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@Cleveraptor: Gallery might be your best bet for prose samples, or possibly Roleplaying Discussion.
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@Estylwen: If it helps I once did the same, staying awake for a total of about 36 hours and managing to force-write a little over 30k words. I'd say around hour 22 was probably when the mania began.
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PlayerTips: Awesome, your character did a cool thing! Now look at your co-PCs. Who HASN'T gotten to do a cool thing in a while? How could you subtly push them into the spotlight for a bit?
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A spirit appears in your room with a more successful-looking version of you: "--and THIS is what you would be!" "My God! Spare me these visions, I've learned my lesson!" Both immediately vanish.
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GMTips: Shrink your plots---No, even smaller than that! Don't let them pick from all the starting points on your epic sandbox map; 3 Plot Coupons are easier to collect than 7; keep stakes personal!
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What do you guys think about having alignment-only demons? For example, if your character is Law then they can only get law demons?
Since that's typically not how the games play out, I'd be against it at least until there's some kind of turning point down the road. If our characters get to the point where their alignments have changed or they're specifically picking sides, like in SMT IV's different endings, maybe that could reflect in the type of demons available to them, but otherwise I think it should just be a matter of negotiating with your summons even if they're diametrically opposed.
Miyuki is quite restrained with anyone she's meeting for the first time. Even after you've known her for a while, it can be hard to get her to open up very much and she doesn't tend to make smalltalk. If she's become familiar enough to be comfortable, and if she's not afraid of being judged, and IF you've indicated any interest whatsoever in the things she finds "cool," then she can be quite conversational. But if there's ever any indication that she's said something "awkward," she'll shut right back up.
She can be very pleasant and sweet-natured, but there's always a tension tugging at the edge of her soft smiles. She becomes flustered and anxious if she thinks she's offended someone or if she feels she's disliked by a group, but rather than ask anyone what's wrong she's more likely to try and make some kind of sudden change to her behaviors, or bring a lavish peace offering. If that doesn't work or, God forbid, makes things more awkward, she'll run away entirely and may ignore any attempts at communication for at least a week out of sheer shame.
The small girl has a tendency to throw people off in other ways, too. You'd think such a shy, timid, neurotic personality would be coupled with a sort of cute clumsiness, right? She trips over her words, so she'd trip over her own two feet as well? Not Myu-tan! The girl's athletic talent is somewhat uncanny in weird ways--she can't exactly dribble or shoot, but she's an excellent catch; even small, fast moving objects will be snagged out of the air on reflex. If she misses a step or is bumped into, she somehow never loses her balance and always seems to land gracefully. Her footsteps are fast, yet light--she often accidentally scares the daylights out of people when she taps them on the shoulder to ask an innocent question, because they never heard her coming. In a somewhat endearing, air-headed way, she doesn't see anything out of the ordinary about these qualities and is flabbergasted and embarrassed if anyone ever takes notice of them.
Backstory
As a little girl, Miyuki's father doted extensively on her and her mother. The toddler's nightly routine always included a bedtime story from an old collection of tales; she was particularly fond of both the traditional Japanese tales like Momotaro and Kintoki, but also the Arthurian mythos about knights in shining armor who saved princesses and slew dragons. Her father was a professor of literary history, and had a particular fondness of his own for these tales of chivalry that he shared with his daughter. When she got a little older, she also inherited her mother's love of whimsical romance stories. Little Myu-tan wanted nothing more than to be just like one of her favorite princesses, and to one day be swept off her feet by a brave, gallant gentleman.
Miyuki's mother took the house, half the family's savings, and Miyuki. For some reason, she told the court that Miyuki was "too traumatized" to testify during the custody proceedings--probably because she had asked her mother how long she could live with her father during the school year. So the girl couldn't speak out against all the lies her mother told, or speak up on behalf of her brow-beaten father who cried bitter tears when they hugged before he had to pack his things and leave.
For the next few years, Miyuki's mother told lie after lie and tried to manipulate her daughter into hating her father. That plan never fully took root, but it did deeply confuse and hurt Miyuki, as did the difficulties in ever finding time to spend with her dad. The man her mother started bringing into their home, "to be Myu-tan's new daddy," wasn't nice to begin with...and he only got worse.
Despite her mother trying to intercept phone calls, social media, and even old-fashioned letters, and screaming at Miyuki for daring to "go behind her back," she was still able to have a relationship with her father. But the man never fully recovered. And it seemed like everything else in his life started falling apart too.
When Miyuki had just started high school, she woke up on a weekend and took an early train. She showed up to her father's smaller apartment, in a worse part of town, to surprise him. She was a day late for his birthday, but that was her mother's fault so she knew he would understand. She had brought a little cake and a rare edition of old medieval literature as a present...
But her father was already gone. All he'd left behind was a note, apologizing profusely to her...and even to her mother, forgiving her for everything she'd done. And nothing Miyuki did could bring him back, even when she cut the rope and called the ambulance, sobbing...
After that, she gave up on ever meeting some knight in shining armor to take her away from it all. No one would ever rescue her from her wicked witch of a mother, or her cruel stepfather. And even if someone ever came along, how could they ever compare to her real hero?
Life went on. She graduated as one of the top students in her class and got a scholarship to help pay her way to college--she picked one far away from her mother, just so that she could move out. The memories in her heart were starting to feel more and more like the storybooks she'd read as a child. Perhaps it was because she feared overwriting those memories, that she closed herself off from making new ones. Miyuki had always been shy, but now she was downright reclusive. Only her books, and her computer, and her dreams kept her company now...
Then, one of those dreams turned out to be a little too real...
Theme Song
Other
Obviously loves books, games, anime, etc about anything even tangentially related to medieval history, fairy tales, sword-and-sorcery fantasy, and so forth.
Despite how shy she is around "normies," Miyuki is part of a small but dedicated otaku group and visits a few different fan conventions every year. She even put together her own cosplay for a certain popular sci-fi fandom!
The reason for her strange physical prowess is because she's been doing Kendo ever since middle school--one thing she learned about manipulation from her mother, is that in order to keep Miyuki on "her side" she was willing to spend a LOT of money on lessons, gear, etc... Now that she's in college, though, she's actually found a small group with ties to "Castle Tintagel," Tokyo's own HEMA organization! She loves her new club's official hoodie and often wears it while practicing for hours.
Has a folder over 2 gigabytes filled entirely with memes.
Lham Dearg
This demon of Scottish lore is said to be a soldier who died while still thirsting for battle, and his spirit became one of the Faerie Folk. Dressed in armor and bearing weapons, he raises his blood stained hands to challenge passerby. He is said to linger on the roads near water. Those who challenge him, even if they win, are said to perish within a fortnight.
STATS
Jaki Race
Dark Law
RESIST: Phys/Gun
WEAK: Ice/Poison/Magic
SKILLS:
Gram Slice - Weak Phys Slash dmg to 1 foe
Power Punch - Medium Phys Blunt dmg to 1 foe, chance to Daze
Critical Wave - Weak Phys dmg to all foes. High Crit, Low accuracy.
Light Life Aid - Auto-skill. Recovers HP lightly after victory.
The sheet looks good, but I just to let you know that this RP is set in Japan. So would it be possible to include in her backstory what she is doing there? I also changed the alignment to make it more simple, so please make those changes as well.
Oh shoot sorry I somehow either missed that paragraph or completely forgot it, lol. Yeah, I can easily tweak her to be Japanese, gimme a bit!
@Zeroth From Apocalypse, it seems like Light is friendly and Dark is antisocial. The other games don't really expand on a player being able to choose one or the other directly, it's more complex, so IV:A seems like the best example.
Huh, I'm wondering if an introvert like Rhia should be Dark instead of Light then? She's driven away from people more out of fear and trauma than dislike, but if it weren't for that she'd be pretty amicable I'd think...
Staying long-term at the spoopy castle doesn't seem like a very healthy option for Minami... Unless she somehow manages to defeat a Vampire Lord who is, y'know, probably strong enough to obliterate her with one spell or something... xD
She just has to wait until he's at his weakest, right after climax---
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Because when the sun reaches its climax in the sky, you know, that'd be when a strong vampire is most affected! The more powerful their strengths, the more they're weakened! XD
@Eviledd1984 Question about the Alignments (Light-Law, Neutral-Law, Dark-Law, Dark-Neutral, Neutral-Neutral, Light-Neutral, Light-Chaos, Neutral-Chaos, Dark-Chaos): in the SMT series, do Light and Dark refer to how the person is SEEN by others, or does it refer to their actual nature like in Dungeons and Dragons?
Cause by DnD rules we'd assume Light is Good and Dark is Evil, but in SMT their take on certain mythologies seems to go against that--the game's take on YHVH/Ancient of Days/etc are usually labeled "Light-Law," but in the context of the games their goal is often to destroy/enslave humanity. So the only reason they're "Light" is because human beings have seen/worshipped them, as opposed to fearing/hating them like Satan, not necessarily because they're "good." So in that case for human characters would it be more about their reputation and/or how other people see them?
EDIT: Also, here's the first draft for my character! Let me know if anything needs to be fixed or changed.
Info
Akamine "Myu-tan" Miyuki
Female
20 yrs
5-ft 3-in; 110 lbs
College Student/Part-Time Bookstore Clerk
Light-Neutral
Personality
Miyuki is quite restrained with anyone she's meeting for the first time. Even after you've known her for a while, it can be hard to get her to open up very much and she doesn't tend to make smalltalk. If she's become familiar enough to be comfortable, and if she's not afraid of being judged, and IF you've indicated any interest whatsoever in the things she finds "cool," then she can be quite conversational. But if there's ever any indication that she's said something "awkward," she'll shut right back up.
She can be very pleasant and sweet-natured, but there's always a tension tugging at the edge of her soft smiles. She becomes flustered and anxious if she thinks she's offended someone or if she feels she's disliked by a group, but rather than ask anyone what's wrong she's more likely to try and make some kind of sudden change to her behaviors, or bring a lavish peace offering. If that doesn't work or, God forbid, makes things more awkward, she'll run away entirely and may ignore any attempts at communication for at least a week out of sheer shame.
The small girl has a tendency to throw people off in other ways, too. You'd think such a shy, timid, neurotic personality would be coupled with a sort of cute clumsiness, right? She trips over her words, so she'd trip over her own two feet as well? Not Myu-tan! The girl's athletic talent is somewhat uncanny in weird ways--she can't exactly dribble or shoot, but she's an excellent catch; even small, fast moving objects will be snagged out of the air on reflex. If she misses a step or is bumped into, she somehow never loses her balance and always seems to land gracefully. Her footsteps are fast, yet light--she often accidentally scares the daylights out of people when she taps them on the shoulder to ask an innocent question, because they never heard her coming. In a somewhat endearing, air-headed way, she doesn't see anything out of the ordinary about these qualities and is flabbergasted and embarrassed if anyone ever takes notice of them.
Backstory
As a little girl, Miyuki's father doted extensively on her and her mother. The toddler's nightly routine always included a bedtime story from an old collection of tales; she was particularly fond of both the traditional Japanese tales like Momotaro and Kintoki, but also the Arthurian mythos about knights in shining armor who saved princesses and slew dragons. Her father was a professor of literary history, and had a particular fondness of his own for these tales of chivalry that he shared with his daughter. When she got a little older, she also inherited her mother's love of whimsical romance stories. Little Myu-tan wanted nothing more than to be just like one of her favorite princesses, and to one day be swept off her feet by a brave, gallant gentleman.
Miyuki's mother took the house, half the family's savings, and Miyuki. For some reason, she told the court that Miyuki was "too traumatized" to testify during the custody proceedings--probably because she had asked her mother how long she could live with her father during the school year. So the girl couldn't speak out against all the lies her mother told, or speak up on behalf of her brow-beaten father who cried bitter tears when they hugged before he had to pack his things and leave.
For the next few years, Miyuki's mother told lie after lie and tried to manipulate her daughter into hating her father. That plan never fully took root, but it did deeply confuse and hurt Miyuki, as did the difficulties in ever finding time to spend with her dad. The man her mother started bringing into their home, "to be Myu-tan's new daddy," wasn't nice to begin with...and he only got worse.
Despite her mother trying to intercept phone calls, social media, and even old-fashioned letters, and screaming at Miyuki for daring to "go behind her back," she was still able to have a relationship with her father. But the man never fully recovered. And it seemed like everything else in his life started falling apart too.
When Miyuki had just started high school, she woke up on a weekend and took an early train. She showed up to her father's smaller apartment, in a worse part of town, to surprise him. She was a day late for his birthday, but that was her mother's fault so she knew he would understand. She had brought a little cake and a rare edition of old medieval literature as a present...
But her father was already gone. All he'd left behind was a note, apologizing profusely to her...and even to her mother, forgiving her for everything she'd done. And nothing Miyuki did could bring him back, even when she cut the rope and called the ambulance, sobbing...
After that, she gave up on ever meeting some knight in shining armor to take her away from it all. No one would ever rescue her from her wicked witch of a mother, or her cruel stepfather. And even if someone ever came along, how could they ever compare to her real hero?
Life went on. She graduated as one of the top students in her class and got a scholarship to help pay her way to college--she picked one far away from her mother, just so that she could move out. The memories in her heart were starting to feel more and more like the storybooks she'd read as a child. Perhaps it was because she feared overwriting those memories, that she closed herself off from making new ones. Miyuki had always been shy, but now she was downright reclusive. Only her books, and her computer, and her dreams kept her company now...
Then, one of those dreams turned out to be a little too real...
Theme Song
Other
Obviously loves books, games, anime, etc about anything even tangentially related to medieval history, fairy tales, sword-and-sorcery fantasy, and so forth.
Despite how shy she is around "normies," Miyuki is part of a small but dedicated otaku group and visits a few different fan conventions every year. She even put together her own cosplay for a certain popular sci-fi fandom!
The reason for her strange physical prowess is because she's been doing Kendo ever since middle school--one thing she learned about manipulation from her mother, is that in order to keep Miyuki on "her side" she was willing to spend a LOT of money on lessons, gear, etc... Now that she's in college, though, she's actually found a small group with ties to "Castle Tintagel," Tokyo's own HEMA organization! She loves her new club's official hoodie and often wears it while practicing for hours.
Has a folder over 2 gigabytes filled entirely with memes.
Lham Dearg
This demon of Scottish lore is said to be a soldier who died while still thirsting for battle, and his spirit became one of the Faerie Folk. Dressed in armor and bearing weapons, he raises his blood stained hands to challenge passerby. He is said to linger on the roads near water. Those who challenge him, even if they win, are said to perish within a fortnight.
STATS
Jaki Race
Dark Law
RESIST: Phys/Gun
WEAK: Ice/Poison/Magic
SKILLS:
Gram Slice - Weak Phys Slash dmg to 1 foe
Power Punch - Medium Phys Blunt dmg to 1 foe, chance to Daze
Critical Wave - Weak Phys dmg to all foes. High Crit, Low accuracy.
Light Life Aid - Auto-skill. Recovers HP lightly after victory.
Still interested, will have a character up in a day or so!
I'm fine either way on Discord, I use it, but I've also found that sometimes the RP languishes because OOC-conversation and sharing memes tend to become more popular than posting. Up to you, GM!
I posted as well, but I forgot to check to see if yours had gone up yet! I will add an edit in after a bit, but before that:
fashionably late, but a post is a post.
The "campsite where four Orcs had been" is just a reference to Grunthor, Esfir, Lazash, and Akeno cooking their hunts earlier before they went to the northern caves, it wasn't present tense! If you want to have some random, non-reincarnating Runts show up because they see/smell the fire or something that'd be fine, but yeah the whole "unbeknownst to them," thing was just because I'm trying to make note of overlapping locations as people are wandering around the same general areas.
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