[OOC] Fate/Darkened Moon

[Kuroyomihime]

Well I can't help the speed of this roleplay. If people don't finish up their character sheets the roleplay just can't function. Can't have servants without masters. Short of making characters myself, and handing them off to whoever wants them I'm just sitting on my hands.

The circumstances above are fore warnings of apparently trolls invading. Preventing trolls from invading is as simple as locking further applications unless allowed by pm.

If you want the IC Post i have it done just waiting for people to finish up.

@vancexentan

I see.

This is something I've been thinking about and noticed while looking at a lot of Fate RPs around here but, cant we simply skip the Masters for people who aren't very interested on them? I mean, at the end of the day, Masters are basically a fixture on most canon HGWs. Playing with more than one character at once can be intimidating/extremely hard for some people so, lowering this weight could be benefitial to attract more interest.

[vancexentan]

No. Masters are central to the story. They are anchors for the servants in question to exist. Mages with high pools can contently hold two servants but it takes a lot of mana. Long story short masters are needed to call, and anchor the servants without them they can't exist and fade into the throne of heroes.

[Kuroyomihime]

No. Masters are central to the story. They are anchors for the servants in question to exist. Mages with high pools can contently hold two servants but it takes a lot of mana. Long story short masters are needed to call, and anchor the servants without them they can't exist and fade into the throne of heroes.

@vancexentan

Well, I wasn't saying, get rid of extra Masters, but rather have them be essentially sock puppets. They still exist, they still are there, but you can play or not with them. Kinda like the deal with Apocrypha's Red Factions, the Masters exist, they just don't have any real role.

Anyway, this is just an opinion on how t make things more flexible to get this story working instead of letting it go down just to follow a set of ironbound rules.

[vancexentan]

Well then I'm going to be needing to drag brain dead masters around, and make sure they aren't sniped off by enemy assassin per say. More over Leon, your master, and Manything's master are going to be the only ones roaming around as active masters, and the other servants won't have anyone to rebound off of when comparing masters. Red Faction's masters in the canonical game were brain dead mana sacks because all they really wanted to focus on was the second ruler.

[Kuroyomihime]

@vancexentan

You can just say that they are barricading somewhere instead of having to drag them around, or be brain dead homunculii kept on someone's basement, if you want to kept this line of thought. Technically, there isn't even any rule that forces a Master to be on the same place as the Servant, so they are skippable as far as the narrative goes. The true stars (and the reason why the vast majority of the public likes Fate) are always the Servants front and foremost.

[vancexentan]

We'd still need to introduce the bodies as unconscious braindead can't summon servants, have the servants be summoned, knock the masters out, fly them to poland, stuff them in a basement protected by Anderson's executioners, and then make sure not to forget about them for the rest of the time. And as I already stated they'd still have no one rebound off of thought wise.

Also that point is arguable. Rin is one of the most popular waifu's in anime, Irisviel has a sizable fandom, Kiritsugu, and Kirei have their fans. Shirou may be a meme but people love him. And while Hercules is badass people tend to mark out for the murder loli Illiya.

When Italicized makes his master and I pass him through I'm going to put up the IC and the others can catch up from there.

[vancexentan]

@ItalicizedHey dude just a quick check are you almost done?

[vancexentan]

Screw it starting the IC. As I said anyone can catch up once they finish. Rather plain start typical 'we meet in a tavern' gig.

[Kuroyomihime]

Well, there's a post.

There was little to do, so I kept it short and to the point. I just hope that we can move to the actual engaging parts of the story instead of being stuck with exposition.

I really don't think that delaying the interest points of the story with small talk/scenes that count be easily sumarized in a single paragraph-long info drop is the best course of action when it's already struggling to get off the ground.

[Kuroyomihime]

PS: Are you really sure that you don't need more paragraph breaks at the end of that post? You have like 3 characters talking in a single paragraph, that—summed with exposition intro that leaves little hooks to interact with, except by adding more skippable purple prose— are pretty poor writing standards for a RP that originally came from the Advanced section.

[vancexentan]

This roleplay was originally casual moved to the advanced, and then came back to casual. I'll edit in more paragraph breaks. I'll refrain from answering the rest in order to keep things civil. I am well aware I am not the best writer in the world.

[vancexentan]

Reflection said he is working on his bio I'm waiting on him. He, and Manythings want to split their parties.

[vancexentan]

@Reflection I haven't seen your CS yet why have you decided to post in the IC?

[KoL]

@Reflection I haven't seen your CS yet why have you decided to post in the IC?

@vancexentan

Actually, you did and you approved it: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4691527

[KoL]

By the way, what are the classes that have an open slot? The list on them main page hasn't been updated in a while, so I'm not sure what I should even plan for.

[vancexentan]

Yes but the bio still isn't there and I haven't approved it. I pointed out the best way to make the bio would be to make the character a student, or something. I appreciate the point out Kol as its been awhile but you aren't in this rp. Also there is no more open spots I've closed this down for recruitment.

[Reflection]

I'll finish up the history. Since I doubt she'll be fighting right away, we can adjust on the fly.

[KoL]

Oh, Very well then.

[Kuroyomihime]

I'll have another reply sometime up to this weekend, unless we are on post rotation, in which case, I'll reply as soon as my next turn comes or towards the weekend, whichever comes later.

[vancexentan]

As I said I'm just waiting on Reflection to finish his bio so I can officially pass it.