Magical Girl • Drama • Tragedy
"You don't have long left to live, and you don't even know it, do you?
Have you come here to die, Magical Girl?"
You are a Magical Girl attending the auspicious Meldonaire Academy in the Capitol. By day you take your classes, by night you clean the streets of the leftover monsters that are more of a nuisance then a threat. All those beasties you hear about in the old legends are long dead, and there's no real danger left out there anymore. Right?
These days, being a Magical Girl is all about the showmanship. Magical girls are the most prestigious and popular type of Celebrity there is, and it's all about gaining fame and prestige for your Ensemble - the team you fight with when you go to "battle". Being famous is more then what it says on the tin - public support, money, power, government aid... a better life for you and your family, and better gear for your team.
But Magical Girls are a dime a dozen, and it can be hard to get yourself known. You've got a leg up on the competition since you're attending Meldonaire Academy, and that makes you special. But juggling tests and studies, monster hunting and befriending the press, all while maintaining social status and keeping up your romances... life for a teenage girl is an endless struggle.
Or so you think. but things are about to get a whole lot worse.
This is a Magical Girl Roleplay set in a fictional fantasy world. Little information will be provided in this interest check as characters themselves are not aware of the world history or of the danger they are in. Instead, this information shall be told through the history, science and literature classes characters attend in game.
The focus will be on plot and combat, but also the social manouvering the characters must do to stay afloat. The world will be focused in on the character's actions - and if you don't engage the press, an NPC group will. Characters who do well at this will be rewarded with boons and loot, hunger game style.
A heavy element of the game will be focused on the characters trying to find their way in Magical Girl Celebrity culture. This can be anything from purchasing posters or buttons to advertise your team, making a movie, creating combos and special moves with your Ensemble, putting on a good show (e.g. letting a monster run a little wild and then defeating it), using finisher moves, or engineering social drama to keep your name in the press. There will be rivalries, love triangles, scandals, fake pregnancies, jail time - there is a million and one ways your character can keep the eye on them, both honorably and with underhanded tactics.
In case it is unclear, this will be a brutal roleplay. When stuff kicks off there will be character death and dark elements involved. If you have ever seen Puella Madoka Magicka or read the comic Sleepless Domain (of which this RP is inspired heavily by) you know exactly what you're getting into. If is not necessary to know either of these things to play :D
As a warning: Guardians have little spiritual and mental protection, though they are very physically powerful and defensive. They will be good at taking physical damage and terrible at everything else.
Mary Sues are basically cannon fodder. They are glass cannons. They're unnaturally magically powerful but their mental defense is the worst of all. Characters who play Mary Sues will get unique information for their character.
Events and Success chance will be determined mostly by dice.
There will be an optional relationship system you may opt-in/opt out of - this will create relationships between characters for added drama.
There will be some simple stats to determine a character's combat priorities.
You will start with a couple powers and one GM given power. Powers will have a casting time but you will also have a simple basic attack.
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