Fantasy • Academy • Fiasco Small group • Dice • Short Roleplay
School's hectic at the best of times, but add a pinch of magic and it suddenly gets a whole lot worse - and way more dangerous. Magical mishaps, haunted hallways and deadly deamons mean an aspiring teenage witch or wizard has their work cut out for them just keeping safe.
Premise
This is a short roleplay with up to four other players that shall last 2 Acts. This'll be low-medium casual level.
You've probably noticed that there's not much plot above - that's because alot the setting, characters and relationships will be determined by players and dice using a system called Fiasco.
Fiasco is a simple system that uses dice to set up the game. We roll a bunch of dice at the beginning and then take turns to pick which dice we want to use. Using these dice, we pick certain elements to establish our character and the setting. During the game, we create scenes to try and write a good story.
I'm happy to teach people the system, but for starters this wiki page explains it far better then I ever could. I know this because I wrote a whole spiel out and then found this wiki page.For those interested we will be using a playset called "Toil and Trouble" but i will provide all information on the OOC post anyway :D
Guidelines:
+ All RPers are expected to roll with the punches and throw themselves into it. This includes not getting your panties in a twist if someone uses a dice you were hoping to get.
+ By joining this RP you need to accept your character will not always get out of every situation unscathed. In fact, half of all scenes are going to end badly - so chances are, something is just not going to work out. By the climax of the roleplay everything shall explode into anarchy. Fiasco isn't about running off into the sunset after happily ever after, it's about having a blast writing a dramatic story with a bunch of cool peeps.
+ Posts are expected minimum once every ten days though more is better. I'm hoping this'll be a faster moving roleplay as it is quite short in nature anyway :D
Playset:
We are using an adjusted version of the Toil and Trouble Playset :D
As a Reminder everyone is required to have share relationship and one need, object or location with each adjacent player. We'll go through it a step at a time to make it easier :D See this nifty diagram below:
Here are the Categories and possibilities you can roll. Initially we'll go through and pick a vague selection (e.g. using a 1 for family or a 5 for romantic)
Relationships
1. Family
1. Siblings
2. Parent and Child
3. Step Siblings
4. Estranged Distant Cousins
5. Identical Twins
6. Eccentric Aunt/Uncle and Niece/Nephew
2. Friendship
1. Pranksters
2. Friendly Rivals
3. New Friendship
4. Raised Next Door to Each Other
5. A Friend who Always Gets You Into Trouble
6. Best Friends
3. Around the School
1. Bitter Enemies
2. Teacher and Student
3. Teammates in a Magic Club
4. Prefect and Junior
5. Groundskeeper and Friend
6. Members of a Secret Organisation or Forbidden Cult in the School
4. Romance
Former Couple now Ex's
2. Young and In Love
3. One took a Love Potion
4. Long-time crush and object of crush
5. Jilted lover
6. One Night Stand
5. Work
1. Fellow Teachers
2. Secret Investigators Undercover at the School
3. Works in the Magic Faire
4. Creator of Joke Items
5. Fellow Prefects
6. Seller of Magic Items and Buyer
6. Crime
1. Sells contraband Magical Items
2.Teaches Dark and Unspeakable Magic in Private
3. Bully and Victim
4. Murdering the HeadMaster with Slow Acting Poison
5. Small Time Thieves
6. Unleashing a Great Evil
Needs
1. To Get Out
1. Of this class I'm failing
2. Of this relationship with significant other
3. Of my family name
4. Of this curse I'm under
5. Of this place before it all goes dangerously wrong
6. Of this favor I owe
2. To get even
1. With my tormentor
2. With the teacher who failed me
3. With the person who swindled me
4. With the school hero
5. With the school
6. With the world
3. To Prepare
1. For my final test
2. For the Christmas Ball
3. To win over my loved one
4. To join that magical club or faire
5. A secret potion
6. For the end of the world
4. To get respect from
1. My loved one
2. My rival
3. The headmaster
4. The entire school
5. The bully
6. The ancient evil
5. To get the truth about
1. How my parents died
2. The week I have no memory of
3. That secret chamber I found in school
4. My sibling's dissapearance
5. The ghostly voices I hear at night
6. Who the newest student/teacher reall is
6. To get rich
1. By any means necessary
2.Through theft and crime
3. To help my family or loved ones
4. Through fame and popularity
5. Through selling magical secrets OR addictions
6. Through ruling the world
Locations
1. The School Grounds
1. The groundskeeper's house
2. The catacombs filled with monsters and loot
3. The greenhouse and gardens
4. The haunted forest
5. The lake
6. The sports field
2. Classrooms
1. Magic Defense and Duelling Class
2. Potions Class
3. Charms Class
4. Transmogrification Class
5. Divination and Prophecy Class
6. An empty abandoned classroom
3. Common Areas
The Common Room
2. The Dormitories
3. The Canteen
4. The Staff Room & Headmaster's Office
5. The Swimming Pool
6. The Library
4. Secret Locations
1.A Hidden Chamber
2. Confiscated Item Vault
3. The Secret Passages throughout the School
4. Vault of Magical Artefacts
5. The Haunted House
6. The room accessible only to those who need it most
5. The village
1. The sweetshop and teashop
2. The inn and bar
3. The joke shop
4. The mainstreet
5. The village park
6. Outside the haunted house
6. The Magical Faire
1. The Magical Bookstore Tent
2.The Market
3. The Magical Circus
4. The Game Stalls
5. The Rides (e.g. Ferris wheel, haunted house ect.)
6. The Hidden Alleyways
Objects
1. Illegal
1. A cult or forbidden dark magic tattoo
2. A forbidden book on sorcery
3. A severed human body part blessed with dark magic
4. The reagents to a horrible spell
5. A portal to the monster realm
6. A trunk containing an evil magical creature
2. Contraband
1. Papers of all the Exam Answers
2. Joke Candy
3. Illegal Firework
4. Stinkbombs
5. Hallucinagenic Cookies
6. Pills That Make You Look Sick
3. Transportation
1. The best broomstick around
2. A flying carpet
3. A teleportation cloak
4. A rusty old banger (car)
5. The Headmistress's Personal Doorway Chalk (if you draw a door in a wall and name it, it will become a doorway there temporarily)
6. The School Minecart System
4. Potions
1.A Powerful love potion
2. A confusing concoction
3. Liquid Luck
4. Polymorph potion
5. A powerful truth syrum
6. Draught of Death, to make the user appear dead
5. Rumours
1. The most recent teacher to arrive at school is actually a vampire
2. There is a portal deep within the bowels of the school which can send you back in time
3. Two of the most popular kids in school are part of an evil cult
4. School is going to be canceled because of something dangerous in the school
5. The school’s hero is losing his mind and could snap at any moment
6. The beasts in the dungeon are going to escape and overrun the school
6. Sentimental
1. Your grandfather's wand
2.Your older sister's ancient cat
3. A very old magical book which has been in your family for years
4. The only photo you have of (family/loved one) together
5. A ring of invisibility from your mother
6. A list of your first spells you made as a child
Right so! Here's a (terrible) diagram to show how it'll work currently:
do let me know if people would like to change their position on the map. Long story short, everyone will share a relationship and either an object, location or need with the people either side of them.
Every turn, a person will decide on a relationship/need/location/object to share with one person on either side of them.
To start with, this will just be choosing a section (e.g. Family, Friends, Around School, Romance, Work or Crime for relationships) and then defining that section (e.g. Pranksters, Friendly Rivals, New Friendship, Raised Next Door to Each Other, A Friend who Always Gets You Into Trouble, Best Friends for friendship for friendship)
I'll be going by category for ease, but at any point you can decide to do something from a different category instead (so we'll start things off with Relationships, but if you'd rather get a crime or location going, go for it!).
@Psyga315I was just going to go clockwise with me starting as an example, but since it's really straight forward if someone has an itchin' to get a specific thing down :D
@Psyga315I was just going to go clockwise with me starting as an example, but since it's really straight forward if someone has an itchin' to get a specific thing down :D
Would you like to kick things off?
Alright, I was just curious, but if you insist, I can start things off.
For relationships, I will place a 2 (Friendships) between me and Rin's characters.
Next Up is @Rin! You can either Establish a Need/Object/Location with @Psyga315, pick a specialisation for your friendship with @Psyga315 or Establidh a Relationship/Need/Object/Location with @Zardoric.
What would you like to do? I'm also here to help if you need me :D
btw everyone, feel free to discuss what sort of character and roleplay you'd like to play with people. I'm probably happy to go either hopeless romantic, prefect or the baddie ;D
Ooh i'll be waiting for my turn... meanwhile, developing a character...I'm probably gonna make a shy, intellectual, hopelessly romantic type of character.
NOOOO!!!!@Mae WHY!!!! You put in an N instead of an R!!!! You remind me of someone who plays KoL, they kept doing the same thing... I think thy did it to get a reaction, but I'm not sure...
I'm not quite sure exactly who my person is going to be. I'm going to see what the Dice fall before Finalizing Him.
@MaeHmmm... Think I'll establish a location with @Zardoric. Let's go with a classroom, so 2.
...The only idea that seems to be popping into my head character-wise right now seems to be "make her really deadpan" but we'll see how that turns out I guess. XD
@Zardoric I'm so sorry! Fixed :D Please forgive me if I do it again, senpai *humbly bows*
Nice to get a location out there! And ooh, saucy, a romance . I love me some romance ;3
Let's see... I'm tempted to lock in a value for that but they're all so good I can't decide!! I'll let the dice pool dwindle a bit and see what's left or unless @Zardoric you have something in mind :D?
In the meantime, I'm going to take a Relationship with @Kyrisse for Crime. I think either your character would be onto mine because she's intellectual (for unleashing a great evil, teaching unspeakable magic, murdering the headmaster, ect) or buying items from her, or being bullied by her :P
And because I'm making a hopeless romantic character, I'll take a Relationship with @Psyga315 for Romance (4. Long time crush and object of crush). ^_^
@Mae haha your character and mine will have a fun relationship. ^_^ btw, what do we need to put in our cs? I only have a pic of my character so far...
