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Chuubo's GMD: Love and Shattered Alchemy

Rinley! There is a wasp in your nut. That's unusual, wasps don't typically fly into nuts, but you are pretty sure that you'd remember if your bag of nuts were buzzing earlier. There also appear to be a good number of water skaters on this river and the tiny fish aren't trying to eat them with their typical vigor. This could be because you're present and the fish don't want to risk getting too near a person, even a perfectly nice fox person like yourself. But it could be for some other reason! Maybe it's the cat lounging on a nearby river jetty a bit downstream from you. It may look like it's asleep, but you know that it is merely lying in wait for the right moment to strike, as all cats do from time to time.

[Oh and take 1 XP for invoking your Storytime quest right off the bat.]

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Jasper! A creature of this size and with such stern and stiff bearing likely holds some sort of knightly title. It may be very cross with your disrespectful entrance. Regardless, however, Sir Lighthouse (third of his name) does not deign to answer you and returns your comment with only stony silence.

You don't know this, but typically there would be a lighthouse keeper who would perhaps come to check on what's happened. Today, however, the lighthouse keeper, who is a young lady perhaps a year or two younger than you appear at the moment, decided that it was too nice a day to sit in a stuffy lighthouse when literally everything was light. So she's off in Fortitude near the beach having a milkshake in a cafe with a friend of hers. It is strawberry and she is using it cover her current blush because her friend said that her freckles make her look cute and she blushes easily.

But! You are met with stony silence for the moment. Perhaps you've got an idea of why that might be?

*****

Dulcinea! Just two tables over from where you are mulling the nature of reality and the nature of melted ice-cream, you see a young lady with freckles and a strawberry milkshake start to blush at something the other girl with her (who has lovely curly black hair that bounces to just below her shoulders) must have said. You have an uncanny sense (or possibly just a good dose of observational field experience) that the freckled girl is playing hookie with her friend and wasn't expecting to be complimented so. She's now using her milkshake as an impenetrable shield to hide her blush. It is failing.

How are you feeling?

[Oh and take 2 XP. One quest XP for proposing some interesting alchemical theory, the other for invoking speechlessness in the reader.]

*****

Mila! The sea is lovely. Well, the Lake, rather. This is Big Lake, all fresh water. There's a cool breeze coming off it it though, and it does have some waves. There's a fishing boat out there, the fishermen lazily dangling their lines as they rest near the their rods, attached to the side of the boat with some firm hooks. They'll be ready to catch something, but just now even Big Lake doesn't seem much up for disturbing the calm. A couple is sleeping on towels spread by the sand nearby, though the young lady appears to have been out longer and is starting to get a sunburn.

The only thing that seems to be off is a bit of dust from what sounded like something happening over by the lighthouse at the end of the beach. It's a little ways away, but you could walk there if you cared to check it out. It might be a little tiring though, but then again, it might pass the time. Your painting is also coming along nicely though. And you could let the young lady know about her developing sunburn. Really, the world is your oyster right now, to do with as you will! It's very refreshing and gives every sign that tonight will be very productive! (Is this too good to be true?)

Princess-Champions of Hyperborea

Argh! Kazelia rattles her chains, but they just rattle in response and then pull her arm tight to the wall with an uncomfortable clinking. She'd never been in the Puzzle-Box before. The penalties of being such a well-behaved daughter most of her life, never needing such things from Oberon unlike some of her sisters meant she didn't know the best escape from it now. She could figure it out, given time, but listening to Shiva's suffering was already unbearable and she regretted picking Kyouko back up when she could have left her hidden and safe from the Garthim.

She wasn't gagged though, nor cursed or silenced. And so she sang out her defiance. Because she knew this wouldn't last. She knew her father was only stalling the inevitable. She knew that no chains and chills could last.

"Come and find me! Father,
come and find me!
You think your chains can hold and
these walls can stand firm
but the sun is rising and all storms break
No Riders at your banner's call
No well-wishers for your wedding day
Nothing left for your hands to hold but
cold steel all alone
You think that you can stop us
but the sun is rising soon
and all storms break
So come and find me! Father,
come and find me!"

Princess-Champions of Hyperborea

Eska was always the most vexing sister, even when she was unconscious in the Labazaar, somehow she managed to be the most vexing one. Kazelia urges Shiva higher and swooped in to pick up Kyouko. Cassian would be controlling the Garthim, Oberon wouldn't stay for that himself, he'd done his work already. Where would he be though? He'd have to be able to see, at least big picture to give commands. He wouldn't want to make himself vulnerable either. Hmm, where where where? She wishes she had Adila's eyes, but she settles for flying Shiva up high and casting her vision with magic, bouncing her sight from branch to branch and looking around each one. Where was he?

[Look Closely: 5+1=6.
Is something hidden or out of place? If so, what looks suspicious?
Time to find out the hard waaaaaay]

Chuubo's GMD: Love and Shattered Alchemy

Rinley Quest Tracking

week 1

My Hider

-Storytelling! 1 quest xp scene 1
-Adventure get xp scene 1
-Emotion xp scene 1
-Slice of Life action. scene 2
-Something to deal with scene 2
-Up to date scene 2
-Storytime! scene 2
-Emotion scene 2
-Slice of life scene 1
-Something to deal with scene 1

Week 2
-Storytime scene 1
-

Chuubo's GMD: Love and Shattered Alchemy

Mila Quest Tracking

Week 1
-Under siege, at least a little, scene 1
-Suspicious, scene 1
-Emotion XP scene 1
-suspicious scene 2
-Under siege, scene 2
-Emotion scene 2
-Suffer corruption scene 2
-Sickness scene 2
-Shared reaction scene 1
-Calling scene 1

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Jasper Quest Tracking

Week 1
-Sunny disposition (literally) scene 1
-Nameless feeling of loss (for the Miracle) scene 1
-Mortal Life theory proposing scene 1
-Emotion XP scene 1
-Miracle scene 2
-Mortal Life scene 2
-Emotion scene 2
-Sunny scene 2
-Shared Reaction scene 1
-Calling scene 1
-Shared Reaction scene 2
-Trust scene 2

Chuubo's GMD: Love and Shattered Alchemy

Dulcinea Quest Tracking

Week 1

My Hider

-Science! 1 quest XP, scene 1
-Emotion XP scene 1
-Outside stirs XP scene 1
-Emotion xp scene 2
-Science! scene 2
-Outside stirs scene 2
-Bonus emotion scene 2
-Science, Faith, Sorcery scene 1
-Shared Reaction scene 2
-In over your head scene 1
-Calling scene 2

Week 2
-Science, faith, sorcery! scene 1
-In over your head 2nd point, scene 1
-Science chibi quest scene 1
-Hidden library scene 1
-3 XP responsibilty for Outside Stirs

Chuubo's GMD: Love and Shattered Alchemy

Summary of character XP, Issue, and Token Tracking

Action XP Pool
9

Dulcinea
3 science quest xp
3 emotion xp
5 outside stirs
1 hidden library

Issues: 2 In Over Your Head (blue), 1 Calling (Purple)

Jasper
2 sun quest xp
2 mortal life
2 miracle
2 emotion

Issues: 1 Calling (purple), 1 Trust (Black)

Mila
2 under siege quest xp
2 art shop and garden
2 emotion

Issues: 1 Sickness (green), 1 Calling (purple)

Rinley
3 storytelling quest xp
1 adventure get
1 up to date
2 emotion

Issues: 2 Something to Deal with (silver)

Chuubo's GMD: Love and Shattered Alchemy

Welcome to Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine The Glassmaker's Dragon! This is a setting exploring the lives of a few rather miraculous young people. It's a pastoral setting in which we'll be telling a story in vignettes checking in with them once or twice a week. There may be some crazy things that happen, but mostly it's a game about slice of life in a weird but calm world and the stories that these characters make for themselves.

It's set in Fortitude, primarily, which is a big fishing village with shops, craftspeople, and magical shrine families, perched on Big Lake, just at the edge of the Outside (of reality? who knows?).

Everyone will be posting their characters separately, but I'm also going to be using a few OOC posts to track some of the Chuubo's Mechanics over time to help everyone out.

Chuubo's GMD: Love and Shattered Alchemy

Let me start by telling you a story. No, not the one about the glass-crafting. A different story, sort of. Two stories, actually, both about love.

Long ago, there was a craftswoman and she fell in love with a savant. You wouldn't think they'd have much in common, one so much in the act of making things to change the physical world, the other constantly buried in a book and thinking of high-minded ideas with her head soaring in the clouds. But they did fall in love. Maybe they're still in love. Some things happened though and one of them retreated to hide while the other one broke herself all up into pieces and forgot all about what she used to be. I think there's more to their story still to tell, but right now it's shattered and scattered about. I think that one of those pieces is here with us in Town, myself. Maybe several of them.

At the same time, and also much more recently, the Sun fell in love with the Bleak. The Headmistress of the Bleak Academy, most specifically. She hailed, some say, from a far and sunless land. The Sun, whose name was Jade, knew that falling in love with someone from a sunless land was a terrifically bad idea and that probably it wouldn't be good for either of them. She did it anyway though because sometimes love is like that, and sometimes the sun is like that, and sometimes people are like that. It turned out though that one day the Headmistress rode up on a flying chariot of darkest night and she fired an arrow into the Sun's heart and the Sun died. This was very troublesome for a short while because not having a sun makes it hard to do a lot of things, like take walks in the sunshine, grow flowers, or do roof repairs. The Sun had a daughter though, and some things happened, we're not really sure what, but some things, and now there's a new Sun. Her name is Jasper. Mostly this is working out pretty well, but there's a lot of questions about how this story ends and some people might feel pretty bad about Jade getting shot by her lover.

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Those are far away things though. Maybe the kind of things that someone might mull just after lunch on a warm day weekend in late spring. The kind of day where it's too warm with the sun overhead for the birds to sing and too still for the clouds to be in any rush to go anywhere. Where everything is quiet save a bit of rustling grass and a distant cricket and you might be forgiven for thinking that time has decided to take its own siesta for a little while and let this go on forever. It's that sort of day.

So, some questions to our fine residents of Fortitude.
Jasper: What are you up to on such a fine afternoon? Who are you with?
Rinley: Why can't you just lie down and take a nap right now?
Dulcinea: How are you keeping cool in this weather?
Miramie: Are you relaxing or do you have an errand to run?