which could endanger everything. Their entire society is based on the Front Line advancing; people define their jobs and social standing on whether they are Front Liners, Mid Liners, Rear Liners, or Side Liners. If the Front Line fails to stay ahead of the Mid Line, then everything would fall apart.
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* UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay: When Kayaba traps everyone in his death game, he also introduces a [Thaumaturgy Patch] which, unbeknownst to almost everyone, is an extremely accurate simulation of ''real'' magecraft. Everyone is very confused at this new magic system, from the harsh penalties for failure to the ''incredibly'' in-depth lore, to the way that your magic stats seem to be randomly set at character creation. The few real mages trapped in the game quickly deduce that Kayaba is training everyone in real magic, but can't figure out why. As the game advances, he adds more realism, such as changing healing magecraft from "filling up the HP bar" to repairing and regenerating damaged tissue.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Well, teenage version. To kids, the difference between an eighteen year-old and a twelve year-old is huge, so Asuna sees her friendship with Illya as something like this. Of course, the audience knows that Illya [[OlderThanTheyLook really is eighteen]] (though she [[ManChild enjoys playing up her appearance a bit]]), so she has more in common with her than Asuna realizes. On the other hand, everyone assumes that Illya and Silica are the same age so their friendship makes perfect sense, but in reality Illya is at least six years older.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Well, teenage version. To kids, the difference between an eighteen year-old and a twelve year-old is huge, so Asuna sees her friendship with Illya as something like this. Of course, the audience knows that Illya [[OlderThanTheyLook really is eighteen]] (though she [[ManChild [[{{Manchild}} enjoys playing up her appearance a bit]]), so she has more in common with her than Asuna realizes. On the other hand, everyone assumes that Illya and Silica are the same age so their friendship makes perfect sense, but in reality Illya is at least six years older.
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* StealthMentor" Kayaba implemented the Death Game setting and Thaumuturgy Patch so players would be forced to learn magecraft and the proper mindset for practicing it. In a more direct example, Kayaba poses as the NPC [[spoiler:Ellis Bell]] to personally mentor [[spoiler:Kirito]].
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* StealthMentor" StealthMentor: Kayaba implemented the Death Game setting and Thaumuturgy Thaumaturgy Patch so players would be forced to learn magecraft and the proper mindset for practicing it. In a more direct example, Kayaba poses as the NPC [[spoiler:Ellis Bell]] to personally mentor [[spoiler:Kirito]].
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Crosswicked.
* AlchemyIsMagic: Alchemy eventually gets patched into the game. Shirou explains to Argo that there are two types of alchemy: Physical Alchemy (which is basically just chemistry by way of magecraft), and Spiritual Alchemy (which involves transmutation of the soul). Physical Alchemy is extremely dangerous if you don't have the periodic table memorized, but is generally looked down on because it has no chance to reach the Root, the end goal of all magecraft. Shirou warns Argo not to bring this up to Illya, as it's a sore spot. Argo, who still doesn't know that magic is real outside the game, doesn't understand why Illya would get so bent out of shape over a piece of game lore. Shirou doesn't explain that Illya is a [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homunculus]] and thus a ''product'' of Physical Alchemy.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The fic is about the ''Sword Art Online'' characters learning magecraft under the belief that it's just a game. They advance quickly, and many of them are capable of truly impressive feats. Then there are Illya and Shirou, who were not only aware of magecraft before the game, but had just won a magical death tournament. Illya has literal orders of magnitude more magical power than anyone else in the game and is an expert on most magic systems, while Shirou is a genius swordsman who can copy the powers of legendary heroes in true emergencies. After both of them separately solo a raid boss, the AI in charge of game balance gives up and [[ObviousRulePatch declares them exempt from balancing]].
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Downplayed. At the beach party after beating the 20th floor, everyone is in swimsuits, and Kirito tries ''very hard'' to keep his eyes on Asuna's face (and to not ask why her bikini includes his own color scheme). He doesn't understand why Asuna seems annoyed at him.
* BackgroundMagicField: "Mana" is the life energy of the planet; when it is processed inside a person's magic circuits, it becomes "prana," which can be used for magecraft. This is mostly the same as canon, though the terminology differs. However, because it's inside a game, the rules are a little different. Not only is the mana density much higher than it is in the real world, it's almost all pure mana, which everyone can safely use. In the real world, mana almost always has an element, and anyone not affiliated with that element will hurt themselves trying to use it. As with everything else, elemental mana starts appearing later on in the game, as Kayaba slowly ramps up the realism to train players in real magecraft.
* ChainOfDeals:
** Asuna and her friends end up trapped in one of these, using the travel time to chat about the quest logic and boys. They try to explain the concept to Asuna using the example of getting spark plugs to repair a car and building a series of deals for that. Soon they're confusing which step in the example came where and wish they hadn't taken it to begin with. The girls eventually realize it's a GiftOfTheMagiPlot but end up failing it due to [[spoiler:Zolgen eating the wife]].
** Liz is telling the story to Shirou later on, who ends up thinking they were trying to [[{{Metaphorgotten}} fix Merlin's car]].
** Asuna and her friends end up trapped in one of these, using the travel time to chat about the quest logic and boys. They try to explain the concept to Asuna using the example of getting spark plugs to repair a car and building a series of deals for that. Soon they're confusing which step in the example came where and wish they hadn't taken it to begin with. The girls eventually realize it's a GiftOfTheMagiPlot but end up failing it due to [[spoiler:Zolgen eating the wife]].
** Liz is telling the story to Shirou later on, who ends up thinking they were trying to [[{{Metaphorgotten}} fix Merlin's car]].
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* EntertaininglyWrong: The various theories regarding the true nature of Shirou and Illya since magecraft's existence in the real world is still a closely guarded secret.
** Kirito and Argo suspect that [[TheAce Shirou]] may be an alpha-tester who contributed to the development of the game's [Sword Skills] and through that gained experience with the thaumaturgy system. They also suspect Illya of being a member of the development team whose true appearance wasn't revealed by the [Magic Mirror].
** Diabel thinks that Shirou may be a brain-scanned AI of a deceased player due to his quick reaction times, overwhelming ability, and unorthodox way of thinking.
** Kirito and Argo suspect that [[TheAce Shirou]] may be an alpha-tester who contributed to the development of the game's [Sword Skills] and through that gained experience with the thaumaturgy system. They also suspect Illya of being a member of the development team whose true appearance wasn't revealed by the [Magic Mirror].
** Diabel thinks that Shirou may be a brain-scanned AI of a deceased player due to his quick reaction times, overwhelming ability, and unorthodox way of thinking.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: The various Since the death game uses ''real'' magic, the few real magi stuck in the game look absolutely bizarrely competent to everyone else, and all sorts of theories regarding the true nature of Shirou and pop up around them.
** Illyasince magecraft's existence has an encyclopedic knowledge of the magic system, ''stupidly'' overpowered magic circuits, and is collecting players with Rare Elements. Several people theorize that she is working with Kayaba and received some benefits from that. She is working with Kayaba, but that's unrelated to everything else. As a homunculus purpose-built for the Holy Grail War, she's one of the strongest and most knowledgable combat mages in the real world is still a closely guarded secret.
** Kirito and Argo suspectworld. People also notice that [[TheAce Shirou]] may be an alpha-tester who contributed to the development of the game's [Sword Skills] sometimes her childish mask slips, and through theorize that gained experience with the thaumaturgy system. They also suspect Illya of being a member of the development team whose true appearance wasn't "magic mirror" that revealed by everyone's true appearances didn't work right on her because Kayaba programmed in an exception. She ''is'' OlderThanTheyLook, but again, it has nothing to do with Kayaba.
** Shirou has a knowledge of the[Magic Mirror].
magic system almost as good as Illya, and he has ridiculous skills and reflexes far beyond any other player, and perhaps beyond the human limit. There are two competing theories: That he was an "alpha tester" who played the magic system before launch, or that he's a player who died early on and received BrainUploading. The truth, of course, is that he's a low-tier mage who has managed to put all of his pitiful magical power into combat, combined with an impossible will to save everyone.
** Combining the two, Diabelthinks that is careful about using Shirou may to control Illya because he doesn't know their exact relationship. At worst, Shirou might be an AI programmed to help Illya while seemingly disagreeing with her, and pushing too hard will just reveal the lie. At best, their relationship is too complex for Diabel to understand. He considers using Shirou in ''any'' way to be a brain-scanned AI of a deceased player due to his quick reaction times, overwhelming ability, and unorthodox way of thinking.last resort, even though Shirou is unfailingly helpful.
** Illya
** Kirito and Argo suspect
** Shirou has a knowledge of the
** Combining the two, Diabel
* HelpingWouldBeKillstealing: Early on, Shirou focuses on a FragileSpeedster build, running to and fro saving players who are in over their heads. Unfortunately, because many of them don't ''realize'' they're in over their heads and he runs off again without explaining himself, he gets a reputation as a kill-stealing jackass. Things get better once he becomes more careful about letting the people he's saving get the final hit, and after the first couple weeks people are experienced enough that he doesn't need to constantly run around rescuing them anyway.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Kayaba Akihiko traps ten thousand people in a death game and introduces a [Thaumaturgy Patch] that creates a far more complex magic system than the bare-bones LowFantasy version it had before. He invites everyone to find out ''why''; "If you wish to uncover my motive, struggle to clear the game." No one understands why he would trap so many people, or place so much emphasis on the magic system. The few real mages in the game know full well that the magic system is a near-perfect simulation of ''real'' magecraft, but that just leaves even more questions. If he really does let them out at the end, all he's done is create ten thousand collaborators to his crime of [[ToUnmasqueTheWorld breaking the masquerade]], and they'll all be executed by the [[MasqueradeEnforcer Enforcers]]. Argo, who was following the development of the game beforehand, thinks back to how Kayaba was revolutionizing not just the gaming industry, but software as a whole; she even started a forum thread on the topic that was featured on CNN. He has to have some plan, but no one knows what.
-->Kayaba Akihiko threw away becoming bigger than Bill Gates to orchestrate this Death Game.\\
Compared to that, what could he possibly be hoping to accomplish?
* HonestyAesop: Referenced; when an NPC asks what Kirito was promised a reward, Kirito recognizes it as an "honesty gate," and that lying will either result in a quest failure or ''seeming'' success, and will bite him later. The problem is, he genuinely doesn't remember how much he was promised, and he doesn't think the NPC is smart enough to accept that answer. Instead, he decides to ask for the random book on magic Numerology that he found while waiting. The NPC agrees, opening up a quest chain for Kirito to learn a new and complex brand of magecraft. [[spoiler:It also turns out that this "NPC" is actually Kayaba Akihiko himself, the man who trapped them there in the first place. It's unclear if he always planned to teach Kirito Numerology or if this was just a coincidence that he took advantage of]].
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Kayaba Akihiko traps ten thousand people in a death game and introduces a [Thaumaturgy Patch] that creates a far more complex magic system than the bare-bones LowFantasy version it had before. He invites everyone to find out ''why''; "If you wish to uncover my motive, struggle to clear the game." No one understands why he would trap so many people, or place so much emphasis on the magic system. The few real mages in the game know full well that the magic system is a near-perfect simulation of ''real'' magecraft, but that just leaves even more questions. If he really does let them out at the end, all he's done is create ten thousand collaborators to his crime of [[ToUnmasqueTheWorld breaking the masquerade]], and they'll all be executed by the [[MasqueradeEnforcer Enforcers]]. Argo, who was following the development of the game beforehand, thinks back to how Kayaba was revolutionizing not just the gaming industry, but software as a whole; she even started a forum thread on the topic that was featured on CNN. He has to have some plan, but no one knows what.
-->Kayaba Akihiko threw away becoming bigger than Bill Gates to orchestrate this Death Game.\\
Compared to that, what could he possibly be hoping to accomplish?
* HonestyAesop: Referenced; when an NPC asks what Kirito was promised a reward, Kirito recognizes it as an "honesty gate," and that lying will either result in a quest failure or ''seeming'' success, and will bite him later. The problem is, he genuinely doesn't remember how much he was promised, and he doesn't think the NPC is smart enough to accept that answer. Instead, he decides to ask for the random book on magic Numerology that he found while waiting. The NPC agrees, opening up a quest chain for Kirito to learn a new and complex brand of magecraft. [[spoiler:It also turns out that this "NPC" is actually Kayaba Akihiko himself, the man who trapped them there in the first place. It's unclear if he always planned to teach Kirito Numerology or if this was just a coincidence that he took advantage of]].
* IKissYourHand: When Klein is formally introduced to Ilya, she "graciously allows" him to kiss her hand. Klein double-checks with Shirou that yes, this is really happening, then does so.
-->'''Ilya:''' [[IKissYourFoot And my foot]]--\\
'''Shirou:''' Ilya.\\
'''Ilya:''' I was just joking, Shirou!
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Well, teenage version. To kids, the difference between an eighteen year-old and a twelve year-old is huge, so Asuna sees her friendship with Illya as something like this. Of course, the audience knows that Illya [[OlderThanTheyLook really is eighteen]] (though she [[ManChild enjoys playing up her appearance a bit]]), so she has more in common with her than Asuna realizes. On the other hand, everyone assumes that Illya and Silica are the same age so their friendship makes perfect sense, but in reality Illya is at least six years older.
* InvisibilityCloak: Several guilds are excited at the possibility of making an invisibility cloak... and disappointed when they discover that while making ''a cloak that is invisible'' is easy, making anything that ''makes its wearer invisible'' is far harder. Some people do find uses for invisible lengths of fabric, though, especially when they are combined with enchantments that make them nigh-indestructible. One guild hangs them like sheets as an invisible shield, which [[AIBreaker monsters don't know how to deal with]].
* LinkedListClueMethodology:
** This seems to be a common form of filler in quests, sent bouncing around the floors until you're inevitably right back where you started. Which is part of the reason that Ilya uses her [[HypnoticEyes Mystic Eyes of Binding]] to [[CuttingTheKnot skip to the end as much as possible]].
** Asuna and her friends, while looking for an easy quest to kill time, end up with a ChainOfDeals that Liz and Silica are pretty sure is going to end in a GiftOfTheMagiPlot. The reason why it's ''this'' trope is because the girls don't realize it's actually full of hints leading them to a much bigger plot. When they get to the end, they find that an essential NPC has disappeared, and dismiss the quest as UnwinnableByMistake. If they had pushed harder, they would have discovered that [[spoiler:the man they were talking to was the missing Floor Boss, and he ''ate'' the NPC they're looking for]].
** Griselda's guild takes a quest to track down a missing NPC. At each step they talk with another NPC who had worked with him and knows where he searched next. Partway through they decide not to bother with the breadcrumbs and just [[DowsingDevice dowse]] for the [[DungeonBypass man's location]].
** This seems to be a common form of filler in quests, sent bouncing around the floors until you're inevitably right back where you started. Which is part of the reason that Ilya uses her [[HypnoticEyes Mystic Eyes of Binding]] to [[CuttingTheKnot skip to the end as much as possible]].
** Asuna and her friends, while looking for an easy quest to kill time, end up with a ChainOfDeals that Liz and Silica are pretty sure is going to end in a GiftOfTheMagiPlot. The reason why it's ''this'' trope is because the girls don't realize it's actually full of hints leading them to a much bigger plot. When they get to the end, they find that an essential NPC has disappeared, and dismiss the quest as UnwinnableByMistake. If they had pushed harder, they would have discovered that [[spoiler:the man they were talking to was the missing Floor Boss, and he ''ate'' the NPC they're looking for]].
** Griselda's guild takes a quest to track down a missing NPC. At each step they talk with another NPC who had worked with him and knows where he searched next. Partway through they decide not to bother with the breadcrumbs and just [[DowsingDevice dowse]] for the [[DungeonBypass man's location]].
* MagicallyBindingContract: Part of the reason that Ilya doesn't just break out of Aincrad with her magic is that Kayaba bound everyone with a Contract at the same level as a Command Seal. It's not explained exactly how he bound them, but the most likely possibility is that he slipped it into the game's Terms of Service. Of course, Ilya is powerful enough and skilled enough that she ''could'' still break out, so Kayaba bribes her by promising to attempt to fix her flawed body and give her a full lifespan.
* NonCombatEXP: After the fight with the first Floor Boss, Shirou realizes that his experience gains from the battle vastly paled in comparison to his gains from inventing a new spell. He and Ilya realize that this means that Kayaba is encouraging players to focus on the magic system, almost to the exclusion of all else. From an in-game perspective, this is a good thing, as it allows non-combat players to stay competitive to at least some degree, letting the player base move forward in a more unified manner. From an out of game perspective, it's absolutely terrible, because when the [[MasqueradeEnforcer Enforcers]] finally realize what is happening and come to execute Kayaba for revealing magic to the world, the players will not be "victims" but "collaborators." Unless something changes, they'll all be executed for crimes they didn't even know existed.
* ThePerfectionist: Shirou becomes this as a blacksmith. If the sword he creates doesn't match what he envisioned, he immediately breaks it down and uses the materials to try again. Lisbeth doesn't understand how he can be so good at his job and yet, for quite a while, not produce a single sword he doesn't deem a failure.
* PhlebotinumAnalogy: Argo decides to explain magecraft in her guide using an ongoing analogy. Basically, how would each branch of magecraft create an explosion? It's simple, it's interesting, and almost every brand of magecraft can make explosions, so it's effective for explaining the system to beginners.
* PhlebotinumAnalogy: Argo decides to explain magecraft in her guide using an ongoing analogy. Basically, how would each branch of magecraft create an explosion? It's simple, it's interesting, and almost every brand of magecraft can make explosions, so it's effective for explaining the system to beginners.
* {{Psychometry}}: Kirito and Argo discover that at higher levels [Structural Grasp] (which is normally treated as a weak appraise spell that is quickly passed over and ignored) will give information on the history of the object. This isn't randomly generated fluff, either--it is perfectly accurate information on everything that has ever happened to this specific object. That would require an exponential amount of data storage that constantly increases, orders of magnitude more than the rest of the game combined. That would be crazy enough on its own, and then there's the fact that only ''three people'' in the game can actually access this information. The truth, of course, is that magic is real and they are unknowingly casting a real spell to read the game object's history. When Argo pushes hard enough, [[spoiler:she overhears a couple programmers talking when the object was first coded, which understandably freaks her out]].
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* ResortToPouting: Illya can evidently manipulate her brother this way, as evidenced by this passage:
--> ''"Shirou!" Ilya was seriously pouting now, hands thrust down by her sides as she stood rigidly, "I don't like it when you tease me like this!" She had a tremulous, wide-eyed look as she stared at Shirou. Asuna thought she'd never looked more like a little girl than right now, reacting pitifully to getting teased.''
--> ''With a sigh that was kind rather than exasperated, Shirou reached out in front of him and decisively tapped a menu selection.''
--> ''"Hooray!" Ilya shouted, breaking forward as she half-ran and half-skipped to throw her arms around Shirou's neck and hug him.''
--> ''"Shirou!" Ilya was seriously pouting now, hands thrust down by her sides as she stood rigidly, "I don't like it when you tease me like this!" She had a tremulous, wide-eyed look as she stared at Shirou. Asuna thought she'd never looked more like a little girl than right now, reacting pitifully to getting teased.''
--> ''With a sigh that was kind rather than exasperated, Shirou reached out in front of him and decisively tapped a menu selection.''
--> ''"Hooray!" Ilya shouted, breaking forward as she half-ran and half-skipped to throw her arms around Shirou's neck and hug him.''
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* RedBaron: Shirou is initially called [The SixthRanger] as an insult because he swoops in to help people and then runs off, like an [[HelpingWouldBeKillStealing overpowered kill-stealing jackass]] from an anime. As the game wears on and players begin to understand that he's genuinely helping, it becomes a real honorific. And then the [Titled Player] system is implemented, [[ObviousRulePatch exempting certain overpowered players from the game balance]]. Shirou's official name is changed to [The Sixth Ranger], and Illya's becomes [The White Witch].
* ResortToPouting: Illya can evidently manipulate her brother thisway, as evidenced by this passage:
--> ''"Shirou!"way.
-->"Shirou!" Ilya was seriously pouting now, hands thrust down by her sides as she stood rigidly, "I don't like it when you tease me like this!" She had a tremulous, wide-eyed look as she stared at Shirou. Asuna thought she'd never looked more like a little girl than right now, reacting pitifully to getting teased.''
--> ''With\\
With a sigh that was kind rather than exasperated, Shirou reached out in front of him and decisively tapped a menu selection.''
--> ''"Hooray!"\\
"Hooray!" Ilya shouted, breaking forward as she half-ran and half-skipped to throw her arms around Shirou's neck and hughim.''him.
* TheRoleplayer: One guild takes their {{Ninja}} personas ''very'' seriously, constantly treating Diabel as their lord and the other top players as his noble attendants. Diabel and the others find this rather uncomfortable, [[BunnyEarsLawyer but they're genuinely good at their jobs]], so everyone just puts up with it.
* ResortToPouting: Illya can evidently manipulate her brother this
--> ''"Shirou!"
-->"Shirou!" Ilya was seriously pouting now, hands thrust down by her sides as she stood rigidly, "I don't like it when you tease me like this!" She had a tremulous, wide-eyed look as she stared at Shirou. Asuna thought she'd never looked more like a little girl than right now, reacting pitifully to getting teased.
--> ''With
With a sigh that was kind rather than exasperated, Shirou reached out in front of him and decisively tapped a menu selection.
--> ''"Hooray!"
"Hooray!" Ilya shouted, breaking forward as she half-ran and half-skipped to throw her arms around Shirou's neck and hug
* TheRoleplayer: One guild takes their {{Ninja}} personas ''very'' seriously, constantly treating Diabel as their lord and the other top players as his noble attendants. Diabel and the others find this rather uncomfortable, [[BunnyEarsLawyer but they're genuinely good at their jobs]], so everyone just puts up with it.
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* SlaveRace: During the otherwise [[BreatherEpisode Breather]] BeachEpisode, Illya casually points out that all {{Familiar}}s are slaves, and if you make them too smart you have to worry about a TurnedAgainstTheirMasters situation. Silica is horrified at this, since she [[TheBeastmaster loves her animals]], but Illya counters that her animals never chose to love her back--Silica programmed them that way and still uses them as disposable tools that she can modify at a whim. Illya, of course, doesn't see anything actually wrong with any of this.
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* StealthMentor" Kayaba implemented the Death Game setting and Thaumuturgy Patch so players would be forced to learn magecraft and the proper mindset for practicing it. In a more direct example, Kayaba poses as the NPC [[spoiler:Ellis Bell]] to personally mentor [[spoiler:Kirito]].
* StockLightNovelHero: Subverted with Kirito. He's one of the front-line players, but he's OvershadowedByAwesome by most of the other people in the guild he's not quite joined. Illya is the best mage in the game bar none (and a decent warrior besides), Shirou is the best warrior in the game bar none (and a decent mage besides), Asuna is [[JackOfAllStats universally well-rounded]], and everyone else has a [[UniqueProtagonistAsset Rare Element]] that helps them stand out from the crowd. Kirito, by contrast, merely has the Ether element, which works best when you have another element paired with it. This isn't always a bad thing--since Kirito isn't trying to hide his strength, he's able to give the Moonlight Black Cats a lot more help than canon, and they don't get slaughtered when they face an unexpectedly powerful enemy. Likewise, he never really gets a harem because all the girls are helped by other people instead of him. His only love interest is Asuna.
* StockLightNovelHero: Subverted with Kirito. He's one of the front-line players, but he's OvershadowedByAwesome by most of the other people in the guild he's not quite joined. Illya is the best mage in the game bar none (and a decent warrior besides), Shirou is the best warrior in the game bar none (and a decent mage besides), Asuna is [[JackOfAllStats universally well-rounded]], and everyone else has a [[UniqueProtagonistAsset Rare Element]] that helps them stand out from the crowd. Kirito, by contrast, merely has the Ether element, which works best when you have another element paired with it. This isn't always a bad thing--since Kirito isn't trying to hide his strength, he's able to give the Moonlight Black Cats a lot more help than canon, and they don't get slaughtered when they face an unexpectedly powerful enemy. Likewise, he never really gets a harem because all the girls are helped by other people instead of him. His only love interest is Asuna.
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* TellMeHowYouFight: When Shirou starts making weapons for people, he decides he needs to fight them first in order to determine what would be best for them. He fights them in the Safe Zone, meaning it's impossible for them to take damage... which is a good thing, because Shirou is a '''brutal''' fighter.
-->Diabel smiled uncertainly as he raised his hand to click respond.\\
His hand was still shaking.\\
He paused, examining his hand rather than responding, watching the fingers twitch slightly, completely outside his control.\\
It had been terrifying.\\
Compared to the heavy presence of a [Floor Boss] that oppressed him, fighting the [Sixth Ranger] had been like getting buffeted by a hurricane gale. Blows continuously came from everywhere, and if you missed even one it would knock you down and continue to pound you remorselessly.
-->Diabel smiled uncertainly as he raised his hand to click respond.\\
His hand was still shaking.\\
He paused, examining his hand rather than responding, watching the fingers twitch slightly, completely outside his control.\\
It had been terrifying.\\
Compared to the heavy presence of a [Floor Boss] that oppressed him, fighting the [Sixth Ranger] had been like getting buffeted by a hurricane gale. Blows continuously came from everywhere, and if you missed even one it would knock you down and continue to pound you remorselessly.
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* TerminallyDependentSociety: Diabel realizes that they are entirely reliant on the game [Menu], with the private messages, auto-mapping, HP and MP bars, and so on. Normally that wouldn't be a big deal, since they're inside a video game and there's no reason to suspect that these features will be disabled. But then a patch removes the [Items] tab of player inventories for "realism," and Diabel realizes that if the [Menu] disappears then their entire society will instantly break down. Just to start with, they have no backup system for messaging people, and yet they're spread over dozens of floors and thousands of square miles. Diabel quietly starts a think-tank to look into backup plans just to be safe.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Diabel spars with Shirou so the latter can make him a sword. When Diabel arrives to pick up the sword, Lisbeth, having recently had a discussion about a Diabel/Shirou pairing, completely misinterprets them discussing the spar.
-->'''Shirou:''' It's ready. If you're prepared, I can give it to you now. ''[Lisbeth takes notice]''\\
'''Diabel:''' Thank you. But if you're so rough every time, then even if it's amazing, this will be the last time. ''[Lisbeth starts blushing]''\\
'''Shirou:''' Ah. I'm sorry, I just got excited.\\
'''Diabel:''' ''[[[{{Troll}} deciding to mess with Lisbeth]]]'' In that case, I look forward to receiving more from you in the future. But as it is, I am prepared for it right now.\\
'''Shirou:''' ''[completely oblivious]'' Right.\\
''[Lisbeth panics]''
* ThatCameOutWrong: Diabel spars with Shirou so the latter can make him a sword. When Diabel arrives to pick up the sword, Lisbeth, having recently had a discussion about a Diabel/Shirou pairing, completely misinterprets them discussing the spar.
-->'''Shirou:''' It's ready. If you're prepared, I can give it to you now. ''[Lisbeth takes notice]''\\
'''Diabel:''' Thank you. But if you're so rough every time, then even if it's amazing, this will be the last time. ''[Lisbeth starts blushing]''\\
'''Shirou:''' Ah. I'm sorry, I just got excited.\\
'''Diabel:''' ''[[[{{Troll}} deciding to mess with Lisbeth]]]'' In that case, I look forward to receiving more from you in the future. But as it is, I am prepared for it right now.\\
'''Shirou:''' ''[completely oblivious]'' Right.\\
''[Lisbeth panics]''
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* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: Saber takes Ilya's place in the Tiger Dojo, where she is extremely embarrassed at having to wear bloomers. In the second Dojo she challenges Taiga to a duel and brings out Excalibur. The following ''Lion'' Dojo [[HostileShowTakeover showed Saber as Master and Taiga in bloomers]].
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* TrackingSpell: One of the magics taught is tracking through the use of runes or dowsing.
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* UniqueProtagonistAsset: Discussed; as in Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} canon, people are born with an affinity for various elements of either the Western or Eastern arrays. Sometimes, however, people can have a "Rare Element" that does not match any of these, and is often unique. The players semi-jokingly refer to these people as "Protagonists" since it's such a common anime plot for the main character to have some rare special ability. Rosalia mentions that many people have Rare Elements that are [[CripplingOverspecialization too specialized and weird to make good use of]]; these people usually don't get called Protagonists. Shirou (as in canon) has the Sword element, which is even more useful in a game completely built around swords. Silica has the Beast element, and Illya begins collecting Rare element holders at Kayaba's request.
* UnSorcerer: According to Kayaba, nearly everyone is basically a latent [[MageSpecies mage]], but their magic circuits don't activate on birth, sort of like being born with a stunted limb. The first thing he does with his death game is release a thamauturgy patch to teach the players real magic in the guise of the game, including activating their latent circuits. Unfortunately, even with that, Argo ''still'' doesn't have any magic circuits. She actually has the Rare Element [Metal], which would normally make her quite powerful, but with zero circuits she simply can't do anything with it. Thankfully, Shirou, a real-life mage who once thought he had no magic circuits, teaches her how to make a fake circuit so that she can be a passable mage.
* UnSorcerer: According to Kayaba, nearly everyone is basically a latent [[MageSpecies mage]], but their magic circuits don't activate on birth, sort of like being born with a stunted limb. The first thing he does with his death game is release a thamauturgy patch to teach the players real magic in the guise of the game, including activating their latent circuits. Unfortunately, even with that, Argo ''still'' doesn't have any magic circuits. She actually has the Rare Element [Metal], which would normally make her quite powerful, but with zero circuits she simply can't do anything with it. Thankfully, Shirou, a real-life mage who once thought he had no magic circuits, teaches her how to make a fake circuit so that she can be a passable mage.
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* WrongContextMagic: In the beta test and all preview material, the VRMMO ''Sword Art Online'' was a fairly standard LowFantasy game. There were plenty of fantastical monsters, but the players had no magic of their own besides a handful of healing or escape crystals. Everything was based around the [Sword Skills], a way to simulate real swordsmanship with the system assist. And then on launch day, along with the announcement that everyone was trapped, Kayaba also announced a [Thamauturgy Patch] that removed the magic crystals and added a different, far more in-depth magic system. All the gamers lampshade that this system makes '''no''' sense compared to everything that came before. Rather than being based entirely on a few set skills you can train up, large parts of it are based on random stats that seem to be set at character creation, you can invent new spells and share them, the caster's thoughts and intent are very important, and even things like the religious affiliation of the person who crafted an item can have major effects. Entire magecraft disciplines are either ridiculously overpowered or simply redundant due to game mechanics. The truth, of course, is that Kayaba is simulating ''real'' magecraft and is using the death game to train ten thousand people in magecraft. The few people who already knew about magic before they became trapped quickly make a name for themselves due to their in-depth knowledge of the magic system.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: The avatar that Ilya originally made for Shirou, deliberately designed to match his real life appearance when younger, makes him seem like this while it lasts.
** Agatha, the NPC on the fifth-floor quest. [[spoiler:She's based on Sakura Matou as a child and Kirito [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom hands her over to Zolgen, who's based on Zouken]].]]
* AdventureFriendlyWorld: It was meant to be an MMO, after all. Kirito notes that the only part of the game which ''isn't'' friendly is the thaumaturgy system, whose complex rules, limitations, and eccentricities are too messy and cumbersome for a game.
** Agatha, the NPC on the fifth-floor quest. [[spoiler:She's based on Sakura Matou as a child and Kirito [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom hands her over to Zolgen, who's based on Zouken]].]]
* AdventureFriendlyWorld: It was meant to be an MMO, after all. Kirito notes that the only part of the game which ''isn't'' friendly is the thaumaturgy system, whose complex rules, limitations, and eccentricities are too messy and cumbersome for a game.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: AdorablyPrecociousChild:
** The avatar that Ilya originally made for Shirou, deliberately designed to match his real life appearance when younger, makes him seem like this while it lasts.
** Agatha, the NPC on the fifth-floor quest. [[spoiler:She's based on Sakura Matou as a child and Kirito [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom hands her over to Zolgen, who's based on Zouken]]. "Ellis Bell" brings her along when he gives Shirou a quest to move them to the 25th floor.]]
*AdventureFriendlyWorld: AdventureFriendlyWorld:
** It was meant to be an MMO, after all. Kirito notes that the only part of the game which ''isn't'' friendly is the thaumaturgy system, whose complex rules, limitations, and eccentricities are too messy and cumbersome for a game.
** The avatar that Ilya originally made for Shirou, deliberately designed to match his real life appearance when younger, makes him seem like this while it lasts.
** Agatha, the NPC on the fifth-floor quest. [[spoiler:She's based on Sakura Matou as a child and Kirito [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom hands her over to Zolgen, who's based on Zouken]]. "Ellis Bell" brings her along when he gives Shirou a quest to move them to the 25th floor.]]
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** It was meant to be an MMO, after all. Kirito notes that the only part of the game which ''isn't'' friendly is the thaumaturgy system, whose complex rules, limitations, and eccentricities are too messy and cumbersome for a game.
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* AlwaysNight: The 25th floor is a single flat plain of mud and grass with no natural light, exactly one type of monster (which spawns in the darkness in response to light), and bosses that can cancel player lights. Oh, and there's some effect on maps that makes it very easy to get lost. Players with the ether element have dousing and can easily find their way back to the capital, but everyone else has a lot more trouble.
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* MostDangerousVideoGame: Unlike the source work, it's subverted. Early on, Illya is able to briefly connect with the outside world, and discovers that people who have died in the game have ''not'' died in the real world (though the ones who had their [=NerveGear=] removed really did die). This is an important enough secret that Kayaba Akahiko himself immediately contacts Illya and makes a deal so that she will keep the secret; his experiment requires that the players truly believe they could die. [[spoiler:Yui, the Mental Health AI, is using at least some of them to test new game features]].
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* SingleAttemptGame: Unlike the source work, it's subverted. Early on, Illya is able to briefly connect with the outside world, and discovers that people who have died in the game have ''not'' died in the real world (though the ones who had their [=NerveGear=] removed really did die). This is an important enough secret that Kayaba Akahiko himself immediately contacts Illya and makes a deal so that she will keep the secret; his experiment requires that the players truly believe they could die. [[spoiler:Yui, the Mental Health AI, is using at least some of them to test new game features]].
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* AnnoyingArrows: Unsurprisingly averted once ranged weapons are patched in; this is half the reason they were removed to begin with.
** Shirou at one point manages to kill a [[spoiler:floor boss with only ''two'' arrows]].
** Shirou at one point manages to kill a [[spoiler:floor boss with only ''two'' arrows]].
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* AnnoyingArrows: Unsurprisingly averted once ranged weapons are patched in; this is half the reason they were removed to begin with.
**with. Shirou at one point manages to kill a [[spoiler:floor boss with only ''two'' arrows]].arrows]].
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Standard, of course, due to the game setting. The game goes to a lot of effort to balance realism and convenience.
** In restaurants, there are NPC waiters and chefs. But you place the order using a menu, and the waiter instantly spawns and brings your food to you. Kirito likes a specific restaurant because it's too out of the way to bother with waiters, so food just spawns directly at your table.
** Fall damage is negated entirely if someone catches you, no matter the height. As Kirito says, it's easier on the system this way too, as rather than dealing with pitons and other safety gear (which the system would have to keep track of), they just need a friend ready to catch them.
** Subverted as they go up the floors, when patches start adding more realism in order to teach players how to use magic more realistically. This includes healing magic going from just basic refilling a health bar to having to learn how to regenerate flesh and blood. Diabel realizes that if some of their basic [Menu] features disappear, they'll be practically helpless, and quietly starts a think-tank to come up with alternative mapping and communications spells.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Standard, of course, due to the game setting. The game goes to a lot of effort to balance realism and convenience.
** In restaurants, there are NPC waiters and chefs. But you place the order using a menu, and the waiter instantly spawns and brings your food to you. Kirito likes a specific restaurant because it's too out of the way to bother with waiters, so food just spawns directly at your table.
** Fall damage is negated entirely if someone catches you, no matter the height. As Kirito says, it's easier on the system this way too, as rather than dealing with pitons and other safety gear (which the system would have to keep track of), they just need a friend ready to catch them.
** Subverted as they go up the floors, when patches start adding more realism in order to teach players how to use magic more realistically. This includes healing magic going from just basic refilling a health bar to having to learn how to regenerate flesh and blood. Diabel realizes that if some of their basic [Menu] features disappear, they'll be practically helpless, and quietly starts a think-tank to come up with alternative mapping and communications spells.
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* CarFu: Klein's guild kill a boss by ramming their rocket-propelled boat into it at over 300 kmph and making the boat explode on it.
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*** A boss called [King Krab] drops [Krab Meat?] when defeated. Asuna cooks some to make a burger-type food item called [[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Krabby Pattie]]]. Meanwhile, two players are having a team battle where their familiars fight while they shout orders "like dueling Pokémon masters."
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*** A boss called [King Krab] drops [Krab Meat?] when defeated. Asuna cooks some to make a burger-type food item called [[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Krabby Pattie]]]. Meanwhile, two players are having a team battle where their familiars fight while they shout orders "like dueling Pokémon masters."
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* StuffBlowingUp: Klein's guild blow up their ship by ramming it into a boss. They eject themselves and Klein has to use a blast shield to protect himself from the shockwave.
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*** A boss called [King Krab] drops [Krab Meat?] when defeated. Asuna cooks some to make a burger-type food item called [[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Krabby Pattie]]]. Meanwhile, two players are having a team battle where their familiars fight while they shout orders "like dueling Pokémon masters."
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* BodyCountCompetition: Illya [[InvokedTrope proposes]] the party members she brought with her compete to kill the most mobs while they search for the floor boss.
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* BodyCountCompetition: Illya [[InvokedTrope proposes]] the party members she brought with her compete to kill the most mobs while they search for the floor field boss.
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* BodyCountCompetition: Illya [[InvokedTrope proposes]] the party members she brought with her compete to kill the most mobs while they search for the floor boss.
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* ChainmailBikini: On the 20th Floor Ilya forces her guild to wear armored swimsuits in place of their standard outfits. While they do provide some protection, the overall amount is lower than standard armor.
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* KillCountCompetition: Illya [[InvokedTrope proposes]] the party members she brought with her compete to kill the most mobs while they search for the floor boss.
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** When Klein's guild manages to OneHitKill a boss, there is a discussion on why this didn't grant anyone a [Title]. Kirito points out that the system isn't about really strong players, it's about players who are too strong for the system to handle. Klein's trick was situational, required his entire guild to help, and technically anyone could use it. By contrast, most of what Shirou and Illya do is completely unique to them and can't be taught or shared. Klein can be balanced, Shirou and Illya can't, so Klein doesn't get a title.
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** When Klein's guild manages manage to OneHitKill a boss, there is a discussion on why this didn't grant anyone a [Title]. Kirito points out that the system isn't about really strong players, it's about players who are too strong for the system to handle. Klein's trick was situational, required his entire guild to help, and technically anyone could use it. By contrast, most of what Shirou and Illya do is completely unique to them and can't be taught or shared. Klein can be balanced, Shirou and Illya can't, so Klein doesn't get a title.title.
* ContinuityNod: Early on Grimlock lectures his guildmates that fictional substances like mithril will not exist in Aincrad and Axer makes a bet that it will exist. Much later the guild are on a quest to find mithril and Axer says Grimlock will owe her 500 col if they succeed.
* ContinuityNod: Early on Grimlock lectures his guildmates that fictional substances like mithril will not exist in Aincrad and Axer makes a bet that it will exist. Much later the guild are on a quest to find mithril and Axer says Grimlock will owe her 500 col if they succeed.
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*** An onlooking player compares the magical effect another is using to the "Notice-Me-Not" charm from ''Harry Potter''.
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*** Diabel strongly suspects Kibaou modeled the Boarding School on "[[Franchise/HarryPotter a certain magical castle and boarding school from a certain super-popular British novel series]]."
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*** Ilya commissions a table with underlighting like the one in a ''Franchise/JamesBond'' movie.
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* SummoningRitual: Laughing Coffin conduct a demon summoning ritual.
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*** One Snow wants to use the familiars spell tree to create a [[Manga/{{Bleach}} zanpakutoh]].
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*** One Snow wants to use the familiars spell tree to create a [[Manga/{{Bleach}} zanpakutoh]].zanpakuto]].
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---> '''Shirou:''' So it's a [[MortonsFork choice]]. Between saving people now and sacrificing people in the future, and sacrificing people now so that people in the future will be safe.\\
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** The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Museum of Suspicious Furniture]] is run by a fidgety man wearing a hat embroidered with the word "magus" (misspelled) and holds wares that include "an oversized traveling trunk set on tens of little rolling wheels with a motif like a gaping mouth full of teeth along the rim."
--->'''The Fretworker:''' It's fine to try your best and fail, but if you hesitate, the things lurking behind you will get you, without any mercy, no, especially not if they're [[Literature/{{Discworld}} luggage]].
** Agil names his invented [[PlayingWithFire fire-element sword skill]] Heat Hawk as a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' reference. The Ether variation of the Heat Hawk spell is named [[IncrediblyLamePun Psy]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Duck]].
** Kirito comments in his narration that Ilya goes for immediate military victory instead of trying to develop spaceflight and that her ideology is [[[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} Despotism]]].
--->'''The Fretworker:''' It's fine to try your best and fail, but if you hesitate, the things lurking behind you will get you, without any mercy, no, especially not if they're [[Literature/{{Discworld}} luggage]].
** Agil names his invented [[PlayingWithFire fire-element sword skill]] Heat Hawk as a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' reference. The Ether variation of the Heat Hawk spell is named [[IncrediblyLamePun Psy]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Duck]].
** Kirito comments in his narration that Ilya goes for immediate military victory instead of trying to develop spaceflight and that her ideology is [[[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} Despotism]]].
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** The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Museum game and its players make a bunch of Suspicious Furniture]] pop culture references.
*** A magecraft instructor NPC on the first floor isrun by a fidgety an old man wearing a hat embroidered with Hogwarts uniform from the word "magus" (misspelled) and holds wares that include "an oversized traveling trunk set on tens of little rolling wheels with a motif like a gaping mouth full of teeth along the rim.movies named "Old [[Franchise/HarryPotter Harry]]."
--->'''The *** The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Museum of Suspicious Furniture]] is run by a fidgety man wearing a hat embroidered with the word "magus" (misspelled) and holds wares that include "an oversized traveling trunk set on tens of little rolling wheels with a motif like a gaping mouth full of teeth along the rim."
---->'''The Fretworker:''' It's fine to try your best and fail, but if you hesitate, the things lurking behind you will get you, without any mercy, no, especially not if they're [[Literature/{{Discworld}} luggage]].
** *** Agil names his invented [[PlayingWithFire fire-element sword skill]] Heat Hawk as a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' reference. The Ether variation of the Heat Hawk spell is named [[IncrediblyLamePun Psy]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Duck]].
** *** One Snow wants to use the familiars spell tree to create a [[Manga/{{Bleach}} zanpakutoh]].
*** Kiritocomments in his narration muses that Ilya [[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} goes for immediate military victory instead of trying to develop spaceflight and that her ideology is [[[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} Despotism]]].Despotism]].
*** When offered a third sword while already holding two, Kirito puts one in his mouth and pretends to use one of [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro's three-sword style moves]]. Later in the same scene Shirou remembers Kirito inventing a spell called [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Linker]] [[SwordBeam Beam]].
*** A magecraft instructor NPC on the first floor is
---->'''The Fretworker:''' It's fine to try your best and fail, but if you hesitate, the things lurking behind you will get you, without any mercy, no, especially not if they're [[Literature/{{Discworld}} luggage]].
*** Kirito
*** When offered a third sword while already holding two, Kirito puts one in his mouth and pretends to use one of [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro's three-sword style moves]]. Later in the same scene Shirou remembers Kirito inventing a spell called [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Linker]] [[SwordBeam Beam]].
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** When offered a third sword while already holding two, Kirito puts one in his mouth and pretends to use on of [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro's three-sword style moves]]. Later in the same scene Shirou remembers Kirito inventing a spell called [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Linker]] [[SwordBeam Beam]].
* ShownTheirWork: The third floor boss is based off the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_death_worm Mongolian Death Worm]].
* ShownTheirWork: The third floor boss is based off the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_death_worm Mongolian Death Worm]].
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---> '''The Fretworker:''' It's fine to try your best and fail, but if you hesitate, the things lurking behind you will get you, without any mercy, no, especially not if they're [[Literature/{{Discworld}} luggage]].
** Agil's [[PlayingWithFire Heat Hawk]]. Clearly, someone is a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' fan. He's not even the only one.
** The Ether variation of the Heat Hawk spell is named [[IncrediblyLamePun Psy]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Duck]].
** Agil's [[PlayingWithFire Heat Hawk]]. Clearly, someone is a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' fan. He's not even the only one.
** The Ether variation of the Heat Hawk spell is named [[IncrediblyLamePun Psy]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Duck]].
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** Diabel tries to guess Kayaba's motives in the fic and basically hits the motivations of both the canon!Kayaba and the antagonist from the Alfheim arc.
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** Diabel tries to guess Kayaba's motives in the fic and basically hits the motivations of both the canon!Kayaba canonical Kayaba and the antagonist from the Alfheim arc.
---> Why? --->Why? Diabel didn't know. Maybe he was experimenting on their brains to develop Mind Control Software. Maybe he was an egoist who genuinely wanted them to play his game.game.
** When offered a third sword while already holding two, Kirito puts one in his mouth and pretends to use on of [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro's three-sword style moves]]. Later in the same scene Shirou remembers Kirito inventing a spell called [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Linker]] [[SwordBeam Beam]].
** When offered a third sword while already holding two, Kirito puts one in his mouth and pretends to use on of [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro's three-sword style moves]]. Later in the same scene Shirou remembers Kirito inventing a spell called [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Linker]] [[SwordBeam Beam]].
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* SoulJar: Dr. Skull's ultimate goal is to have one of these for himself and become a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]].
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* SoulJar: Mentioned. Dr. Skull's ultimate goal is to have one of these for himself and become a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]].
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* FastBallSpecial: Johnny Black and several orcs get into a safe zone by getting thrown by a giant.
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* FastBallSpecial: Johnny Black and several orcs get into a safe zone by getting thrown by a giant.an ogre.
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** Also rather hilariously subverted. [[spoiler:The one player we see subjected to this fate takes his continual reincarnation as a ''challenge'' and promptly starts using the new building construction rules to play ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' with his tormentors.]]
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** Also rather hilariously subverted. [[spoiler:The subverted: The one player we see subjected to this fate takes his [[spoiler:his continual reincarnation reincarnation]] as a ''challenge'' and promptly starts using the new building construction rules to play ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' with his tormentors.]]
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** After the players become organized enough that the Sixth Ranger is no longer needed, Shirou turns to blacksmithing in order to help people. Lisbeth is rather depressed when she realizes he can easily outdo her when crafting a sword.
** Grimlock was primarily a blacksmith until his wife convinced him to start actively playing, being one of the first blacksmiths able to make steel weapons. He still crafts some weapons to order, specializing in mystic codes.
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** After the players become organized enough that the Sixth Ranger is no longer needed, Shirou turns to blacksmithing in order as a way to help people. Lisbeth is rather depressed when she realizes he can easily outdo her when crafting a sword.
** Grimlockwas is primarily a blacksmith until his wife convinced convinces him to start actively playing, being playing. He's one of the first blacksmiths able to make steel weapons. He still crafts some weapons to order, order even after [[spoiler:the steel market crashes]], specializing in mystic codes.
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* FlatWhat: Johnny Black responds this way in a hint corner chapter when Gilgamesh says Johnny shouldn't be there at the bad-guy hint corner.
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* VillainTakesAnInterest: Kayaba has a taken a special interest in [[spoiler:Kirito]] and has taken him as a personal apprentice under the guise of [[spoiler:the NPC Ellis Bell]].
