@Rakurai Scarlet's no dark lord's servant. She's the Dark Lord of fun times and alcohol :3

I'm starting to hope the baby will end up dead. xD
How is it that everyone on the scene;
- Looks up
- See's Mary
- See's the Baby
- And then goes.... oops, Behemoth.
I'm going to have to start giving out free cookies to whoever doesn't notice the Baby. xD

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Since there seems to be a fair amount of "Oh no, not Mary again" going on, I decided to add Schools to the chart I'm working on and.... well.... No one seems to like the Wolfgang Alliance (Crescendo) xD

Bach-Crescendo: (6/16)
Darrel, Victor, Aura, Moros, Ueno, Isabelle

Chopin-Cappela: (8/16)
Claudia, Farrah, Cass, Mary, Shakrais, Josiah, Zachary, Randar

Wolfgang-Crescendo: (1/16)
... Just Taytay :(

Anyway! This brings me to my question of, how familiar are students supposed to be with one another? Everyone already seems to be acknowledging Mary, and that's not surprising considering how Mary tends to stand out xD But what about the reverse? Is Mary supposed to recognize the other 7 from Chopin-Cappela? Or is that up to individual players?

Essentially, are the schools big enough for people to not recognize one another?

Send a cookie Taylor's way @Rakurai, she didn't see the baby XP. She went "Shit, a Behemoth over there. Better stab it before it kills someone"

P.S. Crescendo represent!

@McFazzer
Would be funny if we had school-faction based fighting in the tournament.
"On the left we have Capella, and coming from the right we have Cresc... wait, one person?" xD
Kidding of course, doubt that'll happen, and even if it did you'd have an army of disposables on your side~

As long as our one Crescendo doesn't drop out we should be fine.
The rest of us... we're expendable! xD
Haven't heard from @Alina13 in awhile.
And watching @BurningCold and @Deadnaut (or rather lack of) is making me super wary of ever trying a collab post for this roleplay xD Or should we be bracing ourselves for a full length college paper post soon?

Either way, I'm going to sit here twiddling my thumb until I have something to do x3

Anyway! This brings me to my question of, how familiar are students supposed to be with one another? Everyone already seems to be acknowledging Mary, and that's not surprising considering how Mary tends to stand out xD But what about the reverse? Is Mary supposed to recognize the other 7 from Chopin-Cappela? Or is that up to individual players?

Essentially, are the schools big enough for people to not recognize one another?

That's up to the individual player. You can discuss with others in the OOC if your characters know each other or not.

That's up to the individual player. You can discuss with others in the OOC if your characters know each other or not.

Sort of get the feeling there'll be less inconsistencies if we were that out now, rather than as we go.
But that's just me.

Don't really have any particular preferences in regards to whether people know Shakrais or not. Like Mary I suppose he stands out for being an oddball, but since he won't ride meteorites one could say he's eclipsed by Madness-Girl.

As for who Shakrais knows, I'm going to go with the default of him not knowing anyone. Actually think it might be funny if he were to act as if he'd never met someone, when they'd been pretty close to him.
Shakrais: "Nice to meet you"
Person: "What do you mean, we shared a dorm together last year"
Shakrais: "Did we? My dearest apologies, I was born with this condition to forget dreary little drabs such as yourself"

If anyone thinks they could come up with a interesting relationship between the two though, I'm not averse to some back-scenes planning... in fact I'd love to have something to do >_<

I'll begin writing a post now, in no later than 2 or 3 hours it shall be done. Know that you all escaped the despair route... for now.

Hooray!
It'll be 3 or 4AM for me when you're done... but going to stick around anyway :P
Also... if there's a despair route is there a Harem route?
And more importantly is there a Yandere Sienna route? x3

@Rakurai I wouldn't say a full length college paper. More like I'm a slow writer and sometimes coordinating things are challenging. We're almost there though!

Will also try to get a post up today.

And it's out people... enjoy~

Hmm, I would like to point out that Randar specifically prevented a rampage that would lead to peoples deaths by calming everyone down... and I thought it would take more then that to kill the Behemoth.

Hmm, I would like to point out that Randar specifically prevented a rampage that would lead to peoples deaths by calming everyone down... and I thought it would take more then that to kill the Behemoth.

I would like to point that I took that in consideration, but like with everyone else, his magic isn't omnipotent. There's a limit for how effective he can be, it has not been broken yet, but the outcome depends on you all now. As always.

It was only a two story monster against several Song Knights. If it were 1v1 or 2v1, then it would be more difficult, but In this situation you all got together and curb stomped it instantly. This wasn't going to be a hard fight with so many of you together like that, so here is a another challenge befitting of your might :3

To be fair he basically either had to go down easily or crush all of us, not much of an in-between. Besides looks like it was all a setup anyway. :<

To be fair he basically either had to go down easily or crush all of us, not much of an in-between. Besides looks like it was all a setup anyway. :<

^

Someone go it, thanks!

@KoLWell, even if my music didn't work. At least thanks for the acknowledgment that I did try to calm the people down.

I guess it doesn't look good with so many knights ignoring the safety of the civilians. Randar's music isn't omnipotent, it was intended originally to calm the people down and help prevent a panic. Much like you know, a boulder and a Behemoth appearing out of nowhere. The monster seemed like it wasn't the focus to start with, there were always better places to place it if it was intended to cause damage. As for, you know, convincing others that their safety was first. Well, that is more terrifying than the monster, in my opinion of course.

Hmm, I would like to point out that Randar specifically prevented a rampage that would lead to peoples deaths by calming everyone down... and I thought it would take more then that to kill the Behemoth.

Going to agree with KoL that Randar's skill probably dampened things, but wouldn't be able to negate panic completely. Two points of consideration are...

Quantity: There's just too many people. If it were calming one or two I'm sure it'd be well within his power range, but if he can calm an entire crowd of people you might as well just throw him out to the front lines of every war and have the soldiers make love, not war~ xD

Quality: If people were panicking over burnt toast or something, I could imagine things being a lot easier. But when death was staring you in the face only moment's prior, it's a bit harder to soothe. Also I imagine that the ability would be less effective if the hostility is directed at Randar himself. Sort of imagine it as two people brawling, and one of them going "Hey man, calm down" .... it doesn't work, and if anything inflames the situation.

Furthermore the profile states that the power "Soothes"
This means that it's a balance scale situation where there'll be a competition between the soothing power, and the contempt. It's perfectly possible for one to overpower the other, and it goes both ways.

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Just my thoughts, I don't really care since I'm a fair distance away from the ruckus xD
Actually like that actions result in consequences. It's great that people played hero and went along with things, but at the same time it's important to know that doesn't always result in positive results :P

@Rakurai You know, those are completely fair points you brought up. I'm sure that when it was just the turmoil I described, it was fairly easy to do a weak calm area tune. However, when the ??? lady decided to throw the crowd against Randar, I can see it losing effectiveness quickly. Compound this with his personality and he would probably buckle under pressure, causing a domino effect.

That being said, how typical of a crowd to turn on the one trying his best to help them not get injured. Well played pushing the anger onto the short guy who at the moment doesn't have his Spirit close by due to attempting a split action strategy. I throw my flare into the sky for some support, if you can even spot him among the crowd.

@Pikmin Eye
Mary and Tia aren't really doing anything except stare at each other, so maybe the little minxes could help you out?

@KoL
While "comfort" couldn't overturn anger, the eternal land of the weary isn't as surmountable by emotion alone, especially when augmented by magic. I can already see the thousands of ways Mary's Illabye could actually make things worse, but what the heck, no one ever said she thought things through.