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Welcome! The purpose of this thread is to discuss what you would do if confronted with the life and death situation of being stuck in an RPG where your character dying means your own death. What strategies would you undertake to survive? Would you party? Would you solo? Would you form a massive guild?

Remember the point of this thread is what you would do if your very life rested in an RPG. This isn't simply a hardcore playthrough where you start over if your character dies once. If your character dies, you die as well so keep that in mind. Feel free to debate and contrast your strategies and techniques as your very survival would depend on it!

Try to keep spoilers to a minimum and do your best to put yourself in the shoes of the characters in SAO. For those of you who have read the novels or manga, don't try to use advanced knowledge of abilities or enemies if possible when deciding what you would do because those stuck in the actual SAO world do not have that advantage. However, if you want to claim you're a beta tester you can but you also must realize the beta is not the same as the actual release. If you base things on the beta, that could very easily kill you if it is changed for the actual game so be VERY careful if you want to take that point of view.


Mod Note About Spoilers:
Anything that has not been shown in the Sword Art Online is a spoiler, and must be placed under properly-labelled spoiler tags. (Properly labelled means that it indicates the purpose and context of the spoiler, i.e. why you're posting it and where it comes from specifically.) As it says above, please try avoid unnecessary spoilers to ensure the most possible people can participate.