@Genkai

Given the setting, I don't think I'll be able to fully escape a trope or two.

The gist is this:
He's on good terms with a rather reclusive witch, who imparted to him some of her more esoteric knowledge. Using what little he knew of the arcane, he tried to concoct an alchemical brew which could enhance a Wolkskins' transformation--something to give them a competitive edge should their territory be invaded. Ideally it would have allowed a Wolfskin to maintain its transformed state for much longer, using finely ground beaststones and potent herbs as key ingredients. With no willing test subjects, he tried it on himself. While it was a marginal success, naturally, the experiment had unintended side-effects. Brigh was trapped in a form half-way between beast and man.

Following that incident, he turned to more scholarly studies, becoming something of an expert in alchemy and arcane lore. He has tried many times to reverse the effects over the years, but to no avail.

That seems fine with me, I was expecting worse. XD

As far as the OOC goes, I'm still putting it off (my interview is in about 3 hours so I'm gonna be useless until I'm done with it tonight) but aside from chores tomorrow, I should be free to get it up. I'm still debating as to how much info I need to dump into it.

@Genkai
Honestly, I think we can move ahead with the bare minimum of details, and a clear short-term objective to pursue.
The overarching plot has already been explained

I'll be doing something different than what Fates did, I just meant the world building details probably don't need to be collected if one of us hadn't already played FE before. So now I'm just hoping a skimpy OOC will be okay.

Let's take a poll then~

@Grey
@Dynamo Frokane

How familiar are you guys with the FE: Fates setting and lore?

And do you need or prefer all the setting information be delineated in the OoC ahead of time?

Good idea.

I only want to do an 'info dump' if it's helpful, otherwise I'm happy to keep things fairly bare and basic.

And in the CS tab we can each have our own post where we can store all of our major/minor roles as needed. Less clutter that way.

I'll be logging off shortly to start dinner and fiddle with an old computer backup which has my old PS brushes and such. I'll probably be back in 2 hours leading up to my interview. If I feel good enough after I'll work on the OOC.

@BurningDaisies @Genkai I've played all three routes, no DLC though (but I do know the broad strokes of Hidden Truths). At any rate, Fates isn't a super lore-heavy Fire Emblem so I don't believe that I've missed out on anything super major.

But yeah, unless there's going to be some revisions of weird setting choices, I prob won't need an info dump.

Oh! I've been meaning to ask you something @Grey.

You had mentioned making a retainer, and I know I was going to make one as well.

What do you think of making them by both knights or maybe wyvern riders?

With our siblings being strongly magic-focused, we could use some loyal meat shields to hold the front line.

@BurningDaisies Yeah definitely. I was actually aiming for a Wyvern Rider at least for my character's retainer.

Also on that note: @Genkai who's the Nohr-side twin going to be serving?

@Grey Yeah I've played all three many times no DLC either (I'm such a cheapskate) but I have played Awakening a few times, been a while though.

I had figured my Norhian butler would sort of serve the siblings equally, I think it was implied Jakob served the Avatar but I think he also did tend to the others from time to time.

@Genkai Alright sounds good. I'll just go set up a second retainer then.

Speaking of.

@BurningDaisies I'm thinking Outlaw (originally Sky Knight but then I realized that ain't Nohrian) and Wyvern Rider for the pair of retainers I'm making. One of them's gonna be repping Ice Tribe and the other I dunno.

But anyway that's there for your future reference, if you needed it. Also would we partially/wholly be making each others' retainers? I'm assuming no but I thought I'd offer the possibility.

@Grey
I think making and playing each others retainers is a fantastic idea actually. =o

I'll probably make a wyvern rider as well and a knight for Onii-sama. Not sure entirely sure about the background yet.

As a heads up (I'm not being a lazy bum today) I'm just waiting for the ok from @Dynamo Frokane before I get the OOC up.

Probably our mains I'll make banners for eventually.

I do have some character pictures in mind and I'll dump them here for now. Mostly just images I've always wanted to see used.

I can't stay on pinterest for very long.

I'll end up making a character out of every cool pic I find. o~o;

Hahaha I never thought to look there. Somehow making hundreds of characters doesn't sound like a bad idea but it could be never-ending...

@BurningDaisies Oh sweet. I might change the Wyvern Rider's class, but having a Triangle Attack trio but with Wyvern Riders might be a cool thing.

But anyway, I'm warming to the idea of having this Ice Tribe fellow be imouto-chan's retainer. I feel it would suit her better.

@Genkai ngl I have at least two of those images in my "character images" imgur account.

@Dynamo Frokane
@Grey
@Genkai

In Nohr, Between imouto-chan, Onii-sama, and Brigh-sensei [NPC], there's three squishie mages with lots of firepower. So we have that going for us.

We're early enough in the planning that we could put some thought into the tactical synergy of our group.

Do we want to be more mobile?
Perhaps we rely on heavy defenses?
Do we use guerrilla tactics and sabotage on a regular basis?

If you have one, what's your preference?

I like high mobility myself, especially if we're not on good terms with the local authorities. =P

@Grey So much inspiration, so little time huh? :3

@BurningDaisies Actually I see you folks discussing the weapon triangle. I can leave or keep it personally. We won't have grid movement (urgh so many turns!) but if you guys like the advantages/disadvantages of weapons, we can keep it. But the last thing I want to get into is dealing with stats or distinguishing between certain swords. Though if someone tries to fight with a parasol or some other random low grade weapon, I will be pretty fucking impressed.

@Dynamo Frokane

I have been toying with the concept of having small contests for certain parts of the story, I know some GMs offer some kind of challenge or wacky concept like 'Most Emotional Post' or 'Fighting with the most randomly found object' or something. I've also been toying with hiding certain items in certain areas (potions, clothing, weapons, coin etc) the way some RPGs work to spur quests or to just add to someone's inventory. Would that be interesting or too troublesome?

@BurningDaisies Nohr's got high mobility and good defense classes, while Hoshidan classes tend to have attack speed and reflexes. I'd probably agree that a mobile guerilla force is probably best, especially given the fact there's like three armies against our lil team.

@Genkai Oh, I was talking about Triangle Attack like the old FE game mechanic lol. That said, I think weapon advantage should be implemented narratively but not really being a rigid X > Y > Z > X format.

As for your suggestions, I feel like we could probably test 'em out and keep them if they work or nix them if they don't.

@Grey Ooooh. Now you've got me curious. And yeah I think we can manage fair advantages/disadvantages without needing some kind of chart or diagram. And alright, I'll test the waters IC and see what happens.