Whose gonna be the one to drop the bomb on Hoshi that she followed the "wrong" Leon? lol

Hey everyone! Happy Holidays! I'm sorry for the lack of a post. I've been dealing with a minor respiratory infection, but I'll get something up soon.

Sorry that took so long, i have posted something.

So I don’t have a reason for taking this long to reply besides procrastination. :P

I really hope I did that right…

@Crimson Flame It's Christmas, RP's always slow down.

How we doing?

Busy for holidays. Regular posting usually restarts around 3rd or 4th in most RP's.

Finally got a moment to sit down.

Office ladies where I work pissed off a customer so they have been worried for days that they are going to come into the office and start drama, so they have had everyone they can sitting at the office ALL DAY.

I'm not paid enough to be security...

Working on a post now.

Finally got a moment to sit down.

Office ladies where I work pissed off a customer so they have been worried for days that they are going to come into the office and start drama, so they have had everyone they can sitting at the office ALL DAY.

I'm not paid enough to be security...

Working on a post now.

RIP your sanity.

@Sadu

Is Merlin at his home or is he some place else.

Look at me being productive. Posting twice in one week.

Also getting Lucian’s story on track.

@Sadu

Is Merlin at his home or is he some place else.

He's at home in a hidden room up the stairs.

@mattmanganon Also, to make things less confusing and remain in line with the game, movie, and Taivas's conversation with Pongo and Perdita, do you mind having Dotty just be one of the original missing 99?

@King Kindred

Okay he must be really deaf not hearing Taivas knocking over the shelf lol.

@King Kindred Gonna be honest, if you'd have asked me that before i started on the whole Poodlewolf thing, i would have been absolutely fine, probably pivotted that into Thunder worship, but i've kinda gone into it now and changing it now would necessitate a LOT of rewrites, based on the fact that Poodlewolf is a parody of 1990's/2000's pop culture whereas OG are characters from the 1930's.

In my head, the way it works is that Space Between is a fucky place where Time has very little meaning. Which is why you can leave worlds for years on end with seemingly very little time on that world having passed. I mean, Kingdom Hearts timeline, says that, in the events of Hercules, there is about 2 years between when Herc fought the Hydra and when Hades made his move on Olympus. The by-product of this being that you can accidentally meet people from the future of certain worlds. Sort of like The Warp in Warhammer.

Alternatively, the easiest explaination, and the other one i was actually going to go with, is that 101 Dalmatian Street is an actually alternate world. They run on basically the same time-line start timeline, one up until the end of 101 Dalmatians. Then one timeline generates 2 and the 90s Cartoon, whereas Street world they never left London, so they never founded the Plantation. This explaination is easy, clean and leaves room open to potentially run some retconned out stuff later on (Like i'm going with Buzz Lightyear of Star Command with Launchpad and Leon, but this leaves the door open to anyone who also wants to do the Lightyear movie as well as Toy Story.)

@King Kindred Gonna be honest, if you'd have asked me that before i started on the whole Poodlewolf thing, i would have been absolutely fine, probably pivotted that into Thunder worship, but i've kinda gone into it now and changing it now would necessitate a LOT of rewrites, based on the fact that Poodlewolf is a parody of 1990's/2000's pop culture whereas OG are characters from the 1930's.

It doesn't require all of that. The simple solution is to have 101 Dalmatians be in the 90s since that's when it was re-introduced to a new generation and the series came out.

@Eviledd1984

I'm actually confused now. I had read your post back when it was made but forgot to ask the questions I had when I finally sat down to put up a post.

What floating rocks is he talking about? And the mention of a dilapidated building-

I think there may be some confusion about where this is taking place. Everyone (Except Alias) is currently in Traverse town. Merlin's shop/home is just one of the shops in the first district. And the door had a 'closed' sign on it, so did Taivas just walk right in and ignore that? I feel like a Wizard's store would have some sort of spell set up for intruders if they just walked in uninvited while the place was closed. Especially if they immediately started destroying the place.

But then in Matt's post they actually found the Puppy outside and haven't gone into Merlin's place yet.

So I'm just confused on where everyone actually is right now, for my next post.

Should I do something with Hoshi? Would anyone mind if I kicked off the Heartless fights leading Guard Armor?

Also isn't Merlin's house in the 3rd District?

@King Kindred Roight... So, turns out the 101 Dalmatians timeline is even more confusing than i thought. Pretty much, every 101 Dalmatians movie and series is it's own self contained thing with major retcons from the previous one, with ONLY 102 Dalmatians being an actual, total sequel to something that came before. The 1996 series is set in 96 and in America, as opposed to 1958 Britain (I got that wrong, but also, i don't know why i thought 1930's, considering they had TV, which wasn't really widespread until the 50's anyway.) BUT the events of the first film happened the way they did in the movie, but no time at all has passed as the puppies are still puppies. 101 Dalmatian Street takes place in another continuity where the Dalmatian Plantation was bought, but they also kept the London house and a bunch of the dogs moved back there... Also, he 96 Cartoon may be or may not be canon, there's a throw away line referencing it, but 4th wall humour is always subject to canonicity issues and- Oh no, i've gone cross-eyed

So, yeah, i'd like to request we go with either 1 of 2 explainatins:
1) original idea of "The same world with branching timelines can appear multiple times across the Space Between, don't think too hard about it." handwaving explanation. Because, as i said, this solves a lot of problems, doesn't cause any major ones and leaves doors open for more interesting stuff down the line. (Example, someone can do Atlantis world, another person could do Gargoyles world and despite the two stories taking place 60 years apart, they are confirmed a shared universe as, if the Atlantis cartoon series had gone ahead, there was going to be an episode where the Atlantis crew would fight Demona in Paris during her years walking the Earth alone.)
2) A slighty more handwavey explaination that explains how Pongo & Perdita ended up in Traverse Town from London with their 99 puppies, but the timeline continued on in London with them having been there, the result of which ended with the events of 101 Dalmatian Street.

Alternatively, we could go with a convoluted Time Travel BS story that KH is known for. But i would rather avoid that.

Point is that Dotty's motivation is that she DIDN'T go on any big adventure. She has no callousness to her, she's never really faced any real hardships and when she finally did, she had a secret god-mode cheat she could activate for it by just letting Zen-Aku deal with them. It's why she's so upbeat and has no idea of how the world really works. So, her having been kidnapped and almost made into a coat doesn't really fit with the kind of motivation i've given her. I just feel that, yes we could say she's one of the original 99 and handwave the Poodlewolf thing, but this just causes too many problems with her character background Vs the growth i'm trying to portray with her (The idea being that she will eventually be given that VERY real taste of just how small she is in the cosmos, growing more calloused like Zen-Aku, while Zen-Aku has to learn to be more upbeat and let go of the past that he can't remember to be more like Dotty, focusing on the here and now.) I mean, how can you have a character who's entirely blind to the horrors of the world because they have never faced them and who's only experience with them was through he medium of 90's grimdark melodrama stories, when they absolutely came face to face with their own mortality only a short time beforehand?

I'm sorry, i'm really not trying to be obtuse or argumentative or anything like that, but as i said, i'm finally on a path for the character that i like and i'd really rather not have to try and write in a big glaring hole in that character background. That being said, any idea's you have to keep the consistency are always appreciated. Just, preferably an explaination that requires minimal rewrites. But at the end of the day, you are the DM and it's your job to make sure that stuff like this doesn't fuck up anyone elses fun or any of the story you've got in mind for us going forward and if you say i've got to do he re-writes, then absolutely i'll do them. But i'd rather find a more amiable resolution.

@Sadu I'll be honest, i was a little confused as well, so i just went with he flow of what Taivas layed down. I don't remember any of the district lay outs as i haven't played KH1 in about 6 years and i only played it through, start to finish once. You may notice in my posts that i'm sort of hand-waving district lay-out descriptions, mainly just to avoid stepping on any toes.

@Little Bird

I think that's where I got confused, I also haven't played KH1 in a long, long time so kinda forgot where it was, so in this case had intended this to be more or less just a shop he runs, rather than his actual home, and then it got mixed into being both his home and shop- and I never actually said it was in the First District so people who remember the game better than me assumed third district.

A simple quick fix could be just that Merlin, Lucian, and Morgan are currently in the shop in the First District... and the others are at Merlin's house in the Third District, and there's some sort of magical transportation connecting the two, like a Harry Potter fireplace thingy.

@Little Bird

I think that's where I got confused, I also haven't played KH1 in a long, long time so kinda forgot where it was, so in this case had intended this to be more or less just a shop he runs, rather than his actual home, and then it got mixed into being both his home and shop- and I never actually said it was in the First District so people who remember the game better than me assumed third district.

A simple quick fix could be just that Merlin, Lucian, and Morgan are currently in the shop in the First District... and the others are at Merlin's house in the Third District, and there's some sort of magical transportation connecting the two, like a Harry Potter fireplace thingy.

My deepest apolgies thought his home would be in the third district like in the first game. Whst i will do later today is edit it so that they go to the first district after Taivas assumes being at that house is a bust.