Halvtand

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Hello fearmongers and fishsticks. The guild has been unavailable to me for a few days and I was king of scared that you'd all get tired and leave. Very pleased to see that you've kept yourselves entertained.

With two posts in I think it is time for our first GM-post. I'll write it tomorrow though as it is quite late here and I have an early morning tomorrow. Posts looks great so far!

BTW, if there is something you want to bring into the game, a plotline for your character, an NPC, an event or anything else just let me know either here or via PM and I'm sure we can work it into the mess that our characters call reality.

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@Vashonn Thanks. I wanted to give everyone something unique to react to in the first post so we don't start off with a lengthy time of getting to know each other.

@13org Go right ahead. Can't wait to see it.

Gingerboi PMd me a while ago, asking about how stuff will work in-game. Since this info is good for the whole group I'll give you all a list.

Playing the game.
First off. We'll have kind of a posting order. Unless I tell you differently I want to get a GM-post (describing how "the world" reacts to your actions) between each of your individual posts. I'll try to stay active, but I probably won't make more than one GM-post per day. Of course, one GM-post can reply to several player posts, so you wont have to restrain yourselves that much.
Right now you're all in different places, so feel free to post often. But when two or more are at the same place I'd appreciate it if everyone present is allowed to act.

Encounters and combat.
Some of you are kind of thrown into combat immediately. When it comes to this I have a very loose attitude.
Unless I specify something about the encounter such as presenting named characters, reveal number of attackers, troop type or describe a trap in detail it is all up to you to decide. You're superhuman, hyper-acrobatic soldiers, make it interesting!
Of course, logic has to prevail. If you're battling someone right outside the queen's chamber it probably won't be a farmer armed with a pitchfork.

Same with story stuff.
I have some sub-plots lined up, and once we get to interacting with one I'll do my best to convey whatever path I would like that plot to run down. But the same rule applies to this, feel free to manipulate the story. There are no essential characters, no obligatory quests or unkillable NPCs.
However, if you make a habit of getting out of trouble easily, I will have to respond by raising the bar.

I have a question to everyone. Would you like a game-discord set up for easier communication? It would help with stuff like co-writing and asking simpler questions.

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Mortem Cogitatio

@Fairess Still here. I've been away for the festivities, but is committed to the game.

Just an update/thing I want to check with the GM. I'm going to write the background today and have planned for my character to have become a fae-touched because of a deal he made with the fae. I'm going with the version of fae that loves to make deals, but only deals that overtly gives all the advantages to the fae. Is this similar to what the honorable GM had in mind? If not I can change it to simply be that one dude that has touched my character (I need an adult!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscG_gs2BOc

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And now I'm back, Christmas was awesome, but now it's all reality and stuff again.

Bishop

First things first. He is not a robot. More like he got a permanent metal encasing as a skin, permanent armor. His legs when he transforms are like that to allow him to achieve greater speed and to increase supportibility of his weoght.But inside he's all flesh and blood and mush. So same as the venom concept you mentioned except with a constant metal armor. To say one last thing on this, even if he had 0 metal on him, all his limbs and such would function the same except look more fleshy. So same as the nymph who got metallic claws as weapons he got metalic body armor.

And about sea dweller... The basic concept was that he could swim fast by rotating limbs as propellers. But that seems a lot like transformers now that I think about it.

Now that I explained, if it still bothers you I'll go with the venom idea you proposed. And I also changed the special traits. If you have a problem with one in particular tell me and I'll remove it.

This explanation makes a lot of sense, and is pretty close to how you described the power in your character. What got me was that you wrote robot as gender. It made me wonder about what your character concept really was and I just wanted to make sure.

The problem with sea dweller was simply that I couldn't picture what was going on, I won't tell you to remove it or anything, but perhaps you could describe it a bit better?

Special traits were all fine. Having many advantages simply means that whoever you use them on will quickly realise what's going on and try to get help. The Inquisition would truly be interested in someone like that ;)

You could also add something about the characters brain-smarts under skills and abilities, but you don't have to.

To be honest, I thought grover was supposed to be more of a living weapon type deal rather than a robot...

@Lord of Evil

Indeed, that is exactly why I brought it up and why I likened the character to Venom.

I think that Bishop is our last brother in arms to have expressed interest so I'll start with the introductory post for the IC.
Just to be safe, is there anyone who would like to start together or are everyone fine with starting in different places?

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Speaking of which, Halvtand, is it insinuated that we all know each other or that we will be meeting for the first time? If it's the latter, I don't mind coming up with prior connections or encounters between characters to add a bit of interaction and backstory to our RP already?

@GingerBoi123

Good question.
The text about the renegades from the first post states that the renegades are a group that consists of ninjas from all clans, and that have bended together more or less because life is nice and survival is easier together.
From this we can infer that the renegades probably are either nomadic or jump from hideout to hideout, because if they got a proper HQ people would know where to aim. However, they need to be fairly close, since there really isn't a way to identify a real renegade (as opposed to an intruder) other than simply knowing who's who. Introduction into the group should either go by introduction (renegade finds a banished ninja and takes him back to her group for Netflix and chill) or word of mouth in the case of famous or infamous banished.
So, you guys should probably at least know about each other, of course you may also know each other more personally if you'd like, but you should at least not be complete strangers unless you're extremely new to the order.

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@GingerBoi123 Looks like a great character. I'm really looking forward to seeing the two of them tackle the world. You can move him to the char tab.

@Vashonn That is a really entertaining character. I didn't really think I would get a water character due to them being strongest with illusion and mind-control things, but I think you've done a great job with Izumi. To the char tab you go.

@Bishop

uh oh, hider, bad news

Relax, it's not all bad, there are just a few details that I don't feel fit the world.
To be frank, I have looked at your CS before and noted some of these things since day 1. However, I believe that criticizing an unfinished idea is not only counter-creative but also premature. Some ideas sound weird if you only hear half of them, but will make sense once all the info is there. I don't want you to feel like you've wasted any time on this character

To start out, the name – Grover. Would it be rude to ask for an asian-sounding name? You can still keep Grover as the proxy name for whatever that thing is that infested your character.

Robot - This is really the big one. I can't say how clear I've been with my description of the world, but the way I imagined it is pretty much a medieval asian setting. Bringing a robot into it just feels wrong. It would be so out of place, a thousand years or more ahead of its time.
With that said I like the way you've built the character to fit with the idea, and I'm getting a real Orochimaru (Naruto) vibe from the guy, which is something you don't see very often.
To be constructive, and not just a bitch, how do you feel about making a small change from robot to some kind of Venom-like (Spider-man) parasite? It would still allow for all the stuff you've written, but would fit the world a bit better.

Special traits – You're kind of stacking the advantages here.
Note: What I am NOT saying is; lose the bullshit, dipshit.
What I AM saying is; this will affect the game.

Sea Dweller – What?
Propellers, above and below… Are you flying? Why stay away from the water? What is going on?

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Hey guys. I'm sorry for being absent these least few days. I've been working on a big essay (due today) and found out that I had made a mistake which meant going back to check all my sources... Takes a while and I just haven't had thevenergy to read more stuff. Right now I'm on my phone, on my way to a pre-Christmas celebration. I probably won't be able to provide feedback on characters now since writing on my phone is horrendous, but I will read them, which makes giving feedback once I get to a computer a lot easier.
Cheers.

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@13org Great, that was my only complaint about the character. You can move her to the char-tab.

@Lord of Evil Alright, all good then.

@GingerBoi123 I was almost about to PM you to see where you were. Let me know when the CS is finished and I'll have a look.

@Bishop Same for you. Let me know when you feel finished and I'll give you my feedback.

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@13org Walls of text doesn't scare me. I love the character, she will have some really fun moments in this game I think.
One thing though, you have to pick one chi nature. Like I stated earlier it won't limit your techniques in any way. It's mostly used then two techniques clash, then the strongest chi wins.