Plot, Continuing from Ideas. Options

[Sparrowsmith]

The closest thing we have to a plot synopsis can be found here: http://www.rpgrevolution.com/forums/index....st&p=557072
but there is still a lot of work to do.

Mainly, we need to work out some characters. Who are they and, more importantly, how do they behave/develop?

We have a few character outlines:
-The 'main' protagonist. The first one to log off the game/one who returns to his original body in layer 3
-The fighter. One of the two members of the group who does not own the game. He is an adept martial artist of some kind and spends his introduction robbing a warehouse for a copy of the game and then saving the 'main' protagonist from a group of monsters.
-The fighter's accomplice. An unwitting ally. Also doesn't have the game.
-The programmer that shoots the Rogue Program
-The programmer that contacts Matryoska (spell fail) might be the same programmer as above
-The Rogue Program (quite developed, but still a little weak in characterization)

We need to develop these, and make some more, then develop them as characters. I'd rather not have us submitting characters, but trying to work out how these people should act according to their situation.
Let's get these characters worked out, nice and logical like. Also, any additional plot points. We gotta work them out too.

We're kind of slowing down here, let's not have that.

[Sparrowsmith]

We do have to be careful with how much power the programmers have. Too much and the main characters become unnecessary, too little and the programmers become useless. I imagined the programmers are unable to help directly, due to the Rogue Program, but can teach our heroes new abilities, or code new abilities for them.
I thought that maybe one of the characters without the game (the pyromaniac character, maybe) is taught how to alter the game world by learning the code. To begin with he's very weak, useless even, but as he levels he becomes INCREDIBLY powerful, maybe he can just delete enemies outright once he's a high enough level.