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Mutual Story
If you like writing or being creative, you can contribute to an ongoing story. Around the overall plot which leads to AoA, players can contribute their own stories and weave them together with other players. While "playing" DS, you would in effect be writing the story of a very important character: Yours. Your character's journey can be epic, his/her history can be unique, and it may be written into the story behind DS itself, and ultimately AoA. Everyone's stories can come together into a much larger picture, which will surround the events that lead a world to chaos.
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Secrets to Discover
In the Great Library (becoming the "Codex" with the DS2 reference site), and with certain "in-game" events, many secrets are waiting to be discovered. I'm trying to make things interesting to decipher, though difficult and involving information that is scattered in unlikely places. If you like to think and reason through these sorts of things, maybe you'll like to give this a shot. Nothing is as it seems, and even the world itself is a mystery.
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For The Competitive...
An optional battle system is available for those who want to "actually fight". The upcoming class changes will kick this aspect up another notch. Think of it a little like a collectible card game, with characters, equipment, and abilities as cards. You customize your character, choose your abilities, equip your armor, and play your "cards" to win the fight. This should not be a turn-off for anyone because it's an optional system (you can also choose to roleplay battles), but it should be fun for those who like this sort of thing. Post count won't be tied to your stats once DS2 comes (except as a multiplier sometimes), so anyone can get into this without needing a post count in the thousands.
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If any of this sounds interesting to you, then please check out DS. It's more fun with more players, so it would be awesome if you'll give it a try!
