A discord would be welcome

Also could my character trying to get into the Breakers be one of the first things we do?

A discord would be welcome

Or we could open a discord and fight over who does what in the gang

Eeeeeh...

I mean, I'll make one if there's a strong demand for it, but I'm not entirely keen on it myself. I flip-flop a lot on discord servers; On the one hand it's nice being able to contact anyone at any time, but on the other, I feel like they don't actually add much of value. Information gets lost easily and it tends to rapidly devolve into nothing but talking without any actual action behind it. It turns into a game of chicken where one guy is waiting on the other guy to make a move but the other guy is thinking that this other guy will do something, ...

Also, having the main channel of communication both be: 1. Off-site as well as 2. Really fast, is going to make it a lot harder to track who said what & where. That tends to lead to some confusion. If more people want it, though, I can set one up real quick.

Also could my character trying to get into the Breakers be one of the first things we do?

I was thinking maybe we could open with a minor turf war where the Breakers defend their homebase from a rival gang.

getting some mixed messages here lmao

I haven't had much of any inspiration myself on what to do. I can't make much of anything tailored to the cast specifically without knowing the full scope of all the sign-ups, but I also have no "broad" ideas that don't all come down to "The GM duels every player with an NPC"

Granted, I can duel every single one of you at the same time and still post faster than 80% of the site, but I don't think that's a particularly interesting opener. I want something that 'forces' interaction between everyone. Something like Grit's character showing up could work, but that's just the one person. It'd give only a single character something to do while the rest get to twiddle their thumbs, I guess.

Though I guess it could be solved if we split the group up to begin and have several small events. I don't want to pose the cast with an immediate threat, so I'll refrain from any beef with duel gangs or raiding security until everyone's settled into the setting. One more idea I have is that Kato could've tuned up some of the runners with spare parts he found and fixed up, and those in the gang who can ride them are testing the mods out on an old highway inside the Valve district. Got no other ideas for the moment, though.

Can set a discord with a message timer so you can only post every now and then, to make more meaningful messages a requirement. Also a channel where all conclusions and information discussed on is saved that only you can post in is an option.

I'd like to see both options, so I'll just vote for the majority (again). Though Kato & Shumizu work very well together when it comes to Duel Runners, so it's probably them both working on them. Him doing the mechanical part, her setting up software, communications etc.

Can set a discord with a message timer so you can only post every now and then, to make more meaningful messages a requirement. Also a channel where all conclusions and information discussed on is saved that only you can post in is an option.

that's not exactly good for a discord server, so no. Discords are just a double-edged sword and I go back and forth on whether I actually like them or not. 99% of all RPs nowadays use them, though, so it's not like you can escape them.

Don't think a Discord would be very beneficial, honestly. Been in plenty that have them, but they just distract from posting usually. Only thing I find Discord helpful for is answering questions timely and having collaborative convos, but I think that's more up to people's discretion whether they want to talk on something like Discord privately or through the PM system here.

As for a starting scenario, I think testing out some Duel Runners while the rest of the gang is doing something else (splitting the open to have some sort of action) might be a good way to kick things off. It'll evenly divide the players if everyone who can Turbo duel takes the Duel Runners out and the rest are back at base, leaving 3 in each place right now. Only issue I see there is guiding some form of action or event at the base to make it similarly exciting or at least create conditions for a story to start there, which the introduction of a new member to the gang could do.

Well, either way, I'm not going to kick it off for a few days longer. Gives most people some more time for sheets and me some more time to drown my sorrows in alcohol.

dead rp

dead rp

Sorry, I haven't had a chance to sit down and finish my sheet yet. I have the deck done but I need to write the personality and history still.

I am here.

If we wanted to start I could throw Hotaru at somebody.

I'm waiting for something to happen. Did everything I need to before it starts.

not much more to add my dude.

Turns out when you build up a character of you being overly serious with a side of self-deprecating humor, people are going to take your one-off jokes as overly serious.

I really should've seen that coming.

Turns out when you build up a character of you being overly serious with a side of self-deprecating humor, people are going to take your one-off jokes as overly serious.

I really should've seen that coming.

Either that or they use it as opportunity to see if something happens. I know what I did c:
We got time tho. And we need more bodies.

Hey guys, it's me, the guy who really liked Parshaths. Ammokkx, 1Charak2, you guys still remember me, right?

Still doing yugioh rp's, huh? Really takes me back.

Just gonna read up on everything first before deciding whether to join this or not.

So its been "a couple of days" and nothing much has been happening really other than me going "dead rp" (which is is- run while you still have the chance) so I want to slowly start getting a bit of a move on.

@LunarStandard@Kaggs Any updates on how your sheets are coming along?

Either way I'll see about getting a first post up around Friday-ish. I've admittedly been procrastinating a bit myself, but I've got a rough idea of where I want to go with things. Most of this is gonna be me winging it, though, so be prepared for a lot of improv.

Yeah, it's half done. I had a midterm due Sunday night, so I spent a lot of last week working on that. I'll try to finish it up soon though.

@Ammokkx Oh yeah sorry was offline for a few days, just bashing out the character a bit there's a few things I don't like about him rn.

said the first post would come tomorrow but I'm gonna be real here, feeling under the weather today. Might have some additional delays attached to it if I feel just as miserable come the next day.

Do whatever you enjoy, hope you'll feel better soon.

Feeling better today, got a first draft for the post out this morning but I'm not happy with it so I'm still letting it simmer.

Can say this though: Placed Takuma, Shimizu and Kato at the old highway to work on the runners while Keita and Souji were tasked with overseeing the base. Hotaru's placed at the front door, as I assumed Gritty wanted him to arrive there. Anyone who signs up after can be retcon'd after the fact to be at the base or I can think of a third event.

Since yesterday was a sick day and I wanted to work on the post in two days, new expected delivery time is somewhere tomorrow. If y'all want me to do any last-minute changes, now's the moment.

EDIT: Charak wants to move to the pit-stop crew which brings that character total up to 4 but that leaves only Keita at the base to deal with Hotaru. If Amaranthine or Webboy want to switch to base-guarding duty that's fine too, but I doubt Shimizu would stick around if they didn't explicitly need her and I think Kato is more suited to do the direct tinkering. Either we roll with the 4/2 split or someone suggests an alternative.