I admit that there's not really anything immediately pressing for our characters to do, but I don't think regressing back the timeline is the best approach.

Of the options given, I would also choose either 3 or 4.

What I could also do is have Akane show up with Security hot on her tail, since she makes a habit of picking fights with them. Just throwing that out there.

down for 1 or 3 either way here chief

I vote for option 2 because I could give my character a metric ton of story that way. I'd not even need anything else to cook up a post. Also Shimizu was a member of the Doomraisers (details are for our cast to discover), that'll surely be fun.

I'm fine with either 2 or 4, personally.

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brave man

brave man

I live on the edge

Resignation

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I will be resigning from this RP as a result of the fact that TOON chaos monsters are now a thing, This has caused me to drastically rethink my personal deckbuilding and wished I had the massive IQ to app TOON chaos instead. Truely I am a fool for thinking anything heroic could of occured in a gang of duelists. I really should of app'd light and dark monsters in a pegasus theme deck. Thousand eyes restrict would of been right at home here.

peace @Ammokkxboy

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(typing it so it's more of a post)

For clarification: Charak is serious about leaving and let's leave it at that. No prying please.

On that note, I'm gonna need some more time before I decide on what to do with the scenario.

Guys, I'm really sorry for how long it's taking me to make any judgement calls here.

I'm running into problems with my own lack of inspiration at the moment. I can think of several different scenarios, but no way to make that work for a first post. Let me run you through some of the ideas I've had:

-Security shows up to raid the base. This doesn't work because that means the breakers would need to switch bases while their current one's barely established. If they didn't, then Security would just continue to hound them.
-Some gang shows up in town and the breakers have to deal with it. This doesn't really work because the breakers aren't the type to kick someone out of their territory for just being there ala doomraisers, and if the gang was going to start shit anyway, I might as well have them be at the Breakers' doorstep and save the hassle. Even then it'd come down to me just doing a few quick duels and we're done here.
-I could have some of the remnants of the Doomraisers launch a counter-attack after they've bolstered their strength these last two years, but I run into the same problem as the above example. Also, I don't really have a good reason for why they should be doing it now rather than some time in the past closer to the original incident (unless I still set the clock back).
-People go to an underground duel ring because they may have a lead on something relevant to them. I feel like if I'm going to do this, it's better saved as a plot point after the first event.

There's just nothing I can come up with that I'm satisfied with, even though I should probably stop worrying and just throw one of these at you guys anyway.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and reverting the timeline isn't what I'm going to be going with seeing as its a 50/50 split and we kinda settled on 'being in a gang' for the setting.

Maybe you can give us the best of both worlds, to a point where the the Breakers are fairly new and have just overthrown the Doomraisers, it doesn't change much except for the fact that everyone will still be working out their relationships and their goals onward (which is desirable, as trying to convey a gang society without any prior talking or posting is difficult), giving us a plot to focus on and the foundation of what the breakers will be to figure out. That way the counter-attack plot can make sense.

Maybe you can give us the best of both worlds, to a point where the the Breakers are fairly new and have just overthrown the Doomraisers, it doesn't change much except for the fact that everyone will still be working out their relationships and their goals onward (which is desirable, as trying to convey a gang society without any prior talking or posting is difficult), giving us a plot to focus on and the foundation of what the breakers will be to figure out. That way the counter-attack plot can make sense.

In thinking about it, I think I like the idea of setting it only about a week or two after the breakers have been 'formed'. It'd require a little bit of a rewrite on most our parts, I think, but it could work if everyone else is up for it.

I maybe shot a little high with when I set the timeframe for this, but that's because I initially thought it appropriate. Now I realise that leaving the timeframe small enough to where people know each-other, but don't really know each-other is probably for the better.

I think if we set the RP in such a short timeframe, though, it'll put some of the gang dynamics in a different context as people haven't really settled into things yet. I'd like to think if we set it this close to their forming, that they haven't actually done much of anything yet. Haven't gotten into shit with anyone other than the Doomraisers, haven't raided a security outpost yet, etc.

Maybe then this first act could serve as them getting their shit together and seeing they need to think things through a little better, since I imagine they'd have just routed the Doomraisers and didn't really put any checks in place for them to rise up again. The gang they see will definitely be in smaller numbers though, just like a handful of guys or that didn't feel like giving up, being led by the same big brass. Have the scenario be that they maybe-not-so-figuratively kick in the door of the schoolhouse. This would also set the Breakers' rep to basically 0 and have them not really recognized as a real gang/threat yet. Y'know, other than maybe some key figures around the Collar that keep track of this stuff.

Idk, anyone else have any thoughts?

I feel like that could be an interesting way to kick the scenario off, if anything. Then again, I've also got no preference for this one way or the other, so anything everyone else is on board with here, I'll follow.

Well since I'm not hearing any opposition, that's what I'll be doing then.

I'm gonna do the following things right now, and I'll get to writing a new opening post tomorrow.
-Rewrite Takuma's BG to have only just formed the breakers
-Rewrite the OOC's first bit to show that they're newly formed

Additionally, I'm also going to scale back Takuma's age a bit 'cause I kinda felt he was weirdly old on reflection. Not that it matters much for a young adult as they don't change too much in their early years, but for an anime RP I feel like I may have set a bad precedent. Oh well.

Will just edit this post once I'm done with the updates to the OOC/CS.

I said I was going to edit it, but I feel it more poignant to make it a separate post instead for reasons.

So, I did the minor updates. We're officially set two weeks after forming the "Breakers"

However...

This is just an idea, but would anybody mind if they weren't actually the "Bulwark Breakers" quite yet? What if we used this retaliation by Doomraisers to set their own goal in stone? Have the first little story beat end on the official forming of the Bulwark Breakers? For now they're just a nameless group hanging around the old base, and they call themselves a gang without any real name for now.

Of course, that would conflict a bit with some already-accepted characters. I'm specifically thinking of Akane and Shimizu. Therefor, @Amaranthine and @LunarStandard, what would you two think about not actually being a part of the gang yet? Akane only saw something in the breakers because they wanted to get inside the core, but if I change this to only happen after the first story beat, she wouldn't have a reason to join yet. She could be observing this little 'feud' and judging the breakers worth for it.

For Shimizu, since the breakers are aimless and not a direct thread, I would feel she doesn't have any immediate pressing concerns to joining them. She could just be tagging along with the Doomraisers for now so that, in case they do win, they're still out of her hair. Of course she could have also joined up with the Breakers and they'd see her as a traitor for it, but if you go with the former option you at least have an excuse to duel any of the players or Takuma if you wanted to.

I don't think Keita and Kato have much reason to not be a part of Takuma's immediate entourage, though. Depends on what @PKMNB0Y and @webboysurf think.

_{also my apologies for this RP being such a mess already from the first post.}

I'll be honest... I'm just not here for this anymore. The changing ideas and concepts and intense delays, mixed with personal shit in my life right now, just leaves me... Well, lost. I'm bowing out of this, but wish you all the best.

I'll be honest... I'm just not here for this anymore. The changing ideas and concepts and intense delays, mixed with personal shit in my life right now, just leaves me... Well, lost. I'm bowing out of this, but wish you all the best.

Understandable.

This RP seems to be imploding in on itself, which I don't really blame anyone for.

Does anyone else feel this way? 'cause I'll chalk it up to a failure for me if all your hearts aren't in it anymore.

So I got banned for 24 hours yesterday, if anyone was curious.

I'm going to assume the three players that remain, still want to play. That means we're locked in. Kaggs is working on his CS as far as I'm aware, since I had a PM exchange with him, so with him we'll have 4 players. I think that's playable enough.

One final round of tagging, though. I want to make sure that I've got this right before I do the first post.

-Keita (@PKMNB0Y) and Akane (@LunarStandard) formed the gang with Takuma. Possible Kaggs' character too.
-For the first post, the Doomraisers remnants bust open the door like how Takuma and his crew did before.
-Shimizu @Amaranthine shows up because the Doomraisers dragged her there, but isn't actually intent on getting involved.

Did I get all that right? If yes and nobody says otherwise, I'll have a post up within 2 days at the most.

So I got banned for 24 hours yesterday, if anyone was curious.

I'm going to assume the three players that remain, still want to play. That means we're locked in. Kaggs is working on his CS as far as I'm aware, since I had a PM exchange with him, so with him we'll have 4 players. I think that's playable enough.

One final round of tagging, though. I want to make sure that I've got this right before I do the first post.

-Keita (@PKMNB0Y) and Akane (@LunarStandard) formed the gang with Takuma. Possible Kaggs' character too.
-For the first post, the Doomraisers remnants bust open the door like how Takuma and his crew did before.
-Shimizu @Amaranthine shows up because the Doomraisers dragged her there, but isn't actually intent on getting involved.

Did I get all that right? If yes and nobody says otherwise, I'll have a post up within 2 days at the most.

They'll have to have some reeeeally good reason to drag her into a raid... she'd not do that for free.
If we can work one out I'm game.

Er...
Okay not sure how else to go about it but, well...

I think I'm also tapping out. I don't know why or how, but I've lost motivation to run my character over the last few weeks. Sorry.