Dark Arts Online

, sometimes known as Dark Arts Online: Final Mix, or Dark Arts Online RE:Mix, was a 2020 replacer-campaign run by Malkuro. It was based on the anime, Sword Art Online, and was to run for Genesis during important episodes where a Player was not able to be present. After the events of The Great Merge, became non-canon.
It was cancelled in 2020 due to both of its parent campaigns becoming cancelled due to a Player leaving and disruption that the COVID-19 Pandemic caused.
==Background==
In 2022, a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online (SAO) was released. With the NerveGear, a helmet that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain, players can experience and control their in-game characters with their minds. Both the game and the NerveGear were created by Akihiko Kayaba. On November 6, 10,000 players log into SAO's mainframe cyberspace for the first time, only to discover that they are unable to log out. Kayaba appears and tells the players that they must beat all 100 floors of Aincrad, a steel castle which is the setting of SAO, if they wish to be free. He also states that those who suffer in-game deaths or forcibly remove the NerveGear out-of-game will suffer real-life deaths.
:— Excerpt from the Wikipedia article, Sword Art Online.
==Cast==
===Party===
file:Proxy.png|Proxy|link=Proxy
file:Raiment.png|WildRaiment44|link=WildRaiment44
file:Yukine.png|Owen10|link=Owen10
===List of NPCs===
file:Leif Audrey.png|Leif_2007|link=Leif_2007
file:Kaz_2006.png|Kaz_2006
file:Hooded Figure Token 001.png|Xela Takahashi|link=Xela Takahashi
==Timeline==
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:See main section: DAO Plot.
==Plot==
After Proxy, WildRaiment44, and Owen10, log into Dark Arts Online for the first time, the three are seen as new players and helped by siblings Leif_2007 and Kaz_2006. The two siblings help Proxy and Owen10 get used to the dive technology, and teach them the basics of the game. Wildraiment44 on the other hand, happened to be a beta tester for the game. Upon this revelation, the five formed a temporary party to go scout some nearby areas outside of the starter town on Kaz's suggestion.
After fighting off some NPC boars at a farmhouse, Proxy and Owen10 manage to get themselves killed. They respawn swiftly, and Leif and Kaz let the party know they're about to log out; their parents have bought pizza for dinner. Mysteriously, the logout button is missing from the HUD menu. Leif casually explains the game might be a bit buggy as it just launched, but Wildraiment44 and Kaz are suspicious.
Two hours later, all players in DAO are teleported to the main starter town square, where a giant hooded figure explains they are now all in a death game... Dying in the game, meant dying in real life via the nervgear. The crowd erupts in panic due to the revelation.
Leif and Kaz take the party into an alley, where they suggest all five of them should team up. Going back to the farm, everyone decides to reveal their true identities. Leif and Kaz are revealed to be girls. Proxy however, looks the same, and Owen10 is revealed to be the famous idol, Yukine Toshiro! Whilst Wildraiment44 reveals she only had so long to live anyway, due to a terminal illness.
Returning to the farmhouse as night falls and rain begins, the party is then attacked by a boar boss...
==Gallery==
File:Beta banner.png|DAO Beta D&D Banner
File:Cover DAO.png|DAOFM D&D Banner
==Trivia==
*Despite the title of sometimes having Final Mix in its title, it was not a reboot/remaster.
*Atlas Exodius was a cameo during the initial scene in Dark Arts Online's Town of Beginning.
==Credits==
*Malkuro as Dungeon Master
*Eon as Proxy, an intellectual teenage boy
*TastyPotato as WildRaiment44, a terminally ill teenage girl
*Soup as Owen10, an East-Asian pop idol
==See Also==
*Blade Horizon: Unlimited
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