In a certain University in Tokyo (NO, not Tokyo University. That's like, so cliche), a man decides to set his dreams into motion.
The campus was filled with pamphlets overnight and the next day the students could read them as they hung from various walls, and doors, and windows... and even some food trays.
The guy seemed to be obsessed with it, and for a good reason, or so he thought at least.
Does the sound of blues move your soul?
Does the beats of pop thrill your heart?
Does the violin of classic give you goosebumps?
If you love music like I do, if you want to follow your dreams like I do, if you want to play the beats inside your heart like I do, then come to the
Signed, Kazama Kazuki (風間 和希) .
So the pamphlet read.
However this 'Kazama Kazuki' was, he seemed really eager. Even his name's first kanji meant 'harmony', for the love of God. He was definitely an odd one, but passionate none the less.
Many guessed it would be a total fluke. There wasn't even a Music major to begin with in that University, and even then most popular music nowadays, like Idols and whatnot, is produced instead of worked from the heart.
Some thought that perhaps the Japanese just didn't have it in them anymore, a really intense love for music like Kazama Kazuki's.
Kazuki was glad to see that they were wrong.
The campus was filled with pamphlets overnight and the next day the students could read them as they hung from various walls, and doors, and windows... and even some food trays.
The guy seemed to be obsessed with it, and for a good reason, or so he thought at least.
Do you want to follow your dreams?
Does the sound of blues move your soul?
Does the beats of pop thrill your heart?
Does the violin of classic give you goosebumps?
If you love music like I do, if you want to follow your dreams like I do, if you want to play the beats inside your heart like I do, then come to the
Music Club in the second building, classroom A-31! We, well, I, just opened!
Signed, Kazama Kazuki (風間 和希) .
So the pamphlet read.
However this 'Kazama Kazuki' was, he seemed really eager. Even his name's first kanji meant 'harmony', for the love of God. He was definitely an odd one, but passionate none the less.
Many guessed it would be a total fluke. There wasn't even a Music major to begin with in that University, and even then most popular music nowadays, like Idols and whatnot, is produced instead of worked from the heart.
Some thought that perhaps the Japanese just didn't have it in them anymore, a really intense love for music like Kazama Kazuki's.
Kazuki was glad to see that they were wrong.
All right! How to start going off on this? Perhaps with a little warning.
My character, Kazama Kazuki, is NOT going to be the protagonist of this. He is just an starting point. Each and every character will have their own development and hardships to go through. They are all human, after all, and they are all, the protagonists of this story.
Just wanted to get that out of the way. Had a small problem with a group of friends I tried to start this with. Perhaps it was just their being oversensible OR my being an unsensible prick and bad GM. One never knows.
In any case, I do intend to be a better GM this time around.
Now, what will you find in this RP with a sore need of a new name?
- A high-casual or low-advanced, whichever feeds your ego the most, level of writing.
- An extremely character driven story. It is the characters that shape this story, NOT the story shaping the characters.
- Character progress! Because everyone loves that! Right?
- Relationships between characters that will only grow more complicated as time goes on.
- Romance? Yes please. Despite everything of me that just screams 'WEEABOO' with the waifus and whatnot, I am a hopeless romantic. I expect, NAY, I DEMAND ROMANCE IN THIS RP. If it is not too much to ask.
- I am really comfortable with gay relationship or asexual, merely romantic, ones. I think they spice up the story. Just... don't make this a yaoi or yuri paradise. (I'm looking at you, legion of fujoshis and... most men).
- The fact that a band is not made up of just the band members! They might be the ones showing their faces the most, but the guys backstage deserve just as much recognition.
- And lastly, DRAMA, DRAMA AND MORE DRAMA! Make your characters fight! Make them reconcile! A band member is expulsed! Two best friends become lovers only to see that it just doesn't work! A character has to abandon their dreams because they need to be the next doctor in line to take charge of their parents' hospital! Another one needs to leave for another country and can't say goodbye! The gay guy gets depressed because the guy he had his eye on rejected him! The gay girl gets into a fist fight with the guy that tried to grope her! The music teacher and one of the band members get into a questionable relationship! I DUNNO! GIMME DRAMA! GIMME AN STORY WORTH REMEMBERING! THAT'S WHAT THIS RP IS GOING TO BE ALL ABOUT!
This is going to be an RP centering around the Universitary Music Club (again, in sore need of a new name) in their search for their dreams and in a quest to attain possible fame! But of course, having just band members would be boring.
At some point, they get involved with, I dunno, a tech club, a club of groupies that emerged in their university, a mentor, their club advisor, lovers, rival bands.
I said in the tags this RP is meant to be an small RP with about 3 or 4 people, BUT SCREW THAT! MY small groups are of 6 to 8 people and everyone will be able to handle as much characters as they think they can handle! I may even ask for more characters at request when someone is especially good.
So, that got me a little riled up (goddamn, I think I'm getting tachycardia), but any questions, output, interest, spitting at my idea, or otherwise will be answered accordingly below this!
Also, if someone can think up a better name for the RP and Music club as a whole, then I'd be EXTREMELY grateful.
If you think of another fitting role, be my guest and tell me, even write it in the character sheet. I don't think I'll be adding band roles, though.
Some info on the RP I forgot to add yesterday cause I was more or less pooped.
We will be starting the RP from 6 months after the band was formed, after their very first concert (cause, let's be honest, do any of you have the talent to actually play something with a group of strangers through the internet? Cause I sure as hell don't). Depending on what you guys write in your backstories, the concert will either be a success or a fluke.
Regardless, and being pumped up after the first concert, the band throws a party, inviting all of those who've been supporting them for the past six months.
So, and now here, under the influence of alcohol and whatnot, is when drama starts to ensue. Or not. It depends on the characters, really, but I do wanna see how they will interact.
The Rp will move in an episodic manner. No, not in like anime episodes, more like book chapters.
Everything the characters do will have heavy influence in the story, and there will be various turning points all over the place when the RP starts. If you didn't rehearse enough before a concert? You'll miss several notes and the people will berate you. The tech got sloppy? The sound is gonna mess up at the middle of the concert.
Various failed concerts will result in growing tensions between the band members. Too much tension will lead to the band disbanding. Perhaps that's how the RP will end, or perhaps we'll play afterwards in some roof or other(*cough* beatles). Regardless of the outcomes, good or bad ones, it will all contribute to the story.
Every little decision will and every character will count. So always remember that, all right?
